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Computers and Management Information Systems (CMIS) 341
Managing Information Technology I: Technologies in Business Applications I (Revision 1)

This version of CMIS 341 is closed. To current version.

Overview

CMIS 341 introduces students to a wide range of information technology products and technologies and the ways in which such technologies affect the business world. Students will examine the use of technology in a variety of business applications including desktop publishing, office automation, database management systems, fourth-generation languages, networking, groupware, and Internet. This will provide students with skills and methodologies to identify and evaluate emerging technologies and the knowledge to apply them effectively to business situations. The course also shows how to keep up-to-date in a rapidly changing field. Students learn how to become more aware of emerging technologies as they are developed and become available.

The course will introduce students to ideas and ways of solving various problems with many different types of technology. They will be asked to assess the value of certain technologies under certain conditions. Rarely are there "right" or "wrong" answers. Rather, there are technological solutions which work effectively in given situations. Students will learn how to make "informed judgments" about the application of new technologies.

The course is delivered electronically. The computer mediated communication will provide electronic mail for student-student and student-tutor interactions, computer conferencing for formal and informal discussions and case study analysis, for exchange of tutor-marked assignments, and for receiving components of the instructional materials. See Special Course Features below.

Method of Delivery: Individualized study or e-Class®.

Credit Weight/Area of Study: 3 credits - Applied Studies

Prerequisite: None.

Evaluation

Assignment 1 (Desktop publishing)	Assignment 2 (Office Automation)	Assignment 3 (Fourth Generation Languages)	Participation	Total
30%	30%	30%	10%	100%

Course Materials

Textbook

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized study counterparts.

 
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