As an International Business major at a university that prides itself on its illustrious school of business, it's safe to assume that the curriculum is quite intensive. Being a business student at such a prestigious school such as Howard University, I have the esteemed pleasure and opportunity to enroll in a curriculum that smoothes my rough edges and transforms me into an exponentially more dimensional scholar than I was before. Through the School of Business, I am able to take a vast array of courses within the disciplines of business that differ from each other in many aspects, but that all happen to correlate in some fashion. As a result of this, I was fortunate enough to become exposed to the wonderful world of Information Systems and Management Information Systems.
Information Systems was not always a discipline of business I was cognizant of. Its new presence in my course scheme was frightened and caused a great deal of apprehension for me from the start. The unmistakable resemblance it has to computer science and coding at first sight, totally turned me sour to even the thought of it, but little did I know it would actually become one of my most favored functional concentrations.
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A course designed as an entry level preface into the subject, that induces the idea of incorporating business techniques with technology properties. While not immediately realizing the overwhelmingly apparent presence of technology in business, I was made aware of the true objectives of Information Systems. Information Systems is not computer science nor does it involve any aspect of coding, it's simply the incorporation of data and analytics to produce more effective business processes, services and