My thinking on the subject is that during the beginning of the Information Systems Security program, a lot of the networking will be reviewed. I already have a fairly good grasp of networking concepts, and was thinking I could catch up fairly easy. Plus, in order to teach the majority of the ISS program, more emphasis would have to be put on networking, making sure the students understand it.

I'm not as strong in programming as I am in networking, which is why I was leaning towards taking the Programming classes. I was talking to a student in the ISS program yesterday, and he said that there were 8 people in the program that had an Associates in networking, and only one who had his Associates in programming. The programming student was slowly catching up with the rest of the students within the first 2 quarters. I'm not sure of the programmer's previous skill in networking, but after the 2 quarters, he is almost on the same level as the Networking people, due to the amount of networking information being taught at the beginning of the program. Now the programming student will be on par with the networking students, and have all of his programming skill. Does this sound like the way to go, or the Networking route?