UG COURSES OFFERED IN WINTER 2020-2021 (INFORMATION SYSTEMS)

This course provides an analysis of the power of social media, such as Facebook, twitter, blogs, mashups, wikis, etc. It examines how social media can facilitate creativity and collective intelligence, through enhanced information sharing and online collaboration among netizens; ultimately building the social pool of knowledge. It also examines the downside of this participatory culture.

This course describes the development of technology and innovation from social and business perspectives. It covers the technology side of innovations, how an invention can be developed into a successful commercial product, the role of innovation in society and how innovations are created from a socioeconomic perspective. It highlights that successful development and adoption of innovative products relies not only on the technology itself but also a complex process that is subject to the impact of cultural, political, economic and managerial factors.

This course provides a panorama review of the global information infrastructure from technology, policy, social and business perspectives. Key issues include next generation information infrastructure, Internet of things, anti-spamming legislation, universal service, digital convergence, network interconnection, the WTO’s agreement on telecommunications, cloud computing, green ICT, and regulatory environment of multimedia services. It will also address the increasing importance of Web 2.0-enabled information infrastructure in business innovation.

[Previous code ISOM3000A] This course provides an introduction to business programming using R. Students will learn the programming concepts and syntax of R and develop R scripts for business applications. This course will cover practical issues for programming in R and provide working examples of emerging business applications, including Web crawling, text analytics, social network analysis, online advertising, and implementations of data mining algorithms.

The course provides a comprehensive approach for auditing information systems. It covers fundamental concepts of risk management for Information Systems (IS) auditors to perform risk assessment, and risk analysis at various business levels, including systems, administrative and organizational levels. The course also covers business cases for students to study, and provides opportunities for them to apply their IS auditing skills to solve those cases from IS auditing perspectives. Typical solutions to those cases are effective, reasonable, and practical controls. Other IS auditing practices, such as compliance audit and governance audit, and auditing system development life cycle are covered as well, in order to provide a holistic training of IS auditing to students.