COB 17-06 NEW COURSE BIZA 35000

January 31, 2018

Purdue Northwest Curriculum Document

Program Name:

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  • Document No: COB 17-06 NEW COURSE BIZA 35000
  • Proposed Effective Date: Fall 2018
  • Submitting Department: Quantitative Business Studies/College of Business
  • Date Reviewed by Department: 1/26/2018
  • Submission Date: 1/29/2018
  • Date Reviewed College/School Curriculum Committee: 1/31/2018
  • Contact Person(s): Serdar Turedi, Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Raida Abuizam, Department Head of Quantitative Business Studies

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  • Approval by Faculty Senate:
  • Date Reviewed by Senate Curriculum Committee:
  • Name(s) of Library Staff Consulted: Not Applicable
  • Will New Library Resources Used?: No
  • Form 40 Needed?: Yes

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Task: Course Change or New Course Approval

    • Program Name:
    • Degree Name(s):

Section I: This section is for changes in programs, minors and certificates

List the major changes in each program of study, minor or certificate.

Impact on Students:

Not Applicable

Impact on University Resources:

Not Applicable

Impact on other Academic Units:

Not Applicable

Section II: This section is for changes in courses only

Subject:

Introduction of new course – BIZA 35000 – Data Management for Business

Justification:

New course to enhance business analytics students’ understanding of data management

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Current:

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Proposed:

BIZA 35000 – DATA MANAGEMENT FOR BUSINESS:

Credits: 3 (Class 3, Lab 0)

Prerequisites: BIZA 25000

Co-Requisites: N/A

The objective of this course is to explore the various facets of how data are organized and managed, delving into relational database management systems, and distributed data environments such as NOSQL databases. Students will survey the means of creating data sources through data modeling techniques and review retrieving data working with standard data management languages such as SQL.

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Course Objectives / Learning Outcomes:

  1. Students will learn how to organize and manage data
  2. Students will learn how to create queries, forms, reports and SQL statements.
  3. Students will become familiar with NOSQL databases.

Impact on Students:

This is a required major course. Students will learn how to manipulate data using SQL. This will help them to organize the data in a usable form to make a better decision.

Impact on University Resources:

Not Applicable. Course will be taught with existing faculty

Impact on other Academic Units:

Not Applicable.