Research On Curricula System Setting Of Information Management And Information System

With the rapid development of information technology and the extensive applications of information system in the fields of human being's life and production and business activity, Information Management and Information System (IM&IS), as an independent discipline, has developed very quickly. Meanwhile, university teaching and scientific research in IM&IS has been growing very fast, so a lot of excellent students majoring in IM&IS graduated with information technology and management knowledge.According to statistics, nowadays, more than 400 universities in China have IM&IS discipline. In 1998, with the merge of the university majors'category, IM&IS discipline came into being from the following majors, Management Information System, Economic Information Management, Informatics, Science & Technology Information Management and Information Management of Forest, which makes the curriculum design of IM&IS in respective university distinct. Moreover, this affects the establishing of the advantage of IM&IS major.This dissertation summed up several aspects of IM&IS discipline, such as the aim of training, the direction of training, curriculum structure and development trend etc. Through investigating in the professional social demand in 174 employing units, this dissertation analyzed following aspects concerning IM&IS discipline : the society's understanding and appraisal to IM&IS discipline, the social demand for IM&IS students, the factors which will influence the social demand for IM&IS students etc. Then it find several demerits as following: Firstly, the domestic education of IM&IS discipline didn't combine theories with practices. Secondly, specialty orientation of IM&IS discipline should be clear. Thirdly, the degree of popularity of IM&IS discipline isn't high enough. Finally, the course design of IM&IS discipline is unreasonable and the use of modern information technology is insufficient.Under the guidance of this investigation result, this dissertation selected 30 different levels domestic universities, have classified sum and analyzed these information which include the curriculum design of IM&IS discipline. Through analyzing, this dissertation obtain the essential feature of basic course and specialized course of IM&IS discipline. Through analyzing the social demand for IM&IS discipline and curriculum design of IM&IS discipline, this dissertation put forward several suggestions optimized in curriculum design of IM&IS discipline. The main innovations of this dissertation as follow:Firstly, for the research content, this dissertation summarized the analysis of IM&IS majors curriculum system. With the help of inquisitional data, the author analyzes the factors in IM&IS majors training. The factors contain the aim of training, the demand of training and diathesis requirement. The author put forward a new IM&IS curriculum design pattern according to the basic principle of curriculum design.Secondly, for the research approach, this dissertation has designed the investigation scheme and data processing scheme according to the demand from professional internal curriculum design and external social demand respectively. Finally the two kinds of methods are combined and influence each other. Then the result of study has important methodology significance in realizing the goal in research and guaranteeing the result truly.