About the Program
The content of this program is designed to prepare students to become powerful specialists with scientific competence in the fields of management systems, business and information technology in a global competitive environment and to contribute with their research. Graduates of Management Information Systems Program have a balanced relation between people and technology, and the ability to work well with managers at all levels. The Management Information Systems Program includes courses such as: management and organization, information systems and technologies, system analysis and design, database systems management and business intelligence, to enable students acquire the necessary skills. In addition to the courses, practical projects, 30-day internships, conferences and seminars are also offered for the benefit of the students.
Educational Opportunities
Students are able to access the required course materials from the University's library and online course management portal. Furthermore, as part of the coursework, students benefit from the laboratories and/or field work (for practical courses) to implement the theoretical input into practice. In addition to the laboratory exercises; practical implementations, combined with the case studies from real life situations, course internships and independent studies offered within courses also help students to apply theory into practice. Moreover, seminars given by experts from the sector/market; invited guest speakers for relevant courses, summer internship where students work in a company for 30 days and collaborations with other organizations offer authentic learning and potential employment opportunities for students.
Career Areas
This program aims to educate qualified specialists to ensure that businesses keep up-to-date with the rapidly changing world and the field of information technology. In this context, graduates have the opportunity to work in various fields, especially in the private sector and in various departments of government organizations, including: systems development, data processing centers, project development, and software and programming and consulting units. In addition, graduates may also choose to establish and run their own business. Examples of potential business positions include; project manager, program developer, web developer, website manager, systems analyst, and database administrator and information technology consultant.
Contact
School of Applied Sciences
Science and Technology Center, ST256
Tel: +90 392 671 1111 Extension: 2751
School E-mail: secretary-sas@ciu.edu.tr
Head of Department: Asst. Prof. Dr. Kian JAZAYERI
Head of Department E-mail: kjazayeri@ciu.edu.tr
Compulsory Courses
First Semester
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS-I
Course code
BUSN101Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course is designed to teach introductory business students fundamental knowledge about a business. For this purpose, understanding the contemporary business environment is a starting point. After briefly covering the business of managing, all functional areas of a business are discussed. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of business concepts as a foundation for studying other business subjects. The students will be able to identify potential marketing opportunities, relate how business institutions are operated nowadays, and describe business ownership forms. The course is also designed to expose students to the multitude of career fields in the area of business and it will also help them to obtain information about starting their own businesses, identifying basic long and short term planning techniques.
FUNDAMENTALS OF ECONOMICS
Course code
ECON110Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
7
Bu ders, hem mikroekonomi hem de makroekonominin temelini oluşturan temel kavramları kapsayan temel bir ekonomi anlayışı sağlar. Öğrenciler arz ve talep, piyasa yapıları, ekonomide hükümetin rolü, enflasyon, işsizlik ve uluslararası ticaret gibi temel konuları keşfedeceklerdir. Ders, ekonomik muhakeme ve karar almanın önemini vurgulayarak öğrencilere hem kişisel hem de profesyonel bağlamlarda ekonomik sorunları analiz etmeleri için araçlar sağlar. Dersin tamamlayan öğrenciler temel ekonomi prensipleri hakkında sağlam bir anlayışa sahip olacaklardır.
READING AND WRITING SKILLS-I
Course code
ENGL141Credit
3Theoretical
2Practical
2Ects
4
This course aims to develop students' listening, speaking, reading - writing and study skills. The course provides students with the opportunity to develop their communication skills through controlled activities and to equip students with the basic study skills necessary to follow the curriculum of English. This course also provides students with the opportunity to process the newly acquired knowledge and to develop their ability to ask questions about how to apply the new knowledge to new situations and ask them to think critically. In addition, this course will enable students to learn about the different strategies required to review the various reading pieces, such as finding the main idea and distinguishing the details from the main idea.
FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTING
Course code
ITEC103Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course serves as an introduction to the basic component of information systems, hardware, software, data, people and networks. Topics covered includes computer networks and communications, systems and application software, computer hardware and its operation, the internet and the world wide web, algorithms, pseudocodes and flowchart. After the completion of the course, students will be able to differentiate between various operating systems and application programs. They will be able to identify computer tools that can be used to assist with various common computer applications. They will also gain the fundamental understanding of the history and operation of computers, programming, and web design.
MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS-I
Course code
MATH111Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course is designed for students who study in the departments of Business and Economics in order to equip students with the knowledge and aspects of mathematics such as simple and compound interest, payroll, annuities, asset valuation, retail evaluation, linear programming. The intention behind this course is to teach students how to integrate key components of economic analysis into managerial decisions by using mathematical tools. Topics include: working with algebraic statements, power and indices, fractions, factorization, functions of one variable, linear and quadratic functions, solving linear and quadratic equations, sketching graphs of functions of one variable, linear and power functions, using linear models to model cost, revenue, profit, demand, supply, break-even points, and equilibrium points.
