Core Information Technology
Objectives and Desired Outcomes

We design and change the Core IT program by first considering, along with our program constituents, what our graduates should be able to do five to seven years after completing the program, combining their academic learning with later experience.  This produces our objectives, which we adjust every several years, again with the help of our constituents.  

Objectives

Five to seven years after graduation, cadets who completed Core IT can:

• Apply the physical and mathematical principles underlying IT.
• Know and explain how IT systems work.
• Employ IT systems in field settings.
• Use IT to solve complex problems and make decisions.
• Advise others on the importance and implications of IT and digitization.

In order to reach these objectives, which are rather abstract, we make day-to-day decisions about courses and lessons using desired outcomes.  These list the things our cadets should be able to do upon graduation. We consider adjustments to outcomes each year when program assessment results are reviewed.

Desired outcomes

Upon graduation, cadets who have completed Core IT can:

• Understand the role and interaction of sensing, disseminating, processing, and displaying information when employing IT.
• Use an engineering methodology to solve composite problems.
• Design, implement, and test algorithms to solve composite problems using sequence, selection, iteration, and problem decomposition.
• Analyze the components of information and information technology systems and how they apply to the Army.
• Evince accurate working knowledge of IT and digitization in terms of legal, societal, cultural, and technological impact.

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