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Course DescriptionsIntroduction to Epidemiology Project Management in Healthcare: Effective project management requires a thorough understanding of the tenets, procedures, philosophies and principals that need to be developed and managed to maximize success. Implementing project management in a healthcare setting requires additional insight and perspective into the environment, culture and services that are unique to healthcare. This course explores not only the essentials of project management, but also how that is influenced and impacted by the healthcare environment. The challenge is to be able to manage both a defined project as well as the healthcare setting it is being implemented in. This course will serve as a framework and resource by examining theoretical and practical applications of project management in healthcare for those who are interested in taking on this challenge. Components: Seminar HIM 377 4 Units Medical & Bioinformatics: Information Systems Approach: Medical Informatics, a novel academic discipline bridging Medicine and Information Sciences, may be defined as the science that deals with the structure, acquisition and use of medical information. With the global boom in healthcare and quantum advancements in IT, medical informatics is already becoming an exciting buzz word. This course is geared to meet the educational needs of two types of students: 1) The health care professional seeking additional training in information management and technology; 2) The non-health care professional seeking training in health information and technology. The main objectives of the program are to provide students with: - A theoretical and practical understanding of the role of information in health care, - A sound basis for implementing, developing, maintaining, and managing information resources and systems in health care. - Skills in the management of health information. Telemedicine, Telehealth and E-Health: This course covers the theory and practice of Telemedicine, Telehealth and E-Health. Telemedicine can be defined as the provision of health care services, clinical information, and education over a distance using telecommunication technology. Telehealth is understood to mean the integration of telecommunication systems into the practice of protecting and promoting health while telemedicine is often restricted to remote consultations between physicians and patients. With the advent of the Internet in the 1990s, the word E-Health has emerged that refers to all forms of electronic health care delivered over the Internet, ranging from informational, educational, and commercial “products” to direct services offered by professionals, nonprofessionals, businesses or consumers themselves. Components: Seminar HIM 385 4 Units Electronic Personal Health Records: This course will focus on electronic health records generally and personal health records specifically, with a unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with most respected experts in the field of Health Informatics. Through presentations, panel discussions, and case study analyses participants will explore:
This course will serve to educate participants on the gaps and needs of the consumer as a springboard for considering and enacting exciting new ideas for using e-health systems to provide benefits throughout society. This course will also provide an opportunity for educators to share their interests and experiences in providing a consumer health informatics perspective in the classroom. This course includes attendance of presentations, case studies and the following workshops:
Components: Seminar Introduction to Biostatistics: The study of biostatistics investigates the collection, organization, analysis and interpretation of numerical data generated from clinical and biological research questions. Biostatistics involves the application of statistical techniques to scientific research in health related fields, including biology, medicine, epidemiology, and public health. This course is considered an introduction to the basic statistical techniques used to analyze and interpret data in the health sciences and related fields. Examples are drawn from the biomedical literature and real data sets are analyzed by the students after an introduction to the use of a standard statistical computer package. Statistical techniques/topics covered in this course include: clinical research study design, description of samples, elements of probability, comparison of two sample means and proportions, estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, contingency tables, simple linear regression, analysis of variance and correlation. Additional topics include introduction to statistical computing, data management and life tables. IS 302 4 Units Database Systems: Covers database concepts and practices emphasizing the relational model. Various techniques for the development and use of databases are covered. Topics include relational design, transaction processing, decision support, integrity, and security. Components: Seminar IS 303 4 Units Organizations as Information Processing Systems The goal of the course is to introduce students to the major concepts and role of information technology (IT) in the modern organization. Today, IT provides firms and managers with strategic advantage in a competitive and dynamic market. The course takes a practical and managerial approach by bringing in basic terminology, new technologies, communication networks and the Internet, and showing how these become a critical success factor in the operation of companies in the business environment. At the completion