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480-320 Information Management C5: Information Systems Design

Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Michael Arnold.

Prerequisite: Information Management B1 and any other Group 2 Information Management subject, or approved equivalent.

Contact: A 2-hour seminar and a 2-hour lecture each week for nine weeks.

Timetable: Second semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• analyse and evaluate information systems;
• design information systems suitable for specified organisational situations; and
• document the hardware and software requirements for particular organisations.

Content:

A study of the principles and practices of information systems design, including project planning and management; systems design strategies, tools and tactics; and systems implementation in the context of the organisation.

Assessment:

A 2-hour examination (50 per cent); case study assignment totalling up to 3,000 words (50 per cent). Students must perform satisfactorily in each area of assessment and submit all assignments.

Prescribed texts:

• Wu MS and Wu S Systems Analysis and Design West Publishing Company 1994

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