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Text
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Laudon & Laudon, Management Information Systems:Managing
the digital age, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-238235-0
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Course
Goals
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The goal of ISYS 363 is to impart Information Systems
literacy (conceptual knowledge about role of IT in
business and management ) to enhance a graduate’s ability to succeed
in the business world.
We live today in an information rich marketplace.
This marketplace is also becoming increasingly very competitive as
well as globalized. To remain in business today, you need rapid
access to a variety of information from many different sources. The
only effective way of doing so is through the use of information
technology (IT). IT involves computers but is more than just computers.
No matter what role you play in your organization: founder
entrepreneur, manager, production worker, supervisor, front line staff,
salesperson, accountant using information technology effectively will
help you and your organization survive and thrive in today's
marketplace. In this course, you will learn how IT is used by
organizations for survival and growth.
ISYS 363 is designed to familiarize students with the role
and applications of information technologies in business environments.
The goal is to give students a sufficient understanding of basic
concepts as to help them make informed technology decisions in the
workplace. The graduate of this course will gain specific technology
skills and understand the broad implications of information
technologies such as, competitive advantage, organizational redesign,
and business process reengineering.
This course will not train you to operate and use a computer for such
things as word processing and spreadsheets, nor is it about
microprocessors, printers and floppy disks. This course expects you
already to have some familiarity with computers and basic software such
as word processing and spreadsheets.
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Learning
objectives
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Students who perform well in this course should have
acquired the necessary vocabulary and concepts that will permit them to
interact effectively with experts in information technology in order to
productively deploy these technologies in their workplace.
Students performing well in ISYS 363 should be able to:
- Appreciate the pivotal role of information in management.
- Define and describe an information system.
- Understand and explain the differences between
information systems at the personal, workgroup, and enterprise levels.
- Define the strategic, tactical, and operational roles and
functions of the information systems in organizations.
- Describe and provide examples of the five key components
of information systems (hardware, software, data, procedures and
people).
- Describe and distinguish between different classes of
information systems and provide examples of each.
- Describe the role of the information systems function.
- Describe the three key areas of information systems
management, namely, development, operations and use.
- Gain an appreciation of the systems development life
cycle.
- Understand the role of a non-IS person in shaping the
development, management, and use of information systems in
organizations.
- Gain an understanding of emergent information
technologies.
- Appreciate ethical and social issues relating to
information systems
No special technology skills other than basic computer
literacy (using a computer, word processing, email and internet
browsing) is required.
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Grading
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Your grade is determined by the following factors:
| 2 Major Exams |
20% each |
| Final |
30% |
| 2 Lab Exams |
5% each |
| Project (Web Project) |
20% |
Grade Determimination. Grade calculation is a complex task
taking into account many factors. The method
for your grade determination can be found here.
Exams. Exams can not be made up unless the absences result
from extreme circumstance.
Assignments. All Assignments, homework, forms and materials
are to be turned in to your LAB TA at the beginning of class on the day
they are due,
unless announced otherwise. There will be a late penalty assessed of
10% per class period that each assignment is late. Assignments that are
late for more than 4 class periods will not be accepted.
Course Outline - It is the students responsibility to
continually review the course outline for the latest information on the
class as it does periodically change. For example, adjustments to the
class, which can include change of lecture topics, pop quiz, meeting
times, cancelled class, guest speaker, etc), are always
posted here first.
Students with disabilities who need reasonable
accommodations are encouraged to contact the instructor. The Disability
Programs and Resource Center is available to facilitate the reasonable
accommodations process.
The instructor reserves the right to retain for pedagogical
reasons either the original, or a copy, of any student's test, written
assignment, paper, disk, video, or similar work submitted by the
student, either individually or as a group project, for this class.
Student's names will be deleted from any retained items.
Academic Dishonesty. San Francisco State University
requires that students be honest in their academic work. Academic
dishonesty is viewed as an ethical issue and violation of the
principles expressed in the university's academic regulations. Academic
dishonesty, identification and reporting procedures, academic and
administrative sanctions and appeal procedures are outlined in detail
in the student handbook and are available from the Division of Student
Affairs.
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