BIS Information Science (Code 12240012)

Prof M Holmner
Office: IT-building 6-49, Hatfield Campus
Tel: +27 12 420 5215
E-mail: marlene.holmner@up.ac.za

The increasing amount of information available and developing information needs have necessitated the training of information intermediaries to effectively facilitate the bringing together of users and the information they require.

This package focuses on the use of information technology and the processing of information products and is designed to train students in the management, retrieval and organisation of information, as well as to teach them how to add value to, package and distribute information. Students will also have the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in the management of one of the most important resources of enterprises – information and knowledge. Two or three specialisation options are available, depending on the electives chosen.

• The closing date is an administrative admission guideline for non-selection programmes. Once a non-selection programme is full and has reached the institutional targets, then that programme will be closed for further admissions, irrespective of the closing date. However, if the institutional targets have not been met by the closing date, then that programme will remain open for admissions until the institutional targets are met.
• The following persons will be considered for admission: candidates who are in possession of a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required National Senior Certificate (NSC) with university endorsement; candidates who are graduates from another tertiary institution or have been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution, and candidates who are graduates of another faculty at the University of Pretoria.
• Life Orientation is excluded when calculating the APS.
• Grade 11 results are used for the conditional admission of prospective students.
• A valid qualification with admission to degree studies is required.
• Minimum subject and achievement requirements, as set out below, are required.
• All lectures at the University of Pretoria are presented in English only.
• If Informatics is selected at first-year level, an achievement level of 5 is required in Mathematics.

The semester in which modules are offered may vary from year to year.

Teaching staff presenting the INL, INY, IMY and PUB modules

Minimum credits: 122 or 132

Fundamental modules (14 credits)

Core modules (68 credits)

Elective modules (40 credits*)
Select one group in consultation with the programme coordinator.

*Please note: Elective modules: Select one group in consultation with the programme coordinator, at least 40 credits from any modules at year level one OR Select 50 credits from the INF elective group. Students who obtained at least 4 (50% – 59%) for Mathematics in the NSC will be admitted to Informatics 112 and students who obtained at least 5 (60 – 69%) for Mathematics in the NSC will be admitted to Informatics 154, 164 and 171.

Group A (50 credits)

Or

Group B (40 credits*)

*Please Note: Because credits are not calculated in the same way in all faculties, students should take note that the total number of credits required for Group B is at least 40.

Minimum credits: 160

Fundamental module (8 credits)

Core modules (92 credits)

Elective modules (60-63 credits*)

Select one group in consultation with the programme coordinator.

*Please note: Because credits are not calculated in the same way in all faculties, students should take note that the total number of credits required for Group A is at least 63 and for Group B at least 60.

Group A (63 credits*)

Or

Group B (60 credits*)

Minimum credits: 145

Core modules (75 credits)

Elective modules (minimum 70-90 credits*)
Select one group in consultation with the programme coordinator.
*Please note: Because credits are not calculated in the same way in all faculties, students should take note that the total number of credits required for Group A is at least 70 and 90 for Groups B and C.

Group A (70 credits*)

Or

Group B (90 credits*)

Or

Group C (90 credits*)