Courses
All courses offered by the MIS Department for Master's students are listed here.
Note: Please speak with your advisor before registering for classes.
Field and Research Courses include MIS 594A and MIS 900. Specialized work on an individual basis. Please see your advisor for more information. |
Independent Study Courses include MIS 599, MIS 699 and MIS 799. Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Please see your advisor for more information. |
Course Descriptions
MIS 501 - Responsible Information Management |
MIS 502 - Technology Innovations for Entrepreneurship |
MIS 504 - Management of Information Technology |
| MIS 505 - IT Strategy 3 Credit Course Description: This course is intended to provide students exposure to the issues and challenges both users and systems professionals face within the IT management arena as a part of a firm's business and IT strategy. The specific goal is for the student to learn how to Plan IT/IS options to address competitive needs, analyze business systems, using process redesign and/or reengineering methods, Investigate IT options for acquisition, design and implementation; and develop change management strategies using innovation and learning based theories. |
| MIS 506 - Healthcare Information Systems 3 Credit Course Description: This course introduces students to the concepts and practices of healthcare information systems.. Topics include: (1 ) introduction to the health IT discipline; (2 ) major applications and commercial vendors; (3 ) decision support methods and technologies; (4 ) information systems design and engineering; and (5 ) new opportunities and emerging trends. A semester-long group project will provide students hands-on experience in planning and building healthcare information systems; associated ethical and legal concerns, software engineering and human-computer interaction issues, and user acceptance and outcomes evaluation methods will also be discussed. |
| MIS 507 - Software Design and Integration 3 Credit Course Description: The course will begin with a discussion of techniques and notations for object-oriented modeling. Building on these modeling techniques, we will then discuss strategies for implementing reusable and extensible systems and in particular design patterns--templates for software design that have been proved to deliver great practical value. The course will also cover a selected set of software engineering and project management issues and the current thinking on what constitutes the best practice to deal with these issues. |
| MIS 509 - Business Communications 3 Credit Course Description: This course is an overview of the methods, processes, and functions necessary for effective communication in today's high tech, global marketplace. The goals for this course are to develop an understanding of the need for and the requisite skills of competent communication in both the physical and electronic environments. Note: Not open to non-degree seeking students. |
| MIS 510 - Web Computing and Mining 3 Credit Course Description: This course introduces data structures and algorithms that are suited for developing Internet-based information systems in business intelligence, search engines, digital libraries, knowledge management systems, web/data/text mining, national security, and biomedical informatics. The course contains lectures, readings, programming assignments, lab sessions, and a large-scale hands-on system development project. The course will begin with select fundamental yet useful data structures (e.g., stacks, queues, lists, trees, and graphs) and sorting and searching algorithms. Newer and more robust web/data/text mining algorithms (e.g., neural networks, decision trees, genetic algorithms, spreading activation, information retrieval, natural language processing) are then introduced in the context of modern and emerging information systems in business, engineering, and bioinformatics. Prerequisites: Java programming |
| MIS 511 - 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. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper. |
| MIS 512A - Management of Technology I 3 Credit Course Description: To provide practical experience and perspective in the challenging and complex world of technology management. The course content will include lectures, seminars, case analysis, shared personal experience from senior managers of technology-based enterprises, course specific academic literature, and guest speakers. Graduate-level requirements include two papers to be graded where indicated in the syllabus. (Note: This course is cross-listed with the College of Engineering as ENGR512A. The College of Engineering is the home department for this course). |
| MIS 512B - Management of Technology II 3 Credit Course Description: To provide and practical and in depth understanding of management at the first and second levels, the integration of product to market requirements and synchronization of organizations in the challenging and complex world of technology management. The course will include team role playing, in depth (deep dive) analysis of product and organizational process which have insured the sustained and successful performance of technology companies. The content will include lectures, seminars, shared personal experience from senior managers of technology-based enterprises, course specific academic literature, and guest speakers. (Note: This course is cross-listed with the College of Engineering as ENGR512A. The College of Engineering is the home department for this course). |
