Instructor:	France Belanger

Office:		CIS 2055		Email: 	belanger@groucho.bsn.usf.edu
Phone:		974-6767 (office)	Department: 	Phone: 974-5524
		xxx-xxxx (home)                         FAX: 974-6749
Web:		http://www.bsn.usf.edu/~belanger/teachsad.html

Class Hours:	11:00 - 12:15 p.m.  Mondays and Wednesdays  CIS 2084

Office Hours: Wednesday 01:00 - 03:00 PM 
Also by appointment.  Students
are encouraged to use electronic mail for setting up appointments or
requesting information. I monitor it daily Monday to Friday. 


Required Materials:  
Fertuck, Len.  Systems Analysis and Design with
Modern Methods.  Dubuque IA: B&E Technologies, 1995. 

Course Content:

This course is an introduction to the development of computer-based
information systems in organizations.  In this course, we will seek
answers to five main questions: 

1. What is a system, and what does it mean to develop and implement an
information system in an organization? 

2. How can the systems development project be managed? 

3. How do you identify what information needs should be processed by the system?

4. How do you model how that information must be processed by the system?

5. How do you design & implement information systems?


The goal of this course is to enable you to develop two types of knowledge:

1. Know about: the organizational, political, social, and technical issues
in systems development; the methods of systems development commonly used
in organizations; and MIS careers in systems development

2. Be able to: work in teams on systems analysis and design tasks; use
some common modeling methods and technology; and prepare systems analysis
reports. 

Required Class Activities and Grading Policy

TEST # 1:				10% 
TEST # 2:				10%
FINAL EXAMINATION:			25%
REFLECTION PAPERS:	 	 	 5%
EVALUATION/PARTICIPATION:		 5%
ASSIGNED PROBLEMS:			10% 
TEAM PROJECT:				35%
			      		-------
			       		100%		

Tests and final examination:
	All test questions will require either short answers or problem
solving.  Emphasis will be placed on the ability to apply knowledge
appropriately in new situations. 

Reflection Papers:  
	At intervals during the semester you will be asked to write a
short (1 to 2 page) reflection paper.  These papers will provide a
mechanism for you to communicate with the instructor about what you are
learning, what topics need to be revisited, and what you think needs to be
changed about the course.  Writing the papers will be an occasion for you
to review and contemplate on what you have learned in the past week or so
in the course, identify content areas which are unclear to you, and
provide feedback to the instructor. 

	The papers may be word processed or handwritten.  Submission of
all reflection papers will earn you 5 points toward the final grade.  The
individual papers will not be graded, but the instructor will read them,
comment as needed and return them.  The pap er should be informal in style
(don't worry about topic sentences, for example) and frank.  Make sure
that what you want to say is communicated.  Make sure that you have
thought about what you say.  Correct spelling and grammar is appreciated,
and a good habit for you. 

	Each reflection paper will answer 3 questions:

1. What have I learned in the course since the last paper?  You should
include not only the material presented in class, but also what you learn
from reading the textbook, doing the class assignments, studying for
tests, or talking to one another. 

2. What topics that have been presented in the class or in the book are
unclear? (Another way to think about this: what do I think I should have
learned that I haven't?) 

3. What needs to be changed about the course?  Especially welcome here are
both diagnoses of what is wrong -- and suggestions for improvement. 

	You should always have something to write about for either
question 1 or 2.  Unfortunately (for the instructor) you will probably
have something to write about question 3. 

Evaluation/Participation: 
	At the end of the semester, the instructor will evaluate each
student's participation in class activities and assign a 5 point grade.

Assigned Problems: 
	Problems from the textbook will be assigned throughout the
semester. You will be given approximately one week to complete each
assignment. They will be graded on a pass/fail basis and will make up 10%
of the final grade. 

Team Project: 
	Each student will be assigned to a team and will work on a major
project. Further details will be provided later in the semester. 

