Course Listing For MIST

MIST 2090. Introduction to Information Systems in Business. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO TO INFO SYS.
Not open to students with credit in CSCI 1100-1100L or MGMT 2090 or MGMT 2190H.
Computer concepts and information technology in business, including hardware and software concepts, fundamentals of information systems, telecommunications, and business-related software packages.
Offered every year.

MIST 2190H. Introduction to Information Systems in Business (Honors). 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO TO INFO SYS.
Not open to students with credit in CSCI 1100-1100L or MGMT 2090 or MGMT 2190H.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Computer concepts and information technology in business, including hardware and software concepts, fundamentals of information systems, telecommunications, and business-related software packages.
Offered every year.

MIST 4600. Computer Programming in Business. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: COMP PROG IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4600.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090.
Introduction to computer programming. Fundamentals of systems analysis and program development using top-down design; structured programming; and debugging, testing and implementation; elementary data structures.
Offered every year.

MIST 4610. Data Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DATA MANAGEMENT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4610.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090.
Data management, including database development, access, and administration. The focus is on issues and principles of managing organizational data. Students will get extensive experience in developing data models, creating relational databases, and formulating and executing complex queries.
Offered every year.

MIST 4620. Systems Analysis and Design. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SYS ANAL & DESIGN.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4620.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Structured systems analysis and design with emphasis on the development of business application systems. Methods of systems documentation are examined through the use of tools and techniques for describing process flows, data flows, data structures, system objects, file designs, input and output designs, and program specifications.
Offered every year.

MIST 4700. Management Information Systems Internship or Cooperative Education. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MIS INTERN/CO-OP.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4700.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000 and MIST 4600 and MIST 4610 and permission of department.
Students are permitted to enter businesses, governmental agencies, or other organizations for the purposes of obtaining practical and applied management information systems experience. A paper or suitable project associated with a description and analysis of this experience is required.
Offered every year.

MIST 5600. Special Topics in Management Information Systems. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SPECIAL TOPICS MIS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5600.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
The management information systems field evolves rapidly and covers many topic areas. Recent developments in areas such as office automation, data communications, and the implementation of management information systems.
Offered every year.

MIST 5620. Building Decision Support Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BLDING DSS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5620.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Decision support systems are the highest level of information support systems which aid the manager in the decision-making process. This course provides the student with the skills necessary to conceptualize, build, and implement decision support systems in organizations.
Offered every year.

MIST 5630. Building Knowledge-Based Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BLDG KBS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5630.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Provides the student with knowledge engineering skills required to elicit and represent human knowledge, and to build, implement, and maintain knowledge-based systems in organizations.
Offered every year.

MIST 5640. Business Telecommunications and Networking. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUS TELECOM.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5640.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Telecommunications concepts, communications architectures and protocols, commercial offerings, equipment, software, network design, and network management.
Offered every year.

MIST 5660. Rapid Application Development. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: RAP APP DEV.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5660.
Prerequisite: MIST 4620.
The use of rapid application development (RAD), prototyping, and end user development. Students use appropriate software tools to quickly build applications.
Offered every year.

MIST 5670. Managing the Information System Resource. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MAN IS RES.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5670.
Prerequisite: MIST 4620.
The issues and management techniques involved in administering the Information System/Resource activities in an organization. The focus is on computer-based resources and IS development activities. Management of IS professionals, development and management of project teams, user-professional relationships, emerging technologies, and planning processes. A sociotechnical perspective is emphasized.
Offered every year.

MIST 5680. Building Executive Support Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BLDG EXEC SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5680.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Executive Information Systems (EIS) provide support to executives who have special information requirements to perform their job responsibilities. Organizational and technical concepts, development approaches, technologies, applications, and impacts are discussed. Hands-on experience is provided with several state-of-the-art EIS.
Offered every year.

MIST 5700. Using Business Application Software. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUS APP SFTW.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5700 or MGMT 5710.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090 and permission of department.
Using a variety of types of business application software to enable the student to be personally productive in the workplace by being able to gather data, analyze it, and present it to others. Popular software suites are covered as is the use of Internet software. (Cannot be taken for credit by MIS majors.)
Offered every year.

MIST 5710. Advanced Business Application Software. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV BUS APP.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5700 or MGMT 5710.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
A variety of types of business application software that enable the student to be personally productive in the workplace by being able to gather data, analyze it, and present it to others. Students are expected to use programming and database skills to carry out these activities.
Offered every year.

MIST 5720. Collaborative Work Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: COLL WRK SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5720.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
People work in groups on common tasks. Collaborative computing, in particular, group support systems (GSS), provides support to groups of people. Organizational and technical concepts, development approaches, technologies, applications, and impacts are discussed. Hands-on experience is provided with several state-of-the-art GSS.
Offered every year.

MIST 5770. Advanced Software Development in Business. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV SOFTWARE DEV.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5770.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Multi-user operating systems and a leading personal computer programming language are used to create advanced software applications. The use of computers in networks are emphasized.
Offered every year.

MIST 6080. Management Information Systems Overview. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT INFO SYSTEMS OV.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 6080.
The use of information systems technology by managers and professionals to improve organizational performance, group work, and personal productivity. Decision support software and database query systems are used to support a case-based approach to learning. For students in the one-year MBA program.
Non-traditional format: For four weeks (offered only in summer).
Offered summer semester every year.

