COMM 226 Schedule Winter 2015

 

 

This COMM 226 schedule for Winter 2015 is subject to change

The course textbook is a custom textbook that combines two textbooks: Experiencing MIS (EMIS) and Processes, Systems, and Information (PSI). In the custom textbook, the original chapter and page numbers from the source textbooks are retained; therefore in the custom textbook, there are two chapters 5 and two chapters 6 as well as duplicated page numbers. In the schedule below the following abbreviations are used for the textbook sections:

• EMIS: Experiencing MIS (first half of the course textbook)
• PSI: Process, Systems and Information (first half of the course textbook)

 

Dates	Topic	Readings (before Monday)	Activities, evaluations and slides
Jan 7	Course introduction
Jan 12 and 14	Introduction to IS & IT careers	EMIS ch. 1; Careers in BTM supplement	Intro to BTM BTM careers
Tue Jan 20			Last day to add courses
Jan 19 and 21	Information technology components	EMIS ch. 4	Hardware Software
Jan 26 and 28	Productivity, innovation and strategy	EMIS ch. 3	Productivity Innovation and strategy
Feb 2 and 4	Business processes and using IS to improve processes	PSI ch. 2 (read only Q1,Q3,Q4); read all of ch. 5	iClicker registration deadline: February 4 Assignment 1 Part A due February 6 IS for processes BPMN Figure 5-22 solution
Feb 9 and 11	Supporting processes with enterprise systems	PSI ch. 6, 7 and Appendix 7	ERP and SAP Procurement BPMN CBI bicycle return solution
Feb 16 and 18	Supporting processes with enterprise systems (continued)	Same as previous week	Assignment 1 Part B due February 20 Tips for Part B BPMN Supply Chain Management at JMSB
Feb 23 to 28			Midterm break
Mar 2 and 4	Database management	EMIS ch. 5, 5a, 5b; Database Systems supplement	Database and content management ERD design tips
Mar 9 and 11	Database management (continued)	Same as previous week	Assignment 2 Part A due March 13 School of Business case Entities and attributes ERD Microsoft Access database
Sun Mar 15			Registration deadline for Assignment 3: March 15 Last day to drop courses
Mar 16 and 18	Networks and the Internet	EMIS ch. 6	Final registration deadline for Assignment 3: March 22 Score of zero if not registered Networks and the Internet Assignment 3 presentation (slides in Moodle)
Mar 23 and 25	E-commerce, social networking and Web 2.0	EMIS ch. 9	Assignment 2 Part B due March 27 E-commerce, social networking and Web 2.0
Mar 30 and Apr 1	Acquiring IS through projects	EMIS ch. 10	Assignment 3 begins: March 30 Information systems projects Information privacy (the Snowden leaks)
Apr 8	Structure, ethics and IT governance	EMIS ch. 11	BTM governance
Apr 13	IS security management and privacy	EMIS ch. 12	Information security
Monday April 20 7 to 10 pm in H-937			Final exam