Module: Emerging Technology
No of Credits: 3
This course is designed to expose students to some emerging trends in Information Technology and their applications. This course is taught through lecture and interactive discussion. Throughout this course, learned skills are practiced using team exercise, case studies and projects.
Module: Digital and Knowledge Economy
No of Credits: 3
The Eleventh Malaysia Plan regarded ICT as an important enabler for the knowledge economy to sustain in this era of digital revolution. The digital revolution is inevitable. A nation must embrace this revolution for it to be competitive and appeal to foreign investors. This course focuses on the industries, business practices, and policy issues associated with the digital industry. This course provides a mixture of theoretical and empirical works that are central to understanding the digital economy. The content of this course covers the fundamentals of digital and knowledge economy, infrastructure, standards, platforms and application tools, the impact of digital and knowledge economy on society and the nation and last the threats in the new digital environment. Lastly, this course hopes to inspire the learners to venture into technological businesses that could contribute to the nation's digital and knowledge economy thus benefitting society.
Module: IT Governance, Risk and Compliance
No of Credits: 3
This course is designed to apply IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) approach and manage the associated activities coherently in order to achieve efficient IT environment as well as to ensure accountability. The intention is to obtain an optimal investment and to ensure that critical IT resources are responsibly, effectively and efficiently managed and used. The topics covered in this course include understanding governance, risk and compliance; ethics, integrity and organizational culture; understanding the complete regulatory environment; using corporate governance to enhance organization’s performance; managing regulatory risk for the benefit of the organization; the role of the compliance function; designing and building GRC systems and controls; protecting an organization from the risk of financial crime.
Module: Information System Strategic Planning
No of Credits: 3
This course reviews the concepts of information systems, organizational structures and models. It introduces students with current issues and development of information systems. It then goes on to deal with planning, control and evaluation of information systems.
Module: Digital Innovation and Transformation
No of Credits: 3
This course will focus on the major issues that a business must deal with to successfully transform its technical and market strategies, including the organizational and cultural aspects that often cause such business transformations to fail. It places a special emphasis on transformations that are caused by highly complex, advanced technologies like the Internet. In the course, students will discuss how such transformations require that managers have a very strong "systems" and technical intuition to make general management organizational, business, and marketing decisions. The class also explores how the kind of "holistic" thinking that stakeholders would expect from entrepreneurs might translate into a business advantage in formulating and executing convincing market strategies for digital-centric business.
Project
Module: MSc Project
No of Credits: 10
The module allows each student to work independently on an industry-based project under the supervision of a faculty member and a supervisor from the industry. The student is expected to review the subject, propose an experimental / analytical plan and follow that through to feasibility study, investigation, design / simulation, test and implementation. Each student must prepare a comprehensive technical report (MSc thesis), present and demonstrate findings and results of the project work.
University Requirement
Module: Research Method in IT
No of Credits: 3
Series of seminars on topics related to research preparations: manage and plan research activities, think creatively, setup experimental/model for theory verification, prepare to commercialise research, prepare research report and communicate research output effectively.
Core Specialisation
Module: Machine Learning Analytics
No of Credits: 3
Machine Learning is a first-class ticket to the most exciting careers in data analysis today. As data sources proliferate along with the computing power to process them, going straight to the data is one of the most straightforward ways to quickly gain insights and make predictions. Machine learning brings together computer science and statistics to harness that predictive power. It’s a must-have skill for all aspiring data analysts and data scientists, or anyone else who wants to wrestle all that raw data into refined trends and predictions. This is a class that will teach you the end-to-end process of investigating data through a machine learning lens. It will teach you how to extract and identify useful features that best represent your data, a few of the most important machine learning algorithms, and how to evaluate the performance of your machine learning algorithms.
Module: Real Time Analytics
No of Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the principles, methodologies, applications and management of real time big data sets. Topics may include real time systems and technologies, big data basics, industry examples of big data, big data technologies, information management, business analytics, real time analytics, security, compliance, auditing and protection of big data, mobile marketplaces, mobile sites, mobile apps, mobile data tracking.
Module: Digital Analytics
No of Credits: 3
In this course we introduce the concept of digital analytics and explores its’ various major components such as web mining, web analytics, Data Visualisation and online Business Performance Measurement in detail. In particularly, we look at the process, contents and context of managerial decision making. This included on how the implementation of Digital Analytics can help in improving management decisions and discuss issues affecting the success of digital analytics.
Module: Business Intelligence
No of Credits: 3
In this course we introduces the concept of business intelligence and explores its’ various major components such as Data Warehousing, Business Analytics and Data Visualisation, Data Mining and Business Performance Management in detail. In particularly, we look at the process, contents and context of managerial decision making. This included on how the implementation of Business Intelligence can help in improving management decision-support effectiveness and discuss issues affecting the success of Business Intelligence.
Module: Business Process Re-Engineering
No of Credits: 3
This course will introduce the aims and scope of learning Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and also include the basic principles for analysing and improving business methods, procedures and systems in the business organizations. It covers the methodologies and the know-how of business re-engineering. Best practices of BPR from case studies are also introduced.
Module: Enterprise System Architecture
No of Credits: 3
This course builds upon basic programming skill and develops students further, both theoretically and practically, in a commercial direction. It gives students experience in using third and fourth generation languages, with emphasis on building maintainable programs. It also exposes students on building commercialized programs on basic and intermediate programming skill and knowledge, which integrated with dynamic databases. Furthermore, it will profoundly develop students with systematic and structured project management. The course also introduces the programming techniques of developing ERP application. It is built upon advance programming skills and develops students further, both theoretically and practically. The course is divided into several main topics such as list processing, screens, database updates, enhancement and modification and object oriented programming.
