22:198:603Database Systems (3) Provides an understanding of database technology and its application in managing data resources. The conceptual, logical, and physical design of databases will be analyzed. A database management system such as Oracle or Ingres will be used as a vehicle for illustrating some of the concepts discussed. Prerequisite: Background in a procedurally oriented language (C preferred) or permission of instructor. |
22:198:604Computers and Information Systems (3) Provides an understanding of the hardware, software, and other components of computer systems; surveys file and database management systems; telecommunications and networks; analysis, design, and development of computer-based information systems; and evaluation of computer acquisitions. Alternative to 22:198:605. |
22:198:605Introduction to Software Development (3) Fundamentals of computer programming with emphasis on structured and object oriented approach, and a short introduction to computer hardware. Topics include basics of programming: control structures, conditionals, expressions, arrays, classes, inheritance, information hiding, abstraction, and designing programs for reuse. Applications may include design of graphical user interfaces and business application. Various Interactive Development Environments (IDE) may be used as tools for software development. |
22:198:610Electronic Commerce (3) Electronic commerce refers to business activities involving consumers, manufacturers, service providers, and intermediaries using computer networks such as the Internet. This course serves as an introduction to electronic commerce, discussing the three principal tenets of this discipline: business, technical, and policy issues. Specifically, it covers the various components and services, technologies, and business applications involving electronic commerce. |
22:198:611Security for Electronic Commerce (3) Introduces electronic commerce and the security challenges and its threats, and provides an understanding of security technologies. Discusses security requirements for electronic commerce such as identification and authentication, authorization and access control, data integrity, confidentiality, nonrepudiation, trust and regulation. Discusses various security standards including network security architecture, data encryption, data integrity, digital signature, authentication, certification, electronic data interchange, and electronic mail. Internet standards, firewalls, public key cryptography standards, Java security, Lotus Notes security, database security, security payments such as SET, digital cash and digital cheques, and smart card technology are also discussed. |
22:711:605Introduction to Total Quality Management and Control (3) Covers critical issues and practical approaches for quality improvement in various industrial and business processes. Topics include control charts, process capability indices, Pareto and cause-and-effect analysis, six-sigma, total quality management, strategic design and implementation of business process, and strategies for continuous improvement and process reengineering. |
22:711:607Supply Chain Management Strategies (3) Provides an understanding of the variety and the importance of critical decisions encountered in the practice of an integrated supply chain. Offers important quantitative techniques needed for a continuous improvement of a company`s operation efficiency, product/service quality, and strategic position in the global marketplace. Teamed projects based on real world supply chain managerial issues will be assigned. |
22:711:608Procurement and Global Sourcing (3) Reviews the demands placed on purchasing from the firm's stakeholders;
demonstrates the impact of purchasing and materials management on the
competitive success and profitability of the organization; describes
ethical, contractual, and legal issues faced by purchasing; and
recognizes the expanding strategic nature of purchasing. Topics include
purchasing as a functional activity; how purchasing impacts on total
quality, cost, delivery, technology, and responsiveness to the needs of
a firm's external; introduction of the tools, techniques, and
approaches for managing the procurement and sourcing process; issues
and activities that support the procurement and sourcing; and future
directions of purchasing and strategic sourcing. |
22:711:609Service Management (3) Equips the prospective manager with the necessary skills to manage service operations. Topics include understanding the nature and role of service operations in the economy, gaining competitive advantage through customer service, service marketing, designing and managing the service operation, quality control, assurance and improvement in service, legal and financial aspects of service management. Numerous case studies from various service operations are examined. |
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