TURKISH LANGUAGE
Course code
TREG100Credit
0Theoretical
2Practical
0Ects
2
This course examines basic areas of language and expression. In the first half of the course, the theoretical approach to language is formed and the spelling rules of the Turkish language are studied. In the latter part of the course, language and narrative errors are studied together with editing. In the second half of the course, formal writing, curriculum vitae, petition, evaluation of the columns in terms of language and style, types of written expression and practice; Turkish production and application of shooting attachments; Turkish grammar structure; It is aimed to teaching subjects like phonetics of Turkish to students.
TURKISH
Course code
TURK100Credit
0Theoretical
2Practical
0Ects
2
This course provides an orientation to modern Turkish language for foreign students who wish to communicate in this language for their needs. It mainly focuses on the differences between Turkish and English Alphabets, especially the sounds and the letters which are not included in the English alphabet (i.e. Turkish letters ç-ğ-i-ö-ş-ü). In addition, basic grammar and sentence structure forms in Turkish are practised. The required grammar and vocabulary will also be developed through their adaptation to daily situations in contexts such as introducing yourselves, greeting, talking about the things they possess by using possessive adjectives, forming positive, negative and question sentences by using present simple, telling the time, talking about their own timetables, using demonstrative pronouns when describing the place of objects and becoming familiar with vocabulary related to family members.
Second Semester
READING AND WRITING SKILLS-II
Course code
ENGL142Credit
3Theoretical
2Practical
2Ects
4
This course is the continuation of ENG 101. The course aims to improve students' listening, speaking, reading, writing and working skills. In the course, students are guided in writing compare and contrast essays using Venn diagram. In addition, the aim of the course is to learn the necessary conjunctions for composition writing. In addition, the students will be able to write a four-part critical composition by learning the difference between ideas and factual real sentences and how to write the opposing opinion and sentences used to refute it. Thus, the students will be able to distinguish between the compare and contrast essay and discursive essay. Students will also be able to make presentations by using presentation techniques. In addition, this course aims to summarize the reading pieces of the students and to use the strategies of reading and to draw conclusions and meanings using their reading skills.
HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION
Course code
HIST100Credit
0Theoretical
2Practical
0Ects
2
The aim of this course is to outline the development of civilizations in the course of history. It firstly focuses on the concepts such as “Civilization”, “Prehistoric”, and “Historic” and on the factors forcing the emergence of the first civilizations. As well as examining the prehistoric periods and their characteristics in the course of human life since the first appearance of human beings on earth, the course mainly focuses on the early civilizations, namely the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Aegean, Classical Greek, Hellenistic, Indian, Chinese and Roman Civilizations. Political, social, economical, cultural, intellectual, philosophical and scientific aspects in these entities are also examined in this course.
MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS-II
Course code
MATH112Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
The course is a continuation of MATH111, Mathematics for Businesss and Economics-II.This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and aspects of mathematics for business and economics such as linear programming, matrices and their properties, matrices with applications to business, management and economics, linear and non-linear equations, their properties, finding solutions, their graphs and principles of differentiations ( derivative of elementary functions, derivative of quotient, product etc.), marginal concepts and optimization, partial differentiation, rules of differentiations and applications, definite and indefinite integrals, integration integral of elementary functions, integration by parts and substitution methods, applications of the integral, matrix addition , subtraction, multiplication and elementary operations, inverse, transpose of matrices.
FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Course code
MISY102Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course is designed to introduce students contemporary information systems and demonstrate how these systems are used throughout global organizations. The focus of this course will be on the key components of information systems - people, software, hardware, data, and communication technologies, and how these components can be integrated and managed to create competitive advantage. The necessary topics that will be covered in this course are; how and why information systems are used today, how organizations are using information systems for competitive advantage vs. competitive necessity, information technology concepts such as hardware and software, telecommunication and networks, internet, intranet, extranet, electronic and mobile commerce, enterprise systems, decision support systems and knowledge management.
INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING
Course code
MISY112Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
6
The course will introduce basic and fundamental programming constructs and techniques through using the C++ programming language in order to generate algorithmic solutions to problems. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to learn an introduction to algorithms, solving problems by flowcharts and pseudo codes, header files, data types, arithmetic & logic operators, control statements (if, if/else, switch-case) and use them as inner statements, loop statements (while, do/while, for), functions, standard functions of programming language, random number generation and their area of use, user-defined functions, global and local variables, recursion, arrays, searching algorithms on arrays, sorting algorithms on arrays, pointers, pointer operators, using pointers with arrays and functions.
