Introduction to systems analysis and design. Introduction to general systems theory. Players in the systems game. Information systems building blocks. Information systems development: Software development life cycle; specification, analysis, design, implementation and testing. Project Management: project management tools and source code control systems (SCCS). Feasibility analysis and system proposal. Systems Analysis; Requirements discovery; deliverables; CASE tools for system analysis and design, data modeling and process modeling tools (data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams), traditional and prototyping approaches; Data modeling and analysis; Process modeling. Systems Design: Applications architecture and modeling; Database design; I/O design, input validation and user interface design (GUI). Systems Construction and