The Department of Information Management offers a four-year program leading to the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Management. To acquire the degree, students must complete a minimum of 134 credits of coursework, of which 24 credits are from Common Compulsory Courses, 58 credits are from Department Compulsory Courses, and 52 credits are from Elective Courses.
Common Compulsory Courses (24 credits)
1. Foreign Language— 6 credits
2. Freshman Chinese— 6 credits
3. Liberal Education Courses— 15 credits
*Students can substitute up to 3 credits of Freshman Chinese in fulfillment of the same number of credits in any
one core area of the Liberal Education, and vice versa. In short, the credit sum of Chinese and Liberal Education is
18 credits.
4. Service Learning Education
5. Physical Education—4 credits (not counted for credits for acquiring degree)
Department Compulsory Courses (58 credits)
Freshman Year, Fall
Calculus (general Mathematics) (a)(1)—4 credits
Financial Accounting (A)(I)(1)—4 credits
IM Freshman Project –1 credit
Management Mathematics –3 credits
Programming Design –3 credits
Freshman Year, Spring
Calculus (general Mathematics) (a)(2)—4 credits
Accounting (a)(Ⅰ)(2)—3 credits
Data Structures and Advanced Programming Design—3 credits
Sophomore Year, Fall
Statistics (I)(1)—3 credits
Economics (Ⅰ)—3 credits
Management—3 credits
Algorithms—3 credits
Sophomore Year, Spring
Statistics (Ⅰ) (2)—3 credits
Operating Systems—3 credits
Introduction to Information Management—3 credits
Junior Year, Fall
Computer Networks and Applications—3 credits
Database Management—3 credits
Junior Year, Spring
Systems Analysis and Design—3 credits
Project on Information Management (Ⅰ)—2 credits
Senior Year, Fall
Project on Information Management (Ⅱ)—2 credits
Elective Courses (52 credits)
1. Department Elective Courses—21 credits
Programming Languages—3 credits
Operations Management—3 credits
Programming for Business Computing—3 credits
Game Programming—3 credits
Software Development Methods—3 credits
Introduction to Information Retrieval and Text Mining—3 credits
Information Service Innovation Management—3 credits
Introduction to 3D Programming—3 credits
Information Management—3 credits
Information Systems R&d.—3 credits
Electronic Commerce—3 credits
*Courses with Curriculum Number starting with IM, or Curriculum Identity Number start with 705/725
2. General Elective Course—31 credits