MS - Business Intelligence Course Descriptions
Core Courses
DSS4415 Foundations for Business Intelligence (3 credits)
This course is intended to provide an integrative foundation in the field of business intelligence at the operational, tactical, and strategic levels. Topics such as value chain, customer service management, business process analysis and design, transaction processing systems, management information systems, and executive information systems will be covered, along with other topics relevant to the field of business intelligence.
DSS4715 Developing Decision-Making Competencies (3 credits)
This course will focus on the basic concepts of technology, data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP), and how to make it easier to get organizational data. The modeling process of identifying, analyzing, interpreting and presenting results so as to transfer the data into decisions will be examined. Students will learn how to utilize advanced managerial decision making tools such as optimization and simulation, to analyze complex business problems and to arrive at a rational solution. For each of the analysis techniques, the methodology will be developed and applied in a real business context.
DSS5515 Concepts and Practice of DSS Modeling (3 credits)
Building on the background of DSS-4415 and DSS-4715 this course will extend the use of spreadsheet modeling and programming capabilities to explore decision models for planning and operations using statistical, mathematical and simulation tools.
DSS5525 Database Management Theory and Practice (3 credits)
Business Intelligence rests on the foundation of data storage and retrieval. In this course, students will be presented with the theory of operational database design and implementation. The concepts of normalization, database queries and database application development will be introduced using contemporary tools and software for program development.
DSS5535 Enterprise Data (3 credits)
Traditional database design concentrates on the functional areas of business and their database needs. At the strategic and value-chain levels we look at data across the enterprise and over time. The issues of Enterprise Data in the Data Warehouse, Data Marts, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and the concepts of Data Mining will be surveyed in this course.
DSS5545 Applied Business Intelligence (3 credits)
Using the case study approach in combination with contemporary software tools, students will apply the concepts of business process analysis and design, quality control and improvement, performance monitoring through performance dashboards and balanced scorecards and process simulation.
DSS5555 Advanced Business Intelligence (3 credits)
The capstone course in the Business Intelligence program will extend the concepts of data mining to an exploration of a contemporary Data Mining toolset on a large live dataset. In this course, students will be encouraged to find the patterns in the data and to prepare reports and presentations describing the implications of their findings.
Decision & System Sciences Specialization
Business Intelligence Specialization
DSS5565 Critical Performance Management (3 credits)
This course integrates the concepts of decision support, database management and critical performance management through practical application development in the Microsoft Office environment (Excel, Access and VBA). When completed, students will be able to construct department level user-oriented applications that capture data from transaction processing systems and present that data for business users in decision-compelling format.
DSS5575 Advanced Business Intelligence II (3 credits)
This course extends the data mining process to the predictive modeling, model assessment, scoring and implementation stages. In this course, professional data mining software, small and large data sets will be used to effectively analyze and communicate statistical patterns in underlying business data for strategic management decision making.
DSS5585 Management Issues in Business Intelligence (3 credits)
A critical success factor in Business Intelligence is the ability to communicate one’s analyses and recommendations to decision-makers. In this capstone course, students are directed to prepare a thesis document that serves as a model for doing this effectively. Issues examined include writing an effective thesis statement, making logical arguments, the constraints imposed by media richness, and the limitations of transferring explicit knowledge.
Behavior Analysis Specialization
SOC4605 Basic Principles of Behavior Analysis (3 credits)
This is an advanced course on principles of learning. This course will cover studies of principles of learning from simple animal studies to more complex issues such as the acquisition of human language. We will outline from a behavior analytic perspective on such issues as thinking, feeling, and imagining. We will follow the structure of Catania's text including an overview of learning processes, learning without words in an evolutionary context, and with words examining memory.
SOC4615 Applied Behavior Analysis (3 credits)
This course covers the practical aspects of being an applied behavior analyst working in the criminal justice system, school system and the community setting. The topics cover basic principles of applied behavior analysis; application of these principles to children ADHD, ODD, and CD8; writing behavioral objectives; training parents and professionals to execute operant and respondent based treatments; programming for generalization; working as a behavior analyst in a CASSP system; and legal or ethical issues in the treatment of children in a diverse society.
SOC4625 Behavior Analysis and Consultation (3 credits)
Consultation has become a major approach to service delivery of psychoeducational services to children and adolescents. This course focuses on behavioral consultation in the juvenile justice system, school system, workplace, and community settings. The topics covered are best practices in behavioral consultation, the verbal behavior of the consultant and the consultee, building a consulting relationship, problem identification interviewing, direct observation methodology, problem analysis interviewing, skills and functional behavioral assessment methodology, functional analysis, standardized behavioral assessment, positive behavioral support and developing a competing behaviors model, treatment plan design and implementation, and treatment evaluation using single subject designs and graphical analysis of the data.
SOC4635 Behavioral Development (3 credits)
This course focuses on Basic Principles in Behavior Analysis and how they shape the development of normal and abnormal children. The role of these principles in normal development and developmental problems such as language delays, motor developmental delays, conduct and oppositional defiant disorder, childhood depression and autism are explored. The course reviews field applications including observations, functional behavioral assessment, curriculum-based measures and intervention strategies that involve both the school and the family.
SOC4645 Clinical Behavior Analysis (3 credits)
This course observes behavior analysis as it enters into the child clinical, adult clinical, supervisory level and organizational behavior. The primary goal of the course is to provide an overview and skills for behavior analysts in criminal justice to function as parole and probation officers with both adults and children, as well as organizational and system level change experts.
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