Program Components

The IST program has four major components:

  • General education requirements include communication skills, "connections" courses that examine the relationships between society, science, and technology, courses in the liberal and fine arts, social sciences, a modern foreign language, and a public service/volunteer experience.
  • Core courses are analytical methods, programming and instrumentation, and coursework focusing on Issues in science and technology.
  • Strategic Sector courses, taken in the junior year, allow students to begin work toward their major or area of emphasis with integration of knowledge from other areas of study across the university curriculum.
  • Concentration courses replace the traditional major, and include a two semester senior "capstone" project which can be a research project, development of software, a thesis, or other project approved by the student's advisor which serves as a culmination of the student's work in the field.

The Integrated Science and Technology degree is a four-year program that requires 128 credit hours.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE
IN INTEGRATED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS Hours
Communications  
        English 101 Composition 3
        English 102/302 Comosition II or ENG 201H 3
      Communications 103 3
Connections  
        IST 120 Connections I 2
        IST 220 Connections II 2
Humanities (Classics, Philosophy, or Religious Studies course) 3
        One course to be selected from the following:
                 Classics - any course except 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236
                 Philosophy - any course
                 Religious Studies - any course except 304, 310, 320, 325, 351		  
Literature 3
        One course in literature to be selected from the following:
                 Classics 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236
                 English: any 300- or 400-level literature course
                 (ENG 350, 354, 360, 377, 378, 402, 405, 408, 420, 444, 446, 455, 458, 475, 476, and 478 do not fulfill this requirement)		  
The Arts: ART 112, MUS 142, THE 112, or other Fine Arts course 3
                (ART 214 required for Web Development)  
Language and Cross-Cultural Experience 6-12

Students may meet the language and cross-cultural experience requirement by completing FRN 203 and 204, GER 203 and 204, SPN 203 and 204, JPN 203 and 204, or equivalent courses in another modern foreign language. Students may meet this requirement by enrolling in a language study program, offered by Marshall University or another institution which provides intensive work in a modern foreign language.

Environmental Science majors (but not Integrated Science and Technology majors with an Environmental Assessment and Policy area of emphasis) are exempt from the foreign language requirement.

  
Social Science* 9
        Social Science courses are to be distributed in at least three different fields chosen from those below:
                Criminal Justice: any course
                Economics: any course
                Geography: any course except 101
                History: any course
                Political Science: any course
                Psychology: any course except 223 and 417.
                Sociology/Anthropology: any course except SOC 344, 345, and 445.
                Women's Studies: 101
        *In selecting social science courses students should be sure they meet the International or Multicultural portions of the Marshall Plan.		  
Public Service/Volunteer Experience  
        IST 301 Public Service Experience 1

Each student will participate in a public service or volunteer experience, selected with permission from his or her advisor, which gives the student an experience working in a volunteer capacity with a group, organization, or agency that offers a service to the general public. Such experience should consist of at least 30 contact hours accumulated over a year or less and should be related to the area of concentration.

  
Elective Course 6-8

Each student shall select an elective course, that is not a science or mathematics course, from among those offered by the university, with approval from his or her advisor.

 
Total Required General Education Hours 44-49

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS                Hours
CORE COURSES    
        Analytical Methods   12-13
                 IST 131 Analytical Methods II: Differential Calculus
                 (or MTH 229: Calc. with Anal. Geom. I)		 4-5  
                 IST 230 Analytical Methods III: Integral Calculus/Series 4  
                 IST 231 Analytical Methods IV: Advanced Math Topics 4  
        Issues in Science and Technology   13-16
                 IST 111 Issues I: Living Systems
                 (or BSC 120: Principles of Biology I)		 4  
                 IST 212 Issues II: Energy
                 (or PHY 201 and PHY 202: General Physics)		 3  
                 IST 260 Instrumentation 3  
        Programming 3-6
                 IST 160 Intro to Programming*
                 (Marshall Plan computer literacy requirement is met by IST 160)		 3
                 IST 163 Programming Practicum with C++ ** 3

*Required of all students including those in Integrated Science and Technology, Computer and Information Technology, Biotechnology, Environmental Assessment and Policy and Environmental Science majors.
**Required of students in Computer and Information Technology.
Total hours in Core Courses   25-30
     
MAJOR OR AREA OF EMPHASIS    
Students choose 24 hours from one or more of the following areas: Computer and Information Technology, Biotechnology, or Environmental Assessment and Policy; Environmental Science, or from areas outside IST that complement their chosen concentration.
    
Total hours in Major or Area of Emphasis:   24-30
     
CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE 6
        IST 490, Senior Project I and IST 491, Senior Project II
 
Science or Technical Electives   12-18

TOTAL CREDIT HOURS FOR GRADUATION
        (a minimum of 48 hours must be 300-400 level)		   128


COMPUTER LITERACY

The Marshall Plan computer literacy requirement is met by work taken in IST 160, IST 260, and IST 231.