Introductory Business Concepts
- Functional areas of business: marketing, sales, production etc.
- Financial aspects: introduction to accounting and bookkeeping terms and requirements,
- Legal and professional issues relating to IT in business
- Criminal and civil law, health & safety
- Legal and contractual obligations
- IT-specific legislation: Data Protection Act, Comp. Misuse, Disp. Screen Equip. regs. Etc.
- Docs: invoice, Purchase Order, statement etc
- Processes: Sales order Proc, stock control, bookings etc.
Office Applications (eg. Excel)
- Introduction to suitable programming and office software tools including their facilities for development
- Designing and implementing event driven applications
- Graphical User Interface components such as buttons, text boxes, labels and option buttons
- HCI principles
- Introduction to suitable programming and office software tools including their facilities for development
- Designing and implementing applications using office software
- Graphical User Interface components such as buttons, text boxes, labels and option buttons
- HCI principles
- Creation of Graphs and charts
- Forecasting and trend analysis

A Coursework weighted at 100% meeting Learning Outcomes 1-4.
This is a work-based learning module. The assessment will be designed to meet the learning outcomes of the module in the context of your workplace environment. The precise details will be drawn up on a learning contract. The contract will detail the form of the assessment and the assessment criteria to be used for marking.

It is expected that the minimum academic contact time for this module will be 48 hours but the precise delivery mechanism is left flexible for each centre to choose a strategy suitable for the students involved. The precise learning strategies will be drawn up on the learning contract. The following is a guideline:
- You will have a named academic module tutor.
- You will complete a work-based learning agreement to ensure that arrangements are in place at your workplace to facilitate your work-based learning.
- It is anticipated that broad coverage of the indicative content will be achieved through seminar sessions (which will include individual and group activities, discussions and case study analysis) and directed reading in order to gain and extend knowledge in areas of the indicative content not covered in depth by the classroom teaching.
- You will be encouraged to discuss aspects of the module within discussion forums that are part of the VLE. These forums will allow discussion with a student's peer group as well as the module tutor. Where group work is required you will be expected to utilise the VLE and other means of electronic communication to facilitate this.
- In addition to completing the assessment, work based learning will usually include working through preparatory exercises and tasks in a module work-book guided by a work-based Mentor.
- Employer Feedback Forms will be completed by the work-based mentor to provide formative feedback.
- This feedback will be discussed at regular reviews (usually at least two per learning block) with your academic module tutor.

To be in related employment

The following are not essential texts but will provide useful background reading:
Information Systems Development: Methodologies, Techniques and Tools, Avison, G., Fitzgerald D.,2006. McGraw-Hill, ISBN-10: 0077114175, ISBN-13: 978-0077114176 (Edition: 4)

Applied Data Communications - A Business-Oriented Approach. Goldman, J., Rawles, P., 2004, Wiley, ISBN-10: 0471451770, ISBN-13: 978-0471451778 (Edition: 4)

Office applications such as Microsoft Office or Open Office and the use of programming language to interact with these (which may or not be contained within the application itself).