Course Syllabus 

1. Course Name Bachelor of Science in Information and Communication Technology

Faculty of Science, Mahidol University

2. Course Code SCCS365

Course Title Information Systems Analysis and Design

3. Number of Credits 3 credits (3/0)

4. Prerequisite SCCS363

5. Type of Course Core Course

6. Session/Academic Year 1/2008

7. Course Description

Information system development strategies in organizations. Construction of software

requirements specifications, including an analysis of the feasibility of the desired system, elicitation

and analysis of stakeholders’ needs, the creation of a precise description of what the system should

and should not do along with any constraints on its operation and implementation, and the validation

of this description or specification by the stakeholders. Requirements modeling, notations and support

tools. Basic concepts of requirements management, including change management, tracing, and

consistency management. Transformation of analysis results to logical design, physical design,

program development and testing.

8. Course Objective

The student who successfully completes this course must:

1. Understand the role of systems analyst and system designer along with other participants
and partners in the context of systems analysis and design

2. Understand the products and processes in developing software.

3. Understand the principles of project management, and structured analysis and design and
be able to apply the principles by working on a semester-long team project.

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4. Be able to create project plan and analysis and design models by using various diagrams
such as Gantt chart, use case diagrams, data flow diagrams, structure charts, entity-
relationship diagrams.

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9. Tentative Course Schedule

Week Lecture Topic Hours Project Homework/ Exercises

Deliverables

1 The Value of Systems Analysis and 3 Chapter 1 - 1, 14

Design

2 Information System Development 3 Chapter 2 - 10

Process and Components
Chapter 3 - 5, 7

3 Project Management 3 Project Title and Chapter 4- 4, 13

Members

4 System Analysis 3 Chapter 5 - 8, 9, 11

5 Requirements Gathering 3 Chapter 6 - 2, 7

6-8 Modeling System Requirements with 9 Scope of Work Chapter 7 - 7, 10, 11,
Use Cases 12

9 Mid Term

10-11 Data and Process Modeling 8 Use Case Model Chapter 8, 9 - TBA
and
Specification

12  Feasibility Analysis and the System 3 Chapter 10 - TBA

Proposal

13  System Design 3 Process Model Chapter 12 - TBA

and Data Model

14 Application Architecture and 3 Chapter 13 - TBA

Modeling

15-16 User Interface and I/O Design  4.5 Chapter 15, 16, 16 -
TBA

17 Beyond Systems Analysis and 4.5 Initial Prototype Chapter 19, 20 - TBA
Design: Construction,
Implementation, Operation and
Support

Final Exam

Final Project Document and Prototype

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10. Teaching Method

Learning by doing and just reading: Active participation, student term projects and hands-on

assignments on CASE tools will be used to aid in understanding processes and techniques for

software analysis and design.

11. Teaching Media

1. Lecture notes in Microsoft PowerPoint format

2. Course website

3. Software modeling tools

12. Course Achievement

The students who pass this course require to fulfill course objectives and to pass the following
course evaluation.

13. Course Evaluation

Class Participation, Assignments and Tests 10%

Term Project 25%

Midterm Examination 30%

Final Examination 35%

Final grades will be based on overall percentage by using t-score for A, B+, B, C+, C, D+, D and
F grading system.

14. Main Text

Jeffery L. Whitten, Lonnie D. Bentley and Kevin C. Dittman, “ Systems Analysis and Design
Methods” , 7th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2007.

15. Instructors - Asst. Prof. Dr. Thanwadee Sunetnanta (cctth@mahidol.ac.th)

- Dr. Thitima Srivatanakul (thitima.s@gmail.com)

16. Course Responsibility Section 1, 3 - Asst. Prof. Dr. Thanwadee Sunetnanta

Section 2 - Dr. Thitima Srivatanakul

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