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2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog

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IS 380 - Introduction to Databases

This course covers basic concepts of database design and implementation, primarily focusing on desktop database applications. This is a hands-on, practical course concentrating on use of desktop DBMS software. Topics covered include: overview of data models, introduction to SQL and QBE, practical applications of database technology.

Credit Hours: 3 hrs
Prerequisite:

IS 215

Previously Listed As: ORI 380, ORI 419
Terms Offered: Fall, Winter and Summer 1 (day and evening)

Course Revisions:
Effective Winter 2016, the following revisions will be made to this course:

Title (Data and Information Management)
Course Description (This course is centered around the core skills of identifying organizational information requirements, modeling them using conceptual data modeling techniques, converting the conceptual data models into relational data models and verifying its structural characteristics with normalization techniques, and implementing and utilizing a relational database using an industrial-strength database management system.)
Prerequisite (IS 247 )
Class Restriction (Junior, Senior, Second Bachelor)

Last Updated: Course Revision Note 6/2015, effective Winter 2016; Course Rotation 3/2015; Links 04/2011

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