UH Bauer MIS Major Requirements (8 courses) Revised March 2013
Junior Year: Four Required Courses:
MIS 3360 Systems Analysis and Design Prerequisite MIS 3300. Introduction to the systems analysis and design process. Focus is on gathering systems requirements from the business unit and modeling business needs and creating plans for how the system should be implemented.	MIS 3371 Transaction Processing I Pre or corequisite MIS 3360. Introduction to web applications. The focus is on client-side: scripting languages, HTML, CSS and XML.
MIS 3370 IS Tools Pre or corequisite MIS 3360. Introduction to object-oriented programming. The current programming language used in JAVA.	MIS 3376 Database Management I Pre or co requisite MIS 3360. An introduction to database management systems. The current course focuses on the Oracle relational database system.
Senior Year: Two Required Courses: [CAUTION: Senior courses are scheduled at popular times that will conflict with junior level courses offerings. Do not postpone completing your junior requirements as this will create scheduling conflicts in your senior year and may delay your graduation.]
MIS 4374 IT Project Management Prerequisites: MIS 3360; MIS 3370; MIS 3371; and MIS 3376 (prerequisite change effective Fall 2012). Focuses on the management of information technology projects. The class includes a real-world project where student teams design and implement a MIS system for an organization.	MIS 4478 MIS Management and Lab Prerequisite MIS 3360 and senior standing (Lab will be removed in Fall 2012 and the course number will become MIS 4378). Developing and managing computer-based management information systems. MIS departmental organizational structures, information systems planning, and managing system development projects including laboratory experience.
Senior Year: Two Required Electives (Four suggested). [You have in your degree plan two Advanced Business Electives, we strongly recommend that you satisfy this requirement with MIS electives to give you more technical skills. If you take "MIS electives" to satisfy the "Advanced Business Electives", you can take a total of four courses from below and not delay your graduation] Take two (or more) from the following:
MIS 4372 Transaction Processing II Prerequisite MIS 3371. Follow-up to MIS 3371 focuses on server-side web applications: MS active server pages; MS SQL Server; MS VB.Net; MS C#; PHP; and AJAX.	MIS 4373 Transaction Processing III Prerequisite MIS 3371. Follow-up to MIS 4372. Covers IT Audit and various Sarbanes-Oxley compliance models such as: COBIT, COSO and ITIL.
MIS 4477 Network & Security Infrastructure Prerequisite MIS 3360. Coordination of the hardware and software components of data communications systems, networks and security. Includes laboratory experience.	MIS 4379 Business Systems Consulting Prerequisite consent of instructor. Practical aspects of evaluation, implementation, and design of complex information systems in the consulting environment. Teams perform a consulting project for a real organization.
MIS 4381 Management of IT Security Prerequisite MIS 3360. The management of information security, considering profit, legal, and ethical perspectives, and covering topics such as threat identification and security incident response.	MIS 4390 Energy Trading Systems Prerequisite: Senior Standing. This course covers the prevalent computer technologies, processes and practices in support of energy commodity trading with emphasis on the US domestic market. Topics covered include a history of deregulation of energy commodities in the US, the US interstate pipeline system, basic energy deal types, financial trading and hedging, commodity risk management and the business systems and practices necessary to succeed in the modern energy trading environment.
MIS 4386 Database Management II Prerequisite MIS 3376. Follow-up to MIS 3376. Covers advances features of the Oracle database management system.
MIS 4397 Mobile Development Prerequisite: MIS 3371 and consent of instructor. Students will work in teams to create a useful and interesting iOS and/or Android mobile application from start to finish. Mobile application development techniques and best practices will be discussed, and students will have to carefully consider the design, marketing, positioning and development of their application. Finished applications can be potentially deployed to multiple app stores by using PhoneGap, a tool that allows native applications to be created with HTML5 and other web technologies.	MIS 4397 Cloud and Collaboration Solutions Prerequites: MIS 3360; MIS 3376; MIS 3371; MIS 3370. The course will cover:(a) Cloud Computing -- offerings; usage scenarios; benefits; economics; and storage and compute alternatives. The primary technology focus will be on the Microsoft Azure Platform and Microsoft Cloud Services; (b) Collaboration -- document collaboration; portals; administration; customization; and business process automation. The primary technology focus will be on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
MIS 4397 Advanced Technologies and Energy-related Systems Prequsites: MIS 3360; MIS 3376, MIS 3370, MIS 3371. This course is designed to expose the student to the variety of system development tools and technologies commonly employed to solve energy-related information delivery problems. The topics covered are: advanced object-oriented concepts, virtualization, back-end database options, and the energy-related information technology domain. The course focuses on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP).	MIS 4397 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Prerequites: MIS 3360; MIS 3376; MIS 3371; MIS 3370. Introduction to GIS concepts, map design, geo-databases, geo-processing and spatial analysis. Industry leading GIS software (ESRI's ArcGIS) will be the major tool utilized. Once concepts are understood focus will be toward understanding specific application to uses by energy companies and the understanding of pipeline measurements, routing, linear referencing and dynamic segmentation.
MIS 4397 User Experience Essentials [New Summer 4 2013] Prerequisite: MIS 3371. This class will introduces the core skills in user experience (UX) design, why UX matters, and how to put the design process to work for you in many areas of business. Working through a series of practical hands on exercises, you will explore all aspects of user experience design including user research, information architecture, visual design, content strategy, accessibility and calculating the ROI for UX. Throughout the process we will discuss how to choose which deliverables to use and when to use them. In a fun and interactive environment, you will learn practical tools and techniques you can begin to use immediately.
Advising: Rima Attar, Room 262, Melcher Hall, rattar@uh.edu MIS Student Organization (MISSO): www.misso.org Faculty Advisor: Michael Parks, Room 280E Melcher Hall, parks@uh.edu