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Applied Technology Bachelor's Degree

Designed for professionals with a technical/occupational 2-year degree, the Applied Technology Bachelor's Degree fills that all-important educational gap.

LEADERSHIP: The undergraduate program in applied technology prepares professionals for leadership in businesses that are intensive in their use of information technology, complex production processes and/or highly skilled workforce.

INTEGRATION OF SKILLS: Professionals in this program integrate important skills in business, information technology, and production processes. By applying these to the development of a highly skilled workforce and the integration of new technologies in the workplace, graduates of the program are prepared to meet the challenges of the New Economy with an entrepreneurial spirit.

TRANSFER CREDIT: By allowing up to 36 hours of technical electives to be transferred, this program is especially attractive to the community college graduate who ma or may not otherwise be able to use these technical electives toward obtaining a bachelor's degree.

Program Objectives
• To provide professionals who have a technical occupational two-year degree an opportunity to advance their careers by allowing up to 36 hours of technical electives to be transferred towards obtaining a bachelor’s degree.
• To prepare a technical occupational professional to meet the challenges of the new economy by integrating important skills in business, information technology, and complex production processes.
• To provide an industry driven curriculum to prepare technical occupational professionals with the ability to advance in their present company, to become more marketable to a new company, or to start their own business.

Our curriculum includes intensive courses, project-based courses and online courses that are designed to accommodate a wide variety of professional lifestyles, from the traditional student to the busy professional.

Curriculum

Business Skills Requirements (12) Engineering Technology Skill Requirements (9)
ACC 200 - Intro to Fin Acc IET 405 - Prod & Inv Control
MGT 300 - Mgt for Org IET 406 - Indust Automation
MIS 300 - Mgt for Sys IET 407 - Personnel in Tech
MKT 300 - Prin of Marketing  
Computer Skills Requirements (13) Applied Technology Skills Requirements (9)
CSC 309 - Comp and Society ED 400 - Technology Commercialization
CSS 331 - Visual Basic WTD 400 - Senior Project
ITC 371 - PC Applications ED 410 - Applied Technology Capstone Course
ETC 371L - PC Applications  


For further information about the Applied Technology Program, contact:

Deidra Minor
program coordinator and advisor
601.266.5671
deidra.minor@usm.edu

The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive #5022
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001