On-Campus Course Schedule for Fall 2023
Communication for IT Managers
The Communication for Technology Managers course is designed to expose students to best practices in internal communication to foster organization-wide understanding and buy-in; ensure that employees understand how a technology decision impacts their work; and act upon internal needs as the technology project is implemented. Messaging exercises will focus on effectively communicating to leadership, employees and stakeholders during a technology change/design, implementation rollout, or crisis. Students will understand the technology manager’s key role in coordinating communications.
- Course #: MPIT-5800-01
- CRN: 44202
- Instructor: Dunlop, P.
- Dates: Aug 23 – Dec 16, 2023
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Class Meetings:
- Wed 5:20 PM - 7:50 PM
Ethics in Info Tech
The management of information technology is strongly related to the management of people. This course will help students understand how people - their suppliers and their customers, their partners and their competitors, and their superiors and their direct reports - come to have moral opinions on ethical dilemmas. Exploring both rational and affective theories of human morality, it will show how to resolve moral questions, and to make moral arguments. It will examine common ethical scenarios involving technology, as well as how ethics is handled in the business world. Finally, the course will review the ethical issues around Artificial Intelligence which may transform both the technology, and the people, with whom students will work. Throughout the course, students will be introduced to moral issues that technology managers have to recognize and resolve in their careers. In addition to other requirements, students must earn a grade of "B" or higher in the Ethics course.
- Course #: MPIT-5000-01
- CRN: 44198
- Instructor: Steitz, J.
- Dates: Aug 23 – Dec 16, 2023
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Class Meetings:
- Mon 5:20 PM - 7:50 PM
Introduction to IT Management
The course provides a theoretical and practical understanding of modern technology solutions used by businesses/organizations to solve complex business problems, optimize existing processes, innovate, compete, and enter new markets, business transformation. Over the duration of this course, students will work both individually and collaboratively in teams to complete group projects, assignments, design thinking activities, and in class exercises. After the completion of this course students will be able to identify and evaluate the impact of modern technology solutions on businesses, employees, and consumers.
- Course #: MPIT-5600-01
- CRN: 44200
- Instructor: Oresegun, O.
- Dates: Aug 23 – Dec 16, 2023
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Class Meetings:
- Tue 5:20 PM - 7:50 PM