Database Design and Implementation

Code

BUSI2018

School

Business

Level

2

Credits

10

Semesters

Spring UK

Summary

This module examines the process of relational database design and implementation using relevant theory in a series of lectures and teaching hands-on database skills in PC lab sessions. Applications of modern databases will be studied and all students will be required to create a database system, fully documented, to solve a given problem.

Target Students

Part I and II Business School students taking or have taken BUSI1001 Computers in Business. Also available to Exchange students.

Co-requisites

Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:

• Computers in Business (BUSI1001)
• Computers in Business (BUSI1034)
• Computers in Business (BUSI1067)

Classes

• One 1-hour-30-minute lecture each week for 10 weeks
• One 1-hour computing each week for 4 weeks

Method & Frequency of class:  10 x 90 minute lectures; 4 x 1 hour computer lab sessions.

Assessment

• 100% Project: 3000 word group project

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:

• The use of accounting and other information systems for planning, control, and decision making
• The development, management, application and implementation of information systems and their impact upon organisations

Intellectual skills
This module develops:

• The ability to analyse facts and circumstances to determine the cause of a problem and identifying and selecting appropriate solutions
• Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation

Professional practical skills
This module develops:

• Numeracy and quantitative skills to manipulate data, evaluate, estimate and model business problems, functions and phenomena
• People management, to include communications, team building, leadership and motivating others

Transferable (key) skills
This module develops:

• Communication and listening including the ability to produce clear, structured business communications in a variety of media
• An awareness of the interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation and their use in generating business contacts
• Ability to work collaboratively both internally and with external customers and an awareness of mutual interdependence
• Self-management and a readiness to accept responsibility and flexibility, to be resilient, self-starting and appropriately assertive, to plan, organise and manage time
• Ability to work with people from a range of cultures
• Articulating and effectively explaining information
• Building and maintaining relationships

Conveners

• Professor Thomas Chesney