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  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on how to employ technology effectively in organizations, with emphasis on the global organization. Explores management issues of how to use new technologies in an organization along with issues of supply chain management, customer relationship management, outsourcing of technology services, information technology development, and the integration of technology within an organization through the use of enterprise systems.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Offers an introductory course in business research methods. Designed to introduce students to basic concepts and problems encountered in social science and business research, including types of data and measurement, sampling, probability, and research design. Also offers students an opportunity to become acquainted with a variety of approaches and techniques to develop their own research projects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides a management-oriented introduction to data administration, database management systems (DBMS), and their impact on business. Data drives businesses and are necessary for businesses to function and for customers to buy products and services. Topics include the rationale for the DBMS approach, database design, data models, DBMS software tools, and the role of the database administrator. Gives students the opportunity to use a DBMS package, gain experience in database design, and use a query language.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on the key technical and managerial issues governing the effective deployment and use of data communication technologies within a business. Discusses telecommunication fundamentals including telecommunication hardware, network topologies and protocols, network security, and installation of networks for both local and global business communications. Emphasis is on developing the ability to evaluate and then select from a variety of connectivity options, conduct a network performance analysis, conduct a cost-benefit analysis, and manage a data communications network. Also discusses the role of a systems or network administrator.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Discusses how knowledge differs from data and information, the role knowledge plays in organizations, and the role information technology can play in managing that knowledge. Knowledge is a key strategic resource in today's economy, and organizations must create and share it effectively to be successful. Some of the most creative applications of information technology are those that enable teamwork, communication, problem solving, and innovation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Discusses how the successful application of information technology requires a careful understanding of information requirements in the context of a business application/process. Provides the tools, experience, and examples needed to identify and analyze such opportunities. Topics include the analysis of information needs, identification of data requirements, systems design methodologies, assessment of information technology capabilities, implementation strategies, and organizational changes resulting from information system changes.
  • 1.50 Credits

    Focuses on what companies need to do to take full advantage of new information technologies that the Internet and other emerging technologies provide. The information economy has produced profound effects on doing business, and it will continue to do so in the future. New business opportunities are being created, and traditional businesses are being transformed in the electronic business environment. Emphasis is on supply chain issues, telecommunications issues, the role of the electronic marketplace, and effective uses of the Web.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces the history and current status of information systems in health care: information architectures, administrative and clinical applications, evidence-based medicine, information retrieval, decision support systems, security and confidentiality, bioinformatics, information system cycles, the electronic health record, key health information systems and standards, and medical devices.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Covers the concepts, skills, and techniques needed to integrate information systems. The dramatic growth in business being conducted over the Internet, the rapid change of business models, and the wave of corporate mergers have boosted dramatically the need for integrated business information. These demands force organizations to introduce new approaches and techniques to integrating business systems within the company and between companies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on how to gain competitive advantage through manufacturing rather than just improving operational performance. Effective manufacturing fits the needs of the business, and strives for consistency between its capabilities and policies and the competitive advantage sought. To do so requires translating the business strategy into an appropriate collection of bricks and mortar, equipment, people, and procedures. Being able to move from the level of specific decisions to developing general capabilities-and back again-is central to developing and implementing an effective manufacturing strategy.
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