Professional Issues:
* Professional Bodies,computer ethics, Ethics and Codes of Conduct
* Legal Issues relevant to computer professional
* The need for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Organisational context of professional work:
* Management structure and teams
* Types of organisations
* Financial context
* Human Resource Mangement Issues
* Quality and Quality Assurance
* Project Management
Career Development:
* Career Planning
* Recruitment processes, skills and issues
* Business start-up knowledge and skills
* Entrepreneurship
Reflection on personal development - needs and directions (Personal Development Planning)

50% from an assignment assessing learning outcome 4.
50% from an exam, length 1.5 hours assessing learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3. This may involve answering questions based on one or more pre-published scenarios.

The module presents contextual and explanatory material, together with recommended reading and research in lectures. The content of the lectures introduces and explores a range of issues that are presented in an extensive case study and discussed in tutorials. Lecture and tutorial based learning is complemented by assessed coursework.
There will normally be 2 lectures and 1 tutorial.

Various materials made available through lectures, tutorials and the blackboard VLE.

Bott, Coleman, Eaton, Rowland, Professional Issues in Software Engineering, Taylor and Francis 2000, ISBN: 0748409513
Epstein, Richard G., The Case of the Killer Robot, John Wiley and Sons, 1966, ISBN: 0471138231
Computer Ethics, D Johnson, Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN: 0131247883

None.