Course Outcomes and Course Structure
Course Outcomes
By the end of the BSC (Hons) Business Computing, successful students will be able to:
- use business analysis techniques to identify, compare and evaluate areas of ICT potential
- employ techniques of systems analysis to bridge the gap between business strategy and the technologies that can support it
- analyse and interpret financial statements and be able to cost justify the development of business applications
- design, implement and test databases that can support business transactions between purchasers and providers
- formulate and/or interpret business strategy and relate it to ICT applications
- confront concrete problems faced by businesses and organisations
- identify users and business needs for given ICT applications and specify appropriate matching technologies
- critically evaluate the impact of ICT on the operational strategies of an organisation
Course Structure
There are 24 modules. Of these 16 are core and 6 optional, plus a project. The optional modules enable students to study from the range of WIUT modules
Two strands permeate the course: Information Systems and Business Administration.
Information Systems strand forms one of the course pillars comprising business and systems analysis, process design, systems design, databases and communications. Business Administration strand provides the organisational knowledge required to understand the context and value of information systems applications within a modern public or private organisation.
At the time of publication, the core modules are:
- Business Information Systems
- Accounting and Finance Fundamentals
- Introduction to Web Publishing
- Rapid Applications Development1
- Business Data Analysis
- Introduction to Databases
- Systems Analysis
- Database Theory and Practice
- Database Systems Development
- Rapid Applications Development 2
- Management Accounting Applications
- Management Research Methods
- Human Resources Management
- Web Applications Development
- Global Business Computing Management
- Business Computing Project (double module)
