INFT 950 Design and Management Aspects of Information Systems
Spring 1996 Tuesdays 4.30 --7.10 pm
E H Sibley
Home: (703) (unlisted, so don't look in the book for it)
GMU office (Mon and Tuesday afternoons) 993-1669 == S&T II Room 453
Prerequisites:
Admission to Ph.D. program, economics, business practices, applicable mathematics and statistics, and some organizational behavior or psychology.
Student Requirements
This is a seminar. The first week is introductory; then class members will read and discuss material: a set of recent articles. This will involve four or five per week, totalling 50 to 100 pages, depending on length and difficulty. Reading material will normally be from Conferences and seminars conducted in the last two years and recent journal articles, though some older "classic" papers will be included.
The entire class will read each paper, but one person will lead the discussion: a "presenter" of the prime arguments and a "critic" of the material. The class will also interact. Some material has been chosen as examples of poor research or doubtful analysis -- you will decide which.
In the last two and a half weeks, students will select a short paper (of their interest) for discussion. This will be handed to all the class for review prior to the day.
Grade:
This will be as computed as follows:
Presentations and critiques 30%
General course participation 30%
Final paper 40%
The reading list may vary, but this is the probable schedule:
Material: Click here
Last Modified: 02:05pm , January 08, 1997