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to be applied to students in at least their junior year (ie after the second year of study).The framework is divided into 10 modules, the initial six of which are tagged as ‘required’.IRM6 – Design and Implementation provides students with hands-on applications of thedesign and implementation of information systems in organisations. The topics that comprisethis module are Information Management and Information Systems allocated 15% of thecourse; Systems Analysis of Information Systems (15%); Systems Definition of InformationSystems (15%) and Information Resource Management and Behaviour (10%).In addition IRM2 – Information Systems Technology focuses on learning about informationtechnology components and their applications in the management of resources inorganisations.One of the six topics of this course, Systems Professionals and Information in Organizations(20%), has as one of five subtopics, systems analysts and information management.Both these courses are included in the six required components. However, of ten coursesproposed within the contents of this curriculum model, the recommendation is that a total ofseven courses be taken by the student, with five courses required and two taken as electives(which implies one required course is not taken).The curriculum model concludes:We are particularly critical of curricula that are exclusively comprised of coursesin quantitative analysis and hardware/software-oriented courses, and offer littleon the organizational implications of information systems(Cohen, 2000, p 25)Cohen (2000) is an attempt to address this shortcoming.ISCC‘99An alternate approach to curriculum guidelines, the Information Systems-Centric Curriculum1999, funded by the US National Science Foundation, is based on collaboration betweenindustry and academia and attempts to address what:is amiss in the nation’s ability to generate well prepared new graduates in theinformation systems-centric disciplines(Lidtke et al, 1999, section2.shtml)The ISCC‘99 Task Force:89