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Undergraduate Curriculum/Courses |
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Note: Please speak with your advisor before registering for classes.
Course Descriptions
MIS 111 - Computers and the Internetworked Society
3 Credit Course
Description: This course introduces students to concepts of computer technology and the impacts of the Internet on social, organizational, personal and ethical issues. Students develop a sufficient understanding of computers and other issues to form critical opinions about them, as well as acquire and hone skills to recognize and evaluate their role in interacting with the Internet
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MIS 222 - Introduction to Business Programming
3 Credit Course
Description: This course introduces computer programming using Java with the emphasis on business applications. It covers topics such as software program design, business problem solving, and fundamental programming concepts including data types, classes, control structures, and console-based I/O. It prepares the students for advanced business programming and in-depth study of data structures and algorithms
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MIS 293 - Internship
1-3 Credit Course
Description: Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
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MIS 299 - Independent Study
1-4 Credit Course
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
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MIS 299H - Honors Independent Study
1-3 Credit Course
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
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MIS 301 - Data Structures and Algorithms
3 Credit Course
Description: This course focuses on the design and analysis of basic data structures including stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. Java implementations of selected data structures and their applications will be covered along with a tutorial of C. In addition, this course introduces algorithms for searching, sorting, and graph traversal.
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MIS 304 - Using and Managing Information Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: Students will learn ways that organizations improve their business practices through the use of computer technology. Course emphasizes systems technologies, enterprise integration, business applications, and critical analysis of organizational change through information systems.
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MIS 307 - Business Data Communications
3 Credit Course
Description: Data communications, networks, protocols, Internet and electronic commerce.
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MIS 331 - Database Management Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: Introduction to database management systems; relational models; security concurrency, integrity and recovery issues; query interfaces.
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MIS 341 - Information Systems Analysis and Design
3 Credit Course
Description: The analysis and logical design of business processes and management information systems focusing on the systems development life cycle; project management and cost-benefit analysis; techniques for gathering and analyzing information systems requirements; use of automated and non-automated techniques for logical system design.
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MIS 361 - Database Management for Business Managers
3 Credit Course
Description: This course focuses on the core concepts, methodologies, and skills that enable students to develop a database management system for a business case. Students will work through tutorials on modern database systems and development tools.
Note: Not available for MIS majors. Usually offered only in Summer.
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MIS 362 - Networking for Business Managers
3 Credit Course
Description: This course gives students a good understanding of how the Internet and Internet-based networks work, with some focus on the basics of data communications.
Note: Not available for MIS majors. Usually offered: Summer
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MIS 363 - System Analysis and Design for Business Managers
3 Credit Course
Description: This course explores the process of identifying and analyzing a business process. It also exposes students to the skills of gathering user requirements for a new computer system and translating those requirements into a formal specification for a computer designer, as well as the basics of project management.
Note: Not available for MIS majors. Usually offered: Summer
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MIS 364 - System Usability and Implementation for Business Managers
3 Credit Course
Description: This course helps students understand the difference between well designed systems and poorly designed systems, ranging from business applications to consumer devices. Students will practice by designing a web page following good design principles.
Note: Not available for MIS majors. Usually offered: Summer.
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MIS 365 - Computer Strategies for Business
3 Credit Course
Description: This course will help students learn the ways in which organizations may use information systems to accomplish strategic and tactical goals. Case studies and simulations will enable students to study how business leaders make strategic decisions.
Note: Not available for MIS majors. Usually offered: Summer
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MIS 373 - Basic Operations Management
3 Credit Course
Description: OM is concerned with the creation of goods and/services. Topics include business processes, MRP, forecasting, facility planning and layout, inventory management, quality control and just-in-time manufacturing.
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MIS 393 - Internship
1-3 Credit Course
Description: Each internship will be customized to the opportunity and the student's skills. The student advisor will ensure the academic quality of the student's work.
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MIS 396H - Honors Proseminar
3 Credit Course
Description: The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
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MIS 399 - Independent Study
1-4 Credit Course
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
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MIS 399H - Honors Independent Study
1-3 Credit Course
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
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MIS 411 - Social and Ethical Issues of the Internet
3 Credit Course
Description: Broad survey of the individual, organizational, cultural, social and ethical issues provoked by current and projected uses of networked computers on the Internet.
