An integrated approach to analyzing business problems from various functional areas. Practical business problems are analyzed using quantitative techniques including probability, statistical inference, estimation and regression (simple linear regression, multiple linear regression and model building) as well as non-parametric approaches.
This course provides an overview of the context within which modern organizations operate. The course will examine the development of organizational and managerial theories. A number of contemporary issues and the organizational responses will be discussed.
Examines approaches to relational database administration, and investigates modern logical data models and tools supporting their implementation. Topics include transaction management, crash recovery, security, object database systems and information retrieval systems.
This course focuses on methods and techniques to elicit, model, analyze and manage software requirements for improving current business processes. Topics include project management, including how to manage software development through all phases of the life cycle.
An overview of current generic IT solutions used to support business processes in organizations. An emphasis is placed on the analysis of those business processes, how to improve them and how to connect them with the appropriate IT solutions available.
Offers a thorough treatment of client-server systems concepts, with programming techniques that yield results in Web pages and Web-based applications. Topics include effective Web page design, server and client-side scripting, Java servlets, ActiveX controls and the essentials of electronic commerce.
This course deals with intermediate and advanced topics in systems analysis and design. Topics include the systems development life cycle, object-oriented design, CASE tools and recent advances in system analysis and design.
Examines a range of topics in the analysis and design of interfaces and human-computer interaction. Focusing on the human perspective, the course will discuss improving interaction with computers and reducing the possible mismatch between human and machine.
An examination of databases, trends in database management systems and their application in a wide range of organizational areas. The course provides an overview of database processing in modern organizations and discusses current and emerging trends in database processing.
Communications systems, environments and components;choices for data, voice and imagery; network control, design and management; distributed and local networks; client/server and Intranet technologies; Web-based technologies.