| Title |
CSIS-116: Survey of Information Technology |
| Instructor |
Dr. Eric Breimer
ebreimer@siena.edu
786-5084
RB 311 |
| Office Hours |
| Monday |
10:15-11:20 AM |
3:30-4:30 PM |
| Wednesday |
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3:30-4:30 PM |
| Friday |
10:15-11:20 AM |
3:30-4:30 PM |
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| Textbook |
Fluency with Information Technology
by Lawrence Snyder |
| Prerequisites |
(CSIS-112 and CSIS-114) or CSIS-350 |
| Overview & Goals |
This course is the capstone course for the minor in Information Systems.
Student will work on projects in lab where they will utilize the knowledge and
skills that they developed in previous courses. The main goal is to give student
experience planning and designing information systems for business. In lecture,
we will cover a potpourri of topics designed to give students an understanding
of new technologies and their role in shaping business. This semester, the course
will focus on E-commerce and the Internet. Specifically, we will investigate the
use of the Internet to build business opportunities and achieve competitive advantages.
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| Topics |
- E-commerce fundamentals
- Web-based and graphical user interfaces
- Searching and information retrieval
- Internet: history, infrastructure, and protocols
- World Wide Web: web servers, urls, domain, html
- Information representation and organization
- Basic HTML and PHP programming
- Review of database fundamentals
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| Grading |
| Weighting
- 30% Project
- 15% Final Exam
- 20% Exams and Quizzes
- 20% Lab Assignments and Homework
- 15% Lecture and Lab Participation
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Cut-offs
| A |
> 93 cumulative final average |
| A- |
>90 |
| B+ |
>87 |
| B |
>83 |
| B- |
>80 |
| C+ |
>77 |
| C |
>73 |
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| Project |
Student will work on a semester long project. The final product will be a
working website, documentation, and a presentation that will be worth 30% of your
cumulative final average. |
| Final Exam |
There will be a cumulative final exam worth 15% of your final average. |
| Exams & Quizzes |
Typically, exams will be announced at least a week in advance and will be
worth 5-10% of your final average. Check the calendar. Quizzes may be un-announced
and will be worth 3-5% of your final average. There will be a combination of 3
to 4 exams and quizzes given during the semester. Together they will be work 20%
of your cumulative final average. |
| Lab Assignments & Homework |
There will be 5 to 7 lab assignments and homework that must be completed outside
of lab time. Together these assignments will be worth 20% of your final grade.
Each assignment will have a specific due date. Late, assignments will not be accepted. |
| Labs |
There will be 11 lab periods during the semester. Some labs will have a designated
activity that must be completed during lab time. Some activities may require work
outside of lab and will be designated as homework. Some labs periods will be used
so that groups can work collaboratively on their project. To get credit for these
labs, you must work productively for the entire 2 hour lab period. |
Attendance
Policy |
The instructor reserves the right to penalize students up to 15% for excessive
lateness, sleeping, disruptions, or lack of participation during lecture or lab.
Lab attendance is required. To get credit for lab, you must either complete the
designated activity/assignment or (when designated) spend the entire 2 hour lab
period working on your group project.
Penalties for missing lab:
- If you miss one lab period you will receive a 2% penalty on your final average.
- If you miss two lab periods you will receive a 7% penalty on your final average.
Thus, there is no way to receive an A in the course.
- If you miss three lab periods you will receive a 13% penalty on your final
average. Thus, a B is the highest grade you can earn.
College Attendance Policy
http://www.siena.edu/academics/policies/studentpolicies/collegeattendancepolicy.php |
Academic
Honesty |
- Cheating on the a quiz, a homework, or an exam will result in an automatic
grade of zero.
- In addition, you will receive a letter grade reduction on your final grade
for the semester.
- If you are caught cheating a second time, you will automatically fail the
course and a formal letter describing your misconduct will be send to the academic
affairs office.
Academic integrity is a severe problem on homework assignments. When working on
individual homeworks, it is often necessary to get help in order to interpret
questions. Students often cross the line and receive too much help. You can discuss
the course material, the problems, and general ideas for how to approach a problem,
but your solution should be your own work and you should guard it from plagiarism.
You should never compose your answers with the help of other students or tutors.
Unless a homework assignment is designated as collaborative, all submitted work
should be work of the individual. Excessive similarity in answers will be consider
plagiarism.
Academic Integrity at Siena College
http://www.siena.edu/academics/policies/academicintegrity/
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| Makeup Policy & Excuses |
- If a serious emergency or medical issue arises, special arrangements can be
made at the discretion of the instructor. However, the instructor will only consider
serious, documented emergencies and issues.
- For illness or medical emergencies, you WILL have to show
documentation (a doctor's note or equivalent) that verifies your excuse.
- For family emergencies, it is required that you contact academic affairs or
the counseling center to inform them of the problem and the time you will miss.
If your emergency is serious, academic affairs or the counseling center will contact
all your instructors to make sure you are allowed to make up missed work.
- If your excuse is not documented or if it is not serious enough to contact
academic affairs then you will get a zero on all missed work.
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