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Bachelor of Science in Information Management

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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 credits) as a Capstone Requirement);
  • 6 credits in English in the Discipline course;
  • 12 credits in Common Core courses; and
  • 30 credits in elective courses.

 

First Year of Study

Second Year of Study

Total

Core Courses

42

30

72

English in the Discipline course

6

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6

Common Core

6

6

12

Free Elective

6

24

30

Total

60

60

120

 

    Students are required to complete the following core 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)

    Students are required to complete two major elective 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)
    • Principles and practice of data visualization (6 credits)^

    ^Subject to approval

    *Not all elective courses will necessarily be offered every year.