COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this course the student will understand the research pro-
cess and the literature, tools and technigues associated with each phase of the
process from library research through objective specification, topic analysis,
hypothesis formulation, selection of research strategies and experimental de-
sign, data collection and analysis, to the preparation of publishable research
reports. The student will also be able to identify and evaluate the major
contingencies which influence the process or phases within the overall process;
(eg. operating paradigms, scientific versus socio-technical methods, empirical
versus theoretical, theory building versus testing, nomothetic versus idiographic,
causal versus correlational, etc.)  Finally the student will be introduced to
some of the frontiers of knowledge in MIS and will begin to develop the ability
to critically evaluate articles in the learned journals of this field.