| Code | Faculty | Department |
|---|---|---|
| 07240173 | Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences | Department: Informatics |
| Credits | Duration | NQF level |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum duration of study: 1 year | Total credits: 120 | NQF level: 08 |
NB: The department reserves the right not to present a module if the particular expertise is not available in the department in that year.
Subject to the provisions of General Academic Regulation G26, a head of department determines, in consultation with the Dean when the honours examinations in his/her department will take place, provided that:
The head of the department determines:
Supplementary examinations (if granted) cover the same subject matter as was the case for the examinations.
A student may not enrol for the same module more than once, unless the dean has approved a second enrolment based on an application supported by a valid reason or motivation. Also refer to General Academic Regulation G18.3.
NB: Full details are published in each department's postgraduate information brochure, which is available from the relevant head of department. The minimum pass mark for a research report is 50%.
Subject to the provisions of G26, the subminimum required in subdivisions of modules is published in the study guides, which are available from the relevant head of department.
Minimum credits: 120
Module content:
This module will be used to present special, relevant topics within the expertise of the department.
Module content:
Enterprise Architecture (EA) involves comprehensive business frameworks that capture the complexity of modern organisations, providing a blue-print for co-ordinating and integrating all components of an organisation. The module will illustrate all the aspects of EA, discuss the need for EA as well as various frameworks, methods and techniques of EA.
Module content:
This module will be used to present special, relevant topics within the expertise of the department.
Module content:
• Advanced database design
• Advanced database management
• Database architectures and languages
• Data warehousing and data marts
• Current trends
Module content:
Main emphasis will be on IS project management using a case study to get practical experience in project management.
Module content:
This module will be used to present special, relevant topics within the expertise of the department.
Module content:
In this information age a lot of data is captured every day and recorded in databases, but the wealth of this data is kept locked in the databases because relatively little mining is performed on this data. This module introduces you to data mining in terms of:
• The data mining process - how do you mine data?
• The data mining techniques - an overview of the data mining techniques that can be used;
• Practical data mining experience - a practical project mining real industry data to find unknown patterns; and
• Product overviews - product demonstrations by data mining vendors.
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