Advanced Information Technologies using Oracle: University of Westminster

Introduction

Enhance your professional abilities with this practitioner-oriented course and deepen your knowledge of emerging and state-of-the-art information technologies. You can also specialize in ORACLE applications.

This practitioner-oriented course bridges the gap between professional credentials and academic qualifications by combining academic rigour with professional training. The course is suitable for IT practitioners and experienced analysts, designers or database administrators who want to enhance their professional abilities, further develop their careers and/or deepen their knowledge and understanding of state-of-the-art and emerging information technologies, and/or specialise in a role related to Oracle technologies; and also for graduates who wish to deepen their understanding in the field of database systems and/or who want to take a Masters course with strong vocational flavour to advance their database systems career.

Course Content

This course deals with new technologies, advanced theories and techniques and their applications.

The course covers:

• implementation and interoperation/integration with legacy systems
• analysis of new demands and application of new technologies in the management of data and information resources
• which affect the operation and effectiveness of IS
• the practice of emerging, state-of-the-art technologies that are shaping the way data is processed, accessed, retrieved, structured and modelled today

Core modules:

• Corporate Systems and Data Management
• Database Languages
• Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• Distributed Systems Programming
• Postgraduate Project
• Postgraduate Project Preparation and Planning
• plus either Database Administration or Internet Enabled Applications

Options, choose from:

• Advanced Issues in Database Systems
• ERP Systems
• Information Systems Development Methodologies
• Interoperability in Data Centric Applications
• Requirements Analysis

Associated Careers

The course is for those involved with or wishing to be involved with database systems: from requirements/data analysis and systems design to the development of user interfaces and the testing and maintenance of software; from the development of web-enabled applications to the complex tasks of monitoring and administering information management systems. This large group includes project leaders and managers, database or information management consultants, data architects, business systems analysts and designers, database administrators, information resources managers, data analysts, systems designers, systems integrators, web specialists, software engineers, programmers, and application developers.

Mode of Study

You can study your MSc over:

• One year full-time
• Two years part-time during the day
• Two years part-time during the evenings only

Entry Requirements

• You are normally expected to have a good Honours degree (at least 2.2) in a computing related discipline from a UK university or an overseas equivalent. If your first degree does not have a strong computing content you will only be considered if you can demonstrate sufficient knowledge of computing.
• If you do not have suitable academic entry requirements you can still be considered according to your work experience and any other qualifications.
• You must submit a statement of purpose with your application in which you should present your key interests and career aspirations, explain how you believe the course can help achieve these, and outline what relevant personal qualities and experience you will bring to the course.
• If your first language is not English you are expected to demonstrate a reasonable command of the language by achieving a score of at least 250 in the computer-based TOEFL or a score of 6.5 in the IELTS test.