Fall 2002 Course Descriptions

All courses below are approved to be taught in Fall 2002; however, some (or all) may not be offered this term.  The course numbers that are offered this term link to the Schedule of Classes.  The complete list below is a good indicator of what may be offered over the next few years (contact department about offerings).  For explanations of course elements see the Key to Course Descriptions.

Management Information Systems (MIS )  Department Info

MIS 111 -- Introduction to Computing  (3 units)
Description:  Basic computer hardware and software concepts, computer terminology, problem solving and program development concepts, with emphasis on problem definition and systems development, introduction to a general purpose programming language and hands-on experience using application software systems.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 199 -- Independent Study  (1-4 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 199H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 222 -- Introduction to Business Programming  (3 units)
Description:  Design and implementation of algorithms to solve business problems using structured programming techniques and Java programming language. Preparation for in-depth study of data structures and algorithms.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 111, MATH 115A, MATH 115B.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 293 -- Internship  (1-3 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 299 -- Independent Study  (1-4 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 299H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 301 -- Data Structures and Algorithms  (3 units)
Description:  Application system development techniques, fundamental data structures and algorithms; design and implementation of selected software procedures using C.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 121, MATH 115A, MATH 115B; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 304 -- Introduction to Business Information Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to foundational topics in the design, development and use of computer-based information systems in business organizations.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 307 -- Business Data Communications  (3 units)
Description:  Data communications, networks, protocols, Internet and Electronic Commerce.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 121; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 331 -- Database Management Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to database management systems; relational models; security concurrency, integrity and recovery issues; query interfaces.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 301; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 341 -- Information Systems Analysis and Design  (3 units)
Description:  The analysis and logical design of business processes and management information systems focusing on the systems development life cycle; project management and cost-benefit analysis; techniques for gathering and analyzing information systems requirements; use of automated and non-automated techniques for logical system design.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 121, MIS 307, MIS 331; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 361 -- Database Management for Business Managers  (3 units)
Description:  This course focuses on the core concepts, methodologies, and skills that enable students to develop a database management system for a business case. Students will work through tutorials on modern database systems and development tools.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 111; advanced standing in the BPA college or consent of department.
Usually offered:  Summer.

MIS 362 -- Networking for Business Managers  (3 units)
Description:  This course gives students a good understanding of how the Internet and Internet-based networks work, with some focus on the basics of data communications.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 111; advanced standing in the BPA college or consent of department.
Usually offered:  Summer.

MIS 363 -- System Analysis and Design for Business Managers  (3 units)
Description:  This course explores the process of identifying and analyzing a business process. It also exposes students to the skills of gathering user requirements for a new computer system and translating those requirements into a formal specification for a computer designer, as well as the basics of project management.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 111; advanced standing in the BPA college or consent of department.
Usually offered:  Summer.

MIS 364 -- System Usability and Implementation for Business Managers  (3 units)
Description:  This course helps students undertstand the difference between well designed systems and poorly designed systems, ranging from business applications to consumer devices. Students will practice by designing a web page following good design principles.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 111; advanced standing in the BPA college or consent of department.
Usually offered:  Summer.

