Business Driven Information Systems

This course helps students gain the foundation they need to better understand the business and Information Systems disciplines and the role information systems play in an organization. The key principles of information systems are brought together and presented in a way that is both understandable and relevant. Students gain a solid foundation for further study in advanced information systems courses. Students discuss such topics as business structure and operations, characteristics of information systems, characteristics of successful businesses and great business leaders of the present and past, history of computing, women in technology, common types of information systems, career choices and skills in the field of information technology, essential non-technological skills imperative to jobs in information technology, emerging technologies, as well as the ethical, social, moral, and political questions associated with the adoption of information technology today.