Information Technology

Overview

Course Details

The Information Technology MSc course at the American Public University provides you with an advanced understanding of information systems development and implementation, including database systems, object-oriented analysis and design, IS architectures, and IT project management.

With this MS in Information Technology, you’ll become familiar with best practices in security and computer forensics. You’ll also study the theory, principles, best practices, tools, and technologies associated with the IT marketplace, and improve your problem-solving, planning, research, leadership, and management skills for solving complex, real-world business problems.

Coursework in this program is taught by expert practitioners with considerable real-world knowledge.

Students must choose a concentration for this degree program:

• Digital Forensics 
• IT Project Management 
• Information Assurance and Security

What You Will Do

• Learn key management theories, principles, best practices, tools, and technologies associated with information systems, and enhance your knowledge of research methods and tools
• Grow your understanding of graduate-level critical thinking, reasoning, and writing to defend your logic and your conclusions in scholarly research projects
• Understand the processes, phases, domains, and measures for effective, complex IT project management
• Create an optimized enterprise database system and a plan addressing the principles and challenges in incorporating emerging network architectures, technologies, and protocols into IT systems
• Study how to produce legal, social, ethical, and technical solutions for securing information systems