MIS 365 -- Computer Strategies for Business  (3 units)
Description:  This course will help students learn the ways in which organizations may use information systems to accomplish strategic and tactical goals. Case studies and simulations will enable students to study how business leaders make strategic decisions.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 111 or permission of instructor; MIS majors may not take this course.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 372 -- Comparative Programming Languages  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to several major high-level programming languages and their characteristics. Programming projects are required in at least three languages.
Prerequisite(s):  C SC 127B or C SC 227.
Identical to:  C SC 372; C SC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 373 -- Basic Operations Management  (3 units)
Description:  OM is concerned with the creation of goods and/services. Topics include business processes, MRP, forecasting, facility planning and layout, inventory management, quality control and just-in-time manufacturing.
Prerequisite(s):  MATH 115A, MATH 115B, MAP 276; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Special exam:  course may be taken by special exam for credit and grade.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 393 -- Internship  (1-3 units)
Description:  Each internship will be customized to the opportunity and the student's skills. The student advisor will ensure the academic quality of the student's work.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS major status and consent of an MIS instructor.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 396H -- Honors Proseminar  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Prerequisite(s):  advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 399 -- Independent Study  (1-4 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 399H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 411 -- Social Issues of Computing  (3 units)
Description:  Broad survey of the individual, organizational, cultural, social and ethical issues provoked by current and projected uses of computers.
Prerequisite(s):  advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
May be convened with:  MIS 511.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 421 -- Systems Modeling and Simulation  (3 units)
Description:  Topics include concepts of simulation software, model validation, selecting input, probability distribution, random variate generation, statistic analysis of output data.
Prerequisite(s):  previous programming experience helpful not required: basic course in statistics. Advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
May be convened with:  MIS 521.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 427 -- Introduction to Enterprise Computing Environments  (3 units)
Description:  Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems represents integrated strategy for management of information among organizations, suppliers and customers.
May be convened with:  MIS 527.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 428 -- Workflow Technologies and E-Commerce Applications  (3 units)
Description:  This course will survey the recent development in workflow technologies which have become a well-known new technology in software industry.
May be convened with:  MIS 528.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 438 -- Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems  (3 units)
Description:  This course covers design, implementation, and anaylsis of software agents and multi-agent systems. It emphasizes theoretical foundations of agent-based computing and hands-on system building.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 301 or MIS 531A; prior C/Java programming experience.
May be convened with:  MIS 538.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 440 -- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence  (3 units)
Description:  This course is an introduction to the art and science of creating computer systems that think for themselves. We will cover techniques for representing knowledge, understanding language, building autonomous agents, computer vision and robotics.
Prerequisite(s):  prior programming experience at the level of MIS 301 or C SC 227.
May be convened with:  MIS 540.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 441 -- Information System Design, Prototyping and Evaluation  (3 units)
Description:  Design of computer-based solutions to individual and organizational problems; involves an analysis of subsystems user interfaces, hardware/software selection and evaluation, and system implementation; explores interface between systems and individuals and systems and organizations.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 341; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 449 -- Information System Strategies for E-commerce  (3 units)
Description:  Examines the strategic use of information systems both inside and outside of the firm in the context of the highly dynamic e-commerce business environment.
May be convened with:  MIS 549.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 450 -- International Dimensions of Information Technologies  (3 units)
Description:  National and regional information technology development strategies and policies; IT and national sovereignty; development and control of global "information highways;" impact of public and business policies on information systems design and use; international institutions and IT: convergence or divergence of information systems across countries, regions and international economic sectors.
Prerequisite(s):  advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
May be convened with:  MIS 550.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 451 -- Enterprises and Business Intelligence Systems  (3 units)
Description:  This course addresses implementation and management of scalable enterprise and business intelligence systems. Topics include data warehouse design and implementation, OLAP and data mining concepts and technology and middleware standards and tools for integrating enterprise and intelligence systems using the web platform. Oracle and IBM tools for implementing these systems will be utilized.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 301, MIS 331 and advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
May be convened with:  MIS 551.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 453 -- Software Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Software development and software engineering; brings together the elements of programming language, operating system, and development techniques; teaches and uses the C programming language and the Unix operating system.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 301; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