of this course, the student should be able to: describe and distinguish among the wide array of information technologies that are available for supporting individuals, groups and organizations; identify, describe, and evaluate the role of information technology in relation to the organization’s business and competitive strategies; articulate trends in information technology and their business implications; analyze issues facing managers using information systems in organizations, including security and ethical and privacy concerns; demonstrate understanding of the purpose, concepts, problems, and solutions related to the use of management information systems globally and internationally, and understand the choices that are available in developing and acquiring systems. Components: Seminar IS 305 4 Units Information Systems Analysis and Design: Covers the application development process from an object oriented perspective. Various techniques for planning, analysis, design, and project management are discussed, with emphasis on UML and related methods. Components: Seminar IS 306 4 Units Communications and Networking: Familiarizes the student with the concepts and terminology of data communication, network design, and distributed information systems. Components: Seminar IS 313 4 Units Information Technology: The automatic processing and distribution of information -- the efforts of computers -- lie at the heart of information science. As a result, understanding how computers do what they do and how programmers interact with them is fundamental to every role in technology's expanding sphere of influence. Marketers, managers, strategic planners, administrators, and CEOs benefit from concrete and hands-on experience with the raw material of information science -- the computer program. This course will provide this hands-on experience using the Java programming language, in which several software projects of increasing complexity will be built from scratch. No programming background is required, though students with some programming background have also found the course helpful in conveying the issues that programmers face when practicing their craft. Components: Seminar IS 322 4 Units Web Development: This course will examine the principles and practices of Web application development. Evaluation of existing Web sites, design of new Web sites, and technologies for Web site creation are covered. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS305 IS 328 4 Units Management of IT: This course provides students with a deep understanding of what is involved in the Management of IT. The course will focus on three dimensions in the management of IT -- People (organizational change), Process (project management) and Product (key business applications with an emphasis on integration). The course will be structured to provide a thorough grounding in theory before proceeding into applications of theories through case studies and empirical research articles. As such, the course is aimed to provide a broad understanding of concepts relating to the management of technology as well as to introduce specific skills needed for successful IT project management. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS303 IS 329 4 Units Information Systems Policy: Ties together concepts introduced in various other courses. The information needs of organizational functions are integrated with information systems and electronic commerce through an information systems strategic plan. Components:Seminar Pre-requisite:12units of I.S. course work IS 330 4 Units The Practicum: The combination of this course and IS 329 is regarded as the capstone of the Master's curriculum. The Practicum integrates classroom instruction with experience gained from working for a "real" client. Students, working under faculty supervision, undertake projects involving the full range of information science applications. Student must have completed 24 units in information science before taking IS 330. Students enrolled in MSEC program will participate in a project specifically in Electronic Commerce. Students enrolled in the MSMIS program may take IS330 for credit twice. Components: Seminar IS 335 4 Units CurrentTopics: Focuses on the managementof information systems for large organizations and the role of informationscience in transferring technology to the organization. This seminar focuses ona different topic each time it is offered. Components: Seminar IS 342 4 Units Large-Scale Software Development: The development of large-scale software systems. Component-based development, enterprise application integration, role of middleware, defining architectures, and managing large projects are discussed. Implementation of capability maturity model is also covered. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS305 Social Technologies: The purpose of this course is to learn the mechanics of various social technologies, Components: Seminar Digital Media Theory