BASIC STATISTICS-I
Course code
STAT105Credit
3Theoretical
2Practical
2Ects
5
This course aim to provide students elementary introduction to statistical reasoning, including sampling, elementary probability, statistical inference, and data analysis. Based on the first level of statistics in this course the aim is to prepare the students for more complex chapters such as hypothesis testing. Organizing data by frequency distributions and graphics, obtaining and interpreting descriptive statistics for the several distributions are the first step. Learning properties of normal distribution, transforming raw scores into standard scores, using standard scores in relation to norms of psychological tests constitute an important part of this course. Correlation and lineer regression analysis are the most basic analysis that will help students understanding the nature of statistical analysis.
MODERN TURKISH HISTORY
Course code
TARH100Credit
0Theoretical
2Practical
0Ects
2
In this course, Ottoman state and society, factors causing the collapse of the state; Ottoman modernization; Tripoli and Balkan Wars, World War I, Mudros Armistice and Sevres Agreement; parties and associations, the national resistance movement led by Mustafa Kemal, the Havza and Amasya Circulars, the Congresses, the National Pact, the Turkish Grand National Assembly; the rebellions, the regular army and the War of Independence; the Mudanya Armistice, the Lausanne Peace Treaty; Revolution in the political field, secularization of the state and society, abolition of the sultanate, declaration of the republic, abolition of the caliphate; 1921 and 1924 constitutions, constitutional changes; Sheikh Said Rebellion; Multi-party experience, secularization and modernization in law, nationalization and secularization in education, Kemalizm and 6 principles, Turkish foreign policy(1923-1938) are covered.
Third Semester
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
Course code
ACFN207Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
In this course, the development, interpretation, and use of relevant cost behavior, control, and traceability concepts for management planning, controlling and decision making are emphasized. Topics include: an introduction to product costing, the contribution concept, performance standards and variance analysis, responsibility accounting, segment profitability, alternative choice decisions, and capital budgeting. A study of the uses of accounting information for managerial decision making. Areas covered include: manufacturing, merchandising, and service cost systems: costvolume profit analysis; budgeting; and capital investment decision making, cost accounting terminology, job costing, process costing, activity-based costing, activity-based management, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, standard costing, variance analysis, responsibility accounting, variable costing, transfer pricing and decision making.
ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING
Course code
MISY223Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
7
The course mainly focuses on software implementations in C Programming Language. Firstly, basic concepts of algorithms are discussed and then structures of programming are studied. Then, arrays and searching and sorting algorithms on arrays are studied. Fundamentals of basic data structures, which are arrays, structures and unions are discussed together with bitwise operations and enumerations in C. Pointers, functions and file processing are studied in the second part of the course, after midterm examination. Case studies related to searching and sorting algorithms are also studied. Functions, characters and strings are studied as last topics of algorithm developments and course is finalized with complexity analysis of algorithms.
INTERNET PROGRAMMING
Course code
MISY233Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
The aim of this course is to provide students a comprehensive introduction to start building websites from the ground up. The students will be able to learn how to create web pages using XHTML; including images, links, lists, tables, forms, CSS; which provide a standard way of imposing style on the content specified in XHTML tags and JavaScript; a powerful language that could be used for variety of different applications including object models, control statements, pop-up windows, arrays, functions, constructors and pattern matching. All web content will be hand coded using a simple text editor with a strong emphasis on well-formed valid code.
INFORMATION SECURITY AND ASSURANCE
Course code
MISY271Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
Information security is the state of being free from danger while Information Assurance (IA) is acting of managing risks and keeping information safe from harm. Both information security and information assurance encompasses computer security, communication security, operations security and physical security. The main objective of this course is to learn the fundamental concept of Information security models and practices that can help in planning, developing and performing security tasks. The course will address hardware, software, processes, communications, applications, policies and procedures with respect to organizational IT Security and Risk Management. Topics to be covered include Physical security, VPN, SSL, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, digital signature.
UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE
Course code
UNIEXX1Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
4
UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE
Fourth Semester
FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH METHODS
Course code
APSC220Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
Research Methods is an introductory course in information technology. It aims to introduce the student with the basic concepts and problems encountered in an IT and social scientific investigation. Research methods objective is to explain the main concepts related to the methodology of conducting research in IT. Also it explains the importance and limitations of theory and methodology in IT research as well as the purposes of applied research evaluation, analysis techniques, and research ethics. Moreover, the course introduces the field of scientific methodologies by providing basic research techniques and tools to the students. Also, the procedures for writing research papers and reports, literature review for journals and books and doing practical research are introduced
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
Course code
BUSN250Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This is an introductory course to the science of management. It covers the definition and the function of organizations, the role of the manager; uncertainty and business planning including the tools and techniques of planning. It then proceeds to the presentation of the decision making process. The role of technology in production and in management is introduced with special reference to the initiation and management of change. This is followed by the introduction and elaboration of the topics of human resource management, leadership and control. Students will understand and comprehend the important role played by management in the contemporary business environment, enhance skills to meet the challenges facing today’s management, encourage collaborative learning and teamwork as necessary management tools with global perspective of management.
FREE ELECTIVE
Course code
FREEXX1Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
FREE ELECTIVE
FREE ELECTIVE
Course code
FREEXX2Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
FREE ELECTIVE
DATA STRUCTURES AND DATA ORGANIZATION
Course code
MISY242Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
7
The objective of this course is to provide the basics of data structures and data organization. The course will introduce C/C++ and algorithms for the implementation of data structures which are stack, queue, linked list, tree also, the applications of data structures covering stack applications which are paranthesis checker, infix to postfix and prefix conversions, recursion, dynamic stack and queue, tree traversals. Theoretical aspects of most widely used data structures will be covered during the lectures. Programming assignments and lab works cover the C/C++ implementations of applications of data structures that are discussed in the lectures.
Fifth Semester
FREE ELECTIVE
Course code
FREEXX3Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
FREE ELECTIVE
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Course code
MISY343Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
6
At the end of this course, students are expected to have experience and knowledge on databases, database design and SQL. Introduction to DBMS (Definition, characteristics, levels of abstraction, advantages, query types), Relational database (relational model, database design), Relational Algebra, SQL, Data Manipulation Language (DML), nested queries, sub-queries, joins, grouping, row functions, aggregate functions, Data Definition Languages (DDL) with constraints like primary key, foreign key and case constraints will be covered. Also, database user management and user rights will be explained.
FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Course code
MISY363Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course is for students who want an in-depth look at how today’s business firms use information technologies and systems to achieve corporate objectives. Information systems are one of the major tools available for business managers to achieve operational excellence, developing new products and services, improving decision making, and achieving competitive advantage. Students will be able to find here the most up-to-date and comprehensive overview of information systems used by business firms today. When interviewing potential employees, business firms often look for new hires who know how to use information systems and technologies to achieve bottom-line business results. Regardless of whether you are in finance, management, marketing or information systems major, the information and knowledge included in this course will be valuable throughout the entire career.
AREA ELECTIVE
Course code
MISYXX1Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
AREA ELECTIVE
AREA ELECTIVE
Course code
MISYXX2Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
AREA ELECTIVE
Sixth Semester
FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER NETWORKS
Course code
MISY332Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
4Ects
7
This is an introductory course in computer networks. It first introduces uses of Computer Networks in Business, Home and Mobile environment. Next discuss types of computer network range from personal area network to Internet. It then studies the implementation principles and design issues at each layer of network models. Lecture topics include: OSI and TCP/IP models, data transmission basics, data-link, application Layer protocols, guided and unguided transmission, satellite communication ( LEO, MEO, GEO) digital modulation and multiplexing, PSTN and Mobile telephone systems. Laboratory work focuses on building and studying a physical network using network devices, wired and wireless medium.
ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Course code
MISY362Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
5
The course is designed to familiarize students with concepts such as morality, theory of right and wrong, the theory of value, what entails goodness and badness, and the theory of virtue and vice. After introducing these concepts, the course encourages students to think about ethical aspect of real life events and issues, makes them analytically examine their position in social life and how they deal with ethical issues. Students become more effective decision makers by examining the meaning and role of ethics in the business environment, and the social responsibility of business organizations. Topics include the relationship between business and society; identifying stakeholdersand issues; the theoretical basis of business ethics; business ethics in management and leadership; the concept of corporate social responsibility; corporate social responsibility in practice; regulating business; ownership and governance of the corporation; environmental and business responsibilities; globalization and business responsibilities; and ethics, responsibilities and strategy
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
Course code
MISY366Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of foundations of the operation functions in both manufacturing and services. The course will analyze operations from both the strategic and operational perspectives and highlights the competitive advantages that operations can provide for the organization. This course introduces students the concepts underlying effective operation and control of manufacturing and service businesses. It states approaches to production control, inventory policy, facilities planning, methods improvement and technological assessment decision-making, capacity planning, aggregate planning, forecasting, inventory management, distribution planning, materials requirements planning (MRP), project management and quality control with aided computer soft wares are studied.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Course code
MISY368Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
The purpose of this course is to train students with theories and applications dealing with motivation, decision-making, team dynamics, negotiation, leadership and organizational culture. Development of analytical skills and critical thinking are important for the course. The course exposes students to advanced behavioral science theories and applications in management. Organizational behavior (OB) is an interdisciplinary field drawing from numerous disciplines including psychology, sociology, economics, organization theory, statistics, and many others. After an overview of OB and how to assess the value-added of "soft" management interventions, topics will include work motivation, work attitudes, newcomer socialization, "natural" and nominal work teams, leadership, decision making, and management of change.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Course code
MISY372Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
The main objective of this course is to help students develop a comprehensive understanding of how information systems are developed through the activities of system development life cycle (SDLC) which includes systems planning, analysis, design and implementation. The course will examine the Key modelling concepts applicable to both structured and object-oriented approaches to systems development. By using several cases of organizations problems, the course will determine the requirements for a new or an enhanced systems. Tools such as MS access, MS Visio, MS project will then be used to support the planning, analysis, and design of an IS project for each organization.