MIST 6090. Management Information Systems. 1-2 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT INFO SYSTEMS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 6090.
Use of information systems technology by managers and professionals to improve organizational performance, group work, and personal productivity. Decision support software and database query systems are used to support a case-based approach to learning. For students in the two-year MBA program.
Offered fall semester every year.

MIST 7600. Organizational Memory Technology. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ORG MEMORY TECH.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7600.
Issues and principles of managing organizational data. Concepts and skills for developing, accessing, and administering each technology. Extensive experience in developing data models, relational databases, and formulating and executing complex queries.
Offered every year.

MIST 7620. Rapid Application Development. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: RAPID APPS DEV.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7620.
Prerequisite: MIST 7600 or permission of department.
Use of rapid application development (RAD) techniques such as prototyping and end-user development for quickly creating information system applications.
Offered every year.

MIST 7630. The Systems Approach. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SYSTEMS APPROACH.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7630.
The systems approach is a viewpoint that conceptualizes institutions as organized complexities, i.e., as organic (open) systems. Exemplified by the development of a general systems theory and cybernetics. The theories and findings of such interdisciplinary research to the study of human organizations.
Offered every year.

MIST 7640. Networking Technology. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: NETWORK TECHNOLOGY.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7640.
The application of data communications and networking technology to support the organizational information systems mission. Communication architectures and protocols, along with current commercial offerings, equipment, software, network design principles, and network management techniques.
Offered every year.

MIST 7650. Electronic Commerce. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7650.
Electronic commerce and markets, including the use of the Internet and World Wide Web for commercial purposes. Development and management of websites and applications is covered in-depth.
Offered every year.

MIST 7670. Information Resource Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INFO RESOURCE MGT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7670.
Administering the Information System/Resource activities in an organization. Computer-based resources and IS development and consulting activities. Issues include management of IS professionals, user-professional relationships, management of IS project teams, tracking emerging technologies, and planning processes. A sociotechnical perspective is emphasized to insure a balanced look at technical and people issues.
Offered every year.

MIST 7730. Decision Support Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DEC SUP SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7730.
The building of decision support systems. Topics include the DSS concept, applications, organizational issues, hardware and software technology, developmental methodology, data-model-user relationships, implementation strategies, and evaluation procedures.
Offered every year.

MIST 7740. Knowledge-Based Systems in Business. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: KBS IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7740.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
Knowledge-based systems are a subset of artificial intelligence that deal with computer applications that replicate the decision- making and problem-solving skills of experts. Students learn how to identify, build, implement and manage knowledge-based systems.
Offered every year.

MIST 7750. Executive Information Systems. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: EXECUTIVE INFO SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7750.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
This course provides the student with an understanding of executive information systems (EIS). An EIS supplies an organization's executives with the information needed to perform their job responsibilities. Concepts, development approaches, technologies, applications, and impacts.
Offered every year.

MIST 7760. Group Support Systems. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: GROUP SUPPORT SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7760.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
Collaborative computing, in particular group support systems (GSS), supports a group of people who work together on a common task. Concepts, development approaches, technologies, applications, and impacts.
Offered every year.

MIST 7770. Data Warehouses and Mining. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: DATA W&M.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7770.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
Data warehouses or large databases are used to support decision-making applications. Coverage includes concepts, development process, organizational issues, hardware, and software. The focus is on-line analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining to discover relationships in large databases.
Offered every year.

MIST 7780. Advanced Decision Support in Business. 1.5-3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED DS IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7780.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
Advanced topics in decision support and artificial intelligence. These include fourth generation languages, data warehousing, model building, model generation, and model management, data access, problem solving on novel computer architectures, fuzzy logic and sets, belief functions, neural computing and artificial intelligence, and intelligent agents.
Offered every year.

MIST 7790. Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Business. 3-6 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED AI IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7790.
Prerequisite: MIST 7740 or permission of department.
Advanced topics in artificial intelligence. These include search reduction methods, such as genetic and Tabu Search algorithms, fifth generation languages, fuzzy logic and sets, belief functions, neural networks, and virtual reality.
Offered every year.

MIST 8990. Directed Study. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 40 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIRECTED STUDY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Directed study in management or management information systems topics, giving particular attention to specialized problems in an area related to a student's academic interests.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered every year.

MIST 9000. Doctoral Research. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCTORAL RESEARCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members.
Non-traditional format: Independent research under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered every year.

MIST 9300. Doctoral Dissertation. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 30 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCT DISSERTATION.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
Offered every year.

MIST 9700. Management Information Systems Research Seminar I. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MIS RESEARCH I.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 9700.
The management information systems (MIS) research literature. It explores applicable research theories and frameworks, research concepts, and exemplary MIS research.
Offered every year.

MIST 9710. Management Information Systems Research Seminar II. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MIS RESEARCH II.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 9710.
Prerequisite: MIST 9700.
A continuation of the survey of management information systems (MIS) research literature focusing on MIS dissertation proposals and completed dissertations. Preparation, development, presentation, and defense of an MIS doctoral dissertation proposal.
Offered every year.