More questions about being an adjunct IT professor

In order to teach undergrad IT classes you must have a MS degree related to the subject matter or an MS degree not related and 18 graduate credits related to the subject matter. I know this is a minimum and PhD is preferred but lets stick to MS for now.

Specific questions ....

What's needed to teach an undergrad introductory database class?
Will any MSIS, MSIT, MSITM, MSIA, MSCS, MSSE degree suffice?
Does the degree need to have one or more graduate level database classes?
If the degree doesn't have a graduate level database class but my BS did will that suffice?
If the degree doesn't have a graduate level database class will work experience be acceptable?
Is there a difference if the class was advanced database concepts instead of an introductory class?
Would the degree need more graduate level database classes to teach undergrad advanced database concepts?

I assume it's better for your MS degree to have classes covering several areas of IT (security, network, database, programming, etc) if you want to teach but is it really needed?


For Example:

Take this WGU degree for example.
MS Info Security & Assurance Course of Study

It's an IT related Masters, but it is all security related with no real graduate level network, database, programming or design classes. Since its an IT related degree could one teach an introductory database, data structures or systems design class?

Thanks for your time

 

From what I've seen (and that really isn't much) it really depends on where you want to teach, but for the most part, you need an MSCS or MSCE to teach CS or CE courses, and any of the above will work for IS / IT courses. At community colleges and for-profits, experience and certifications also matter a lot, since most of the curriculum is aligned with test objectives. For example, my last CC IT professor for microsoft courses had an unrelated MS, 18 grad IT related credits, and had passed ~15 microsoft exams, including those for the current courses he taught.