This course offers students an opportunity to gain familiarity and fluency with a set of widely used techniques for the design and improvement of information systems. The course may be of value both to students who intend to pursue careers in system development and to those who will be customers or managers of system development projects. The course may also be of interest to those engaged in the design of business architecture, who may wish to avail themselves of design techniques developed for information systems.

Central to the course is a semester long project in which students work in small teams to develop a set of requirements and a prototype for an information system which addresses business needs of an actual client. Through this project, students have an opportunity to apply the techniques learned in the course as well as to develop important project management and organizational skills.