Information Systems and Decision Sciences (ISM)

Program of Study at USF Sarasota-Manatee

Students attending Manatee Community College should complete the 
Associate of Arts degree in Business Administration which will include:

State Mandated Common Course Prerequisites:

ACG 2021 Principles of Financial Accounting (or ACG 2001 & ACG 2011)
ACG 2071 Principles of Managerial Accounting
CGS 1000 Computer Information Systems (or CGS 2100)
ECO 2013 Macroeconomics
ECO 2023 Microeconomics
MAC 2233 Applied Calculus
STA  2023 Elementary Statistics (or QMB 2100)

NOTE: To be admitted to the College of Business, the student must first be accepted to the University of South Florida. Additionally, students must have completed a minimum of 60 semester hours, earned a 2.50 cumulative grade point average, a minimum 2.0 GPA on all credit attempted at USF, completed the seven state mandated common prerequisites with a 2.00 GPA and no grade lower then a "C-"

Admission requirements may be subject to change.  Please check with Academic Advising for the current criteria. 

The Business Core common to all majors in business consists of the 15 hours  of prerequisites plus the following (3-hour) courses:*

FIN 3403 Principles of Finance
QMB 3200 Business and Economics Statistics II
BUL 3320 Law and Business I
ISM 3011  Info Systems in Organizations
MAR 3023 Basic Marketing
MAN 3025 Principles of Management
GEB 4890 Strategic Mgmt & Decision Making
*Students must earn a C- or higher in each business core course & a 2.0 cumulative business core GPA.

Required courses for an ISM Major:

ISM 3232 Business Application Development*
ISM 3113 Systems Analysis and Design*
ISM 4212 Database Administration
ISM 4220 Business Data Communications
ISM 4300 Managing Information Resources

Plus approved ISM electives (9 hours)

NOTE: A grade of "C" is the minimum acceptable grade for these courses; only one grade-forgiveness allowed for upper-level ISM course.

*ISM 3232 Business Application Development is to be taken before, or concurrently with ISM 3113 (Systems Analysis and Design) which is a prerequisite for all other required MIS courses. Normally, ISM 3113 should be completed by the end of the first semester of the junior year.  
**No more than three hours of ISM 4950 may be counted as MIS electives. (ISM 4905 will not count as an ISM elective).

Total hours: 24 hours

• Advanced writing course
• Speech communication course
• Contemporary international topic course

NOTE: Students must be admitted to the College of Business at least one term before their anticipated graduation date.

To be certified for graduation, students must achieve a 2.0 grade point average 
in the major field work, as well as all other college course work attempted, both 
at USF and any other institution(s) attended.

American Sign Language is not approved by the College of Business Administration or the Foreign Language Exit Requirement (FLEX).

All courses in the major or minor field and all foundation courses in business
must be taken on a graded basis; the S/U option is not available.