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ETI 301Information and Organizations

3 credits · Enterprise Technology Integration · Penn State

Overview of organizational structures and functions. Includes information processing and analytic perspectives of organizations. ETI 301 Information and Organizations (3) This course provides students the opportunity to learn and experience: 1. Applicable organization and the ways in which IT can alter and enable these activities. 2. A series of analytic techniques that students can use to investigate the effects of new IT on work and organization. 3. Examples and problems set in and drawn from a range of domains including military, medical, high technology, business and government.This course is designed around a series of ill-structured, contemporary problems that require students to develop responses by applying analytic techniques and theories of work and organization. At the end of the course, students will be able to: 1. Apply theories of work and organization as analytic techniques. 2. Conduct organizational and inter-organizational process analyses. 3. Map information flows among organizational units and actors.

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Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Fall (2 programs).

Required in (5)

  • Enterprise Technology Integration, B.S. (Capital)
  • Enterprise Technology Integration, B.S. (Information Sciences and Technology)
  • Information Sciences and Technology, B.S. (Capital)
  • Information Sciences and Technology, B.S. (Information Sciences and Technology)
  • Information Technology Ethics and Compliance, B.S.
What it opens up

Courses that list ETI 301 as a prerequisite (5)

  • ETI 420 Fundamentals of Systems and Enterprise Integration
  • ETI 422 Enterprise Architecture Foundations
  • ETI 423 Enterprise Information Management and Storage Architecture
  • ETI 424 Architectural Modeling of Organizations
  • IST 432 Legal and Regulatory Environment of Information Science and Technology