ObjectivesICT is now commonplace in schools, offices and business. Increasingly organisations require individuals who can support people using and learning ICT. This course provides a wide range of skills that will allow graduates to provide this support. Skills include: understanding, integrating and developing the use of office packages; developing applications, creating multimedia-based products; developing applications to facilitate work processes; designing databases and developing web systems. You are given these skills within a solid foundation of information systems understanding to enable you to advise on how to make ICT effective within organisations.
Entry requirementsEntry Requirements A minimum of 180 points from A2 or AS levels or A minimum of 180 points from a Vocational A level double award or BTEC national Diploma(Merit, Merit, Pass) or Access course with 65% average. Other suitable experience or qualifications will be considered. We consider all applications on an individual basis. Additional requirements for this course are normally GCSE in English at grade C or above (or the BTEC Language and Communications Unit) and Mathematics at grade C or above. YOu do not need to have prior computing qualifications.
Academic titleBSc Information and Communication Technology
Course descriptionCourse Structure
Four themes run through the degrees:
Professional skills
You will gain professional-level computing skills, learning, for example, how to build web-sites, design databases and build applications.
Understanding organisation
The success of ICT systems depends as much upon their human and organisational characteristics as upon their technical sophistication. You will learn the people skills necessary to be a successful ICT professional: how to determine what users need; how to manage projects; how to design appropriate interfaces; and how to deal with the legal and ethical issues that using information systems provoke.
Multimedia skills
You will develop multimedia authoring and web skills as these are now a major aspect of ICT positions within many companies.
Professional Development
A series of individual and group projects mirrors the way that you will work in industry.
Modules include:
Year 1
Web Authoring
Introduction to Application Development
Developing Database Applications
Fundamentals of Information Systems
Professional Skills and Integrative Project 1
Introduction to Multimedia Authoring
Year 2
Website Development Application Development Designing Information Systems for People
Professional Issues and Project Management
Integrative and Group Project 2 Multimedia Authoring
Final Year
Systems Strategy
Individual Project
Advanced Web Programming
Two optional modules
The final year optional modules are selected from a list that typically includes Modern Database Applications, Computer-based Work Environments, and Implementing and Managing Systems.
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