Course Number: MIST 310 (Fall)
Course Name: Systems Analysis and Design
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course will introduce various methods to analyze system requirements and design software solutions. It will focus on object-oriented methodologies and provide students with hands-on experience in developing deliverables such as context diagrams, data flow diagrams, use cases, class diagrams, and test plans.
Course Number: MIST 320 (Fall)
Course Name: Data and Information Management
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course covers concepts and methods in design, implementation, and maintenance of the data and knowledge management systems. The course develops an understanding of database development, database administration, and knowledge management.
Course Number: MIST 330 (Spring)
Course Name: IT Infrastructure and Enterprise Architecture
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course provides an understanding of the nature and role of the various components of organizational technology infrastructure. It focuses on different forms of enterprise architectures and provides an overview of the methodologies most commonly used to analyze and manage enterprise architectures. In addition, the course introduces information and systems security and introduces different methods and strategies to manage security risks.
Course Number: MIST 331 (Spring)
Course Name: Enterprise Systems
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course discusses how modern management information systems are structured, how they are managed and the issues in integrating them to support effective business operations and decisionmaking. Students will learn about the integrated nature of business processes, critical success factors in enterprise system implementation, and gain hands-on experience with a major enterprise system.
Course Number: MIST 360 (Spring)
Course Name: IS Strategy, Management, and Acquisition
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course focuses on developing the ability to critically assess existing IS infrastructures and emerging technologies as well as how these enabling technologies align with and support organizational strategy. It explores the acquisition, staffing, development and implementation of plans and policies to achieve efficient and effective information systems. Students will use various techniques to perform cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and other decision-making analysis techniques.
Course Number: MIST 390 (As Needed)
Course Name: Special Topics in Information Systems
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course offers an in-depth exploration of a special topic, issue, or current trend in the information systems field. This course will include special topics or issues that are not addressed in other courses. The topics or issues will be subject to the department approval.
Course Number: MIST 420 (Fall)
Course Name: Business Intelligence
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
The course provides students with an understanding of the principles of decision making in organizations, an appreciation of the concepts of business intelligence systems (BI) across various disciplinary areas, and the acquisition of basic skills in the use and construction of BI systems.Students will gain hands-on experience with major BI applications.
Course Number: MIST 440 (Fall)
Course Name: Applications Development
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course will introduce the fundamental concepts of application design and development. Students will learn the basic programming skills, program design, program development (including data structures), problem solving, and event driven programming. It will include the use of logical and physical structures for both programs and data and provide hands-on experience in designing and developing programs and interfaces.
Course Number: MIST 443 (Spring)
Course Name: Internet Applications Development
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course will examine how the Internet and the World Wide Web are used for business purposes. Students will learn various tools to develop effective websites for organizations and will develop hands-on skills in building websites to market products or services and will establish a simulated business on the Internet. Students will use tools and techniques for project management, project analysis, design, and implementation.
Course Number: MIST 450 (Spring)
Course Name: IT Governance and Security
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course provides an overview of the field of information and systems security, defines the key processes and actors, and presents the management framework of information security primarily used by businesses. In this course, students will be introduced to the risk analysis and assessment strategies, concepts, methods, and techniques that enable them to define the scope of protectionto meet the objectives of the business organization, and to make sound recommendations, given the risks, legal requirements, and organizational objectives
Course Number: MIST 460 (Fall)
Course Name: Information Systems Project Management
Credit Hours: 3 Hours
This course introduces generic project management methods and techniques (e.g. PMI) as well as techniques specific to software projects (e.g., Agile Methods and Extreme Programming) and demonstrates how software projects are different from other types of projects. The course will cover best practices and software project management standards such as Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) as well as the ISO/IEC and IEEE/EIA 1058 and 12207 standards.
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