CENTER FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

TOWSON UNIVERSITY

Course No. AIT 730

Course Title: Case Studies in Information Systems Management

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite: AIT 628 and 630

Course Description: Real-world projects dealing with the issues related to development, management and maintenance of large-scaled information systems; emphasis is on business information systems for a distributed environment.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course students should:

1. be able to design and implement distributed information systems;

2. understand the issues involved in managing a distributed information systems;

3. understand the security issues concerning an information systems;

4. understand and be able to predict cost, schedule and resource requirements for developing and maintaining a large-scaled information system