FdSc Computing and Internet Technology
Higher Education at The College is actively promoting Foundation Degrees to Industry. As these are vocational courses it is important for us to work in partnership with interested employers who can offer short-term student placements, sit on our advisory panels, or guest speak at a lecture. This continually serves to update the quality of the courses we can bring to our students and help to produce graduates with skills recognised and needed by industry.
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Skills for the Professional Workplace
On completing this programme, students understand how to develop programs, manage data, and configure computers and networks, so that they can build traditional and Internet-based computer systems for the improvement of business process. This includes the ability to view business as systems and carry out systems analysis and design. In providing this, the programme offers Industry and the economy graduates who can enter any business and improve its ability to perform, change and compete. The intellectual skills developed are those of systems analyst and designer, program designer and programmer, infrastructure designer and system administrator. Graduates of the programme become lifelong learners in this rapidly changing field.
This programme is distinctive because it provides students with the opportunity to learn how to design, create, enhance and maintain computing systems for improving business performance. The programme is technologically oriented. It equips graduates with the ability to design and build software/ systems that manage data in such a way as to improve the operation of businesses and solve their problems. The programme's emphasis is on providing students with the ability to deliver computing solutions, linked with the ability to participate in multi-disciplinary organisational teams for business analysis.
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Work Placement
Employer engagement is a central component of the Computing & Internet Technology Foundation Degree, which finds its focus in the Work-Based Project. During the past three years connections have been made with a wide range of employers. These are generally small scale businesses, with some one-man operations. These businesses reflect the mix of local industry across the sector. Each of the employers has worked with the CIT students on a second year project with Bournemouth and Poole College.
Getting Involved
Many local companies have been involved in advising us on the design of our Foundation Degrees and help us to keep course content up-to-date and industry relevant. We are always appreciative of new companies giving a short amount of their time to assist us in this design process.
Find out how to get involved.
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Students undertaking the FdSc in Computing and Internet Technology (CIT) are given a rounded education in the area of IT. The course is designed to meet the needs of both commercial and industrial concerns, as well as allowing students to compete within today's rapidly changing technological environment.
Course Units Include:
- Computer Systems
Student's examine the components of computers to understand operating systems and have are introduced to simple point-to-point communications within the framework of laboratory tasks.
- Database Systems
Student's examine and develop a working knowledge of computer-based files, record structures and access methods, as well as relational data modelling for robust database design and implementaiton.
- Programming
Students develop an understanding of fundamental programming concepts and examine the process of program design, implementation and testing.
- Systems
Students learn about the operations of business systems, including the communication, storage and processing of data to develop solutions to simple business information problems.
- Internet Technologies
Students develop knowledge of a number of current web industry techniques. Furthermore, they critically examine the use of web technologies and their applications.
Group Project
Located during the second year units, this is the format by which Computing and Internet Technology students undertake their work experience portion of the course. It is a learning experience by which they integrate and evaluate their current knowledge of the industry into a 'real-world' environment. Working as a group, students act as a virtual contractor to a client within a Computing and Internet Technology remit.
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