Management Information Systems (MIS) is an applied discipline that studies the processes of the creation, operation, and business contexts and consequences of management systems that manipulate information. The creation and operation of such systems requires the sub-processes of systems analysis, design, development and management which are bracketed at the beginning by business context and at completion by business consequences.
Education in information systems has traditionally dealt with building competencies in systems analysis, design and management, which has in the past separated it from Computer Science, and Software Engineering in particular, which concentrate on computer program development.
However more recently it is the foregrounding of the brackets around the technical competencies, along with their expansion into new technologies, that is, business context and consequences of information systems that is a significant differentiator of the Management Information Systems discipline from allied disciplines of Software Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Engineering.
Curriculum
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Freshman Year (I)
|
Course No |
Description |
Lect. |
Lab. |
Tut. |
Credits |
First Semester (Fall) |
FAS101 |
Communication Skills (English) |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
ECN101 |
Intro to Microeconomics |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FAS102 or FAS109 |
Communication Skills (Arabic) or Human Rights in Law and Shari’a |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FBA103 |
Linear Algebra for Business |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FES150 |
Natural Sciences |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
15 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
Second Semester (Spring) |
MGT101 |
Intro to Business Management |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MGT102 |
Management Communications |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
FBA104 |
Calculus for Business |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS100 |
Info Technology Applications in Business |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FAS130 |
Intro to Sociology |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
14 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
Sophomore Year (II) |
First Semester (Fall) |
ACT201 |
Financial Accounting |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS206 |
Intro to Programming |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
QNT201 |
Statistics I |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS205 |
Database Management |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
ECN102 |
Intro to Macroeconomics |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
15 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
|
Second Semester (Spring)
|
ACT202 |
Business Analysis & Management Accounting |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
QNT301 |
Statistics II |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS208 |
Web Development |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS207 |
Info Systems Analysis & Design |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FAS230 |
Intro to Psychology |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
15 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
Junior Year (III) |
First Semester (Fall) |
FIN201 |
Finance |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MKT201 |
Marketing |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FAS300 or FAS310 or FAS320 |
Humanities elective: Industrial Psychology OR Human Behavior in Cross Cultural Context OR Sociology of Work |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FAS100 |
Creative Thinking |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS305 |
Advanced Database |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
15 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
Second Semester (Spring) |
MGT301 |
Business Law |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS302 |
Info Systems Project Management |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS304 |
Data Communications & Networking |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MGT302 |
Business Ethics |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS308 |
Advanced Web Development |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
15 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
Summer Junior Year |
MIS499 |
Internship (Summer) |
0 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
|
Total |
0 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
Senior Year (IV) |
First Semester (Fall) |
QNT401 |
Operations Management |
2 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
MGT401 |
Strategic Management |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FAS300 or FAS310 or FAS320 |
Humanities elective: Industrial Psychology OR Human Behavior in Cross Cultural Context OR Sociology of Work |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MGT303 |
International Business |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS408 |
E-Commerce |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
14 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
Second Semester (Spring) |
MIS407 |
Info Systems Development Projects |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
FAS103 |
Islamic Culture |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
QNT402 |
Research Methodology |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
MIS450 or 451 or 457 or 455 or 456 |
MIS Elective: Intelligent Info Systems OR Strategic IT Management OR Security & Privacy of Info and Info Systems OR Advanced Object-Oriented Programming |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Free Elective |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
Total |
15 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
|
Total Credit Hours |
|
|
|
126 |
* Students who joined the program before the year 2007 should consult the 2007 University Catalog for the old program curriculum. If you have any doubts, please contact the MIS Department
Course Descriptions (PDF) files
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