321 Business Systems Analysis and Design Use management information systems techniques to solve managerial and organizational problems of limited complexity. Includes solving formal analytic problems and implementing solutions using MIS development techniques. Includes supervised structured laboratory exercises. An introduction to programming in an event driven language, using Visual Basic. 323 Telecommunications Various aspects relating to data communications systems.
Students learn hands-on the fundamentals of networking in a business environment.
Use of Novell Netware in laboratory exercises. 410 Expert Systems in Business Use of artificial intelligence concepts in the development of systems for expert decision making with application to business problems. Review and use of selected commercial expert systems software packages. Alternative data models and normalization of data. Database design methodologies.