MIS 24060 Spring 2012 Nwankpa
Systems Analysis 1 Syllabus
M&IS 24060 – Section 002, Call No. 15173
Spring 2012
Mondays and Wednesday 2:15pm to 3.30pm, BSA Room 117
Instructor: Joseph Nwankpa, MBA (Windsor), MS (Helsinki)
Office: Business Administration, Room A402
Phone: 330-389-5022 (email preferred)
Email: jnwankpa@kent.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12pm -2pm or By Appointment
Overall Goal
The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to the principles, concepts, processes, techniques and methodologies underlying the analysis, design and implementation of information systems.
Learning Objectives
The specific objectives for students taking this course are the following:
· To understand the role of information system in business and the application of Information system in problem solving.
· To understand the technology and architecture of information systems and learn a range of tools, techniques and methodologies involved in Information system and design.
· To gain a sophisticated awareness of the rich variety of business issues raised by information systems and understand the paradigm shift as we move rapidly into the information and digital age.
· To understand IT values by exploring multiple case studies on contemporary issues pertaining to Information System.
Prerequisites
The main prerequisite for this course is M&IS 24053.
Textbook
The following textbook will be used for this course.
Laudon, Kenneth and Laudon, Jane “Essentials of Management Information Systems”, Prentice Hall, 9th Edition, 2011. Note that because we are dealing with a rapidly evolving digital age, our course will go beyond the topics covered in your textbook.
Supplementary Course Materials
The power-point lectures can be downloaded from the KSU WebCT Vista system. The URL for the Blackboard Learn system is: https://learn.kent.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp
Click on the link for Kent State University and then log into the system with your Flashline username and password.
Evaluation and Grades
Students will be evaluated on the basis of the following:
4 Quizzes |
20% |
Project Paper |
20% |
Mid-Term Exam |
25% |
Final Exam |
25% |
Active Participation |
10% |
Total |
100% |
The tentative thresholds for assigning letter grades are as follows. This grading policy is subject to change at the instructor’s discretion.
93% - 100% |
A |
80% - 82% |
B- |
90% - 92% |
A- |
70% -79% |
C |
87% - 89% |
B+ |
60% - 69% |
D |
83% - 86% |
B |
Below 60% |
F |
Quizzes and Exams
There will be 4 quizzes and all quizzes will be taken online, and are best taken using a standards-compliant web browser. The exams will be administrated in class. Examinations and quizzes will consist of multiple choice, true or false, fill-in-the blanks, short-answer, matching, and calculation type questions. The online quizzes will be available on Blackboard Learn, and can be taken from anywhere (home, work, school, BSA computer labs, at the airport, etc.) the student has access to the Web. Each quiz will count for 5% of the grade and each exam for 25%. The exams are cumulative though emphasis will on the most recent material covered.
All quizzes and exams have to be taken on and during the times indicated. Any missed quiz or exam without prior permission will get a grade of zero. There will be no makeup quizzes or exams. If there is a legitimate reason for any missed exam or quiz and prior permission has been obtained then that exam/quiz will simply not count towards the final grade.
Project:
Successful completion of this course requires completion of individual project. The goals for the individual project is for you to examine how organizations use information system to support some specific business processes that they need to perform in order to produce a product or provide services to a customer. You may physically travel to the organization and interview various people involved with the business process and its associated information system and see for yourself how the concepts we discuss in class play out in an actual living, breathing organization. At the end of the semester, your will turn in a 2-3000 words paper about what you have learned.
Enrollment and Official Registration
Students have the responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule (using Student Tools on FlashLine) during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have until Sunday, January 22, 2012 to correct the error. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.
In addition, students attending the course, who do not have the proper prerequisites, risk being deregistered from the class.
Course Withdrawal Deadline
For Spring 2012, the course withdrawal deadline is Sunday, March 18, 2012. Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript. After the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.
Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism
Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g. tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit. In addition, it is considered to cheating when one cooperates with someone else in any such misrepresentation. The use of intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense. It is the university’s policy that cheating or plagiarism result in a failing grade (0 points) for the work or course. Repeat offenses may result in dismissal from the University.
Students with Disability
Students with disabilities: University policy 3342-3-01.3 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access equal access course content. If you have documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through the Student Disability Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.registrars.kent.edu/disability/ for more information on registration procedures).
Attendance
Missing class is not an excuse for failure to understand material or complete assignments. Material covered in class will not be covered again outside of class. It is up to you to read the material and get notes from another student if you miss class. Do not expect any help during office hours or by e-mail if you do not attend class regularly.
This Syllabus is tentative and subject to change
Tentative Class Schedule
The following class schedule is to be regarded as a general guideline and the topics discussed on any given day can be changed at the discretion of the instructor.
Week |
Topic |
Progress |
1 |
General Introduction to Course |
Chapter 1 |
2 |
Business Information Systems in Your Career |
Chapter 1 |
3 |
Global E-Business and Collaboration (Quiz) |
Chapter 2 |
4 |
Achieving Competitive Advantage with Information Systems |
Chapter 3 |
5 |
IT Infrastructure: Hardware and Software |
Chapter 4 |
6 |
Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management(Quiz) |
Chapter 5 |
7 |
Telecommunications, the Internet, and Wireless Technology |
Chapter 6 |
8 |
Mid-Exam (02-29-2012) |
|
9 |
Securing Information Systems |
Chapter 7 |
10 |
Achieving Operational Excellence and Customer Intimacy: Enterprise Applications (Quiz) |
Chapter 8 |
11 |
Spring Break |
|
12 |
E-Commerce: Digital Markets, Digital Goods |
Chapter 9 |
13 |
Improving Decision Making and Managing Knowledge (Quiz) |
Chapter 10 |
14 |
Building Information Systems and Managing Projects |
Chapter 11 |
15 |
Ethical and Social Issues in Information Systems |
Chapter 12 |
16 |
Revision (paper due) |
Study! |
17 |
Final-Exam (04-30-2012) |
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