Students need to take 15 credits from one of the four following areas: Information Technology, Business and Economics, Law and Public Policy, and Health Care and Services Industry.

Information Technology
Students who select the Information Technology concentration must take fifteen credits, which must include the following three 3-credit courses:


In addition to these three courses, students must take at least one  course from Information Technology list and at most one course from the Business, Law and Public Policy, and Health Care and Services Industry lists to complete the five courses required for the Information Technology concentration.

Business and Economics
Students must take MBA 623 Marketing Management and select four additional courses from the list below.
MBA 725 Leadership
MBA 712 Project and Cost Management
MBA 731 Business Systems Development
MBA 732 Knowledge Management
MBA 733 Business Data Communications
MBA 734 Electronic Commerce
MBA 735 Systems Thinking and Business Simulation
MBA 736 Managing Digital Business

Law and Public Policy
Students must take fifteen credits by choosing, in consultation with their advisor, a coherent set of courses from the Law and Public Policy list.

Health Care and Services Industry
Students must take fifteen credits (12 required and 3 elective credits). The elective course is selected in consultation with the advisor from a coherent set of courses from the list of courses in Health Care and Services Industry.

HSCI 678 Introduction to the US Health System (3 credits) is required in addition to the 15 credit application courses, if students do not have recent relevant working experience in the US health system. Determination is made at the time of program admission. Students will take at least four required courses (12 credits) and one elective (3 credits) from the following list:

Required Courses:
HSCI 707 Health Care Management Policy, Law, and Ethics
HSCI 709 Health/Medical Informatics for Health System Managers
HSCI 720: Health Databases and Data Integration
HSCI 722: E-commerce and On-line Marketing of Health Services


 Information Technology Courses
CS 571 Operating Systems (3:3:0).
CS 671 Advanced Operating Systems (3:3:0).
CS 672 Computer System Performance Evaluation (3:3:0).
CS 673 Multimedia Computing and Systems (3:3:0).
CS 707 Distributed Software Systems (3:3:0).
CS 750/INFT 750 Theory and Applications of Data Mining (3:3:0).
CS 755 Advanced Computer Networks (3:3:0).
ECE 646 Cryptography and Computer Network Security (3:3:0).
ECE 741 Wireless Networks (3:3:0).
INFS 601 Operating Systems Theory and Practice (3:3:0).
INFS 623 Information Retrieval (3:3:0).
INFS 755 Decision Support Database Systems (3:3:0).
INFS 760 Advanced Database Management (3:3:0).
INFS 765 Database and Distributed Systems Security (3:3:0).
INFS 766 Internet Security Protocols (3:3:0).
INFS 767 Secure Electronic Commerce (3:3:0).
INFT 809 Scaling Technologies for E-Business (3:3:0).
OR 635 Discrete System Simulation (3:3:0).
SWSE 619/CS 619 Software Construction (3:3:0).
SWSE 620/CS 620 Software Requirements and Prototyping (3:3:0).
SWSE 621/CS 621 Software Design (3:3:0).
SWSE 632/CS 632 User Interface Design and Development (3:3:0).
SWE 642 Software Engineering for the World Wide Web (3:3:0)
SYST 781/INFS 781/STAT 781: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (3:3:0).
Note: CS 571 and INFS 601 are mutually exclusive. Only one of them can be used for the MS in E- commerce program.

 Business and Economics Courses
MBA 623 Marketing Management (3:3:0).
MBA 712 Project and Cost Management (3:3:0).
MBA 725 Leadership (3:3:0).
MBA 731 Business Systems Analysis and Design (3:3:0).
MBA 732 Knowledge Management (3:3:0).
MBA 733 Business Data Communications (3:3:0).
MBA 734 Electronic Commerce (3:3:0).
MBA 735 Systems Thinking and Business Simulation (3:3:0).
MBA 736 Managing Digital Business (3:3:0).

Law and Public Policy Courses
ITRN 604 International Trade and Technology (3:3:0).
ITRN 712 World Trade Organization and Global Trade (3:3:0).
ITRN 730 Information Technology Fundamentals for International Business and Trade (3:3:0).
ITRN 742 Technology Policy and International Strategies (3:3:0).
ITRN 756 National Security and the Global Economy (3:3:0).
ITRN 759 Trade Licensing, Controls, and Documentation (3:3:0).
ITRN 768 Global Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade (3:3:0).
ITRN 772 International Telecommunications (3:3:0).
ITRN 773 International Strategic Management (3:3:0).
LRNG 762 Strategic Knowledge Management (3:3:0).
PUBP 736 E Commerce and the Digital Divide (3:3:0).
PUBP 737 Cases and Concepts in E-commerce. (3:3:0).
PUBP 760 Science and Technology Policy in the 21st Century (3:3:0).
PUPB 771 Enterprise Engineering and Organizational Policy. (3:3:0).
PUBP 773 Supply Chain Integration and Management (3:3:0).
PUBP 775/SYST 695 Economics of Electronic Commerce (3:3:0)
PUBP 777/SYST 697 Critical Information Technology Infrastructures (3:3:0).
PUAD 781 Information Management: Technology and Policy (3:3:0).

Health Care and Services Industry Courses
HSCI 678 Introduction to the U.S. Health System (3:3:0).
HSCI 707 Health Care Management Policy, Law, and Ethics (3:3:0).
HSCI 709 Health/Medical Informatics for Health System Managers (3:3:0).
HSCI 720: Health Databases and Data Integration (3:3:0)
HSCI 722: E-commerce and On-line Marketing of Health Services (3:3:0)
HSCI 714: Telehealth Applications (3:3:0)

Additional courses open to students as electives:
Note: HSCI prefix courses require working knowledge of the U.S. health care industry or must take HSCI 768 as a prerequisite.

HSCI 703 Financial Management of Health Systems (3:3:0).
HSCI 704 Contemporary Issues in Health Systems Leadership and Management (3:3:0).
HSCI 705 Strategic Management and Marketing in Health Care (3:3:0).
HSCI 706 Integrated Health Systems Management (3:3:0).
HSCI 708 Operations/Quality Management of Health Services (3:3:0).
HSCI 712 Health Services Research (3:3:0).
HSCI 715 Health Economics (3:3:0).