COURSE: BACHELORS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (MULT...

Modern information technology offers the possibility of information products being designed and created comprising various types of media over and above the traditional text medium. Information technology therefore results in the convergence of various previously separate traditional media. There is not a single discipline that handles the combination of information products.

Type: Undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Computer Literacy


• Information Literacy


• Academic Literacy


• Multimedia: Mark-up languages


• Multimedia: Multimedia for the web


• Information Science: Introduction to Information Science


• Information Science: Organisation and representation of information


• Information Science: Information and communication technology


• Program Design: Introduction


• Introduction to Computer Science


• Netcentric Computer Systems


• Visual Design

Second year subjects:

• Community-based Project


• Multimedia: Advanced mark-up languages


• Multimedia: Multimedia and hypermedia theory


• Publishing: Copy-editing


• Data Structures and Algorithms


• Design Patterns


• Operating Systems


• Concurrent Systems


• Visual design

Third year subjects:

• Multimedia: Project


• Multimedia: Human-computer interaction


• Multimedia: Trends


• Software Engineering

Careers: Information technologist, multimedia specialist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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