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camwynI sent an email off to my advisor at Kean University yesterday, hoping to find out some details about the degree I'm pursuing. If I'd calculated correctly I had only one class left to take next semester, but I couldn't find certain information that had worried me, so I needed to ask Dr. Abraham and make sure...
I don't have to do a thesis. There is no thesis for the Management Information Systems master's degree.
I have my required courses, including my electives within a single concentration. In this case, contrary to all my expectations, the concentration has turned out to be Computer Science. The degree requires you to take seven core courses and five electives, three of which must be in a single concentration. My electives to date have been Managerial Economics, Web Programming, Knowledge and Data Mining, and the class I'm currently in, Bio-Informatics.
I only have to take one course next semester. It will be my final elective. It can be in any MIS subject area.
This means I am free to select a course based entirely upon my schedule. No more 5 PM courses for me, thank you very much! I'm going to see what they've got at 7:50 PM, save myself some grief... meanwhile I've got to do a term paper in the Capstone course, which will not be a problem as we've been producing vital components for the term paper all along. You'll be seeing the term paper when it's done. We had to do a re-engineering of a particular business process at a particular company. I chose the hiring process at Virtucon, which some of y'all may recognise as Dr. Evil's company, so my term paper is going to argue vigorously for outsourcing employee background checks and for centralizing the forms, job requirements, etc. in a single human resources IS database. Since this is a supervillain's company, the risk analysis for the project included both 'lack of commitment from upper management' and 'database computer becomes sentient, rebels against humanity' on the list of possible risks for the project. I'm pretty sure Number Two, the obvious head of HR, would give the project his support - but let's face it, Dr. Evil has demonstrated resistance to organizational change more times than I can count...
Anyway. Just happy I don't have to do a thesis. And happy I only have one class left after I finish paying for this !&*(& semester. Yay me.
I don't have to do a thesis. There is no thesis for the Management Information Systems master's degree.
I have my required courses, including my electives within a single concentration. In this case, contrary to all my expectations, the concentration has turned out to be Computer Science. The degree requires you to take seven core courses and five electives, three of which must be in a single concentration. My electives to date have been Managerial Economics, Web Programming, Knowledge and Data Mining, and the class I'm currently in, Bio-Informatics.
I only have to take one course next semester. It will be my final elective. It can be in any MIS subject area.
This means I am free to select a course based entirely upon my schedule. No more 5 PM courses for me, thank you very much! I'm going to see what they've got at 7:50 PM, save myself some grief... meanwhile I've got to do a term paper in the Capstone course, which will not be a problem as we've been producing vital components for the term paper all along. You'll be seeing the term paper when it's done. We had to do a re-engineering of a particular business process at a particular company. I chose the hiring process at Virtucon, which some of y'all may recognise as Dr. Evil's company, so my term paper is going to argue vigorously for outsourcing employee background checks and for centralizing the forms, job requirements, etc. in a single human resources IS database. Since this is a supervillain's company, the risk analysis for the project included both 'lack of commitment from upper management' and 'database computer becomes sentient, rebels against humanity' on the list of possible risks for the project. I'm pretty sure Number Two, the obvious head of HR, would give the project his support - but let's face it, Dr. Evil has demonstrated resistance to organizational change more times than I can count...
Anyway. Just happy I don't have to do a thesis. And happy I only have one class left after I finish paying for this !&*(& semester. Yay me.
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Date: 2002-11-07 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-07 11:26 am (UTC)There are times when I think back to the courses I took at NJIT to qualify for an MIS program application - my undergrad degree is in public health (well, health sciences anthro, which is pre-public-health) and religion (double major, long story, it involved a specific course), so I had to add some computer and economic undergrad credits before I could apply. My first night at NJIT I couldn't find the room I needed to be in, so I walked into what I thought was the right one. There were five students and a prof. "Is this Comp 104, Intro to C++?"
"No," said the prof, "this is Architecture $course_number, Introductory Surveying."
"Oh."
"Tell you what," said the prof, "change your major. Become a surveyor. You'll be much happier."
I thanked him with a laugh but turned him down and went on my way. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I'd taken him up on his suggestion.
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Date: 2002-11-07 11:08 am (UTC)-- L