Revising IS Curriculum: Positioning Information Systems Specialists for a Web-Based Environment

This paper presents the issues confronting a large Australian university in revising its curriculum in order to effectively respond to the changing demands of the technical environment and an increasing need to produce graduates who are team players. The paper first defines the outcomes of an IS education at this university and then moves on to defining an IS curriculum for 2005 (the target year of the first graduates in the revised program). A brief section on educational approaches then follows, which examines our values and beliefs of education and content inclusion. The paper then examines a range of units that are designed to position the student to become an Information Systems Specialist. The paper closes by reviewing the pressures on universities to keep current content and processes and summarizing the mapping of the final IS curriculum to the objectives in ISCC’99.