<h2>Elective Courses</h2><p>Students take three electives from a list of approved courses that are maintained by the program director. Students may petition to add a course to the list of electives.</p><p>Students not having prior work experience in the information systems field will be required to complete a three-credit internship (CMIS 587) as one of their electives. For details, click <a href="http://www.siue.edu/business/cmis/InternCoop_Graduate.shtml" target="_blank">CMIS 587 IS Internship</a>.</p><p>The list of current electives includes:</p><p>CMIS 430 Advanced Java Programming<br />CMIS 460 Advanced Visual Basic Programming<br />CMIS 462 UNIX and Server Systems<br />CMIS 472 End User Systems Development<br />* CMIS 535 Project Management Standard Processes<br />* CMIS 536 Procurement Management in Projects (1.5 credit hours)<br />* CMIS 537 Project Risk Management (1.5 credit hours)<br />CMIS 563 SQL-PL/SQL<br />CMIS 565 Oracle Database Administration<br />* CMIS 572 Rapid Application Development and Prototyping<br />CMIS 588 Seminar: SAP ABAP Programming<br />CMIS 588 Seminar: ERP Configuration<br />CMIS 588 Seminar: Information Security<br />CMIS 588 Seminar (other topics)<br />CMIS 597 Independent Study in CMIS<br />CMIS 587 Information Systems Internship<br />* MGMT 551 Managing Change and Innovation -OR- MGMT 553 Quality and Performance Management</p><p class="caption">* Indicates elective courses that can be applied toward the Project Management Concentration.</p><br /><br />