The goals or objectives of the CIS 4555 Software Development Internship are to:
- Provide a student real world experience in "responsible living and meaningful work."
- Demonstrate a student's ability to use technology in a workplace enviroment.
- Demonstrate a student's ability to work and communitcate with a variety of other people in the workplace.
- Demonstrate a student's ability to act professionally.
A student majoring in CS/IS must participate in one or more of the following activities while working on a CIS internship. These activities should be in an organization that has one or more persons that are developing information systems. During the internship, the student may complete other tasks, but a significant portion of the internship must involve the activities below.
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Design
- Web Development
- Systems Programming
- Applications Programming
- Database Development
- System Documentation
- User/Operator Procedure Documentation
- User Training