Faculty Contact Information:
| Please contact me via the e-mail address the study group within the WebTycho classroom as you will be assigned to a study group. | |
Consultation:
| Using e-mail and the WebTycho study groups. | |
Required Texts and Readings:
| Rob, P., and Coronel, C. (2007). Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Thompson Course Technology. | |
Supplementary Readings:
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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:
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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. (Formerly INSS 550.) Prerequisite: Either INSS 510, INSS 520, INSS 530, INSS 620, INSS 630, 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%
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 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 WebTycho enabled conferences and discussions
30% - Complete a database design project
10% - Implement your database design using a DBMS (i.e. MS Access)
25% - Complete an online open book/notes midterm examination
25% - Complete an online open book/notes final examination
Important note: 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. Additionally, I check each assignment (programs and papers) turned in to see if it has been copied from the Internet or other sources. I consider this to be cheating. Cheating is not acceptable in this course and will result in at least an automatic failure for the assignment. In more severe cases, it may also result in an automatic failure for the course.
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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 and approximately fifteen hours of preparation per week for a DE class.
Complete graduate level projects or programming assignments, write graduate level papers or case studies: 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 prepared material: 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. In a DE class, this means creating a visual/textual presentation for your instructor and classmates.
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. | |
Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 10 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a regular three-hour weekday meeting, a half-day on weekends, or a full week of DE.
All chapter references are to the course text.
Week 1 (3 - 9 September 2007)
Introductions
Review of syllabus
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements
Orientation to subject - Database Systems
Database Project Assigned
Read chapter 1 of the text prior to class
Data Models
Week 2 (10 - 16 September 2007)
Read chapter 2 of the text prior to class
The Relational Database Model
Read chapter 3 of the text prior to class
Entity Relationship (ER) Modeling
Week 3 (17 - 23 September 2007)
Read chapter 4 of the text prior to class
Database Normalization
Read chapter 5 of the text prior to class
Turn in CLDP ER diagrams, business rules, and fully normalized table designs
Week 4 (24 - 30 September 2007)
Structured Query Language (SQL) and Advanced SQL
Read chapters 6 and 7 of the text prior to class
Turn in database design ER diagrams, business rules, and table designs to be used in database implementation
Week 5 (1 - 7 October 2007)
Online Open Book/Notes Midterm Examination (Ch 1 - 7)
Continue working on your project
Week 6 (8 - 14 October 2007)
Database Design Life Cycle
Read chapter 8 of the text prior to class
Turn in list of queries to be used in database implementation
Turn design of database reports and Input Forms/Menus
Week 7 (15 - 21 October 2007)
Transaction Management and Concurrency Control
Distributed Database Management Systems
Read chapters 9 and 10 of the text prior to class
Week 8 (22 - 28 October 2007)
Object-Oriented Databases
Read chapter 11 of the text prior to class
Week 9 (29 October - 4 November 2007)
Data Warehousing and Database Administration
Read chapters 12 and 15 of the text prior to class
Week 10 (5 – 11 November 2007)
Comprehensive Online Open Book/Notes Final Examination
Final Database Implementation Projects due
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Academic Policies:
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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 plagiarism
The 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.
Students with disabilities should contact the appropriate support office at UMUC-Europe.
Jan Keller, Director of Student Services
UMUC-Europe, Heidelberg
Phone: +49-6221-378299
Email: edstudent_svc@ed.umuc.edu
Mailing Address: Unit 29216, APO AE 09102 OR Im Bosseldorn 30, D-69126 Heidelberg, Germany
Please refer 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
Code of Civility
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center. | |
Faculty Bio:
Yurek Hinz was born and spent majority of his life in Poland. He worked as a professional musician for over 25 years in Europe and the USA and received a Master of Music degree in 1989 from the Chopin Conservatory of Music, Warsaw, Poland.
In 1990, he was granted a full scholarship to study communication at Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, were he received a Master of Arts degree in Radio Production and Directing two years later.
Yurek Hinz graduated with the Master of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Bowie State University, Bowie, MD in 2002.
He holds the following professional certifications: Information Systems Analyst Certificate, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCSA 2003: Security, MCSE 2003: Security, CompTIA Network+ and CompTIA Security+.
Mr. Hinz is an IT Specialist for the Directorate of Information Management in Schwetzingen, Germany. In 2006, he was accepted to the Northcentral Univeristy's PhD program in Management Information Systems.
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