The University of
Western Ontario
London, Canada
Department of Computer
Science
Computer Science 1032a – Information
Systems and Design
Course
Outline -- Fall Term 2011
Course Description
Computer
Science 1032a is an introduction to information systems and the roles played by
these systems in business.
This course
satisfies the Information Technology requirement for a Certified Accountant, a
Certified General Accountant or a Certified Management Accountant
accreditation. The content of the course
has been approved by The
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, The Certified General
Accountants of Ontario and The Society of Management Accountants of Ontario. The
materials used in this course for the introduction to Microsoft applications
software have been approved by Microsoft for use in the preparation for the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification exams.
Prerequisites
No
prerequisites are required for this course.
Instructor: Diane Goldstein
Office: Middlesex College 366
Office Hours: to be announced
Phone: 661-2111 ext. 82978
E-Mail: dianeg@uwo.ca
Required Material
Experiencing
MIS, Updated Second Canadian Edition, with Access to MyMISlab
David M. Kroneke, Andrew Gemino, Peter
Tingling (Prentice Hall)
Course Web Page
The course
website is located within WebCT. To access
WebCT, navigate to http://webct.uwo.ca, select the “
Course Schedule
CS1032a Section 001 CS1032a
Section 002
Lecture Times: Lecture Time:
Tuesday 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tuesday 7 – 10 pm
Thursday
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Social Science Centre, Rm 2050 Location: Sommerville House, Rm 3345
Course Topics
Scheduled Lectures
The scheduled
lectures for the course use presentation software and appropriate applications
software to present the course content.
The required course materials supply portions of the course
content.
Lecture materials will be available
on the course website. These materials are intended to aid in note-taking and
provide review of course content. They
are not complete course notes and are not a substitute for attending lectures.
Classroom Conduct
Students are
expected to arrive promptly and remain in class until the end of the lecture,
so as to not disturb others in the class. The use of a laptop is permitted
during class, but it is expected that its use will be to assist in the learning
of course materials and not for any other activities. Any behaviour or activity
that may impede the ability of you or other students to learn will not be tolerated
and if the behaviour persists the individual(s) involved
will be asked to leave the classroom.
Teaching Assistant
Consulting
Consulting
will take place in one of the computer labs located in Middlesex College and
the schedule will be posted on the course website once it has been
established. Questions regarding
assignments or lecture materials should be directed to the course Teaching
Assistants (TAs) during their consulting hours.
Questions requiring further information can be dealt with by contacting
the course instructor.
Email Contact
Occasionally
email messages may be sent to the entire class or to students individually.
Email will be sent to your UWO email address as assigned to you by Information
Technology Services (ITS). It is your responsibility to read this email
on a frequent and regular basis. You may wish to have this email forwarded to
an alternative email address; see the ITS website for
instructions on forwarding email.
You should note that email at
the university and thru other providers have quotas or limits on the amount of
space that is dedicated to each account.
Unchecked email may accumulate beyond those limits and you may be unable
to retrieve important messages from the university. Losing email is not an acceptable excuse for
not knowing about the information that was sent.
Email contact with the course
instructor is encouraged, by sending brief and appropriate messages regarding
lecture material or assignments.
However, please first check the course discussion area in WebCT to see
if the information has already been posted.
If you contact the instructor via email or post a question on the WebCT
discussion area, you can expect a response in a timely fashion, but not
necessarily an instantaneous response.
Please use proper, appropriate and respectful English when sending an
email message or posting on the WebCT discussion area.
NOTE: Email messages must be sent from your university
account.
Computing Facilities
Students may complete their
assignments on their own computer if it is equipped with the proper software or
use the computers in the first-year Computer Science labs in Middlesex College
or use the university’s General Student Computing Labs.
To use
the Computer Science labs, each student will require an account on the Computer
Science Department undergraduate computing facility, GAUL. Computer Science
account information will be forwarded to you via email. Details on this account
can be found on the Computer Science Department’s web site, in the
Computer Sciences Systems Group information on the Undergraduate Network (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/FAQ/node20.html).
In
accepting the GAUL account, a student agrees to abide by the department's Rules
of Ethical Conduct (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/UnderGrad/ethical.shtml).
