Module Descriptor

15/08/2012

Code:

CE00315-5

Version:

6

Approval Status:

Valid Current

Title:

PROFESSIONAL AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

Section:

Computing, Engineering & Technology

Level:

5

Contact

E-mail Address

VLE

KHAWAR HAMEED

[email-masked]

Blackboard

Pattern Of Delivery

Credits

15

Contact Hours

Independent Study Hours

Total Learning Hours

36

114

150

Description of Pattern of
Delivery

Pattern 1, study 100% in period 1

Pattern 2, study 100% in period
2

Site

LONDON SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY AND MANAGEMENT

360GSP COLLEGE

STAFFORD

Registration Conditions

Module Version Condition Text

None

Module Details

Assessment Details

A COURSEWORK weighted at 100%.

100% coursework
consisting of:-

40% class based test covering learning
outcomes 2 and 3
60% portfolio of work covering learning outcomes
1, 2 and 4 to include presentation and groupwork

Indicative Content

Professional Issues:
* Professional Bodies, Ethics and Codes
of Conduct
* Legal Issues relevant to computer professionals
*
The need for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
*
Globalisation Issues and the Computer Professional
Organisational
context of professional work:
* Management structure and
teams
* Types of organisations
* Financial context
* Human
Resource Mangement Issues
* Quality and Quality Assurance
*
Project Management
Career Development:
* Career Planning
*
Recruitment processes, skills and issues
* Business start-up
knowledge and skills
* Entrepreneurship
Reflection on personal
development - needs and directions (Personal Development
Planning)

Learning Strategies

The module presents contextual and explanatory material,
together with recommended reading and research in lectures. The
content of the lectures introduces and explores a range of issues
that are presented in an extensive case study and discussed in
tutorials. Lecture and tutorial based learning is complemented by
assessed coursework.
There will normally be 2 lectures and 1
tutorial.
(1:n)2 (1:20)

Prospectus Information

The Professional and Enterprise Development module identifies
and explores ethical, legal communication and other non-technical
factors that contribute to the success (or failure) of the
development of computer-related systems in a professional
environment. It introduces fundamental skills and knowledge that
prepares you for professional employment or for business
start-up.

Resources

Various materials made available through lectures, tutorials and
the blackboard VLE.

Special Admissions Requirements

None.

Texts

Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information
Age (Paperback), Andrew Adams and Rachel McCrindle, 2007, John Wiley
& Sons, ISBN-13: 978-0470065532
Ethics for the Information
Age: International Edition, Mike Quinn, 2008, 3rd Ed, Pearson
Education, ISBN-13: 978-0321549365
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal
and Ethical Issues for Computing and the Internet, Sara Baase, 2008,
3rd Ed, Pearson Education, ISBN-13:
978-013501137-9

Learning Outcome

1. EXPLAIN THE CONTEMPORARY ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT IN
WHICH PROFESSIONAL WORK OCCURS, INCLUDING MANAGEMENT, TEAM WORKING,
HUMAN RESOURCE ISSUES, RECRUITMENT AND BUSINESS START-UP PROCESSES,
AND GLOBALISATION ISSUES.

Communication

Knowledge & Understanding

Reflection

2. EXPLAIN ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES APPLICABLE TO
PROFESSIONAL COMPUTING AND APPLY THOSE PRINCIPLES TO GUIDE DECISION
MAKING.

Application

Communication

Knowledge & Understanding

Reflection

3. EXPLAIN THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES, CODES OF
CONDUCT AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND APPLY SUCH CODES AS A GUIDE TO
DECISION MAKING

Application

Communication

Knowledge & Understanding

Reflection

4. CRITICALLY REFLECT AND EVALUATE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND
CAREER NEEDS, AND MAKE SUBSEQUENT PERSONAL AND CAREER ACTION PLANS
AND APPLY RECRUITMENT/BUSINESS START-UP SKILLS AS APPROPRIATE.

Reflection