Course Listing For MIST

MIST 2090. Introduction to Information Systems in Business. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO TO INFO SYS.
Not open to students with credit in CSCI 1100-1100L or MGMT 2090 or MGMT 2190H or MIST 2190H.
Computer concepts and information technology in business, including hardware and software concepts, fundamentals of information systems, telecommunications, and business-related software packages.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent Study (USGIS).
Offered every year.

MIST 2190H. Introduction to Information Systems in Business (Honors). 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO TO INFO SYS.
Not open to students with credit in CSCI 1100-1100L or MGMT 2090 or MGMT 2190H or MIST 2090.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Computer concepts and information technology in business, including hardware and software concepts, fundamentals of information systems, telecommunications, and business-related software packages.
Offered every year.

MIST 4600. Computer Programming in Business. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: COMP PROG IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4600.
Prerequisite: MIST 4610 and MIST 5750.
Corequisite: MIST 5740.
Introduction to computer programming using an object-oriented language; top-down design; structured programming; and debugging, testing and implementation
Offered every year.

MIST 4610. Data Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DATA MANAGEMENT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4610.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090 or MIST 2190H or CSCI 1100-1100L.
Corequisite: MIST 5750.
Data management, including database development, access, and administration. The focus is on issues and principles of managing organizational data. Students will get extensive experience in developing data models, creating relational databases, and formulating and executing complex queries.
Offered every year.

MIST 4620. Systems Analysis and Design. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SYS ANAL & DESIGN.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4620.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 5740.
Corequisite: MIST 4630.
Systems analysis and design with emphasis on the development of business application systems. Methods of system documentation are examined through the use of object-oriented and structured analysis tools and techniques for describing processes, use cases, data structures, system objects, file designs, input and output designs, and program specifications.
Offered every year.

MIST 4630. Network-Based Application Development. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit.
Oasis Title: NET APP DEV.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 7620.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 5740.
Corequisite: MIST 4620.
Network-based application development using a current development language and platform. Concepts include application development strategies and techniques, web technology platforms, a web development language and web services. Projects will involve development of a network-based application for an organization.
Offered every year.

MIST 4700. Management Information Systems Internship or Cooperative Education. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MIS INTERN/CO-OP.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 4700.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3000 and MIST 4600 and MIST 4610 and permission of department.
Students are permitted to enter businesses, governmental agencies, or other organizations for the purposes of obtaining practical and applied management information systems experience. A paper or suitable project associated with a description and analysis of this experience is required.
Offered every year.

MIST 5600. Special Topics in Management Information Systems. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SPECIAL TOPICS MIS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5600.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
The management information systems field evolves rapidly and covers many topic areas. Recent developments in areas such as office automation, data communications, and the implementation of management information systems.
Offered every year.

MIST 5620. Business Intelligence. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUS INTELLIGENCE.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5620.
Prerequisite: MIST 4610 and MIST 5750.
Business intelligence provides the highest level of information support to aid the manager in the decision-making process. This course provides the skills necessary to conceptualize, build, and implement systems utilizing business intelligence in organizations.
Offered every year.

MIST 5630. Building Knowledge-Based Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BLDG KBS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5630.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Provides the student with knowledge engineering skills required to elicit and represent human knowledge, and to build, implement, and maintain knowledge-based systems in organizations.
Offered every year.

MIST 5640. Network Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: NET MGMT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5640.
Basic computer networking technology concepts, standards, products, services, security, and emerging technologies. This course starts with basic networking, progressing to use of networking to deliver and manage network applications/services. While the focus of the course is around the Internet, the application of the concepts extends to other networks.
Offered every year.

MIST 5650. Integrated Enterprise-Wide Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS.
Prerequisite: MIST 4620.
An introduction to issues of computer information systems supporting business process integration in large organizations. Problems that traditionally fragmented information systems create, the possibility of purchasable enterprise-wide integrated systems (often called Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP systems), and the benefits and difficulties of implementing such systems.
Offered every year.

MIST 5670. Information Systems Leadership. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: IS LEADERSHIP.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5670.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 5740.
The issues and management techniques involved in administering the Information System/Resource activities in an organization. The focus is on computer-based resources and IS development activities. Management of IS professionals, development and management of project teams, user-professional relationships, emerging technologies, and planning processes. A sociotechnical perspective is emphasized.
Offered every year.

MIST 5690. Web Application Development with PHP. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: WEB APP DEV PHP.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
Development of database driven Web applications using the PHP scripting language and a database such as MySQL or InterBase. Emphasis is on concepts and techniques required to build multi-tier applications.
Offered every year.

