Academic Year/Semester: 111-2
Course Number: 130027
Instructor: Chien-Hung Chen,Zhu-Yi Gao
Course Title: System Analysis and Design
Grade: 2 Credits: 3.0
Class location: Room 241, Management Building
Class hours: 4efg
This course aims to cultivate the following core competencies for students:
- Management decision-making skills (Bachelor’s program)
- Teamwork and communication coordination skills (Bachelor’s program)
- Information technology application and innovation skills (Bachelor’s program)
Course objectives:
This couse will introduce some fundamental knowledge and methods in information systems design, especially in the systems analysis and high level design phase.
This course will incorporate some essential project management concepts as entailed in PMP credentials.
Students will nurture the following core capabities in this course:
To cultivate students’ management and decision-making abilities.
To cultivate students’ teamwork, communication, and coordination abilities.
To cultivate students’ abilities in applying and innovating with information technology.
Instructor office hours:
Room 5105, College of Management
14:00pm-16:00pm, Tuesday. Appointment required for other time.
Teaching approach:
This course will be taught in Chinese, but there will be an optional arrangement to allocate some of the lecture time each week to teach in English. The optional arrangement will be determined by class participants in the first week’s class.
Grading criteria:
Mid-term Exam (25%)
Group-Based Term-Project (40%)
Assignments and exercises (25%)
Class Participation (10%)
Course schedule (week, topic, activities, evaluation/assignment, text, etc.):
**Tentative Course Schedule: (Subject to change, please check the latest announcements on Moodle)
Week 1: Course Introduction and orientation towards Systems Thinking, Lecture
Week 2: Systems Development Life Cycle and Modern IS Development Methodologies, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 3: Project Management and IS Project Planning, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 4: Project Management and IS Project Planning, Lecture, In class exercise, Assignment
Week 5: Requirement Analysis, Lecture, Role Play, In class exercise
Week 6: Data Elicitation Methods, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 7: Business Process Modeling & Use Case Modeling, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 8: Mid-term exam
Week 9: Project Progress Report, Group Presentation
Week 10: Process Analysis and Behavior Modeling, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 11: Modeling with Data Flow Diagrams, Lecture, In class exercise, Assignment
Week 12: Database Design, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 13: Database Design, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 14: User Interface Design, Lecture, In class exercise
Week 15: System Proposal and Presentation Skills
Week 16: Term-Project Presentation
Week 17: Self-Directed Learning: Mini Project Practice
Week 18: Self-Directed Learning: Mini Project Practice
