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MSBA (CIS): Details about courses

Summary
This document provides an overview of the courses associated with my Master of Science Business Administration, concentration in Computer and Information Science (MSBA CIS) program.

MSBA (CIS) -- Course Work

• CIS 535 Information Systems Development
  This course covers the fundamentals of information systems of development using database management systems and CASE tools. The course includes hands-on experience with at least one DBMS and data manipulation language, in addition to using CASE tools for data modeling.
  Professor: Lucy Feit

• CIS 578 User Interface Design and System Integration
  This course focuses on the issues surrounding the design of interfaces and the integration of existing systems to form new systems. The course builds knowledge of networking, databases, and programming. The course outline is partly based on the recommendations of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction for an introductory graduate course on user interface design.
  Professor: Munir Mandviwalla, PhD.

• HR 514 Building High Performance Organizations
  Human Resource Administration: Considers strategies for structuring work and organizations for effectiveness and innovation. Examines ways to transform organizational cultures and to sustain performance during periods of environmental turbulence.
  Professor: J. Bucci
  

• CIS 578 User Interface Design and System Integration
  This course focuses on the issues surrounding the design of interfaces and the integration of existing systems to form new systems. The course builds knowledge of networking, databases, and programming. The course outline is partly based on the recommendations of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction for an introductory graduate course on user interface design.
  Professor: Munir Mandviwalla, PhD.

• HR 401 Management and Organizational Behavior
  Human Resource Administration: Introduces concepts of organization and management. Major emphasis on problems and theories of organizational behavior. Topics include motivation, decision making, communication, group processes, productivity, control, and organizational structure.

• Mkt 502 Consumer and Buyer Behavior
  General Marketing: Use of concepts from the behavioral sciences for identifying market segments, predicting customer response to alternative marketing strategies.

• CIS 543 Methods in Information Systems
  The basic concepts of Transaction Processing and Management Information Systems (TPS/MIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Executive Information Systems (EIS) and Office Automation Systems (OAS) are presented. How these systems are inter-related and the ways in which companies are organized to utilize them are examined. A case study containing five projects is presented to the class, based upon a manufacturer-distributor. TPS, MIS, DSS, and EIS problems involving sales, manufacturing, inventory, receivables, and cash flow are presented for solution.
  Students are introduced to various types of software. A CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tool is used for system and software specification. For solving DSS problems there are an expert system shell, spreadsheet and operations management tools. The internet will be used to acquire and organize strategic decision making information in product planning and executive reporting.
  Professor: Dr. David Lefkovitz

• CIS 541 Computer Basics
  Operating system, user interface, direct manipulation, natural language, UNIX, DOS, Windows
  Professor: Georg Cross IV, Ph.D.
  

• CIS 642 Building Human-Computer-Interface
  Course studies the human factor within information systems development. Sample topics include: design of empirical studies; cognitive task analysis; user interface design.
  Professor: Dr. John Nosek

• CIS 741 Networking and Communications
  Computer networks, network technology, protocols, routing algorithms, reliability and design issues.
  Professor: Dr. Robert L. Stafford

• CIS 752 Capstone Course
  This course will provide a capstone experience for students working toward a MSBA degree in Information Technology. Under instructor supervision students will select a topic in their area of interest. The capstone experience will include a research paper or an implementation of an information system.

• CIS 081 Higher Level Languages Using C and C++
  An introduction to the basic concepts of computer languages and their applications. Topics include processor and memory organization, addressing techniques, and language features. (This course is designed for majors and individuals with programming experience who wish to learn C and some C++ object oriented features.)

• CIS 083 Internal Data Structures
  Systematic techniques for the construction and use of internal data structures. Topics include stacks, arrays, lists, trees and pointers. Students will be expected to complete a variety of programs using the techniques taught. The course languages are C and C++ for the object oriented concepts.

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