Information Systems, MSIS

Coles College of Business
http://coles.kennesaw.edu/

The MSIS program teaches choice, deployment, management and use of information and computing technologies in the way they bring value to an organization with special emphasis on the following areas:

Data Management and Business Intelligence Including Big Data
Information Security Risk Management
Global IT Management
System Analysis
Advanced IT Project Management
IT Strategy

Students are able to pick their own choice of capstone experience from a spectrum of choices between thesis and industry internship (see details in course section). Prior permission is required to take courses outside of the department, students should contact the program director before they register for non-MSIS courses.

Note: No more than six (6) credit hours may be taken outside the MSIS program.

Core Requirements (33 Credit Hours)

IS 8005:Informatics (Must be completed in student’s first semester in MSIS)
IS 8060:Information Systems Development Methods and Technologies
IS 8080:Database Application Design and Implementation
IS 8100:Advanced IT Project Management
IS 8200:Legal and Ethical Issues in Information Systems
IS 8310:Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
IS 8330:Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning
IS 8400:Enterprise Process Models
IS 8600:Global IS Management
IS 8920:IT Customer Relationship Management
IS 8935:Business Intelligence - Traditional and Big Data Analytics
Note:
1. The Informatics course must be completed in the student’s first semester of coursework.
2. The remaining 30 core credits can be earned in any sequence of the student’s choice.
3. None of the flexible capstone experience courses can be taken before the student has completed at least 12 credit hours of MSIS coursework at KSU including summer semesters, if any.

Information Technology Course Equivalence

Students may consider the following courses as equivalent:

IT 6823 Information Security Concepts & Administration is equivalent to IS 8310 Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance

IT 6583 Business Continuity Planning and Implementation is equivalent to IS 8330 Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning

Capstone Experience Elective Course (3 Credit Hours)

Only one of the following six options can be taken for credit toward the MSIS degree.

IS 8700:Information Systems Policy and Strategy
IS 8900:Special Topics in Information Systems
IS 8910:Special Projects in Information Systems
IS 8916:Cooperative Education
IS 8918:Internship
IS 8990:Thesis
Note: None of the flexible capstone experience courses can be taken before the student has completed at least 12 credit hours of MSIS coursework at KSU including summer semesters, if any. The thesis course in the flexible capstone experience can be taken only after a student has successfully completed 18 credit hours of MSIS coursework at KSU as described in the set of prerequisite courses for MSIS thesis (IS 8990).

Information Systems, MSIS

Core Requirements (33 Credit Hours)

Information Technology Course Equivalence

Capstone Experience Elective Course (3 Credit Hours)

Program Total (36 Credit Hours)