Introduction
Aim
Entry Requirements to School of Computing ICM Programme
ICM Curriculum structure at School of Computing
Degree Requirements

4- year Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information and Communications Management
3- year Bachelor of Science in Information and Communications Management
Common Essentials

Modules offered

Module Descriptions

This interdisciplinary programme will educate students in the technical aspects of information technologies, hone their creative sensibility for the innovative use and management of information, and develop their critical awareness of the impact of information infrastructures at the human, organisational and societal levels. The programme will educate students in the humanistic and social science dimensions of information and communications technologies and management (its economics, politics, and socio-cultural implications), drawing from the strengths of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It will also educate students in the technical fundamentals of information and communications technologies and their management and deployment in a global environment, drawing from the strengths of the School of Computing. It is through the integration of these technical, management, humanistic and social scientific lenses that students will learn to understand, inter alia, what digital media databases, telepresence, hypertext, virtual reality, immersive graphics and other simulation environments) do to traditional conceptions of place, jurisdiction, property, creativity, narrative, argument and education, and to apply these to the future. Additionally, it will prepare students with the legal dimensions of information and communications management, with some contributions from the Faculty of Law.

Aim
The interdisciplinary programme will prepare students for work in dedicated information services, as well as in the various aspects of information and communications management which play a critical part in many commercial, industrial, cultural, educational and other professional environments of today.

As elaborated above, the programme aims at providing students with a thorough grounding in the theoretical, humanistic, social scientific, technical and management principles and/or underpinnings of information and communications technologies. It will equip students with the ability to think critically through issues of information impact on and interaction with society and culture, and with the ability to arrive at the macro-perspective and overview of various changing scenarios in the contemporary organisational environment. This will be done through the study of information impact on areas such as political and cultural life, ethics, economics, globalisation, networking and virtual society. Practical work, projects and case study methods will also provide students with a range of analytical and problem-solving skills.

Entry Requirements to School of Computing ICM Programme

(i) The Programme welcomes students with good results at GCE ‘A’ levels and a keen interest in the subject. Student must have a good pass in Mathematics at the GCE ‘A’ level.

(ii) In subsequent years, students from polytechnics may be admitted into these programmes in School of Computing, and will be given advance placement credits, as is currently done for other programmes in School of Computing.

ICM Curriculum structure at School of Computing
Students on the three-year track will be expected to earn at least 18 MCs from each of A1, A2 and A3 modules (see Modules Offered). Students, who successfully fulfil these, the requirements as set out in Degree Requirements and all other requirements under the modular system, will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Communications Management.

Students on the four-year track must acquire 30 MCs more than the 3-year track, of which at least 22 MCs, including the Honours Thesis, must be from SoC. Students who successfully fulfil these, the requirements as set out in Degree Requirements and all other requirements as set out under the modular system, will graduate with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Information and Communications Management.

Degree Requirements for School of Computing Information and Communication Management Programmes

4 -year Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information and Communications Management:

At least 18 MCs from A1 modules.
At least 18 MCs from A2 modules.
At least 18 MCs from A3 module (including CS3102 Industrial Attachment 12 MC. Students can substitute this with another project module, such as CS3101 Project module (8MC) or CS3288 UROP (8MC)).
All the common essentials as in B.Comp. programmes (47 MCs, of which 17 MCs are already counted in point 2).
Programme essential: MA1100 (Basics of Mathematics), CS1303 (Principles of Management), and ST2334 (Probability and Statistics) (11 MC).
At least 10 MCs from SoC 4000 level modules .
CS4101 honours project (12 MC).
Students should do CS2102, CS2103 and CS2250 at the S level.
At least 12 MCs should be at level 4000 (Information and Communications Management modules), excluding CS4101.
Other modules (enrichment or others) to make up at least 135 MCs.
 

