IS 6100 and MGMT 6050 for Fall 2008

I will teach an online sec­tion of IS 6100 in Fall 2008 at Hawaii Pacific University.

The course is cross-listed as MGMT 6050.

Both courses are iden­ti­cal, with the same assign­ments, read­ings and activ­i­ties.

Syl­labus

I posted a syl­labus for the Fall 2008 sec­tion on 25 August 2008. This is the same doc­u­ment that is posted in WebCT.

Course sched­ule

There’s a basic course sched­ule included in the syl­labus link above. I’ll be post­ing more details on WebCT.

For the first 2 weeks of class, read chap­ter 1 of the textbook.

If you want to read ahead, chap­ter 2 is a good place to go.

There is a writ­ten assign­ment due almost every week. It’s usu­ally a draft ver­sion of a paper, a final ver­sion of a paper, or an exam.

The course includes a midterm exam and a final exam. Both exams use essay questions.

I assign one text­book chap­ter per week as a read­ing assign­ment. There are sev­eral addi­tional read­ings and arti­cles that accom­pany each chapter.

Web sites and services

This is a course about how orga­ni­za­tions use infor­ma­tion sys­tems to develop sus­tain­able com­pet­i­tive advan­tage in their mar­kets. Dur­ing the course, stu­dents use sev­eral dif­fer­ent web sites and ser­vices, to develop prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence in using these technologies.

billso.com is my blog and web site, and I have been post­ing read­ings and assign­ment announce­ments there. The blog is open to the pub­lic, and can be accessed on many PDAs and mobile phones.

WebCT is my grade and assign­ment man­age­ment system.

HPU’s web page with the Fall 2008 course cal­en­dar.

HPU’s web page for IS 6100 includes a course descrip­tion, pre­req­ui­sites, and a mas­ter sched­ule. Remem­ber, IS 6100 and MGMT 6050 are the same course.

Text­book

We are using a new text­book this term:

Baltzan, P. & Phillips, A. (2009). Essen­tials of Busi­ness Dri­ven Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems. New York, N.Y.: McGraw Hill-Irwin.

ISBN: 9780073376721

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