If you have successfully completed an HND or foundation degree in information systems, business information technology, business management or computing, this course will enable you to gain an honours degree qualification. You will extend your existing knowledge to tackle strategic issues and understand how to exploit information and communications technology (ICT) to gain a business advantage. You will leave with expertise and technical skills that are in extremely high demand from employers who find it increasingly difficult to recruit in this skilled area. Scheduled sessions will include the use of lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical laboratory sessions. Advantage will be taken of both technology and supportive activities to ensure that effective learning takes place. These activities will include the use of simulations, role play, case studies, projects, practical work, work-based learning, workshops, peer tutoring, peer group interaction, self-managed teams and learner managed learning.

A systematic understanding of key aspects of information systems, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at the forefront of the discipline of business information systems An ability to deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within the discipline A wide breadth of understanding that enables them to devise and sustain arguments and solve problems using ideas and techniques at the forefront of business information systems practice, and the ability to describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research and advanced scholarship An appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge in the BIS field Consistent application of the development methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend upon, and to initiate and carry out projects.