Management Information Systems (MIS) - Course Descriptions

ACCT 201      Financial Accounting (3, 0) 3

The course intends to provide an exposure to basic concepts of accounting viz. Nature and purpose of accounting, accounting principles, introduction to single entry and double entry system, Preparation of Journal, Ledger and Trial Balance, Simple and complex adjustments, preparation of worksheets related to purchases, sales, receivables, payables, inventories, cash control, property, plant and equipment. Preparation of Final Accounts viz. Trade/Manufacturing account, Profit and Loss account and Balance sheet, simple and complex adjustments.

ACCT 202      Financial Accounting II        (3, 0) 3

The course provides the advanced aspects of accounting on the areas of Partnership firm accounting viz. formation, admission, withdrawal and dissolution of partnership firms, exposure to corporations stockholders equity, identification of Earnings per share, and dividends, long term liabilities, bonds payables, marketable securities, Analysis and interpretation of financial statements, importance of GAAP, exposure to analysis of company reports.

 

BUSN 203      Business Law and Ethics      (3, 0) 3

The course offers the advanced concepts and applications of legal aspects in the real business situations viz. Contract law, Law of tort, employment law, including ILO conventions, consumer law, company law, partnership law, property law etc. This course also covers the business law related to TRNC and Turkey.

 

BUSN205       Principles of Management         (3,0)3

This course studies the basic concepts of management. It covers the study of the planning, organising, leading and controlling function of management. Discussion of the key issues of management practice such as approaches to management, management and society, and global management.

 

BUSN411       Strategic Management       (3,0)3

A strategic managerial perspective. Topics covered include: Nature of strategic decision-making; strategy formulation and planning cycle; strategy and mission relationship; macro-environmental analysis – the SWOT concepts and value chain. Global strategy and the multinationals.

 

COMP309     Visual Programming           (3,0)3

The course covers various aspects of visual programming relevant to computer science. The basic notions of visual programming are introduced and studied.

 

ECON101       Principles of Microeconomics        (3,0)3

Introducing the basic concepts, nature, scope and methods of economics; introduction and a general view of the price system; elasticities; consumer behaviour; theory of the firm; perfect and imperfect competition; monopoly vs competition; the theory of distribution; factor markets and income distribution.

 

ECON102       Principles of Macroeconomics         (3,0)3

Introducing the basic concepts of macroeconomics; national income and its determination, elements of public finance; money and banking; income and employment theories; international trade; the balance of payments and exchange rates.

 

ENGL121        English I          (3,0)3

The primary aim of this course is to help students to develop study skills, which will improve their overall performance and competence on their programme. The course will also focus on specific language skills, in order to increase the students’ knowledge of grammatical structures, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, speaking and key features of academic English

 

ENGL122       English II                     (3,0)3

The primary aim of this course is to help students develop study skills including use of dictionaries and reference materials, finding relevant sources in the library. Tuition will be given in paraphrasing, summarising information, writing short essays and short research reports that are clear in terms of overall structure, organisation, and development of ideas, and which demonstrate on appropriate academic style. Students will also participate in discussions and debates, putting forward clear ideas, opinions and argument, plus give short oral presentations in class.

 

ENGL301        Communication Skills I             (3,0)3

A career in Management Information Systems will undoubtedly include the need to write technical reports, and to make presentations to senior management and clients. Students will be given specific instruction in how to create a technical report, and on how to make presentations with the use of presentation software. Language style, content, and layout will be covered, as will the techniques of information summary for presentation to management.

 

ENGL302        Communication Skills II                (3,0)3

A career in Management Information Systems will undoubtedly include the need to write technical reports, including user guides and user manuals. This course will demonstrate the particular skills needed when presenting information to non-computer users. Graphic design and layout will be covered, including font styles and sizes, and using software tools such as automatic content creators and indexers.

 

ENGL402        Technical Writing          (3,0)3

This final year course in technical writing will concentrate on the development of technical reports for computing projects, including user guides, technical documentation, and management reports.

 

HIST100        History of Turkish Reforms          (2,0)2

History of the construction of the Turkish Republic under the light of Kemal Ataturk’s principles. This course is designed for Turkish speaking students.

 

HIST200        History of Turkey and Cyprus     (2,0)2

This course is designed for non-Turkish speaking foreign students. The aim of the course is to introduce a brief history of the Turkish Republic and Cyprus. Social, economic, and political aspects and effects of Western civilization on Turkey and Cyprus. Relations with the Middle East. 

MARK301    Marketing           (3,0)3

This course is design to introduce students to marketing both as a   as a vital business philosophy and as a key functional area. Topics covered are: Essentials of  marketing, strategic planning, the marketing environment, marketing   research, consumer markets, consumer behavior, organisational markets, measuring and forecasting demand, market segmentation, market targeting and  market positioning. 