3-year Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Communications Management

At least 18 MCs from A1 modules.
At least 18 MCs from A2 modules.
At least 18 MCs from A3 modules (including CS3102 industrial attachment, 12 MC).
All the common essentials as in B.Comp. programmes (47 MCs, of which 17 MCs are already included in point 2).
Programme essential: MA1100 (Basics of Mathematics), CS1303 (Principles of Management), and CS2101 (Intensive programming project & training) (12 MC).
Other modules (enrichment or others) to make up at least 105 MCs.

Common Essentials

School of Computing ICM students will take the same set of common essential modules taken  students from B. Comp. programmes (CS, IS, IT). They cover programming, systems, networking, and breadth subjects:

CS1101 Programming Methodology (or CS1101S)
CS1102 Data Structures and Algorithms
CS2103 Software Design Methodology
CS2104 Programming Language Concepts
CS1103 Digital Logic Design
CS1104 Computer Organisation
CS2102 Introduction to Database Systems
CS2106 Operating Systems
CS2105 Computer Communication Networks
CS3103 Networking & Client-Server Computing
CS1301 Discrete Mathematics
HR3101 Human Resource Management
CS2301 Business and Technical Communication

A1 MODULES (Social Science-oriented modules; offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences only)

IF1101 The information revolution and society (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF2201 Communication, culture and technology (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF2202 Governance and information technology (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF2203/GE2215 Geographic Information Systems: principles and techniques (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF3201 Media, globalisation and information technology (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF3202 Information technology and productivity growth: theory, measurement and policy (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF3203 Information visualisation and presentation (4MCs; no prerequisites)

*CS1102 Data structures and algorithms (5MCs; No prerequisites)
*CS1101 Programming methodology (5MCs; No prerequisites)
CS2250 Information systems theory and practice  (3MCs; Prerequisites: IT1002/CS1101)
*CS2105 Computer Communication Networks (4MCs; Prerequisites: IT1001/CS1104)
*CS2102 Introduction to Database Systems  (3MCs; Prerequisites: IT1002/CS1102)
CS3242 Hypermedia Information Processing  (3MCs; Prerequisite: (IT2001 and IT2002)/CS2102)
CS3260 Telecommunications in business (3MCs; Prerequisite: IT2001/CS2105)

A3 MODULES (Modules of common interest; offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences or the School of Computing)

Offered by FASS
IF2204 Economics of information and communications (4 MCs; no prerequisites)
IF2205/PS2205 Organisational theory in public administration  (4 MCs; no prerequisites)
IF3204 Cognitive approaches to information  (4MCs, no prerequisites)

Offered by SoC
CS3253 Management of information systems (3MCs; Prerequisites: CS2250)
CS3251 Technology strategy and management  (3MCs; Prerequisites: CS2250)
CS3102 Industrial attachment (For SoC students only) (12 MCs)
 

LEVEL 4000 MODULES

Offered by FASS

IF4401 Honours thesis (For FASS students) (8 MCs)
IF4201 Multimedia, communication and culture industries (4MCs; no prerequisites)
IF4202 Transnational information producers (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF4203 Legal issues in information and communications management (4MCs, no prerequisites)
IF4204 Ethics in the information age (4 MCs; no prerequisites)
IF4205 Transborder information flow (4 MCs; no prerequisites)

Offered by SoC

CS4101 Honours thesis (For SoC students)  (12MCs)
CS4245 Computer-based learning and instructional technology (3MCs; Prerequisite: CS3240 or CS3242 or IT3001)
CS4250 Information systems research methodology (3MCs; Prerequisite: ST2334 or PL3201 or SC3209)
CS4251 Strategic information systems planning  (3MCs; Prerequisite: CS2250)
CS4252 Control, audit and security of IS  (3MCs; Prerequisites: CS2250 and (CS1302 or EC1101))
CS4260 Electronic commerce (3MCs; Prerequisite: CS2250)
 

MODULE DESCRIPTIONS

See Appendices A and B for a complete list of module descriptions.