• Total number of credits: 196
• Duration in Time: 2 years
• Duration in semesters of the course: 4
• Total number of courses: 24
• Total number of required courses: 24
• Total elective courses: 0
• Educational Model: Competency-based

Objectives related to training as TSU-ATI

The Higher University Technician in Information Technology Administration is a professional who meets the current needs demanded by the productive, social and service sectors. In the use of their technical functions, the graduate will be able to:

• Promote the use of information technology within their area of influence, contributing to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of organizations through the application of information systems, supported by state-of-the-art technology.
• Support the development and maintenance of quality software.
• Plan and manage the development of Information Systems.
• Propose IT solutions and methodologies appropriate to the organization.
• Promote the appropriate use of new and current information technologies within their community or work groups where they are collaborating or advising.
• Consultant oriented to people in the decision of developing a new software or acquiring one from the market, highlighting the benefits of using it as a work tool.

Objectives related to the educational paradigmAccording to UNESCO's International Standard Classification of Education, ISCED 1997, the Higher University Technical Education Programs (TSU) are classified at level 5B, and have the following characteristics:

• Be practice-oriented and more specialized for a profession. Studies at this level are less time-consuming than bachelor's degrees and focus on profession-specific skills with a view to entering the job market, although the respective program may cover some theoretical bases.
• The general content of the programs of study at the University Higher Technician level is oriented to a particular profession and is designed primarily for participants to acquire the practical skills and knowledge to practice that particular profession, through an educational system that is 70% practical and 30% theoretical.
• It is the bridge to establish communication between the scientific world and technology users, since it is prepared to understand the needs of consumers and to transmit them to specialists, as well as to interpret scientific advances for the guidance of users.
• The TSU is capable of taking responsibility for a work team, has its own field of action, works with its own initiative and carries out the programming of its activities. Because of this, the position of the Higher University Technician in the company depends on his or her preparation and not on other professionals, placing him or her in positions similar to middle management.

UNESCO, World Declaration on Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century. Vision and Action, 1998

MISSION

To train professional leaders capable of efficiently managing information, producing and transforming the necessary knowledge to analyze, design, evaluate and implement information technology solutions according to the needs of individuals and organizations in a local, regional and national environment with a high ethical and social sense.

VISION

We are a quality educational program, pioneer and leader, linked to the productive, governmental and social sectors. Our graduates are entrepreneurs, with a high prestige and recognized for their excellence in the labor market.

In addition to the entrance requirements indicated in the University Legislation on the General Regulation of Enrollment, the applicants to enter the career of Higher University Technician in Information Technology Administration, must have the following characteristics:

Knowledge:Basic computing, reading and understanding of basic English, logic, mathematics, statistics and general culture.

Skills:Analysis and synthesis, logical problem solving, capacity for abstraction and analysis of their environment, good reading, comprehension and writing skills in Spanish, visualize quick solutions to unforeseen situations, know how to present their knowledge and ideas, study skills, learn to learn, use computer equipment, be a negotiator, know how to do research, know how to work in a team.

Attitudes:To be positive, innovative spirit and entrepreneurial character, self-taught, willingness to interact with people in multidisciplinary teams and discipline to work individually. These characteristics will be evaluated basically through the National Higher Education Entrance Exam (EXANI II), and other means and instruments that are developed for this purpose, in order to determine the student's admission to the educational program.

The Higher University Technician in Information Technology Management develops as a true agent of change, by participating directly and indirectly in organizations, companies or institutions of any sector, playing roles such as:

Professional Skills

• Select and adapt state-of-the-art technology for information management.
• Manage information systems and databases.
• Choose and manage channels to send and receive information through state-of-the-art media.
• Provide support to analyze, standardize and automate communication and information functions.
• Implement preventive maintenance programs for the optimal operation of technological resources.
• Understand, write and express in English the management of information on topics in their field.
• Express correctly in oral and written form the matters of their profession to whom it may concern.
• Design and develop programs using various programming languages and environments.
• Have the ability to integrate into software development teams.
• Analyze and specify the information requirements of any company.
• Manage techniques that allow him to efficiently communicate and define systems in any organization.
• Assimilate the changes of new technological developments to the point of proposing high-impact information technology changes.
• Master different methodologies for the software development process.
• Manage projects oriented to the integral communication of organizations.

Social environment skills

• Develops the ability to work in a globalized context.
• Develops a strict commitment to the ethics of his profession.
• Develops the capacity to learn and update oneself permanently.
• Develops the capacity for self-criticism.
• Develops negotiation skills.
• Develops the ability to communicate in a second language.

A Higher University Technician in Information Technology Management can work in companies or public or private institutions, both nationally and internationally. Its labor options are very broad, because its field of action extends to any organization where solutions in information technology management are required. A Higher University Technician in Information Technology Administration can exercise his professional competencies as:

• Entrepreneur of his own technology services business.
• Leading or joining disciplinary or interdisciplinary teams that design and develop solutions based on computational systems of any magnitude.
• Analyst and designer of information systems, understanding the information needs of any type of user, to provide them with a complete technological solution that fits the individual expectations and objectives, as well as the organizational strategy.
• Information Technology project manager, planning and guiding any technological development project in organizations.
• Collaborator in research centers supporting the development and administration of projects that contribute to research and technological development.
• Consultant specialist in software solutions and information technologies.

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