The minor in Information Systems is designed to equip the student with a good background in programming and information analysis and design. The student is given rigorous instruction, including two programming languages and the tools available to the analyst in order to handle the large variety of problems that may be solved with the help of the computer. The minor is self-contained, but some mathematics knowledge is helpful. Students with little or no computer experience are advised to take Computer Science 10 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming) in order to prepare themselves for the more rigorous Computer Science 101 (Fundamentals of Computer Science).

The Information Systems minor consists of five courses (15 credits), which must include the following:

• CS 101  Fundamentals of Computer Science
• CS 117  Structured Program Design
• CS 130  Algorithms and Data Structures
• CS 156  Internet Programming
  
  and a choice of one of the two following courses:
  
  
• CS 128  Information Systems Analysis and Design
• CS 148  Database I