SYLLABUS
IDS 410 (Call# 14066 and 20388) – Fall 2016
Business Database Technology
(Prerequisite: IDS 201 or its equivalent)
Instructor: Yann Chang (jsun@uic.edu)
Office/Ph/email: UH2424; (312) 355–1245; jsun@uic.edu
Class Time: 11:00am – 12:15pm Tuesday and Thursday
Classroom: Burnham Hall room 305
Office Hours: 1:15pm–3:45pm Monday & Wednesday or by appointment
Instructor for CRN#s:39046 and 39047:Michael Politis(mpolitis@uic.edu)
PH: Cell: 312–478–2912
Office/Ph/email:
Class Time: 6:00 – 8:30 Tuesday
Classroom: Burnham Hall room 209
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday by appointment
Class:
Course Objectives:
a. To understand the role of databases in organizations and the role
of database development within the systems development life cycle.
b. To introduce a conceptual data modeling with the entity-
relationship model and enhanced entity–relationship model.
c. To understand the process of converting a conceptual data model to
the relational data model in the logical database design phase;