Seventh Semester
SUMMER TRAINING
Course code
MISY300Credit
0Theoretical
0Practical
0Ects
5
In order to gain practical experience, MIS students spend minimum of four weeks for industry training. They work in several areas that interest them. area which they can choose to work include designing and/or developing content management systems/web sites, project management, software development, cloud management, network troubleshooting, database management systems, embedded systems, e-Government, e-Business, e-Learning and Business Intelligence. At the end of the training, they submit report of all activities they have been involved in. they also write a report to explain what they have learnt, mistakes they have made and the challenges they faced while carrying out this training
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Course code
MISY401Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
1Ects
6
The aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the processes and management practices associated with the profession of managing a project. The course is offered to students who can undertake their graduation project. Students are taught basic project management procedures, and several project management tools are also introduced. At the end of the course, students are given a multidisciplinary project topic, where they work as teams with students from other departments. A feasibility study is conducted, and students present their work to their supervisor, where they are evaluated. This course serves as a bridge to the subsequent MISY402 Capstone Project course, wherein students continue their project work initiated in MISY401 under the guidance of their respective MISY402 instructor.
IS STRATEGY, MANAGEMENT AND ACQUISITION
Course code
MISY479Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
5
This course provides comprehensive treatment of current trends and management issues associated with information systems within organizations. The course is focused on developing an intellectual framework that will allow leaders of organizations to critically assess existing IS infrastructures and emerging technologies as well as how these enabling technologies might affect organizational strategy. After a successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand the importance of information systems in an organization, and the role they play in the various functional areas of a business, identify the importance of aligning the information systems strategy with the overall organizational strategy, and ensuring the information technology assets which support the business activities and objectives.
AREA ELECTIVE
Course code
MISYXX3Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
AREA ELECTIVE
AREA ELECTIVE
Course code
MISYXX4Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
AREA ELECTIVE
UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE
Course code
UNIEXX2Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
4
UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE
Eighth Semester
CAPSTONE PROJECT
Course code
MISY402Credit
4Theoretical
2Practical
4Ects
8
The purpose of the capstone project is to evaluate students' ability to complete a project without a given detailed structure usually found in undergraduate courses. The capstone project is multidisciplinary, with students from different departments coming together to undertake projects related to each student's department. The projects undertaken in this course are a continuation of those initiated in MISY401, with students transitioning seamlessly from one course to the other under the guidance of their MISY402 instructor. During the project, students undertake comprehensive planning, including feasibility studies, to outline the aims, objectives, tasks, milestones, duration, and development of the project, ultimately leading to the creation of fully functional systems. At the end of the project, students will be able to gain knowledge of subjects from other departments and relate their field of expertise to others in the department. By completion of the project, students need to submit a report and attend an oral presentation.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Course code
MISY472Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
4
This course provides an introduction to Business Intelligence which includes the processes, methodologies, infrastructure, and recent practices used to transform business data into useful information and support business decision-making. It also provides information technology approach to data collection and data analysis to support a variety of management tasks. Business Intelligence requires foundation knowledge in data storage and retrieval, thus this course will review logical data models for both database management systems and data warehouses. In this course, students will be able to learn analytical components and technologies used to create dashboards and scorecards, data/text/Web mining methods used to develop intelligent systems for decision support.