May be convened with:  MIS 553.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 454 -- Advanced Object Oriented Programming  (3 units)
Description:  The course provides instruction in the application of object oriented programming for business. Students will learn how to program and de-bug JAVA and Visual C++ systems. The course may include instruction in exception handling, graphic user interface (GUI) design, multi-threading, networking and other advanced topics.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 301.
May be convened with:  MIS 554.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 461 -- Accounting Information Systems  (3 units)
Description:  The analysis, design and implementation of information systems with special emphasis on accounting applications.
Prerequisite(s):  ACCT 310, advanced standing in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Identical to:  ACCT 461; ACCT is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 465 -- Managing for Quality Improvement  (3 units)
Description:  Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, total quality management.
Prerequisite(s):  advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Identical to:  MAP 465.
May be convened with:  MIS 565.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 471 -- Policy Formation and Management Information Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Integration of the MIS activity with the functional operations of the business organization; utilization of case studies and a computer simulation model to enhance executive decision making relative to planning, organizing, controlling, and actuating.  This is a Writing Emphasis Course.
Prerequisite(s):  satisfaction of the upper-division writing proficiency requirement.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 473A -- Production and Operations Management  (3 units)
Description:  Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Forecasting, aggregate planning, MRP, inventory models under uncertainty, scheduling.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 373, advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Identical to:  MAP 473A.
May be convened with:  MIS 573A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 473B -- Production and Operations Management  (3 units)
Description:  Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Topics include project management, quality control, reliability, facility layout and decision theory. Case studies, group projects and industry speakers give students an understanding of human problems and quantitative methods.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 373, advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Identical to:  MAP 473B.
May be convened with:  MIS 573B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 477 -- The Supply Chain and Logistics  (3 units)
Description:  Organization, management and control of material flow processes; logistical strategies and relationships of procurement, handling, warehousing, transportation, and inventory control.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 373.
Identical to:  MAP 477.
May be convened with:  MIS 577.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 478 -- Project Management  (3 units)
Description:  Projects are the preferred way to get things done today in business. Course focuses on the problems and methods of running projects; special attention to information technology and software projects. Students manage real projects, use scheduling software, study cases and analytical tools.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 373; advanced standing as specified in the College of Business and Public Administration.
May be convened with:  MIS 578.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 480 -- Knowledge Management: Techniques and Practices  (3 units)
Description:  Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, sharing and evaluating an enterprise's information and knowledge assets. This course reviews and discusses existing enabling technologies in KM and new, emerging KM technologies and practices. Such technologies are presented in the context of emerging Internet, data mining, e-commerce, and enterprise computing applications.
May be convened with:  MIS 580.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 481 -- Internet Business and Technology  (3 units)
Description:  This course examines the information content, design, implementation, operational, managerial, business and legal issues that are essential to doing business on the Internet.
Identical to:  JOUR 481.
May be convened with:  MIS 581.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 482 -- Web-Based Systems Development  (3 units)
Description:  An elective for the students to undertake small yet practically useful Web software projects, to learn system integration in the web environment, and pragmatic and widely deployed scripting languages. A natural complement to object-oriented design and programming skills that the students already learn in our program.
Prerequisite(s):  Knowledge of any procedural (C, Pascal, Visual Basic) or object-oriented (Python, Java) programming language is useful but not required.
May be convened with:  MIS 582.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 486 -- Machine Scheduling  (3 units)
Description:  General job-shop problems, performance measures. Complexity classification of problems, P and NP characteristics. Single and parallel machines, flow, open-shop and resource-constrained scheduling.
Prerequisite(s):  consent of instructor.
May be convened with:  MIS 586.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 493A -- Information Systems Co-op  (1-6 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 301; consent of advisor. Coop must be offered by a qualified organization. Undergraduate only.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 496A -- Special Topics in Management Information Systems  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
May be repeated:  for a total of 9 units of credit.
May be convened with:  MIS 596A.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 497A -- Collaboration Computing  (3 units)
Description:  The practical application of theoretical learning within a group setting and involving an exchange of ideas and practical methods, skills, and principles.
May be convened with:  MIS 597A.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 498 -- Senior Capstone  (1-3 units)
Description:  A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 498H -- Honors Thesis  (3 units)
