Undergraduate Advanced Diploma in IT Systems Analysis and Design

• 1.  The course will consist of instruction on analysis and design of software systems.  The course is available on a part-time basis over a period of one year.

• 2. Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in the following:

  • (a) four assignments of 4,000 words each (or equivalent), based on the units 1-4 below;

  • (b) a team project report of 4,000 words (or equivalent).

    Assignments will be submitted via the approved online submission system to the examiners for consideration by such dates as the examiners shall determine and shall notify candidates.

• 3. Candidates may be required to attend a viva voce examination at the end of the course.

• 4. Candidates who fail to satisfy the examiners in the requirements under 2 may be permitted to resubmit work in respect of the part or parts of the examination which they have failed on not more than one occasion which shall normally be within one year of the initial failure.

Schedule

Unit 1: The System Development Life-cycle and Management

Unit 2: Systems Analysis and Design—Data Driven and Procedural Techniques

Unit 3: Systems Analysis and Design—Data Organisation

Unit 4: Systems Analysis and Design—Objects and Architectures

Unit 5: Team Project