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Constructing a New College IT Curriculum?

Posted by Cliff on from the how-would-you-do-it dept.

slonkak asks: "For extra credit in my Management & Information Systems we were asked to redevelop the IT curriculum. Interning at a government organization for the past 5 years, I have a good idea of what I'd like to know graduating from college. Here are the two tracks I came up with. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to improve this curriculum? I would like more experience members of the Slashdot community to give their input on what they would like to see new hires have a good understanding of." Yes, this one may sound like Slashdot-Do-My-Homework, but the underlying question is still worthwhile. For you IT Managers out there, what do you expect someone with a college degree to know? For you prospective CS Students who might be reading, what would you like to learn while obtaining that degree?

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  1. Re:WTH? by kzadot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your right that the original poster wrote up a lame ass product training course, and while yours is a reasonable looking computer science course, CS aint IT.

    An IT curriculum would look like this:

    * Bullshit buzzwords like Paradigm, Convergence, Competitive Advantage, Quality Assurance. Note, only the buzzwords not necessary, save the actual meanings for the nerds.
    * Helpdesk techniques like Blaming other companies, Pretending to be too clever for the caller, Being a general arsehole.
    * Powerpoint
    * Clicking on the OK button
    * Defragmentation
    * Plugging cables in (in general terms anyway, save actual distinctions between different types of cables for the specialists)
    * Pencil chewing
    * Tieing a tie
    * 1 Day of web design
    * Solataire or Minesweeper
    * Pretending your a programmer when the hot secretary comes around.
    * Pretending to be the janitor when a programmer comes around.
    * The kissing of bosses asses.

    Oh, and in preperation of future industry developments:

    * Flipping burgers.

    etc

  2. Stack overflow!! by frenchgates · · Score: 4, Funny

    CS205 has CS205 as a prerequisite! I think recursive courses should be reserved for higher levels.

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  3. Re:Mirror by Gudlyf · · Score: 2, Funny

    A bit difficult to mirror it when it seems you're changing it on the fly.

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