MIST 5710. Advanced Business Application Software. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV BUS APP.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5700 or MGMT 5710 or MIST 5700.
A variety of types of business application software that enable the student to be personally productive in the workplace by being able to gather data, analyze it, and present it to others. Students are expected to use programming and database skills to carry out these activities.
Offered every year.

MIST 5720. Collaborative Work Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: COLL WRK SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 5720.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
People work in groups on common tasks. Collaborative computing, in particular, group support systems (GSS), provides support to groups of people. Organizational and technical concepts, development approaches, technologies, applications, and impacts are discussed. Hands-on experience is provided with several state-of-the-art GSS.
Offered every year.

MIST 5730. Advanced Data Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED DATA MGMT.
Prerequisite: MIST 4600 and MIST 4610.
SGML, XML and associated technologies, XML implementations, XML tools, XML data management, business uses and applications of XML, data synchronization technologies, and managing data synchronization system.
Offered every year.

MIST 5740. Project Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
Prerequisite: MIST 4610 and MIST 5750.
Corequisite: MIST 4600.
Fundamental and practical aspects of project management, especially with regard to leadership and managerial processes and tools essential to successful project completion.

MIST 5750. Business Process Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUS PROCESS MGMT.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 5750.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090 or MIST 2190H or CSCI 1100-1100L..
Corequisite: MIST 4610.
Modeling business work systems with focus on processes and the information technology (IT) to support business processes. The focus is on using IT to create, automate, and integrate business processes. Major topics covered: modeling work systems, major business processes and their relationships, modeling tools, business process/application integration approaches, creating and managing a business process using business process management software.

MIST 5760. Accounting Controls, Information Systems, Auditing, and Assurance. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CONTROLS & IS AUDIT.
Prerequisite: ACCT 2102.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MIST 4620.
Focuses on understanding how critical business processes (revenue cycle, systems development cycle, etc.) are tracked and guided by various "controls" to insure their integrity. Covers controls in a manual operation, a typical "legacy" information systems environment, and a modern integrated ERP environment. Hands-on experience with SAP (a major ERP system).
Offered every year.

MIST 5780. Globalization and Information Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: GLOBALIZATION & IS.
Prerequisite: MIST 2090 or MIST 2190H or CSCI 1100-1100L.
Introduction to globalization and its linkage with information technology. Topics covered include globalization strategies; cultural and structural issues impacting the development, adoption, and use of IT; offshore sourcing; the digital divide; and e-readiness.
Offered every year.

MIST 5990. Directed Study. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIRECTED STUDY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Directed study in management information systems topics, giving particular attention to specialized problems in an area related to a student's academic interests.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered every year.

MIST 6080. Management Information Systems Overview. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT INFO SYSTEMS OV.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 6080.
The use of information systems technology by managers and professionals to improve organizational performance, group work, and personal productivity. Decision support software and database query systems are used to support a case-based approach to learning. For students in the one-year MBA program.
Non-traditional format: For four weeks (offered only in summer).
Offered summer semester every year.

MIST 6090. Management Information Systems. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: MGT INFO SYSTEMS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 6090.
Use of information systems technology by managers and professionals to improve organizational performance, group work, and personal productivity. Decision support software and database query systems are used to support a case-based approach to learning. For students in the two-year MBA program.
Offered fall semester every year.

MIST 7200. Team Development, Facilitation, and Technology. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: TEAM DEVE & TECH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
With the increased emphasis on collaboration and teams, the ability to skillfully facilitate group interactions is one of the most important competencies for leading and managing. At the end of this course the student will have improved facilitative leadership skills, know how to effectively develop and use teams, and know how to successfully apply information technology to support teams. This course is also used to develop the permanent MBA learning teams.
Non-traditional format: For the distance learning MBA program, 50 percent of the class time will be face-to-face meeting time on campus. The other 50 percent will be completed electronically. For regular MBA programs, majority of course is taught before semester begins with projects due during the semester.
Offered fall and summer semesters every year.

MIST 7200E. Team Development, Facilitation, and Technology. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: TEAM DEVE & TECH.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 7200.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
With the increased emphasis on collaboration and teams, the ability to skillfully facilitate group interactions is one of the most important competencies for leading and managing. At the end of this course the student will have improved facilitative leadership skills, know how to effectively develop and use teams, and know how to successfully apply information technology to support teams. This course is also used to develop the permanent MBA learning teams.
Non-traditional format: For the distance learning MBA program, 50 percent of the class time will be face-to-face meeting time on campus. The other 50 percent will be completed electronically. For regular MBA programs, majority of course is taught before semester begins with projects due during the semester.
Offered fall and summer semesters every year.

