Consent of instructor required. Business majors only. Juniors or above. Individualized investigation under the direct supervision of a faculty member. (Minimum of 37.5 clock hours required per credit hour.) S/U Graded. Repeatable, maximum concurrent enrollment is two times.

Prerequisite: BACS 287. Required laboratory arranged. Majors and minors only. Juniors or above. An activity course for designing and implementing decision support, knowledge-based support and executive support systems. Covers mathematical and descriptive modeling, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation and relevant computer based tools.

Prerequisites: BACS 387. Majors and minors only. Juniors or above. A focus on computer-based techniques that enable businesses to manage across distributed value chains. Students are provided design and enterprise tools for developing distributed business systems.

Prerequisite: BACS 287. Required laboratory arranged. Majors and minors only. Juniors or above. An activity course covering design, implementation and operation of database systems/ applications. Topics include database processing, models, organizational planning, logical and physical design, implementation, data organization and data structures.

Prerequisite: BACS 485. Required laboratory arranged. Business majors only. Seniors or above. An activity course covering database systems/applications. Topics include advanced relational and network database processing, data dictionaries, database integrity issues, distributed databases, emerging technologies and database administration.

Prerequisite: BACS 287 and BACS 300. Majors and minors only. Required laboratory arranged. Open to computer information systems emphasis students only. Juniors or above. An activity course that covers systems analysis and design; emphasizes techniques, tools, skills, procedures and end products. Covers investigation, analysis/design.

Prerequisite: BACS 387 and BACS 487 or consent of instructor. Required laboratory arranged. Majors and minors only. Seniors and above. This is an activity course in which students perform an actual systems analysis and design. An information system will be developed by the student and time permitting, will be implemented.

Prerequisites: BACS 287 with a minimum grade of "C-". Business majors or minors only. Juniors or above. An activity-based course in which the student will develop e-business sites utilizing techniques, tools and technology.

Consent of faculty coordinator. Majors and minors only. Juniors or above. Obtain practical experience in one or more of the following CIS areas: programming, systems design, DBMS, quantitative research, data communications, DSS. S/U graded. Repeatable, maximum of three credits.

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Majors and minors only. Juniors or above. This seminar course explores advanced topics in computer information systems and/or quantitative methods. S/U or letter graded. Repeatable under different subtitles.