B.S. Applied Networking and System Administration

[Jon855]

I'm going to major in Applied Networking and System Administration and I was wondering if anybody on ATOT is doing the same thing? I'm currently on a AAS Program and I will be changing that to AS Transfer Program so when I complete my transfer I'll be starting out as 3rd Year student. I'm all hopeful and looking forward to get my BS in the ANSA Degree. 😉 In case you were wondering which college do I attend? I attend to RIT.

The courses I have to take in order to get my BS are the following:
Core 61 Credits
Freshman Seminar - COMPLETED
Prog. for IT I
Prog. for IT II
Prog. for IT III
Intro to Multimedia - COMPLETED
Comp. Con. &S/W Sys.
Data Comm. & Networks
Internetworking Lab
OS Scripting
Intro Routing & Switching
System Admin I
Database & Data Model.
Conc. of Wireless Net
Intro Network Admin
Tech. Transfer
Needs Assessment

Liberal Arts 54 Credits
Writing & Literature I - COMPLETED
Writing & Literature II - COMPLETED
(Soc Sci) - COMPLETED
(Soc Sci)
(History)
(Fine Arts)
(Phil/STS)
Lib Arts Minor or Concentration
Lib Arts Minor or Concentration
Lib Arts Minor or Concentration
Lib Arts Minor or Elective
Lib Arts Minor or Elective
Lib Arts Elective (400/500 Level)
Senior Seminar

Math & Science 24 Credits
Algebra & Trig. - COMPLETED
Disc. Math for Tech. I
Disc. Math for Tech. II
Data Analysis
Lab Science Elective - COMPLETED
Lab Science Elective - COMPLETED

GEN. ED. Electives 12 Credits
Communications Elective - COMPLETED
Communications Elective
Communications Elective

Phys. Ed. 3 Courses
(Wellness or FYE)
(Activity)
(Activity)

Advanced Study 20 Credits

Professional Electives 12 Credits

CO-OP 1050Hrs
IT CO-OP
IT CO-OP
IT CO-OP


On addition to this, all of the courses I have taken up to date for the AAS degree are as the following:

0501 400 CRIMINOLOGY - CURRENT
0502 110 WRITTEN COMM I - COMPLETED
0502 111 WRITTEN COMM II - COMPLETD
0504 225 WRITING & LITERATURE I - COMPLETED
0504 226 WRITING & LITERATURE II - COMPLETED
0509 210 INTRO. TO PHILOSOPHY - FAILED
0513 211 AMERICAN POLITICS - COMPLETED
0805 201 APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE - COMPLETED
0805 215 PC OPERATING SYSTEMS - WAIVED
0805 216 PC HARDWARE I - COMPLETED
0805 217 PC HARDWARE II - COMPLETED
0805 220 INTRO TO UNIX - COMPLETED
0805 224 NETWORKING I - WAIVED
0805 225 NETWORKING II -COMPLETED
0805 226 CLIENT/SERVER NETWORKS - CURRENT
0805 230 PROG I: VISUAL BASIC - CURRENT
0805 251 INTERNET TECH I - WAIVED
0805 252 INTERNET TECH II -COMPLETED
0805 310 MICROCOMP DATABASE SFW'R - CURRENT
0806 101 JOB SEARCH PROCESS - CURRENT
0826 001 SUMMER VEST EXP - COMPLETED
0853 310 COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS - COMPLETED
0884 212 INTEGRATED ALGEBRA - COMPLETED
0884 220 ELEMENTS OF TRIGONOMETRY - COMPLETED
0884 275 ADVANCED MATHEMATICS - COMPLETED
0885 282 SCIENTIFIC BASIS/SOC RES - COMPLETED
0887 200 FRESHMAN SEMINAR - COMPLETED
1017 202 20043 EXPLORATION IN PHYSICS - COMPLETED
4002 217 20042 PROGRAM FOR INFO TECH I - FAILED
4002 320 20042 INTRO TO MULTIMEDIA - COMPLETED

 

[yllus]

System administration has certainly gotten complicated enough to warrant a greater focus, but I don't know if the generally behind the times sort of institution that a university tends to be is the best place to learn such things. I would figure that an overall computer science degree with your own personal study, volunteer and work time spent in sysadmin roles would be better in the long run.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: yllus
System administration has certainly gotten complicated enough to warrant a greater focus, but I don't know if the generally behind the times sort of institution that a university tends to be is the best place to learn such things. I would figure that an overall computer science degree with your own personal study, volunteer and work time spent in sysadmin roles would be better in the long run.

Most sys. admin. stuff can't be taught in class at a college, from what I have found. They don't have the resources to possibly cover all the different hardware/software that's out there.

The only things I use in my job as network admin. is more of the abstract stuff. The database classes I took never even touched on the databases I use everyday now, my programming classes were next to useless. A scripting class would have been nice, though.

 

[cloude27]

I graduted with that degree in 2004. They have more classes for the program now so it problable better. I enjoyed all my networking classes at RIT. I would make sure you take classes with Prof. Heartpence and Prof Troell, you will learn alot from them.

If you do switch in to the program i can give you some advice on who to take what from

 

[RandomFool]

I'm going to RIT too, (4th Year on co-op now) but i'm not in the ANSA program just regular IT with Networking and web design, Professor Hill was great for internetworking Lab, not easy mind you but he's a good teacher.