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COURSE SYLLABUS
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Section 5160
. RESEARCH TOPICS IN MIS
First Semester 1980-81
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Time:  Tuedday 1:30-4:30
Place: Business Building, Room 208
 INSTRUCTOR
Name: - Milt Jenkins
Office: 670B Business Building

Office Hours: M,T s W 9:00-11:00 and by appointment
Office Phone:  337-8449
Home Phone: 332-4136

REOUIRED MATERIALS

There is no known text material for this course. Reading material for the
course will be selected from the course topical bibliography. The precise articles
to be covered during the semester will be determined during the first two weeks of
the semester.

CONDUCT OF COURSE

The course will be conducted as a seminar. Fach student is expected to par-
ticipate in every class. The grade will be determined on the basis of the guality
of the student's participation.

One student will be assigned primary responsibility for each reading assign-
ment. "That student will: 1) prepare and present a l0 minute disucssion of the
article, 2) lead the subseguent class discussion, 3) prepare a short (less than
1/2 page double spaced) abstract of the assignment, and 4) prepare a one to three
page summary of the material including its relation to other relevant material
and the student's critigue of the research methods and technigues employed in the
study.  (Items 3 and 4 are to be neatly prepared and a copy is to be distributed
to each member of the class.) Each student will read all assignments before the
class on which it is due. There will be no guizzes or examinations.

OBJECTIVE OF COURSE

Upon completing this course the student will understand the current frontiers
of knowledge in most of the topic areas within the MIS field. The student will
recognize the relationships between the research objectives and the research tech-
nigues employed in examining the topic area. The student will understand the cur-
rent paradigms which guide the research activities in the various topic areas.