Lecture: 2 hours/week
Seminar: 2 hours/week
Students will participate in lecture, case studies, and assignments. Assignments will include a term project illustrative of professional practice in computer information systems.
- Systems Concepts: People, hardware, software, networks, data
- Information representation for decision making: Data visualization, dashboards, information quality
- Value of information and Information Systems (IS) to organizations (alignment with organizational strategy) data transformation, business process improvement, alignment with organizational strategy, and ethical use of information
- Types of systems that organizations need to provide information to meet their objectives: transactional, functional, and enterprise systems such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Quality of information for decision-making
- Data and information modelling, Development Life Cycle (DLC), Database Management System (DBMS), Analytics, Standards, Business Intelligence (BI), and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Management of IS infrastructure and architecture, planning, and management
- Systems development life cycle
- Risks and controls, risk management, internal control, governance, compliance impact of new technologies.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Define information systems terms as used in current practice by information systems practitioners;
- Explain system components (hardware, software, networks, etc.);
- Explain the relationships between information technology, information systems, organizations and organizational goals;
- Explain the functions of systems analysis and design, and the roles and responsibilities of systems analysts and project managers;
- Describe and apply current methods and approaches to information systems analysis and design, including the traditional phased approach and a range of agile methods;
- Describe the relationship between information and data;
- Use data structures and databases;
- Describe the major phases and activities involved in the information system development process, and the corresponding outcomes and deliverables;
- Apply the systems development process in exercises and case studies, within an organizational context, using relevant techniques and methods;
- Explain security risks inherent to systems;
- Explain security controls required for Management Information Systems;
- Complete a term project based on a case study.
| Assignments and Term Project |
10%-20% |
| Oral Presentation | 5% |
| Quizzes* |
10% - 20% |
| Midterm Examination* | 20% - 40% |
| Final Examination* | 25% - 40% |
| Total | 100% |
*In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
This is a letter-graded course.
Bigdoli, H., Management Information Systems (latest edition) or other as suggested by the instructor
9 credits in any 1000-level Commerce and Business Administration courses OR currently active in one of the following programs:
PBD Accounting
PBD Accounting and Finance
PBD Advanced Supply Chain Management
PBD Computer and Information Systems
PBD Health Information Management
PBD Information Technology Project Management
PBD International Supply Chain Management
PDD Accounting
PDD Accounting Studies
PDD Data Analytics
PDD Information and Communication Technology
PDD Project Management
PDD Supply Chain Management
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None
CSIS2300 and CSIS3275