CTS 285 – Systems
Analysis and Design
Fall
2007
Class meets
– Tuesday – Thursday – 10:30 – 11:20
Room –
Herring 114
Instructor: Pinda Byrd Office: Herring
114 Phone: (910) 296-2550
Office Hours: Monday 8:00 – 8:30, 10:30 –
11:30 & 12:00 – 1:00;
Tuesday & Wednesday 8:00 – 8:30 & 12:30
– 1:00; Thursday 12:30 – 1:00
Email address: pbyrd@jamessprunt.edu
Prerequisite: CIS 115
Text: Systems
Analysis and Design Seventh Edition by Shelly Cashman Rosenblatt the Thomson
Course Technology. ISBN
1-4239-1222-5.
Other
materials:
Course
Description: This
course provides an introduction to Systems Analysis and Design. Topics include analyzing the business
case, requirements modeling, data and process modeling, and development
strategies, with an increased focus on object modeling and project
management. Students also learn
about output and user interface design, data design, systems architecture and
implementation, and systems operation, support and security.
Course Evaluation:
Final grades
for the course will be determined as follows:
Tests 20%
Labs 75%
Class
participation 5%
100%
Children
in Class Policy
There should be no children in
class at anytime.
Electronic
Devices in Class Policy
Cellular phones, pagers, CD
players, radios and similar devices are prohibited to be turned on during class
time.
Examination
and Lecture Policy
You may have numerous exams and
or quizzes throughout the semester. No make-up exams will be allowed without prior arrangements being made
before the tests are taken. NO QUIZ MAKE-UPS ARE ALLOWED.
You should always be prepared for
exams by attending lectures and reading the chapter work and doing your
assignments. Always review your
chapter summaries at the end of each chapter and the exercises to prepare you
also.
If you are late or absent from
class it is your responsibility to get the notes, handouts, and
assignments.
Students are expected to uphold
the school’s standard of conduct relating to academic honesty. The guiding principle of academic
integrity shall be that a student’s submitted work, exams, reports, and
projects must be that of the student’s own work. Students shall be guilty of violating
the honor code if they:
*Represent the work of others as
their own.
*Use or obtain unauthorized
assistance in any academic work.
*Give unauthorized assistance to
other students.
*Modify, without instructor
approval, an exam, paper, record, or report for obtaining a higher grade.
*Misrepresent the content of
submitted work.
The penalty for violating the
honor code is severe. Any student
violating the honor code is subject to receive a failing grade for the course
and will be reported to the office of Student Affairs. If a student is unclear about whether a
particular situation may constitute an honor code violation, the student should
meet with the instructor to discuss the situation.
In this class it is permissible
to assist classmates in general discussions of computing techniques. General advice and interaction are
encouraged. Each person must
develop his or her own solutions to the assigned projects, assignments, and
tasks. In other words, students may
not “work together” on graded assignments unless directed to by the
instructor.
Lecture,
laboratory, and exam schedule
You are expected to read each
assigned project prior to the lecture. Lectures will be short, to the point, and will discuss the highlights of
the project for that week. Most of
the class time will be spent working on your Laboratory assignments.
Weekly Laboratory assignments can
only be handed in immediately BEFORE lecture begins the following week. Laboratory assignments handed in after
lecture begins the following week are considered late.
No assignments will be accepted
more than two weeks late. Assignments handed in during the week after they are due are penalized
25 points. Assignments handed in
during the second week after they are due are penalized 50 points. Plan to spend approximately six to eight
hours each week working on laboratory assignments.
MAKE SURE your name, student ID,
and exercise number appears in the upper-left corner. If an exercise has multiple sheets, then
staple them together. Do not staple
different assignments together. Disorganized assignments (pages out of order, mislabeled, unreadable,
etc.) will receive a grade of zero. If there are multiple sheets are to be handed in, sequence them
according to the order you were told to print them in the exercise. Some exercises are to be handed in on a
floppy disk or jump drive (whichever you prefer).
Final grades will be computed on
the following basis:
93-100 A
85-92 B
77-84 C
70-76 D
Below 70 F