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Information Systems

This program consists of six three-hour major courses:

  • A fundamental research seminar (S600 IS Research Seminar)
  • Four topics-based seminars
  • One elective course
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In addition to the major, information systems doctoral students are required to choose a minor field (normally 3 to 4 courses, or 9 to 12 credit hours). Most students in this area choose minors such as organizational behavior, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and management. Students without prior teaching experience also take one short course (X630) on teaching, prior to teaching their first course, which may be before or after the comprehensive exam.

All information systems doctoral students are required to take S600 in the first semester of the program. S600 is a prerequisite for the topics-based courses and provides the fundamental background in information systems. The topics-based courses are organized around major research topic areas in information systems research. The elective course could be another information systems major course, an independent study course, an IS-related course in another discipline, or a research methods course.

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  • 7 weeks
  • Prerequisite(s): None

The science of design is fundamental to analysis, design, and development of blueprints and creation of information systems artifacts. This seminar examines current research issues in information systems analysis and design as well as those in design science.

  • 8 weeks
  • Prerequisite(s): None

The goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the individual-level research in information systems. This seminar covers different research streams, such as roles of individuals in systems development and implementation, technology adoption and use, impacts of technology on individual outcomes, and emerging topics related to individual issues.

  • 15 weeks
  • Prerequisite(s): None

Collaboration technologies enable groups to work together and collaborate more effectively, whether they work in the same room at the same time or in different places at different times. This course will examine our current state of knowledge of collaboration tools and research on the effects of their use.

  • 7 weeks
  • Prerequisite(s): None

The focus of this course is organizational-level research in information systems with a particular emphasis on strategic and management issues related to the role of information technology (IT) in organizations. Topics include IT strategy; business value of IT; interorganizational systems and processes; IT adoption, assimilation and impacts; IT service management and governance; and emerging issues in organizational use of IT.

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