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CONDUCT OF COURSE

The course will be conducted as a seminar. Each student is expected to
participate 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 as- s
signment. (Primary reading assignments will be made at least one week before
the class in which they are due and will be recorded on the "Class Presenta-
tion Schedule".) That student will: (1) prepare and present a 10 minute
discussion of the material, (2) lead the subseguent class discussion, (3)
prepare a short (less than 1/2 page double spaced) abstract of the assignment,
when an abstract is not provided in the original reading, and (4) prepare a
one to three page summary of the material including its relation to other rele-
vant material.  (Items 3 and 4 are to be neatly prepared and a copy is to be
distributed to each member of the class.) FEach student will read all assign-
ments before the class on which it is due. There will be no guizzes or exami-
nations.

Pages 12 through 15 illustrate the plan for this course. 'This schedule
is intentionally incomplete. Depending onthe interests and knowledge levels
in the class, modifications to this schedule will be made. nAdditional read-
ings and exercises may be included and the seguence of topics may be altered.
Finally, the time, date and location for some class meetings may be changed
to accommodate visitors. It is therefore important that you bring this sylla-
bus to each class meeting to record any additions or changes.

Page 9 presents a model of the research process in the context of the
Management Information Systems Field. "This model is a useful framework on
which 'to "hang". the materials covered in this course. These materials will
deal with (1) the research process and its elements, (2) the MIS Field System,
and (3) the environment. ?Particular attention will be focused on defining the
boundary between the MIS Field System and its environment. This model will be
discussed during the first class meeting.