Description:  An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
May be repeated:  for a total of 9 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 499 -- Independent Study  (1-4 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 499H -- Honors Independent Study  (3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 507A -- Software Design  (3 units)
Description:  The course will begin with a discussion of techniques and notations for object-oriented modeling. Building on the modeling techniques we develop, we will then discuss strategies for implementing reusable and extensible systems. You will learn a core set of skills including polymorphic code construction, the use of inheritance and composition and design patterns.
Prerequisite(s):  proficiency in object-oriented programming, preferably in Java.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 507B -- Data Communications  (3 units)
Description:  Comprehensive view of data and computer communications. Explores key issues in the field, in the general categories of principles (including basic concepts and terminology used in the field); design approaches and applications in business; standards such as the IEEE, OSI, TCP/IP and others.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 509 -- Business Communication  (1-3 units)
Description:  This course is an overview of the methods, processes, and functions necessary for effective communication in today's high tech, global marketplace. The goals for this course are to develop an understanding of the need for and the requisite skills of competent communication in both the physical and electronic environments.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 511 -- Social Issues of Computing  (3 units)
Description:  Broad survey of the individual, organizational, cultural, social and ethical issues provoked by current and projected uses of computers. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper.
May be convened with:  MIS 411.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 521 -- Systems Modeling and Simulation  (3 units)
Description:  Topics include concepts of simulation software, model validation, selecting input, probability distribution, random variate generation, statistic analysis of output data. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper.
May be convened with:  MIS 421.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 527 -- Introduction to Enterprise Computing Environments  (3 units)
Description:  Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems represents integrated strategy for management of information among organizations, suppliers and customers. Graduate-level requirements include completion of a group project on an advanced complementary or enabling technology using ERP. Students' projects include implementation or demonstration and presentation to class.
May be convened with:  MIS 427.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 528 -- Workflow Technologies and E-Commerce Applications  (3 units)
Description:  This course will survey the recent development in workflow technologies which have become a well-known new technology in software industry. Graduate-level requirements include a term paper and more classroom participation in classroom discussion than the undergrads.
May be convened with:  MIS 428.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 531A -- Data Structures and Algorithms  (3 units)
Description:  This course covers the design, implementation and analysis of data structures to be examined including stacks, queues, lists, trees, and graphs. The course will cover 40-50 different search and analysis algorithms for important information systems applications, including knowledge discovery, databases, Internet search, and data mining. Hands-on projects involving C, C++ or Java programming are required.
Prerequisite(s):  knowledge of a programming language such as C, C++ or JAVA.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 531B -- Data Structures and Database Management  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to database processing in comparison with file processing. Review of file organization and relevant data structures. Detailed study of various tools needed for logical and physical design, including data flow diagrams and the entity-relationship model. Examines the Relational and Codasyl database models. Several commercially available database management systems are reviewed. Course covers implementation. Students learn to develop database applications using Sybase or Sun/Unix machines.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 531A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 535 -- Data Management: Technology and Applications  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to fundamentals of database systems, design techniques and their use in organizations. Course covers relational database technology and focuses on design of database applications. Case studies will be used to illustrate the use of database systems for strategic and operational decision making. Emerging technologies and their applications will be covered. Students will get hands-on experience with state-of-the-art commercial relational and object-oriented database technology and learn to use SQL.
Prerequisite(s):  basic working knowledge of computers.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 538 -- Software Agents and Multi-Agent Systems  (3 units)
Description:  This course covers design, implementation, and anaylsis of software agents and multi-agent systems. It emphasizes theoretical foundations of agent-based computing and hands-on system building. Graduate-level requirements include an additional project, those taking MIS 538 are expected to work in small groups to implement a multi-agent system, turn in a substantial term project report, and present and demonstrate their implemented system in class.
May be convened with:  MIS 438.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 540 -- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence  (3 units)
Description:  This course is an introduction to the art and science of creating computer systems that think for themselves. We will cover techniques for representing knowledge, understanding language, building autonomous agents, computer vision and robotics. Graduate-level requirements include all undergraduate requirements, plus the completion of a substantial research project that must include a related program written by the student. There will also be separate graduate level exams.
Prerequisite(s):  prior programming experience at the level of MIS 531A or C SC 318. Credit for MIS 540 or MIS 680 but not for both.
