Faculty of Technology - Bachelor of Science IT Degree Curriculum
The degree program is for three years and each year consists of two semesters of 17 weeks (15 weeks for classes and 2 weeks for examinations).
The second year students have a recess term of 10 weeks, during which they undergo industrial training.
The weighting unit is a credit unit. One credit unit is one contact hour per week per semester. One contact hour can be defined as follows:
- 1 lecture hour is equivalent to 1 contact hour.
- 1 tutorial hour is equivalent to 1 contact hour.
- 2 practical hours are equivalent to 1 contact hour.
A full-time student shall not carry less than 15 credit units and not more than 25 credit units per semester.
The B.Sc. IT degree requires a minimum of 110 credit units and thus, 17 credit units is the average load per semester since the recess term shall carry 5 credit units.
All students must make extensive use of the computing facilities outside the scheduled lecture, tutorial and practical hours. The details of the course structure are shown below, click on a course to view a description of the course.
