INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Botho University

INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
COURSE PROSPECTUS
Information Technology Programmes

COURSE DETAILS - AT A GLANCE
Qualifications and Duration:
Certificate - 1 semester
Honours Certificate - 2 semesters
Honours Diploma - 3 semesters
Advanced Diploma - 4 semesters
Professional Diploma - 6 semesters
Professional Diploma (Honours) - 7 semesters
BSc (Honours) - 1 year top-up
Mode of Study:
Full-time or part-time
Assessment:
Computer based exams, written exams,
assignments, projects and practical work.
Curriculum Mapped to:
International certifications: CIW, CompTIA, IBM,
ICDL, Microsoft (MCP / MCDBA / MCSE), Red Hat,
Sun.
NIIT Botswana was founded in the year
1997. NIIT has three well established
training centres in Gaborone,
Francistown and Maun accommodating
over 3,000 full-time and part-time
students.
INTERNATIONAL REACH
NIIT International was founded in 1981
by professionals in India driven by
the mission of “Bringing people and
computers together”. NIIT is now the
No. 1 training company in Asia, offering
programs of study for students seeking
careers in Information Technology. NIIT
has over 3,800 centres in more than
29 countries worldwide, with over 3.5
million alumni around the globe. Over
10,000 students have been trained in
Botswana since 1997 under the career
and corporate education programs.
FACILITIES AND CAMPUSES
All NIIT’s campus’s has fully networked
classrooms and practice rooms.
NIIT’s new state of the art campus,
Botho Education Park, is situated
next to the prestigious Game City in
Gaborone. The modern campus has
fully networked classrooms and practice
department, taking care of student
department which assists students in
developing their CV and in placing them
in internships; a well equipped library;
and extensive sports facilities.
MEETING MARKET NEEDS
NIIT courses suit the needs of the market
across a wide range of information
technology applications.
ACCREDITATIONS
in Botswana to be institutionally
accredited by the Tertiary Education
Council (TEC). NIIT is also accredited
by the Botswana Training Authority
(BOTA).
WORLDWIDE ALLIANCES
NIIT has alliances with a number of
universities worldwide, including The
Open University. OU is ranked among
the top 5 universities in the UK for
teaching quality, along with Cambridge,
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Welcome to
CURRICULUM AND METHODOLOGY
The MasterMind Curriculum is powered
by NIIT’s unique LACC (Learning
Architecture based on Collaborative
builds learning components to enable
various modes of teaching / learning
interactions. The LACC Methodology
enables the instructor to understand
students needs in order to make them
learn effectively and retain what they
learn. It works for everyone - from
beginners in IT to advanced learners,
and those wanting to upgrade their IT
skills. The underlying thought of this
methodology is that each person has a
unique way of learning things.
KEY FEATURES
Industry relevant curriculum.
Mapped to internationally
recognised vendor and vendor
Access to both Microsoft and
Linux Technologies in Network
opportunities.
Virtual learning environment for
students to access a range of web
services.
NIIT EDGE
Trained over 5 million students
worldwide.
countries worldwide.
The preferred education partner of
world leaders including Microsoft,
companies.
Academic alliances with
international universities in
Australia, Canada, India, Ireland,
Malaysia, New Zealand, UK and
COMMUNITY WORK
NIIT is engaged in community driven
to remote parts of the country. The
“Hole In The Wall”
behind Oscar winning movie ‘Slumdog
Millionaire’)
aimed at children and adults who
have not been exposed to computers
collaboration with BOTA.
CONTENTS
Courses - At a Glance 2
Welcome to Botho College 2
Foundation Programme 4
Network Engineering 8
Software Engineering 8
Open University BSc (Hons) Degree 10
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Foundation
Programme
The emergence of a global economy is
today a known phenomenon. It spins on the
services and infrastructure of Information
Technology along with continuous emergence
of new business models. Rapid changes in
technology are altering the role and function
of every IT professional. In today’s fast-paced
business environment, competitive advantage
depends on how effectively IT managers align
technology strategy with business strategy
and how the IT professionals develop and
implement it. As business leaders’ expectations
of IT continue to rise, additional pressure is
placed on IT to be a key contributor to business
performance improvement. Agility, immediacy,
and techno-savvy innovation will distinguish
the winners.
Therefore, just technical skills may prove not to be
enough. Today’s “best-in-class” IT professionals
would require some of the critical business skills
which their non-technical colleagues possess
to effectively manage the integrated support
function. It only follows that in the emergent
global economy, the demand for professionals
who have expertise in both IT and Business
Skills has grown tremendously especially in
sectors like telecommunications,
and insurance. Even in the IT s
the technical skills qualify the stu
for a job - but business skills help
further accelerate the growth
within an organization.