MATH107 Mathematics for Business & Economics I (3,0)3

The aim of this course, offered by the Department of Business and Economics, is to teach specific mathematics for business students. Topics covered include: logical operations sets and real numbers, equations and inequalities, systems of equations, matrix algebra, mathematical functions, exponential and logarithmic functions.

 

MATH108 Mathematics for Business & Economics II (3,0)3

This course is a continuation of MATH107. Topics covered include: Limits, properties of limits and continuity, derivative, economic and business applications, optimisation, identification of mixima and minima, curve sketching, integration, differential equations, definite integral and areas. 

MIS107  Introduction to Programming   (3,0)3

Basic introduction to computer and programming terminology; data, information, I/O, processing, and use of notations. The characteristics and functions of high-level block structured languages. The basic structure of computer programming. The fundamentals and concepts of algorithms. The components of algorithms; Processing, Comparing, Testing, Validation. The fundamentals of drawing flowcharts; INPUT/OUTPUT, PROCESS, LOOPS, CONDITIONS, JUMPS, ARROWS. The functions and techniques of programming.  The concepts of structured programming; sequence, selection, and iteration including Pseudo-code. 

MIS109  Information Technology      (2,2)3

An overview of each of the important areas of Computer Science (e.g. basic computer architecture, number systems, networking, operating systems, algorithms, programming languages, software engineering) provides students with a general level of proficiency for future courses. 

MIS114  Programming in C-I         (3,2)4

Problem-solving methods and algorithm development; high-level structured programming using C-languages. Development of process of design, coding, debugging, documentation; focus on good programming style and sound program construction. Includes basic aspects of string processing, recursion, search, sort and simple data structures.

 

MIS116    Fundamentals of Digital Computing     (3,0)3

The course covers various aspects of discrete mathematics and its applications; relevant to computer science (logic, sets, relations, functions, graphs, algebra, Boolean functions, automata, algorithms). It also teaches how numbers are represented in a computer and how arithmetic operations are carried out. MIS202    Data Communications and Networks  (3,0)3Multiplexing, switching, computer networks, protocols, communication reliability, security, standards in communication. ISO OSI - Reference model. Protocol suits. Local Area Networking. Internetworking. 

MIS203  Programming in C-II     (2,2)3

Fundamental nature of information and storage structures and their manipulation. Strings, arrays, sets and other basic data structures. Iterative and recursive programming techniques. Storage systems, structures and allocation. Introduction to sorting and searching techniques.Pre-requisite: MIS114 

MIS206     Systems Analysis and Design     (3,0)3

The course emphasizes the systems approach in studying and developing information and other systems. Organizations are considered as systems, and their major subsystems and levels of management are studied. The systems development life cycle is considered. The phases of preliminary investigation, systems analysis, and systems design are studied in detail. The corresponding techniques for data gathering, data analysis, etc. are looked at. Other phases of systems life cycle are considered in less detail. Methods of project management and cost-benefits analysis are introduced. 

MI214    Operating Systems       (3,1)3

This course studies the fundamental issues of modern operating systems. Topics covered by the course include a historical perspective on today's operating systems, processes and threads, multithreaded programming, file systems, I/O hardware and software, interrupts, deadlocks, memory management, inter process communication using sockets and pipes, security, system programming, and process scheduling 

MIS302    Internet Information Systems   (3,0)3

This course covers the development of information systems for use over the Internet or WWW. It covers private and public systems, and the human factors involved in developing systems for an unknown user.  

MIS303      Management Information Systems      (3,0)3

This course focuses on the applications of IT within organizations, particularly the acquisition development and implementation of computer based information systems. It covers, the theory, planning and the use of Information Systems by management. Various approaches to developing, building MIS, software tools, end user computing and information centers IS planning strategies and management science. 

MIS304  Network Security     (3,0)3

Understand computing security vulnerabilities and the techniques and tools for developing secure applications and practicing safe computing.To survey the principles and practice of network security. The emphasis of the course is on the underlying principles and techniques of network security with examples of how they are applied in practice 

MIS305      Data Analysis        (3,0)3

The goal of this strand is to provide an introduction to collecting, representing and interpreting data across the range of Informatics. Students will learn the different perspectives from which data is used, the different terminology used when referring to them and a number of representation and manipulation methods.  A small number of running, illustrative examples will be presented, from the perspectives of hypothesis testing and query formation and answering. 

MIS306          Human Factors    (3,0)3

User centered design for interaction, human computer interaction. Understanding the effects of human factors in developing and operating the information system. Practical issues encountered in man-machine interaction and user-interface design. Current trends in the development of interaction technologies.  

