Undergraduate Courses
Courses offered in Fall 2007:
BA 350: IT for Networked Organizations
Managers in today's corporate environment cannot be effective without knowing the role of IT and its impacts in terms of transformations on the organizational, process, market, and global enterprise levels. Since IT is usually composed of heavily invested corporate resources, decisions on whether to adopt certain IT or not often can have important managerial consequences. This course teaches how IT affects management methods and transforms organizational and industry structures. At a conceptual level, this course is designed to make the students knowledgeable of the fundamentals underlying the design, implementation, control, evaluation and strategic use of modern information systems While some of the effort will be devoted to hands-on work with business software, the major emphasis will be on the understanding the managerial and strategic aspects of information technology.
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Instructor: Prof. Ramanath Subramanyam
Meeting times: T, Th 10-11:20AM
Classroom location: 226 WH
BA352: Database Design and Management (Also crosslisted as ACCY 352)
Databases play a critical role in today's business environment. Almost every modern organization uses database technologies to store critical data and manage its operations. Database technologies are critical in every functional area in an organization such as finance, marketing, manufacturing, operations and accounting. Understanding and being able to implement database technologies is one of the most fundamental skills an information systems professional should possess.
This is an introductory course on database technology. This course will provide students with an opportunity to systematically study database design and management, both theoretically and through hands-on exercises. Topics include data modeling, database logical and physical designs and implementation. Specifically, the content of the class will cover the following four primary areas:
• Database Analysis: conceptual data modeling
• Database Design: logical and physical database design
• Database Implementation: relational data model
• SQL and the basics of Microsoft Access
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Instructor: TBD
Meeting times: T, Th 3-4:20PM
Classroom location: 322 DKH
BA353: Information Systems Analysis and Design (Also crosslisted as ACCY 352)
Information system development has traditionally been an
art and is undergoing rapid changes. Students will learn how
to model, design and develop an information system to meet
user requirement at various levels within organizations. The
course will introduce basic concepts, approaches and tools
that are commonly applied in this field. You will learn to
apply your knowledge to new situations. This includes being
able to recognize what's being asked, evaluating the
available information, and conceptualizing how to solve
problems. Often, this involves breaking a complex problem
down into smaller, more manageable components and the use of
tools like ER diagrams, UML, flowcharts etc. In particular,
students are expected to become proficient in:
• Understanding various elements of information systems
development
• Determining information systems requirements, modeling and
structuring them
• Designing an information system solution to satisfy user
requirements
• Using information system modeling and development tools
• Learn some of the jargon of computer professionals
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Instructor: TBD
Meeting times: M,W 11:30--12:50
Classroom location: 322 DKH
BA354: Management of Data Communications
This course stresses a top-down, business oriented approach to evaluating and selecting data communications technology. Students who successfully complete this course gain practical knowledge of network telecommunications technology, including hardware and software. They learn enough to allow them to help design systems that include network components.
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Instructor: TBD
Meeting times: M,W 1-2:20PM
Classroom location: 322 DKH
BA454: Enterprise Computing Management
Essential steps in developing a management information system, including preliminary planning, design, feasibility analysis, implementation schedule, and post implementation review of the system; includes a semester-long project which familiarizes students with methodology and techniques.
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Instructor: TBD
Meeting times: T,Th 1-2:20PM
Classroom location: TBD
