| Subject | Number | Title | Hours | Catalog Description |
| IDS | 200 | Intro to Management Information Systems | 4 hours. | Introduction to concepts and application of information technology for solving business problems and supporting organizational functions. Includes hands-on instruction on use of computer-based productivity tools. Same as IDS 100. |
| IDS | 201 | Introduction to Business Programming | 3 hours. | Disciplined computer-assisted problem solving. Structured programming, data types and data structures, modularization. Program design for business information- and decision-support. Credit is not given for IDS 201 if the student has credit for MCS 260. Prerequisite(s): IDS 200 and MATH 160 or the equivalent courses. |
| IDS | 270 | Business Statistics I | 4 hours. | Survey of concepts and techniques for business applications of statistics. Use of computer software for tabulation and analysis of data. Prerequisite(s): MATH 160 or MATH 165. |
| IDS | 312 | Business Project Management | 3 hours. | An integrative approach to learning how projects contribute to the strategic goals of the organization. Major issues: selecting projects, project management techniques and tools, budgeting, monitoring, risk mitigation, and interpersonal skills. Prerequisite(s): IDS 200. |
| IDS | 313 | Internet Applications in Business | 3 hours. | Internet business applications in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, and marketing. Assessing business problems, planning Internet-based solutions, and understanding web tools. Students interested in further studies can continue with IDS 413. |
| IDS | 331 | Business Analysis Using Spreadsheets | 3 hours. | Analyzing business cases using spreadsheet software. Effective and efficient use of Excel. Spreadsheet automation using Visual Basic for Applications. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): IDS 200. Recommended background: ACTG 110 |
| IDS | 355 | Operations Management | 3 hours. | Application of management sciences to the planning and design of production, distribution, and service systems. Prerequisite(s): IDS 200 and IDS 270 and ENGL 161 and ECON 218. |
| IDS | 371 | Business Statistics II | 3 hours. | Continuation of survey of statistical concepts and techniques for operational and managerial decisions. Use of computer software for analysis of data. Prerequisite(s): IDS 270 and MATH 165. |
| IDS | 400 | Advanced Business Programming Using Java | 0 TO 4 hours. | Visual extended business language capabilities, including creating and using controls, menus and dialogs, objects and instances, mouse events, graphics, file-system controls. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 201 or IDS 331 or a programming course in mathematics or computer science, or consent of the instructor. |
| IDS | 401 | Business Object Programming using Java | 0 TO 4 hours. | Basic concepts in object-oriented programming such as objects, classes, class inheritance and interfaces, data abstraction and encapsulation, polymorphism, and dynamic binding. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 201 or IDS 331 or the equivalent. |
| IDS | 403 | Information Security | 3 OR 4 hours. | Examine the field of information security to prepare students for their future roles as business decision-makers. Presents a balance of the managerial and technical aspects of information security. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 200 or the equivalent. |
| IDS | 405 | Business Systems Analysis and Design | 3 OR 4 hours. | Theory of analysis, design and development of information systems; information management and database management systems; data management and analysis; case studies in systems implementation and evaluation. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 201 or IDS 331. |
| IDS | 406 | Business Systems Project | 3 OR 4 hours. | Project experience in a business setting. Analysis, design, development and evaluation of computer-based business information systems. Project planning, scheduling and management. Project work at an outside company or University office. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of programming and databases; or consent of the instructor. Recommended background: Familiarity with systems analysis and design (IDS 405). |
| IDS | 410 | Business Database Technology | 3 OR 4 hours. | Computer software techniques used in business with emphasis on information management and database management systems. Data management and analysis. Major types of database management systems, query languages. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 201 or IDS 331. |
| IDS | 412 | Distributed Business Systems | 3 OR 4 hours. | Organizational aspects and underlying concepts of distributed business systems, decentralization versus centralization issues, costs of distributed computing, and performance evaluation measures. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 201 or IDS 330; and credit or concurrent registration in IDS 410. |
| IDS | 413 | Internet Technology and Management | 3 hours. | The technologies of World Wide Web development. Topics include: TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, HTML authoring, XML, ASP programming, client-side programming, and Web 2.0, web servers, database servers, business application servers and Internet. Credit is not given for IDS 413 if the student has credit for IDS 424. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): IDS 201 or IDS 331; and IDS 410. |
| IDS | 420 | Business Model Simulation | 3 OR 4 hours. | Simulation analysis of strategic business decision models for investment, marketing, product introduction, and operational policies concerning inventory, production planning, quality assurance and supply chain management. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in IDS 355; or credit or concurrent registration in IDS 331 or the equivalent. |
| IDS | 422 | Knowledge Management Systems | 3 OR 4 hours. | Computer-based methods for decision support. It aims at providing exposure and insights into a range of approaches and tools for decision aiding, and how they can be utilized in supporting various managerial decision processes. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 410 or consent of the instructor. |