The Internet today teems with new forms of social media, including the digital publishing structures of blogs and wikis, a wide range of photo and video sharing services, and a growing number of social networking systems. This course will approach the study of these systems through their backstories, paying attention to the pre-history of the Internet systems we're now familiar with, the theoretical modes of reading that computer technologies have helped give birth to, and the social and political effects that these technologies produce. Components: Seminar IS 351 4 Units Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS306 or Instructor Permission IS 352 4 Units Cryptography & Computer Security: Webster dictionary defines cryptography as: "The enciphering and deciphering of messages in secret code or cipher.'' However, modern cryptography is a much broader field; it provides algorithms and protocols which protect honest parties from malicious parties. Malicious parties can, for example, eavesdrop to the communication on the Internet and try to read messages sent by other parties; they can try to impersonate other parties, or login to computers without permission. Basic topics in cryptography include secure encryption, digital signatures, and authentication. This course will take both a theoretical and engineering view of how to build secured information systems using network and computer security techniques. Mathematical background to understand DES, RSA, DSA and hashing will be covered. Various hacking techniques will be analyzed and solutions to protect systems will be discussed. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS306 or Instructor Permission IS 356 4 Units Management of E-Govermental Systems: The course will provide a comprehensive overview of e-governmental systems. Students will learn the latest in theory and practice relating to a variety of electronic approaches for delivering specific governmental services (e.g., health services) and as well as for fostering electronic governance (e.g., citizen participation) more generally. The course will be composed of four parts. Part I will be a review of theories and concepts that have driven the development of e-government policies and systems, drawing upon US and international research. Part II will be a best practices review, with learning modules based on case studies that emphasize the interaction of information system and public management/policy issues. Part III will be an interactive simulation exercise, where students will engage in a hypothetical e-government case aimed at practicing relevant planning, design, management, and evaluation skills. The concluding Part IV will be an examination of major trends and developments that could impact next-generation e-governance systems both in the US and internationally. Components: Seminar IS 357 4 Units Wireless Technology: The interconnection of terminals, computers, workstations, and other intelligent systems within a building or a number of buildings constituting a small campus. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS306 or Instructor Permission IS 360 4 Units Principles of Information Science Research: Introduces new doctoral students to the nature of doctoral studies. Introduces the conceptual foundations for information science research past and current research areas and researchers in the discipline. The student learns about writing the doctoral dissertation and develops a preliminary research topic analysis. Components: Seminar IS 364 4 Units Information Systems & Technology - Doctoral Seminar: In this class you will learn about interesting, cutting-edge information systems technology. Successful research in this field impacts our community, other sciences, and business. New, successful technologies lead to advances in other disciplines, such as medicine (better treatment of tumors, less errors in prescription, online patient communities), biology (in silico experiments), psychology (technology for therapy), etc. Dynamic, new, small businesses are also often created to commercialize successful research. The purpose of this class is for you to learn about such new, cutting edge technology, its major players, status of the field, hurdles and advances, underlying algorithms, and evaluation. In addition, it is essential that you can communicate your own knowledge and critically assess that of others. We will combine learning about technology with practicing these communication skills. In class, students present a tutorial on their chosen topic, and we hold a mini-conference for which students review, revise, and present a conference paper on that same topic. We will also discuss other relevant aspects of an academic career, such as giving a job talk, getting tenure, and grant proposal writing. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS360 IS 366A 4 Units Intensive Research Methods: Presents an overview of research strategies that study a few issues (e.g., systems, users, IS departments) in depth rather than many issues more selectively; provides hands-on experience in designing, conducting, and writing up case study research; emphasizes issues in research on information systems questions. Topics covered include: the variety of intensive methods and the evaluation criteria appropriate to each; the scientific status of analytic and interpretive methods relative to the natural science model; research design in case study methods, interviewing skills, combining quantitative and qualitative methods; theory building; ethnography; hermeneutics; writing strategies; ethical issues. Designed for Ph.D. students. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS360 & IS362 IS 366B 4 Units Quantitative Research Methods: Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS360 & IS362 IS 366C 4 Units Design Science Research Seminar: The course develops skills for implementing and evaluating the techniques and methods that are used in the various phases of design research. After an exposure to the characteristics that differentiate design research from other types of research, research methods and techniques used in the various phases of such research will be discussed in the context of exemplars of such research. The exemplars will be from a number of information systems areas such as software engineering, networking, Internet technologies, information security, telemedicine, middleware, multimedia and others. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS360 IS 368 2 Units Doctoral Dissertation Research Seminar: Selected research topics in Information Systems. This seminar is designed for Ph.D. students. Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS360, IS366 (A,B or C) IS 371 4 Units Knowledge Management: Knowledge management refers to the way organizations gather, manage, and use the knowledge they acquire. Topics covered include tacit and explicit knowledge and how it differs from data and information, strategic use, technologies, people and cultural issues, knowledge transfer, and implementation. Components: Seminar IS 373 4 Units Spatial & Visual Information Systems: This course provides an overview of the theoretical foundations and the applied use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). At the end of the course, each student has a working knowledge of GIS and how to apply these systems in various situations and organizational settings. Students demonstrate their understanding of the principles and fundamental concepts of GIS in a culminating project. The class is held in a computer lab, allowing hands-on learning involving a wide and growing range of GIS software applications and spatial data resources. Course Topics
Components: Seminar IS 374 4 Units Components: Seminar Pre-requisite: IS328 or permission from instructor Introduction to Persuasive Technology Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to conserve water when you shower? The answer is a resounding “yes”. Until recently, most software applications and technologies were developed without much thought to how they influenced their users. This perspective is changing. Today, industry experts and academics are embracing a purposeful approach to persuasive design. In an industry context, designing for persuasion is becoming essential for success. In academic settings, the study of persuasive technology illuminates the principles that influence and motivate people in different aspects of their lives. Persuasive technology may be defined as any interactive computing system designed to change people’s attitudes or behaviors. The emergence of the Internet has led to a proliferation of web sites designed to persuade or motivate people to change their attitudes and behavior. The auction site eBay has developed an online exchange system with enough credibility that users are persuaded to make financial transactions and to divulge personal information. Within the domain of e-health, systems such as mobile applications for managing obesity and digital interventions to overcome addictive behaviors have demonstrated the huge potential of persuasive technologies for behavioral changes. Through presentations, discussions, and case study analyses students will explore latest research results, best practices and guidelines for the use of persuasive applications. In addition, the course will host several expert guest speakers (practitioners, researchers, etc.) who will share their latest findings.
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Components: Seminar IS 382 4 Units This course introduces students to the design and development of basic GIS applications and systems. Utilizing knowledge gained in core IS courses; students will develop the fundamental components of a GIS solution. Students demonstrate their mastery of basic GIS solution development practices with the delivery of a prototype GIS. The course ensures that students are exposed to the most current technologies and examines emerging issues and trends in the field. Course Topics
Components: Seminar IS 383 4 Units Components: Seminar IS 384 4 Units Natural language is all around us: we speak and write to communicate, to transfer information, and to save knowledge. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is especially useful in information systems and technology because most of our advanced systems include some form of natural language. In this class, students will be introduced to NLP, available resources (lexicons, ontologies, etc) and tools (parsers, open source software). This is a hands-on class where we study cutting-edge techniques and apply these to current problems in different domains. GIS 386 4 Units This course focuses on the development of advanced GIS solutions. Students will acquire advanced technical skills and focus on designing and developing advanced GIS solutions to meet organizational and end-user needs. The course concludes with the delivery of a prototype GIS-based solution that addresses a real-world problem. The course ensures that students are exposed to the most current technologies and examines emerging issues and trends in the field. Course Topics
Components: Seminar GIS Solution Development - Practicum This course provides the student with an opportunity to design, develop, and implement a GIS-based solution in response to an industry/organization-defined problem. Ideally, this course will place students in an organization that is involved in the development of GIS systems and applications, such as ESRI, on a part-time basis for a semester. Students will be involved in various aspects of project planning and management (e.g., client relations, scheduling, data acquisition, etc.). Students will engage in such activities as maintaining a working relationship with the client, meeting project deadlines, managing the production of deliverables, and formally presenting their results. The course is designed to transition students from classroom participants to professional GIS Solution Development practitioners. Components: Seminar
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