Surveys of different stakeholders are being conducted. Results will continue to be posted on this page as they come in.
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University of Georgia, Department of Information Systems, Terry College of Business
Data provided by Dale Goodhue. Survey was conducted of advisory board members in Fall 2007. Members were asked to rank order existing courses in terms of priority for what they wanted new hires to have. Approximately 30 people participated in the ranking. The numbers show average ranking, with low number meaning higher priority. Adjustment to existing curriculum to accommodate these rankings would mean moving the second programming course from being required of all and putting the project management course into the required courses.
Courses that should be required of all students:
SAD - Systems Analysis and Design, 3.7
DBM - Data Management, 3.9
ProjMgmt - Project Management, 4.1
Prog1 - Computer Programming in Business, 4.2
Electives to be offered as resources allow:
Prog2 - Network-Based Application Development, 5.2
BusProc - Business Process Management, 5.5
Controls - Acctg Controls, IS, Auditing, and Assurance, 7.6
IRM - Managing the Information System Resource, 7.7
BusIntel - Business Intelligence, 7.7
ERP - Integrated Enterprise-Wide Systems, 7.9
Networks - Network Management, 8.0
Global - Globalization and Information Technology, 8.1
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University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis, College of Information Science & Technology
Data provided by Ilze Zigurs. An electronic brainstorming session was conducted with small group of undergraduate students in November 2007. Students were asked to brainstorm on what capabilities and knowledge they wanted to gain from their IS program. The 100+ responses they generated were categorized in the structure of the IS model curriculum (new wiki versionn). The number next to each category is the number of mentions of a topic within that category.
The exercise confirms that students perceive the core areas as important, but they also perceive IT security as important, and that area is currently listed as elective and not a core area. Programming remains highly visible to students as an important area. In addition to the core topics, there were 11 mentions of communication skills, 12 mentions of the need for internships and hands-on work experience, and 10 mentions of the need for business understanding.
'Core Topics':
Foundations and Role of IS, 8
Data & Information, 9
Systems Analysis & Design, 10
IT Infrastructure, 6
Project Management, 6
Application Development, 19
'Elective Topics':
Business Process Management, 2
Collaborative Computing , 0
Data Mining / Business Intelligence , 3
Enterprise Architecture , 0
Enterprise Systems, 3
Human-Computer Interaction, 0
Information Search and Retrieval, 0
IT Audit and Controls, 0
IT Security and Risk Management, 7
IS Management and Strategy, 2
Knowledge Management, 0
Social Informatics, 0
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University of North Carolina Wilmington, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Cameron School of Business4.
University of North Carolina Wilmington, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Cameron School of Business research papers
Westminster College, Kent State University Salem, Robert Morris University