Information Technology in Organisations: University of Southampton

Course overview

In a world of e-business, mobile communications and digital entertainment, the IT sector offers excellent career opportunities. Today’s business community, particularly needs graduates who understand people and the organizations they work in, as well as the communications and information that they use. This distinctive degree programme – one of only a handful in the UK – is designed to provide you with this unique perspective, and to prepare you for a career as a flexible IT professional.

Study is focused around seven themes:

• Information and communication skills: enables you to develop practical communication and IT skills
• Management: shows you what is required to manage
• Professional development: deals with operating as a professional in the industry
• Human issues: puts people first in designing systems for the real world
• Information systems: looks at the timely delivery of relevant information
• Computers and networks: provides you with the confidence that comes from understanding how computers and networks operate
• Applications development: nurtures your programming skills in the context of modern, Internet-worked systems

Throughout your studies you will acquire the broad grounding you will need to be an adaptable IT professional in today’s challenging and changing technological world. Teaching on this course places a strong emphasis on discussion, analysis and reflection on technical practice, and uses a variety of teaching methods, including team-building and management-related activities.

Course content

• Management and communication skills
• Professional development
• Human issues and human-centred computer systems
• Information system design
• Computers and networks
• e-learning systems
• Applications development
• Industrial and commercial systems
• Security in IT
• Web-based development

Entry requirements

• A levels: BBB
• IB: 33 points
• Intake: 30
• Average applicants per place: 5

Main University Contact

• Postal Address: University of Southampton
  University Road
  Southampton
  SO17 1BJ
• Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 5000
• Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3131
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• Website: http://www.soton.ac.uk/