Management Information Systems Department
SYLLABUS
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COURSE: |
BSAD 101, Business Concepts for
Technical Professionals |
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INSTRUCTORS:
E-mail: |
Dr. Thomas S. E. Hilton T-Th 11:00-12:00 or by appointment |
SSS
411 M-Th 1:30-2:30 or
by appointment 715/836-3155 715/836-4959 |
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TEXT: |
Business
Essentials, 5th ed.,
by Ronald J. Ebert & Ricky W. Griffin, Pearson Prentice-Hall, ISBN
0-13-144158-2 |
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PREREQUISITES:
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Be
a Computer Science Major, Have at least sophomore status |
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COURSE
GOALS: This course is designed to
help Computer Science majors extend their understanding of the business aspects
of their field. It introduces vocabulary, concepts, and practices of business
professionals in a context designed to help the technically adept computer
professional improve his/her business acumen. The course is highly integrative,
including accounting, finance, management, marketing, and business
communication. It emphasizes project management, team participation, business
process reengineering, business systems analysis, business dress and behavior,
career planning, and business ethics. It is designed to address Standards
IV-15, IV-16, and IV-17 of the ABET/CAC Criteria for Accrediting Computer
Science Programs. The course also dovetails with the following goals of
education at UW-Eau Claire:
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GOAL |
BSAD 101 |
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1. |
Understand Liberal
Education |
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2. |
Appreciate the University
as a Learning Community |
Interview a Business Faculty
Member on how Computers Facilitate Learning Communities |
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3. |
Inquire, Think, and Analyze |
Value of Computers in
Organizations |
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4. |
Write, Read, Speak, and
Listen |
Nonverbal Communication in
Business |
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5. |
Understand Numerical Data |
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6. |
Develop an Historical
Consciousness |
Business Lessons from the
History of Computing |
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7. |
Have
International/Intercultural Experiences |
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8. |
Understand the Scientific
Method |
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9. |
Appreciate the Arts |
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10. |
Understand Values |
Business Ethics |
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11. |
Understand Human
Behavior/Institutions |
Managing Your Career |
Students are required to upload samples of their work in this class into the
UWEC ePortfolio system for use in University assessment.
Note that University assessment is an evaluation of the University and does not
affect students’ standing in any way. Access the ePortfolio
system by entering webportfolio.uwec.edu
in your Web browser’s address bar.
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this course center on demonstrating a
grasp of
1.
basic
business/organizational vocabulary in the areas of accounting, finance,
management, marketing, and business communication;
2.
professional
presentation tools and techniques;
3.
professional
dress and behavior;
4.
interpersonal
communication and coordination skills necessary for successful teamwork;
5.
the vocabulary,
issues, and decision-making processes of business/organizational ethics;
6.
techniques for
predicting the organizational impact of technical decisions; and
7.
tools and
techniques of planning and managing a successful career.
ACCOMMODATION
OF DISABILITIES: Students with
disabilities are encouraged to discuss their needs with the instructor, preferably
during the first week of class. All reasonable accommodations will be made to
see that disabilities do not restrict a student's opportunity to learn. Help is
also available from the Disability Resource
Center (Old Library 2136, phone 715/836-4542).
COMFORTABLE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: UW-Eau Claire, the MIS Department, and
your instructors are all committed to maintaining an inoffensive,
non-threatening learning environment for every student. All class members are
thus to treat each other politely—both in word and deed. Offensive humor and
unwanted personal advances are specifically forbidden. If you feel
uncomfortable with a personal interaction related to this class, feel free to
see the instructor for help in solving the problem. The dean of the College of
Business and the UWEC Affirmative Action
Office are also available to help as needed.
WORK REQUIRED FOR THE COURSE:
The class is organized to have maximum participation by the students.
Most course content will be taken from the text and presentations.
Supplementary information will be added by the instructor and class members as
needed. To complete course requirements, students will use e-mail, the
Worldwide Web, the McIntyre Library, etc. They will also develop and deliver
presentations, interact with team members and clients, and apply techniques of
system development and project management.
STUDENT EVALUATION: Students’ grades in the course consist of the eight
components listed next, each component contributing the indicated percentage of
the total grade:
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Involvement
with a C.S. Professional Society |
5% |
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Class
Participation |
10% |
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Persuasive
Business Memorandum |
10% |
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Chapter
Presentations |
35% |
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Presentation
Web Page and Quiz Items |
10% |
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Presentation-Related
Quizzes |
10% |
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Final
Exam |
20% |
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Ethical
Conduct |
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Involvement with a C.S. Professional Society: It is virtually impossible to succeed in information
systems without participating in a professional society. Active membership in a
society such as ACM (via the CS-sponsored student chapter for instance) yields
at least four benefits: contact with practicing professionals and potential
employers, continuing education to stay current in the field, a forum for
contributing ideas to the industry, and fun getting to know people like you.
