Business Information Systems with Foundation (Honours) University of Westminster

Overview

The  Business Information Systems with Foundation (Honours) programme at the University of Westminster  is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. 

The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

Key facts

• During the foundation year you will explore a range of creative disciplines and get a chance to develop in your chosen field, benefiting from workshops in our high end facilities and working with leading academics who will encourage you to become a confident and creative thinker. 

• Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules within your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course. 

Career

• The course offers a short-term work-based learning experience by providing you with an opportunity to work on a real-life problem, which is normally set by an external organisation as a small-scale project.

• This experience will allow you to put your new knowledge and skills into practice by addressing a real-life situation, usually within the context of a business-related problem.

• This experience will also help you develop subject-specific technical skills as well as employability skills such as leadership, organisation and commercial awareness.

Job roles

This course will prepare you for roles such as:

• Business analyst

• Change manager

• IT consultant

• IT project manager

• IT security analyst

• System analyst

• Systems architect

• Web designer

Accreditation

The course is intended to fulfil the educational requirements of the British Computer Society (BCS) towards registration as a Chartered IT Professional (CITP).