Peggy Ng's Page on AK/ITEC1010 3.0

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peggy@mathstat.yorku.ca

Course Objectives:

  • To explore the idea of information - its various forms, useful lifetime, quality, why information is important to organizations, and how it is used, stored and processed.

  • To develop a basic understanding of organizations - functional areas, value chain, their need for, and uses of, information.

  • To examine information technologies of various kinds; the history of such technologies, their benefits, and the costs and problems associated with them; and the idea of an information system.

  • To develop skills with using common applications such as a spreadsheet, a database, communications tools such as e-mail, and the presentation of information using a common mark-up language.

    Text and References:

    Required Text:

  • Principles of Information Systems 4th Ed. R.M. Stair and G.W. Reynolds (ITP Nelson, 1999), ISBN: 0-7600-1079-X (available at the York Bookstore)

    Recommended Reading:

  • Any book on Windows95 (particularly if you are a novice user)
  • Any book on Microsoft Office for Windows (particularly if you are a novice user)
  • A book on HTML , such as Javascript and HTML 4.0, W. H. Murray and C. Pappas, Prentice Hall (1999)

    Laboratory Work

    You will have access to a number of computer laboratories on campus - the Acadlabs in the Steacie building, the Glade lab in the Steacie building. Alternatively you may use a computer at home (or elsewhere). Congestion in a lab is NOT an acceptable excuse for handing in lab work late.

    Course Assessment and Grading

    Assignment 1: HTML 5% Assignment 2: Spreadsheet 8%

    Midterm examination 30%

    Assignment 3: Database 7% Assignment 4: HTML 5% Assignment 5: Essay 5%

    Final Exam 40%

    Late Policy

    Late assignments will NOT be accepted. They will be recorded with marks of zero. Only in exceptional cases, when the medical documentation indicates that you were in the hospital for the period of time corresponding to that assignment, the weight of that assignment will be added to the weight of the final exam.

    A make-up midterm will NOT be provided. If you miss the midterm for medical reasons the weight will be added to the weight of the final exam.

    Final Exam

    The final exam is held during the University examination period. The date of the final exam is not known until the official University examination schedule is published. It is your responsibility to be present at the exam. No agreement will be given for deferred standing for reasons of travel plans.

    Peggy Ng, PhD
    email address: peggy@mathstat.yorku.ca
    Associate Professor
    The JE Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies & The Faculty of Graduate Studies
    York University
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