| Courses And Training | |||||||||
| MIS Courses | |||||||||
| MIS Seminar | |||||||||
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This course
examines business, technology and management, treating them as an
integrated whole. While you may have had Systems Analysis & Design,
Data Base Management, Enterprise Applications, Data Communications and a
whole host of business courses, this course will provide a framework for
understanding how all of these pieces fit together. The purpose
of the course is to ground students in the relationship between business
and the communications and computing technology that enables, extends
and supports existing and future business models and processes. |
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| Algorithms And Data Structure I | |||||||||
| Object-oriented design: objects, classes, methods, encapsulation; Programming fundamentals: data, variables, selection, loops, arrays, input/output; basic graphics; extensive programming required. | |||||||||
| Systems Analysis And Design | |||||||||
| This course includes tools and techniques used to document information systems. Classical and structured methodologies for describing data flow, data structure, process flow, file design input and output designs, and program specifications are applied to documenting systems. Data gathering and reporting, project management, and cost/benefit analysis are surveyed. | |||||||||
| Data Communications | |||||||||
| Data communication technologies to support the effective and efficient management of information in an organization. Topics will include: the different competing data communication architectures and protocols; an overview of different network topologies and technologies such as LAN, WAN, intranets, and Value-added networks. | |||||||||
| Database Management | |||||||||
| Theoretic and practical issues related to the management of a database in a business environment including: the role of databases and database applications in contemporary organizations; data modeling using the entity-relationship and semantic object models; fundamentals of the relational data model and its implementation along with SQL and XML; and characteristics of distributed databases and Client/Server database technologies. | |||||||||
| Project Management | |||||||||
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This course examines project management concepts, methods and tools. The purpose of the course is to ground students in applied project management. This is not a “theoretical” course. Students will leave the course with a deep understanding of the project management process, project management tools and insight into what constitute project management best practices. |
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| Business Decision Making | |||||||||
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Examination of how decision support modeling (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and software (Expert Choice) can be applied successfully to the solution of practical business problems. AHP will be applied to solve a real world technology problem within the University. |
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| Operations Management | |||||||||
| Today’s managers must understand the complex process underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as creation and delivery of services. This course examines the concepts of operations management and the responsibilities of operations managers in the management of supply chain systems, including problems and techniques of systems design, operations, and control. | |||||||||