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MSc - Master of Science
Shrivenham Campus
Part Time
Sep 2028
3 Year
Information is the fundamental basis of a functioning society with billions of people taking in, creating and distributing information both online and offline every day. On average, over 25,000 web sites are created every day across multiple platforms, technology streams by both the private and public sectors. This makes the need for expertise in information capability and management one of the most important faucets for expertise and strategy moving into a more digital future.We aim to create skilled professionals who can source, analyse and strategise improvements, assess digital infrastructure and keep up with an ever-increasing and developing world of information and technology. Students from government departments, industry and other organisations within the UK and internationally come together to study and discuss issues and develop skills that will enable solutions now and in the future. The key goals of the course are to provide students with the knowledge to: Develop in individuals an awareness of the management, user and supplier communities; Recognise the stakeholder roles, needs and expectations within these communities; Enable effective communication and a shared understanding between these stakeholders in order to meet capability objectives; Master the principles and practice that underlie the delivery of effective, efficient and secure systems in various business spaces that exploit information in order to provide strategic benefit.
To enable you to understand the field of Cyber Security & Information Assurance (IA), to be able to make use of the concepts that underpin the subject and to appreciate the dependencies between them.
The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of the processes by which organisations and individuals can gain insight and actionable intelligence from data.
The aim of this module is to lead you through the different approaches to data modelling, in addition to understanding competing technologies for storage and management.
To equip you with the knowledge and skills to develop and review an Information System/Information Technology/Digital Business Strategy to support an organisation’s business goals, including digital transformation, and the development of plans to drive forward and manage that strategy within an organisational framework.
To enable you to identify and assess new and emerging technology to provide an on-going assessment of their relevance and potential to defence and security.
To enable you to evaluate the context of the course and the wider programme,
To provide you with an opportunity to review and update core vocabulary and information systems (IS) concepts required as a foundation for other elements of the course,
To enable you to examine IS in defence and non-defence contexts,
To equip you to develop academic study skills.
To equip you with the knowledge and skills to understand and apply appropriate models, methods, tools, techniques and approaches to develop information systems at the strategic level.
To promote awareness of legal, social, ethical, regulatory, and professional issues which affect information systems professionals; to introduce the professional bodies of relevance to such professionals, and to encourage debate on some of the major issues of concern to the information systems world.
To develop knowledge and skills in the key academic concepts of the management of resources in order to plan, estimate and carry out programmes of information systems development work to time, budget and quality targets and in accordance with appropriate standards.
To provide students with an appreciation of problems associated with the development of software-intensive systems and to establish the role of systematic techniques, methods and defined processes which address these problems.
To enable you to contribute to the specification of systems architectures, with a focus on information system (IS). Identifying the components needed to meet the present and future enterprise strategy. Define and assess the interrelationships between architecture components.
To provide the necessary skills and knowledge that enable professionals working in implementing information systems or critical cyber contexts to consider the wider context and adapt to continual change. It focuses on investigative methods, systems thinking and anticipating futures with a view to problem solving in a real-world context.
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