- Understand information system concepts including input, processing, and output, data and information.
- Understand information system components including hardware, software, databases and telecommunications.
- Understand how one would select computer hardware, computer software, and database software.
- Understand the role of information systems in organizations.
- Identify and define the major types of information systems.
- Exhibit an understanding of the ethical and social impact of information systems.
- Understand how businesses use the Internet, E-commerce, the World Wide Web, Intranets and Extranets.
- Describe the activities that take place during each phase of the systems development life cycle and understand alternative system building approaches.
- Understand the cultural, political, geographic and economic challenges that confront the management of global information technology.
- Understand the many different career options in the computer information systems field.
- Be able to use common productivity tools such as word processing or spreadsheets to submit assignments and other projects in an acceptable business format.
- Be able to create a database using a relational DBMS such as Access. Demonstrate the ability to create queries, reports and forms in the DBMS.
- Be able to use the Internet to conduct research, find information, and communicate.
- able to use technology to collaborate.
In this course, the following VCCS General Education Outcomes are supported:
- 2.1 discriminate among degrees of credibility, accuracy, and reliability of inferences drawn from given data.
- 4.1 determine the nature and extent of the information needed.
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