| MIS 513 - Business Foundations for IT 3 Credit Course Description: This course will integrate many business foundations in support of MIS students in the MS program. In today's environment, IT solutions have to support the competitive needs of organizations and recognize the inter-organizational nature of business processes. In addition, the IT solutions have to support the financial well-being of a firm as well as its responsibility to various stakeholders. This course uses five modules: business strategy in a global environment, process analysis and re-design in an ever expanding value chain; IT in support of these business processes, economic justification, and social implications. Note: Not open to non-degree seeking students. |
| MIS 515 - Information Security in Public and Private Sectors 3 Course Credit 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. Graduate-level requirements include an oral case study report as their final. Students completing this course are awarded the NSA-CNSS certificates numbers 4011 - CNSS 4011 – Information Systems Security Professionals & CNSS 4012 – Senior Systems Managers. This course may be offered as either a ground or distance learning course. |
| MIS 516 - Information Security, Risk Mgmt., Disaster Recovery 3 Credit Course Description: The objective of our MIS 516 course is to provide our University of Arizona students with a thorough and operational knowledge of information security so that this critical area is recognized as a management issue and not an I.T. issue. As the course topics within our MIS 516 syllabus have been directly "mapped" against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) certification requirements for National Training Standard for Information System Security for professionals, students completing the current MIS 516 course are awarded the NSA-CNSS certificate number 4016. (NTSISS 4016; Risk Analyst). This course may be offered as either a ground or distance learning course. |
| MIS 517 - Systems Security Management 3 Credit Course Description: The information security arena contains a broad array of multi-level models for assessing, planning, implementing and monitoring the mitigation of security risks. At the very core of this information security spectrum are the actual system and network devices which store, manage, transmit and secure information. This course is designed to provide a working knowledge of issues and techniques surrounding the proper safeguarding of operating systems and related components. Filled with Information Assurance topics, this course offers a solid base for system administrators and technical managers. Students completing this course are awarded the NSA-CNSS certificate number 4013 - System Administrators. This course may be offered as either a ground or distance learning course. |
| MIS 518 - Bio Medical and Security Informatics 3 Credit Course Description: The impact of information technology on society has increased drastically over the past two decades. The Science of Informatics aims to take an information-centric and analytic approach to the study of time-critical, high-impact problems in modern organizations. This course will address two pressing and critical research and application topics in Biomedical Informatics and Security Informatics. In both areas, we will discuss information systems design issues of relevance to: standards, databases, interoperability, ontologies, information sharing, privacy/security, data/text mining, system design, user interface, and validation and assessment. Biomedical Informatics will cover applications for biomedical digital library, electronic medical records, public health systems, genomic analysis, and biosurveillance. Security Informatics will cover international and homeland security applications including association mining, criminal networks analysis, open source intelligence, web intelligence collection and analysis, spatial-temporal analysis, and advanced visualization. |
| MIS 521 - 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. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project. |
| MIS 525 - Models for Decision Support 3 Credit Course Description: The goal of this course is to help the student become a skilled builder and consumer of models for decision support. An introduction to the application of mathematical modeling to management decisions using spreadsheets is provided. Graduate-level requirement includes an additional modeling project. |
| MIS 527 - 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. Graduate-level requirements include completion of a group project on an advanced complementary or enabling technology using ERP. Students' projects include implementation or demonstration and presentation to class. |
| MIS 528 - Business Process Management Systems 3 Credit Course Description: This course introduces the latest advances in business process technologies and management such as business process planning, business process requirements analysis, business process modeling, workflow system design and implementation. The course will emphasize both theoretical issues and hands-on experiences in business process management. Graduate-level requirements include a term paper and more classroom participation in classroom discussion than the undergrad's. |
| MIS 529 - Detection of Deception and Intent 3 Credit Course Description: With the increased challenges from terrorism, the need to protect against security threats is even greater today. Thus, it is becoming increasingly necessary to find innovative and better ways to protect ourselves from these security threats. Finding less invasive techniques of detection suggests analyzing people's behavior or the ways/patterns in which they talk/write and identify cues to detect deception and the intent of deception. Also, this procedure needs to be automated using software tools and techniques because of the infeasibility of the manual approach for deployment of these techniques on a large scale. Thus our focus in this course is geared towards developing software tools and techniques dealing with the automatic deception and intent. The course will be project-based involving exchange of ideas, opportunities, challenges, and research issues as well as development of software tools and techniques, in the area of detection of deception and intent, primarily based on the current research work being done at the Center for the Management of Information (CMI) at the University of Arizona. Graduate-level requirements include additional readings at graduate difficulty and detail level with class projects oriented toward their Masters' project or Ph.D. dissertation. |