Regrade Policy:  
	All tests and projects may be submitted for re-evaluation of the
grade by the instructor.  To request a regrade, you must submit a written
request within one week of the date the test or project was returned.  The
written request must include a cover she et that explains (1) the specific
test questions or aspects of the project that you want re-evaluated, and
(2) why the original grade is in error or should be reconsidered. 


Availability of Class Material:
	I will try to provide online access to this syllabus and other
related class material such as copy of my outlines, assignments and class
notes when possible. Students will have access to these via the World Wide
Web in the CIS computer labs at the addres s:
http://www.bsn.usf.edu/~belanger/teachsad.html. Further instructions will
be provided in class for those interested. 

	Please note that this will offer you an alternative access to the
same material that will be distributed in class. 


Tentative Class Schedule 
Dates						Reading		Assignment
8/26	Introduction and Course Overview
8/28	Why Study Systems Development?		Ch. 1 		
	SDLC, Problems with SDLC		class handouts

9/2	Holiday
9/4	Modern Methods Overview and General Systems Theory

9/9-11	Entity-Relationship Data Models  	Ch. 2		4, 7, Form
	How to Find Information on Entities & Relationships

9/16	Continued
9/18	Modeling Organizational Activities	Ch. 3		3,8

9/23-25	Continued

9/30	Review for Test #1
10/2	TEST #1

10/7-9	Implementation Priorities & Feasibility Ch. 4		1,2

10/14	Continued
10/16	More Data Modeling Concepts		Ch. 5		2

10/21	Continued
10/23	Data Flow Diagrams			Ch. 7		6, 8, In-Class

10/28	Continued
10/30	Review for Test # 2

11/4	TEST #2
11/6	Data Flow Diagrams			Ch. 7		

11/11	Holiday: No Class!
11/13	Forms, Screens, & Reports		Ch. 8 		10

11/18	Structure Charts			Ch. 9		3
11/20	Continued

11/25	No Class
11/27	Detailed Procedure Modeling		Ch. 10		4
	Testing, Implementation Strategies, Installation

12/2	Ch. 10 Continued
12/4	Distributed Systems + Real Time Systems	Ch. 11 & 12

12/9	Review for Final Examination 

Final Exam: 
 	Wed. Dec. 11, 10:30 - 12:30.  Any changes to this schedule will be
announced in class. 


Academic Policies

1. Academic dishonesty of any type will result in a grade of "F" for the
course. Please see text below from the USF policy on academic dishonesty. 

2. Examinations:  If you must miss an examination, you must notify the
instructor before the exam, discuss the reason for missing the exam, and
make arrangements for a makeup exam.  Makeup examinations are always
completely different tests. 

3. All assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date
established. Assignments turned in late will have the following
deductions: 
        one day late 	10% deducted from total points possible
        two days late	20% deducted from total points possible
        one week late	50% deducted from total points possible
        two weeks late	75% deducted from total points possible


HONOR CODE

The policy of the University of South Florida on academic dishonesty states:

	Each individual is expected to earn his or her degree on the basis
of personal effort.  Consequently, any form of cheating on examinations or
plagiarism on assigned papers constitutes unacceptable deceit and
dishonesty.  This cannot be tolerated in the U niversity community and
will be punishable, according to the seriousness of the offense, in
conformity with this rule. 

	Cheating is defined as follows: (a) the unauthorized granting or
receiving of aid during the prescribed period of a course-graded exercise:
students may not consult written materials such as notes or books, many
not look at the paper of another student, nor consult orally with any
other student taking the same test; (b) asking another person to take an
examination in his or her place; (c) taking an examination for or in place
of another student; (d) stealing visual concepts, such as drawings,
sketches, d iagrams, musical programs and scores, graphs, maps, etc. and
presenting them as one's own; (e) stealing, borrowing, buying, or
disseminating tests, answer keys or other examination material except as
officially authorized, research papers, creative papers , speeches, etc.;
(f) stealing or copying of computer programs and presenting them as one's
own.