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Course structure
The CCNP curriculum provides the knowledge and skills necessary to deploy and maintain fully integrated network infrastructure services and applications. The curriculum focuses on the advanced skills required to manage the end-to-end network infrastructure but goes beyond core routing and switching to include applications deployed on the edge of the network, such as wireless, security and voice. It includes topics such as converged networks, quality of service (QoS), virtual private networks (VPNs) and broadband technologies. CCNP integrates next-generation network devices and services engineered to provide wire-speed delivery of concurrent data, voice, video and wireless services with optimised security. The CCNP curriculum includes four courses that align to the four certification exams that are required to obtain the CCNP certification. The four courses are:

Building Scalable Internetworks:
In this course, students will learn how to create efficient and expandable enterprise-class IP routing networks by installing, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting network infrastructure equipment as specified in the Enterprise Composite Network model. The routed network includes the most commonly used and emerging IP routing protocols. The course aligns with the new Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) 642-901 exam.

Implementing Secure Converged Wide-Area Networks:
This course will teach advanced skills required to secure and enhance services in enterprise networks for teleworkers and remote sites. It will focus on securing remote access and VPN client configuration. Aligns with the new Implementing Secure Converged WANs (ISCW) 642-825 exam.

Building Multilayer Switched Networks:
In this course, students will learn how to create efficient and expandable switched enterprise networks by installing, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting network infrastructure equipment as specified in the Enterprise Composite Network model. The course teaches the advanced skills required for building enterprise-class switched networks with integrated VoIP and wireless applications. It includes wireless LANs, basic Quality of Service to support voice, high-availability features, and enhanced security for switches. Aligns with the new Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Network (BCMSN) 642-812 exam.

Optimising Converged Networks:
This course teaches advanced skills required to optimise Quality of Service in converged networks supporting voice, wireless, and security applications. The course aligns with the Optimised Converged Cisco Networks ONT (642-845) exam.

CCNA Course structure

The Cisco CCNA Exploration curriculum provides a comprehensive overview of networking, from fundamentals to advanced applications and services. This course emphasises theoretical concepts and practical application, while providing opportunities for students to gain the skills and hands-on experience needed to design, install, operate, and maintain networks in small-to-medium businesses, as well as enterprise and service provider environments.

CCNA Exploration offers in-depth theory, challenging labs, and a detailed overview of protocol operations. It is designed for students with advanced problem-solving and analytical skills, such as degree candidates in engineering, maths, or science, or for working professionals who would like to advance their careers or gain certification. CCNA Exploration was designed to be integrated into technology curricula or continuing education programs at postsecondary institutions such as technical schools, colleges, and universities.
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Course structure
The course consists of six taught modules, plus a double-module research project. All modules are compulsory. The course is taught through modular teaching sessions and distance supported learning. Outside study periods, you are supported via email and WebCT, and therefore access to the Internet and email is essential.

Examples include:
The effective management of information and knowledge assets in alignment with the strategic goals of the organisation
Understanding the different strategies that may be employed in managing information (tangible) versus managing knowledge (tacit)
Critical success factors in creating learning organisations situated within an awareness of the cultural norms that may regard knowledge as a power resource
Examining legal aspects and understanding information technology solutions in the effective sharing of organisational knowledge
Classification schemes and taxonomies for knowledge and information sharing, incorporating studies of information architecture
A range of research and evaluation techniques is also introduced, and these are applied in the research project. In the project module, you will complete an information and knowledge management focused project, comprising a presentation and a project document/ dissertation of 10,000-12,000 words.

Course Structure
The MRes involves both taught and research components. You take four modules combining research methodology with your subject specialism. Your research skills are developed through group sessions, from formulating research proposals to communicating research outcomes to professional audiences. You work on a flexible basis with a specialist supervisor, from planning your research to completion of the dissertation. You attend Frameworks for Research which introduces you to different research approaches across a range of disciplines. You then select approved relevant modules. Part-time students have access to the same modules and skills training, but can take modules in a flexible way and not begin the dissertation until the second year. Your dissertation is about 20,000 words long.

Course structure

There are four core modules:
Information Organisation and Retrieval
Society, Information and Policy
Management
Applied Information Research
Optional modules include:
Knowledge Management
Cataloguing and Classification
Information and Communications Technologies
Communications Policies and Society

One option can be taken as a free option from another Masters course in the University.

Course Structure
The MRes involves both taught and research components. You take four modules combining research methodology with your subject specialism. Your research skills are developed through group sessions, from formulating research proposals to communicating research outcomes to professional audiences. You work on a flexible basis with a specialist supervisor, from planning your research to completion of the dissertation. You attend Frameworks for Research which introduces you to different research approaches across a range of disciplines. You then select approved relevant modules. Part-time students have access to the same modules and skills training, but can take modules in a flexible way and not begin the dissertation until the second year. Your dissertation is about 20,000 words long.

Course structure

The course comprises six taught modules and a final project. The taught modules are:
Agile Information Systems Development
Relational Database Development
Object-Oriented Information Systems Development
Information Systems Research and Development
Web-based Information Systems Development
Evolution and Support of Operational Information Systems

The project provides you with the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge gained from the preceding modules to the analysis, design and development to commercial standards of a small information system.

Course structure

The course consists of eight core modules and a Research Interpreting Project of 7,000 words. The modules are:
The Interpreter’s Skills and Tools
Interpreting Theories and Research for Interpreters
Conference Interpreting (language B)
Remote Interpreting (telephone and video-conferencing) (language B)
The Interpreter’s Professional Environment and Work Placement
Public Service Interpreting (health or legal option)
Conference Interpreting (language C)
Remote Interpreting (telephone and video-conferencing) (language C)
MA Research Interpreting Project

Course structure

The course consists of six essential modules and a dissertation of 15,000 -20,000 words. The modules include:
Network Standards and Protocols
Network Security
Cryptography
Security Management
Computer Forensics
Research and Development Skills

Training the Information Science Generalist
Business is no longer in the market for computer geeks. In the new world of the internet, multimedia, and telecommunications, and in an Osaka centred West Japan more and more intertwined with the nations of Asia, what is being asked for is people with wide general knowledge, strong technical skills, and a high level of specialist training. In other words strongly, practically oriented ‘information science generalists’. In our faculty we aim to cater for those needs, and to train a new type of student with a knowledge of management, the practical application of information systems, the ability to analyse and resolve all manner of business problems.

Hands-On Management Training Through Computer Use
What we want to do is produce managers who can approach management from the point of view of information use and at the same time see information handling from the point of view of good management. It is in order to produce new generation business people who have this kind of 21st century feel that we are placing strong emphasis on business analysis through intensive hands-on computer use.

Course Structure - Specialization and Comprehensiveness
At the Faculty of Management Information we have avoided the traditional top-down style of academic teaching, and have adopted the bottom-up approach of focusing on real-life data and business situations. To this end we have set up a three course system that lets students pursue specialist interests more deeply, and also provides as much freedom of subject choice as possible. Management, accounting, statistics, computer training, and tele-communications form the basis of the first two years’ study, and offer the possibility of systematic development in a field of choice.

Hands-On Management Training Through Internship Course
Based on direct, practical contact with members of a local small/medium business association, the Internship Course provides a full-flavoured, unique approach to experiencing the problems of real management. Those accepted into this course will have the opportunity to experience at first hand the meaning of ‘work’ from a manager’s point of view, to learn managers’ concerns, how they plan for growth to deal with those concerns, and how they see science, society, and everyday people.