100% coursework consisting of:-

40% class based test covering learning outcomes 2 and 3
60% portfolio of work covering learning outcomes 1, 2 and 4 to include presentation and groupwork

Professional Issues:
* Professional Bodies, Ethics and Codes of Conduct
* Legal Issues relevant to computer professionals
* The need for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
* Globalisation Issues and the Computer Professional
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)

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

None.

Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age (Paperback), Andrew Adams and Rachel McCrindle, 2007, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN-13: 978-0470065532
Ethics for the Information Age: International Edition, Mike Quinn, 2008, 3rd Ed, Pearson Education, ISBN-13: 978-0321549365
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet, Sara Baase, 2008, 3rd Ed, Pearson Education, ISBN-13: 978-013501137-9

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. (1:n)2 (1:20)