May be convened with:  MIS 440.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 541A -- Introduction to Information Systems Analysis and Design  (3 units)
Description:  Tools, techniques and methodologies for Business Process Re-Engineering, information systems analysis and design. Other topics to be discussed include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and supply chain management. Students are expected to undertake a project in a "real world" setting.
Identical to:  C SC 541A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 541B -- Advanced Topics in Information Systems Analysis and Design  (3 units)
Description:  The course builds on the introductory concepts in 541A. Topics to be covered include distributed and concurrent systems design issues (in the context of the Internet/Intranet), distributed transaction processing, formal methods of software analysis, verification, testing and component-based design. These are studied in various enterprise information systems development contexts. Homework and small projects on each topic will be assigned.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 541A or equivalent and background in Java programming.
Identical to:  C SC 541B.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 549 -- Information System Strategies for E-commerce  (3 units)
Description:  Examines the strategic use of information systems both inside and outside of the firm in the context of the highly dynamic e-commerce business environment. Graduate-level requirements includes a group project that will include a white paper on a topic relevant to the course and a presentation to the class.
May be convened with:  MIS 449.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 550 -- International Dimensions of Information Technologies  (3 units)
Description:  National and regional information technology development strategies and policies; IT and national sovereignty; development and control of global "information highways;" impact of public and business policies on information systems design and use; international institutions and IT: convergence or divergence of information systems across countries, regions and international economic sectors. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program and a class presentation.
May be convened with:  MIS 450.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 551 -- Enterprises and Business Intelligence Systems  (3 units)
Description:  This course addresses implementation and management of scalable enterprise and business intelligence systems. Topics include data warehouse design and implementation, OLAP and data mining concepts and technology and middleware standards and tools for integrating enterprise and intelligence systems using the web platform. Oracle and IBM tools for implementing these systems will be utilized. Graduate-level requirements include an additional in-depth term paper and 30% more reading.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 531A, MIS 531B.
May be convened with:  MIS 451.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 553 -- Software Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Software development and software engineering; brings together the elements of programming language, operating system, and development techniques; teaches and uses the C programming language and the Unix operating system. Graduate-level requirements include the production of several medium-sized programs, with emphasis on the program life-cycle, maintainability, and life-cost.
Prerequisite(s):  some knowledge of data structure.
May be convened with:  MIS 453.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 554 -- Advanced Object Oriented Programming  (3 units)
Description:  The course provides instruction in the application of object oriented programming for business. Students will learn how to program and de-bug JAVA and Visual C++ systems. The course may include instruction in exception handling, graphic user interface (GUI) design, multi-threading, networking and other advanced topics. Graduate-level requirements may include an additional term paper.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 531A.
May be convened with:  MIS 454.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 555 -- Emerging Information Technology and Management  (3 units)
Description:  Topics will vary depending on student and faculty interest and recent developments in the field.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 565 -- Managing for Quality Improvement  (3 units)
Description:  Operational aspect of quality improvement. Topics include statistical process control, total quality management. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
Identical to:  MAP 565.
May be convened with:  MIS 465.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 567 -- Design and Control of Production Systems  (3 units)
Description:  Instruction of the basic concepts in operations management. Topics covered include quality control, process analysis, MRP, queuing theory, forecasting, and classical inventory models.
Prerequisite(s):  open only to graduate students in BPA.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 570 -- Management and Evaluation of Information Systems  (3 units)
Description:  The methodologies of economics and management information systems are applied to the problem of designing and evaluating information systems for a profit-maximizing firm. An MBA integrative course.
Prerequisite(s):  consent of instructor.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 573A -- Production and Operations Management  (3 units)
Description:  Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Forecasting, aggregate planning, MRP, inventory models under uncertainty, scheduling. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
May be convened with:  MIS 473A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 573B -- Production and Operations Management  (3 units)
Description:  Productive systems, including service type industries; activities entailed in selecting, designing, operating, controlling, and updating systems. Topics include project management, quality control, reliability, facility layout and decision theory. Case studies, group projects and industry speakers give students an understanding of human problems and quantitative methods. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
May be convened with:  MIS 473B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 577 -- The Supply Chain and Logistics  (3 units)
Description:  Organization, management and control of material flow processes; logistical strategies and relationships of procurement, handling, warehousing, transportation, and inventory control. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
