Learning outcome

After completing the course the student should be able to
• participate in planning and development of IT systems and IT infrastructure for various organizations,
• evaluate ethical and legal aspects of the use of electronically stored information,
• understand the basic assumptions that electronic business models based on
• understand the role of electronic information in internal business processes.
The student will have skills in:
• design and development of models in spreadsheets for business purposes,
• design and development of text document templates,
• design and development of presentations,
• design and development of spreadsheet models using programming code.

Course Description

The theoretical part of the course includes topics on:
• The construction and operation of physical and virtual computers,
• Internet, IT infrastructure and communication protocols, wireless networks.
• Ethics, Law and electronically stored information.
• Data security and security architecture.
• Prerequisites for electronic business models with examples.
• Basics of software development and programming of spreadsheets.

The practical part of the course includes topics on:

• Building up and development of document templates.
• Structure and development of spreadsheet models.
• Structure and development of spreadsheet models with Visual Basic.
• Structure and development of presentations.

The greatest emphasis will be on skills in spreadsheets.

Assessment Methods

The student delivers a number of mandatory written assignments along the way that must be passed in order to sit for the exam. Plan for submissions will be presented at the start of the semester. Submissions evaluated with passed / failed. A 5-hour mandatory final examination counts 100% and forms the basis for the final grade.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean