Computing

An overview of the Mathematics Department at CIT

This course is designed to provide the graduate student with the advanced theoretical knowledge and skills in the interrelated areas of Computer Networking and Computer Security.

The programme is designed to provide the postgraduate student with the advanced theoretical knowledge and skills necessary for their continuing professional development (CPD) in the software industry. The main focus is in the area of software development with particular emphasis on current software design principles and methods and software quality.

Software development programmes provide graduates with the skills and knowledge required to design and create the software programmes that people use every day. For example, you use software programmes when using the internet, booking a flight or writing up your homework on a PC.

The course can be considered as software development for the web. It provides graduates with the skills and knowledge required to design and create web sites and web applications (the software programmes that people use every day on the Internet). Some examples would be Facebook, Youtube, Amazon, or basically any website you visit. The course has a strong focus on the use of current and emerging web technologies and user experience.

This course is flexible and will provide you with the opportunity to qualify at Higher Certificate level after two years at which time you can leave CIT to find employment or decide to stay on in CIT and acquire your degree or honours degree subsequently. Acquiring an honours degree in software development using this option takes a year longer than would be the case if you entered the BSc (Honours) in Software Development CR106 directly.

This is a bi-focal course with equal emphasis on Software Development and Computer Networking. The aim of the programme is to produce software developers with general computing skills but with an emphasis on programming, analysis and design skills necessary for the creation of network/internet based applications. Graduates may also find employment in a wide range of industries as networking specialists.

It is designed to produce technicians and technical managers (through add-on degree options) to support the IT systems used by most modern industries. This programme provides a specialised theoretical and applied learning experience as well as structured placement in industry.

IT Management is concerned with the planning, installing, supporting and managing the IT resources within an organisation. IT resources include all the computer hardware, networking equipment and computer software that an organisation uses to support its operation. Programmes in this area, IT Management and Information Technology Support, are designed to provide the graduate with the technical, communication and management skills to operate across a wide range of organisation types.