Information Management | Makerere University Courses

Instructor:

Irene Arinaitwe

Course Venue:

Lecture Theatre LLT 3A

CIT Block B

LLT 3A

College of Computing and Information Sciences

Course Code:

BIT 1203

Course Credit Units:

Year of Last Revision:

2011

Semester:

Semester 2

Year of Study:

Year 1

Undergraduate or Graduate Level:

Undergraduate Level

College:

College of Computing and Information Sciences

School:

School of Computing and Informatics Technology (CIT)

Department:

Information Technology

Course Discipline:

Management.

Course Description & Objectives:

This course isimportant to the management, productivity and differentiation of an organization. Informationisderivedfromdata.Thismeans thatdata mustbeefficientlycollected,organized,retrievedandmanagedtomakeitmeaningfulto theorganization. Thus,thedevelopment, deployment,managementandintegrationofdata and information systems to support the organizationare a vital role of the IT professional.Consequently, theknowledge area of Information Management should include thecollection,organization,modeling,transformation,presentation,safetyandsecurityofthe data and information. Aims: This course is aimed at giving students the skills needed to efficiently collect, organize, model, transform, present, and secure data and information. Students will earn how tointegrateinformationwithInformationSystemstomakeitmeaningfultothe Organization.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this course unit, the students will be able to:Differentiate and use key terms such as: information, data, database, database management system, metadata;

Explain the role of data, information, and databases in organizations;
Explain how data storage and retrieval has changed over time;
Explain the advantages of a database approach compared to traditional file processing;
Identifyandexplainthegeneraltypesofdatabases:personal,workgroup,department, enterprise;
Definedataquality,accuracyandtimeliness,andexplainhowtheirabsencewillimpact organizations;
Describemechanismsfordatacollectionandtheirimplications(automateddatacollection, input forms, sources);
Explainbasicissuesofdataretention,includingtheneedforretention,physicalstorage, security);
Explainwhydatabackupisimportantandhoworganizationsusebackupandrecovery systems.

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