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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