Curriculum
The Raikes School incorporates computer science and business management into one integrated curriculum. It prides itself with providing an education balanced in technology and management with focus on leadership, communications, and collaboration. This program offers both an undergraduate program that complements business, computer science, and computer engineering majors and a graduate MBA program that integrates real-world project management.
First- and second-year students study programming concepts, software engineering, financial and managerial accounting, finance, economics, management information systems (such as MRP, ERP, and CRM), and technical communication. Different from taking those courses separately, the program teaches concepts in context. For example, teams of second-year students build real-world business software by deriving requirements from business classes and using in-depth technical knowledge from computer science classes. Students report progress with regular memos and deliver complete user manuals. At the end of the year, students present demos of the working software to a real-world industry panel and field questions.
Third- and fourth-year students work on real-world projects for companies in Design Studio, a year-long class in which students divide into teams, meet with clients, agree on specifications, develop the product, and in many cases perform quality assurance after delivery. Design Studio gives members of the program real-world experience designing and writing software, working in teams, meeting real-world deadlines, and communicating with clients.
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