AREA ELECTIVE
Course code
MISYXX5Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
AREA ELECTIVE
AREA ELECTIVE
Course code
MISYXX6Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
AREA ELECTIVE
UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE
Course code
UNIEXX3Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
4Elective Courses
HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
Course code
ITEC427Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
5
This course aims to provide the introduction to the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), an interdisciplinary field that integrates cognitive psychology, design, computer science and others. Examining the human factors associated with information systems provides the students with knowledge to understand what influences usability and acceptance of IS. This course will examine human performance, components of technology, methods and techniques used in design and evaluation of IS. Societal impacts of HCI such as accessibility will also be discussed. User-centered design methods will be introduced and evaluated. This course will also introduce students to the contemporary technologies used in empirical evaluation methods.
CLOUD COMPUTING
Course code
MISY481Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course aim at introducing the basic concepts of cloud computing. The course will start by explaining the difference between cloud computing and the traditional desktop computing. The course will cover topics such as the cloud service models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Identity as a service. The deployment models of cloud computing such as Public, private, community and hybrid cloud will be explained. Security issues of cloud computing and service provider will also be covered. At the end of the course student will have in depth knowledge of organizations that provide cloud services and the underlying infrastructure
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Course code
MISY210Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
RESEARCH METHODS
Course code
MISY463Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
ENGINEERING ECONOMY
Course code
INDE232Credit
3Theoretical
2Practical
0Ects
4KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Course code
MISY429Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course provides insights to the field of knowledge management, an interdisciplinary field that integrates information systems (IS), knowledge management (KM), computer science and management studies. The course aims to provide the strategic importance of knowledge management and information systems in order to help organizations grow. As knowledge drives society, KM and IS to accumulate, manage and transfer that knowledge become crucial. Therefore, barriers which prevents accumulation of knowledge, factors which make organizations vulnerable and the ways how IS can be used for effective KM will be analyzed. This course will examine knowledge valley theory, big data and departmentalization.
FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH METHODS
Course code
APSC220Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
0
Research Methods is an introductory course in information technology. It aims to introduce the student with the basic concepts and problems encountered in an IT and social scientific investigation. Research methods objective is to explain the main concepts related to the methodology of conducting research in IT. Also it explains the importance and limitations of theory and methodology in IT research as well as the purposes of applied research evaluation, analysis techniques, and research ethics. Moreover, the course introduces the field of scientific methodologies by providing basic research techniques and tools to the students. Also, the procedures for writing research papers and reports, literature review for journals and books and doing practical research are introduced
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Course code
CPE415Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
CYBER SECURITY-I
Course code
ITSE201Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
0
The course covers basic concepts of cyber security theory and techniques for optimizing security on computers and networks. Students are taught on how to assess the current security landscape, the nature of the threat, the general status of common vulnerabilities, the likely consequences of security failures and the set of information security metrics that can be applied to prevent and mitigate the cyber security issues. At the completion of this course student will be able to Identify potential threats to computer and networks, describe basic incident response techniques and identifies several techniques that provides basic protection to computer and networks.
ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING
Course code
MISY223Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
6
The course mainly focuses on software implementations in C Programming Language. Firstly, basic concepts of algorithms are discussed and then structures of programming are studied. Then, arrays and searching and sorting algorithms on arrays are studied. Fundamentals of basic data structures, which are arrays, structures and unions are discussed together with bitwise operations and enumerations in C. Pointers, functions and file processing are studied in the second part of the course, after midterm examination. Case studies related to searching and sorting algorithms are also studied. Functions, characters and strings are studied as last topics of algorithm developments and course is finalized with complexity analysis of algorithms.
DIGITAL FORENSICS
Course code
ITSE306Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
The main objective of this course is to teach students different techniques and procedures that enables them to perform digital investigation. This course focuses mainly on the analysis of physical storage media and volume analysis. It covers the major phases of digital investigation such as preservation, analysis and acquisition of artifacts that reside in hard disks and random access memory. At the completion of the course, student will be able to create a digital image of physical storage device, they will be able to recovered deleted digital information and they will be able to use common digital forensics tools. Students will also be able to analyze various cases to determine digital actions of a user and perform digital analysis of varieties of files
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Course code
MISY372Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
The main objective of this course is to help students develop a comprehensive understanding of how information systems are developed through the activities of system development life cycle (SDLC) which includes systems planning, analysis, design and implementation. The course will examine the Key modelling concepts applicable to both structured and object-oriented approaches to systems development. By using several cases of organizations problems, the course will determine the requirements for a new or an enhanced systems. Tools such as MS access, MS Visio, MS project will then be used to support the planning, analysis, and design of an IS project for each organization.
FUNDAMENTALS OF DATA SCIENCE
Course code
DASC201Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course focuses on learning data science through the interest to development and improvement of capability of solving rich problems from data point of view in a systematic and principled way by using high quality instructions and basic level data science techniques. Students will be introduced to what data science is, will discover the applicability of data science across fields, and will learn how data analysis can help them make data driven decisions. Students will gain familiarity with various open source tools and data science programs used by data scientists, like Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio, GitHub, and SQL. This course provides the students with the required structure and responsibilities in order to educate them as data scientists progressing a right way with high concluding capabilities.
ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Course code
MISY362Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
5
The course is designed to familiarize students with concepts such as morality, theory of right and wrong, the theory of value, what entails goodness and badness, and the theory of virtue and vice. After introducing these concepts, the course encourages students to think about ethical aspect of real life events and issues, makes them analytically examine their position in social life and how they deal with ethical issues. Students become more effective decision makers by examining the meaning and role of ethics in the business environment, and the social responsibility of business organizations. Topics include the relationship between business and society; identifying stakeholdersand issues; the theoretical basis of business ethics; business ethics in management and leadership; the concept of corporate social responsibility; corporate social responsibility in practice; regulating business; ownership and governance of the corporation; environmental and business responsibilities; globalization and business responsibilities; and ethics, responsibilities and strategy
DATA MINING
Course code
ITEC426Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
0
Data mining has emerged as one of the most exciting fields in Computer Science because of the growth of computerized data collections, which become more and more available in our modern digitalized world. Data mining have roots in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning (including classification, prediction, and clustering), statistical data analysis, data visualization and information retrieval. By completion of this course, students learn about different data mining methods such as classification, rule-based learning, decision trees and association rules. Students also learn about data selection and cleaning, machine learning techniques to “learn” about the “hidden” patterns in data, and the reporting and visualization of the resulting knowledge.
INFORMATION SECURITY AND ASSURANCE
Course code
MISY271Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
Information security is the state of being free from danger while Information Assurance (IA) is acting of managing risks and keeping information safe from harm. Both information security and information assurance encompasses computer security, communication security, operations security and physical security. The main objective of this course is to learn the fundamental concept of Information security models and practices that can help in planning, developing and performing security tasks. The course will address hardware, software, processes, communications, applications, policies and procedures with respect to organizational IT Security and Risk Management. Topics to be covered include Physical security, VPN, SSL, Cryptography, Digital Forensics, digital signature.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Course code
MISY401Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
1Ects
6
The aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the processes and management practices associated with the profession of managing a project. The course is offered to students who can undertake their graduation project. Students are taught basic project management procedures, and several project management tools are also introduced. At the end of the course, students are given a multidisciplinary project topic, where they work as teams with students from other departments. A feasibility study is conducted, and students present their work to their supervisor, where they are evaluated. This course serves as a bridge to the subsequent MISY402 Capstone Project course, wherein students continue their project work initiated in MISY401 under the guidance of their respective MISY402 instructor.
IS STRATEGY, MANAGEMENT AND ACQUISITION
Course code
MISY479Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course provides comprehensive treatment of current trends and management issues associated with information systems within organizations. The course is focused on developing an intellectual framework that will allow leaders of organizations to critically assess existing IS infrastructures and emerging technologies as well as how these enabling technologies might affect organizational strategy. After a successful completion of this course, students will be able to understand the importance of information systems in an organization, and the role they play in the various functional areas of a business, identify the importance of aligning the information systems strategy with the overall organizational strategy, and ensuring the information technology assets which support the business activities and objectives.
INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES
Course code
DASC283Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
7
This course looks into internet and global network concepts are taken up in detail. This course also deals with the most popular topics such as the history of Internet, a general overview of the internet based opportunities and applications (such as e-mail, internet browsers, file transfer opportunities, list drivers, etc.) internet based research and information resources, the global network services, creation of web pages using HTML. A history of the technologies appeared upon development of internet and an overview of the mentioned technologies together with the methods of utilization of these technologies for personal and business purposes is provided to the students.
DATA AND NETWORK SECURITY
Course code
ITSE479Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
0
This course discusses different types of malicious attacks and various methods of mitigating to them. Students learn how to protect computer networks by using security codes. Topics covered includes foundations of network security, IP packet structure and analysis control, routing and access control lists, attack techniques, network defense fundamentals, sign-on solutions and file encryption solutions. At the end, the course students will be able to understand the security problems introduced by the combination of the Internet with Intranets, mobile devices, and sensors networks. Students will also be able to develop a basic understanding of the theoretical and conceptual aspects that are needed to build secure systems.
