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MSIS - Electives Outside CIS

We sincerly believe that the graduate-level courses at NJIT are useful to people in their jobs. We feel, however, that it is our responsibility to ensure that students have a solid set of IS-related courses for the MS IS degree.

Therefore, MS IS students may select up to two courses from the following pre approved lists. Students with 4 years of CIS education or experience, AND WHO HAVE BEEN NOTFIED ON THEIR ADMISSIONS LETTER, may take up to four courses outside the CIS area.

There are definitely courses at NJIT that *ARE NOT APPROVED* and which will not count towards MS IS graduation. For exmaple, any course that the IS faculty would view as too simple or trivial for IS majors would not be permitted.

The courses of the form ##:###:### are offered across the street in the Rutgers Graduate Program in Management. Many of the courses below may presume certain electives when designed for major in the particular field. Check the catalog description and if you have further concern about this you should try to speak to the faculty member in charge of the particular course and/or check the text used in the course.

You must check on the prerequisite knowledge assumed for each to determine if you need missing pre-requisite courses.

If you wish to choose courses not within one of the following lists you must get prior approval of the set of courses from the Graduate IS advisor. Given our view of IS as being relevant to any field, please feel free to make proposals for courses not presented here. Any NJIT student can cross register at Rutgers or the University of Medicine and Dentistry. We certainly have not provided all possible options from those catalogs in the following list.

 

 

 

Recommended non-CIS Courses

We especially recommend the following non-CIS Elective Courses:

MIS Courses

1. MIS Courses We DO Allow

MIS 625 Management Strategy for E-Comerce (starting Spring 2002)
MIS 635 Management of Telecommunications
MIS 636 Telecommunications: Policies and Regulations
MIS 648 Decision Support Systems
MIS 654 Design of Accounting Information Systems
MIS 655 Information Systems Audit, Control and Security
MIS 665 Electronic Commerce
MIS 690 Executive Information Systems

Note: We highly recommend MIS 625, MIS 635 and MIS 648, though of course, you may take other courses instead.

2. MIS Courses We Do NOT Allow

The following courses are among those which are *NOT* valid electives:
x MIS 620 (Computing /Electronic Commerce/Internet Concepts for Managers/)
x MIS 625 (Internet for Managers) before Spring 2002
x MIS 645 (Operations Management, Planning and Control/Managing IT for Competitive Advantage (starting Spring 2002))
x MIS 680 (Electronic Commerce/PC Tools for Managers/Operations Research).

Analysis Methods

26:630:576 Quantitative Methods in Marketing
26:630:660 Qualitative Research Methods
26:630:668 Causal Modeling
26:960:577 Introduction to Statistical Linear Models
Math 644 Regression Analysis Methods
Math 646 Time Series Analysis
Math 661 Applied Statistics
Math 662 Probability Distributions
Math 698 Sampling Theory
Math 699 Design and Analysis of Experiments
BIO 613 Life Table and Survival Analysis
BIO 614 Categorical Data Analysis
BIO 618 Nonparametric Statistical Methods
Mgmt 760 Research Methods and Multivariate Analysis

Accounting

MIS 654 Design of Accounting Information Systems

Accounting Courses We Do NOT Allow

The following courses are among those which are *NOT* valid electives:

ACCT 610 Internal Auditing Concepts and Procedures (unless taken before January 2003)
ACCT 615 Concepts of Strategic Cost Analysis (unless taken before January 2003)

Marketing

Mrkt 630 Models of Consumer Behavior
Mrkt 631 Market Planning and Analysis
Mrkt 632 Marketing Strategy for Technology-Based Organizations
Mrkt 636 Design and Development of High Technology Products
Mrkt 637 Marketing Communications and Promotions
Mrkt 645 Internet Marketing Strategies
26:630:576 Quantitative Methods in Marketing (Rutgers)

Interdisciplinary IS

26:620:555 Seminar in Organizational Behavior
26:620:556 Seminar in Organizational Theory
26:620:671 Management of Innovation and Technology
26:620:677 Culture and Organizations
HRM 601 Organizational Behavior
HRM 655 Theory and Research in Organizational Behavior
Eng 603 Cultural and Technological Change
IE 661 Human Design Factors in Engineering
Tran 602/CE 602 Geographical Information Systems

