28 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (ISD2019 TOULON, FRANCE) Swedish Undergraduate Information Systems Curricula: A Comparative Study Odd Steen Department of Informatics Lund School of Economics and Management Lund University Lund, Sweden odd.steen@ics.lu.se Paul Pierce Department of Informatics Lund School of Economics and Management Lund University Lund, Sweden paul.pierce@ics.lu.se Abstract The authors do a comprehensive comparison of the Swedish Information Systems undergraduate programs in order to on the one hand get a better understanding of how the Swedish curriculum compares to the Australian and US counter parts and on the other hand also get an understanding of where the IS field has changed over time. This change is debated to get a clearer view of what courses should be core in a post 2020 curriculum. The study points to some significant overlaps where Foundations of Information Systems, Data and Information Management, and Systems Analysis and Design are important for both Swedish, Australian, and US undergraduate IS programs. The study also shows differences in focus in the different countries curriculum, where the Swedish programs have a clear focus towards enterprise architecture and application development in comparison to both the Australian and US counterparts. Keywords: Curriculum Design, IS Education, IS Curriculum Classification, Information Systems Curricula, Information System Education. 1. Introduction Information Systems (IS) and the use of IS could be argued to be one of the most important, if not the most important, emblematic and ubiquitous technologies in our modern society. This implies that teaching and understanding of how IS interacts with business and society as a whole should be of central importance to all governments. Even though academic programs catering to IS knowledge started to appear in th e late 1960’s, the major professional body, i.e. the Association of Information Systems (AIS), was not established until the mid1990’s 1 . This indicates that the field is still young and one representation of this can be seen in the fact that we find academic programs centred around IS in many different faculties as well as different departments within the faculties. IS permeates everything in our everyday life, and the way we interact with different systems and technology increases every day and in that capacity it should be apparent that an up to date and functioning IS curriculum is of vital importance. The latest guideline for IS curriculum [21] is now 10 years old and it is uncertain if it still represents the sought after curriculum for universities around the 1 https://history.aisnet.org/images/Docs/Association_for_Information_Systems.pdf