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IS 351 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
Credits: 3(3,1,0) Prerequisite: IS 321

This course covers main aspects of process and product quality assurance. Process quality
assurance is covered under software configuration management (SCM) and product
quality assurance is covered under dynamic and static testing. The course presents testing
strategy, software reviews, and testing methods. In addition, it covers SCM as a related
process and SCM functional areas of source code management, builds engineering,
environment configuration, changes control, releases engineering and deployment are
explained. After completion of this course, students will be able to prescribe testing and
configuration management techniques for any kind of IT.

IS353 SOCIAL AND COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING
Credits: 3(3,1,0) Prerequisite: IS 311

This course focuses on the design of collaborative and social computing systems. The
course introduces theories for analyzing collaboration both on-line and face-to-face.
Student apply a theoretical perspective through the design of a social or collaborative
application. Application domains include blogging, tagging, on-line communities, social
recommending, ubiquitous computing, and collaboration in domestic settings. A
significant portion of this course is comprised of a course project. The project could either
be the design and implementation of a novel social computing system or an in-depth study
of some existing social computing system.

IS 361 PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Credits: 3 (3,0,1) Prerequisites: IS 241

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills they need for planning,
scheduling, monitoring, and controlling the process of developing information systems.
Topics covered include project management concepts, project planning, risk analysis, WBS
and task analysis, time scheduling, PERT and GANTT charts, project effort and cost
estimation techniques, resources allocation, project tracking and monitoring, and process
management methodologies.

IS 362 INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Credits: 3 (3,0,1) Prerequisite: IS 241

This course introduces students to the enterprise resource planning (ERP) approach and
how various business processes are integrated and how information systems can support
this integration. Topics covered include business processes, functional information
systems (financial, marketing, production, resources, inventory, and decision-making),
models, frames, the technology used for integration, business integration, business
processes, systems integration, enterprise resource planning systems and the role of real-
time information in business management. Hands- on experience with enterprise systems,
such as SAP R/3 is the integral part of this course.