None.

Access to suitable development environments, Modelling tools eg. QSEE Superlite
Graphics Editors such as Adobe Photoshop
Design Tools such as Balsamiq Mock-ups
Web Editors such as Notepad++
Access to a PHP/MYSQL web server
Database Management System such as MySQL

The following are not essential texts but will provide useful background reading:
The Study Skills Book (Smarter Study Skills), Kathleen McMillan and Jonathan Weyers, 2012, Pearson Education Ltd, ISBN-10: 0273773313, ISBN-13: 978-0273773313 (Edition: 3)
The Study Skills Handbook (Palgrave study skills), Cottrell, S. 2008, PALGRAVE, Macmillan ISBN-10: 0230573053, ISBN-13: 978-0230573055 (Edition: 3)
Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age, Andrew Adams and Rachel McCrindle, 2007, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN-10: 0470065532, ISBN-13: 978-0470065532
Ethics for the Information Age: International Edition, Mike Quinn, 2010, Pearson Education, ISBN-10: 0132134853, ISBN-13: 978-0132134859 (Edition: 4)
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet, Sara Baase, 2012, Pearson Education, ISBN-10: 027376859X, ISBN-13: 978-0273768593 (Edition: 4)
The Literature Review - A Step-by-Step Guide for Students, Ridley, D. 2012 Sage Publications Ltd, ISBN-10: 1446201430, ISBN-13: 978-1446201435 (Edition: 2)
Designing Effective Database Systems (Available as e-book in University library), Riordan, R.M., 2005, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN-10: 0321290933 , ISBN-13: 978-0321290939 (Edition: 1)
Nixon R Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (2012) ISBN-10: 1449319262 ISBN-13: 978-1449319267
Adobe Creative Team - Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book (Adobe)) Publisher: Adobe; 1 edition (2012) ISBN-10: 0321827333 ISBN-13: 978-0321827333

The contact time will be broken down as follows:
Study Skills (4 weeks) (Input from Library staff)
2hrs lecture 2hrs tutorial each week
Professional Development (3 weeks) (Input from Careers staff and award areas)
2hrs lecture 2hrs tutorial each week
Systems Analysis (3 weeks) (By IS staff)
2hrs lecture 2hrs tutorial each week
Database Design (4 weeks) (By IS staff)
2hrs lecture 2hrs tutorial each week
Team Work and Fulfilling a Specification(10 weeks) (Web award staff with input from other award areas)
2hrs lecture 2hrs tutorial each week.

COURSEWORK weighted at 40% (Learning outcomes 1 and 2)
Individual Work
Scenario: A fictional award-related company is advertising for several apprenticeship posts. The assignment consists of preparing an application for one of the posts. The employer requires:
1. A skills audit and personal development plan
2. A CV and covering letter
3. A five-minute self-promotion presentation demonstrating suitability for the post, and how professional ethics are important to a company
4. A fully-referenced 1500 word literature review on one academic topic related to the apprenticeship
SECOND COURSEWORK weighted at 60% (Learning outcomes 1, 3, 4,5)
Scenario: The company decides to employ you but wants to see how well you can work on databases, and fulfilling part of a specification as part of a team. They provide you with a specification/scenario and request you provide the following:
Milestone 1: Individual Component
- The design of the database for the scenario in the form of an Entity Relationship Model
- A working database which corresponds to the design
- A report containing requested query statements and their output
Milestone 2: Group work
- Fulfilment of the company's specification with students taking roles in their award area (with supporting appropriate design and testing documentation)
- 10-minute group presentation of describing each role in the team, and reflecting on the team experience

This module explicitly focuses on significant elements required for the achievement of the STAFFORDSHIRE GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES:
- Work-ready and employable
- Understanding of enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Understanding of global issues and their place in the global economy
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- The ability to interact confidently with colleagues
- Skills of team working
- Ability to carry out inquiry-based learning and critical analysis
- Technologically, digitally and information literate
Able to apply Staffordshire Graduate attributes to a range of life experiences to facilitate life-long learning

The module will cover the following topics:
Study Skills (4 weeks)
- Introduction to libraries and learning resources
- Relating study effort to learning outcomes, assessment and marking criteria
- Mind maps and other aids in planning academic study
- Report writing, evaluation and reflection.
- Communication skills and presentations
- Research skills
- Academic ethics - avoiding academic misconduct
Professional Development (3 weeks)
- Personal skills audit / Professional development planning
- Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
- Employability - e.g. CV, covering letters, ways of self-promotion
- Professional ethics - what it means to a computing professional (including Data Protection, IP, risk assessment)

Systems Analysis (3 weeks)
- Systems Analysis and Design in Context: What constitutes a system? The history of systems development, the reasons for system failure.
- Typical software development lifecycles and methodologies such as SSADM 4+, Rapid Application Development (RAD) etc.
- Overview of Agile life-cycle and techniques
Database Design (4 weeks)
- Introduction to the concept and use of Database Management systems (DBMS)
- Relational Design i.e. entity relationship models
- Normalisation
- Tables
- SQL / Simple queries, insert, update, delete using a suitable tool eg: MySQL
Team Work and Fulfilling a Specification (10 weeks) (to include further practice of DB design and creation)
- Overview of the design process and the back-end development process for web development
- Further depth in EITHER 'Graphic/ Layout Design and target audience analysis' (for web designers, design-oriented web developers) OR 'Introduction to Server side web development with PHP/MYSQL' (for Web Programmers, and Software Engineers, programming-oriented web developers).
- Working in small teams to fulfil a specification