
Introduction to this Course
Explore hardware and software foundations, from the CPU fetch–decode–execute–store cycle to memory, storage, and networking, including virtualization, cloud computing, and operating systems like Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Explore database fundamentals, including components, models, data concepts, and SQL, and learn how a database management system (DBMS) improves data sharing, security, and consistency across an organization.
Explore data models as representations of real-world data, with entities, attributes, constraints, and relationships (1:1, 1:N, many-to-many), and ER, UML, and object-oriented modeling express semantics for relational databases using keys.
Explore how ethics, morals, and law shape information system management, covering duty-based vs outcome-based ethics, privacy and intellectual property, computer crimes, and how governance, policy, and regulation guide professional practice.
Explore how personal data is collected, stored, and protected under key privacy laws, including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the GDPR, and understand privacy expectations at work and online.
Explore digital rights management and the struggles of protecting intellectual property in a connected world, examining piracy, fair use, DRM technologies, Napster, and the DMCA.
Explore the core concepts of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and examine piracy, fair use, and digital rights management in the digital era.
This course provides an basic understanding of information systems and their use in achieving strategic advantage in business practice.
The course reviews the many types of information systems supporting business processes and a study of how technology, especially information technology, can be used as an essential component of linking technology policy with corporate strategy and identifying technology options that will ensure the most effective execution of organizational strategy.
ISM is the study of people, technology, organizations, and the relationships among them. ISM professionals help firms realize maximum benefit from investment in personnel, equipment, and business processes. ISM is a people-oriented field with an emphasis on service through technology. If you have an interest in technology and have the desire to use technology to improve people’s lives, a degree in ISM may be for you.
As an ISM you will need to have as a minimum the following skills to be successful:
Technological Proficiency and Network Management.
Interpersonal communication.
The ability to teach and Train
Confidently address employees and company executives on the use of technology
The ability to collaborate well in a shared work environment
The core knowledge areas addressed in this course include:
Information System Management Overview
Information Systems Hardware and Software
Databases
Electronic Commerce
Knowledge Management
System Development and Acquisition
Ethics, Moral and Law
Cybersecurity Fundamentals