Bachelor of Science Honours in Information Technology

Outcomes

1. Problem-solving skills: 1.1 Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts and principles in a number of subject areas in information technology. 1.2 Demonstrate the ability to identify, analyze, design and develop a practical project (year duration) that solves a pertinent problem in the information technology domain. 1.3 Demonstrate the ability to identify, analyze, design and develop projects on a module level in the different subject areas.
2. Teamship: Work in a team relationship in designated projects in subject areas in information technology.
3. Self-responsibility skills: Take responsibility for his/her own individual project. Be responsible for completing each one of the deliverables in time.Be able to produce a project plan for the individual projects.
4. Research skills: Consult current information technology research literature to identify current trends in the different subject areas and identify project opportunities. Consult current information technology research literature to identify methods and technologies to develop the individual year project or projects on a module level.
5. Communication skills: Communicate information technology understanding orally, using technical presentations and in written report format. Create suitable project documentation in written report format and projects on a module level.
6. Technological and environmental literacy: The learner should be able to: Access and understand information technological knowledge in relation to broader technological fields and the environment. Be able to reason about and synthesize reports on current information technological trends.
7. Developing macrovision: Relate different subject areas of information technology. Identify the synergism between information technology fields. Identify the applicability of information technology in the wider community.
8. Learning skills: Acquire knowledge of concepts and principles and principles in different information technological fields.
9. Citizenship: Apply information technology knowledge demonstrating the key concepts of a responsible and innovative citizen. Apply information technological knowledge in a professional and ethical manner.
10. Cultural and aesthetic understanding: Demonstrate an understanding of cultural and aesthetic issues in different subject areas of information technology.
11. Employment seeking skills: Express himself/herself clearly in information technology terminology. Be aware of his/her abilities as an information technology professional and be able to project confidence in the learner's obtained knowledge.
12. Entrepreneurship: The learner should be able to identify new opportunities in the information technology domain. 13.1 Subject specific skills: IT00017 Project. Create the project definition. Create the high level design for the project. Create complete system design. Development of a beta program. Final project demonstration. 13.2 Subject specific skills: IT00247 Ethical, Legal and Audit Aspects of IT. Define ethics and its importance in the I.T. industry. Identify moral dilemmas and apply the R.I.M.S. Strategy for moral decision making. Identification and distinction between the two main forms of ethical codes. Understand and describe the Auditing Process and I.T. Governance. Understanding of the Law of Copyright, Trademarks and Contracts. Development of the Law, Information Security and the Law. 13.3 Subject specific skills: IT00037 Systems programming. The learner will have an understanding of the different architectures used in an operating system. The learner will understand the internal workings of an operating system. The learner will be able to write a device driver or modify an operating system to support new features. The learner will be able to write applications that interface with the operating system and device drivers. 13.4 Subject specific skills: IT0047 Information Security. Differentiate between the 5 basic information security services. Understand Identification and Authentication and the supporting mechanisms. Understand confidentiality and the supporting mechanisms. Understand Integrity and the supporting mechanisms. Understand non-repudiation and the supporting mechanisms. Understand Authorization and the supporting. mechanisms. 13.5 Subject specific skills: IT 00057 Information Security in WWW. Differentiate between the 5 basic information security services with application in WWW. Understand Identification and Authentication and the supporting mechanisms with application in WWW. Understand confidentiality and the supporting mechanisms with application in WWW. Understand Integrity and the supporting mechanisms with application in WWW. Understand non-repudiation and the supporting mechanisms with application in WWW. Understand Authorisation and the supporting mechanisms with application in WWW. 13.6 Subject specific skills: IT00067 Data Communications A. Install and configure basic network facilities in the concerned operating system. Configure routers.- Install and configure several network services, such as those mentioned under "Objective of Honours Course" above. Diagnose network problems. Independently study and implement network service (or combination of services) not taught in the formal coursework. Explain the operation of a service (or combination of services) not taught in the formal coursework. 13.7 Subject specific skills: IT00077 IT Project Management. Differentiate between the 9 knowledge areas that form the IT Project Management framework. Understand how to develop a macro vision. Learn skillfully. Communicate effectively. Show responsibility for yourself. Do research. 13.8 Subject specific skills: IT00097 Artificial Intelligence. Introduction to AI. (What is AI? Approaches to AI. Brief History. Reactive Machines (SR Agents ,Neural Networks, Machine Evolution, State Machines, Robot Vision). Search in State Spaces (Agents that Plan, Uninformed Search, Heuristic Search, Planning Acting and Learning, Alternative Search formulations and Applications, Adversarial Search). Communication and Integration (Multiple Agents, Communication among agents, Agent Architectures) 13.9 Subject specific skills: IT00107 Optimisation. Formulate decision problems as linear and integer programming problems. Understand the principles of sensitivity analysis and duality. Understand and implement algorithms for optimising linear and integer programming problems. 13.10 Subject specific skills: IT00117 Functional Programming. Understand the differences between functional and imperative programming languages. Understand the basic structures of a functional language. Understand how algorithms can be shown to be more efficient. 13.11 Subject specific skills: IT00177 Graphics. Understand the representation of a scene and the steps required to reproduce the scene on a two dimensional screen. Understand transformations, including rotations, translations, projections. Understand how lighting adds realism to objects. Understand texturing. Understand special effects. Understand optimizations. Understand collisions and intersections. Understand the relationship between, processor, dedicated graphics hardware and the graphics pipeline. 13.12 Subject specific skills: IT00197 Parallel Programming. Differentiate between distributed and parallel computing. Understand the different parallel architectures. Understand performance measures. Understand the PRAM model as well as message-passing models. Understand the PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and the MPI (message-passing interface). 13.13 Subject specific skills: IT00227 Knowledge Management. Understand the place of knowledge management within an organization. Discuss and understand the theoretical underpinning of the knowledge management process. Identify the key components needed for a knowledge management solution. Appreciate the role of technology in the knowledge management process. Through the assessment process, develop knowledge, skills and attitudes that will allow them to operate effectively as a member of a knowledge management team. Have examined some management principles that will facilitate the establishment of a knowledge management program in an organisation. 13.14 Subject specific skills: IT00237 WWW Programming. Differentiate between the main technologies available to create interactive websites. Understand the difference between client and server side programming in a web context. Understand web demographics and how it is collected.- Understand how online databases can be implemented. Gain practical knowledge on publishing programming assignments on a Linux machine. Understand the security issues surrounding web programming. Understand debugging of projects created in PHP, Perl and Bash scripting. 13.15 Subject specific skills: IT00257 Information Security Management. Differentiate between the main building blocks of information security management. Understand what is meant with an information security architecture. Understand IS1O
13. Understand Information security policies, standards and procedures. Understand disaster recovery management.

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