May be convened with:  MIS 477.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 578 -- Project Management  (3 units)
Description:  Projects are the preferred way to get things done today in business. Course focuses on the problems and methods of running projects; special attention to information technology and software projects. Students manage real projects, use scheduling software, study cases and analytical tools. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper or program.
May be convened with:  MIS 478.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 580 -- Knowledge Management: Techniques and Practices  (3 units)
Description:  Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline that promotes an integrated approach to identifying, capturing, sharing and evaluating an enterprise's information and knowledge assets. This course reviews and discusses existing enabling technologies in KM and new, emerging KM technologies and practices. Such technologies are presented in the context of emerging Internet, data mining, e-commerce, and enterprise computing applications. Graduate-level requirements include an additional term paper.
May be convened with:  MIS 480.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 581 -- Internet Business and Technology  (3 units)
Description:  This course examines the information content, design, implementation, operational, managerial, business and legal issues that are essential to doing business on the Internet. Graduate-level requirements include an Internet overview and a case study analysis.
Identical to:  JOUR 581.
May be convened with:  MIS 481.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 582 -- Web-Based Systems Development  (3 units)
Description:  An elective for the students to undertake small yet practically useful Web software projects, to learn system integration in the web environment, and pragmatic and widely deployed scripting languages. A natural complement to object-oriented design and programming skills that the students already learn in our program. Graduate requirements include oral reports, midtem exam, and final exam.
Prerequisite(s):  Knowledge of any procedural (C, Pascal, Visual Basic) or object-oriented (Python, Java) programming language is useful but not required.
May be convened with:  MIS 482.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 586 -- Machine Scheduling  (3 units)
Description:  General job-shop problems, performance measures. Complexity classification of problems, P and NP characteristics. Single and parallel machines, flow, open-shop and resource-constrained scheduling.
Prerequisite(s):  consent of instructor.
May be convened with:  MIS 486.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 596A -- Special Topics in Management Information Systems  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
May be repeated:  for a total of 9 units of credit.
May be convened with:  MIS 496A.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 597A -- Collaboration Computing  (3 units)
Description:  The practical application of theoretical learning within a group setting and involving an exchange of ideas and practical methods, skills, and principles.
May be convened with:  MIS 497A.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 599 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 611A -- Topics in Research Methodologies in MIS  (3 units)
Description:  Introduces beginning doctoral degree students and advanced master's degree students to important research and survey articles in the field of management information systems.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 611B -- Topics in Research Methodologies in MIS  (3 units)
Description:  Provides a knowledge of research methodologies used in the MIS discipline, including experimental design, surveys, case studies, field work, and software engineering.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 680 -- Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence  (3 units)
Description:  This course covers advanced and practical AI techniques such as natural language processing, cognitive modeling techniques, machine learning techniques, neural networks, and evolutionary programming. These techniques will be discussed in the context of emerging information systems applications, including knowledge discovery, advanced visualization, virtual reality, human-computer interactions, geographic information systems, digital libraries, and Internet searching. Hands-on projects involving C, C++, or Java programming are required.
Prerequisite(s):  MIS 531A. Open to all graduate students.
Usually offered:  Fall.

MIS 696A -- Readings in MIS  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 696B -- Virtual Teams and Technology  (3 units)
Description:  TVirtual teams play an important role in the modern corporation. From software engineers who collaborate to write code to the board of directors who gather to make strategic decisions, teams are increasingly being used worldwide as the foundation of work. This course explores a variety of topics surrounding teams whose members work in a number of different cities, countries, and continents - global work teams.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 696D -- Models for Quantitative Analysis  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 696G -- Advanced Topics in Data Management  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Usually offered:  Spring.

MIS 696H -- Master's Report Projects  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Prerequisite(s):  open to majors only.
Usually offered:  Summer.

MIS 699 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 797A -- Research Design  (3 units)
Description:  The practical application of theoretical learning within a group setting and involving an exchange of ideas and practical methods, skills, and principles.
May be repeated:  for credit 5 times (maximum 6 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

MIS 799 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 900 -- Research  (2-4 units)
Description:  Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 910 -- Thesis  (6 units)
Description:  Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 920 -- Dissertation  (1-9 units)
Description:  Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing).
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

MIS 930 -- Supplementary Registration  (1-9 units)
Description:  For students who have completed all course requirements for their advanced degree programs. May be used concurrently with other enrollments to bring to total number of units to the required minimum.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.