Comments about BSc Computing in Business - At the institution - Huddersfield - West Yorkshire
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Objectives
These courses will provide you with the skills necessary to develop a career as a business computing specialist. You will learn about computing, about modern business and, in particular, about what is required to integrate information systems successfully into organisations. Companies need graduates who understand both computing and business and how to relate one to the other. You will help business and IT to understand each other.
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Entry requirements
Entry Requirements We would normally expect you to have either: i) A minimum of 180 points from A2 or AS levels or ii) A minimum of 180 points from a Vocational A level double award or iii) BTEC national Diploma (Merit, Merit, Pass) or iv) Access course with 65% average.
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Academic title
BSc Computing in Business
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Course description
Four themes run through the degrees.
Technical Skills
You will gain professional-level computing skills, learning, for example, how to build websites, design databases and build applications.
Understanding organisations
The success of information 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 information systems 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.
Understanding Business
This provides an understanding of modern business structures and practices. If you take an option alongside your course, you will substitute specialist modules for business modules in your second and final years.
Professional Development
A series of individual and group projects mirrors the way that you will work in industry.
The 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 Business
Year 2
Website Development
Application Development
Designing Information Systems for People
Professional Issues and Project Management
Integrative and Group Project 2
Management
Year 3 (optional)
Supervised Work Experience
Final Year
Systems Strategy
Individual Project (40 Credits)
Strategic Management
Two optional modules
Final year optional modules for BACB are chosen from a list of modules that typically includes Modern Database Applications, e-commerce: Business and Technology, Computer-based Work Environments and Advanced Web Programming.
