Become an IT Leader
The 12-month cohort-based degree uses a hybrid model of online and face-to-face instruction. Students interested in obtaining the EMIT degree will take an equivalent of 30 credit hours and meet every other Saturday for their face-to-face sessions.
View the 2020-2021 Schedule
View the 2020-2021 Course Structure
| Courses* | ||
|---|---|---|
| EMIT 8000 | Managing and Leading in a Digital World | Overview/Orientation; Challenges of Managing in a Digital World; Information Technology (IT) Leadership in a Global Context; Building a Global Mindset |
| EMIT 8500 | Managing and Leveraging Emerging Technologies | Managing Emerging Technologies including BYOD, Cloud, and Mobile Infrastructure; Lean IT; Process Reengineering with IT |
| EMIT 8100 | IT Strategy & Change Management | IT Strategy; IT-enabled Change Management; Project Management; Operational vs. Strategic IT Decision Making |
| EMIT 8200 | Managing Information Technology Innovation | Increasing Individual Creative Capacity: Techniques to Improve Innovative Thinking; Innovation Management |
| EMIT 8150 | Big Data Analytics and Visualization | Data Analytics, Data Mining and Visualization |
| EMIT 8250 | Information Assurance | Organizational, Managerial and Technical Challenges in Information Assurance; Cloud and Mobile Security; IT Governance and Policy; Information Assurance Planning and Deployment |
| EMIT 8350 | Enterprise Computing in the Era of Big Data | Enterprise Systems Architecture in the context of Big Data |
| EMIT 8050 | IT Leadership | IT Leadership vs. Traditional leadership; Authentic Leadership for IT Leaders; Personal Leadership Development Plan |
| EMIT 8300 | Systems Development and Maintenance | Systems Development Methodologies (Agile and Beyond); Living with Legacy Systems: Techniques for maintaining and understanding old software |
| EMIT 8400 | Leading Teams and Managing Virtual Work | Group dynamics; Responsibilities of team membership & leadership, particularly in virtual teams; Best practices for managing global virtual teams; Collaboration engineering |
| EMIT 8450 | Evaluation of Enterprise IT | Evaluation of IT - Creating Value for the Organization (including Accounting/Finance/Budgeting for the IT function) |
| EMIT 8700 | Emerging Challenges for IT Executives | Managing Sourcing Relationships; Global IP and Licensing Issues with IT; Managing Open Source Software Development |
| EMIT 8990 | Integrated EMIT Capstone Project | Integrated Project Experience; Final Project Presentations |