The profession of IT: The IT schools movement
Communications of the ACM
Computing education in academia: toward differentiating the disciplines
CITC4 '03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Information technology curriculum
Comparing undergraduate degrees in information technology and information systems
CITC4 '03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Information technology curriculum
A model for information technology curriculum
CITC5 '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Information technology education
Enroute to making an IT baccalaureate program
CITC5 '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Information technology education
An implementation of the SIGITE model curriculum
Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education
Cross-functional concentrations merge IT and business concepts
Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education
Designing an interdisciplinary information technology program
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Information technology education
Architecture: an emerging core competence for IT professionals
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
The affective dimension of pervasive themes in the information technology curriculum
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
A comprehensive program for expanding pathways to IT careers
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
Do students differentiate between computing disciplines?
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Academic IT and adjacent disciplines 2010
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Information technology education
Computing is not a rock band: student understanding of the computing disciplines
Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
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This paper describes the background, the decision-making processes, and the curricular philosophy of a new four-year degree in the Computer Science & Information Systems department at Mount Royal University. The program created could be described as a hybrid between the Information Systems 2002 Model Curriculum and the Information Technology 2008 Curriculum Guidelines (IT2008). The approach described here may be of interest to other departments with existing IS programs that would like to take advantage of the strengths of the IT approach without abandoning some of the unique strengths of the IS curricula. The paper also argues that instead of trying to erect clear disciplinary boundaries around IT, we should instead think of IT as the computing discipline whose focus is the practical integration of the other computing disciplines.