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Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems
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Caldwell University’s Management Information Systems (MIS) major is an interdisciplinary program that combines business and technology to equip students with essential skills for managing, designing, and implementing information systems in organizational settings. The program emphasizes both technical and managerial skill development, focusing on using information systems to solve real-world business challenges. Key technology topics include database management, systems analysis and design, web development, information security and disaster recovery, and project management.
Students in the MIS major also gain a strong foundation in business principles, with courses in accounting, finance, economics, analytics, and management. This business-focused coursework enables students to understand technology decisions’ organizational and financial implications, preparing them to make strategic contributions in any business environment.
Our Management Information Systems program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). This means that our business programs have been rigorously reviewed by an international external accrediting agency and have demonstrated the qualities of excellence demanded by their challenging standards. In addition, our students benefit from small class sizes, experienced faculty, and experiential learning through internships, labs, and case studies, all of which foster practical skills and personalized mentorship. Additionally, Caldwell University’s proximity to New York City offers access to internship and networking opportunities with top companies in the tech and business sectors.
Management Information Systems courses focus on:
- web design
- web programming techniques
- e-commerce
- mobile application development for android and apple devices
- cloud computing
- data mining and analytics
- data protection
- computer and internet security
Program Outcomes
Students who complete the MIS major at Caldwell University will be able to:
- Demonstrate proficiency in database management, web development, and systems analysis.
- Analyze business needs and design technology solutions to enhance efficiency and security.
- Apply project management principles to lead and coordinate technology initiatives.
- Integrate ethical considerations, cybersecurity, and disaster recovery practices into business operations and systems.
- Utilize technical and business knowledge, including accounting, finance, and management principles, to solve organizational problems.
Job Market for MIS Graduates
With this versatile skill set, Our Management Information Systems graduates are well-prepared to excel in roles across various industries, including finance, healthcare, government, and technology. The comprehensive combination of technical expertise and business acumen ensures that graduates can make strategic, technology-driven contributions to enhance an organization’s competitive advantage. In the current technology-driven job market, the demand for professionals who can bridge the gap between IT and business needs is growing. (The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that the employment of Information Technology technicians and managers will grow faster than almost all other occupations.) Potential career paths for our graduates include:
- Business Analyst: Analyzing processes and data to recommend efficiency improvements.
- Web Designer/Developer: Creating visually appealing and user-friendly websites, applications, and digital platforms by combining design principles with technical skills
- IT Consultant: Advising businesses on technology strategies and systems development.
- Systems Administrator: Managing and supporting IT infrastructure to ensure smooth operations.
- Information Systems Manager: Overseeing technology and data resources to align with business goals.
- Project manager: Overseeing and coordinating all aspects of a project, ensuring timely completion, resource management, and alignment with objectives.
Statement of Outcomes Assessment
Students who complete this program will demonstrate the ability to implement software, software systems, and new technologies to meet the needs of business. Students will apply information systems theory and principles to address real-world business challenges to meet the needs of today’s information economy. Students will use digital materials to demonstrate the development and management of business systems within the organization, apply the principles of information systems technology, and incorporate management requirements to develop and use information systems necessary to support the organization. Graduates will be effective technical communicators and will demonstrate high professional standards.
Students will be required to pass the capstone course, CS 450 Elements of Systems Analysis and Design by applying and integrating the knowledge and skills learned throughout the major courses.