Hence, students are to be involved with a regional, national, or international
professional society in the computer
science field. To fulfill this requirement, students can show evidence
of membership and participation (at least four hours during the semester) in
such a society, or they can write a two- to three-page report describing a CS
society they would join if they could and its potential benefits to their
career. Membership in societies not in the computer science field, while
laudable, does not fulfill this requirement. Reports are due by the last
regular class period. Late reports are normally not accepted. Reports are
graded A/B/C/D/F on punctuality, content, organization, language mechanics, and
format.
Class
Participation: An important part of
this class is practicing the use of appropriate vocabulary to discuss business
concepts and how they relate to the practice of computer science in
organizations; all students are thus to attend all class sessions (this is
University policy), participate vocally and regularly in class, and complete
the quizzes associated with MIS topic presentations. Students should also come
to every class prepared to evaluate and respond to each other’s presentations.
During the last week of regular classes before final exams, students are invited
to e-mail the instructors with a self-assessment of their class participation.
In their self-assessment they should treat at least these points:
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how often they
were absent or tardy
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how attentive
they were during class
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how often they
volunteered comments in class
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whether they were
polite to and honest with the instructor and their classmates
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how well they
participated in out-of-class team meetings
Students
should bear in mind that a major objective in this class is to develop their
professional business demeanor: their e-mail message should thus be well
written and their questions and comments well formed.
Persuasive Business Memorandum: In the course students will develop their understanding
of the connections between the technical and professional areas of their field.
As part of this, students will write one persuasive business memorandum from
the list of topics at the right of the goals of education at UW – Eau Claire
near the top of this syllabus. Submissions will be graded on content,
organization, language mechanics, and formatting; one
resubmission is allowed. Note that this essay is to be an opportunity to
reflect on your own experience and
substantiate your own professional
opinion; this is not primarily a
research paper. Note also that this essay is to be originally developed for
BSAD 101; students are not to recycle an essay from another class (or worse,
from another author). Each essay is to be posted on its author’s ePortfolio.
Text Topic Presentations: Each team will give three oral presentations
to the rest of the class on topics of their choice from the text as approved by
the instructors. Each 30-minute presentation will include the development of a
PowerPoint presentation and accompanying activities, quiz items (see below),
and a Web site (see below). Students will also take the quiz associated with
each presentation except their own. Following these guidelines will ease the
task of preparing the presentations and improve their quality:
1.
Gain approval of
your topic from the appropriate instructor before investing lots of effort in
it.
2.
Develop an
outline of the presentation content as a team, and review it with the
appropriate instructor as a team.
3.
Develop all
presentation materials (i.e., PowerPoint file, Web site, and quiz).
4.
Each team member
participates equally in each in-class presentation.
5.
Use visual aids
and activities to involve the audience in the presentation.
6.
Critique the
rehearsal of another team’s presentation outside class using the presentation grading sheet.
7.
Rehearse the
presentation using a draft of your visual aids and activities for the team that
agrees to critique you.
8.
In the
presentation, dress, behave, accept input, and answer questions professionally.
9.
Receive the
evaluations of the instructors and the other class members.
10.
As needed, meet
with the instructors to resolve issues from the evaluations.
11.
Although the
instructors have final authority for each presentation’s grade, class members
will also evaluate the presentation; these evaluations will form the basis of
presenters’ grades. Evaluations will be graded on content, organization,
presentation style, and media use. See the presentation grading
sheet at the end of this syllabus.
12.
The PowerPoint
file for the presentation is to be posted on each team member’s ePortfolio.
Quiz Items: Each student in the
group will write at least five multiple-choice test items on the presentation
topic (e.g., a two-person group would generate at least 10 test items). Test
items should be addressed in the presentation and be written according to the guidelines for
writing high-quality multiple-choice items. For each item, identify the
correct answer and the content source. Once the test items are complete, e-mail
them to your team members for feedback and revision (consider using the “track
changes” feature of Word). Once all members of the team have reviewed and
approved all the items written for their presentation, link them to the
presentation web page (see below). Test items are due one week after the
presentation date. Once the items are posted to the Web, all class members
should study the items for each presentation and e-mail questions regarding
them to all the members of the presentation team that developed them.
Presentation team members should consult with each other and the instructor as
needed to generate a correct response to each question then modify test items,
inform the class members, or take other appropriate action. The test items thus
developed and revised will form the quiz that all students must complete as homework
for the presentation. Test items are graded on content, punctuality, mechanics,
and format. The quiz items are to be posted on each team member’s ePortfolio.
Web Page: Students on each team will work together to create a
web page that includes their topic presentations and e-mail the URL to the
instructor for linking to the syllabus. At minimum, the web site home page is
to include the following components:
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The course name
and section number, team members’ names and contact information, presentation
titles, quizzes, and each presentation date;
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A one- or
two-paragraph summary of the major ideas treated in each presentation;
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A link (or other
access directions) to the sources used by the team in preparing the
presentation;
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A link to the
presentation aids (e.g., PowerPoint slides, activities, etc.) used in the
presentation; and
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The quizzes
developed by the presentation team (also due one week after the presentation).
Students
who do not want to use another method to create the quiz may use the following
steps to create the quiz in MS Word:
1.
Open
2.
Select web view.
3.
Edit quiz title and items.
