Bachelor of Applied Science Information Systems and Technology
- 2015 Project Management
- 2015 Organisations and Management
- 2015 Research Methods and Interpretations
- 2014 Statistical Analysis
- 2014 Information Systems/Technology Management
- 2014 Data Communications and Computer Networks
- 2014 Database Management Systems
- 2014 Principles of Information Management
- 2014 System Design and Development
- 2014 Business Communication
- 2014 Accessing Information
- 2013 Information Systems
- 2013 Advanced Information Systems
- 2013 Systems Analysis
- 2010 Data Warehousing
- 2010 Web Programming
- 2008 Programming using Visual Basic
- 2006 Web Design
Diploma Knowledge and Emerging Technologies
- 2010 Data Warehousing
- 2010 Web Programming
- 2009 Electronic Commerce
- 2009 Future Trends and Emerging Technologies
- 2008 Programming using Visual Basic
- 2006 Web Design
- 2006 Writing for the Web
Certificate in Web Design and Writing
- 2006 Web Design
- 2006 Writing for the Web
2015
Project Management
- Planning your project
- Scheduling and control
- Software and information technology tools
- Resources, cost estimating, and the project manager
- Risk and contingency planning
- Communications
- Team selection and conflict resolution
- Quality
- Variance and change
- Project status reports
- Post-project review
- Contracts and negotiation
Assignments:
- Develop an intranet project proposal and initial project plan for the merging of two banks with a budget of $500,000
- Modify the project plan and develop a control status report
- Review the project and related issues
Organisations and Management
- Factors that influence management and organisations, and organisations purpose
- Developing a management philosophy
- Ethical and social dimensions of management
- Environment on organisational behaviour
- Decision making elements
- Planning and control purposes
- Organisational structures, leadership, motivation and team dynamics
- Change management framework
Assignments:
- Organisations purposes
- Management roles and skills
- Problem solving and decision making in organisations
- Management philosophies and their influence on current management practices
- Influence of ethics and social responsibility on decision making
- Understand the purpose of planning and control and apply processes to a given situation
- Organisational structures and recommend a structure for a given situation
Research methods and interpretations
- The characteristics of scientific research as a ‘way of knowing’
- Qualitative and quantitative research
- The key elements of the research process
- Distinguishing between specific research methods
- Selecting an appropriate research method
- Evaluating published research
Assignments:
- Analysing forecasts
- Formulating research approaches
- Research process and research evaluation
2014
System Design and Development
- Reviewing systems development methodologies
- Object-oriented development and UML
- Transition from analysis to design
- Developing object-oriented design models
- Developing database design
- Design Principles and Design Patterns
- Designing user interaction and interface
- Designing system interfaces
- Designing a test strategy
- Installing the system
- Writing documentation
- Understanding evaluation issues
Assignments:
- Designing an information system for an organisation and continue the development work based on the information and models developed during the analysis stage of the project
- Design activities, implementation and testing activities
- Maintain a journal include readings, activities, and reflection of the learning process
Information Systems / Technology Management
- Building blocks
- Knowledge management
- Culture and strategic planning
- Assessing IS/IT business value
- Strategic planning I – The assessment step
- Strategic planning II – The strategy step
- Organising the IS&T function
- Build, buy, or outsource
- Managing relationships
- Service level agreements
- Security and privacy
- Strategic Systems
Assignments:
- Concept of strategic planning processes
- Analysis of case study
- Development of strategic information systems
- Report on research topic
Database Management Systems
- Introduction to databases
- Conceptual modelling
- Extended ER modelling
- Normalisation
- Logical database design
- Physical design
- Data definition language to create and edit tables
- Data manipulation language
- Advanced SQL
- Client/server and distributed databases
Assignments:
- Model a relational database
- Create a working Microsoft Access database application with data and queries from a given scenario
- A report on design and implementation issues
- SQL scripts to create a working database with security consideration planned and implemented
- Maintain a journal throughout the course
Data Communications and Computer Networks
- Preparing a plan of action
- Data Communication concepts
- Data Transmission
- Data link layer
