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| | Paper (refereed) Current Issues and Trends in Information Systems Programs
| | Recommended Citation: Yurcik, W and D L Doss. The Beginning of a New Discipline: Undergraduate Telecommunications Programs in the USA. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2001, v 18 (Cincinnati): §04b.
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The Beginning of a New Discipline: Undergraduate Telecommunications Programs in the USA
Refereed
| | William Yurcik [a1] [a2]
Department of Applied Computer Science
Illinois State University [u1] [u2]
Normal, Illinois, USA [c1] [c2]
David L. Doss [a1] [a2]
Department of Applied Computer Science
Illinois State University [u1] [u2]
Normal, Illinois, USA [c1] [c2]
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A new academic discipline is evolving from within Information Systems Programs. In this paper we present a description and comparison of fledgling undergraduate Telecommunications degree programs in the United States. We conclude that such programs have common characteristics and that this may eventually lead to official accreditation as is currently being studied by ABET.
Keywords: telecommunications curriculum, networking, Internet, information systems education
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