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Module Overview
Compulsory Modules ( Autumn Semester )
Information Systems Development
This module provides an introduction to a set of practical techniques to aid the development of information systems. The module provides students with a sense of the diversity of computing systems in today’s world; more importantly, it gives an appreciation of the wide range of issues that are related to the development of information systems. Though the emphasis is on analysis and design skills, students will become familiar with the whole software life cycle, from user requirements through to implementation and testing.

Challenges for Computing Professionals
IT professionals need to appreciate that technologies do not exist in isolation; they require a broad understanding of law and ethics that will enable them to assess the potential risks of, rather than to, a project, from a variety of perspectives, in any technology-related undertaking.

Strategic Information Management
The pace of change in Information Technology (IT) requires practitioners who wish to maximally exploit technology to constantly maintain their professional knowledge. Within an organisational context, IT practitioners must also maintain an awareness of an organisation’s strategic goals, recognize opportunities for organisational change, and plan and undertake change, making sure factors other than those directly related to technology are taken into account, such as managing sociological and human constraints. Starting with a brief introduction to organisational theory, the module will explore organisational strategies that exploit IT, following these through to planning and proposing change. This will be underpinned by knowledge of the Systems Development Lifecycle, relating systems development to changes in organisational processes.  

Introduction to Multimedia Security
With the tremendous growth of the Internet and computer technologies, and the wide usage of multimedia content such as audio, image and video data, the protection and authentication of multimedia content is becoming increasingly important to industry and government sectors, as well as for individual personal usage. Moreover, recent terrorist events such as 9/11 and the London bombings further highlight the necessity of information security technologies that can be applied to detect covert communication, such as steganography (data hiding) and cryptography, as well as deploying multimodal biometric techniques that can be used to accurately identify faked passports at airports and border checkpoints. Protection of ownership and authentication of multimedia contents and documents have also attracted significant attention in the digital arena through the application of digital watermarking and digital rights management technologies.

Compulsory Module ( Spring Semester )
Management and Business Strategy
Management is a pervasive, but frequently misunderstood, concept concerned with achieving satisfactory results in continually changing circumstances, particularly within organisations and involving people. Strategy is an important, but not always obvious, element in this activity. Students are better equipped for their life’s work, both in IT and beyond, if they have a basic understanding of the multi-dimensional nature of good management, together with the strengths and limitations of the strategic planning and implementation process.

Web Publishing
This module will provide an understanding of how World Wide Web clients may be used to present and manipulate various forms of information.

Intelligent Information Systems
Students are challenged to arrive at their own understanding of ‘intelligent behaviour’ in humans, and to explore the different ways in which this can be replicated using computers. With this acquired knowledge the modules then investigates the major paradigms for representing expert human knowledge on computers, and compares those which require human knowledge to be re-engineered (including rule-based systems) with those which are trained by humans and can mimic the working of the human brain (neural networks). The coursework requires the students to form into groups and build a working expert system using the open-source shell provided.

Bioinformatics
This module provides students with an introduction and overview of bioinformatics the interface between computing and biology. This field incorporates leading adge research and provides a major challenge for the analysis and design of Information System (IS). One important aspect of IS analysis is to be able to catalogue, classify and recognize patterns in potentially large data sets – much of this analysis is rooted in biological classification systems. Such studies can only be undertaken due to advances in computing: multidimensional cluster analysis, data management and computer simulations of biological systems, structures and form. Modern methods of data analysis, including molecular DNA sequence analysis, are placed in context with more traditional methods of pattern recognition and classification.