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standards, transmission protocols, Internet
telephony and nerwork optimization.
Prerequisite: INSS 650 or permission ofthe
instructor.
INSS 791 Advanced Topics in Systems
Analysis and Design (3) Examines current
and emerging trends, technologies and
practices in Systems Analysis and Design.
Topics may include, but are not limited to,
case tools, new development methodologies,
soft systems methodology, rapid
protoryping and the design of interorganizational
and e-commerce systems.
Prerequisite: INSS 739 or permission ofthe
instructor.
INSS 792 Advanced Topics in Database
Management Systems (3) Examines current
and emerging trends, technologies,
and practices in Database Management
Systems. Topics may include, but are not
limited to, data warehousing, data mining,
distributed database systems, knowledge
discovery tools and database design for
Customer Relations Management.
Prerequisite: INSS 738 or permission ofthe
instructor.
INSS 793 Advanced Topics in Internet
and e-Commecce (3) Examines current
and emerging trends, technologies, and
practices in Internet technologies and ecommerce.
Topics may include, but are not
limited to, building securiry, trust and privacy
in the e-economy, electronic payment
systems, e-governance, e-commerce applications
and business models, XML, and
cultural, policy and regulatory issues associated
with global e-commerce. Prerequisite:
INSS 765 or permission ofthe instructor.
INSS 794 Advanced Topics in
Management of MIS (3) Examines current
and emerging trends and practices in MIS
management. Topics may include, but are
not limited to, IS and strategic planning,
outsourcing, information securiry, disaster
recovery planning and the escalation of
software projects. Prerequisite: INSS 737 or
permission ofthe imtructor.
INSS 797 Advanced Topics in Infocmation
Systems (3) Exploration of advanced
topics in information systems
of in terest to faculry and students.
Prerequisites and topics are selected and
printed in the schedule ofclasses.
INSS 799 Individual Reseacch: Infocmation
Systems (1-3) Approval of the
Director of the Division of Management
Information Systems and permission of
instructor required.
Legal and Ethical Studies (LEST)
Legal and Ethical Studies courses (LEST) are
offered by the Division ofLegal, Ethical, and
Historical Studies, Yale Gordon College of
Liberal Arts.
LEST 500 Legal Reseacch (3) An intensive
introduction to the organization of a
law library, sources for legal research, and
basic techniques of legal research. Required
ofall entering students during their first
semester.
LEST 501 Legal and Ethical Foundations
(3) Considers three fundamental themes:
the philosophical basis of law and ethics;
how lawyers and ethicists think, how the
processes of the law work, how the law
relates to other disciplines, and branches of
knowledge; and how to do legal and ethical
research. Grading: Letter grade only.
LEST 506 Histocical Pecspectives (3) The
history of the Western legal tradition from
late antiquiry and medieval times to the
present, with attention to the traditions of
legal scholarship, the distinctive characteristics
ofAnglo-American law, and the shaping
of the modern legal profession in the
United States. Familiarizes students with
contemporary approaches to legal studies
that emphasize the social and intellectual
context oflegal problems and legal change.
Includes selected readings in ethics.
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