Undergraduate Courses

All courses offered by the MIS Department for Undergraduates are listed here. Note: Please speak with your advisor before registering for classes.

MIS 111	Computers and the Internetworked Society
MIS 301	Data Structures and Alogrithms
MIS 304	Using and Managing Information Systems
MIS 307	Business Data Communications
MIS 331	Database Management Systems
MIS 341	Information Systems Analysis and Design
MIS 373	Basic Operations Management
MIS 401	Responsible Information Management
MIS 411	Social and Ethical Issues of the Internet
MIS 415	Information Security in Public and Private Sectors
MIS 417	Systems Security Management
MIS 421	Systems Modeling and Simulation
MIS 425	Models for Decision Support
MIS 427	Introduction to Enterprise Computing Environments
MIS 428	Business Process Management Systems
MIS 438	Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
MIS 440	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
MIS 460	Human Resource Information Systems
MIS 465	Managing for Quality Improvement
MIS 473A	Production and Operations Management
MIS 473B	Production and Operations Management
MIS 477	The Supply Chain and Logistics
MIS 478	Project Management
MIS 480	Knowledge Management: Techniques and Practices
MIS 496A	Special Topics in Management Information Systems
MIS 497A	Collaboration Computing
MIS 498	Senior Capstone
MIS 498H	Honors Thesis

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 299, MIS 299H, MIS 399, MIS 399H, 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.

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.

MIS 307 - Business Data Communications
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MIS 438 - Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: This course covers design, implementation, and analysis of advanced software system development and problem solving based on software agents and multi-agent systems. It emphasizes both theoretical foundations of agent-based computing based on Artificial Intelligence 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

MIS 478 - Project Management
3 Credit Course
Description: Projects are the preferred way to get things done today in business. Course focuses on the problems and methods of running projects; special attention to information technology and software projects. Students simulate real projects, use scheduling software, study cases and use analytical tools.

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.

MIS 496A - Special Topics in Management Information Systems
3 Credit Course
Description: The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.

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.

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.

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.

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