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POSTGRADUATE INFORMATION SESSION

2011

Computer Science and Informatics

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B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons

Requirement

You must be in possession of a B.Sc. or B.Com degree with CIS as one of your majors and must have passed with an average of at least 60% in the CIS modules in the third year.

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B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons

To obtain the Honours degree you must pass eight modules plus a project. At most two of the modules may be outside the Department.

Compulsory modules

RIS693 – Project

RIS620 – Advanced Programming I

RIS621 – Advanced Programming II

RIS626 – Research Methodology

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B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons

First Semester Modules

RIS609 – Knowledge Management (Mr. Burger) Tue 17:00

RIS615 – Human-Computer Interaction (Dr. De Wet) Mon 18:00

RIS619 – Advanced Internet Programming (Mr. Nel) Wed 17:00

RIS620 – Advanced Programming (Miss. Beelders) Thu 17:00

RIS626 – Research Methodology (Mrs. Dednam) Mon 17:00

Venue MSB 223

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B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons

Second Semester Modules

RIS604 – Information Security (Mr. Nel)

RIS621 – Advanced Programming (Miss. Beelders)

RIS622 – Advanced Databases (Mr. Wessels)

RIS625 – Data Warehousing (Dr. Kotze)

OBS634 – Project Management

OBS664 – e-Commerce

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M.Sc. and M.Com

Requirement

You must be in possession of a B.Sc. Hons. or B.Com. Hons. degree and must have passed all the modules with an average of at least 60%

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Structured M.Sc. and M.Com• To obtain the Structured Masters degree you must pass

three modules plus an extended dissertation.• The modules will be in the form of a literature study.

There will be no formal classes and no examination. You will receive a topic and then you must summarize from the literature all the work that has been done on the topic.

• You will hand-in a document consisting of an Introduction, Summary of the literature, a Problem Statement and a Conclusion. You will be evaluated on this document.

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Structured M.Sc. and M.Com• Four modules will be presented during the

first semester of which you must select three.

• For the second semester you select one of your three topics and then continue with that topic towards an extended dissertation. In other words you add the Objective, Methodology, Data Gathering, Data Analysis and Final Conclusion

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Structured M.Sc. and M.Com

• The available modules are:

RIS715– Intelligent Agents (Dr de Wet)

RIS725– Business Intelligence (Dr Kotze)

RIS730– Educational Technolgies (Dr Nel)

RIS731– Eye-Tracking Technologies (Prof Blignaut