Course details
The MSc degree in Business Information Systems is a one-year taught course in information systems professional practices. This course will provide you with a coherent portfolio of business, management and consultancy skills, and will enhance your knowledge of IS concepts and core technical skills. This is achieved through a series of modules oriented around three themes: Information Systems; Professional and Consulting Skills; and Innovation and Software Development. You will learn to focus on business deliverables and business interactions through an integrated project which runs across multiple modules of the course. In addition, you will work on a group project to develop an innovative software idea into a prototype and draw up a viable business plan. Mentoring input from specifically selected industry practitioners is provided. This course is funded by the HEA Advanced Technical Skills Programme.
Course Details
The key objectives of this course are:
- professional practice orientation
- to heighten understanding of the consultancy
- to foster entrepreneurial uses of software technology
- to develop analytical and communication skills
- to consolidate existing technical skills
You will study eight taught modules and a group innovative software enterprise project (to a total of 90 credits):
- IS6004 Information Systems Development Skills: consolidate existing technology skills and become proficient in object oriented programming (Java), Microsoft’s .NET framework and Web programming
- IS6005 IS Consulting Process: develop a greater understanding of the business-generation and delivery side of the IS consultancy business. Learn to apply the appropriate tools and techniques needed to become a successful management consultant
- IS6006 Enterprise Business Processes and Applications: explore the key enterprise-wide business processes in a modern organisation, their inter-relationships and the large-scale infrastructural applications that support them.
- IS6007 Innovation and Software: foster a greater understanding of the critical role of innovation in creating and sustaining competitive advantage using software development.
- IS6008 Professional Business Analyst Skills: develop and learn to apply professional ‘soft’ skills, including business communication, performance evaluation, effective presentation, time management, negotiation and selling.
- IS6009 Information Systems Project Management: obtain the skills required to rigorously and successfully manage Information Systems development projects from project selection to project implementation and support. Project management software tools are used extensively in this module.
- IS6010 Business and IS performance: acquire the quantitative skills necessary to prepare, evaluate and negotiate, based on industry standard estimating techniques.
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About University College Cork
UCC was established in 1845 as one of three Queen’s Colleges - at Cork, Galway and Belfast. These new colleges theyre established in the reign of Queen Victoria, and named after her.
Queen's College, Cork (QCC) was established to provide access to higher education in the Irish province of Munster. Cork was chosen for the new college due to its place at the centre of transatlantic trade at the time and the presence of existing educational initiatives such as the Royal Cork Institution and a number of private medical schools.
The site chosen for the new college was dramatic and picturesque, on the edge of a limestone bluff overlooking the River Lee. It is associated with the educational activities of a local early Christian saint, Finbarr. It is believed that his monastery and school stood nearby, and his legend inspired UCC’s motto: ‘Where Finbarr Taught, let Munster Learn.’
On 7 November 1849, QCC opened its doors to a small group of students (only 115 students in that first session, 1849-1850) after a glittering inaugural ceremony in the Aula Maxima (Great Hall), which is still the symbolic and ceremonial heart of the University.
The limestone buildings of the Main Quadrangle (as it is now known) are built in a style inspired by the great universities of the Middle Ages, and theyre designed by the gifted architectural partnership of Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward. The iconic image of UCC, it is set in landscaped gardens and surrounds the green lawn known to all as the Quad.
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