Courses
STUDENTS WHO MAJOR IN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (WITH A CONCENTRATION IN BUSINESS SYSTEMS) MUST COMPLETE:
Computer Programming I
Course Code : CS 195
Course Description :
Introduction to computer science and computer programming, problem-solving decomposition, algorithm development. Focuses on writing, debugging, and analyzing computer programs using a high-level programming language, and on learning to write clean, readable, and efficient code. Topics include variables, types, lists, functions, conditional branching, loops, and imports.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 115, CS 125, or CS Major AND MA 140 placement or higher
Computer Programming II
Course Code : CS 196
Course Description :
Course Description: Continues introduction to computer science and computer programming. Topics include classes and objects, inheritance, exceptions, GUI applications, file access, typed arrays, data serialization, storage and retrieval. Topics from data-structures and algorithms are introduced, including typed multi-dimensional arrays, recursion, and sorting and searching algorithms.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 195 Computer Programming I
Business Spreadsheet Applications
Course Code : CS 219
Course Description :
This course emphasizes analysis and solutions to contemporary business problems through the use of the current version of Microsoft Excel. Students are introduced to business decision modeling processes to strengthen logical reasoning and analytical skills. Microsoft Excel is used as the basis for managerial decision support through analysis of contemporary business case problems. Students apply the appropriate functions and features of Microsoft Excel to solve business cases. The course also emphasizes oral presentation and written reports on business processes used in case solutions to further strengthen students’ communication skills.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 115, CS 125, or CS 195 AND MA 130 or higher
Introduction to Operating Systems
Course Code : CS 225
Course Description :
This course provides a theoretical introduction and a hands-on experiential learning of today's operating systems used in personal computers and servers. The course explores Windows, Unix and Linux and tools used by administrators and users in managing these systems. Included is instruction for configuring, implementing and managing network and internet resources and services.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 195
Front-End Web Development
Course Code : CS 230
Course Description :
This course focuses on modern theory and practice for developing websites using formatted text, tables, images, animation, embedded content, responsive formatting, and interactive scripting. Students will design, develop, and publish websites.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS195 Computer Programming I
E-Commerce
Course Code : CS 238
Course Description :
This course will examine the evolution of data communications as a tool for commercial transactions. The history of networks and the Internet in transacting business will be reviewed. The marketing, financial and technical components of the e-commerce market will be examined so that students will be familiar with the motivations and operations of this rapidly growing worldwide marketplace. E-commerce will be analyzed as the primary facilitator in the globalization of the world economy. The technical aspects of planning, developing and implementing e-commerce web sites and electronic transfers of business transactions will be studied. The costs and benefits of typical E-commerce technical platforms using Windows and Linux (LAMP) webservers will be analyzed.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 115, CS 125, or CS 195
Database Management Systems
Course Code : CS 260
Course Description :
This course introduces the student to the logical and physical development of contemporary databases, with particular emphasis on the relational database model. Topics include types of databases, major data models, database design procedures, and normal forms. Hands-on experience illustrates the creation, maintenance, and reporting of business databases using SQL.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 195
Fundamentals of MIS
Course Code : CS 285
Course Description :
The course will teach students about the use of computers and business data networks to solve management and corporate problems. The course examines the components and concepts of management information systems in managing information in business environments. The evolution and future direction of current corporate and institutional computing environments will be analyzed. The impact of emerging e-commerce marketplaces on corporate strategies and infrastructure will also be examined. The ways in which businesses develop or procure information technology resources and systems will be discussed. Case studies will be used to illustrate key concepts in systems development, implementation and management. In addition, students will learn how businesses manage and protect critical information and data.
Credit : 3
Instruction methods : Lecture: 3 Hours
Prerequisites :
CS219
Data Security and Disaster Recovery
Course Code : CS 348
Course Description :
This course examines real-world applications of database security and auditing models. These concepts are integrated with planning, organizing and implementing disaster recovery procedures as applied to business data systems.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS260
Software Engineering
Course Code : CS 450
Course Description :
This capstone course is designed to develop complex software systems from business and institutional requirements and processes. Students utilize the fundamental principles of system development with both traditional and object-oriented approaches using professional charting, graphing and modeling tools. The course presents different software process models, project management analysis, software requirements engineering processes, systems development and testing procedures and different organizational and managerial designs and methods for systems development organizations. In addition, students integrate database, network topologies and cloud system designs to solve business problems. Computer system life cycles and maintenance procedures will also be analyzed.
