Decision Support Systems

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course will introduce students to decision support systems and their role in business. Specifically, the course will present a systematic way to think about decisions and formalize decision modeling in order to arrive at more informed choices and better outcomes. The emphasis of the course is on teaching students how to effectively model decisions along with teaching the practical skills needed for building decision support systems. The Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language within MS Excel will be the tool used for building decision support systems. Class deliverables will be systems built with VBA Code.