| MIS 531 - Enterprise Data Management 3 Credit Course Description: This course introduces the student to fundamentals of database analysis, design, and implementation. Emphasis is on practical aspects of business process analysis and the accompanying database design and development. Topics covered include: conceptual design of databases using the entity relationship model, relational design and normalization, SQL and PL/SQL, web based database design, and implementation using Oracle or some other modern Database Management Systems. Students are required to work with a local client organization in understanding their business requirements, developing a detailed set of requirements to support business processes, and designing and implementing a web based database application to support their day- to-day business operations and decision making. Students will acquire hands-on-experience with a state-of-the-art database management system such as Oracle or Microsoft SQLServer, and web-based development tools. Prerequisites: MIS 541 or consent of instructor. |
| MIS 535 - Data Management: Technology and Applications 3 Credit Courses Description: Introduction to fundamentals of database systems, design techniques and their use in organizations. Course covers relational database technology and focuses on design of database applications. Case studies will be used to illustrate the use of database systems for strategic and operational decision making. Emerging technologies and their applications will be covered. Students will get hands-on experience with state-of-the-art commercial relational and object-oriented database technology and learn to use SQL. |
| MIS 538 - Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 3 Credit Course Description: This course covers design, implementation, and analysis of software agents and multi-agent systems. It emphasizes theoretical foundations of agent-based computing and hands-on system building. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project, those taking MIS 538 are expected to work in small groups to implement a multi-agent system, turn in a substantial term project report, and present and demonstrate their implemented system in class. |
| MIS 540 - 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. Graduate-level requirements include all undergraduate requirements, plus the completion of a substantial research project that must include a related program written by the student. There will also be separate graduate level exams. |
| MIS 541 - Analysis and Design of Service-Oriented Systems 3 Credit Course Description: Service-oriented architectures and computing have emerged as the core of the next generation of information systems. This course focuses on analysis and design of information systems with a service-oriented perspective. This course also covers process analysis and modeling to certain degree since it is the foundation of service-oriented architectures. This course will include some of the following topics: introduction to service oriented architecture, overview of system sourcing strategies, specification of service level agreements, software development approaches, process-driven system integration, introduction to Unified Modeling Language. The course will involve a group project that analyzes and design a real world system in a corporate setting. |
| MIS 543 - Business Data Communications & Networking 3 Credit Course Description: This course provides an in-depth knowledge of data communications and networking requirements, including networking technologies, hardware, and software. This course has two objectives. First, it focuses on basic networking standards and protocols. Second, students will learn to evaluate, select, and implement different data network options and prepare a cost-benefit analysis for a proposed solution. |
| MIS 545 - Data Mining for Business Intelligence 3 Credit Course Description: Corporations today are said to be data rich but information poor. For example, retailers can easily process and capture millions of transactions every day. In addition, the widespread proliferation of economic activity on the Internet leaves behind a rich trail of micro-level data on consumers, their purchases, retailers and their offerings, auction bidding, music sharing, so on and so forth. Data mining techniques can help companies discover knowledge and acquire business intelligence from these massive datasets. This course will cover data mining for business intelligence. Data mining refers to extracting or “mining” knowledge from large amounts of data. It consists of several techniques that aim at discovering rich and interesting patterns that can bring value or “business intelligence” to organizations. Examples of such patterns include fraud detection, consumer behavior, and credit approval. The course will cover the most important data mining techniques --- classification, clustering, association rule mining, visualization, prediction --- through a hands-on approach using XL Miner and other specialized software, such as the open-source WEKA software. |
| MIS 558 - 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. Students' projects include implementation or demonstration and presentation to class. This course is only available through Outreach College. Eller Graduate Students should take MIS 527. This course may be offered via distance learning. |
