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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 con-
tingencies which influence the process or phases within the overall process;
(e.g., operating paradigms, scientific versus socio-technical methods, empirical
versus theoretical, theory building versus testing, nomothetic versus idio-
graphic, causal versus correlational, etc.). finally, the student will be in-.
troduced to some of the frontiers of knowledge in MIS and will begin to develop
the ability to critically evaluate articles nin the learned journals of this
field.