Offered by Department of Marketing and Management Information Systems
College of Business and Technology
BMIS Courses
- BMIS 801 - Management Information Systems Seminar - 3 hours
- The case-based course provides the application of principles of management of information systems (MIS) in various organizational
functions. This course will familiarize students with the techniques for evaluating the critical roles of information and information
systems in support of organizational operations, decision-making processes, quality management, and strategic activities. It also
covers management of information systems functions and professionals, as well as relevant global, ethical, societal and legal/regulatory
issues. Focus is placed on the impact of rapidly changing technologies, such as the Internet, on organizations leading to new
paradigms, like e-commerce and business-to-business applications, and the subsequent reengineering of organizations.
- BMIS 803 - Independent Study - 3 hours
- BMIS 810P - Neural Networks and Advanced Data Mining Techniques - 3 hours
- Prereq: BMIS 350* or permission of instructor
This course provides an understanding of advanced computer assisted techniques used by business decision makers
involving usage of neural networks and data mining tools.
- BMIS 821P - Business Process Redesign and ERP - 3 hours
- This course provides an understanding of business processes and usage of various methods and computerized tools to
redesign these processes. The redesigned processes will assist organizations in providing cost-effective quality
products and services to consumers. Further, this course provides an overview of the Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) Systems which are widely used by corporations for automation of their processes.
- BMIS 830P - Knowledge Management and Expert Systems - 3 hours
- Prereq: BMIS 350* or permission of instructor
This course provides a set of practical and powerful tools to ensure the understanding of knowledge management systems
and expert systems. The exposure to computerized tools facilitates development of expert systems.
- BMIS 840P - Systems Audit - 3 hours
- This course provides an understanding of many types of audit needs, such as organizational IT audits (management
control over IT), technical IT audits (infrastructure, data centers, data communication), application IT audit
(business, financial, operational), development/implementation IT audits (specification/requirements, design,
development, and post development phases), and compliance IT audits involving national and international standards.
- BMIS 850P - Software Quality Assurance - 3 hours
- The software industry has witnessed recently a dramatic rise in the impact and effectiveness of software quality assurance (SQA).
SQA has become integrated into all phases of software development. This course provides an overview of various concepts/techniques
such as inspection, Pareto principles, software configuration management, capability maturity models, statistical testing methods,
software reliability, and software safety. It also distinguishes the variations in SQA applications for mission-critical software
and commercial software.
- BMIS 881P - Systems Analysis and Design II - 3 hours
- Prereq: BMIS 380*, BMIS 381* OR proficiency in Systems Analysis and Design I and Programming using ASP
Students use several software packages as they work through the steps of systems development life cycle with business
cases.
- BMIS 885P - Information Systems Strategy and Management - 3 hours
- This course provides a set of practical and powerful tools to ensure the understanding of strategic. tactical, and
operational responsibilities of the chief information officer (CIO). The strategic responsibilities include the
strategic alignment among information technology and business functions of the organizations.
- BMIS 899P - Management Information Systems Topics - 3 hours
- Independent investigations of business problems. Topics to be investigated may be tailored to meet the needs of the
student. A case study course designed (1) to integrate the knowledge acquired in other courses in business
administration, and (2) to emphasize analysis and decision making.
* This course is the immediate prerequisite. Other preparation is
required prior to this immediate prerequisite.
