Students are required to complete the programme with passes in all 16 units, including 8 core units and 8 specialist units.
CORE UNITS (8 UNITS)
Computer Platforms (Unit 1)
This unit will provide IT practitioners who need sufficient knowledge of computer architecture to make rationale and commercial decisions on the selection and specification of systems. Learners will learn how to evaluate operating systems in order to create their own operating environment. This unit aims to give learners the confidence to communicate with technical and non-technical specialists to justify their recommendations.
Systems Analysis (Unit 2)
This unit will provide learners with a detailed insight into the systems analysis life cycle, modeling tools techniques, testing procedures and the need for systems evaluation. This unit will examine the requirements of analysis for both commercial and technical applications. It will also introduce the data and functional modeling techniques which learners can be expected to use.
Programming Concepts (Unit 3)
This unit should underpin an understanding of the general principles and concepts of programming that learners need in the workplace. Learners will develop programs and although the content could be delivered from a range of languages, compilers or platforms, the unit should aim to deliver skills and knowledge that will easily transfer to other areas of the qualification life cycle.
Database Design Concepts (Unit 4)
As databases play an integral part in both academic and commercial domains, they provide users with a tool in which to store, model and retrieve data. This unit introduces learners with the practical aspects of designing a database. Learners will be expected to use applications software to a prescribed level in order to design, use basic tools, develop and demonstrate a database that is fully functional.
Networking Concepts (Unit 5)
The increasingly sophisticated technologies and widening user base mean a fundamental understanding of networks is essential for many. This unit will clarify the issues associated with network use and how this has developed. It will identify the architectural concepts behind networking and help develop the preliminary skills necessary to install and manage networks.
Personal Skills Development (Unit 6)
This unit examines a range of skills that are deemed necessary to aid learners through various scenarios. Learners will be able to improve their own learning, be involved with team work and be more capable of problem solving through the use of case studies, role play and real-life cycles. This unit attempts to encapsulate a range of key and common skills and deliver this information in a dynamic learning environment.
Information Systems Project (Unit 8)
This unit will form a central part in the development of the learner’s ability to link and integrate the knowledge and skills acquired during the programme to produce a practical solution to a realistic problem from the use of applications software. Students will be expected to design, use and test applications software to meet a specified user requirement.
Information Systems (Unit 16)
It is recognized nowadays that information is required at all levels in an organization and that information itself can have many sources. In this unit, students will be equipped the skills to identify information needs within different functional areas of an organisation, to compare a range of information systems and to examine the information systems with an organisation.
SPECIALIST UNITS (8 UNITS)
Networking Technology (Unit 12)
Understanding of the underlying principles of networking is of vital importance to all IT practitioners in today’s increasingly sophisticated world. The aim of this unit is to provide a background to the basic components of networked systems from which all networking operations derive. It also includes the evaluation of networks and network
applications.
Data Analysis and Design (Unit 13)
The aim of this unit is to provide an essential knowledge of database systems including design principles, practical implementation and development skills for both system designers and software engineers. The importance of structured query languages should be stressed, and once created, database will be used or demonstrated in a variety of tasks including querying and report writing.
Management in IT (Unit 14)
This unit aims to provide the generic skills and knowledge required by a manager in the information technology sector. Such managers have additional pressures of having to deal continuously with changes and participate effectively with management at all levels in the development of strategy. In addition to techniques for staffing and budgetary control, this unit will also cover the techniques for keeping abreast of developments in information technology.
End-Use Support (Unit 15)
This unit provides learners with a framework of developing the knowledge and skills to deal with user problems in the systems; to equip learners with the skills required within a formal framework of systems support so as to train and support the end-users to satisfy changed requirements.
Website Design (Unit 19)
This unit will facilitate the development of an awareness and understanding of the technical and creative skills required to design, construct and manage an effective e-business website interface. Learners will evaluate existing e-business websites and analyse a range of commercially available web authoring software and be required to create a viable, interactive website interface, which meets contemporary web design principles.
Project Management (Unit 23)
The aim of this unit is to provide a basic knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, tools and techniques that may be used in any industry, the professions and the public sector. Organizational and human resource factor are also included. Learners will develop a thorough understanding of what constitutes a project and the role of a project manager.
e-Business Strategy (Unit 24)
This unit starts with considering customers’ expectations of
e-business, because these dictate implementation priorities. Upon completion of the unit, students should be able to analyse the impact on the business, plan an implementation strategy, explain measures for protection of the business and to examine future developments in e-business.
e-Business Project (Unit 27)
The aim of this unit is to enable learners to integrate the skills and knowledge they have acquired during the course to produce a viable and realistic e-commerce project. The project undertaken should show as much integration as possible across units already completed or currently under way. This may vary from one learner to the next, and the project should be tailored to the interest and aspirations of the learner.
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