Faculty Contact Information:
| Please feel free to contact me at my email address as shown above. | |
Consultation:
| I will be available for office hours during lunch and immediately after class each Saturday and Sunday. Please make an appointment to meet at some other time if necessary. I'm always available by email. | |
Required Texts and Readings:
| Rob, P., and Coronel, C. (2004). Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Course Technology. | |
Supplementary Readings:
The standard for papers in the graduate program is the APA style. All participants in this course and all graduate INSS, MGMT, PUAD, and ECON courses should have a copy of the style guide:
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition. Washington DC: Author.All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library at http://www.umuc.edu/library/. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students' research and writing skills. | |
Recommended Journals:
| Publications of the various professional societies (such as ACM -- the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE Computing Society, and the various management professional societies) are strongly recommended. In addition, there are many trade journals (such as eWEEK) that MIS professionals should become familiar with, many of these being published both weekly and on-line. | |
Course Description:
| 3 semester hours credit. Prerequisite: Either INSS 510, INSS 520, INSS 530, or permission of the Program Director. Examines database concepts and practices as they relate to business environments. Various database structures including relational and object-oriented are discussed. Concepts of distributed database architecture are explored. Design, development, and implementation of databases are examined. Organizational issues concerning the implementation of databases and the role of data in the decision-making process are examined. Decision support system architecture is reviewed with emphasis on the database component. Issues of intelligent databases are discussed. A database project is required. | |
Course Goals:
Upon completion of the course, participants should:
1. Understand and apply database concepts and practices
2. Understand relational and object-oriented database models, and how they compare to "traditional" models such as hierarchical and network.
3. Design and implement a relational database.
4. Understand and discuss issues associated with Internet database development. | |
Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Describe, compare, and use tools of database design development and implementation, such as: Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), Relational schema, Table normalization, Structured Query Language (SQL), and ANSI/SPARC 3-level architecture - subschemas.
2. Discuss the advantages and issues of distributed database architecture and two- and three- tier database architectures,
3. Concurrency control and transaction management, .
4. Compare and contrast approaches to Security of databases
5. Define organizational issues and the responsibilities associated with database administration.
6. Discuss the role of data and information in decision making, and techniques such as data mining and data warehousing as used for decision support. | |
Grading Information:
Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A 92 - 100%
B 80 – 91%
C 70 – 79%
F Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F(a) is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available in your local Education Center or online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs.
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Course Requirements:
Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.
In order to maximize your graduate educational experience in general and this course in particular, you are required to:
10% - Participate in classroom discussions
30% - Complete a graduate level project/presentation
10% - Complete a set of quizzes
20% - Perform satisfactorily on a Midterm exam
20% - Perform satisfactorily on a Final Exam | |
Description of Course Requirements:
Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Usually this requires two to three hours for every hour of a face-to-face class
Complete a graduate level database project: You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism. Resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC, UMUC-Europe or BSU), partially or in its entirety, is not acceptable in this course and will result in an automatic failure on the assignment.
Orally/visually present your project: You are required to present your results in a professional manner. In a face-to-face course, this typically means an oral presentation accompanied by appropriate visual material.
Complete one or more written examination(s): The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary for successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. The examination questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam.
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Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 16 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a half-day on weekends.
Initial meeting: Saturday AM - 23 October 2004
Introductions
Review of syllabus
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
Orientation to subject
Chapter 1 - Database Systems
Second meeting: Saturday PM - 23 October 2004
Chapter 2 - Data Models
Third meeting: Sunday AM - 24 October 2004
Chapter 3 - The Relational Database Model
Fourth meeting: Sunday PM - 24 October 2004
Chapter 4 - Entity Relationship (ER) Modeling
Fifth meeting: Saturday AM - 6 November 2004
Chapter 5 - Normalization of Database Tables
Sixth meeting: Saturday PM - 6 November 2004
Chapter 6 - Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL)
Seventh meeting: Sunday AM - 7 November 2004
Chapter 7 - Advanced SQL
Eighth meeting: Sunday PM - 7 November 2004
Chapter 8 - Database Design
Ninth meeting: Saturday AM - 20 November 2004
Chapter 9 - Transaction Management and Concurrency Control
Tenth meeting: Saturday PM - 20 November 2004
Chapter 10 - Distributed Database Management Systems
Eleventh meeting: Sunday AM - 21 November 2004
Chapter 11 - Object Oriented Databases
Twelfth meeting: Sunday PM - 21 November 2004
Chapter 12 - The Data Warehouse
Thirteenth meeting: Saturday AM - 11 December 2004
Chapter 13 - Databases in Electronic Commerce
Fourteenth meeting: Saturday PM - 11 December 2004
Chapter 14 - Web Database Development
Chapter 15 - Database Administration
Fifteenth meeting: Sunday AM - 12 December 2004
Student presentations
Sixteenth meeting: Sunday PM - 12 December 2004
Final Projects Due
Course Evaluations
Final Exam
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Academic Policies:
The University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism from internet resources. I may be using this service in this class by either requiring students to submit their papers electronically to Turnitin.com or by submitting questionable text on behalf of a student. If you or I submit part or all of your paper, it will be stored by Turnitin.com in their database throughout the term of the University's contract with Turnitin.com. If you object to this temporary storage of your paper, you must let me know no later than two weeks after the start of this class. Please Note: If you object to the storage of your paper on Turnitin.com, I may utilize other services to check your work for plagiarismThe official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center. | |
Faculty Bio:
Kerry Painter earned his BA degree in Chinese-Vietnamese Language Studies from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Before attending the University of Hawaii, he studied electrical engineering at Clemson University, attended the 47-week North Vietnamese language course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and worked as a linguist for the Army Security Agency in both Vietnam and Korea.
For six years after college graduation he worked in radio news as a reporter, writer, announcer, news director, and manager in Hawaii, Texas, and Delaware. He earned an MS degree in Technical and Science Communication and an MS in Computer Science from Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Kerry did doctoral studies at Drexel and has taught a variety of computer science and mathematics courses at Drexel University, Penn State University, Elizabethtown College, and Swarthmore College, all in Pennsylvania. He joined The University of Maryland European Division in January 1989 and has taught at SHAPE in Belgium, Soesterberg Air Base and AFNORTH in Holland, Aviano Air Base in Italy, and at several German locations: Augsburg, Bad Kreuznach, Bamberg, Baumholder, Berlin, Beuchel, Geilenkirchen, Giebelstadt, Hahn, Hanau, Heidelberg, Kapaun, Kitzingen, Mannheim, Ramstein, Rhein Main, Schweinfurt, Spangdahlem, Wiesbaden, and Wuerzburg. | |