Detmar Straub - Courses > Curriculum Development: 1991-Present

Curriculum Development: 1991-Present

Overview:

Participated in development of new and/or avant-garde curriculi and courses at doctoral, masters, and undergraduate levels. Have also participated in development of Executive MBA curricula for Georgia State University, University of Minnesota, Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), and Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). Specific courses I have designed include:

MGS 9940: Design of Experiments (First offered, Fall, 2005)

This course is a later version of DSC 8820.

MBA 8000: Managing in the Digital Economy (First offered, Fall, 2004)

This cornerstone core course is aimed at providing an introduction to fundamental business concepts from a global managerial perspective. Students will gain fundamental insights into key business activities during different stages of a firm’s lifecycle.

MBA 8120: Introduction to Information Systems (First offered, Fall, 2004)

This case-based course module serves as an introduction to the relationship between information systems and business processes in the modern organization, particularly in an international setting. Directed at general managers, the module provides an overview of the cycle of business investment in information systems.

MBA 8220: Information Systems Technology for Business Process Innovation (First offered, Fall, 2004)

To aid the student in looking at organizations from a business process perspective we introduce a specific process type of current interest — a multi-tiered supply chain. We then “attack” this complex entity with a modeling technique that identifies problems, metrics, and best practices.

DSC 8820: Experimental Research Design (First offered, Fall, 2001)

This doctoral seminar covers principles of experimental design including: (1) the philosophy of experimental design, (2) ANOVA techniques, (3) philosophy of research, and (4) data collection techniques.

CIS 9280: Quantitative Research Methods in Information Systems (First offered, Fall, 1996)

This doctoral seminar develops skills in designing, evaluating, and understanding quantitative methods and methodologies for IS research. Students also acquire skills in developing research proposals, supporting methodological choices, and understanding how to successfully publish their work.

In the Global e-Management (GEM) Executive MBA program, I took a leadership role, along with Richard Welke and Arun Rai, in developing this international consortium program for Georgia State University. In all, I coordinated the creation of some fourteen new courses for this program, authoring the following courses myself:

ECI 8300

ECI 8900

ECI 8910

GEM 8800: e-Strategy (First offered, Winter, 2001)

This course is designed to assist executive participants in developing knowledge and skills to perform strategic analysis of Electronic Commerce (EC) firms. Participants should also be able to create essential elements of an EC strategy to direct the future of a firm. The course focuses on concepts and methods associated with strategizing, outsourcing, planning, designing, implementing, securing, and managing such businesses.

CIS 8660: e-Commerce Strategy (First offered, Winter, 1998)

This course is designed to assist students in developing knowledge and skills for managing information systems that support Electronic Commerce (EC). Beginning with the concepts of industry segmentation of EC providers and EC usage, it goes on to focus on concepts and methods associated with strategizing, outsourcing, planning, designing, implementing, securing, and managing such systems and technologies on various systems platforms, including worldwide networks. The course also focuses on obstacles to EC adoption and its future directions from both a technological and managerial perspective.

IB 871/CIS 871: International Information Technology Policy and Issues (First offered, Winter, 1996)

This course focuses on issues surrounding the development and use of information technology in the international arena. Some of these issues include infrastructure, hardware and software availability, user-interface issues, language barriers, cross-cultural effects, transborder data-flows, privacy, standards, copyright infringements, software piracy, international networks and strategic systems. This conceptual foundation will lead to the exploration and analysis of policy ramifications for both organizational policy and national computer policy board levels.

CIS 815: Systems Integration (First offered, Fall, 1995)

This course is designed to assist students in developing the knowledge and skills needed to work with systems integration vendors and processes. It focuses on the concepts and methods associated with designing, planning, contracting for, and overseeing information technology infrastructure and applications. Systems integration also encompasses activities where hardware, software, networks, management, services, and training resources are obtained from a team of outside sources. The course familiarizes students with the legal issues related to preparing, distributing, and evaluating requests for proposal (RFP) and subsequent integration contracting matters. Students will prepare and evaluate systems integration proposals.

CIS 868: Information Security Management (First offered, Winter, 1996)

Information systems are particularly susceptible to loss, damage, and destruction from various causes and, for this reason, professionals in the IS area need to learn how to protect these valuable, strategic assets. This course will cover various aspects of information and computer security, including: (1) disaster recovery and business continuity planning, (2) viruses and workstation security, (3) network security (encompassing security for Internet and the World Wide Web), (4) physical security, (5) encryption, and (6) managing the security function. Besides learning about security principles and the security experiences of organizations, a major goal of the course will be to give students hands-on experience with creating information security policies that can guide and direct managerial actions.