MIST 7300. Master's Thesis. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MASTER'S THESIS.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Thesis writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and thesis preparation.
Offered every year.

MIST 7500. Internet Technology. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY.
Prerequisite: CSCI 1301-1301L.
Introduction to the technologies, protocols, and standards of the Internet. Networking basics, tcp/ip, network topologies, the domain name system, search engines, network security principles, firewalls, encryption, VPNs, multitier architecture, HTTP, FTP and other network protocols, wireless networks and mobile computing, IP telephony, network administration, and basic Linux/UNIX administration.

MIST 7510. Database Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DATABASE MANAGEMENT.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 7600.
This course provides a basic understanding of information management in organizations and specifically the design and use of database systems. Topics include data modeling, relational databases, structured query language, XML and Web access to databases. The course is divided into three sections: (1) information management concepts and procedures for Web-based systems; (2) data modeling and database design; (3) database implementation and web development.
Offered fall semester every year.

MIST 7520. Project Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PROJECT MANAGEMENT.
Fundamentals and practical aspects of project management, especially with regard to managing software development in an e-commerce environment.

MIST 7530. Object Oriented Systems Analysis. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: OO SYSTEMS ANALYSIS.
Prerequisite: MIST 7500 and MIST 7510.
Principles and application of object oriented design and systems analysis for enterprise applications. Emphasis on the use of modeling tools such as UML to design and build solutions to information technology problems involving a multitier architecture and distributed processing.

MIST 7540. Web Design and Usability. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: WEB DESIGN USABILTY.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 7640.
Basic principles of design, information architecture, page layout, color principles, and the use of color. Technology and design principles of Web page construction. HTML, XHTML cascading style sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. Detailed examination of the document object model. Client-side scripting with javascript.

MIST 7550. Electronic Commerce. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: E-COMMERCE.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 7650.
This course introduces the students to the general notion of electronic commerce and teaches them the management and marketing concepts and procedures that apply to electronic commerce. Specific topics will include principles of electronic commerce, attracting visitors, promotion, distribution, service, pricing, branding, advertising, consumer behavior, measuring effectiveness, societal effects, disintermediation, reintermediation, and strategy implementation. Case studies and projects are used extensively.
Offered spring semester every year.

MIST 7570. Internet Programming I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTERNET PROG I.
Prerequisite: MIST 7500 and MIST 7510.
Introduction to Java Web applications using servlets and JavaServer pages (JSP). Basic servlet programming, accessing form data, database access using JDBC, Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL), security, and authentication. Deployment and administration of an application server such as Apache Tomcat. Use of an IDE to develop and deploy applications.

MIST 7571. Internet Programming II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTERNET PROG II.
Prerequisite: MIST 7570.
Multitier enterprise applications using J2EE technology with enterprise javabeans (EJBs), Java messaging service (JMS), and other J2EE technologies. Applications that provide or use web services. Building enterprise applications using J2EE and other technologies.

MIST 7590. Master of Internet Technology Project I. 4 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MIT PROJECT I.
Prerequisite: MIST 7520 and MIST 7530 and MIST 7540 and MIST 7571.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MIST 7550.
Consultation with a client to determine the software need. Planning and design for an enterprise application to satisfy client needs. Initial stages of software development and testing. Project planning and management. Interim reporting. Instruction on cutting edge topics in Web design and Web software development.
Non-traditional format: The project concludes with a working e-commerce Web application developed by the team and a presentation of this application to the sponsor, faculty, other students, and the public.

MIST 7591. Master of Internet Technology Project II. 4 hours.
Oasis Title: MIT PROJECT II.
Prerequisite: MIST 7590.
A continuation of Master of Internet Technology Project I. Software development and implementation for the MIT project. Continuing consultation with the client. Testing and deployment of software. Presentation to client, faculty, students and public.

MIST 7600. Data Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DATA MANAGEMENT.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7600.
Issues and principles of managing organizational data. Concepts and skills for developing, accessing, and administering each technology. Extensive experience in developing data models, relational databases, and formulating and executing complex queries.
Offered every year.

