1.1 Original Curriculum
The Management Information Systems (MIS) curriculum in the College of Business at the authors’ university was originally designed where each course was a self-contained, independent module requiring limited interaction between instructors. This design was originally based on the IS’97 Model Curriculum and Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Systems and followed the same guidelines in IS2002 Model Curriculum. These Model Curricula were the collaborative curriculum effort of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), AIS (Association for Information Systems) and AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals) societies and is supported by other interested organizations. (IS’97, 1997) (IS2002, 2002). According to the published guidelines, the scope of Information Systems, as an academic field, encompasses two broad areas: (1) acquisition, deployment, and management of information technology resources and services (the information systems function) and (2) development and evolution of infrastructure and systems for use in organizational processes (system development).