University of Pretoria - Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
Bachelor of Information Science (Multimedia)Pretoria, South Africa
DEGREE TYPE
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The purpose of this qualification is to enable students to understand the necessary concepts to build multimedia products and maintain the products. This program is therefore a combination of theory and practice. The explosion of the web, as well as the exponential growth and power of information technology, requires the introduction of this degree following international trends.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available, please visit the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
Fundamental modules
- Academic information management
- Academic information management
- Academic literacy for Information Technology
- Academic orientation
Core modules
- Program design: Introduction
- Operating systems
- Imperative programming
- Introduction to computer science
- Multimedia
- Multimedia
- Information science
- Information science
- Information science
- Visual design (1)
Year 2
Fundamental modules
- Community-based project
Core modules
- Data structures and algorithms
- Software modelling
- Netcentric computer systems
- Concurrent systems
- Computer organisation and architecture
- Multimedia
- Multimedia
- Multimedia
- Publishing
- Visual design (2)
Final Year
- Multimedia: Project
- Multimedia
- Multimedia
Program Outcome
Total Credits: 469