36 courses with the subject ISBA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ISBA 211Business Software Applications3
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides a hands-on approach to learning business software applications. Topics in this course include spreadsheet and database software application development, web design, internet search and e- collaboration through white boarding, messaging, and discussion boards. These software environments and tools are extensively used in organizations to analyze situations and solve problems.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will introduce students to basic concepts of programming using Visual Basic with emphasis on business applications. The topics for the course will include VB programming, computer concepts in relation to management, the use of Integrated Development Environment (IDE), flowcharts, algorithms, decision making, control structures, modules, developing simple forms, writing procedures, using array. 845
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides an understanding of systems and development concepts, information technology, and application software. This course explains how information and technology are used in organizations to enable improvements in business processes, support decision-making, and contribute to the achievement of competitive advantage. The course focuses on topics such as databases, data warehouses, decision-making, SCM, electronic commerce, system acquisition, and ethical issues. MS Office software will be used to demonstrate IT solutions for business situations.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course covers the concepts, technology, and architecture of cloud computing. A practical approach to understanding business-centric models and metrics for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT delivery models will also be covered in this course. 846
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course covers information systems design and implementation within a database management system environment. Students will construct a physical system using database software to implement the logical design. Different available software will be discussed. This course is cross-listed with HIT 370.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will cover more advanced topics in database design concepts and provides additional instruction on multi-sharing databases. It completes the SQL and will introduce the Oracle.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The concepts of integrated information systems and total systems are the main core of this course. Introduction of different software will be a part of this course.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 In this course the concepts of database of databases i.e. the data warehouse will be presented. Different algorithms for data mining will be presented.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course continues the materials on ISBA 330 and concentrates on the last two phases of systems development life cycle i.e. design and implementation. Students will use Visual Basic Application and Microsoft Macros to write codes to enhance the applications. Some concepts of Object Oriented Design will be introduced in this course. CASE Tools will be used to facilitate different tasks on Systems
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course in data visualization will cover topics on how to organize data and create effective dashboards based on key performance indicators in Excel and PowerBI. Students will learn key concepts of Business Intelligence (BI) and apply Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) to create calculated columns, measures, and custom tables in Power BI. Microsoft curriculum materials for PowerBI will be integrated in this course.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The concepts of planning and control of projects and mainly the IT projects will be discussed. The control and optimization of time/costs will be discussed. Different models of project control under certainty and uncertainty will be presented.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course covers foundational knowledge of cloud service in Azure. Cloud data concepts that include relational and non-relational data, big data, and analytics concepts will be introduced.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 In supply chain, the suppliers connect to customers through a series of processes e.g. purchasing, production, storage, sales, transportation and distribution. Each of these business processes and business units interface with others by sending outputs and receiving inputs preferably over an electronic supply chain network. Modeling of these units and optimization of flows together with other issues such as human factors, cultural issues, security factors, automation and other related topics will be discussed. This course is cross listed with MGMT 390.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This class introduces social media and tools, their use in marketing, and their impacts on the business world. Students will understand the use of social media and make recommendations of popular web applications for marketing and business uses. They will also describe new business models and opportunities that the web and social media enable. Through readings, in-class exercises, projects, and presentations, students will learn about current web technologies, strategies for integrating web-enabled capabilities in the enterprise, and their impact on organizational functions such as marketing, branding, or crowd-sourcing and the innovative management of consumers. Students will apply their knowledge of social media technologies by creating, managing, promoting, and recommending social media for a real business. This course will be cross listed with MKTG 333.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will focus on decision making processes under semi-structured situations. Different theories and practices related to decision theory will be covered using several teaching methodologies. Databases, user interfaces, knowledge bases, and modeling concepts will be discussed and students will learn several tools for aiding decision makers in various phases of decision making. Students will be introduced to business intelligence technologies that support business analytics and will learn how to implement data mining model(s) for prediction. Decision modeling software will be used to demonstrate model implementations
ISBA 421Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems3
Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 3 The concepts of using machines to imitate human behavior and transferring human knowledge and know how of humans to machines are the main themes of this course. Different models, algorithms and software will be discussed. 851
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides an understanding of data communications and networking, including networking and telecommunication technologies, hardware, and software. Special emphasis is placed on the analysis, design, and management of networking applications in organizations.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course introduces emerging online technologies and trends and their influence on the electronic commerce marketplace. Students will learn various revenue models and how to market on the Web, various legal and ethical issues, important security issues, and how to plan for electronic commerce. This course also introduces the current Web design concepts and techniques that will help students develop a real electronic commerce site.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Information technology is a very dynamic field that changes very quickly. The new concepts introduced in this area will be presented in this seminar course.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course provides students with advanced SQL skills that allow them to write effective queries against single and multiple tables; manipulate data in tables; create database schema objects; create indices and constraints; alter existing schema objects; create and query external tables; and learn to use the advanced features of SQL in order to query and manipulate data within the database. Students also learn to control privileges at the object and system level and will be able to work with date-time functions available in the Oracle Database. In this course, students use Oracle SQL Developer as the main development tool. SQL*Plus will be introduced as an optional development tool. This course is one of three Oracle 852
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course covers advanced PL/SQL concepts. Students learn to create PL/SQL blocks of application code that can be shared by multiple forms; create reports and data management applications; create anonymous PL/SQL blocks; work with stored procedures and functions; declare variables; trap exceptions; and declare and control cursors. In addition, students learn to develop, execute, and manage PL\SQL stored program units such as procedures, functions, packages, and database triggers. They also learn to manage object dependencies and the recompilation of invalid objects. This course also describes the characteristics and techniques of the manipulation of large objects. Students are introduced to the uses of some of the Oracle- supplied packages. This is one of three Oracle certification training courses.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The objective of this course is to provide students with the practical database experience necessary for the successful completion of the Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate Exam. Students will be required to design a database for a business situation, create and manage all objects necessary for implementation, and perform various maintenance operations on that database. This is one of three Oracle certification training courses.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This is an elective course for MIS majors and for business majors who are interested in learning the process of modeling business situations and developing model applications using popular Excel add-ins such as: Solver optimization, Crystal ball for forecasting, RiskAmp Monte Carlo simulation, TreePlan for decision analysis, and @Risk for risk analysis. This course combines tangible applications in Finance, Marketing and Operations with a modeling philosophy of learning by doing 853
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course involves the application of quantitative and systems skills developed in the academic environment to problems in a real-world operating environment. The participant will receive practical training and experience under the guidance of the staff of a local business or government organization and a faculty supervisor. Available internships are filled on a competitive basis.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 MIS Co-op offers students an opportunity to prepare for a career involving the application of information technology by combining academic theory and work experience. Three hours of academic credit are awarded for half-time paid work experience over a 15-week period. The cooperative education staff, the student, the MIS Co-op director, and the employer's co-op supervisor must agree on the employment terms and the learning experience to be gained in a written contract. The academic grade is assigned by the MIS Co-op director based on student reports and reports of the employer's co-op supervisor.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Information systems have become essential for creating competitive firms, managing global corporations, and providing useful products and services to customers. This course provides the concepts of management information systems that students will find vital to their professional success. It is a computer-based approach to planning, design, implementation and evaluation of information systems in complex organizations. International issues related to the transnational firms, and social, ethical and cultural issues related to information systems are covered also.
Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course will expose students to business intelligence techniques on the SAS platform, including: decision support, querying and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. This course is cross listed with and equivalent to BIDA 630 .
