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Table 2. Comparison of model curricula to database track courses
IM Knowledge Areas
DB Track
IM1: Information Models and Systems (core)
In first-year course
IM2: Database Systems (core)
In first-year course
IM3: Data Modeling (core)
Second year: Database
Fundamentals
Third year: Database Design
IM4: Relational Databases (elective)
Second year: Database
Fundamentals
Third year: Database Design
IM5: Database Query Languages (elective)
Second year: Database
Fundamentals (not OO queries)
IM6: Relational Databases Design (elective)
Second year: Database
Fundamentals
Third year: Database Design
IM7: Transaction Processing (elective)
Second year: Database
Fundamentals
Third year: Database Development
IM8: Distributed Databases (elective)
Third year: Database Design
Fourth year: Data Warehousing
IM9: Physical Database Design (elective)
Third year: Database Design
IM10: Data Mining (elective)
Fourth year: Data Warehousing
IM11: Information Storage and Retrieval (elective)
Fourth year: Data Warehousing
(partial)
Candidate for
fourth-year Adv.
Topics
IM12: Hypertext and Hypermedia (elective)
IM13 Multimedia Information and Systems (elective)
Candidate for fourth-year Adv.
Topics
IM14: Digital Libraries (elective)
Candidate for fourth-year Adv.
Topics
Additionally, it will be interesting to watch the other programs evolve. Items of interest
include seeing if the programs that currently do not offer tracks start offering tracks and, for
those programs with tracks, seeing which tracks endure.
CONCLUSION
In this chapter, we have seen that the IT industry is becoming an industry of specialists.
Indeed, the IT field is too broad to be comprised of only generalists. In response to this need,
IT educators have started offering specializations. We then investigated, in detail, the
creation of a specialization in database management.
