This course offers students the insight into the functioning of a modern computer, showing both the potential and the limitations of modern computer systems. Although dwelling on historical technology, Computer Systems presents current philosophies and ideas behind good computer design.
The course covers areas such as historical development of computers, common basic computer architectures, binary data representation, basic logic aspects of digital circuits, CPU and fetch-execute cycle, input and output, memory organization, bus layout and organization, computer peripherals and operating systems.
Internet Programming, another postgraduate course in information technology, aims to provide detailed knowledge about Web-based programming and present structured programming concepts and techniques.
During the course, students acquire knowledge of HTML -- standards, XHTML, accessibility and style sheets; client-side programming basics -- output=alert, strings, quotes, input=prompt and variables; and expressions -- constants, operators, priority and boolean expressions. Students also learn about data structures, dynamic HTML, and working with forms and animation.
Information Systems and Modeling is designed to provide a framework in which the student can assess the data requirements of an information management system and design an appropriate data structure.
The course covers topics like activity modeling, sequence modeling, use-case modeling and other UML modeling methods, as well as data flow modeling, entity relationship analysis, and modeling and data normalization.
Students also learn relational query languages, database management and administration, integrity and performance issues and user interface requirements.
Network Systems teaches students Internet protocols and network configuration. This course typically consists of lectures and lab work.
Lectures teach the student Internet history, protocol design and common applications. The lab work allows students to learn how to create their own networks using common networking equipment, such as routers, switches and laptops.
The course covers firewalls, LAN and WAN technologies, Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols, including IP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP, ARP, DHCP and IGMP.
Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues of IT helps students understand and manage ethical and legal dilemmas of professional work with IT systems. Students learn professional standards and codes of conduct, ethics and law in the information technology environment, and freedom of information and privacy issues, including official secrecy, data protection and confidentiality.
The course also covers topics such as intellectual property, with particular reference to rights in electronically held information, and contracts and licenses for information goods and services, as well as cyber-crime and legislation, liability of information providers and workplace-related law.