This programme offers high q
Business and IT education thus: -
Helping the IT students to be
more competitive and employ
Helping students who wish to
up a non-IT career in any indus
AT
A GLANCE - FOUNDATION PROGRAMME
Duration: 2 semesters
Skills acquired: IT Fundamentals and Essential Business Skills, Relational
Database Design, Programming Logic and Technique
Key Technologies: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, MS
SQL Server
Pre-requisite: None
Leading to: ICDL / Microsoft Office Certifications
Career Outcome: A Microsoft Office Specialist with Business Skills
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SEMESTER 1
BTV21
BTV22
SEMESTER 2
BTV23
BTV24
IT Skills - IT Fundamentals - Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Business Skills - Business Fundamentals, Interpersonal Communication Effectiveness - 1, Business
Kaleidoscope -1
IT Skills - Outlook, Access, Introduction to Programming Logic and Technique
Business Skills - Personal Effectiveness Transformation, Business Kaleidoscope - 2, Marketing
Management - Selling Skills -1
IT Skills - Introduction to Relational Database Design
Business Skills - Consumer Behaviour, Influencing and Persuading Skills, Quality Management Tools,
Customer Care, Project Management Tools
EXIT 1
IT Skills - Implementing a Database Design on MS SQL Server
Business Skills - Adapting to Workplace Team Effectiveness, Marketing Management - 2 EXIT 2
Certificate in Information
Technology and Business
Skills
All programmes subject to change and constant upgrades
Honours Certificate in
Information Technology
and Business Skills
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Network
Engineering
Microsoft / Linux Technologies
The need for network solutions arose from
the minimum requirement of transferring
information and data across computers.
Today networking solutions have become an
integral component of every organisation.
Increasingly the world over, the business
solutions are now handled on the internet
and has thus created the need for security.
In today’s context, these two vital domains
of networking and security go hand-in-hand
and are known as organisational business
solutions.
NIIT’s robust Network Engineering curriculum
addresses all key knowledge components
essential for a good Network Engineer.
The focus of our curriculum is towards
building a strong knowledge base on various
components of IT domains which are relevant
for a Networking professional. NIIT provides
an opportunity to individuals to pursue
specialisation in Linux or Microsoft platforms,
which are two of the key players in Enterprise
Level domain.
NIIT’s MasterMind curri
addresses the basic need
professionals with focus on
ability to adapt to today’s dive
IT environment with a s
background on Netwo
Technologies and Inform
Security.
AT
A GLANCE - NETWORK ENGINEERING (MICROSOFT / LINUX)
Duration: 5 semesters
Skills acquired: Microsoft - H/W, S/W concepts, Desktop Operating
Systems Management, Office Automation Skills
Linux - Services Management, Installation &
Management, User Account Management, Infrastructure
Planning & Management
Key Technologies: Microsoft - Windows Server Administration, Active
Directory, IS Essentials, Internet/Intranet Security
Linux - Networking Concepts, TCP/IP Fundamentals,
Advanced Administration, Enterprise Directory Services
Pre-requisite: Should have completed Honours Certificate in
Information Technology and Business Skills
Leading to: Microsoft / Red Hat / CompTIA Certifications
Career Outcome: Windows / Linux Network Administrator empowered
with both Technology and Business Skills - a well
rounded Professional.
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SEMESTER 3
NQ3V2
NCQ04
SEMESTER 4
NMQ05/NLQ05
NMQ06/NLQ06
SEMESTER 5
NMQ07/NLQ07
IGP INTERNSHIP
SEMESTER 6
NM8UK/NL8UK
NQ9UK
PC Essentials, Network Fundamentals, Introduction to Linux
Installing, Managing and Troubleshooting Windows XP, Administering MS SQL Server Databases
Developing Object based Client Server Applications, Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML
SEMESTER 7
N10UK Developing Enterprise-wide Applications - 1, Developing Enterprise-wide Applications - 2
IGP INTERNSHIP
TCP/IP Fundamentals and Concepts, Managing and
Maintaining a MS Windows Server 2003 Environment
Implementing, Managing & Maintaining a Windows Server
2003 Network Infrastructure, Planning & Maintaining a
Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
Planning, Implementing & Maintaining a Windows Server
2003 Active Directory Services, Designing Security for a
Windows Server 2003 Network
Linux System Administration, Refresher Course on PLT &
SQL, Introduction to Web Content Development
All programmes subject to change and constant upgrades
Linux Operating System
Linux System Administration, Linux Networking
and Security Administration
Linux Enterprise Directory Services &
Authentication, Linux Advanced Administration &
Troubleshooting
Windows System Administration, Refresher Course in
PLT & SQL, Introduction to Web Content Development
EXIT 1
Honours Diploma in
Information Technology
EXIT 2
Advanced Diploma in
Information Technology
EXIT 3
Professional Diploma in
Information Technology/DNIIT
EXIT 4
Professional Diploma in
Information Technology Honours/
DNIIT Honours
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SOFTWARE
Engineering
One of the important domains in today’s
IT industry is Software Engineering. In
our endeavour to address this important
segment of industry, NIIT’s robust
curriculum addresses all key knowledge
components essential for a good Software
Engineer. The focus of the MasterMind
curriculum is towards building a strong
knowledge base on various components of
IT domains which are relevant for a software
professional. These include a strong
foundation in IT, Software Engineering
principles, enterprise development
frameworks, Project Management etc.
The track also focuses on helping students
specialise on a specific technology
framework; NIIT also gives opportunities
to an individual to pursue specialisation
in both .NET and J2EE Technologies, which
are the two key technology frameworks in
the world today. Almost every company
looks for dominant skills in any of these
two frameworks.
