Emphasis is on development and implementation of information systems in varied settings.
Course content will be supplemented by laboratory projects that allow students to explore IS in differing contexts. May not be taken for credit in IFSM Graduate Degree Programs. This course introduces the fundamental principles which govern information system architecture, data and storage structures, operating systems, data definition and manipulation languages, query structures, and systems analysis as applied to information structures. The focus of the course is on descriptive statistics as they are used in information systems and operations analysis applications in business, industry, public service agencies, and government. This course is interested in the methods of computer simulation and computer modeling which are suitable for analyzing information systems problems under a broad variety of environmental conditions, and for constructing solutions which optimize decisions concerned with variables such as efficacy of information transfer, productivity, and resource utilization.