Information Systems Learning Outcomes

Learning Goals for the Major Program in Information Systems

Programming: Students will develop relevant programming abilities
Business Acumen: Student will develop relevant business skills.
Management: Students will understand and apply business management techniques to technological projects.
Technological Acumen: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of technical acumen in a corporate context.

	Emerging	Developing	Proficient	Advanced
Programming	Given simple algorithms, students can code them in a high-level programming language.	Students themselves can formulate simple algorithms to solve problems, and can code them in a high-level language appropriate for corporate use.	Students can create algorithms of moderate complexity, given non-technical requirements.	Students can design more complex algorithms involving more complex data structures, and can implement their solutions in accordance with a level of quality assurance.
Business Acumen	Students will know the basic skills required to function in a corporate environment, including accounting and basic management.	Awareness of the special requirements that technical projects impose upon basic business skills.	Students will acquire more advanced business skills, including statistics, data analysis, and economics.	Students will master advanced business skills, and understand how technical tools impact their capabilities.
Management	Students will be able to delineate the specific issues that separate technical and non-technical projects.	Will identify potential solutions for problems that span technical and non-technical aspects of a system.	Can evaluate and recommend a course of action based on the identification of possible issues in a technical context.	Can plan a technical project, including foreseeing possible alternative courses of action given unforeseen difficulties.
Tech. Acumen	Given a simple scenario, identify which aspects are suitable for a technical approach.	Identify potential technical and non-technical approaches to a scenario.	Evaluate both technical and non-technical approaches using benefit-cost and risk management tools.	As in proficient, but for increasingly complex scenarios.

The coursework that a student undertakes with as a Major in Information Systems will support the learning goals in the following way:

Course	Programming	Business Acumen	Management	Tech. Acumen
Intro Stat				LOTS
ACCT 225		LOTS		LOTS
ACCT 226		LOTS	some	some
BUSN 211		some		some
BUSN 321		some	LOTS	some
BUSN 365		some	LOTS
COMP 150	LOTS
COMP 250	LOTS
COMP 295	LOTS
COMP 353		some	some	some
CAPSTONE
ACCT 240		some
Six Sigma		some	some
Busn. Anal.		some		some
Project Mgmt.			some
COMP 255	LOTS
COMP 275	LOTS
COMP 290	LOTS
COMP 351	LOTS
DATA 229	some