Undergraduate Courses
All courses offered by the MIS Department for Undergraduates are listed here. Note: Please speak with your advisor before registering for classes.
Internship Courses include MIS 293 and MIS 393. Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Please see your advisor for more information.
Independent Study Courses include MIS 199, MIS 199H, MIS 293, MIS 299, MIS 299H, MIS 399, MIS 399H, MIS 499 and MIS 499H. 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 111 - Computers and the Internetworked Society
3 Credit Course
Description: This course introduces students to concepts of computer technology and the impacts of the Internet on social, organizational, personal and ethical issues. Students develop a sufficient understanding of computers and other issues to form critical opinions about them, as well as acquire and hone skills to recognize and evaluate their role in interacting with the Internet
MIS 301 - Data Structures and Algorithms
3 Credit Course
Description: This course focuses on the design and analysis of basic data structures including stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. Java implementations of selected data structures and their applications will be covered along with a tutorial of C. In addition, this course introduces algorithms for searching, sorting, and graph traversal.
3 Credit Course
Description: This course focuses on the design and analysis of basic data structures including stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. Java implementations of selected data structures and their applications will be covered along with a tutorial of C. In addition, this course introduces algorithms for searching, sorting, and graph traversal.
MIS 304 - Using and Managing Information Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: Students will learn ways that organizations improve their business practices through the use of computer technology. Course emphasizes systems technologies, enterprise integration, business applications, and critical analysis of organizational change through information systems.
3 Credit Course
Description: Students will learn ways that organizations improve their business practices through the use of computer technology. Course emphasizes systems technologies, enterprise integration, business applications, and critical analysis of organizational change through information systems.
MIS 307 - Business Data Communications
3 Credit Course
Description: Data communications, networks, protocols, Internet and electronic commerce.
3 Credit Course
Description: Data communications, networks, protocols, Internet and electronic commerce.
MIS 331 - Database Management Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: Introduction to database management systems; relational models; security concurrency, integrity and recovery issues; query interfaces.
3 Credit Course
Description: Introduction to database management systems; relational models; security concurrency, integrity and recovery issues; query interfaces.
MIS 341 - Information Systems Analysis and Design
3 Credit Course
Description: The analysis and logical design of business processes and management information systems focusing on the systems development life cycle; project management and cost-benefit analysis; techniques for gathering and analyzing information systems requirements; use of automated and non-automated techniques for logical system design.
3 Credit Course
Description: The analysis and logical design of business processes and management information systems focusing on the systems development life cycle; project management and cost-benefit analysis; techniques for gathering and analyzing information systems requirements; use of automated and non-automated techniques for logical system design.
MIS 373 - Basic Operations Management
3 Credit Course
Description: OM is concerned with the creation of goods and/services. Topics include business processes, MRP, forecasting, facility planning and layout, inventory management, quality control and just-in-time manufacturing.
3 Credit Course
Description: OM is concerned with the creation of goods and/services. Topics include business processes, MRP, forecasting, facility planning and layout, inventory management, quality control and just-in-time manufacturing.
MIS 401 - Responsible Information Management
3 Credit Course
Description: The emergence of the global network -- the Internet and its constituent networks -- and the associated digital revolution present an array of new threats and opportunities for ethical management in the 21st century.
3 Credit Course
Description: The emergence of the global network -- the Internet and its constituent networks -- and the associated digital revolution present an array of new threats and opportunities for ethical management in the 21st century.
MIS 402 - Technological Innovations for Entrepreneurship
3 Credit Course
Description: This course focuses on understanding the nature of scientific and technological evolution. When does a technology become "ripe" for commercial exploitation? Technology pioneers are often identified by arrows in their backs. The commercially successful technology is often not the earliest, nor the best. This course will examine the S curve of technological innovations, where the market applicability increases slowly in the early phase, followed by a rapid adoption phase, and later a slow maturity phase. More in depth details about this course may be found in UAccess Course Catalog.
3 Credit Course
Description: This course focuses on understanding the nature of scientific and technological evolution. When does a technology become "ripe" for commercial exploitation? Technology pioneers are often identified by arrows in their backs. The commercially successful technology is often not the earliest, nor the best. This course will examine the S curve of technological innovations, where the market applicability increases slowly in the early phase, followed by a rapid adoption phase, and later a slow maturity phase. More in depth details about this course may be found in UAccess Course Catalog.
