COURSE: BACHELORS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

This package focuses on the use of information technology and the processing of information products and is designed to train students in the management, retrieval and organisation of information, as well as to teach them how to add value to, package and distribute information.

Type: Undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Computer Literacy


• Information Literacy


• Academic Literacy


• Information Science: Introduction to Information Science


• Information Science: Organisation and representation of information


• Information Science: Personal information management


• Information Science: Information and communication technology


• Business Management

Second year subjects:

• Information Science: Information seeking and retrieval


• Information Science: Representation and organisation


• Information Science: Social and ethical impact

Third year subjects:

• Information Science: Information organisation


• Information Science: Information and knowledge management


• Information Science: Experiential learning project

Careers: Information technologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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