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Recommended Citation: Ryker, R, R Fanguy, and A Legendre. Special Topics Courses in Information Systems: Current Uses. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2007, v 24 (Pittsburgh): §2355. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 6(43). ISSN: 1545-679X.)

Recipient of Distinguished Paper Award

Special Topics Courses in Information Systems: Current Uses

Refereed

6 pages

Randy Ryker    [a1] [a2]
Accounting and Information Systems
Nicholls State University    [u1] [u2]
Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Ronnie Fanguy    [a1] [a2]
Accounting and Information Systems
Nicholls State University    [u1] [u2]
Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Amy Legendre    [a1] [a2]
Accounting and Information Systems
Nicholls State University    [u1] [u2]
Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

As faculty and curriculum developers we were interested in how other schools utilize the special topics course in Information Systems. A review of the literature revealed no articles that specifically addressed the issue. To gather data, a survey of the IS programs at colleges and universities in the United States was conducted. It was found that 35 percent of the respondents offered one or more special topics course. The most popular categories of courses were: E-commerce, Security, Data Warehouses, and Human Computer Interaction. Nineteen courses were grouped into a category called Other Unique Descriptions. Somewhat surprising was that not one school reported offering a special topics course on Web 2.0 and its related technologies. Conclusions and future research are discussed.

Keywords: special topics courses, curriculum development, pedagogy

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