New IT Graduate Courses: Legal Issues in Information Technology
Exciting new offering from Professor Jerry Luftman’s MSIS program
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Companies (financial services, manufacturing and pharmaceutical, as well as others) are obliged to be aware of compliance with government regulations. Today, they face additional and more complex legislation such as ‘Sarbanes-Oxley,’ ‘HIPPA’, and global regulation. More than ever, corporate executives require IT to help ensure their firms’ compliance. They must also adapt to and be aware of the international laws as they expand their markets.
The MSIS faculty in The Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology has put together a team of leading attorneys and IT experts to develop a graduate program to address this need. The program will help prepare IT executives to meet the current and emerging legislative challenges they face.
The Master of Science in Information Systems program already has several legal issues courses from which to draw. They are:
MIS 653 IT Outsourcing Legal Issues
MIS 662 Legal Issues for the IT Professional
MIS 778 Information Security and Law
TBA Trends and Directions in IT Law
“These courses are critical for all IT leaders,” says Program Director Jerry Luftman, referring to the IT legal courses. “I took several of them with an attorney and found the topics insightful, eye opening, and extremely interesting. The attorney-professors were Steve Robinson and Gregg Mele, and they were very knowledgeable and enthusiastic and well versed in legal aspects of online issues. Great courses!”
For more information, please contact Sharon Glennon at
201-216-5381 or sglennon@stevens.edu
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