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CCSU announces new majors

Clayton College & State University’s College of Information and Mathematical Sciences is ready for students to begin courses in its two new majors, a B.S. in mathematics and the WebBSIT, an online B.S. in information technology. Both majors were recently approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and will begin in fall 2004.

There are already more than 20 students signed up for the new major in math. “We hope that there will be between 30-50 students,” said Dr. Anthony Giovannitti, the head of the Mathematics Department. Students will be prepared to either work in an industry setting like engineering and computer science, go on to graduate school, or work in education.

Clayton State has also hired three new tenure professors to teach classes for the new math major. Dr. Aprillya Lanz, Dr. Catherine Matos and soon-to-be Dr. Nathan Brushall will all be joining the Clayton State faculty this fall.

CIMS will be adding six new classes for the WebBSIT. These classes are The Enterprise and IT, Discrete Math for IT, Technical Communication, Programming and Problem Solving, Introduction to Information Technology, and Systems Analysis and Design.

The WebBSIT is a collaboration of five USG institutions Ð Armstrong Atlantic University, Clayton State, Georgia Southern University, Macon State College and Southern Polytechnic State University. The program is designed to provide students with an opportunity to obtain an IT degree Ð students who, without the online aspect of the major, would be unable to pursue training in Information Technology. Larry Booth, the WebBSIT student contact for Clayton State, is hoping to have at least 20 students from Clayton State sign up for the WebBSIT major.

At the end of summer semester Booth will relinquish his role as the Head of the Department of Information Technology at Clayton State in order to focus on a number of WebBSIT tasks related to Clayton State’s participation in the WebBSIT consortium. These duties include serving as Clayton State's representative on the WebBSIT Operating Board and as the advisor for Clayton State WebBSIT students. Booth will be a significant local resource for the new executive director for the WebBSIT, since the executive director will be housed at Clayton State. He served on both the Curriculum Committee and the Administrative Committee during the process of WebBSIT program development. Booth also was part of the team that developed the University’s original program in Information Technology, the Bachelor’s of Information Technology, or B.I.T.

Giovannitti, a resident of Carrolton, holds a doctorate in mathematics from New Mexico State University. He has previously taught mathematics at California State University, Long Beach, University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of West Georgia. A resident of Jonesboro, Booth holds a master’s degree in computer science education and worked as a professor and curriculum innovator in both computer science and information technology for many years before coming to Clayton State in the fall of 1997.