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IT609 Software Engineering 2
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: Software Engineering 1
A third year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.
Subject aims
This unit aims to develop in more detail some of the basic
notions of the software life cycle as studied in IT509
Software Engineering 1.
A greater emphasis will be placed upon techniques for
managing and improving the process of large-scale software
development. Students should be able to apply their
understanding to the development of modern software
systems and become fully participating members of software
project teams.
Subject description
Software standards, software cost and schedule estimation,
software risk management, software configuration
management, software quality management, software
metrics. Group project.
IT701 Industry Based Learning 2
50.0 credit points
Twenty weeks full-time project work in industry
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the first
six segments of the course
A third-year subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology degree.
Subject aims
To gain first hand experience of the operation of the
information technology environment, the work of data
processing departments and the workings of organisations.
To extend the learning of the preceding segments of the
course, in particular the specialist studies undertaken.
To address issues which can better be learned from within
the industrial environment and to gain an understanding of
the relationship between the information technology
environment and the total organisational environment.
Subject description
Students will work as members of the data processing and
information technology environments to which they are
assigned. Students will work under the supervision of both
an industrial manager and a student manager.
Students will be expected to extend on their academic
studies and gain further experience in the general areas of
programming, systems design, user liaison and security, and
to be closely involved with the application of at least four of
the following in their two periods of industry based learning;
data base, communications, user support, systems software,
4GCs, expert systems.
IT803 Emerging lnformation Technologies
25.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: six contact hours for six
weeks or equivalent. (Note: The subjed may be
delivered in intensive seminar style)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of segments
one to seven
A subject of the final summer semester of the Bachelor of
lnformation Technology degree.
Subject aims
To introduce students to selected technologies which are
deemed to be of emerging significance.
Subject description
A detailed treatment of selected technologies determined on
a year-to-year basis, as a result of consultation with sponsor
organisations.
IT804 Computing and the Human Context
25.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: six contact hours for six
weeks or equivalent. (Note: The subjed may be
delivered in intensive seminar style)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of segments
one to seven
A subject of the final summer semester of the Bachelor of
lnformation Technology degree.
Subject aims
To guide students to analyse the effects of computers in
society.
To formulate and justify opinions on pertinent social issues.
Subject descriMion
A selec6on from: '
Social implications of computer applications in an
information society.
Impacts of information technology on workplace and
organisations.
Human issues: effects of standardisation.
The nature of values, leisure and technology.
Social issues within the computer industry.
Professionalism, codes of conduct, codes of practice.
The copyrights of software and hardware.
Surveys about computers, technological change and
forecasting.
Privacy and security issues.
Computer crimes and fraud.
Societal issues and perspectives.
lnformation systems in economic development.
Goals in computer usage, motivating forces, computers in
developing countries.
Computers and the arts.
Mind and machines.
User liaison strategies.
IT903 Software Engineering Project
50.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours for two
semesters
Instruction: workshop and laboratory sessions,
together with team and individual consultation
with staff as required
Assessment: by deliverable items appropriate for
the com~lete documentation of a software
development project, and by verbal presentation
A subject in the researchlproject cluster of the Master of
lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
The aim is to provide an opportunity for students to develop,
in a team, a significantly complex software system, using
appropriate object-oriented methodologies. The development
will encompass the whole software development process.
Subject description
The system will be developed by a team of students,
following a software process model appropriate for an
object-oriented development methodology such as OMT.
Students will consider all management and technical issues
associated with such a development, and will use a state-ofthe-art
software development environment to develop a
system in a language such as C+ + Eiffel or Ada.