COBA Foundation in
Business Courses
ACG 2021: Principles of Financial Accounting
PR:
None
Study of basic accounting principles including the recording and
reporting of financial activity. The preparation and interpretation of
financial statements.
ACG 2071: Principles of Managerial Accounting
PR: ACG
2021
A study of the accountant’s role in assisting management in the
planning and controlling of business activities.
BUL 3320: Law And Business I
PR:
None
This course covers the nature of legal and societal institutions and
environments, and major aspects of public, private, UCC and related
business law.
ECO 2013: Economic Principles:
Macroeconomics
PR: None
Introduction to the theory of income determination with emphasis on
monetary and fiscal policies. Objectives of full employment, price
stability, economic growth and balance of payments stability.
ECO 2023: Economic Principles: Microeconomics
PR: None
Introduction to the theory of price determination. How an economy
decides what to produce, how to produce, and how to distribute goods
and services.
FIN 3403: 3403 Principles of Finance
PR: ACG
2071, ECO 2013, and ECO 2023
Study of the processes, decisions structures, and institutional
arrangements concerned with the use and acquisition of funds by a
firm. Includes the management of the asset and liability structure of
the firm under certain and risky situations. The financial decision
process will include and recognize the international as well as
domestic aspects of financial management.
GEB 4890: Strategic Management and Decision
Making
PR: FIN 3403 and MAN 3025
and MAR 3023
Note: Must have attained Senior
standing
The
course is intended to provide a unifying, integrating, and
coordinating opportunity to tie together concepts, principles, and
skills learned separately in other, more specialized courses in
Business Administration.
ISM 3011: Information Systems in
Organizations
PR: CGS 2100 or
equivalent
Note: May not be counted
toward major requirements in MIS; Should betaken by the end of
Sophomore
year
An
introduction to the language, concepts, structures and processes
involved in the management of information systems including
fundamentals of computer-based technology and the use of
business-based software for support of managerial decisions.
MAN 3025: Principles of Management
PR: None
Note: Must have attained Junior
standing
Examines intrapersonal, interpersonal, group/team, organizational, and
environmental (both stakeholder and societal) factors influencing the
management task.
MAR 3023: Basic Marketing
Note: Junior Standing
Survey of the marketing of goods and services within the economy. Attention
is paid to the impact of marketing on other functional areas of
business as well as society.
QMB 2100: Business and Economic Statistics I
PR: MAC
1105
Data description; exploratory data analysis;
introduction to probability; binomial and normal distributions;
sampling distributions; estimation with confidence intervals; tests of
hypotheses;control charts for quality improvement.
QMB 3200: Business and Economic Statistics II
PR: MAC
2233 or MAC 2241 and QMB 2100
Simple linear regression and correlation; multiple
regression and model building; forecasting models; analysis of
variance; chi-square tests;non-parametric methods.
MIS Major Curriculum
Courses
MIS Major- Required Courses
ISM 3113: Systems Analysis & Design
PR/CR:
ISM 3011 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or
better
Note: Should be taken the
first semester of the Junior
Year
This course is an introduction to the development of computer-based information systems in
organizations. The knowledge gained through this course includes: the organizational, political,
social, and technical issues in systems development; the methods of systems development
commonly used in organizations; and MIS careers in systems development. Students will
learn the value of working in teams on systems analysis and design tasks; use some common
modeling methods and technology; and prepare systems analysis reports.
ISM 3232: Business Application Development
PR: ISM
3011 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or
better
Note: Should be taken the
first semester of the Junior
Year
This course introduces business application development using an object-oriented programming
language. Topics include data types, programming constructs, object construction, debugging
techniques, and graphical user interfaces. Good program design techniques are emphasized.
Applications of increasing complexity are developed.
ISM 4212: Database Design & Administration
PR: ISM
3113 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course is an introduction to the concepts and principles of database management. It is
intended to provide potential designers, users and managers of database systems with an
understanding of physical vs. logical representations, data modeling, implementation, and
data management. Database skills are developed through both individual and team projects.
ISM 4220: Business Data Communications
PR: ISM
3011 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or
better
This course provides the student with an understanding of the concepts and methods associated
with telecommunications and distributed information systems. Students learn the fundamentals of
data communications, including network architectures, communication protocols, transmission standards
and media access control methods.
ISM 4300: Managing Information Resources
PR: ISM 4212 and ISM 4220 with a
grade of “C” (not "C-") or better in both
This course is a survey of managerial and technical issues facing IS professionals. Class discussions
focus on understanding how different organizations respond to the challenges of information systems
management. Topics include managing computer resources, social issues such as ethics, privacy, and
intellectual property, and other current issues. Analytical and communication skills are emphasized.
NOTE: This class is designed to be taken at the end of the student’s program of study.
