Apr 17, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Courses


 

Computer Information Systems

  
  • CIS 1300 -  Problem Solving Using Computers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in MATH 2312  and Computer Information Systems Major or Minor or consent of program coordinator.
    Description
    Introduction to programming for business related applications. Emphasis on approaches to problem solving using computer programming. Hardware, software, number systems, basic computer organization, and structured programming.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 1348 -  Information Systems Application Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    Development of Information Systems Applications using modern application development technologies.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 1376 -  User Experience (UX) Principles

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Declared Digital Media or Computer Information System major or minor.
    Description
    History and evolution of UX research and the primary research methods used by usability researchers.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 2334 -  Information Systems Applications

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    Concepts and skills of data creation, retrieval, analysis, and management in support of organizational decision making.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 2336 -  Web Application Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS major.
    Description
    Foundations of web application development including coding principles and methods.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 2337 -  Fundamentals of Information Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.
    Description
    Information security, including technical security issues, people security issues, policy issues, privacy, and ethics.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 2347 -  Information Systems Infrastructure and Networking

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS major.
    Description
    Technologies and trends related to data communication standards, protocols, models, and architectures. Business justification for software and hardware components of industry infrastructure.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 2368 -  Advanced Information Systems Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS major and grade of C- or better in the following courses: CIS 1348 , CIS 2336 , MATH 1324 , and MATH 2413 .
    Description
    Use of integrated development tools for full-stack systems development. Architectural planning, technology selection, user interface design concepts, and programming for desktop applications that include database persistence.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 3320 -  Information Visualization

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in MATH 1342  or TMTH 3360  or equivalent.
    Description
    Information visualization offers instruments for reasoning about quantitative information, analyzing and communicating statistical information. The course overviews the main typologies of data graphics (data-maps, time-series, space-time narrative, relational diagrams, graphs and methods for dimensionality reduction) and provides a language for discussing data visualizations combined with a knowledge of the human perception of visual objects. The course teaches how to visualize information effectively by using statistical methods, combined with knowledge of the human perception and the basics of data graphics.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 3330 -  Information Systems in Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in TLIM 3363 .
    Description
    Analyze the role and impact of information systems in organizations.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 3337 -  Secure Application Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS major and grade of C- or better in CIS 1348  & CIS 2337 .
    Description
    Designing applications using a secure design life cycle process, including common causes of errors and current tools to improve code.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 3339 -  Enterprise Applications Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS major and grade of C- or better in CIS 2368 .
    Description
    Advanced n-tier client/server application development for an enterprise-wide setting
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 3343 -  Information Systems Analysis & Design

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CIS 2334  and C- or better in either MATH 1342  or TMTH 3360  or equivalent.
    Description
    Development and evaluation of information systems for organizational use with relation to effectiveness, efficiency, and cost
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 3351 -  Intrusion Detection and Incident Response

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CIS 2337  and CIS major.
    Description
    Intrusion detection and incident response for enterprise level computer systems, including technical, policy, and legal issues.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 3357 -  Cloud Computing Infrastructure

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CIS 3347.
    Description
    Cloud computing infrastructure principles and concepts. Technical issues include virtualization, broad network access, resource pooling, and rapid elasticity. Operational issues include both service and deployment models as well as the relationship between capital and operational expenses. Emphasis is given to leveraging cloud computing infrastructure to further organizational goals.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 3367 -  Cloud Computing Architecture and Implementation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS Major and Grade of C- or better in CIS 3347.
    Description
    Architecting and building flexible, scalable, and reliable web-based systems capable of supporting millions of simultaneous requests. Provisional computing power, storage options, networking, and databases. Industry best practices and design patterns for high availability, event-driven scaling, web-scale storage, and full automation and decoupling of the infrastructure.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 4320 -  Decision Informatics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in MATH 1342  or TMTH 3360  or equivalent.
    Description
    Computer information systems that support organizational decision making processes.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 4338 -  Advanced Database Concepts

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CIS 4365 .
    Description
    Query optimization, transaction processing, data warehouses, database security and privacy, special purpose databases such as temporal, spatial, or multimedia
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 4355 -  Information Systems Operations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS major and grade of C- or better in CIS 3347.
    Description
    Administration, configuration, implementation, and operations of information systems in organizations.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 4357 -  Digital Forensics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CIS 2337 , CIS 4365 , and CIS major.
    Description
    Digital forensics, including media analysis, data reconstruction, network forensics, and the legal issues surrounding the use of forensic data.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 4365 -  Database Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CIS 3343 .
    Description
    Applications of relational database systems.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 4367 -  Advanced Digital Forensics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in CIS 4357 .
    Description
    Advanced digital forensics; e-discovery, media analysis, data reconstruction, reporting and legal issues surrounding digital data in criminal and civil litigation.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 4374 -  Information Systems Project Management

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: C- or better in CIS 3330 .
    Description
    Focused on information systems project management topics including effectively manage resources, timelines, budgets, risks, and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of information system projects within organizations.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: No
  
  • CIS 4375 -  Information Systems Capstone

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIS major and grade of C- or better in all of the following courses: CIS 3339 , CIS 4355 , CIS 4365 , and CIS 4374 .
    Description
    Computer Information Systems capstone course. Information systems project management concepts through practice. Students plan, manage and complete a semester-long group project to develop a multi-user information system application for a client.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 4396 -  Internship in Computer Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Consent of department.
    Description
    Internship in Computer Information Systems under the supervision of faculty.
    Repeatability: No

    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 4397 -  Selected Topics in Computer Information Systems

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Approval of department.
    Repeatability: Yes

    Note: May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
    Additional Fee: Yes
  
  • CIS 4398 -  Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly OCTE 4398
    Prerequisite: Approval of chair.
    Description
    Individual projects under faculty sponsorship.
    Repeatability: Yes

    Additional Fee: Yes