About the Program
The study of information systems relates to how organisations and societies use and exploit new information and communication technologies (ICT). Emphasis is on the organisational and social aspects of the efforts organisations make in order to accommodate ICT, change their practices, and achieve benefits. Successful graduates may be able to gain exemptions from several of the examinations of professional bodies (depending upon the subjects taken). We advise you to contact the relevant bodies for advice.
Course Content:
You can take the Foundation and Further units in any order, provided you satisfy any prerequisites (units which you must have already passed). Most students, however, would normally take the Foundation units first because (as their name suggests) they are the ‘building blocks’ – the foundation – for the units that follow. Prerequisites are listed at the beginning of the appropriate syllabuses.
Foundation units
1. Introduction to sociology
2. Introduction to information systems
3. Introduction to business and management
4. One full unit from:
Introduction to economics or
Statistics 1 (half unit) and Statistics 2 (half unit) or
Mathematics 1 (half unit) and Mathematics 2 (half unit) or
Statistics 1 (half unit) and Mathematics 1 (half unit)
Further units
5. Organisation theory
6. Software engineering
7. Information systems development and management
8. Information systems project
9. Elements of information and communication technologies
10. One unit from Selection groups E, M, IS or S
11. One unit from Selection groups E, M, IS or S
12. One full unit (or two half units) from any Selection group other than L
Group M Units
15. The law of business organisations
16. Management science methods
17. Organisation theory
18. Production and operations management
19. Marketing
20. Computer based information systems
21. Financial management OR Corporate finance
22. Human resource management
23. Management mathematics
24. Management: international and comparative perspectives
25. Analysis of strategic management
26. Elements of social and applied psychology
27. Public choice and public management
28. Management accounting
Group E Units
12. Monetary economics
13. Economics of Labour
14. International economics
15. Public sector economics
16. Elements of econometrics and economic statistics
17. Managerial economics OR Microeconomics
18. Economics of development
19. Macroeconomics
20. Corporate finance
21. Further mathematics for economists
22. Industrial economics
Group IS Units
1. Computer based information systems
2. Software engineering
3. Information systems development and management
4. Information systems project
5. Elements of information and communication technologies
6. Information systems evaluation and policy
7. Sociology and ethics of information systems
Group S Units
1. Organisation theory,
2. Sociological theory
3. Methods of social research
4. Sociology of development
5. Comparative social structures and institutions
6. Social policy
7. Demography
8. Society and the environment
9. Elements of social and applied psychology
10. Sociology and ethics of information systems
11. Criminology