English/Multimedia Communications

Eng 603 Cultural and Technological Change
Eng 604 Communication Theory
Eng 605 Document Design and Electronic Publishing
Eng 610 Creating hypertext Projects
Eng 613 Multimedia Presentations

Financial Management

Fin 600 Financial and Economic Development
Fin 624 Financial Management
Fin 630 Applied Business Econometrics
Fin 632 Financial Valuation of Technology Based Companies
Fin 660 Financial Planning and Decision Making

Human Resource Management

HRM 601 Organizational Behavior
HRM 606 Human Resources Management
HRM 630 Management Technological and Organizational Change
HRM 650 Human Resource Information Systems
HRM 655 Theory and Research in Organizational Behavior
Rutgers 26:620:555 Theory and Research in Organizational Behavior

Industrial Engineering

Any set of two to four courses in the safety and human factors areas of IE; or, any set of two to four courses in the Analysis methods in IE.
Rutgers 26:630:660 Qualitative Research

Management

Mgmt 630 Decision Analysis/Data Mining
Mgmt 635 Management Research Methods
Mgmt 650 Knowledge Management
Mgmt 660 Global Communications
Mgmt 676 Managing the Digital Firm
Mgmt 678 Management Strategies for Electronic Commerce
Mgmt 685 Operations Research and Decision Making
Mgmt 688 Information Technology, Business and the Law
Mgmt 690 Electronic Communities in Organizations
Mgmt 691 Legal and Ethical Issues
Mgmt 710 Business Forecasting Methods
Mgmt 760 Research Methods and Multivariate Analysis

Manufacturing Systems Engineering

MnE 601 Manufacturing Systems
MnE 602 Flexible Computer Integrated Manufacturing
MnE 612 Robotic Manufacturing Systems
MnE 654 Design for Manufacturability
MnE 655 Concurrent Engineering

Engineering Management

EM 691 Cost Estimating for Capital Projects
EM 714 Multicriteria Decision Analysis

The following courses are among those which are *NOT* valid electives:
x EM 636 Project Management (starting Fall 2001)
x EM 637 Project Control (starting Fall 2001)

Computational Biology (College of Computing Sciences)

All Computational Biology courses are acceptable non-CIS electives.

All Bioinformatics courses with a CIS course number are valid CIS electives for the MS IS degree.

Biomedical Informatics, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health and/or Biology (University of Medicine and Dentistry)

If a biomedical informatics course has a "CIS" number (or is cross-listed as a CIS course) then it is considered a CIS course, not a non-CIS elective.

BIO 613 Life Table and Survival Analysis
BIO 614 Categorical Data Analysis
BIO 618 Nonparametric Statistical Methods
BINF 5010 Bioinformatics Database Systems
BINF 601/BINF 5005 Health Care Information Systems
BINF 602/BINF 5020 Biomedical Modeling and Decision Making Systems
BINF 603/BINF 5030 Visualization in Biomedical Sciences
BINF 621/BINF 5210 Research Methods in Health Sciences

Federated Biological Sciences Department of NJIT and Rutgers
Biomedical Engineering Department at NJIT

Any coherent two to four courses chosen with advice of an advisor from one of those departments.

Electrical and Computer Engineering
System Studies in Bioengineering

ECE 686 Instrumentation Systems and Microprocessors
ECE 687 Design of Medical Instrumentation
ECE 688 Microcontrollers in Instrumentation

Public Health

MPH 601 Introduction to Epidemiology
MPH 602 Introduction to Biostatistics
MPH 603 Principles of Environmental Health
MPH 604 Introduction to Health Care Systems and Policy
MPH 644 Social Foundations of Urban Health
MPH 650 Medical Geography
MPH 660 Health Economics

This page: http://is.njit.edu/msis/non-cis-electives.html
To comment on the MS IS program, please contact the Associate Chair, Professor Whtiworth, at msis @ oak.njit.edu
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This page was last updated on: 1/27/03