2019-20 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

ITM-3600 Business Process Management –Fa 3 hours In this course students will be introduced to key concepts and approaches to business process management and improvement. The course focuses on both understanding and designing business processes. Students will learn how to identify, document, model, assess, and improve core business processes. Students will be introduced to process design principles. The way in which information technology can be used to manage, transform, and improve business processes is also discussed. Prerequisites: ITM- 1500 Information Technology for Business.. ITM-3650 Enterprise Systems –Sp 3 hours This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the theoretic and practical issues related to the application of enterprise systems within organizations. The main focus of this course is to demonstrate how enterprise systems integrate information and organizational processes across functional areas with a unified system comprised of a single database and shared reporting tools. The course includes an integrated project, which requires the application of conceptual and technical skills of students. Prerequisite: ITM-2100 Database Management. (even years)(Fee: $50) ITM-4150 3 hours Advanced Business Analytics and Visualization This course will explore the field of data analytics by covering state-of-the-art modeling, analysis, and visualization techniques. The course will emphasize the importance of understanding the underlying data, validating the data, applying a meaningful analytic to the data, and only then visualizing the data. The course will discuss practical challenges involving complex real-world data and include several case studies and hands-on work with a modern data analysis and visualization package. Crosslisted with BUS. Prerequisiste: BUS-2170 Introduction to Business Analytics. (odd years) ITM-4300 Advanced Topics in IT Management –Sp 3 hours This course heading covers a variety of Management Information Systems courses offered on a temporary basis. The dynamic nature of the field of MIS gives rise to the need to address recent changes in technologies, methods, and systems. (even years) ITM-4400 Systems Analysis and Design –Fa 3 hours This course provides an understanding of the duties of the systems analyst along with a presentation of philosophies, terminology, and techniques commonly used in the Systems Development Life Cycle. Topics such as business case development, project management, requirements modeling, data design, and user-interface design will be discussed. Students will apply their skills in the completion of an integrated, analysis and design project. Prerequisite: ITM-2100 Database Management. ITM-4450 IT Audit and Controls –Fa 3 hours This course introduces the fundamental concepts of the information technology audit and control function. The main focus of this course is on understanding information controls, the types of controls, and their impact on the organization, and how to manage and audit them. The concepts and techniques used in information technology audits will be presented. The challenge of dealing with best practices, standards, and regulatory requirements governing information and controls is addressed. Prerequisite: ITM-3400 Data Communications and Networking. (odd years) (Fee: $50). ITM-4500 System Development –Sp 3 hours Students hone their skills of project management, analysis, design, database development, web development, end-user training, and documentation, as they work in teams to develop the project that was designed in the Systems Analysis and Design course. Test-driven development is introduced and used throughout the development process. This course is the second course in a two-course sequence that forms the senior capstone experience for IT Management majors in the Application Developer track. Prerequisites: ITM 3500-Web Development; ITM- 4400 System Analysis and Design. (even years) ITM-4900 IT Strategy –Sp 3 hours This course explores the issues and approaches in managing the information technology function in organizations and how the IT function integrates, supports, and enables various types of organizational capabilities. The course focuses on developing an intellectual framework that will allow leaders of organizations to critically assess existing IT infrastructures and emerging technologies as well as how these enabling technologies might affect organizational strategy. Critical analysis of the alignment between IT and organizational strategies is discussed. Open only to seniors in information technology management. Capstone course. Prerequisites: Open only to seniors in ITM who have completed all 1000-3000 level business courses. Management (MGMT) MGMT-3500 3 hours Principles of Organization and Management –Fa, Sp An examination of the policies, principles, practices, and problems involved in the management of organizations as they are currently being applied in the United States and around the world to meet or exceed customer’s expectations. MGMT-3510 3 hours Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management –Fa This course will introduce students to business innovation and entrepreneurship in small and large organizations. The basics of envisioning, evaluating, starting, and running a brand new business and/or a new business unit within an existing organization will be explored. MGMT-3511 3 hours Entrepreneurship and Small Business Strategy –Fa This course will focus on looking for, identifying, and evaluating business opportunities, then matching business models to take advantage of them. Content will include creativity, opportunity recognition, evaluation, cognitive processes of entrepreneurs, environmental scanning, entrepreneurial business models (strategy), and will introduce initial financial elements of opportunity evaluation. Prequisities: MGMT-3510 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management MGMT-3512 3 hours Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance –Fa This course will focus on the finance, accounting, and tax issues involved in operating a small business, entrepreneurial high growth firm, or family business. Content will include small business and high growth financial issues, managing cash flow, attracting financial resources, accounting issues such as the role of a forward-thinking accountant, setting up accounting systems that serve the firm strategy, and tax planning. It will also include financial elements of opportunity evaluation and exploitation as well. Prerequisite: MGMT-3510 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. 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