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