Instruction methods : Lecture: 4 Hours
Prerequisites :
CS 302 or CS 322
Business Communications
Available OnlineCourse Code : BU 110
Course Group(s) : GE DIV
Active Term : Fall
Course Description :
Emphasizes models of management-oriented modern business communications in the digital age: letters, reports, memoranda, emails, blogs and digital résumés. Develops oral communication skills: interviews, presentations, listening techniques. Includes use of computer labs and relevant presentation, writing and report generating technologies.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 115, CS 125, or CS 195
Principles of Economics I
Course Code : BU 205
Active Term : Fall
Course Description :
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of microeconomic theory. It deals with the behavior of individual economic units that are small relative to the national economy. The course explains how consumers, workers, investors, owners of land, and business firms make their decisions, and how they interact to form larger units of markets and industries. A thorough survey of market failure and government failure also will be covered.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
MA 130 or higher
Principles of Economics II
Course Code : BU 210
Course Description :
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of macroeconomic theory. It deals with aggregate economic quantities, such as the level and growth rate of national output, interest rates, unemployment, and inflation. The course explains how the aggregate markets for goods and services, for labor, and for corporate stocks and bonds are formed, what the trade-off is between inflation and unemployment, and how the government develops and implements its monetary and fiscal policies.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
BU205
Accounting I
Course Code : BU 211
Course Description :
This course introduces fundamental principles in financial accounting. It provides a basic understanding of accounting theory, practices, and procedures through the accounting cycle as well as recording transactions in journals and ledgers. The course introduces the basic financial statements of balance sheet, income statement, and statement of owner's equity, explaining their purpose and composition.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
MA 130 or higher
Accounting II
Course Code : BU 212
Course Description :
This course covers the measurement and reporting of claims by creditors and equity investors; explains business structures of partnerships and corporations; and covers topics such as income taxes and financial analysis. The course introduces the statement of cash flows, its purpose and composition.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
BU211
Leading and Managing Holistically
Course Code : BU 260
Course Description :
This course focuses on the basic management skills of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, with additional emphasis on ethics, social responsibility, and management skills for the future. This course deals with understanding the manager’s job, decision-making, motivation, leading change, and innovation.
Credit : 3
Instruction methods : Lecture: 3 Hours
Prerequisites :
BU 101, BU 105, or BU 110
Business Analytics
Course Code : BU 301
Course Description :
Business analytics is applied in operations, marketing, finance, and strategic planning, among other functions. The ability to use data effectively to drive rapid, precise and profitable decisions has been a critical strategic advantage for companies. As an introductory course in Business Analytics, this course provides fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in organizations. Students apply basic business analytics tools in a spreadsheet environment and learn how to communicate with analytics professionals to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for making better business decisions. Topics include managerial statistical tools in descriptive analytics and predictive analytics, including regression.
Instruction methods : Lecture: 3 Hours
Prerequisites :
CS 285
Introduction to Statistics
Course Code : BU 305
Course Description :
Studies the collection, classification, presentation, and analysis of statistical data with an emphasis on business applications.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
CS 219
OR
Probability and Statistics I
Course Code : MA 311
Course Description :
An introduction to the theory of probability and statistics utilizing methods from calculus. Topics include the axioms and rules of probability, Bayes Theorem, discrete and continuous random variables, univariate probability distributions, expectation, variance, and generating functions.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
MA 220 or MA 140
Principles of Finance
Course Code : BU 337
Course Description :
Introduces the techniques employed by firms in raising and allocating funds. Describes analytical tools used by financial managers.
Credit : 3
Prerequisites :
BU 210, BU 212, AND BU 305 or MA 311
Project and Operations Management
Course Code : BU 436
Course Description :
Individuals and businesses need to manage the processes that drive success, including the processes that bring goods and services to market, as well as the individual projects that are needed in every functioning area of business. This process-management course introduces students to essential concepts in operations management and project management to drive the success of individuals and businesses. Operations management focuses on converting resources and materials into finished products and services and methods for improving process operations to enhance competitive advantage in the growing global economy. Project management includes organizing and managing project teams, project selection, project planning, project scheduling, and project cost management, all in the context of costs/budgeting and risk management.
Instruction methods : Lecture: 3 Hours
Prerequisites :
CS 285 AND BU 251, BU 260, or CS 260
Students also complete two additional Computer Science or Business Administration courses at the 200-level or above.
Total Credits 120
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