School of Information Systems

Information Systems

Overview

The need for information technology in the business industry has shifted to an environment that is more outward-looking in order to compete in the free market. Information Technology is closely related to Information Systems in that they jointly support an organization. They facilitate the smooth running of the whole organization and strengthen its competitiveness.

Information Systems supports staff, records, communication, and the information technology that together helps develop the business operation as well as assisting with problem solving and management decision making.

The Information Systems study program was founded to meet the demand for skilled and knowledge human resources in the field of information systems. The program includes information systems development, methods and equipment (language programming and database) and information system management.

Program Objective

  • To provide student with solid foundation of system development skill and knowledge to applied skills and ability they will need as system analyst.
  • To prepare students with  skills and knowledge in depth information system related with business intelligence, e-business and strategic information system.
  • To provide student with applied business  application knowledge to specific industry purposes.

Graduate Competencies

  • Graduate will be able to illustrate a good knowledge about the framework information system.
  • Graduate will be able to analyze information requirements and business process.
  • Graduate will be able to specify and design systems that are aligned with organizational goals.
  • Graduate will be able to manage and integrate data to produce good quality of information.
  • Graduate will be able to design systems that are aligned with organizational goals.
  • Graduate will be able to manage and integrate data to produce good quality of information.
  • Graduate will be able to analyze, design, and implement e-business technology and application.
  • Graduate will be able to deploy business application effectively.

Curriculum

The Information Systems study program curriculum is designed in such a way as to refer to the curriculum recommended by ACM, namely ISSC (Information System-Centric Curriculum  for educating the next generation of information systems specialists, in collaboration with industry), IS  (curriculum model and guidelines for undergraduate degree program in information systems) ACM and AIS, MSIS (model curriculum and guidelines for undergraduate degree program in information systems) ACM and AIS, Computing Curricula  and a cooperative project between ACM, AIS, and IEEE-CS. The curriculum draws on the influence of foreign universities with a reputation for quality Information Systems study programs.

Core Group
The curriculum  consists of:

  1. Character and Employability Skill
  2. Information Systems Concepts
  3. Information Technology Concepts
  4. Business Concepts
  5. Information Systems Development and Implementation

Elective Group
The objective of this group is to provide the students with the knowledge and skills required by business and industry. The materials for this group will always be adjusted in accordance with the latest market requirements, to best prepare graduates to participate in and face the competition in the job market.

Concentration Subjects (Stream)
Concentration subjects (Stream) include:

  1. Strategic Information systems: to explore various strategic information systems issues;
  2. E-business: to explore various technologies and methodologies in developing e-business;
  3. Business Intelligence: to explore various business intelligence technologies and methodologies;
  4. Applied ERP: to explore enteprise resource planning applications;
  5. Applied Database: to explore specialized computer technology for Oracle-based database application development.
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