Bachelor of Science in Information Management
Curriculum Structure
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Candidates are required to complete courses totaling not fewer than 120 credits for the Bachelor of Science in Information Management degree. These courses must comprise:
- 72 credits in the Major in Information Management (including the final year project (6-credit) as a Capstone Requirement),
- 6 credits in English in the Discipline course
- 12 credits in Common Core courses
- 30 credits in elective courses
| First Year of Study | Second Year of Study | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
Language Enhancement | 6 | - | 6 |
Common Core | 6 | 6 | 12 |
Core Courses | 42 | 30 | 72 |
Elective | 6 | 24 | 30 |
Total | 60 | 60 | 120 |
Language Enhancement Courses (6 credits)
- Academic English for information management students (6 credits)
Common Core (12 credits)
- Common Core (12 credits)
Core Courses (72 credits)
A) To complete ten 6-credit courses^ (total 60 credits)
- Information management foundations (6 credits)
- Information retrieval (6 credits)
- Project management (6 credits)
- Database systems (6 credits)
- Information society issues and policy (6 credits)
- Information organisation and content management (6 credits)
- Internship (6 credits)
- Professional practices in information management (6 credits)
- Introduction to statistics and quantitative data analysis (6 credits)
- Project (6 credits)
B) To complete two 6-credit courses in the following list^* (total 12 credits)
- Knowledge management (6 credits)
- Digital libraries: principles and applications (6 credits)
- Records management (6 credits)
- User-based systems analysis (6 credits)
- Data warehousing and data mining (6 credits)
- Electronic commerce (6 credits)
- Web development, users and management (6 credits)
- Management information systems (6 credits)
- Fundamentals of object-oriented programming (6 credits)
- Multimedia and human-computer interaction (6 credits)
- Selected topics in information management (6 credits)
^With effect from 2022/23 cohort
*Not all elective courses will necessarily be offered every year.
