Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management

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Students' Satisfaction of IS Interdisciplinary Majors : A Case Study

IS 분야 연계전공의 교육만족도 : 사례연구요

  • Soh, Jeong Eun (Department of MIS, ChungBuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Tae-Sung (Department of MIS, Cybersecurity Economics Research Institute, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2019.05.21
  • Accepted : 2019.06.18
  • Published : 2019.06.30
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Abstract

As technology rapidly develops, the demand for manpower by new industries is increasing. In order to respond to the changing demands of the workforce, universities are actively introducing interdisciplinary majors, which is a program formed by two or more departments cooperating to develop new majors. Although the importance of the interdisciplinary major is increasing, universities have difficulties managing them due to non-flexible educational systems. The purpose of this study is to present an effective management direction for interdisciplinary majors based on the results of a survey on student satisfaction with interdisciplinary majors. Also, we analyzed the required level and possessed level of the IS practitioners' competencies, and developed specific educational directions for training IS talents. The results showed that there was a significant difference in satisfaction with the curriculum development and curriculum evaluation of existing subjects provided by existing departments and new subjects established of interdisciplinary majors, specifically the satisfaction of new subjects is higher than existing subjects. In the IS field, there was a high demand for education in the following areas, in order: information security, information technology strategy planning, information technology operation, information technology development, information technology management, information technology sales, and core competencies. Based on the results of the analysis, the satisfaction of students and the cultivation of the talents that the interdisciplinary major aims to develop can be improved.

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