- The network layer
- Local area networks
- Wide area networks
- Backbone Networks
- Network design and implementation
- Network operating systems and software
- Network security
- Network resource management
- Network performance measurement and testing
- Data Protection
Assignments:
- Producing a network design for an organisation
- Recommend platforms, network operating systems and application software
- Estimate the implementation and operational costs for the network design
- Develop an implementation plan
- Propose upgrade stages, equipment needs/changes and any network disruption implications
- Identify the users data requirements
- Identify the network bottlenecks
- Recommend changes to the network to fix the immediate problems and allow for growth in traffic
- Maintain a personal journal
Address:
- network disruption
- network security
- network processes
- network management
- web server
- Looking at Data – Distributions
- Looking at Data – Relationships
- Matching regression words
- Missing regression
- Producing Data
- Probability – The Study of Randomness
- Sampling Distributions
- Introduction to Inference
- Inference for Distributions
- Inference for Proportions
- Analysis of Two-Way Tables
Assignments:
- Sketch the normal curves and calculate the probabilities
- Using software draw appropriate graphs
- Regression analysis
- Draw up a two-way tables
- Probability distributions
- Normal distributions
- Binomial distribution
- Confidence intervals
- One sample t tests
- Two-sample t test
- Matched pairs t test
- Inference for proportions and two-way tables
- Project plan (collect and analyse some chosen data to provide answers to some specific questions)
- Complete a basic research in the community
Principles of Information Management
- Information technology in business
- Measurement of business performance
- Risk management and security
- Interrelationships of information systems
- The coming of the new organisation
- The challenge of change
- Managing people
- Information management technologies
- Convergence of technologies
- Work towards completing
Assignments:
- Critically analyse information security and security investments for a given business scenario
- Critically analyse success factors and constraints for a given business scenario
- Apply information management principle
- Analyse the organisational structure and information flow
- Assess the impact of organisational culture on information management
- Assess the advantages and disadvantages of systems integration
- Recommend an appropriate technology solution
- Analyse human resource requirements
- Use a report format with clear writing style and presentation
- Research and gather background information for a pre-audit
- Understood the purpose of an information audit and its relation to information policy and strategy
- Propose and justify a methodology for the audit
- Propose a plan for the information audit
- Provide a plan to conduct the information audit
- Communicate a thorough understanding and implications of the information audit
Statistical Analysis
- Looking at Data – Distributions
- Looking at Data – Relationships
- Matching regression words
- Missing regression
- Producing Data
- Probability – The Study of Randomness
- Sampling Distributions
- Introduction to Inference
- Inference for Distributions
- Inference for Proportions
- Analysis of Two-Way Tables
Assignments:
- Sketch the normal curves and calculate the probabilities
- Using software draw appropriate graphs
- Regression analysis
- Draw up a two-way tables
- Probability distributions
- Normal distributions
- Binomial distribution
- Confidence intervals
- One sample t tests
- Two-sample t test
- Matched pairs t test
- Inference for proportions and two-way tables
- Project plan (collect and analyse some chosen data to provide answers to some specific questions)
- Complete a basic research in the community
Business Communication
- Interpersonal communication
- Intercultural communication
- Organisational communication
- Research ethical communication in organisations
- Design and implement research coincide with the communication theory
- Presentation skills
Assignments:
- Identifying and analysing human communication process elements
- Analysing and evaluating effective business communication practices
- Demonstrating interpersonal skills in small groups
- Demonstrating an oral presentation skills
- Write reports to suit the business context
- Complete an independent research on a business or organisation
Accessing Information
- Broad topics
- Define topics
- Eestate new topic
- Places and collections
- Various formats from information sources
- Concepts and keywords
- Tools for searching
- Strategies for searching
- Library catalogs
- Database catalogs
- World wide web searching via keywords
- Subject headings
Assignments:
- Information types and collections that are available
- Identify and define an information requirement