The General Student Computing
Labs at the university are currently located in:
·
SSC1000, SSC1012 & SSC1032 - Social
Science Centre, rooms 1000, 1012 and 1032
Student Evaluation
·
Midterm
Exam: 2 hours (worth 33%)
·
Final
Exam: 3 hours (worth 37%)
·
4
Assignments (worth a total of 30%)
To be eligible to obtain a
passing mark in the course, the weighted average of the midterm and final exams
must be at least 45%.
Note:
weighted average = (total of weighted marks/sum of the weights) and
weighted mark = (weight*mark))
No electronic devices are
allowed during exams (no calculators, iPods, cell phones, laptops, etc)
Note: Computer-marked multiple-choice exams may be subject
to submission for similarity review by software that will check for unusual
coincidences in answer patterns that may indicate cheating.
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
Assignment
Schedule
Students are expected to view
demonstrations during lectures and to do the exercises to prepare for the
assignments. Once the assignment is completed, all of the parts of the assignment
must be submitted on the WebCT site. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that all parts of each
assignment are correctly uploaded and submitted in WebCT, to ensure that the
assignment can be marked accordingly.
Note:
Assignments emailed to the instructor will not be accepted, unless there are extenuating
circumstances.
The tentative assignment
schedule is given below.
|
Assignment |
Weight |
Due
Date (by |
|
1 |
7% |
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
|
2 |
8% |
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 |
|
3 |
7% |
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
|
4 |
8% |
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
Note: The instructions for each
assignment will be posted on the course website at least 2 weeks in advance of
the due date.
If for any reason the
assignment schedule given above cannot be adhered to, the assignment marks
will be pro-rated. The 4 assignments are worth 30% of the overall mark for the
course. If an assignment has to be cancelled for any reason, the remaining
assignment weights will be prorated to add up to 30%.
Assignment Marking:
Late Policy for
Assignments:
·
Late
assignments will have a penalty of 25% of the maximum mark for the assignment
deducted for each day (24 hours from the due time) that the assignment is late.
Thus, if a student would have received 90% on an assignment, if it was submitted
one day late the student would receive 65%, if it was submitted two days late the
student would receive 40% and if it was submitted 3 days late the student would
receive 15%.
·
An
assignment that is more than three days late will not be accepted.
·
No
extensions will be given for assignments.
However, in the event of serious medical or compassionate grounds, a
student must follow the procedure for Academic Accommodation for Medical
Illness as given above. If an academic accommodation is approved by the
Dean’s office, the weight of the assignment will be moved to one of the two
exams.
Ethical Conduct
Scholastic offences are taken seriously and students are
directed to read the appropriate policy, specifically, the definition of what
constitutes a Scholastic Offence, at the following Web site: http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/handbook/appeals/scholastic_discipline_undergrad.pdf.
Plagiarism: Students must complete their assignments in their own
words. Whenever students take an idea, or a passage from another author, they
must acknowledge their debt both by using quotation marks where appropriate and
by proper referencing such as footnotes or citations. Plagiarism is a major
academic offence (see Scholastic Offence Policy in the Western Academic
Calendar). The
University of Western Ontario uses software for plagiarism checking. Students
will be required to submit their programs in electronic form for plagiarism
checking.
All
assignments are individual assignments. You may discuss approaches to
problems among yourselves; however, the actual details of the work must be an
individual effort.
The role of tutoring is to help students understand
course material. Tutors should not write
part or all of an assignment for the students who hire them. Having employed the same tutor as another
student is not a legitimate defense against an accusation of collusion, should
two students hand in assignments judged similar beyond the possibility of
coincidence.
Academic dishonesty in assignments includes (but is not
limited to): unacceptable collaboration, copying of another student’s
assignment, allowing another student to copy, using code from an external
source where a student’s own code is expected.
Assignments that are judged to be the result of academic
dishonesty will, for the student's first offence, be given a mark of zero for
the assignment, with an additional penalty equal to the weight of the
assignment also being applied.
You are responsible for reading and respecting the Computer Science Department's
policy on Scholastic Offences (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/UnderGrad/scholastic_offences.shtml)
and Rules of Ethical Conduct (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/UnderGrad/ethical.shtml).