Management Information Systems
Fall 2004
(at School of Railway Engineering)

Instructor: Dr. Masoud Yaghini

Course Description:
This course provides an overview of contemporary Management Information Systems (MIS). It emphasizes the broader environments of Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) and their impact on the organization and the non-MIS manager.  The course describes a diversity of technical, managerial and professional knowledge, which are needed for the non-MIS manager to optimize success in the typical technology rich organization of today.

Textbook:
The students must acquire a copy of:
Essentials of Management Information Systems Fifth Edition, by Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane P. Laudon, Prentice-Hall Inc., 2003.

Textbook Materials:

Room 214, School of Railway Engineering
Saturday and Monday, 83:00 – 10:00 AM

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Association for Information Systems (AIS)
Communications of the AIS
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
IEEE
IS World
Journal of the AIS
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
Journal of MIS
Harvard Business Review
Management Science
MIS Quarterly