VI. WEEKLY COURSE SCHEDULE
The weekly schedule below describes the learning activities that will help you achieve mastery of the course outcomes listed above and the assessments that will be used to measure your mastery those objectives. For each assessment, your professor will provide you with a rubric that will be used to evaluate your performance.
COURSE OUTLINE
ASSIGNMENTS: To be completed and/or submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. on the last day of the class week. The dates of each class week are noted below.

WEEK 1
COURSE OUTCOME IN FOCUS:
•Describe ways in which information technology creates business value
SUPPORTING TOPICS:
•Lecture/discussion to review basic MIS concepts and the critical role MIS plays in every business.
•Information technology’s role in business
•Information technology basics
•Roles and responsibilities in information technology
•Measuring information technology’s success
•Business strategy
•The five forces model – evaluating business segments
•The three generic strategies – creating a business focus
•Value chain analysis – targeting business processes WEEKLY ACTIVITIES:
•Read Chapter 1: Information Systems in Business
•Review course philosophy, expectations, assignments and late policy, grading, academic integrity, APA, and attendance policy.
•Lecture/discussion to review basic MIS concepts and the critical role MIS plays in every business.
•Lecture/discussion on measuring information technology’s success and roles and responsibilities in IT.
•Lecture/discussion on common business strategies.
Final Project:
•Final Project Assigned: The Broadway Café: You will find the below assignment in a document in your course shell called CIS 500 Final Project.doc. See the course schedule to see when each of the five components are to be submitted.
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