MIST 7601. Data Management. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: DATA MANAGEMENT.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 7600.
Issues and principles of managing organizational data. Concepts and skills for developing, accessing, and administering databases. Experience in developing data models, relational databases, and formulating and executing queries.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

MIST 7620. Rapid Application Development. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: RAPID APPS DEV.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7620.
Prerequisite: MIST 7600 or permission of department.
Use of rapid application development (RAD) techniques such as prototyping and end-user development for quickly creating information system applications.
Offered every year.

MIST 7630. The Systems Approach. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SYSTEMS APPROACH.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7630.
The systems approach is a viewpoint that conceptualizes institutions as organized complexities, i.e., as organic (open) systems. Exemplified by the development of a general systems theory and cybernetics. The theories and findings of such interdisciplinary research to the study of human organizations.
Offered every year.

MIST 7640. Networking Technology. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: NETWORK TECHNOLOGY.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7640.
The application of data communications and networking technology to support the organizational information systems mission. Communication architectures and protocols, along with current commercial offerings, equipment, software, network design principles, and network management techniques.
Offered every year.

MIST 7650. Electronic Commerce. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7650.
Electronic commerce and markets, including the use of the Internet and World Wide Web for commercial purposes. Development and management of websites and applications is covered in-depth.
Offered every year.

MIST 7670. Information Systems Leadership. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INFO SYS LEADERSHIP.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7670.
Administering the Information System/Resource activities in an organization. Computer-based resources and Information System (IS) development and consulting activities. Issues include management of IS professionals, user-professional relationships, management of IS project teams, tracking emerging technologies, and planning processes. A sociotechnical perspective is emphasized to insure a balanced look at technical and people issues.
Offered every year.

MIST 7680. Globalization and Information Systems. 1-1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: GLOBALIZATION & IS.
Prerequisite: MIST 6080 or MIST 6090.
The interrelationship between globalization and information systems. Technological and social factors supporting and inhibiting globalization. National culture. Managing a global Information System (IS) project, the global IS manager, the global IS professional, working in culturally diverse IS teams, implementing IS projects in diverse cultures. Globalization and electronic commerce.
Offered spring semester every year.

MIST 7680E. Globalization and Information Systems. 1-1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: GLOBALIZATION & IS.
Not open to students with credit in MIST 7680.
Prerequisite: MIST 6080 or MIST 6090.
The interrelationship between globalization and information systems. Technological and social factors supporting and inhibiting globalization. National culture. Managing a global IS project, the global IS manager, the global IS professional, working in culturally diverse IS teams, implementing IS projects in diverse cultures. Globalization and electronic commerce.
Offered spring semester every year.

MIST 7690. Business Process Management. 1-3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUS PROCESS MGMT.
Prerequisite: MIST 6090.
Modeling business work systems with focus on processes and the information technology (IT) to support business processes. The focus is on using IT to create, automate, and integrate business processes. Major topics covered include modeling work systems, major business processes and their relationships, modeling tools, business process/application integration approaches, and creating and managing a business process using business process management software.

MIST 7700. Advanced Data Management. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED DATA MGMT.
Prerequisite: MIST 7510 or MIST 7600.
SGML, XML and associated technologies, XML implementations, XML tools, XML data management, business uses and applications of XML, data synchronization technologies, and managing data synchronization systems.
Offered every year.

MIST 7710. Revenue Management Systems. 1.5-3 hours.
Oasis Title: REVENUE MGMT SYS.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MIST 6090.
Principles and application of revenue management for enterprise applications. Revenue management methods to increase revenue without increasing products or promotions, predict consumer behavior, tap into new markets, and deliver products and services to customers effectively and efficiently will be discussed and demonstrated.
Offered every year.

MIST 7730. Business Intelligence Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BUS INTEL SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7730.
Building a Business Intelligence (BI) system. Topics include the BI concept, applications, organizational issues, hardware and software technology, developmental methodology, data-model-user relationships, implementation strategies, and evaluation procedures.
Offered every year.

MIST 7740. Knowledge-Based Systems in Business. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: KBS IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7740.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
Knowledge-based systems are a subset of artificial intelligence that deal with computer applications that replicate the decision- making and problem-solving skills of experts. Students learn how to identify, build, implement and manage knowledge-based systems.
Offered every year.

MIST 7760. Group Support Systems. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: GROUP SUPPORT SYS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7760.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
Collaborative computing, in particular group support systems (GSS), supports a group of people who work together on a common task. Concepts, development approaches, technologies, applications, and impacts.
Offered every year.

