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Extracted from IS 2010 Curriculum guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in

Information Systems by Association of computing machinery (ACM)


and Association for Information Systems (AIS)

IS 2010 Curriculum Guidelines

1. IS professionals exist in a broad variety of domains, including, for example, business,


health care, government, and non-profit organizations. Students must therefore
understand that:
• IS professionals enable successful performance in many organizations
• IS professionals span and integrate across organizational levels and functions
• IS professionals need both an excellent understanding of the domain within
which they work and appropriate technology knowledge for their organizational
role
• Information systems in organizations have increasing strategic significance
because of the scope of the organizational systems involved and the role systems
play in enabling organizational processes and strategies.

2. IS professionals must have strong analytical and critical thinking skills to thrive in a
competitive global environment. Students must therefore:
• Be problem solvers and critical thinkers
• Use systems concepts for understanding and framing problems
• Be capable of applying both traditional and new concepts and skills
• Understand that a system consists of people, procedures, hardware, software, and
data within a global environment.

3. IS professionals must exhibit strong ethical principles and have good interpersonal
communication and team skills. Students must understand that IS professionals
should be able to:
• critically evaluate and possibly act on current ethical issues in the IS field
• apply professional codes of conduct
• collaborate with other professionals as well as perform successfully at the
individual level
• communicate effectively with excellent oral, written, and listening skills.
• demonstrate persistence, flexibility, curiosity, creativity, risk taking, and a
tolerance of these abilities in others.

4. IS professionals must design and implement information technology solutions that


enhance organizational performance. Students must therefore:
• Possess skills in understanding and modeling organizational processes and data,
defining and implementing technical and process solutions, managing projects,
and integrating systems within and across organizations.
• Be fluent in techniques for acquiring, converting, transmitting, and storing data
and information, including those related to data quality
• Focus on the application of information technology in helping individuals,
groups, and organizations achieve their goals within a competitive global
environment.

6. KEY ELEMENTS OF THIS CURRICULUM REVISION

The Information Systems landscape has changed significantly over the past several years.
Therefore, the foundations of the curriculum must be evaluated. There are four key elements of
the revision:

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