MIS329 Computer Systems  Programming    (2,2)3

An introduction into the basics of programming at operating system level using the right tools for the task. This course uses C as the implementation language and assignments are implemented on the Linux platform. However, the core ideas presented are independent of any programming language and operating system. The use of platform-independent tools is emphasized. For example, the course teaches how to work with make files, debuggers, and powerful text editors that are platform independent. The student is expected to learn how to use the GNU/Linux operating system. Main topics covered include processes, file systems, shell scripting, inter process communication, memory management, bitwise operations, and string handling.  

MIS338     Database Systems I           (3,2)4

Introduction to databases, and their role in the world today. Typical uses of databases.    level conceptual model. Data independence. Data definition language. Data Manipulation Language. Database Manager, Database Administrator. Database Users. Tables. Null values. Normalisation. Replication and redundancy. Entity-Relationship diagrams. How to configure for class of relationship and depth of relationship. Repeating groups. Eliminating repeating groups. Separate attribute types. Enterprise rules. Subscripted attributes. Determinants and Identifiers. Superfluous attributes. Determinant diagrams. Composite determinants. Transitive determinants. Transformation into well normalized tables. Notation. Boyce/Codd rule. Fully normalized tables. Hidden transitive dependency. Multi-valued determinancy.  Advantages of full normalization. 5 normal forms, 1NF â€" 5NF. First level design. First level design procedure. Scenario example. Query by example and SQL. Object Oriented model. New database applications. Object structure. Class hierarchy. Distributed databases. Structure. Tradeoffs. Design of distributed databases. Replication. Fragmentation. 

MIS401 Information Systems Development  (3,0)3

Introduction to information systems and information technologies.  Information and information system concepts. Basic components and functions of computers. Information systems technologies and telecommunications. Fundamentals of information systems. Overview of different types of information systems. Utilization of software packages widely used (word processors, spreadsheets, databases, presentation software). 

MIS402         Strategic Information Systems     (3,0)3

This course defines information technology management strategies, explores the possible information technology strategies of an organization, and provides conceptual frameworks for the development and evaluation of information technology management strategies. It also examines concepts of strategic information technology systems, approaches for analyzing strategic applications, and systems planning as it relates to information technology management strategy and the interface with organizational strategies. 

MIS404   Legal and Ethical Issues in Computing  (3,0)3

Introduction to EU law pertaining to information systems. Introducing legal and ethical issues related to computer based information systems; the usage of computers, intellectual property rights, software safety, computer misuse, data protection, copyright, patent, contract, tort, antitrust, privacy, quality, honesty, sensitivity to end-user needs. Understanding of a computer professional’s environment, professional ethics and code of conduct. 

MIS410      Summer Training I      (0,0)0

Out-of-school training in an area of concentration is compulsory for each student at the end of both the second and third academic year. The training period must be a minimum of 4 weeks, and the student is required to submit a detailed report of his/her daily/weekly accomplishments as a prerequisite for graduation. 

MIS420 Graduation Project for MIS        (0,6)3

A software development project to be completed by the student in one semester

 

POLS114 Introduction to Law     (3,0)3

The course introduces the student to the basic concepts and practices of law, and branches and organization of the law, and discusses the judiciary on a comparative perspective.

 

STAT203   Statistics I     (3,0)3

This course, offered by the Department of Business and Economics, is specifically designed to give the student a sound understanding of statistical techniques that are of direct relevance to the business and management environment. Topics covered include: Introduction to the use of statistics in business, summarizing, frequency distributions, charts, diagrams and graphs, statistical descriptions, sample-population, measures of locations and dispersions, introduction to probability, probability distributions,; binomial, Poisson and normal distributions. 

STAT204       Statistics II        (3,0)3

This is a continuation of STAT203. The course is designed to demonstrate the need for statistical methods and probability models that have a direct application to business and management problems. Topics covered include: statistical inference, hypothesis testing, chi-square distribution, distribution, linear regression and correlation, index numbers, time-serie analysis.   

TURK100 Turkish          (2,0)2

Introduction to the grammar and structure of Turkish language, the changes and developments, oral and written presentations. Reading and analyzing essays in Turkish literature. This course is designed for Turkish speaking students. 

TURK200  Turkish     (2,0)2

This course is designed for non-Turkish speaking foreign students. The aim of the course is to teach basic Turkish language to foreign students.

 

Electives

In years 3 and 4, MIS students may take electives from a number of offered courses. Typical courses include HTML and Javascript, Java, C#, software engineering, artificial intelligence, decision support systems, systems software, compiler construction, fuzzy logic and neural networks, distributed databases, project management, modern programming languages, and others. It may also be possible to select suitable electives from the Business and Economics Faculty, such as Corporate Accounting, Management Accounting, International Business, and others.