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Dr. Glen Archibald
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Sampling, parametric and nonparametric testing, multiple regression and correlation, experimental design, and Bayesian statistics.

Dr. Robert Cosenza
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Basic principles and practices of marketing. This introductory course provides an understanding of the scope of marketing and its environment, social responsibility and ethics in marketing, the elements of the marketing mix-product, price, promotion, and distribution, how consumers make decisions and how to research and identify target markets.

Dr. Bart Garner
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The first course in a two-course sequence in systems analysis and design. The course covers development methodologies, application systems development management, behavioral aspects of the development process, problems and feasibility assessment, information requirements determination, communication skills, interpersonal skills, logical specification, and physical design.

Mr. John Wee
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The study of management information systems and decision support systems with a focus on computer-based model development techniques. This course also covers the relationship among advanced information technologies, business processes, and organization performance.

Mr. John Wee
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An applications course which builds on the concepts and techniques developed in MIS 307 to enable students to design and implement systems in “real-world" organizations.

Dr. R. Neil Southern
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This survey course provides an understanding of scope of operations management and its environment - value chains. Topics include sturctural (e.g., capacity, facility, technical, and logistical & supply chain), and infrastructural (e.g., workforce, production planning, materials control, preformance measures, and organization renewal and improvement) issues in operations of an organization. Students will draw upon prior knowledge of statistics. Particular emphasis will be placed upon applying analytical tools and frameworks to improve business processes that cross internal fuctional and cross organizational boundaries.

Dr. Aleta Crawford
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A comprehensive study of the coordination of organizational resources for the purpose of achieving organizational goals. Student's conceptual competencies will be enhanced by understanding the managerial processes of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling organizational activities. Critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills are developed through case analysis. Oral and written communication skills are demonstrated through written case reports and in-class presentations. Competency building exercises teach students how to apply knowledge and skills to implement creative and innovative solutions to organizational problems, as well as how to identify, analyze, and evaluate organizational opportunities.

Dr. Milam W. Aiken
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Advanced study of object-oriented design and programming for business applications. Topics to be covered include classes and objects, applets, containers, multithreading, IO streams and sockets, packages, and scripts.

Dr. Lynn Kugele
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Principles of business finance with emphasis on financial analysis, investment decisions, cost of capital, and procurement of funds.

Dr. Bart Garner
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This course will present the basic concepts of Web programming, concentrating mainly on ASP, NET, SOL Server and ADO.Net so that the student will be able to develop and maintain Web pages for an e-business. Open Source platforms such as MySQL and Apache along with other web application programming languages will also be examined.

Dr. Shari Holt
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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to some of the ways films achieve their effects and to some critical approaches to film. Students will enhance their visual literacy by learning basic film terminology (types of shots, editing transitions, and lighting) and how to apply this terminology in analyzing a film. Students will study film from various critical perspectives (genre, historical, ideological, and auteur criticism) and learn to articulate and defend their own critical analyses of selected films through class discussions and a course paper.

Dr. Sumali Conlon
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A study of data structures, file processing, databases and database management systems within organizations. The course covers all logical models of database, i.e., hierarchical, network, and relational models. Also covered are data analysis, design, implementation, and administration.

Dr. Del Hawley
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Financial analysis and modeling, with an emphasis on corporate finance, utilizing technologically based techniques.

Dr. Bud Hamilton
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A comprehensive study of the strategic management process involving the formulation and implementation of strategies at the corporate, business, and functional levels of the purposive organization. The underlying theory of strategic management is conveyed through lectures, discussions, and assigned readings. Application is presented through analysis of case situations that illustrate how companies provide value to customers, create sustainable competitive advantage, and achieve financial and strategic objective. Particular emphasis will be placed on the continued development and application of student conceptual, critical thinking, and analytic reasoning skills to the analysis of complex strategic issues. Competency exercises refine student decision making and persuasive communication skills through oral and written presentations of recommended strategies and plans for implementation.

Dr. Bart Garner
University of Mississippi Faculty Profile
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A policy course to bring together the concepts and techniques developed in other MIS courses. Emphasis on group and/or individual projects and cases.

Dr. Sumali Conlon
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Techniques and concepts obtained in MIS 408 are used in the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of files and databases. Students will learn how to develop and maintain databases using a relational database management package (Oracle). This course will also cover advanced database technologies including query optimization, recovery, integrity, concurrency, security, distributed databases and client/server systems, cloud computing, AI, knowledge bases, data mining, data warehousing, business intelligence, XML, web services, and service-oriented architecture.