Curriculum recommendations for undergraduate programs in information systems
Communications of the ACM
Information Systems for Modern Management
Information Systems for Modern Management
Managing the Systems Development Process
Managing the Systems Development Process
The UW-Whitewater management computer systems program
SIGCSE '81 Proceedings of the twelfth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
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The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's Management Computer Systems (MCS) Major1 includes a two course sequence, Systems Analysis and Design 1 and Systems Analysis and Design 2. In the ACM Information Systems Curriculum2 there is also a two course sequence in systems analysis and design. The managers of information systems departments who hire our graduates frequently express the opinion that this sequence is especially important. The progression of the courses begins with three weeks of 100% “theory” with artificial homework assignments before the students are assigned their projects. From the fourth week of the first course to almost the end of the second course the projects are carried through the successive phases of the systems development life cycle. The overall balance between theory and project is evenwith the theory coming earlier so as to illuminate the practice which follows.