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Course	Section	Credits	Instructor	Dates	Status	Call Number
IS 335	1006	3 (3 max credits)	Kishore Rajiv	Aug. 25, 2025 to Dec. 6, 2025	Open	86648

Description

Introduction to critical thinking with an emphasis on analytics skills, technologies, applications, and practices to leverage the organizations' internal and external information assets for making business decisions in data-rich organizations. Topics include online analytics, interactive reporting, ethical challenges, and business performance management, focusing on advanced pivot tables, Tableau, and SQL.

Prerequisites

Notes

This is an Internet class; refer to Canvas instructions at https://unlv.instructure.com.
Apart from the textbooks, which can be bought from the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ bookstore or from the book publishers? websites, this class requires the use of a Windows PC desktop/laptop and Internet connection for successfully completing it. Note that you can use a Mac desktop or MacBook laptop in this class but CANNOT complete Excel assignments in this class using Excel 365 for Mac on a Mac desktop or MacBook laptop. You will have to use Excel 365 for Windows, either on a Windows PC desktop/laptop or using a Mac desktop or MacBook laptop to connect to a Windows desktop in the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Remote Computer Labs for which instructions are provided in the class syllabus and by 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ OIT.
The class will also require the installation of different business analytics software tools, which are available for free to students, on your computer.
The class will also require a webcam and a microphone for meetings with the professor or the class TA. The webcam and microphone may be built into your computer or may be an external camera and microphone. The class may also use the LockDown Browser with or without LockDown Monitor for online quizzes/exams. While there is no cost to you to use the LockDown software, if Monitor is used, then a webcam will be required. Chromebooks are not compatible for this class.

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