Curriculum Committee

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Curriculum Committee

• 3-16-2007

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• The Team
• Dennis Runyon
• Chas Gilmore
• Geoff Steinberg
• Glenn Thomas
• Ryan Conlon
• Brandon Stetter
• Greg Mulhollen
• Joe Vincent

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Our Ultimate Goal

• Start with high school students
• End with employable, polished, competent
  graduates who have exciting careers ahead of them.

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Two Goals for the 2006-2007 Year

• Review the required courses and make update
  recommendations.
• Meet with recent grads again and get their
  feedback.

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Student comparison

• Current Students
• focused on hard skills
• not aware of the weaknesses of the business
  writing course
• do not value the tough and vague courses
• Want increased real world instruction

• Recent Graduates
• focused on soft skills
• felt that the business writing course was
  ineffective
• appreciated the tough and vague courses now,
  although they did not in college
• Wished that there was more real world instruction

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Next Steps

• Continue with Course Reviews to ensure
  Technologies used in coursework are relevant in
  today's job market
• Conduct Systems Analysis II course in conjunction
  with Business Leaders

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Systems Analysis II (new)

• Business Leaders represent a real world
  customer, as well as a mentor to the students in
  their creation of their required class project

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Class Project

• Alumni Navigator
• Allow current students and alumnus to update
  their information.
• Allow searches many different ways.
• Let students find their own way when completing
  this project.

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As a Mentor

• Help them understand how a successful project
  team succeeds in the Analysis, Design, and
  Implementation of a project
• Techniques to ensure accurate understanding of
  the project requirements
• How to deal with organization and
• personnel issues with Customers,
• Peers, and within a team setting

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As a Customer

• Create a real world situation common to what
  the students will face on the job
• Challenging Customer Interaction
• Constantly Changing Scope of project
• Unrealistic Timelines

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Elective Course Review Assignments

• MIS 24080 Programming I
• MIS 34032 Data File
• MIS 34033 Programming II
• MIS 34036 Large Systems (Dennis Runyon)
• MIS 34045 Small Systems (Brandon Stetter)
• MIS 44044 Systems Analysis II (Joe Vincent)
• MIS 44045 IS Management (Dennis Runyon)
• MIS 44049 Network Management (Greg Mulhollen)
• MIS 44095 Special Topics
• MIS 44292 IS Internship (Ryan Conlon)
• Business Writing (Greg Mulhollen)

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Summary

• Two main goals for the year accomplished!
• Working on linked courses.
• Started review of elective courses.