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Industry Based Learning 2
50 credit points
Twenty weeks full-time project work in industry
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the first six
segments of the course
Subject aims
To gain first-hand experience of the operation of the
information technology environment, the work of data
processing departments and the workings of organisations.
To extend the learning of the preceding segments of the
course, in particular the specialist studies undertaken.
To address issues which can better be learned from within the
industrial environment and to gain an understanding of the
relationship between the information technology environment
and the total organisational environment.
Subject description
Students will work as members of the data processing and
information technology environments to which they are
assigned. Students will work under the supervision of both an
industrial manager and a student manager.
Students will be expected to extend on their academic studies
and gain further experience in the general areas of
programming, systems design, user liaison and security, and to
be closely involved with the application of at least four of the
following in their two periods of industry based learning; data
base, communications, user support, systems software, 4GLs,
expert systems.
1~803 Emerging Information Technologies
30 credit points
No. of hours per week: six contact hours for six
weeks or equivalent. (Note: The subject may be
delivered in intensive seminar style)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of segments
one to seven
Subject aims
To introduce students to selected technologies which are
deemed to be of emerging significance.
Subject description
A detailed treatment of selected technologies determined on a
year-to-year basis, as a result of consultation with sponsor
organisations.
1~804 Computing and the Human Context
20 credit points
No. of hours per week: six contact hours for six
weeks or equivalent. (Note: The subject may be
delivered in intensive seminar style)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of segments
one to seven
Subject aims
To guide students to analyse the effects of computers in
society.
To formulate and justify opinions on pertinent social issues.
Subject description
A selection from:
Social implications of computer applications in an
information society
Impacts of information technology on workplace and
organisations
Human issues: effects of standardisation
The nature of values, leisure and technology
Social issues within the computer industry
Professionalism, codes of conduct, codes of practice
The copyrights of software and hardware
Surveys about computers, technological change and
forecasting
Privacy and security issues
Computer crimes and fraud
Societal issues and perspectives
lnformation systems in economic development
Goals in computer usage, motivating forces, computers in
developing countries
Computers and the arts
Mind and machines
User liaison strategies
1~903 Software Engineering Project
50 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours for two
semesters
Instruction: workshop and laboratory sessions,
together with team and individual consultation
with staff as required
Assessment: by deliverable items appropriate for
the complete documentation of a software
development project, and by verbal presentation
Subject aims
The aim is to provide an opportunity for students to develop, in
a team, a significantly complex software system, using
appropriate object-oriented methodologies. The development
will encompass the whole software development process.
Subject description
The system will be developed by a team of students, following
a software process model appropriate for an object-oriented
development methodology. Students will consider all
management and technical issues associated with such a
development, and will use a state-of-the-art software
development environment to develop a system.