Considerations

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Agenda Academic Planning

• Considerations
• Resources
• Degree Required Courses
• MIS Courses
• Career Tracks
• MIS Electives
• Course Sequencing

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Considerations

• Desired Time Frame to Graduate
• Balance your need to finish versus the needs to
  best compete for a desired occupation
• Specialization
• Determine the best electives for a desired career
  and the timing of department offering (start a
  waitlist with the MIS department)
• Graduate School Considerations
• Determine the entry requirements (grades,
  standardized exam scores, etc. and timing to
  complete)
• Determine the prerequisite needs of specific
  programs to plan course work appropriately

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Considerations - Continued

• Building Others Skills
• Based on you career aspirations, what other
  courses might you take at and away from SJSU to
  be competitive
• Honors Societies
• Investigate requirements, membership process, and
  timing for membership, and career relevance
• Instructor Approval Courses
• Investigate requirements and timing of offerings
• e.g. Mobility Computing

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Resources

• MIS Department
• MIS Department Office (BT250)
• Faculty office hours Drop In
• MIS Alumni Association
• SJSU General Services
• Library, Tutorial Center, Counseling,
• Career Planning Placement Center (4-6033)
• Alumni Association (4-3430)

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Resources

• Business Student Advisement Center (BSAC)
• Located in BBC008, 4-3435
• Course schedule planning
• General education advising
• Graduation planning and preparation
• Changes of major
• Equivalencies for transfer courses
• Clearance for upper division course reg.
• Approval of business minors

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MIS Degree Courses (Business and Major)
MIS Core Courses
Core Business Courses

• Required Courses (22 Units)
• Bus Computer Productivity Tools (91L)
• Intro to Business Programming (92)
• Intro to Systems Analysis and Design (93)
• Fundamentals of MIS (110)
• Intro to Telecommunications (111)
• Intro to Database Mgt Sys (112)
• Practicum in Technology (119A)
• Business Strategy and Info Sys (119B)
• Elective Courses any two (6 Units)
• Advanced Bus Programming (113)
• Advanced Bus Programming Java (113J)
• Advanced Sys Analysis Design (114)
• Advanced Telecommunications (115)
• Special Topics (118x) examples
• Network Design, Web Computing, Knowledge Mgt,
• Data Warehousing, Mobility Computing, Security,
  etc.

• Required Lower Division (15 Units)
• Discovering Business (10)
• Financial Accounting (20)
• Managerial Accounting (21)
• Business Law (80)
• Business Statistics (90)
• Required Upper Division (18 Units)
• Fundamentals of Operations Mgt (140)
• Fundamentals of Management and Organizational
  Behavior (160)
• Fundamentals of Finance (170)
• Global Dimensions of Business (187)
• Strategic Management (189)
• Quantitative Business Analysis (190)

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MIS Program Courses
Intro to Telecommunications
Intro to Business Programming
E 1
92
111
E 2
Second MIS Elective
First MIS Elective
Fundamentals Of MIS
91L
110
Systems Analysis And Design
Requires Senior Status
Business Computer Productivity Tools
119A
93
112
119B
Intro to Database Mgt Systems
Business Strategy Information Systems
Practicum In MIS
MIS Requirement
100W
Business Communications
Business Requirement
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MIS Program Career Tracks and Electives

• Consulting/Project Management
• Advanced Systems Analysis (114)
• Application Development
• Advanced Business Programming (113x)
• Database Management
• Advanced Database Mgt Systems (116)
• Networking/Computing Specialist
• Advanced Telecommunication Systems (115)

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MIS Program - Electives

• Advanced Business Programming (Bus113)
• Advanced Business Programming Java (113J)
• Advanced Database Management Systems (116)
• Advanced System Analysis Design (114)
• Advanced Telecommunication (115)
• Special Topics Network Design (118A)
• Special Topics Business Expert Systems (118B)
• Special Topics Knowledge Mgt Systems (118C)
• Web-based Computing (118W)

Two Electives Requires Senior Status
113J
113
115
114
118x
116
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MIS Program Course Sequence
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
92
111
E 1
E 2
Second MIS Elective
First MIS Elective
Introduction to Business Programming
Introduction to Telecommunications
91L
110
Introduction to Database Mgt Systems
Systems Analysis And Design
Business Computer Productivity Tools
Fundamentals Of MIS
93
112
119A
119B
Business Strategy Information Systems
Practicum In MIS
MIS Requirement
100W
Business Communications
Business Requirement