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Undergraduate

BSc Information Systems and Management

Structure and Syllabus

You will be required to make a serious attempt in the examination for 12 units on the Standard Route of the degree. On the Graduate Entry Route you must take and pass 9 fuzll units.

You can take the Foundation and Further units in any order, provided you satisfy any prerequisites (units which you must have already passed). Prerequisites are shown in italic text in brackets. 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.

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Standard Route		Graduate Entry Route
Foundation units		Foundation units
1	21 Principles of sociology	1	21 Principles of sociology
2	60 Introduction to information systems	2	60 Introduction to information systems
3	107 Introduction to business and management	3	107 Introduction to business and management
4	129 Introduction to programming (half unit) and 04a Statistics 1 (half unit)	4	129 Introduction to programming (half unit) and 04a Statistics 1 (half unit)

Further units		Further units
5	127 Organisation theory: an interdisciplinary approach (02 or 21 or 79)	5	127 Organisation theory: an interdisciplinary approach (02 or 21 or 79)
6	62 Information systems development and management (60)	6	62 Information systems development and management (60)
7	138 Information and communication technologies (ICT) : principles and perspectives (60+129)	7	138 Information and communication technologies (ICT) : principles and perspectives (60+129)
8	139 Software engineering: theory and application (62+138)	8	139 Software engineering: theory and application (62+138)
9	159 Reserach Project in Information systems (62+138)	9	159 Research Project in Information systems (62+138)
10	One unit from Selection group IS	Please note that through this Graduate Entry Route the degree takes a minimum of three years to complete.
11	One unit from Selection groups M, IS or S
12	One full unit (or two half units) from any Selection group

Note:
This page is intended for use by prospective students as a guide. The structure shown above is subject to confirmation in the 2009-2010 Regulations.