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. Business majors/minors and Software Engineering majors 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. 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. Computer Information Systems emphasis students, Computer Information Systems minors, and Software Engineering majors 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. Business majors/minors and Software Engineering majors 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.
Consent of faculty coordinator. Business majors/minors and Software Engineering majors 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.