Course Descriptions
DGIN 5001 Capstone in Digital Innovation
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course requires students to apply principles of Digital Innovation (DI) holistically to a concrete problem. In the context of a multidisciplinary team, students are expected to apply Di processes, develop negotiation and collaborative skills.
PREREQUISITES:
DGIN 5201.03
DGIN 5002 Research Methods
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This class will provide Master of Digital Innovation thesis students with an understanding of the principles of empirical science as they relate to computer science related research. The goal is for the student to determine the research methods most appropriate for their research area and to be able to design simple to moderately complicated research studies. The course covers both quantitative and qualitative research issues and will provide a practical introduction to the statistics through hand-on tutorials. In addition, this course will provide the basis for critical reading of research findings in the literature and students will gain experience with scientific writing.
This course will teach students how to assess the validity of other researchers’ articles, and at the same time, enable students to validate their own research.
DGIN 5100 Foundations in Web Technologies
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This hands-on course examines the technologies and infrastructure required to support digital innovation. The course examines the major components of the information technology infrastructure, such as networks, databases and data warehouses, electronic payment, security, and human-computer interfaces. The course covers key web concepts and skills for designing,
creating and maintaining websites, such as Grid Theory, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX theory, PHP, SQL and NoSQL databases. Other principles such as Web Accessibility, Usability and User eXperience, as well as best security practices, are explored in detail through a combination of lectures, in-class examples, individual lab work and assignments, and a final group project.
DGIN 5200 Foundations in Business
CREDIT HOURS: 3
DGIN 5200 is suitable for graduate students from a variety of backgrounds. The overall aim of this course is to develop a high level understanding of the dynamics of innovation, the distribution and outcomes of the strategic management of innovation and the relationships that are important in developing high-impact organizations.
The course is in three parts. The first part of the course is designed to introduce an understanding of patterns of change in technology and markets.
The second part of the course is designed to address the distribution and sources of innovation and how companies appropriate value from entrepreneurial opportunities. The third part of the course is designed to introduce key ideas in constructing and articulating strategies for developing high-impact, entrepreneurial organizations.
PREREQUISITES:
DGIN 5201
DGIN 5201 Digital Transformation
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Digital technologies are nowadays critical to new product development and business transformation. Digital Innovation refers to “the carrying out of new combinations of digital technologies and physical components to produce novel products, processes, and services” (Yoo et al., 2010)3. The concept of digital innovation entails not only ‘Digitization’ of physical products or traditional services but it also requires firms to revisit their use of corporate digital resources, such as IT (Information Technology) assets and capabilities.
This core digital innovation course focuses on the design and management of digital innovation projects for both public sector and private sector organizations. Specifically, this course provides students with knowledge and skills to initiate and execute digital innovation and transformation projects in existing organizations or new start-ups.
PREREQUISITES: 6.0 credit hours of DGIN courses
DGIN 5300 Law, Policy and Ethics in Emerging Technologies
CREDIT HOURS: 3
Emerging technologies—such as digital media, the “internet of things”, artificial intelligence (AI), and financial tech—are playing an increasingly central role in how individuals live and interact with each other; how businesses innovate and create new opportunities; and how governments
function and serve their populations. But the unrestrained development and use of these technologies can raise complex legal, policy, and ethical challenges. This course offers students an introduction to foundational legal, policy, and ethical issues raised by emerging technologies in a variety of contexts, with special consideration for digital innovation and commerce. On
completion, students will be able to better identify, understand, and critically assess these issues and also more effectively manage and resolve them in the course of the professional pursuits.
DGIN 5400 Statistics for Health Informatics
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course covers essential statistical methods for medical research. Topics include descriptive analysis techniques and basic principles of statistical inference for comparison of means, proportions and investigation of relationships between variables using regression modeling techniques. Students will also become familiar with nonparametric tests and power and sample
size calculations.
DGIN 6901 Directed Studies in Digital Innovation
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course offers the student the opportunity to undertake further study into a specific topic of interest that is not covered in the regular course offerings. The student will be supervised by a faculty member competent in the area of interest, and within area of Digital Innovation. Regular meetings between the student and supervising faculty will be held. A substantial project and report are required. This course would typically be taken by a student in Thesis option of the program with their thesis supervisor.
RESTRICTIONS: Students must be registered in the Master of Digital (MDI) degree program and the signature/approval of the program director is required for registration into this course.
DGIN 6902 Special Topics in Digital Innovation
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This graduate course examines topics determined by the interests of the students and the instructor in Digital Innovation, not covered by the other courses offered in the graduate program.
RESTRICTIONS: Students must be registered in the Master of Digital Innovation (MDI) degree program.
DGIN 7000 Internship in Digital Innovation
CREDIT HOURS: 0
RESTRICTIONS: Students must be registered in the Master of Digital Innovation (MDI) degree program.
DGIN 9000 Master's Thesis
CREDIT HOURS: 0
RESTRICTIONS: Students must be registered in the Master of Digital Innovation (MDI) degree program.