This module aims to build upon the student's general understanding of database systems, ensuring that the student develops significant knowledge of the major topics (both theoretical and practical) pertinent to the development and management of modern database systems. The module also introduces current perspectives in database management systems, thereby increasing the students’ understanding of future trends and the latest developments in the field.

This module aims to build upon the student's general understanding of networking, ensuring that the student develops significant knowledge of the major topics pertinent to the management of telecommunications and computer networks for corporate systems. This includes network management, communications media and services, global availability and reliability, eCommerce and Internet services.

This module aims to build upon the student's general understanding of the Internet, ensuring that the student develops significant knowledge of the major topics (both commercial and technical) pertinent to the use of the Internet to conduct business elecronically. This includes evaluating eBusiness projects for return on investment, the business environment and strategy for the formulation of eBusiness.

This module aims to build upon the student's general understanding of project management, ensuring that the student develops significant understanding and theoretical underinning of different approaches to project management and the development of a rigorous attitude to quality in information systems development. The module also introduces current perspectives in the management of information systems projects, thereby increasing the students’ understanding of future trends and the latest developments in the field.

This module this module provides the opportunity for individual in depth study in a specialised area of information systems. It aims to develop in the student the ability to tackle, individually, a selected problem of suitable scale and complexity, and to develop the ability to present ideas in a series of written reports.