Illltllllllllllllllll £.4#caI:io# A Fresh Look at IS Graduate Programs is Needed John I". Gorgone Bentley College Computer Information Systems Waltham MA, 02154-4705 JGorgone@Bentley.edu he purpose of this article is to call for new graduate curricula recommendations for information systems (IS) programs and to announce a recently appointed joint committee to address the issue. It has been more than fifteen years since the ACM model curricula recommendations for graduate IS programs were published (Nunamaker, et al, 1982). Today, many colleges and universities offer a graduate degree in IS and more are in various stages of introducing one. The report (Nunamaker, et al., 1982) describes the distinctive character of the IS curriculum, general prerequisites, degree programs (Master of Science (MS) and Master of Business Administration (MBA)), and implementation. The MS in IS includes the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) common body of business knowledge and ten IS courses to prepare a student to become a systems designer. It includes prerequisites and course requirements T IS9 IS I0 Information systems policy Information systems projects General Prerequisites: o o o o o finite mathematics elementary statistics elementary computer programming elementary economics elementary psychology Specific Prerequisites: O O Computer programming
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