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Recommended Citation: McDonald, D S and T Viscelli.  Does Information Systems (IS) Really Matter in Business Colleges?  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2005, v 22 (Columbus OH): §2172. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 6(57). ISSN: 1545-679X.)
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Does Information Systems (IS) Really Matter in Business Colleges?

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David S. McDonald    [a1] [a2]
CIS Department
Georgia State University    [u1] [u2]
Atlanta, Georgia, USA    [c1] [c2]

Therese Viscelli    [a1] [a2]
CIS Department
Georgia State University    [u1] [u2]
Atlanta, Georgia, USA    [c1] [c2]

This paper uses a survey of over 330 colleges of business to examine: 1) Whether an Information Systems core course is employed by the college? 2) What content this required course contains? 3) How many colleges are now requiring students to take a basic computer literacy course prior to taking any of the core sequence? From these three key questions, other related questions were posed for the survey.

Keywords: foundation course, computer literacy, Information Systems curriculum

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