Course descriptions

This course covers recent trends and pressing MIS issues and topics that reflect areas of expertise of the faculty and their research interests that are suitable for exposure in the MIS major. This course may be taken more than once as an MIS elective.

This capstone course offers you the opportunity to apply your academic experience to conduct an experiential learning project in a designated field and apply your education in a practical manner. Students will work in teams on a single project for one partner organization. This experience will help students enhance their skills in oral and written communication, apply the knowledge acquired during the program to solve business problems involving actual data and information systems in a realistic setting, manage team dynamics, and develop a fundamental understanding of all practical aspects of MIS program of study. This course is suitable for senior students only. The course content is updated regularly to take into account the latest software and MIS practices.

MIS Internship

This course is a graduate-level course in Management of Information Systems (MIS). It is offered through GUST's MBA program. The course covers several aspects of MIS and is intended for management-level professionals. The course discusses the importance of MIS in today's competitive business environments highlighting how managers can use MIS to enhance their decision making process and to better compete with IT in today's market. The course is also concerned with helping students to more effectively make and influence strategic decisions regarding the use and direction of IT in your organization. This course is designed to focus on the process of aligning IT with business objectives. Selected company case will provide frameworks and models to answer the following questions: - How does an organization use IT to obtain business value and to tap into the potential of the emerging technologies (such as mobile devices and social computing)? - What is the role of IT in facilitating organizational transformation? - What is the manager's role in making decisions about IT and how is it managed? - What type of IT infrastructure is needed? - What are the forecasted technology trends? - How should IT be governed?