- Using search results
- Various places to find the information
- Effective search techniques to find information
- Evaluating information for academic writing
2013
Information Systems
- The internet, email, browsers, and report writing
- Introduction to computer hardware and software
- Future Technology
- Future Careers
- Effective business information system
- Databases
- Telecommunications and networking
- Designing a business information system
- Ergonomics
Assignments:
- Developing new sales recording system using Excel spreadsheet using several different functions, containing a four weekly sales worksheets, a monthly sales summary worksheet, a chart and analysing the sales data for a small-medium size business producing, marketing, and selling gift-ware
- Designing and developing an Access database application integrated with spreadsheet, presentation, and word processor software
- Preparing Power Point Presentation for the business and make recommendations about the use of emerging technologies to illustrate each part of the extension to the business information system built and the need for security
- Prepare a report defining the phases of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process in terms of the organisations new database system, defining how e-commerce will address the weaknesses of the business information system and how the features will help the business grow and remain competitive
Advanced Information Systems
- Foundations of information systems in business
- Competing with information technology
- Computer hardware
- Computer software
- Telecommunications and networks
- The internetworked e-business enterprise
- Online systems
- Data resource management
- E-business decision support
- Developing e-business strategies
- Developing e-business systems
- Acquiring and implementing e-business systems
- Risk and economic analysis
- Security and ethical challenges of e-business
- Enterprise and global management of e-business technology
Assignments:
- Propose a standard specification for the PCs to be put in place in three departments for a medium-large size organisation – Including: processor, hard disk drive, memory, monitor, other peripherals, software and warranty.
- Justifying the appropriate software, including a cost estimate
- Discuss what specialised software would benefit the Product Assembly, Sales, Finance & Administration, and other departments
- Justify the required changes to be made to the standard hardware specifications to meet the specialised requirements of these departments
- Drawing a network diagram and discuss what additional hardware and software will be required to network the seven departments, and justifying the benefits that the network would bring to the organisation
- Preparing a Request For Proposal (RFP) document considering the hardware, software, communications and services that will be required for Internet, Web design and hosting, and email services for the organisation
- Prepare a newspaper advertisement announcing the realease of the Request For Proposal (RFP)
- Creating an evaluation matrix for when the vendors submit their proposals, considering the evaluation factors required in compiling a shortlist of vendors
Systems Analysis
- The world of the modern systems analyst
- The Systems Development Life Cycle
- Information gathering methods
- Events and Use Cases
- Use Case Modelling
- System Sequence Diagrams
- Object-oriented Concepts
- Identifying Problem Domain Classes
- UML Class Diagrams
- Identifying Object Behaviour — the Statechart Diagram
Assignments:
- Defining the problems in an organisation
- Defining the problems separating the symptoms from the core problem
- Set down the objectives of the project
- Provide the rationale behind the scope and objectives
- Prepare a strategy for gathering user requirements for the new system including a: stakeholder’s analysis for the case study using the material provided
- Identifying and diagram system components for the organisation
- Clearly stating the method/s of information gathering requirements
- Show which particular pieces of information led you to your conclusions
- Prepare an event table
- Identifying the events and their nature (temporal, system etc)
- Identifying the triggers for each event
- Identifying the possible outcome for each event
- Identifying the use cases in the system and relate the events to the use cases
- Identifying the actors and sources for each use case
- Preparing activity diagrams for each identified use case
- Preparing a detailed and well-structured report
- Maintain a personal journal.
- Identifying actors and use cases for the system
- Using the case tool software or diagram creation tool, prepare use case diagrams for the identified use cases
- Describe the relationships between use cases
- Provide a brief description for each use case included in the diagrams, and where appropriate, indicate which other use case it extends.
