Master of Information Systems (Competency-Based)

3 Credits

This course focuses on the managerial level of knowledge and terminology for telecommunications and computer networks. This course covers the concepts and application of the Internet, server and storage architectures, and regulatory considerations.

3 Credits

This course focuses on the managerial level of knowledge and terminology for telecommunications and computer networks. This course covers the concepts and application of the Internet, server and storage architectures, and regulatory considerations.

3 Credits

This course introduces organizational managerial support systems and the use of metrics in strategic business decisions. Strategies for the use of a Supply Chain Management (SCM) system with a focus on the software selection and implementation are evaluated. Additionally, the role and benefits of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system are examined with a comparison of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) benefits to the business process. The skills developed in this course ensure that students have a strong foundation and background of successfully integrating all three strategies within an organization. and how they can help to analyze, understand, and solve business problems. Competency 10: Apply differences between SCM, CRM, and ERP strategies Competency 11: Demonstrate ability to identify and use metrics for supporting business decisions. Competency 12: Evaluate enterprise models to analyze, understand, and solve business problems and security threats.

3 Credits

IT Architecture in the Age of Cloud covers solution architecture designed specifically for the cloud, with alignment to AWS Solution Architect ‐ Associate certification. Course topics include designing resilient high-performance architectures and securing and cost‐optimizing architectures that are operationally excellent.

3 Credits

This course discusses how to effectively communicate with organizational C‐suite leaders and lead as a strategic partner, as IT continues to move from a department supporting or serving the business to leading change and innovation. Leadership skills include managing project scope, cost, quality, and stakeholders. Students learn the importance of soft skills such as influence, idea sharing and generating, managing conflict, and leading change.

3 Credits

3 Credits

This course covers the subject of technological innovation management as a strategic process from assessing competitive dynamics, strategy formulation, and strategy implementation with an eye toward new product development. Students are given opportunities to use critical and design thinking to solution real-world challenges such as skill shortages, technical debt, and DevOps. Competency 16: Students knows how and why innovation occurs in an industry and why some innovations rise to dominate others. Competency 17: Students examine methods for choosing among innovation projects. Competency 18: Students develop implementation plan based on best practices for managing the new product development process.

3 Credits

This course provides the knowledge to ensure students acquire skills to develop effective short, intermediate, and long-range strategic information systems plans. Course topics include the need for and contents of a corporate strategic plan; the relationship of information systems planning to overall organizational goals; assessment of the organization's current state; determination of information technology (IT), project, and management requirements; and the means of prioritizing and selecting systems projects.

3 Credits

The ethical issues examined in this course include information privacy, accessibility, and ownership from an organizational perspective. Information laws, regulations, and compliance requirements are examined in this course, as well as the considerations for creating a safe digital environment within the organization. Additionally, students will utilize MyLabs MIS throughout the course including going through three role-playing scenarios in which students will analyze the scenarios from information security and ethical perspectives.

3 Credits

This course introduces students to a variety of data analytic solutions. Students will learn how to retrieve real business data and create reports, support business decisions with visual representations of data, manage and improve a business process based on quantitative analysis, analyze long-term trends and patterns in the data, and develop actionable results that drive the business decision-making process.

3 Credits

This course explores the role of the security manager who develops and manages an information security program with a deep understanding of the relationship between IS programs and the broader business goals and objectives. Topics include but are not limited to, security governance, incident management, and risk management and compliance. This course is aligned to the ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) learning domains. Competency 31: Students conduct risk analysis. Competency 32: Students design a compliance plan to mitigate risk. Competency 33: Students design risk mitigation plan to address the highest probability risks associated with business goals and objectives.

3 Credits

This course will focus on the integration of the IS function and the information technology architecture within the enterprise. The alignment of IT with the strategy of the organization will be examined considering the decisions related to information technology architecture. In their assignments, students will write a business case for information systems, create a guide for determining when to build software internally or buy it, and calculate return on investment.