Introduction
to
Information
Systems in
Business

ISQS 2340

Course Overview

Description

There are 23 students in the class from varied background.  22 are from college of business administration and 1 from college of arts and science. There are 12 sophomore, 5 Junior, and 6 Senior.

Each one of you is here because it is a required class.  Only two of you are here because it is a required class and because you wanted to learn something.   

Most of you are well versed with common MS Office applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Access sort of falls in the grey area and most of you have expressed unfamiliarity with the application. Apart from that most of you are comfortable using computer for writing papers, emailing, chatting, printing, and storing pictures.   Some of you use computers for online banking and listening to music also. 

You expressed that you wanted to get a deeper understanding of how computers are used in business.  You also suggested that you wanted to be better in the applications you already use and learn new uses of the computers. 

This is great... lets do this.

Prerequisites

Objectives

• Understand and appreciate information systems.
• Use technology reasonably comfortably in classroom and elsewhere.
• Have knowledge about computer hardware and software applications. 
• Know how systems are used, or can be used, in an organization, and in your personal life. 
• Make yourself aware of issues, safety concerns, and problems associated with computers and how to avoid or benefit from them.  
• Refuse to pay for this.