ETHICAL HACKING
Course code
ITSE466Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
0
This course provide student with an advanced knowledge on the various hacking skills and on the ethical use of various "white hat" cyber penetration testing tools and techniques. In this course, students are taught how to apply ethical theories to a cyber-related issue and how to use network tools and techniques in an enclosed "sandbox" environment to how to critically analyze various recon techniques and their effectiveness. Upon the completion of the course, students will be able to differentiate various ethical hacking issues such as hacking, cybercrime, hacktivism and cyber terrorism. Students will also be able to understand the various techniques for launching server attacks, web-based attack, Wireless Access Point attacks, phishing attack and the various measures to prevent and mitigate these attacks.
PRINCIPLES OF DATA MINING
Course code
DASC325Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
7
Data mining, which is the study of algorithms and computational paradigms that enable computers to search datasets for patterns and regularities and make predictions and forecasts is covered in this course. Knowledge discovery is introduced comprehensively. The course explores data selection, cleaning, coding, the application of various statistical and machine learning approaches, and visualization of the resulting structures, which are all steps in knowledge discovery. Students who successfully complete this course are supposed to learn about several data mining techniques, including classification, rule-based learning, decision trees, and association rules. Additionally, students are expected to learn about selection and cleaning of data, machine learning methods for "learning" about "hidden" patterns in data, and reporting and visualizing the resulting knowledge.
MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Course code
CPE425Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
CYBER SECURITY-II
Course code
ITSE202Credit
4Theoretical
3Practical
2Ects
0
The course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the different types of malware and security breaches and to develop an effective prevention method that will increase overall security in the cyberspace. In this course, students are introduced to various monitoring techniques and protection procedures pertaining to security activities. Students also learn to apply these techniques practically. Topics covered in the course, includes an overview of cyber security infrastructure, cyber security management, wireless networking, organizational policy, information security policy, and defense in depth. At the completion of this course, student will understand the basic principles on how to build a secured computer networks and how to develop a valuable data asset, systems and processes.
OPERATING SYSTEMS SECURITY
Course code
ITSE472Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
0
This course covers both the fundamentals and advanced topics in operating system (OS) security. Access control mechanisms (e.g., SACL/DACL), memory protections, and interprocess communications mechanisms will be studied. Students will learn the current state-of-the-art OS-level mechanisms and policies designed to help protect systems against sophisticated attacks. In addition, advanced persistent threats, including rootkits and malware, as well as various protection mechanisms designed to thwart these types of malicious activities, will be studied. Advanced kernel debugging techniques will be applied to understand the underlying protection mechanisms and analyze the malicious software. Students will learn both hardware and software mechanisms designed to protect the OS (e.g., NX/ASLR/SMEP/SMAP).
ENTERPRISE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
Course code
MISY431Credit
3Theoretical
2Practical
2Ects
7
This course gives basic working principles and the architecture underlying computer networks, and will go over the main components and applications of TCP/IP and the Internet. Course especially focused on Application layer architectures (client/server, peer-to-peer) and protocols (HTTP-web, SMTP-mail, etc), Transport layer operation (reliable transport, congestion and flow control, UDP, TCP);Network layer operation (routing, addressing etc) After completing this course, students have gained the basic knowledge to understand the architecture of the Internet and how it has evolved. Also be able to understand how the Internet works, design and code their own TCP/IP applications and protocols, and solve simple configuration and performance problems that arise in practice.
MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
Course code
ITEC425Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
Introduction to Mobile Application Development, Mobile Application Platforms, Object-Oriented Programming, Java,XML and Hello Android Application, Activities, Fragments, and Intents, Getting to Know the Android User Interface, Designing Your User Interface with Views, Displaying Pictures and Menus with Views, Data Persistence, Location-Based Services, Networking- Consuming Services, Publishing Android Applications
CLOUD COMPUTING
Course code
ITEC481Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
This course aim at introducing the basic concepts of cloud computing. The course will start by explaining the difference between cloud computing and the traditional desktop computing. The course will cover topics such as the cloud service models: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Identity as a service. The deployment models of cloud computing such as Public, private, community and hybrid cloud will be explained. Security issues of cloud computing and service provider will also be covered. At the end of the course student will have in depth knowledge of organizations that provide cloud services and the underlying infrastructure
STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING
Course code
DASC311Credit
3Theoretical
3Practical
0Ects
6
In this course, statistical machine learning which has roots in computer science, artificial intelligence and statistics is covered and a broad understanding of algorithms that allow computers to improve their performance through the process of ‘learning’ and enable them to make decisions and predictions is provided. Fundamental methods are taught and applied to real data. The term statistical in title emphasizes the statistical techniques, which form dominant approaches to machine learning. The course integrates methodology with theoretical underpinnings, computational elements, and statistical theory issues. By completion of this course, students are expected to learn about supervised and unsupervised learning approaches to speech recognition, internet search, bioinformatics, image and audio signal analysis, data mining and exploratory data analysis.
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