MIS 406 - 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.
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 411 - 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.
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.
MIS 415 - Information Security in Public and Private Sectors
3 Credit Course
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.
3 Credit Course
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.
MIS 416 - Information Security, Risk Mgmt., Disaster Recovery
3 Credit Course
Description: The objective of our MIS 416 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 416 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 416 course are awarded the NSA-CNSS certificate No. 4016. (NTSISS 4016; Risk Analyst).
3 Credit Course
MIS 417 - 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.
3 Credit Course
MIS 421 - 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.
3 Credit Course
MIS 425 - 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.
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.
MIS 427 - 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.
3 Credit Course
Description: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems represents integrated strategy for management of information among organizations, suppliers and customers.
MIS 428 - 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.
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.
MIS 429 - 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.
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.
MIS 438 - 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.
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.
MIS 440 - 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.
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.
MIS 460 - Human Resource Information Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: This course will examine the strategic role of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) in the effective management of organizations. The focus of the course will be the determination of the organizational need for HRIS, the factors that assist in the selection and evaluation of an appropriate HRIS as well as an introduction to software application packages that produce reports for management decision-making. Student classroom experiences with specific software tools will be linked to critical needs in functional Human Resource Management (HRM) activities such as Performance Management, Compensation and Benefits, Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, Labor Relations and Human Resource Planning as well as enterprise computing needs. The role of HRIS in current Information Management topics such as the Internet, Convergence, Privacy, Security, System Integration and Expert Systems will be explored.(Note: This course is cross-listed with Eller's Department of Management and Organizations. Management and Organization is the home department for this course).
3 Credit Course
Description: This course will examine the strategic role of Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) in the effective management of organizations. The focus of the course will be the determination of the organizational need for HRIS, the factors that assist in the selection and evaluation of an appropriate HRIS as well as an introduction to software application packages that produce reports for management decision-making. Student classroom experiences with specific software tools will be linked to critical needs in functional Human Resource Management (HRM) activities such as Performance Management, Compensation and Benefits, Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action, Labor Relations and Human Resource Planning as well as enterprise computing needs. The role of HRIS in current Information Management topics such as the Internet, Convergence, Privacy, Security, System Integration and Expert Systems will be explored.(Note: This course is cross-listed with Eller's Department of Management and Organizations. Management and Organization is the home department for this course).
MIS 465 - Managing for Quality Improvement
3 Credit Course
Description: Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, design of experiments, and quality management programs.
3 Credit Course
Description: Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, design of experiments, and quality management programs.
MIS 473A - 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.
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.
MIS 473B - 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.
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.
MIS 477 - 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.
3 Credit Course
Description: Organization, management and control of material flow processes; logistical strategies and relationships of procurement, handling, warehousing, transportation, and inventory control.
MIS 478 - 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.
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.
MIS 480 - Knowledge Management: Techniques and Practices
3 Credit Courses
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.
3 Credit Courses
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.
MIS 496A - Special Topics in MIS - Mobile Device Programming
3 Credit Course
Description: Students will learn how to program mobile devices with the Java programming
language. Android development will be seen in a higher level, making comparisons to the base Java for Micro Edition API. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to develop, emulate, and test applications for mobile devices.
3 Credit Course
Description: Students will learn how to program mobile devices with the Java programming
language. Android development will be seen in a higher level, making comparisons to the base Java for Micro Edition API. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to develop, emulate, and test applications for mobile devices.
MIS 496A-002 - Business Intelligence: Web and Social Media Analytics
3 Credit Course
Description: Business Intelligence: Web and Social Media Analytics” will provide students the opportunity to learn about Business Intelligence (BI) theory and combine it with powerful social media tools to gain insights into the emerging social media phenomena.
3 Credit Course
Description: Business Intelligence: Web and Social Media Analytics” will provide students the opportunity to learn about Business Intelligence (BI) theory and combine it with powerful social media tools to gain insights into the emerging social media phenomena.
MIS 497A - 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.
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 498 - Senior Capstone
1-3 Credit Course
Description: A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required.
1-3 Credit Course
Description: A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required.
MIS 498H - Honors Thesis
3 Credit Course
Description: An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
3 Credit Course
Description: An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
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