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Student Projects
The project portion of the Bachelor of Information Systems and National Diploma in Business Computing is an essential requirement for the completion of a students programme. It gives them experience in the real world and makes them work ready.
Students normally undertake the project in their last semester, and focus on the area of information systems in which they have specialized. They may choose to do, among other things:
- Database system
- Internet site
- Local area network
- Multimedia application
- Documentation/Technical writing exercise
- Programming assignment
- Research paper or feasibility study
- Requirements Analysis/design
The project needs to take a minimum of 420 hours to complete, and is done in one semester.
Students find their own clients in the semester before they do the project, and put forward a proposal, which must be approved by the project committee.
Clients may be:
- community groups,
- clubs,
- charitable organizations,
- schools,
- private companies or
- individuals with a bright idea they want to try out.
They do not pay for the students time, but are expected to provide any hardware or software required to run the finished product. They are asked to relate to the student just as they would to any IT professional that they were paying, and to submit a report at the end of the project on the students performance in the areas of technical competence, project management and people skills.
If you have an idea for a project, and would like a student to contact you to discuss it, please fill in our Student Project Idea Form.
