The International Scholars Program
Information Technology

• Start Date: June 8, 2008
• End Date: August 15, 2008
• International Locations: Rome, Italy and Warsaw, Poland

Through four graduate courses, students complete individual and team-based projects, introduce themselves to management of multinational corporations, and are immersed into influential cultures. Upon completion, students will earn a graduate certificate in Information Technology.

The classroom experience will be complimented by guest lectures, dialogues and visits with multinational corporations, in addition to our distinguished faculty.

Read an interview with Professor Houman Younessi,
Faculty Coordinator for the Information Technology track.

Click on course numbers or titles to view course outlines.

ISP Project
The objective of the project component of the International Scholars Program (ISP) is to provide students with a supervised hands-on experience that supplements the topics, methodologies, and concepts covered within the ISP courses and to relate these to the knowledge and experiences gained during the planned site visits and invited talks. The project affords students the opportunity to situate their learning in a practical context and to bring together the various components of their learning experience into a cogent product.

Students will complete the ISP project in teams.  The project is designed to span the entire ten-week duration of the ISP and will leverage the fact that the program will be taught in more than one international venue in order to explore cross-cultural business and technology practices.

Click HERE for the complete project description.

ISP Site Visits and Guest Lecturers

Rome, Italy - click HERE for complete information.

• Vatican Radio:
• IBM Rome  Laboratories
• CASPUR

Warsaw, Poland - click HERE for complete information.

• Gdansk University of Technology, Multimedia Systems Department
• ADGAM Solutions and Infobright
• IBM Krakow / Comarch, Krakow

Guest Lecturers
A series of invited talks will support the program as a whole and the project specifically. Guest speakers include:

• The former New Zealand Ambassador to Italy who will address international relations regarding inter-governmental secure information exchange.

• The former Director-General of the Italian Ministry of Communications who will address issues related to critical IT infrastructure security at national and international levels.

• A leading European attorney who specializes in high-tech law and the impact of current advances in intelligent systems and information security.

• A leading researcher in intelligent systems who is globally recognized for his inventions and innovations in the field of artificial intelligence.

• A leading business executive who runs an outsourcing firm