Syllabus

INSTRUCTOR:

Patty Wike Office: Mauney 232  Phone: Office- 328-7200  Home-241-3243

Management Information Systems by McLeod & Schell, 10^th Edition , Prentice Hall

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

MIS is a continuation of CSC 175. MIS gives the student a basic understanding of the principles related to management information systems and the impact of management information systems in the business environment. Emphasis is on decision making, the need for information, and the use of computer systems as a provider of the information.

  HONORS PROGRAM REQUIREMENT: If you are interested in graduating with honors from the Charles M. Snipes School of Business, this is one of the two honors courses, BUS 320 and BUS 344, needed to fulfill the honors requirement. You must have a G.P.A. of 3.2 overall and 3.5 in the business core classes taken to qualify.  Please see the instructor for additional requirements for this course. 

  ASSIGNMENTS:

*Weekly Readiness Assessment Tests: There will be short, weekly readiness assessment tests on one chapter. Tests will be taken at the beginning of class first individually and then by group. The tests will be graded immediately and the results discussed.

*Projects: Twenty-five projects are required. Projects are on this web page. Projects will require the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Completed projects will be graded off the screen by the dates given on the class calendar. No grades will be given for late projects.  You may stop coming to lab when all your projects are turned in.  If you do not attend a lab, you will not get credit for the project completed as a group in class. Do not print out all the projects; these may change over the semester.

*Research and Presentation: Research on a topic of your choice that is related to the class will be required using the WWWeb or NC Live as your sources. Eight to twenty  web sources will be required for your works-cited. All copies of the web pages must be turned in with the PowerPoint presentation.  After you organize your and read your sources, make an outline. The outline should be done in MS Word before you do your PowerPoint. The outline should be different than the words on your PowerPoint presentation.  Highlight and number your sources to correspond with your outline.  Copies of the PowerPoint presentation must be turned in printing 6 slides to a page. Due dates for the topic and PowerPoint presentation are found on the MIS calendar.  If you do not present on the day you are scheduled, you will make a zero on this portion of your grade.  See check sheet at the bottom of this page.

*Final Project: Students will be required to design their own decision support or high level Excel, Word or Access project. A written description and an oral PowerPoint presentation will be required towards the end of the semester. Students may demonstrate a high level function of software that has not been demonstrated in class or in lab projects.  The project idea is required on the date specified on the calendar. A PowerPoint presentation of your project is required. Print out slides 6 to a page to turn with your description and your spreadsheets and equations. If you do not present on the day you are scheduled, you will make a zero on this project.  See check sheet on the bottom of this page. 

TOPICAL OUTLINE:

• Introduction to, fundamentals of and solving business problems with ISs.

• Database management & end-user computing

• ISs for different business functions

• Decision support , transaction reporting , information reporting & artificial intelligence systems

• ISs for strategic advantage

• Global technologies and ethical challenges

EVALUATION:

• Readiness assessment tests

-Individual portion 35%

-Group portion 10%

• Research presentation- 10%

• Final project-10%

• Projects- 20%

• Comprehensive Final Exam Lab Skills- 15%

•  A=92-100  A-=90-91   B+=88-89  B=82-87  B-=80-81  C+=78-79 
   C=72-77  C-=70-71 D+=68-69  D=62-67 D-=60-61   F=Below 60

       Students are responsible for all material missed during an absence. You get two free absences. For each additional absence, your grade will go down by 2%. For example, if you have 6 absences, and you have a final average of 87, B, your ending grade will be 8 points less or a 79, C+.  Three lates = one absence. For evening classes, there is one free absence and 4% deduction for each absence after the first one.  There are no provisions for make-up RATS but you will get to drop your lowest or missed RAT grade. Check the calendar to see when projects are due. You will get a zero on your Research Project or Final Project if you don't present on your scheduled date.  No projects will be accepted after the due dates on the calendar. A student will automatically fail if he or she misses 15% or more classes. Students can stop attending lab after they have turned in all projects. 
      Dates listed below on the calendar are subject to change by the professor.  Date changes will be announced during class.  Students are responsible for date changes if classes are missed. 

Calendar Day

Fall Semester 2008
MIS Calendar BUS32001
	Tuesday		Wed	Thursday
Aug	19	Introduction		21	RAT Syllabus/Lab
Aug	26	RAT Chapter 1/lecture		28	Lab
Sept	1	RAT Chapter 2/lecture		4	Lab
Sept	8	RAT Chapter 3/lecture		11	Lab
Sept	15	RAT Chapter 4/lecture		18	Lab (Projects 1-9 due)
Sept	22	RAT Chapter 5/lecture		25	Lab/ Research Topic due
Sept/Oct	29	RAT Chapter 6/ go over research project		2	Lab
Oct	7	Ppoint Presentations		9	Ppoint Presentations / Lab
Oct	14	Fall Break		16	Lab (Projects 10-16 due)
Oct	21	Lecture chap 8/lab		23	Lab
Oct	28	RAT Chapter 8/lecture		30	Lab, Final Project idea due
Nov	4	RAT Chapter 9/lecture		6	Lab, (Projects 17-20 due)
Nov	11	RAT Chapter 10/lecture		13	Lab
Nov	18	Final Project Presentation		20	Final Project Presentation/Lab
Nov	25	RAT Chapter 11. (Projects 21-25 due)		27	Thanksgiving
Dec	2	Practice Exam Problems		4	Reading Day
		Exam BUS32001 Tuesday, Dec 9, 8:00 am			Exam BUS32075 Monday Dec 8, 6:00 pm
Note: Ask if you want to take the exam with the other class.

Calendar Evening Class

Fall Semester 2008
MIS Calendar BUS32075
	Wednesday
Aug	20	Introduction/lab
Aug	27	RAT Chapter 1, syllabus/lecture/lab
Sept	2	RAT Chapter 2/lecture/lab
Sept	9	RAT Chapter 3/lecture/lab
Sept	16	RAT Chapter 4/lecture/lab/ projects 1-9 due
Sept	23	RAT Chapter 5/lecture/lab/research topic due
Sept/Oct	30	RAT Chapter 6/ go over research project/lab
Oct	8	Ppoint Presentations
Oct	15	Lecture chap 8/lab/ projects 10-16 due
Oct	22	RAT Chapter 8/lecture/ lab/ final project idea due
Oct	29	RAT Chapter 9/lecture/ projects 17-20 due
Nov	5	RAT Chapter 10/lecture(lab)
Nov	12	Final Project Presentation
Nov	1