The advance of modern technologies has brought significant progress on computers and communications. Industry has shown a great demand on the MIS professionals than ever. Therefore, in this course, we plan to provide the MIS students with theoretical background of information technologies and basic practical training of computer hardware, software, peripherals and networks to serve as foundation for the future advance courses. Meanwhile, we will keep track on the latest state-of-art technologies to build up the sense of future challenges in the MIS domain. Major topics to be covered are as follows: introduction of computer systems, digital data presentation and logic design, systems and programming, databases, network architectures, information security and electronic commerce.