Introduction to Information Systems
SWE 115 · Semester 1
4 credits · 15 learning units
Lessons
12 of 15 learning units provide interactive tutorials with worked examples, diagrams, knowledge checks and subject mastery questions. Each check draws five questions from the available bank; question counts vary by unit. The remaining units provide preparation, guided practice or an independent project.
Subunit titles retain the curriculum’s original language.
Start here
Curriculum topics
- Lesson 2What an information system isInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 3Modelling an information system: the four families of modelsInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 4Data models: entity-relationship and relationalInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 5Processing models: SADT and Petri netsInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 6MERISE: a method and its modelsInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 7Object models and UMLInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 8Studying the existing systemInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 9Representing data and processing, and judging qualityInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 10Critique, opportunities and auditInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 11Design: the conceptual data model and normalizationInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 12Design: processing, architecture and dynamicsInteractive tutorial
- Lesson 13Design: communication diagrams and the object conceptual modelInteractive tutorial
Put it into practice
Work independently
Curriculum source
HND Computer Engineering Software Engineering Curriculum.pdf · SWE 115 · Course table: p. 8 · Outline pages: 15