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;
- 6 credits in Artificial Intelligence Literacy courses; and
- 24 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 Courses | 6 | 6 | 12 |
Artificial Intelligence Literacy Courses | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Free Elective Courses | -- | 24 | 24 |
Total | 57 | 63 | 120 |
Students are required to complete the following core courses (total 60 credits):
- Information management foundations (6 credits)
- Information retrieval (6 credits)
- Database systems (6 credits)
- Information organisation and content management (6 credits)
- Professional practices in information management (6 credits)
- Internship (6 credits)
- Project management (6 credits)
- Information society issues and policy (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):
- User-based systems analysis (6 credits)
- Web development, users and management (6 credits)
- Multimedia and human-computer interaction (6 credits)
- Data warehousing and data mining (6 credits)
- Electronic commerce (6 credits)
- Fundamentals of object-oriented programming (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.
