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Masters of Science in E-Technology for Business (Awarded by University of Sunderland)

About The Course

This Masters programme is designed to provide computing graduates with advanced skills and knowledge in the application of information Technology to the field of Electronic Commerce. The aim of the programme is a post graduate course of study that will:

	Enable students to make critical assessments of technology and its application in E-Commerce.
	Develop and enhance the skills and knowledge of students so that they can contribute at a high level to the creation and adoption of systematic, professional and quality approach to Electronic Commerce systems development.
	Identify the appropriate role of E-Commerce Technologies in developing and implementing IT strategies
	Provide students with the skills and knowledge to make a significant contribution to E-Commerce Rearch activities

Course Structure

Stage 1 POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE	Stage 2 POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA	Stage 3 MASTERS
Research, Ethical, Professional and Legal issues	Leading Edge Application in Electronic Commerce	E-Commerce Project
Web Interaction Design	Risk Assessment for Systems Change
Introduction to Electronic Commerce	Advance Tools and Technologies for E-Commerce
Advance Web Engineering	Advance Electronic Commerce Information Systems

Note: The Intermediate awards of Postgraduate Certification and Postgraduate Diploma are available for students who wish to leave the course midway through, or at the end of , the taught component - having gained 60 or 120 M-level credits respectively. (The Diploma is also available for award to students who fail to deliver a satisfactory project)

Course Synopsis

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1	Postgraduate Certificate in E-Business Technology (completion of COMM93, COMM1P, COMM1Q,COMM1W) COMM93 Research, Ethical, Professional and Legal issues (15 credits)
2	COMM1P Web Interaction Design (15 credits)
3	COMM1Q Introduction to Electronic Commerce (15 credits)
4	COMM1W Advanced Web Engineering (15 credits)
5	Postgraduate Diploma in E-Business Technology(completion of Stage 1 units & COMM1R, COMM80, COMM1Y, COMM1X) COMM1R Leading Edge Applications in Electronic Commerce (15 credits)
6	COMM80 Risk Assessment for System Change (15 credits)
7	COMM1Y Advanced Tools and Techniques for E-Commerce (15 credits)

1 Postgraduate Certificate in E-Commerce (completion of COMM93, COMM1P, COMM1Q, COMM1W)
COMM93 Research, Ethical, Professional and Legel issues (15 credits)

Exploring Philiosophies of Research, Ethical issues in research, Outlining Research Problems and Developing Research Questions. Quantitative Approaches. Data Collection and Data Analysis: Literature surveys, surveys and Questionaire design, Experimental design, use of Control Groups. Problem solving techniques. Critical Analysis and evalution. Use of Graphics. Writing a technical papaer, the publication process, structuring a Report and dissertation. Presenting work orally and by other appropriate means. Professional, ethical and legal issues that relate to the relevant academic, discipline and industry. For example, for students following a computing course this would include studying: the BCS code of conduct, the ACM code of Ethics, and the UK Data Protection Act.

2 COMM1P Web Interaction Design (15 credits)

HCI Fundamentals: Contect, Decision and Evalution; Context of use research: user, stakeholder, task, activity and environment studies; Information and Activity Structure; Usability Engineering: goal setting, inspection methods and user testing; Design Guidelines: navigation, page layout, interaction and media design, accessibility, e-branding, e-store design.

3 COMM1Q Introduction to Electronic Commerce (15 credits)

Development of the internet, WWW, and Electronic Commerce (EC).
This shall reviews:

		the development of networks, with particular emphasis on the internet and the communications protocols behind them,
		the emergency of a networks, the world-wide-web, supported by comms protocals, standard hypertext languages, browsers,search engines, etc,
		the development of online trading mechanisms, online financial transactions, banking services, supply chain and fulfilment systems supporting e-commerce

Intra & Extra Networks and their place in Electronic Commerce. THe role and value of intranets in organizations and the growth of the 'virtual organisation'. THe use of extranets for business to business commerce.

E-business Systems, Definition of E-business, E-business models, E-Commerce classification (B2B, B2C, C2C), Value Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management and Business Processes; evalution and re-engineering.

Security , Firewalls & networking security, Transaction security, Payment handling, EDI Encryption, Authentication, Ethical and Social issues.

4 COMM1W Advanced Web Engineering (15 credits)

The engineering process. Professional WOrld Wide Web development and design, Advance Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) concepts including Dynamic- HTML and client and server side image maps.. Action C technologies. THe Java-script language. THe Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and forms processing. Wireless Application Protocol and its design implications. Java applets. New advanced technology implications (e.g. Flash and XML). Implications and issues of graphical file formats and animation.

5 Postgraduate Diploma in E-Business Technology (completiong of Stage 1 units &
COMM1R, COMM80, COMM1Y, COMM1X)
COMM1R Leading Edge Application in Electronic Commerce (15 credits)

External speakers present aspects of Electronic Commerce from their own direct business or professional experience. Each talk is preceded by an investigation by the student of the background to the company/ organisation to provide a balance view of the speakers' presentation. Investigation of the relevance of current research to the issues raised by the external speakers.

Project Talks on the following subjects have been suggested: Experts 2; E-NTRY, ERDF Suppypoint clusters; Smartisan.

6 COMM80 RISK Assessment for Systems Change (15 credits)

Generic overview or risk (Factors, categories, frameworks). Reviews of a number of risj assessment models that exists for (i) business change (e.g. SIMULATE), (ii) software system change (SEI Software Risk Management, RISKIT) and (iii) interdependent systems change (RAMESES). Evaluation of the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the models. Industrial case studies to illustrate the effectiveness of the different strategies availabe.

7 COMM1Y Advanced Tools and Techniques for E-Commerce (15 credits)

Topic 1	Basic networked application architecture, client-server systems, principles of multi-user systems and web services, Internet protocols, use of XML / PHP
Topic 2	Database driven web sites. Examples, and overview of data handling issues. Types of database used, and choice of database on the basis of price, portability, stability, XML capabilities. Use of ODBC and JDBC, SQL, extended database mangement
Topic 3	Delivery systems. Operating System platforms. NT Internet Information Server, Java Web Serveer. Active Server Pages engine, Cold Fusion Server, XML handlers. Communications with the database
Topic 4	Database design, Relational database modeling, object oriented database design and use. Issues in database management and administration. Remote administration methods. Indexing of database content.
Topic 5	Issues in database communication, distributed database application, XML handling. Theory, practice and case studies
Topic 6	Security. SSL, encryption-methodologies and examples and encryption systems

8 COMMX Advance Electronic Commerce Information Systems (15 credits)

Topic 1	Brief history of knowledge management and overview of the module
Topic 2	Introduction to organisational theories of knowledge management and their application
Topic 3	Introduction to technical approaches and their application
Topic 4	Introduction to the common KAD method, Development of the Organisational Model Developments of the Knowledge Model, Development of the Design Model
Topic 5	Intorduction to Ontology Research and principal of Ontology Development
Topic 6	Introduction to the CogNet method for integrated infomation and knowledge management, Design of integrated information and knowledge managements solutions, Applications of XML in knowledge management.

9 MSc E-Technology for Business (completion of Stage 1 & 2 and COMM1S)

The project expects the student to produce a dissertation of between 12,000 and 15, 000 words (exc. Appendices) on a research topic appropriate to the programme. Credit will be given for evidence that the student has understood and documented the problem/requirements in a systematic way.

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