MIS Course Sponsorship

MIS course sponsorship creates a track record for undisputed excellence in quality, relevance and impact of course delivery. It benefits students, faculty, and corporate sponsors ensuring that graduating students acquire the necessary key skills and concepts to be successful. Sponsors essentially paves way to enhance the “Carlson” brand in the marketplace. Course sponsorship develops curriculum which incorporates course content from “Real World” business experiences and interaction with business community exposing students to emerging business and technology trends. Sponsors become involved with a specific course, assist in the design and delivery of the course, and contribute content.

Sponsors provide one or more of the activities in addition to collaborative planning:

• Collaborative Planning – Faculty and corporate representatives will work together to develop the sponsored course, its content, structure and approach. The intent is to design a course that leverages the available resources and skills of all parties to achieve the maximum benefit for all stakeholders.
• Content Contributions – The sponsoring organization would work with the faculty to develop, collect and present content to support the overall course objectives: data, case studies, and presentations.
• Time Commitments – Sponsorhisp activities that require time and effort from an extended team: speakers and mentors.
• Events - Activities outside the classroom that are organized by the sponsoring organization to augment the course activities: tours and company presentations.
• IS Methodology – The contribution to the course of structured methodology to support processes and content within the course. The sponsoring organization would participate in the facilitation and support of the methodology throughout the duration of the course: Approach and materials to support.
• Technology Resources – The sponsoring organization would provide the technological tools necessary to provide hands-on experience to the students in the course: hardware and software.

Program Objectives

• Create a track record for undisputed excellence in quality, relevance and impact of course delivery
• Facilitate the 20% of our IDSc course content that should be new material each year
• Identify and bring emerging technologies and management issues in the MIS curriculum
• Enhance course content by integrating academic research with “real-world” business challenges
• Expose students to management issues through active participation

Program Benefits

• Ensure that graduating students acquire the necessary key skills and concepts
• Developmental experience for employees through project mentoring and course presentations
• Identify current issues to be explored by student projects
• Establish relationships with faculty beyond specific courses
• Visibility of sponsor organization to students
• Recognition for participation in the program

Courses Available for Sponsorship

Undergraduate MIS Major Courses
IDSc 3001 - Information Systems for Business Processes and Management
IDSc 3201 - Introduction to Programming for Systems Development
IDSc 3202 - Analysis and Modeling for Business Systems Development
IDSc 4203 - Information Technology Infrastructure
IDSc 4204 - Managing Information Systems Undergraduate Core Course

Undergraduate MIS Major Elective Courses
IDSc 4421 - Financial Information Systems & Technologies
IDSc 4441 - Electronic Commerce
IDSc 4451 - Telecommunications Fundamentals & Applications

Course Sponsors