| Course syllabus |
Course number: 388K (64275)
Room SRH 3.102, Wednesdays 6-9:00 p.m.
Instructor e-mail: gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu
Instructor telephone: 512-471-8326
Meetings with instructor arranged by appointment
The LBJ School graduate seminar "Digital Transformation of Organizations" is a look at how public sector and nonprofit organizations are being transformed by the use of digital information technologies, specifically computers and the Internet. There is widespread agreement among experts that public sector organizations and nonprofits are on the threshold of a significant transformation of organizational forms and processes, changes that have already swept the private sector. These changes are made possible by innovative uses of information technologies and also innovations in management and organization. E-government, online fundraising, virtual campaigns and other new features of public life are just the beginning of such changes.
This one-term course will be a mix of lectures, readings, talks by guest speakers, a field trip, and student case studies of relevant organizations. The course will be a graduate seminar, which means that much of the work of the course will be conducted by students outside of class, in preparation for focused discussions during scheduled class sessions.
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course will use one textbook that should be purchased, the book titled Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
Other readings for the course will be found as links from this syllabus, on subsequent Web pages, or on the UT Library's E-Res online system, or else passed out in class or circulated via e-mail.
There are two major criteria for the final course grade: preparation and participation in class discussions, and the development of an in-depth case study of a relevant organization using information technologies. Students will be required to develop a case study of a public or nonprofit sector organization that is using computers and networks in interesting and instructive ways. Students may work together as a team to do such a case-study, as long as the contribution of each individual student is distinctive, substantive and equal in effort to the work of the other members of the team.
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LBJ School Policy on Scholastic Dishonesty: Students who violate University rules on scholastic dishonesty, including plagiarism, are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course and suspension or dismissal from the University. Since such dishonesty harms the individual, other students, and the integrity of the university, policies on scholastic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. For further information, please visit the Student Judicial Services web site at http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/academicintegrity.html. |