| IDS | 435 | Optimization Models and Methods | 3 OR 4 hours. | Linear , nonlinear, dynamic programming, combinatorial methods. Use of spreadsheet and other software tools. Duality, sensitivity analysis. Models for business operationss and planning, computer systems, transportation, finance. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 355; and IDS 371 or the equivalent. Business Administration students must have declared a major. |
| IDS | 437 | Stochastic Methods | 3 OR 4 hours. | Stochastic processes and other applications of probability theory. Use of spreadsheet and other software tools for analysis, simulation and decision theory. Models for business operations and planning, computer systems, transportation, finance. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 355 and IDS 371. |
| IDS | 446 | Decision Analysis | 3 OR 4 hours. | Prior and posterior distributions; conjugate priors; value of information; applications to decision making in business. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371. |
| IDS | 450 | Advanced Operations Management | 0 TO 4 hours. | Application of management science to the operation and control of production, distribution, and service systems. Emphasis on inventory management, production planning, capacity expansion, and demand forecasting. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): IDS 355 or the equivalent. Business administration students must have declared a major. |
| IDS | 454 | Introduction to Supply Chain Management | 3 OR 4 hours. | Supply Chain Management is studied as an information-intensive, integrated system for managing material flows, logistics and inter-organizational partnership to deliver products and services. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 355. |
| IDS | 460 | Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods | 3 OR 4 hours. | Planning and analyzing surveys. Topics include simple random sampling, stratified sampling, systematic sampling, ratio estimation, and cluster sampling. Case studies with applications to real situations. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371. |
| IDS | 462 | Statistical Software for Business Applications | 3 OR 4 hours. | Statistical software in business applications and data mining. SAS and other packages such as SPSS, MATLAB, Maple, Splus, B34S, SCA. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371 or consent of the instructor. |
| IDS | 470 | Multivariate Analysis | 3 OR 4 hours. | Introduction to the structure and analysis of multivariate data. Emphasis on the multivariate normal model. Regression; tests concerning multivariate means, classification; discriminant analysis, principal components. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371; or MATH 310; or MATH 320. |
| IDS | 472 | Business Data Mining | 3 OR 4 hours. | Searching for relationships between variables in databases. Decision trees, cluster analysis, logistic regression, path analysis. Applications to marketing, quality assurance, operations management, human resources. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Credit is not given for IDS 472 if the student has credit for IDS 572. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371 or the equivalent. |
| IDS | 473 | Introduction to Risk Management | 3 hours. | Introduction to risk management. Loan and credit management; credit scoring. Risk measurements and reserves; banking and insurance capital requirements, the BASEL accord, tail events and catastrophic event insurance. Financial contracts and hedging. Same as FIN 473. Prerequisite(s): FIN 300 and IDS 371. |
| IDS | 474 | Quality and Productivity Improvement Using Statistical Methods | 3 OR 4 hours. | Directed experimentation for quality and productivity improvement, quality surveillance, design and analysis of two-level factorial experiments and multi-level experiments, data transformation. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371 or consent of the instructor. |
| IDS | 475 | Database Accounting Systems | 3 OR 4 hours. | Concepts and principles of designing database systems to perform accounting functions, applications of microcomputer accounting software packages systems design tools, and computerized transaction cycles. Same as ACTG 475. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): ACTG 211 and IDS 200. |
| IDS | 476 | Business Forecasting Using Time Series Methods | 3 OR 4 hours. | Autoregressive, moving average, and seasonal models for time series analysis and business forecasting. Forecasting using multi-variable transfer function models is also included. Same as ECON 450. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371 or ECON 300 or ECON 400; or consent of the instructor. |
| IDS | 478 | Regression Analysis | 3 OR 4 hours. | Data collection and exploration; model building; variable least squares; residual analysis; variable selection; multicollinearity; ridge regression; nonlinear regression; nonparametric regression. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IDS 371. |
| IDS | 479 | Enterprise Risk Management | 3 OR 4 hours. | Overview of enterprise-wide risk management strategies and techniques: strategies that firms employ to enhance value and minimize exposure; techniques used to identify, measure, reduce, and transfer risk. Same as FIN 479. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): FIN 300; or consent of the instructor. Recommended background: IDS 473 or FIN 473. |
| IDS | 494 | Topics in Information and Decision Sciences | 3 OR 4 hours. | Topics vary; selected readings; case analysis. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated up to 1 time(s) if topics vary. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. |
| IDS | 495 | Competitive Strategy | 4 hours. | Multidisciplinary analysis of organizational strategy and policy using case method and/or business simulation. Assignments involve extensive library research and oral and written reports. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing in the College of Business Administration and completion of all other CBA core courses, or consent of the instructor. |
| IDS | 499 | Research Experience | 1 TO 3 hours. | Research experience under the supervision of a faculty member. The faculty member and student will determinne the research project. Each student must submit a written report and each student must participate at a research event on campus. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours. Students may register in more than one section per term. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the department and the instructor. |