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MIS Major
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Graduates of the management information systems (MIS) are able to design, develop, and implement information systems to solve organizational problems effectively. This major provides students with the background they need to give informational support for decision-making in organizations and to understand the impact that information systems have on the business enterprise. We strive to prepare graduates for entry-level positions in the MIS profession in both user and system departments.

Learning goals

After completing your BBA with a major in Management Information Systems, you will be able to:

  1. Recognize and analyze business problems and opportunities, apply systems development methodologies to elicit and analyze customer requirements
  2. Propose information systems-based solutions that are technically sound, economically feasible, and organizationally viable
  3. Communicate, orally and in writing, information systems solutions to the various stakeholders
  4. Use information systems to provide customers with the data, information, and knowledge to make decisions
  5. Develop state of the art information technology skills in the contemporary and emerging dynamic and complex business environment.
  6. Collaborate in a team to participate in or manage complex information-based business projects

Degree requirements

  • 60 credits of lower division course work including business pre-core courses.
  • 60 credits of upper division course work, including business core courses, MIS major courses, and upper division business electives.
  • MIS major courses require a grade of "C" or higher.

MIS major courses:

ISM 3153 Enterprise Information Systems
 
ISM 4054 Introduction to Web Management
 
ISM 4113 Systems Analysis and Design
 
ISM 4210 Data Base Applications
 
ISM 4220 Business Data Communications
 
ISM 4400 Management Support Systems
 
ISM 4151 Systems Management
 
ISM 4323 Information Security Management

Electives

Students may take two business electives among the following courses:

ISM 4340 Organizational Impacts
ISM 4949 Cooperative Education in MIS II
or
Additional courses offered by the department
or
Business courses after obtaining approval from the department.

Two upper division business electives.

Suggested two year plan of study

Third Year

Fall Semester

Spring Semester
CGS 3300 Introduction to Information Systems 3 FIN 3403 Financial Management 3
MAN 3025 Organization and Management 3 MAR 3023 Marketing Management 3
QMB 3200 Application of Quantitative Methods in Business 3 ISM 4210 Data Base Applications 3
COM 3110 Business and Professional Communication 3 ISM 4220 Business Data
Communications
3
ECO 3202 Applied Macroeconomics 3   Upper division business elective 3
  TOTAL 15   TOTAL 15
Fourth Year

Fall Semester

Spring Semester
BUL 4310 Legal Environment of Business 3 MAN 4720 Strategic Management 3
ISM 3153 Enterprise Information Systems 3 MAN 4504 Operations Management 3
ISM 4151 Systems Management 3 ISM 4113 Systems Analysis and Design 3
ISM 4054 Introduction to Web Management 3 ISM 4400 Management Support Systems 3
ISM 4323 Information Security Management 3   Upper division business elective 3
  TOTAL 15   TOTAL 15

 

 

 
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