- Provide a full description for one use case of your choice
- Perform decomposition of the use case using a system sequence diagram
- Identify domain classes and their responsibilities and collaborators
- Prepare a CRUD matrix
- Perform association analysis
- Identify the associations, super/subclasses and aggregation/composition involved in the system
- Use the case tool software or diagram creation tool to illustrate solutions
- Identify attributes and methods for classes by analysing use cases and other UML diagrams
- Prepare a complete UML class diagram of the organisations system
- Prepare a report for senior management definning recommendations for the organisations system
2010
Data Warehousing
- Introduction to data, databases, and data warehousing
- Components and building a data warehousing system technology
- Data quality, data movement, data loading, and transformation
- Using and maintaining a data warehousing system (query tools, maintenance, performance, operations, metadata and metaphor)
- Business intelligence and data warehousing
- Online analytical processing (OLAP)
- Data warehousing and the Web
- Data mining
Assignments:
- Apply data warehousing standards to design and develop a data warehouse model for business requirements.
- Critically analyse and evaluate the components of a data warehouse system
Web Programming
- XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets
- JavaScript (control structures, functions, arrays, objects, client-side scripting)
- XML (customised mark up languages, XML parsers, DTDs and Schemas, Extensible Stylesheet Language for transformation)
- ASP .NET (ASP.NET objects, Visual Basic.NET, server-side scripting, data storage, web form processing, AJAX, manipulation of XML, critical analysis)
Assignments:
- Analysing and applying markup languages and client-side scripting
- Analysing and applying advanced markup languages (for example, XML)
- Developing an interactive web-based application
- Critically analysing ASP.NET technology
2009
Electronic Commerce
- Business models of electronic commerce
- Principles of encryption and data transaction security
- Business-to-consumer e-commerce
- Business-to-business e-commerce
- Intra-organisational electronic commerce
- Legal & taxation issues
- Social, economic and legal issues surrounding electronic commerce
- Electronic payment systems
- Develop an electronic commerce Web site
Assignments:
- Reviewing and critically discuss development issues of the main technologies of electronic commerce
- Evaluating the key features of business-to-consumer electronic commerce
- Evaluating the key features of business-to-business and intra-organisational electronic commerce
- Analyse the social, economic and legal impacts of the development and use of electronic commerce
Future Trends and Emerging Technologies
- New technologies telecommunications, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence
- Technology diffusion and convergence
- Politics and Economics of innovation
Assignments:
- Critically evaluate innovations, contexts and environments that lead to adoption of innovative and enabling technologies
- Discussing current knowledge, and capabilities of emerging technological developments
- Evaluating potential commercial applications of emerging technological developments
2008
Programming using Visual Basic
- Program implementation: performance criteria and range
- Programming theory
Assignments:
- Designing algorithms
- Solving problems of simple to medium complexity using event driven programming
- Designing and implement testing
- Requesting and displaying specialized information from a database
- Developing knowledge of theory on object oriented principles
2006
Writing for the Web
- How to match the writing on a website to its purpose and target audience
- How writing for the Web is different to other forms of writing
- Basic Web writing skills that ensure the content is fresh, functional, and easy to find
Assignments:
- Identifying the attributes, purposes and functions of websites, and explain their implications for effective communication
- Identify, research, and select content appropriate for a specific purpose on a website
- Identify, select, and apply specific techniques and principles of effective writing and writing effectively for the Web
- Critique the processes and outcomes of writing for the Web
Web Design
- Internet: origins and developments, protocols, web technologies, user agents, standards, separation of presentation/document structure, and accessibility
- Usability and testing: user-centric design, cross-platform design, and usability testing
- Web Design Principles: site planning and navigation, links, page design principles, textural design, colour and images, and multimedia
- Team processes: web project development, project planning, proposal, blueprint, integration and testing, launch, sign off, and maintenance
Assignments:
- Developing web pages that validate to the latest W3C recommendation
- Developing a collection of web documents that are usable and accessible using web authoring and online tools
- Selecting appropriate processes to be used by a web design project team to produce and maintain a collection of web documents that satisfies business requirements