MIS Major - Electives
ISM 4133: Advanced Systems Analysis &
Design
PR: ISM 4212 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or
better
This course builds on previous class and/or work experience with particular emphasis on use of an
integrated CASE tool in a team project. Topics include systems development approaches/methods,
common development problems, presentations, walkthroughs, report preparation, and issues such as
quality, productivity, and ethics in systems development.
ISM 4141: Web Application Development/Java
PR: ISM
3232 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or
better
This course utilizes Java to provide hands-on experience in working with object-oriented programming
concepts and techniques. Course work covers a variety of application features including graphical user
interfaces, database connectivity, client-server computing, and web applications.
ISM 4213: Advanced Database Administration
PR: ISM 4212 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course builds on the student's knowledge developed in ISM 4212 and continues to develop the
fundamental skills of database programming, access and physical design. Course work focuses on such
topics as DBMS architectures, security, data administration, backup and recovery, software maintenance
and operation, resource management, and database tuning and troubleshooting.
ISM 4233: Information System Interface
Design
PR: ISM 3232 with a grade
of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course introduces students to theories of human-computer interaction and the principles and practices
of information system interface design, evaluation, and integration. Using Visual Basic as a design tool,
students develop programs utilizing various user interface design techniques.
ISM 4234: Object-Oriented Design &
Development
PR: ISM 3232 with a grade
of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course presents an object-oriented approach to software development of business information systems.
Students will learn to create object models of the business world and to develop information system
designs based on these objects. The designs will be implemented by use of C++ or other
object-oriented programming language.
ISM 4240: Distributed Operating
Systems
PR: ISM 3113 with a grade
of "C" (not "C-") or better
Note:
This course is an introduction to operating systems fundamentals including scheduling, storage
management, memory management, resource allocation, error handling, performance management and
tuning, user interfaces, and multiprogramming with particular emphasis on client-server distributed
systems architecture. Lab assignments include basic operating system commands, editors, file handling
and macro/shell programming.
ISM 4382: Global Information
Systems
PR: ISM 3113 with a grade
of "C" (not "C-") or better
Note:
This course presents the role of information technology in global business organizations and
the challenges in building information systems to enable global operations.
ISM 4400: Decision Support Systems
PR: QMB
3200 and ISM 3011 with grades of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course introduces the concepts of management support systems and technologies, including
decision support systems (DSS), group decision support systems (GDSS), executive information systems
(EIS) and expert systems (ES). The emphasis will be on understanding the decision making process while
focusing on methods and techniques for developing and implementing systems which allow for easy access
to data to support decision making processes.
ISM 4480: Electronic Commerce Systems
PR: ISM
3011 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or better
Note: MIS Major or Consent of Chair
This course explores the many opportunities and challenges organizations must address in order to
effectively and securely market their products and services via the Internet. Students explore the
underlying technologies used in implementing electronic commerce systems and develop the skills needed
to manage effective web sites.
ISM 4930 - Selected
Topics Elective Courses
ISM 4930: Information Security & Risk Management
PR: ISM
4220 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course covers technical and business issues in information security. The course aims to help
students develop technical skills in securing computer networks and understand IT controls in a business
environment. These aims will be achieved through hands-on projects on implementing UNIX and Windows STIGs
(Security Technical Implementation Guidelines) and documenting key COBIT (Control Objectives for
Information and related Technology) processes. Required project reports will help students improve their
technical writing and documentation skills.
ISM 4930: Enterprise Resource Planning
PR: ISM
4212 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course introduces students to enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) that support and integrate
key functional areas of today’s global businesses. The course employs SAP as the ERP system. Students
will learn how to configure the ERP system and structure data for common business processes such as order
processing and supply chain management, and the role of ERP configuration in business process reengineering.
The course will also focus on the technical implementation requirements for ERP systems and challenges in the
deployment of ERP systems.
ISM 4930: Business Intelligence
PR: ISM
4212 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course is designed to introduce the advanced undergraduate to emerging business intelligence tools,
including data warehousing and data mining technologies. Course topics include the differences between
operational and analytical database systems, dimensional modeling (data cubes) and star schemas, data warehouse
performance issues, analytic query languages, and the data warehouse development life cycle. Students will
use state-of-the-art online analytic processing (OLAP) tools, along with selected data mining algorithms,
to gain hands-on experience with business intelligence challenges.
ISM 4930: Project Management
PR: ISM
3113 with a grade of "C" (not "C-") or better
This course introduces project management for information technology. The general objective of this course
is to become familiar with the fundamental issues for managing project management. Processes and techniques
for dealing with competing demands in information technology environments are introduced. Projects allow
team members to develop and exercise skills appropriate for managing an information systems project. Projects
and in-class exercises provide reasonable group/team coordination and interaction while reinforcing the
fundamental principles of project management.
