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Course Work |
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Students in this
program are required to show competency in
linear algebra and
calculus by passing
competency examinations or taking MATH 5304 and MATH 5305.
The course work in
the program must total at least
60 semester credit hours past the bachelor's degree,
exclusive of any leveling work required or enrollment in BA 8000, the
doctoral dissertation course. A Ph.D. student is required to enroll in
24 hours each calendar year with a minimum of 9 hours and a maximum of
12 hours each long semester.
There is no
requirement for a foreign language. The student who is successful
continuously at each step in progress should complete degree
requirements in about four years of full-time study beyond the master's
degree.
The doctoral student
degree program consists of: |
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Leveling Courses |
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Doctoral students
who do not have proper business background will need to take leveling
courses, including: |
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ACCT 5401 |
Financial and
Managerial Accounting |
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FIN 5421 |
Financial Management
Concepts |
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ECO 5310 |
Price and Income
Theory |
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MKT 5360 |
Marketing Concepts
and Strategies |
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MGT 5371 |
Managing Org.
Behavior & Org. Design |
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BLAW 5290 |
Legal, Regulatory,
and Ethical Environment of Business |
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ISQS 5345 |
Statistical Concepts
for Business Management |
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Background MIS courses |
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Students without prior background in MIS must take at least three
courses in the MIS master’s curriculum. |
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ISQS 6338 |
Database |
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ISQS 7338 |
Systems Analysis |
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ISQS
7340 |
Management of Information Systems |
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Other courses may be
taken based on the student’s needs or interests. |
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Tool
Courses |
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Early in the program
each student must satisfy tool requirements -- through course work with
a minimum grade of B -- in advanced statistics and advanced
microeconomics and macroeconomics. Tools courses include: |
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ISQS 5347 |
Advanced Statistical
Methods |
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ECO 5311 |
Macroeconomic Theory
and Policy |
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ECO 5312 |
Microeconomic
Analysis |
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Data
Analysis Methods |
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At least three
data analysismethods courses are required for each doctoral student's Ph.D.
program. |
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All MIS Ph.D.
students take the following two courses: |
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ISQS 5349 |
Regression Analysis |
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ISQS 6348
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Applied Multivariate
Analysis |
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Other courses can
include the following or other courses related to the student’s research
focus: |
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ISQS 5348 |
Applied
Distribution-Free Statistics in Business |
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ISQS 6349 |
Advanced Business
Forecasting |
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MIS
Seminar Courses |
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Seminar courses
involve reading and discussing important MIS articles and writing at
least one paper. Five seminar courses in MIS are required: |
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ISQS 7341 |
Seminar in MIS
Research and Methods |
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ISQS 7346 |
Seminar in Cognitive
and Behavioral MIS Research |
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ISQS 7347 |
Seminar in
Managerial and Organizational MIS Research |
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ISQS 7342 |
Special topics
seminar |
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ISQS 7342 |
Special topics
seminar |
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Supporting Areas |
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One or two
supporting areas are required for each Ph.D. student's program. These
can come from any area in the university, and are selected with the MIS
Ph.D. advisor to complement the student’s research focus. Supporting
areas selected recently by students have included economics, marketing,
organizational behavior, and psychology. |
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Culture |
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The curriculum and
overall plan of the Ph.D. program was designed to enable to students to
join the culture of academia as rapidly as possible. To this end, all
five MIS seminar courses require research papers. Students with
assistantships (almost all students) work as both research assistants
and teaching assistants and there is an emphasis on co-authoring
manuscripts with faculty members, with the goal of submitting the
manuscripts to top academic journals. In recent years our students have
been very successful at this. All students are required to take a three
hour course about university teaching and we strive to have every
student teach at least one course during their tenure here. Students
attend research workshops in which visiting or local
researchers present current research. Each year, MIS faculty and
student get together at a MIS Doctoral Retreat to strategize about
students’ plans. |
