:: Community College of City University ::

Associate of Science in Information Systems Development

PROGRAMME AIMS

Upon successful completion of this programme, students will be able to:

Use a range of tools, programming languages, methodologies, and quantitative skills to undertake information systems development work;
Apply technical knowledge and skills, and well-proven software models and work responsibly as a team to develop secure, robust, and reliable quality business information systems;
Practise in an ethical and professional manner, and apply safety and health measures at work;
Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, using English and Chinese in a culturally diversified workplace;
Examine the major socio-political, cultural and economic issues affecting information systems development in the local, national, regional and international contexts;
Relate the major ideas in arts and humanities, science and technology to the study of Information Technology.

The capability and diversity of our graduates have gained acceptance on credit transfer to more Bachelor’s degree programmes and many graduates manage to receive multiple admission offers from different local universities for their degree study. In recent years, graduates were admitted to BEng (Hons) in Computer Science and BEng (Hons) in Computer Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; BSc (Hons) in Computer Science of the Chinese University of Hong Kong; BEng (Hons) in Information Engineering, BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and BBA (Hons) in Information Management in the City University of Hong Kong; BSc (Hons) in Computer Science in the Baptist University of Hong Kong. Some of the graduates further their degree study in top-up degree programmes offered jointly by the continuing education units of local universities and overseas universities. Graduates may also go overseas for their final year degree study. For details, please refer to the programme’s website http://www.dco.cityu.edu.hk/AScISD and the iPASS of HKSAR at http://www.ipass.gov.hk/eng/.
Graduates will have acquired the necessary foundation to develop careers as software developers, web-masters, IT technologists, e-commerce developers. Graduates with sufficient working experience and specialist skills will qualify for promotion to senior positions such as system analysts and IT managers.

Tel: 3442 8763
Fax: 3442 0518
Division of Computer Studies (to be renamed Division of Applied Science and Technology in September 2012) Homepage http://www.cityu.edu.hk/dco