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MIS 415 - Information Security in Public and Private Sectors
3 Credit Course
Description: This course exposes the student to a broad range of computer systems and information security topics. It is designed to provide a general knowledge of measures to insure confidentiality, availability, and integrity of information systems. Topics range from hardware, software and network security to INFOSEC, OPSEC and NSTISS overviews. Components include national policy, threats, countermeasures, and risk management among others.
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MIS 421 - Systems Modeling and Simulation
3 Credit Course
Description: The use of computers to simulate real-world systems. Topics include effective methods for developing the system model, ensuring its validity, selecting simulation input probability distributions, and evaluating output data. Students will learn the simulation software ARENA/SIMAN.
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MIS 427 - Introduction to Enterprise Computing Environments
3 Credit Course
Description: : Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems represents integrated strategy for management of information among organizations, suppliers and customers.
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MIS 428 - Workflow Technologies and E-Commerce Applications
3 Credit Course
Description: This course will survey the recent development in workflow technologies which have become a well-known new technology in software industry.
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MIS 438 - Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: This course covers design, implementation, and analysis of advanced software system development and problem solving based on software agents and multi-agent systems. It emphasizes both theoretical foundations of agent-based computing based on Artificial Intelligence and hands-on system building.
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MIS 440 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
3 Credit Course
Description: This course is an introduction to the art and science of creating computer systems that think for themselves. We will cover techniques for representing knowledge, understanding language, building autonomous agents, computer vision and robotics.
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MIS 441 - User Interface design, Prototyping, and Evaluation
3 Credit Course
Description: This course is an introduction to human-computer interaction and focuses on concepts, methods, and tools for designing effective user interfaces (UI) for software application that enables users to perform their tasks quickly and easily. Topics covered in the course include the importance of user-centered design in software development, the use of task analysis and contextual inquiry to uncover user requirements, the representation of UI design ideas through prototyping models, and methods for evaluating the usability of various UI designs. Although the course focuses on the impact of human factors on the design and evaluation of UIs, the course still has a significant technology component.
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MIS 449 - Information System Strategies for E-commerce
3 Credit Course
Description: Examines the strategic use of information systems both inside and outside of the firm in the context of the highly dynamic e-commerce business environment.
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MIS 450 - International Dimensions of Information Technologies
3 Credit Course
Description: National and regional information technology development strategies and policies; IT and national sovereignty; development and control of global "information highways;" impact of public and business policies on information systems design and use; international institutions and IT: convergence or divergence of information systems across countries, regions and international economic sectors.
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MIS 465 - Managing for Quality Improvement
3 Credit Course
Description: Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, design of experiments, and quality management programs.
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MIS 473A - Production and Operations Management
3 Credit Course
Description: Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Forecasting, aggregate planning, MRP, inventory models under uncertainty, scheduling..
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MIS 473B - Production and Operations Management
3 Credit Course
Description: Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Topics include strategy and competition, supply chain management, project management, facilities layout and location, quality and assurance, and reliability and maintainability.
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MIS 477 - The Supply Chain and Logistics
3 Credit Course
Description: Organization, management and control of material flow processes; logistical strategies and relationships of procurement, handling, warehousing, transportation, and inventory control.
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MIS 478 - Project Management
3 Credit Course
Description: Projects are the preferred way to get things done today in business. Course focuses on the problems and methods of running projects; special attention to information technology and software projects. Students simulate real projects, use scheduling software, study cases and use analytical tools.
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MIS 481 - Internet Business and Technology
3 Credit Course
Description: This course examines the information content, design, implementation, operational, managerial, business and legal issues that are essential to doing business on the Internet.
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MIS 482 - E-Business Systems Development
3 Credit Course
Description: This class will show students how to design and implement practical E-Business-centered software projects. They will learn system integration and scripting languages in the Web environment. They will also learn Regular Expressions, the cornerstone to text processing in the semi-structured World Wide Web.
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MIS 496A - Special Topics in Management Information Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
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MIS 497A - Collaboration Computing
3 Credit Course
Description: The practical application of theoretical learning within a group setting and involving an exchange of ideas and practical methods, skills, and principles.
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MIS 498H - Honors Thesis
3 Credit Course
Description: An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
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MIS 499 - Independent Study
1-4 Credit Course
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work
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MIS 499H - Honors Independent Study
3 Credit Course
Description: Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
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