CIS 321: End User Applications Programming (First offered, Spring, 1994)

One of the hallmarks of the present revolution in software development is a growing preference for user interfaces that are easy to use because they are graphical (also known as GUI) and interactive rather than textual and command-driven. Both of these trends converge in a contemporary programming environment that is visual and object-oriented in nature. In this course, students will learn one fourth generation, object-based language, Paradox for Windows, and one interactive third generation, object-based language, Visual BASIC, in order to develop the technical capability to assist end users in developing user-friendly business applications.

Curriculum Design for the MBA program launched in September, 2004

7000-Level FOUNDATION COURSES (0-6 hours)

MBA 7010 Financial Accounting Concepts (1.5 hours)
MBA 7020 Business Analysis Foundations (1.5 hours)
MBA 7030 Economics for Managers (1.5 hours)
MBA 7040 Customers and Markets (1.5 hours)

8000-Level CORE COURSES

Cornerstone Core (9 hours)

MBA 8000 Managing in the Global Economy (3.0 hours)
MBA 8010 Strategic Communications I (1.5 hours)
MBA 8020 Strategic Communications II (1.5 hours)
MBA 8030 Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Environment (3.0 hours)

Functional Core (12 hours)

REQUIRED-Take all of these courses (9 hours): For all courses MBA 8000 is a prerequisite and MBA 8010, MBA 8020 and MBA 8030 are co-requisites
MBA 8110 Cost Analysis (1.5 hours)
MBA 8120 Introduction to Information Systems (1.5 hours)
MBA 8130 Foundations of Corporate Finance (1.5 hours)
MBA 8140 Marketing Management (1.5 hours)
MBA 8150 Systems & Operations Management (1.5 hours)
MBA 8160 People in Organizations (1.5 hours)

REQUIRED-Choose two from this group (3 hours): For each course in this group, the 8100-level companion course is a pre-requisite. I.e., 8110 is pre-req to 8210, 8120 is pre-req to 8220, etc.
MBA 8210 Management Control Systems (1.5 hours)
MBA 8220 Information Technology for Business Process Innovation (1.5 hours)
MBA 8230 Applications in Corporate Finance (1.5 hours)
MBA 8240 Strategic Marketing Techniques (1.5 hours)
MBA 8250 Business Process Management (1.5 hours)
MBA 8260 Leadership & Organizational Change (1.5 hours)

Capstone Core (6 hours)
MBA 8810 Corporate Governance & Performance Analysis (3.0 hours)
MBA 8820 Global Competitive Strategy (3.0 hours)

Curriculum for a Global Executive Masters in Electronic Commerce (GEM program)

Took leadership role, along with Richard Welke, in developing this international consortium program for Georgia State University. In all, I coordinated the creation of some thirteen new courses for this program, authoring several of these courses myself.

GEM is a global masters-level degree program addressing individuals, companies, and organizations seeking a global perspective on the rapidly emerging field of Electronic Commerce (eCommerce). The program is intended to educate managers, policy-makers, and entrepreneurs to successfully strategize, plan, and deploy eCommerce in their organizations, on behalf of their constituencies, or as the business model of their SME.

GEM is a joint venture of some of the best business schools and universities in Europe, North America, and Asia offering research and education in Electronic Commerce. These school, in alphabetical order, are: Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece), Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen (Denmark), Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Business/Faculty of Business (The Netherlands), Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA), Nanyang Business School (Singapore), Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (Norway), University of Cologne and European Business School, Cologne and Weisbaden (Germany), and the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).

There will be three international seminars in the program, which will be process oriented, will summarize and be connected to the just-finished trimester and thereby integrate learning since the last international seminar. The seminars will have a problem-solving orientation with a cross-cultural focus, building on local expertise. In addition, the first (introductory) seminar will organize cross-cultural teams that will later be used to study case material that is common to all GEM participants.

The seminars are organized in all three continents: North America, Europe and Austral-Asia by the local participating schools. It is intended that all students from all participating schools will attend.

Time schedule

Structure

Technology (T)
Business (B)
Policy and law (P)

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Curriculum for an MBA major in Electronic Commerce (8 courses)

6 required or core courses

2 elective courses chosen from the following offerings

Curriculum for an MBA concentration in Electronic Commerce (4 courses)

4 required or core courses