MIST 7770. Data Warehouses and Mining. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: DATA W&M.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7770.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Data warehouses or large databases are used to support decision-making applications. Coverage includes concepts, development process, organizational issues, hardware, and software. The focus is on-line analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining to discover relationships in large databases.
Offered every year.

MIST 7780. Advanced Decision Support in Business. 1.5-3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED DS IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7780.
Prerequisite: MIST 7730 or permission of department.
Advanced topics in decision support and artificial intelligence. These include fourth generation languages, data warehousing, model building, model generation, and model management, data access, problem solving on novel computer architectures, fuzzy logic and sets, belief functions, neural computing and artificial intelligence, and intelligent agents.
Offered every year.

MIST 7790. Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Business. 3-6 hours.
Oasis Title: ADVANCED AI IN BUS.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7790.
Prerequisite: MIST 7740 or permission of department.
Advanced topics in artificial intelligence. These include search reduction methods, such as genetic and Tabu Search algorithms, fifth generation languages, fuzzy logic and sets, belief functions, neural networks, and virtual reality.
Offered every year.

MIST 7810. Advanced Business Applications. 1.5 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV BUSINESS APPS.
The effective use of spreadsheet software. Electronic spreadsheet software is a powerful application program. It includes management tools for many applications, especially in accounting, finance, forecasting, budgeting, cash flow projections, and others. Hands-on learning is emphasized.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

MIST 7820. Accounting Controls, Information Systems, Auditing, and Assurance. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CONTROLS & IS AUDIT.
Prerequisite: MAcc students only.
Focuses on how critical business processes (revenue cycle, systems development cycle, etc.) are tracked and guided by various "controls" to insure their integrity. Covers controls in a manual operation, a typical "legacy" information systems environment, and a modern integrated ERP environment. Hands-on experience with SAP (a major ERP system).
Offered every year.

MIST 8990. Directed Study. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 40 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIRECTED STUDY.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Directed study in management or management information systems topics, giving particular attention to specialized problems in an area related to a student's academic interests.
Non-traditional format: Directed study.
Offered every year.

MIST 9000. Doctoral Research. 1-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCTORAL RESEARCH.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Research while enrolled for a doctoral degree under the direction of faculty members.
Non-traditional format: Independent research under the direction of a faculty member.
Offered every year.

MIST 9300. Doctoral Dissertation. 1-12 hours. Repeatable for maximum 30 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DOCT DISSERTATION.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Dissertation writing under the direction of the major professor.
Non-traditional format: Independent research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
Offered every year.

MIST 9700. Management Information Systems Research Seminar I. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MIS RESEARCH I.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 9700.
The management information systems (MIS) research literature. It explores applicable research theories and frameworks, research concepts, and exemplary MIS research.
Offered every year.

MIST 9710. Organizational Level Theories in Information Systems. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: ORG LEVEL THEORIES.
Not open to students with credit in MGMT 9710.
Prerequisite: MIST 9700.
An overview of organizational theories with specific emphasis on information systems.
Offered every year.

MIST 9720. MIS Workshop and Seminar. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MISWORKSHOP.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
A weekly seminar/workshop is given for researchers and practitioners to present completed or ongoing research or application work. Pedagogy topics are also occasionally covered. Students improve their skills in critical analysis through verbal and written contributions.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

MIST 9730. Regression for Organizational and Behavioral Research. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: REGRESSION ORG BEH.
Simple linear and multiple regression analysis for organizational and behavioral research. Assumption testing, modeling, correcting for data problems, residual analysis, regression approaches, and other regression-related materials. Involves a number of hands-on analytical problems and projects.
Offered every year.

MIST 9740. PHD Qualitative Research Seminar. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PHD QUAL RESEARCH.
Prerequisite or corequisite: MIST 9700.
Development of knowledge and skills in the application and use of qualitative research techniques. A survey of the methodological literature on qualitative research methods paired with appropriate article-length exemplars in the information systems domain.
Offered every even-numbered year.

MIST 9750. Individual Level Theories in Information Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: IND LEVEL THEORIES.
An overview of research on individual behavior with specific emphasis on information systems and marketing.
Offered every even-numbered year.

MIST 9760. Management Information Systems Topics Seminar. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: MIS TOPICS.
The issues related to the adoption and use of information systems in organizations, the leveraging of value from information systems, and the management of information systems in organizations. Students will read and discuss various theories, conceptual issues, and empirical papers pertaining to research on these topics of inquiry.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.