The course emphasis is on developing a comprehensive understanding of sophisticated digital technologies, and applying the knowledge and skills gained studying to real world projects in the workplace.

• Professional Practice

As a new entrant to higher education, this module prepares you for developing an understanding of - and skills for - academic study and the world of work, and the professional and personal skills you will need. You will be introduced to all aspects of university study and being an IT professional, allowing your ideas to be explored and developed throughout your time studying with us and beyond. The topics studied will be used to develop the skills that both a graduate and an IT professional will require and will give you many opportunities to develop your intellectual skills as well as your practical ones. In addition to these topics on professionalism, the module will introduce you to a range of topics relating to computer-based information systems, e-business and how business organisations work. The module is based on some existing model syllabi as devised by professional bodies such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), but this has been adapted for the needs of LSBU group’s new entrants.

• Discrete Mathematics

This module will introduce you to the logical and discrete mathematical structures and models, which are commonly used in the field of Computer Science, and which underpin any study of this discipline. The module will emphasise the formulation of problems into mathematical forms, the interpretation of solutions and the identification of problem characteristics to help suggest modelling approaches. Provisions will be made (typically one hour per week) to allow us to bring you, if necessary, to a level of confidence and expertise in those areas of essential basic mathematics that should have been covered at earlier levels.

• Fundamentals of Computer Science

This module aims to give a comprehensive introduction to Computer Science, its theoretical basis and practical implementation in both hardware and software. The history of computing, the role and the science of algorithms, abstraction, the binary numbering system and its representations, Boolean logic and gates, fundamentals of computer hardware, building computer circuits, the von Neumann model, introduction to hardware, data, and software, the nature of data and its operation.

• Requirements Analysis and UCD

This module provides the practical tools and techniques required to design, develop, and evaluate effective interactive systems in an ever-changing digital age. User-centred design and usability are recognised as major contributing factors in the success of business and mass market information systems.
The rise over the last two decades of the internet and web along with graphical user interfaces (GUIs), multimedia and ubiquitous mobile devices have led to an almost universal uptake of highly sophisticated interactive systems. User-centred design processed are now a fundamental part of enterprise customer relationship management and consumer media content distribution through apps, online information services and social networking sites. Given the mutability of the field, the module intends to keep pace with current developments as far as possible.

• Fundamentals of Software Development

This module teaches the fundamentals of computer programming covering variables, datatypes, arrays, algorithms, conditional and iterative code, and the use of functions. Students will learn to write simple programs making use of a contemporary programming language and development environment. To provide students with fundamental programming skills. To give students an understanding of the fundamental concepts of software development such as source code and the compilation and execution of programs. To enable students to become familiar with development tools and environments.

• Software Development

This module helps you to understand, develop a vocabulary and acquire some simple programming skills using a programming language. It is using the programming skills and knowledge gained during the first semester to extend the complexity of the coding. It will provide a familiarity with Objects and Classes and some experience in simple GUIs. Good development principles and the support an IDE will provide will also be looked at including all important aspects of the application development process in whatever environment or programming language you may use in the future.