Governmental, societal, and international issues are briefly covered. The course uses a variety of cases, readings, reports, and lectures. The purpose of this course is to enable the technically oriented manager to select projects of value to the organization, develop a project plan including staffing, perform a risk analysis on the project, and successfully execute the project. Students, working alone or in teams, practice the project management process by planning a current project in the area of new product development, process reengineering, information systems or any other project with business implementation. MGMT-6820 Communications in Organizations 3 Covers the skills and techniques in effective communications in organizations, including defining the problem and purpose of the communications, the audience, and the intended result.
Students prepare and are critiqued on various forms of communications in organizations.
This course will examine various usability aspects of interface between humans and computers. Through lectures, discussions, hands-on activities, and projects, the course will explore cultural aspects of interface interaction patterns, and interface design and evaluation in the context and schedules of complex development environments. This 4-credit course examines the design of WWW sites and individual webpages, focusing on making the sites functional, effective interactive, and attractive. Class discussion focuses mainly on theory and practice from the perspectives of cognitive science and cognitive engineering. Network architectures and protocols such as the Internet, Ethernet, and Integrated Services Digital Networks are described in order to illustrate important networking concepts.