4.
Display Web Tools toolbar, and enter Design Mode.
5.
Edit properties of first hidden field at top of
quiz.
a.
Make Value <your-email-name@UWEC.edu>
6.
Edit properties of second hidden field at top of
quiz.
a.
Make Value <the name of
your quiz>
7.
Save as web page (often).
8.
Link quiz to presentation web site using relative
URL.
9.
Store all web
site files on W: drive in MIS\MIS460 folder.
The web page will be graded by the
instructors per the criteria listed above, and each part is to be posted in
each team member’s ePortfolio.
Final Exam: The final exam is a multiple-choice vocabulary &
concept exam covering all aspects of the course. The exam is comprised of items
from the quizzes developed for the presentations. The exam will be administered
online in class via D2L.
Ethical Conduct: To pass this
course, students are to behave in accordance with defined norms of professional
ethics. In part, these include submitting assignments and arriving in class on
time; doing your own work on assignments, reports, and tests; attending and
participating in all class sessions; dressing appropriately; behaving
collegially; and obeying the law. For more detail, see the MIS Faculty
and Student Ethical Standards.
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SCHEDULE
FOR BSAD 101 |
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Date |
Activity/Topic |
Instructor |
Presenters |
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1/23 |
Course Introduction, Form
Project Teams |
Hilton, Pratt |
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1/25 |
Hilton, Pratt |
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1/27 |
General Systems Theory |
Hilton, Pratt |
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1/30 |
Hilton |
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2/1 |
Syllabus Revision
Discussion |
Hilton |
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2/3 |
Looking Credible: Nonverbal
Business Communication |
Hilton |
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2/6 |
Oral Communication:
Prepared, Spontaneous |
Hilton |
All |
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2/8 |
** Attend Internship Mania
in Davies Center ** |
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2/10 |
Pratt |
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2/13 |
Understanding
Entrepreneurship and Business Ownership |
Pratt |
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2/15 |
Pratt |
Josh & Dean |
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2/17 |
Business Writing: Format
& Language Mechanics |
Pratt |
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2/20 |
Hilton |
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2/22 |
Hilton |
Josh & Dean |
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2/24 |
Pratt |
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2/27 |
Pratt |
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3/1 |
Pratt |
Lisa & Andrew |
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3/3 |
Hilton |
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3/6 |
Hilton |
Ethan & Tim |
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3/8 |
Hilton |
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3/10 |
** Attend IT Conference at
Avalon Conference Center ** |
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All |
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3/13 |
Hilton |
Bjorn & Daniel |
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3/15 |
Organizing the Business
Enterprise |
Pratt |
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3/17 |
Pratt |
Lisa & Andrew |
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3/20 |
** Class Dismissed for
Spring Break ** |
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3/22 |
** Class Dismissed for Spring
Break ** |
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3/24 |
** Class Dismissed for
Spring Break ** |
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3/27 |
Managing Operations and
Improving Quality |
Pratt |
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3/29 |
Pratt |
Scott & Jenny |
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3/31 |
Hilton |
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4/3 |
Hilton |
Bjorn & Daniel |
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4/5 |
Hilton |
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4/6 |
** Attend AITP IT Seminar
in Davies Center ** |
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All |
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4/10 |
Hilton |
Ethan & Tim |
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4/12 |
Understanding Marketing
Processes & Consumer Behavior |
Pratt |
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4/14 |
** Class Dismissed for
April Break ** |
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4/17 |
** Class Dismissed for
April Break ** |
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4/19 |
Pratt |
Bjorn & Daniel |
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4/21 |
Hilton |
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4/24 |
Hilton |
Scott & Jenny |
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4/26 |
Pratt |
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4/28 |
Pratt |
Lisa & Andrew |
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5/1 |
Money & Banking,
Securities & Investments |
Hilton |
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5/3 |
Hilton |
Scott & Jenny |
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5/5 |
Hilton, Pratt |
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5/8 |
Student Presentation
(have quiz ready by 5/12) |
Hilton, Pratt |
Josh & Dean |
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5/10 |
Student Presentation
(have quiz ready by 5/12) |
Hilton |
Ethan & Tim |
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5/12 |
Course Wrap-Up |
Hilton, Pratt |
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5/16 |
Final Exam at 10:00-11:50
a.m. in SSS 204 |
Hilton, Pratt |
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EVALUATION CHECKLIST FOR BSAD 101 TOPIC PRESENTATIONS
Presenters:
______________________________________________________________
Topic: __________________________________________________________________
Evaluator:
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Absent |
Poor |
Fair |
Good |
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I.
CONTENT E. Verifiability (sources, citations) |
(40 pts) [ 0 ] |
[ 3 ] [ 3 ] |
[ 5 ] [ 5 ] |
[ 8 ] [ 8 ] |
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II.
ORGANIZATION |
(20 pts) |
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III.
PRESENTATION |
(20 pts) |
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IV.
MEDIA |
(20 pts) |
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V.
SUBTOTALS |
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VI.
TOTAL/GRADE |
(100pts) |
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Comments: ______________________________________________________________
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