Graduate Curriculum Committee - zicklin : school of business - CUNY

Part A: Academic Matters, Section AI: Changes in a Degree Program
AI.10.1 MBA in Information Systems (HEGIS CODE: 070100, PROGRAM CODE: 01936): Changes in
courses in major
EXPLANATION: This change conforms to the new MBA program adopted by the Zicklin School of Business in Spring 2010, plus
updates the course offerings from the Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems:
Required Course: We are requiring CIS 9002 Information Systems for Managers II as a ‘flexible core’ course for MBA/IS majors.
This is to ensure that IS majors take three credits of foundation material in IS, which is consistent with the MBA requirements of the
other major business disciplines.
Electives: We have modified the elective offerings of the program:
• We have dropped CIS 9550 Emerging Trends in Information Technologies because it is redundant; CIS 9771 Special Topics in
Information Technologies and CIS 9775 Special Topics in Information Systems Strategy serve the same purpose;
• We have added two existing courses to the list of electives. These courses have been either revised or created since the last
time the MBA/IS was revised, but were not added to the MBA at the time of the course adoptions: CIS 9467 Business
Modeling with Spreadsheets, and CIS 9480: Information Technology Project Management;
• We are adding a brand new course, CIS9xxx: Sustainability and IT, to the choice of electives.
Approved by the Department of Statistics and Computer Information Systems, March 15, 2011.