This degree is designed for students seeking a study field that combines technological know-how with business exposure, enabling them to prepare for careers as software developers in a business environment.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years part time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Introduction to Business Information Systems
- Introduction to programming
- Introduction to visual programming
- Computer systems: fundamental concepts
- Business management
- Accounting concepts, principles and procedures
- Accounting reporting
- Introduction to programming
- Comprehension skills for science
- Basic statistics
- End-user Computing
Second year subjects:
- Systems analysis and design methods
- Object-oriented concepts
- Computer networks
- Programming: data structures
- Programming: contemporary concepts
- Computer organisation
- General management
- The internal auditing process
Third year subjects:
- Principles of databases
- Advanced systems development
- Database design and implementation
- Software project management
- Strategic management
Careers: business software developer, enterprise information technology manager.
Source: www.unisa.ac.za