The MasterMind curri
addresses the basic
of a Software Engin
professional who needs to h
inherent ability to adapt to t
diversified IT environment
strong background on techn
domain.
AT
A GLANCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Duration: 5 semesters
Skills acquired: Object Oriented Programming, C#, Data Structures
and Algorithms, .NET Framework, Software Project
Management, Mobile Application Development,
Software Testing and Quality Assurance, Web
Component Development, Object Oriented Analysis and
Design
Key Technologies: C#, Java Programming, Linux, ASP.NET, JSP Technology,
Java Beans, .NET Framework, Servlets, ADO.NET, JDBC
Pre-requisite: Should have completed Honours Certificate in
Information Technology and Business Skills
Leading to: Microsoft / Java Certifications
Career Outcome: Java and .NET Application Developer, empowered with
both Technology and Business Skills - a well rounded
Professional.
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SEMESTER 3
S03V2
S04V2
SEMESTER 4
S05V2
S06V2
SEMESTER 5
S07V2
IGP INTERNSHIP
SEMESTER 6
S08V2
S09V2
OOPS Using C#, Developing Windows Applications using .NET Framework
Introduction to Linux, Introduction to Java Programming Language, Data Structures and
Algorithms
Introduction to Web Content Development,
Developing Database Applications using ADO.NET & JDBC
Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD and UML)
Developing Web Application using ASP.NET
Developing Applications for the J2EE Platform
Web Component Development with Servlets and JSP Technologies
Distributed Application Development using .NET Framework
Understanding Software Testing and Quality Assurance
Mobile Application Development using Java
Distributed Application Development using JavaBeans
EXIT 1
Honours Diploma in
Information Technology
EXIT 2
Advanced Diploma in
Information Technology
EXIT 3
Professional Diploma in
Information Technology/DNIIT
SEMESTER 7
S10V2
IGP INTERNSHIP
Application Development Foundation using .NET Framework
Understanding Software Project Management
All programmes subject to change and constant upgrades
EXIT 4
Professional Diploma in
Information Technology
Honours/DNIIT Honours
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OPEN
UNIVERSITY
BSc (Hons) Computing & Its Practice
To give you a dual edge, NIIT has partnered
with The Open University of the United
Kingdom (OU), one of the world’s most
reputed universities. With this alliance you
can now not only acquire the best IT skills
from NIIT, but also gain a BSc (Hons) Degree
in Computing & Its Practice right here in
Botswana.
ABOUT THE OU
OU is the UK’s largest university, with
more than 220,000 students.
The OU was ranked first for “overall
satisfaction” by students for 3
consecutive years.
OU has over 2.5 million alumni
worldwide.
An OU degree is highly regarded by
employers worldwide.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
The 1 year top-up programme from
the OU consists of 4 modules which
includes a capstone project. These
modules impart skills on Developing
Concurrent Distributed Syst
Software Engineering with Obj
Fundamentals of Interaction De
and Computing Project. All mod
are assessed through assignm
and written examinations.
programme is more industry orie
which enables the learner to ada
the working environment.
AT
A GLANCE - OU BSc (HONS) COMPUTING AND ITS PRACTICE
Duration: 1 year
Skills acquired: Developing Concurrent Distributed Systems, Software
Engineering with Objects, Fundamentals of Interaction
Design, Computing Project
Key Technologies: Java
Pre-requisite: Should have completed Professional Diploma in
Information Technology Honours / DNIIT Honours
Career Outcome: Skills in Computing at an Honours Degree Level. Provides
opportunities to work as a Graduate in IT in various
organisations.
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MODULE 1 - MYT 362
DEVELOPING CONCURRENT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Covering the theory and practice of developing software for large enterprises that require
multiple processes to work seamlessly at the same time.
MODULE 2 - MYT 363
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WITH OBJECTS
Investigating how software is produced from analysis through design to implementation.
MODULE 3 - MYT 364
FUNDAMENTAL OF INTERACTION DESIGN
Covering a variety of topics including computing, psychology, graphic design, entertainment,
informatics and usability.
MODULE 4 - MYT 450
COMPUTING PROJECT
Providing the student with an opportunity to bring together knowledge and understanding
gained from study and application to a related area.
All programmes subject to change and constant upgrades
EXIT 1
BSc (Hons) in Computing and
Its Practice
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GABORONE CAMPUS
Botho Education Park Kgale
(next to Game City)
PO Box 501564, Gaborone
Tel: +267 391 9999, 391 9666
Cell: +267 71 320 411
Fax: +267 318 7858
FRANCISTOWN CAMPUS
Barclays Plaza
Blue Jacket Street
P/Bag P451, Francistown
Tel: +267 244 0686
Cell: +267 71 320 412
Fax: +267 244 0685
MAUN CAMPUS
Next to Maun Technical
College, Boseja
PO Box 20157, Boseja, Maun
Tel: +267 686 5404
Cell: +267 71 323 304
Fax: +267 686 5404
Email: info@niitafrica.com
Web: www.niitafrica.com