Information Systems course catalog

All 9 recorded UW–Madison courses in this department, including courses not offered this term. Open a course for prerequisites, historical grades and instructors.

  • INFOSYS 322: Introduction to Databases

    3 credits

    Introduction to database management systems with a focus on relational databases. Covers designing, creating, populating, managing, and retrieving data from databases. SQL will be used with a focus on querying for business applications and intelligence, data retrieval for summary reports, and data visualization. Offers a brief introduction to non-relational databases for business applications.

  • INFOSYS 352: Digital Strategy

    3 credits

    Focus on the economic and technical concepts behind emerging information systems. Industry cases covering platforms, online markets, artificial intelligence, and business analytics. Caters to interests in technology consulting.

  • INFOSYS 365: Contemporary Topics

    1–3 credits

    Exploration of subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum.

  • INFOSYS 371: Technology of Computer-based Business Systems

    3 credits

    Focus is on developing applications and business information systems on the web using a variety of programming languages and tools. Emphasis on deployment as well as design concepts.

  • INFOSYS 423: Digital Platform Analytics

    Credits unavailable

    An introduction to data analysis procedures covering topics including: data collection, pre-processing, analysis, and presentation. Content covers important data analysis concepts, such as structured and unstructured data. Learn about supervised, unsupervised learning methods and advanced analytics topics, such as text mining, recommendation systems, and algorithm bias.

  • INFOSYS 424: Systems Analysis and Design

    3 credits

    Applied principles and techniques of information systems development including requirements identification and analysis, process and data modeling, team communication and collaboration, and system testing.

  • INFOSYS 723: Text Analytics and Business Application

    Credits unavailable

    An introduction to text mining and natural language processing for business applications. Provides an overview of text data and steps to make it usable and approaches for making text data useful in descriptive and predictive analytics applications. Topics include representation approaches, topic modeling, and an overview of key applications of natural language processing, such as chatbots and recommender systems.

  • INFOSYS 765: Contemporary Topics

    Credits unavailable

    Exploration of subject areas possibly to be introduced into the business curriculum.

  • INFOSYS/ISYE 722: Computer-based Data Management

    Credits unavailable

    Use, control and administration of centralized and distributed data bases. Topics include the definition, design, creation, revision, interrogation, update, security and integrity of data bases.