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Press Release - March 14, 2006
Penn State's World Campus Offers New Online IST Degree Program
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Courses Emphasize Business Skills for a Rapidly Changing IT Climate
Penn State's World Campus is offering a new online associate degree program in Information Sciences and Technology that places a strong emphasis on skills that allow IT professionals to effectively communicate in the business world.
"The program's distinguishing aspect is its very strong focus on people," said Gerry Santoro, lead faculty member of the degree program. Santoro said the program integrates leadership, networking and communication skills with traditional IT classes, enabling IT professionals to make technology more accessible to consumers. "We're not trying to create typical 'programmers,'" said Santoro. "It's important that IT professional understand the profound impact that the information sciences have on organizations and greater society."
The program also emphasizes what Santoro calls problem-based learning, which gives students the training they need to solve problems on technologies that haven't even been invented yet. The program includes extensive practice using contemporary technologies in the creation, organization, storage, analysis, evaluation, communication and transmission of information. For more details, visit http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/wc/AssociateInInformationSciencesandTechnology.shtml.
Editor contact: Melissa Kaye at 814-865-7600, mwk10@outreach.psu.edu; or Amy Neil at 814-865-7600, aen4@outreach.psu.edu
Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
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