WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
SIERRA VISTA CAMPUS
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
SYLLABUS
1. Mission Statement: Wayland Baptist University exists to educate students in an academically
challenging, learning-focused and distinctively Christian environment for professional success and
service to God and humankind.
2. Course: MISM 5306 –01 Management of Information Systems
3. Term: Fall 2015
4. Instructor: Dr. Timothy Brady
5. Office Phone and Wayland Email Address: 520-459-1610/bradyt@wbu.edu
6. Office Hours, Building, and Location: Landmark Plaza, 9:30– 11:30 AM Monday-Friday
7. Class Meeting Time and Location: Tucson Campus
8. Catalog Description: Information systems types, components, technology, and development within
an organizational framework including human resource information systems (HRIS), management
information systems (MIS), and security information systems (SIS), with emphasis on business problem
solving. Principles, vocabulary, and concepts; what a manager needs to know to make effective use of
information technology.
9. Prerequisites: BUAD 5300.
10. Required Textbook and Resources:
BOOK
MIS
Identifying and
Solving
Problems: a
system
approach1
1
AUTHOR
ED
YEAR
PUBLISHER
ISBN#
Bidgoli
5th
2015
Cengage Learning
978-1285836454
Kaufman
2nd
1979
University Associates
0-88390-050-5
This can only be purchased as a used book. I checked for availability, and there are copies available at alibris.com. Here’s
the link: http://www.alibris.com/Identifying-and-Solving-Problems-A-System-Approach-RogerKaufman/book/3095490?qsort=p&matches=29
11. Course Outcome Competencies:
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Identify and describe the use of Information Systems in business today and be able to
communicate in terms associated with IS.
Explore and debate critical issues related to managing and administering the IS function.
Demonstrate the ability to investigate the overall information needs of an organization and the
role of information systems in providing them.
Examine alternative ways to match information systems function to the structure and behavior
of the organization.
Identify and debate societal and ethical issues impacting IS managers.
12. Attendance Requirements: As stated in the Wayland Catalog, students enrolled at one of the
University’s external campuses should make every effort to attend all class meetings. Each absence
must be explained to the instructor, who will then determine whether the omitted work may be made
up. When a student reaches that number of absences considered by the instructor to be excessive, the
instructor will so advise the student and may file an unsatisfactory progress report with the campus
dean. Any student who misses 25 percent or more of the regularly scheduled class meetings may
receive a grade of F in the course. Additional attendance policies for each course, as defined by the
instructor in the course syllabus, are considered a part of the University’s attendance policy. (I will
have further information available for you at our first meeting).
13. Disability Statement: “In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), it is
the policy of Wayland Baptist University that no otherwise qualified person with a disability be
excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any
educational program or activity in the university. The Coordinator of Counseling Services serves as the
coordinator of students with a disability and should be contacted concerning accommodation requests
at (806) 291- 3765. Documentation of a disability must accompany any request for accommodations.”
14. Course Requirements and Grading Criteria:
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Examinations/Quizzes: 20% of the final grade
Research Project: Students will develop an annotated bibliography of 12-17 articles related to the
current state of Information Technology in the world of business. Students should make every effort
to tie their readings to their present or future planned area of employment. Details and examples will
be presented at the first meeting. (60% of your grade)
Presentations: One major presentation will make up the other 20% of your grade.
15. Tentative Schedule: Adjustments may be made to this schedule depending on the number of
students in our group.
Before Monday 17 August, please email me a brief resume including information about your present
position in (beginning, middle, end) your graduate program, what your Major Field is, what your present
work position is, and a summary of your familiarity with and experience of Information Systems. I will
post these on Blackboard before our first meeting so we can get to know each other as soon as possible.
We’ll also give brief oral presentation of this information at our first meeting for that same purpose, so
please bring copies of your resume for everyone.
Week
Week One
Week Two
Date
Classwork
Assignments
29 August
Introductions, a look at the
syllabus, course requirements,
class procedures and policies,
Research Project.
Introduction/discussion of the
role of IS both historically and in
the present. Review of Chapter
One, Information Systems, an
Overview, in our MIS text
Read this chapter and complete the
Case Studies on pp. 20-21 BEFORE our
first meeting. Read Chapter Two for
our next meeting and complete the
Case Studies on pp 42. Case studies
are discussions and replies do not
have to be written out; I would
recommend that you take some notes
in case you are called upon to lead the
discussion.
Chapter Two: Computers The
Machines Behind Computing
Read Chapters Three and Four in our
text. Complete Case Studies on p 65.
Chapters Three and Four
Complete your reading of the
Identifying and Solving Problems: a
system approach. We will be
discussing this text next week.
Identifying and Solving
Problems: a system approach.
Student Presentation on each of
the "chapters" in this text.
Please prepare a visual
presentation and be prepared to
explain the concepts to the best
of your ability
Read Chapters Five, Protecting
Information Resources, and Six, Data
Communication: Delivering
Information Anywhere and Anytime.
These are complicated issues so please
take good notes. You do NOT have to
consider the Case Studies on pp 107108; prepare the case studies on pp
134-135.
19 Sept
Week Three
17 October
Chapters Five and Six
Research Project Checkup: please
prepare a brief discussion of your
research question and some of the
major information sources that you
have found. We will devote some
time to small group presentation.
Read Chapter Seven, The Internet,
Instranets and Extranets; we will not
spend much time on this chapter, but
you should be familiar with the
concepts. Also read Chapter 8, ECommerce. We will go over the basic
concepts.
Small Group Interactions re: your
Research Topic; Chapters Seven
and Eight
Read Chapter 9: Global Information
Systems and prepare the Case Studies
on pp. 199
Chapter Nine. We'll also use this
week to catch up on any work
we have not completed up to
here.
Read chapter 10: Building Successful
Information Systems and Chapter 11,
Enterprise Systems. Prepare the case
studies on pp. 222.
Chapters Ten and Eleven
Read Chapters Twelve, Intelligent
Information Systems, and Thirteen,
Emerging Trends, Technologies and
Applications, and prepare Case Studys
on pp. 261
Chapters Twelve and Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen. Presentations
of individual research.
Final Exam. Hand in Research
Paper
Read Chapter 14.
This may change depending on the
number of student in our group. If we
have more than 8, the papers will be
due on the 22nd to give me time to
give them the attention they
deserved.