Business Information Systems with Industrial Placement

Programme Structure & Content

First Year
First year students focus on the foundations of Computing Science, including: how to design and implement programs (using Java and a web scripting language); a few relevant mathematical concepts, and some of the grand challenges of Computing Science. They also study two other subjects.

Second Year
In the second year, students are introduced to core topics in Modern Information Systems, with courses in E-Society, Data Management, Human Computer Interaction, and Advanced Web Application Development, plus Business topics as well.

Third Year
The third year includes a year-long Software Engineering Project. Working in teams, students develop a major information system, from an initial analysis to the final delivery. The project emphasises inter-personal teamwork skills as strongly as technical topics. Taught courses cover: Adaptive Interactive Systems, Enterprise Computing and Security, Languages and Computability, E-Business Strategies, and entrepreneurial courses.

Fourth Year (Honours)
The fourth year also involves a substantial project, but this time students work individually on a specific topic of interest to them; most projects are industry or research-related. Taught courses include: Natural Language Processing, Data Mining and Visualisation, and Semantic Web-Engineering.

The Industrial Placement is taken between third and fourth year or after fourth year.

Teaching & Assessment

All courses are supported by Web-based material, usually including full course notes. Lectures in the first two years commonly include live computer demonstrations. Assessment is by a mixture of course work and examination.