Undergraduate Course Sequence

Graduate Course Sequence

CIS 120 – Business Programming Fundamentals (3 credits – Fall, Spring)
Credit not allowed for both CIS 120 and CIS 210
File and operating systems for business application development. Business program development using a high-level programming language.

BUS 150 – Business Computing Concepts and Applications (3 credits – Fall, Spring, Summer)
System hardware, operating environments, and software applications. (NT-O)

CIS 200 – Business Information Systems (3 Credits)
Prerequisite: BUS 150
The use of Information Technology (IT) to enable knowledge workers, support business processes, and grow the business.

CIS 210 – Information Technology in Business (3 credits – Fall, Spring, Summer)
Prerequisite or Co-requisite: CIS 200
Credit not allowed for both CIS 210 and CIS 120
Introduction to information systems, the IS profession; hardware, software, and programming; web and database applications; data analysis tools.

CIS 220 – Object-Oriented Information Design (3 credits – Fall, Spring, Summer)
Prerequisite: CIS 120. Credit not allowed for both CIS 220 and CIS 340
Object-orient information design and programming; design and manipulation of the data structures.

CIS 240 – Applcation Design and Development (3 credits – Fall, Spring, Summer)
Prerequisite: CIS 210
Software engineering methods, including design, implementation, and testing using structured and event-driven techniques, logic, and data structures. (NT-O)

CIS 301 – End User Computing (3 credits – Fall, Spring, Summer)
End user applications in a Graphical User Interface environment including spreadsheet, word processing, and presentation graphics; Internet concepts. (NT-O)

CIS 320 – Project Management for Information Systems (3 credits – Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 120 or CIS 210
Project management concepts including work breakdown structure, estimating, scheduling, tools, and reports.

CIS 340 – Advanced Application Design and Development (3 credits – Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 240 Credit not allowed for both CIS 340 and CIS 220
Design and construction of business applications using abject-orientation and advanced data structures.

CIS 350 – Operating Systems and Networks (3 credits – Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 240
Multi-user and network operating systems; basic networking concepts including security, transmission, performance, and topologies. 

CIS 355 – Business Database Systems (3 credits – Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 120 or 210
Physical and logical design, implementation, and administration of databases.

CIS 360 – Systems Analysis and Design (3 credits – Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 240
Traditional and cutting-edge systems analysis and design techniques, with emphasis on object-oriented approaches. 

CIS 400 – Information Management in the Enterprise (3 credits – Fall, Spring)

Prerequisite: Any two of FIN 300, MKT 300, MGT 301, MGT 320
Role of information in business functional areas, value of information in business; risks and rewards of enterprise information. 

CIS 410 – Web Application Development (3 Credits – Fall)
Prerequisites: CIS 240; CIS 355 Credit not allowed for both CIS 410 and CT 310
Web development techniques and strategies including Active Server Pages using VBScript, JavaScript, ColdFusion; security, and web design.

CIS 411 – Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (3 Credits – Spring)

Prerequisites: ACT 220; FIN 300or FIN 305, MGT 305 or MGT 320; MKT 300or MKT 305
Introduction to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems concepts, business processes impacted by ERP, systems and software integration.

CIS 412 – Issues & Cases in Electronic Commerce (3 Credits – Spring)
Prerequisites: CIS 355
Business models for B2B or B2C e-commerce, technology infrastructure, electronic payment mechanisms, information privacy.

CIS 413 – Advanced Networking and Security (3 Credits – Fall)
Prerequisite: CIS 350 and CIS 240
Modern communication standards, protocol systems; network security, security policies, attack and protection mechanisms, legal and ethical issues.

CIS 455 – Advanced Database Management (3 Credits – Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 355
Advanced data management topics including performance tuning, concurrency control, security, object-oriented databases, and data warehousing.

CIS 460 – Object-Oriented Systems (3 Credits – Fall)
Prerequisite: CIS 355; CIS 360
Object-oriented concepts, development methodologies, techniques, and languages.

CIS 462 – Systems Development Project (3 credits – Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 320, CIS 360
Application of concepts, techniques, and tools used in analysis, design, and implementation of computer-based information systems in an applied setting.

CIS 487 – Internship (9 Credits)
Supervised and planned work experience paralleling concentration in industry.

CIS 492 – Seminar
Prerequisite: CIS 460
Current topics in computer-based information systems.

CIS 495 – Independent Study (Credits Vary) 

CIS 496B – Group Study (Credits Vary) 
A) Small business information systems
B) Communications and distributed systems
C) Information systems performance measurement
D) Current issues in business computing systems

CIS 498 – Research (Credits Vary)

CIS 600 – Information Technology and Project Management (3 - Credits - Fall, Summer Session)
Prerequisite: Admission to M.S. program.
Strategic role and management of information technology and software development projects.

CIS 601/MGT 601 – Enterprise Computing and System Integration (3 - Credits - Fall)
Prerequisite: Admission to M.S. program. Credit not allowed for both CIS 601 and MGT 601.
Integrated extended enterprise planning and execution systems concepts including ERP, CRM, SCM, MRPII, business processes, font/back office systems.

CIS 605 – Business Visual Application Development (3 - Credits - Fall)
Prerequisite: Admission to M.S. program.
Design, construction, and testing of business application systems including leading-edge visual, E-commerce languages and tools.

CIS 606 – Application Software Infrastructure (3 - Credits - Fall)
Design, construction, and testing of business application software infrastructure including hardware, operating software, and communications networks.

CIS 610 – Software Development Methodology (3 - Credits - Fall)
Prerequisite: Admission to M.S. program.
Methods for all phases of software development focusing upon the establishment of economical software that is reliable and cross platform

CIS 611 – Object-Oriented Systems (3 - Credits - Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 610
Object-oriented and web-based software; object model describing classes; relationships to other objects, attributes, and operations.

CIS 620 – IT Communications Infrastructure (3 - Credits - Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 606
Technical aspects of information communications, business considerations; wireless technology, architecture and applications.

CIS 655 – Business Database Systems (3 - Credits - Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 605
Database analysis, design, administration; data modeling; data sublanguages; query facilities; distributed database systems.

CIS 665 – E-Business Application technologies (3 - Credits - Spring)
Prerequisite: CIS 605; CIS 606; CIS 610
Developing E-business (B2B and B2C) through construction and deployment.

CIS 695 – Var. Independent Study

CIS 696 – Var. Group Study

CIS 699 – Var. Thesis