FdSc Computer Networking
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
The course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and understanding of how Programme Routers design, configure and manage networks, so that they can build traditional and Internet-based computer systems for the improvement of business process.
The overall outcome is to allow students to enter any business and improve its ability to perform, communicate and exchange information. The intellectual skills developed are those of Network Analyst and Designer, Router Programmer, Infrastructure Designer and System Administrator.
During the course of their 2 year study, students are trained to become computing professionals who can design, create, enhance and maintain communication systems, and who are critically informed on networking process and its analysis, (re-)design and improvement. They will be able to work in a broad range of application domains, from small LANs to intercontinental WANs.
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Work Placement
What makes a Foundation Degree distinctive to an employer is the vocational element of the course. Students are required to undertake a period of work placement within a relevant business to inform their classroom tuition with real industry experience. This also allows employers to feed into our curriculum the skills they feel future employees of their Industry should have.
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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 to new companies giving a short amount of their time to assist us in this design process.
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Course units include:
- Computer Systems
Students examine the components of computers and are introduced to how they can be used in a multi-user network. They also develop their use of Linux and Windows network operating systems.
- Networking Fundamentals
Students examine goals and design of computer communications networks and models developed to aid them.
- Web Development
Students develop a critical view of information presented on the World Wide Web. They are introduced to the use of commercial web design programs and evaluate the use of graphics and multimedia web technologies.
- Server Operating Systems
Students examine the goals and design of server operating systems and are introduced to the of concepts and practises of these systems, considering user access, communication, and security aspects and the technologies available.
- Routers and Routing
Students are introduced to the concepts and practises of wide area computer networks, considering communication, traffic, routing and security aspects.
- Personal Development and Planning
This unit draws on social psychology and theory examining human behaviour to help develop students' inter-personal skills and ability to motivate and handle people.
- Internet Application Development
Students are encouraged to develop a critical understanding of a range of web-server technologies, together with practical experience of their installation and configuration.
- Switching and Intermediate Routing
Students examine the goals and design of virtual LAN switching and wide area computer communications networks.
- Wide Area Network Technologies
Students examine the goals and design of technologies to accomplish wide area computer communications networks.
- Wireless Networking
Students examine the goals and design of wireless communications for local computer networks, LANs.
Work Based Project
This unit is the final integrative unit and thus provides students with the opportunity to draw upon, and integrate, the skills and knowledge developed in other units of the course, in order to provide a solution to the business problems undertaken as their project. Consequently it enables students to enhance their employability and demonstrate this to prospective employers.
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