COURSE: BACHELORS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

This degree is conferred by the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology.

Type: Undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• Academic literacy


• Information literacy


• Introduction to programme design


• Netcentric Computer Systems


• Introduction to Computer Science


• Business Management


• Financial Accounting


• Informatics


• Information Science: Introduction


• Discrete Structures


• Calculus


• Linear Algebra


• Philosophy

Second year subjects:

• Data Structures and Algorithms


• Design Patterns


• Operating Systems


• Informatics


• Multimedia: Advanced mark-up languages


• Business Law


• Information Science: Information seeking and retrieval


• Information Science: Social and ethical impact


• Discrete Structures

Third year subjects:

• Software Engineering


• Information Systems Project


• Multimedia Project


• Informatics

Fourth year subjects:

• Industry-based learning


• Community-based project


• Information Science


• Informatics


• Computer Science

Careers: Information technologist.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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