Information Technology – Software Development

Overview

The Information Technology Degree prepares you to start or advance your IT career or to help you transfer seamlessly to a 4-year college. If you enjoy working with computers, earning an IT degree will help you turn that interest into a professional career. Alumni who specialize in the Software Development degree are now programmers, database administrators or web site programmers.

you will use the latest technologies and receive practical hands-on training to design and develop software applications. The program also prepares you for Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification exams.

Other topics of study include:

• Object-oriented programming (OOP)
• Data structure and algorithms
• Database design and management
• Mobile Application Development
• Windows forms programming
• Web programming

Through team projects, a required internship, and capstone activities, you can find junior or entry-level positions such as:

• Network Administrator
• Applications Development Engineer
• Database Administrator
• Database Designer
• Web Programmer
• System Administrator
• Software Quality Assurance Engineer
• Technical Support Specialist
• Computer Support Consultant
• Help Desk Analyst
• Systems Analyst

Some graduates continue their formal education by pursuing a bachelor’s degree at another college. Others begin or continue their professional careers directly.

Information Technology – Software Development Degree

FIRST YEAR

SECOND YEAR

Specific Admission Requirements

1. Computer keyboarding skills are assumed.

Transfer Information

• Transferring to other institutions
• Transferring to NHTI
• Transfer (Articulation) Agreements

Senior Internship

All students are required to complete a senior internship in the area of their concentration and career goals. The internship provides real-life experience applying skills learned in the classroom. Employers work closely with the students and professors to ensure an environment that enhances each student’s education, provides experience and introduces the student to the IT business environment.

Internship Considerations

NHTI has developed excellent practicum opportunities for our students to foster hands-on learning while simultaneously receiving credit. Nonetheless, the college’s first priority must be to ensure that patients/clients/children/families are not placed in jeopardy by students during learning experiences. Therefore, students in internship, externship, practicum, service learning, and clinical experiences must demonstrate sufficient emotional stability to withstand the stresses, uncertainties and changing circumstances that characterize patient/client/child/family responsibilities. Furthermore, the student is expected to have the emotional stability required to exercise sound judgment, accept direction and guidance from a supervisor or faculty member, and establish rapport and maintain sensitive interpersonal relationships and confidentiality with employees, customers, and/or patients/clients/children and their families.