MIS 559 - Project Management |
| MIS 560 - Operations Management 2 Credit Course Description: Organizations use their operations to achieve their strategic objectives. While operations can be diverse, they have characteristics in common. This course focuses on those common attributes. The class will focus on managing processes, inventory, supply chain management, and the integration of operations with strategic issues. |
| MIS 565 - Managing for Quality Improvement 3 Credit Course Description: Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, quality management programs. Graduate-level requirements includes a report. |
| MIS 570 - Managemetn and Evaluation of Information Systems 3 Credit Course Description: The methodologies of economics and management information systems are applied to the problem of designing and evaluating information systems for a profit-maximizing firm. An MBA integrative course. |
| MIS 573A - 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. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program. |
| MIS 573B - 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 Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program. |
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MIS 577 - 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. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program. Prerequisites: Introductory course in operations management or permission of instructor |
| MIS 578 - Project Management 3 Credit Course Description: Project Management is the application of knowledge, analytical skills, scheduling software tools and techniques related to various project activities in order to meet project requirements. This course specifically addresses the nine project management "knowledge areas", the five project management "process groups" and the 4-way constraints of project management (i.e., scope, time, cost, quality). Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or team-based PM Project with a real organization. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or team-based PM Project with a real organization. |
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MIS 580 - Knowledge Management: Technologies and Practices 3 Credit Course Description: Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, sharing and evaluating an enterprise's information and knowledge assets. This course reviews and discusses existing enabling technologies in KM and new, emerging KM technologies and practices. Such technologies are presented in the context of emerging Internet, data mining, e-commerce, and enterprise computing applications. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper. |
MIS 581 - Financial Information Systems |
MIS 585E - Strategic Management of Information Systems |
| MIS 587 - Business Intelligence 3 Credit Course Description: The objective of this course is to give students a broad overview of managerial, strategic and technical issues associated with Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse design, implementation, and utilization. Topics covered will include the principles of dimensional data modeling, techniques for extraction of data from source systems, data transformation methods, data staging and quality, data warehouse architecture and infrastructure, and the various methods for information delivery. Critical issues in planning, physical design process, deployment and ongoing maintenance will also be examined. Students will learn how data warehouses are used to help managers successfully gather, analyze, understand and act on information stored in data warehouses. The components and design issues related to data warehouses and business intelligence techniques for extracting meaningful information from data warehouses will be emphasized. The course will use state-of-the-art data warehouse and OLAP software tools to provide hands-on experience in designing and using Data Warehouses and Data Marts. Students will also learn how to gather strategic decision making requirements from businesses, develop key performance indicators (KPIs) and corporate performance management metrics using the Balanced Scorecard, and design and implement business dashboards. Prerequisite(s): MIS 531 or an equivalent database course. |
MIS 593 - Internship |
MIS 596A - Special Topics in MIS - Mobile Device Programming |
| MIS 597A - 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. |
| MIS 688 - Project Execution and Presentation (Masters Project - Team Based) 3 Credit Course Description: The purpose of this course is to deliver an Information Technology (IT) project to an actively engaged client. The course leverages project management, information evaluation, and other project implementation techniques to assist the students in managing, executing, presenting, and documenting a quality IT project. |
| MIS 696B - Virtual Teams and Technology 3 Credit Course Description: Virtual teams play an important role in how organizations conduct their work. From software engineers who collaborate to write code to the board of directors who gather to make strategic decisions, teams are increasingly being used worldwide as the foundation of work. This course explores a variety of topics surrounding teams whose members work in different geographical locations. The course will focus on the social, technical, and business aspects of virtual teams. |
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MIS 696H - Master's Report Projects (Individual Based) 3 Credit Course Description: Students will integrate their knowledge from their program of study and apply it to a problem area in MIS. Each student will write a significant report based on the results of his or her work. Pre-req MIS531, MIS541 |
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