Information Technology Administration Certificate
The undergraduate certificate in Information Technology (IT) Administration is designed for students who are interested in managing the complex technical infrastructure of today’s organizations. The certificate is offered in partnership with the University of Agder in Norway (UiA), a sister university to UNO. The certificate consists of 12 credit hours of courses covering such areas as systems administration, network administration, database administration, security administration, and distributed systems. All courses are offered online. Students will take courses taught by both UNO and UiA instructors and will have the opportunity to work with students residing in a country other than their own.
Information Technology (IT) Administration Certificate Requirements
The certificate in Information Technology (IT) Administration is open to anyone with an associate's or bachelor’s degree in IT. UNO students enrolled in the Division of Continuing Studies’ Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies degree program with an IT-related concentration and students in any of the College of IS&T undergraduate degree programs are also eligible to enroll in this certificate program.
Students are responsible for completing the prerequisites for all courses taken for the IT Administration Certificate.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Prerequisite Courses | ||
| CIST 1400 | INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SCIENCE I | 3 |
| or CIST 1600 | INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING USING PRACTICAL SCRIPTING | |
| And one additional course of programming | 3 | |
| CIST 2100 | ORGANIZATIONS, APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY | 3 |
| One semester of database management: | 3 | |
| MANAGING THE DATABASE ENVIRONMENT | ||
or IS 201-Data Modeling and Database Systems | ||
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Hours Required | ||
| All of the following: | 12 | |
| INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE 1 | ||
| DATABASE ADMINISTRATION 1 | ||
| DISTRIBUTED TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS | ||
| SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION 1 | ||