MIS Courses

Dimensions: Technology/Business
This course examines the tactical, operational and strategic relationships between information technology and business models and processes, and the impacts on MIS organizations and careers. This course is a send-off into an exciting, rapidly changing profession.

Applied Decision Analysis and Support Systems
Computer-based decision analysis and support models in a business environment.  Topics include: decision analysis and support; group decision support systems; and intelligent support systems.

Database Management
Theoretic and practical issues related to the management of a database in a business environment including: the role of databases and database applications in contemporary organizations; data modeling using the entity-relationship and semantic object models; fundamentals of the relational data model and its implementation along with SQL; and characteristics of distributed databases and Client/Server database technologies.

Data Communications
Data communication technologies to support the effective and efficient management of information in an organization. Topics will include: the different competing data communication architectures and protocols; an overview of different network topologies and technologies such as LAN, WAN, intranets, and Value-added networks

Systems Analysis and Design
This course includes tools and techniques used to document information systems. Classical and structured methodologies for describing data flow, data structure, process flow, file design input and output designs, and program specifications are applied to documenting systems. Data gathering and reporting, project management, and cost/benefit analysis are surveyed.

Introduction to Decision Sciences
Integrate behavioral science and quantitative approaches to decision-making; descriptive and prescriptive models in individual, group, and organizational settings, expected value, utility theory, the analytic hierarchy process, and risk analysis.

Business Statistics
Statistical concepts and methods used in business and economics, including Probability, Discrete Probability, Sampling Distributions, Confidence Intervals, Hypothesis Testing, Regression Analysis, and Chi-Square Distribution, (ANOVA).

Operations Management
Concepts and techniques for problems in manufacturing and service organizations. Topics: decision-making, forecasting, resource allocation, project management, quality, materials management, technology, and strategy.

Info Systems for Mgt
Structure and applications of computer-based Management Information Systems in organizations. Topics: impact of information technology on organizations, ethical issues, technical foundations of hardware/software, management of data, and telecommunications.
 

International Business Classes

Basic Chinese I

Functional use of Chinese for students with no prior knowlege of Chinese. New pronunciation system, PINYIN, readings and oral drills. Supplementary language laboratory work.

 

Basic Chinese II

Continuation of CHI 1111-Basic Chinese I New pronunciation system, PINYIN, readings and oral drills. Supplementary language laboratory work.

 

Intermediate Chinese I

Review of Grammar and vocabulary. New pronunciation system, PINYIN, reading and oral drills. Supplementary language laboratory work.

 

Intermediate Chinese II

Review of grammar and vocabulary. New pronunciation system, PINYIN, readings and oral drills. Supplementary language laboratory work.

 

International Study Tour

Class work, enrichment activities, and projects at a selected international academic institution, including visits to businesses inthe surrounding region. Three-week requirements include a comprehensive research paper worthy of publication. Appropriate special section of MGT 2206.

 

International Economics

Comparative advantage; gains from foreign trade; Heckscher-Ohlin doctrine; technology and product cycles; tariff theory and policy; Other protection measures; economic integration; foreign exchange rates; fixed and flexible rates; balance of payments; multinational corporations.

 

China and Japan to 1850

The traditions and influences that formed the civilizations of China and Japan before modern times.

 

International Comparative Management

An elective topic dealing with the cross-cultural aspects of management. Student cases will address how politics, religion, social customs, and history shape and influence management practices. Junior or senior standing.

 

International Marketing & Trade

The world market and its implications for multinational and international marketing; the relationships of imports and exports to policies; impacts of major national cultures on foreign advertising and sales programs will be researched through multidimensional sources.

 

International Business Law

The nature, sources, functions and practical applications of International Law, approached from a perspective of the individual, governments, and business entities. Emphasis on the "rules" that govern doing business globally and resolving disputes.

 

Other Business Classes

Introduction to Microeconomics
The price system; demand and supply analysis; the production process; analysis of market structures.

Introduction to Macroeconomics
The economic system and it fundamental principles. The economic functions of government, monetary and fiscal policy, and international trade.

International Economics
Comparative advantage; gains from foreign trade; Heckscher-Ohlin doctrine; technology and product cycles; tariff theory and policy; Other protection measures; economic integration; foreign exchange rates; fixed and flexible rates; balance of payments; multinational corporations.

Organization and Management
Introduction to organizational structures and functions; management processes and behavior of individuals and groups in organizations.

Principles of Finance
The theory and techniques of financial management. Time value of money; risk and return; financial analysis and planning; working capital management, capital budgeting; cost of capital; strategic long term financing decisions.

Principles of Marketing
Description and evaluation of the ways in which goods and services are developed to meet customer and consumer needs and distributed for domestic and international consumption; economic, government, social, and other environmental forces in relation to the marketing function; emphasis on relevant social problems and responsibilities.

Principles of Financial Accounting
Understanding business by being able to understand the financial statements. Accounting concepts, transaction analysis, analytical procedures, valuation and allocation, revenue recognition and expense matching, and cash flow analysis - operating, investing, and financing. Includes appropriate use of technology.

Principles of Managerial Accounting
How management accounting information can be used to help firms achieve strategic goals and profitability objectives. Use of an entrepreneurial perspective to examine how managers apply risk measurement and management techniques to business planning and control systems. Case-based learning to help students develop communication, technology, and teamwork.