VICTOR BALOGUN, PH.D

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Class Notes | Syllabus

Course Objectives

The course provides students with a basic conceptual understanding of Information Systems and computers as a tool, including the basics of database and telecommunication technology. The course also addresses the question: “how can computers help a business (or other organization)?”

1. Highlights of business application systems that support the functions of accounting, finance, marketing, human resource management and manufacturing will be provided.

2. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, Customer Relationship Management Systems, Executive Information Systems, Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems are also covered.

3. Further, topics of eBusiness and eCommerce are covered.

4. The final section of the course introduces the student to the process of developing a customized computer-based information system, presenting the system development life cycle and outlining the work of a systems analyst.

In this course students will develop a thorough overview of the different ways computers can be used in organizational management and operations.

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to my office:

 

Department of Applied Computer Science

University of Winnipeg, 

Winnipeg, Manitoba

 

Office Hours: Thursday, 1:00pm – 2:00 pm

Office: 3D18 

Phone: 204-988-7664

Email: vi.balogun@uwinnipeg.ca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to ACS-1803:

Lecture Updates:

 

Class meeting time and Venue:                   

T/Th 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM 1L12 

Important Dates

Lecture Begins:                  September 3, 2024

First Assignment Due:           October 4, 2024

Reading Week (no classes):   October 14—18

Mid-Term Exam:                      Oct 22, 2024

Last ClassNovember 29, 2024

 

Final Exam:            TBD

 

http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/exam-schedules/index.html

Final withdrawal date w/o academic penalty:

 November 13, 2024

 

University closures:      

Truth & Reconciliation Day Sept. 30, 2024

Thanksgiving:                 October 14, 2024

Remembrance Day:       November 11, 2024

 

Evaluation Criteria

· Assignments (18%)

· Assignment 1 (6%)

· Assignment 2 (6%)

· Assignment 3 (6%)

· Class Participation/Group Discussion (12%)

· Mid-Term Exam (25%)

· Final Exam (45%)

 

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Print:       ISBN-13: 978-1-337-09753-6 , 

 

Author(s): Ralph M. Stair,

                 George W. Reynolds,

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Copyright year: © 2017 

Pages: 560 

Class Notes | Syllabus

Week

Date

Topics

Slides/Readings/Additional References

Assignments/ Tests/ Resources

1

Sept. 03/05

Course outline

 Introduction to Information Systems

 

 

Lecture slides (1-1)

 

Lecture notes (1-1)

 

 Assignment 1 Due Oct. 8, 2024

 

 

Ch 1 pp. 4 – 29

 

 

2

Sept.10/12

Data Management

Lecture slides (2-1)

Lecture slides (2-2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

Sept.17/19

Management Information Systems Frameworks

Lecture Slide 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

Sept.24/26

Management Information Systems Frameworks

 

Functional Area Systems – Accounting Transaction Systems

 

Functional Area Systems – Accounting Information Systems

Lecture Slide 4

 

Assignment 2 Due October

Lecture Slide 4-1

 

Lecture Slide 4-2

 

5

Oct. 1/3

Functional Area Systems – Financial Information Systems

 

Functional Area Systems – Human Resource Systems

 

Functional Area Systems – Marketing Information Systems

 

Functional Area Systems – Production / Operation Systems

Lecture Slide 5-1

 

Lecture Slide 5-2

 

 

 

Lecture Slide 5-3

 

 

 

Lecture Slide 5-4

 

6

Oct. 8/10

 

6

Oct. 14—18

Reading Week (No Classes)  

7

Oct.

22/24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mid-Term Exam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enterprise Information Systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture Slide 6

 

8

Oct.

29/31

Systems that Span Organizational Boundaries            

Lecture Slide 7

 

 

Lecture Slide 8-1

 

Lecture Slide 8-2

 

9

Nov. 5/ 7

Introducing the Computer

 

 

 

Networked Computing & The Internet

Lecture Slide 9-1

 

 

Lecture Slide 9-2

 

 

 

10

Nov. 12/14

E-Business, E-Commerce

Lecture Slide 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

Nov. 19/21

Auditing & Controls of Information Systems

Lecture Slide 11

 

Assignment 3 Due November

 

 

 

 

12

Nov. 26/28

The Development of Information Systems                  Lecture Slide 12

 

 

Social Impact of Information Systems                         Lecture Slide 13

 

 

 

 

Final Exam

Date: TBD

Room: