Courses
ITEC1005 Effective Use of Spreadsheets for Data Processing (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- General Education Core Course from the Information Management Technology Category
This course provides essential computing skills of spreadsheets for students to use in their future career. After studying this course, students would gain the concepts and skills in using spreadsheets. They would also be able to apply these concepts and skills to analyse various kinds of data.
ITEC1006 Searching and Managing Information (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- General Education Core Course from the Information Management Technology Category
This course provides a comprehensive examination of different popular search systems such as Google and YouTube. Students will be introduced to the powerful features in these systems, as well as the technology underpinning them. Students will learn how large information repositories are efficiently organized, managed and searched. They will also learn the principles of search engines, information retrieval, and how to use simple database management system such as Access.
ITEC1007 Getting Started with Artificial Intelligence (3 units)
After completion of this course, students will have an overview and fundamental understanding about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). Students will be alerted to the impact and some related issues aroused by the use and development of A.I. technologies. Students will also have some hands-on opportunities to experience/design/create smart applications with A.I.
ITEC2005 Web Design and Development with 2D/3D Animations (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- General Education Core Course from the Information Management Technology Category
This course provides students with a comprehensive knowledge of animation and web design. Students will learn web design and development, standard 2D and 3D graphics and animation for the Web. On completion of the course, students will develop an interactive vibrant website reflecting the modern web design patterns and the advancement of the latest browser technologies.
ITEC2006 Internet and E-Commerce (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- General Education Core Course from the Information Management Technology Category
Students will learn the basic concepts of Internet and e-commerce technologies, and gain hands-on experience in setting up systems for Internet and e-commerce applications.
ITEC2015 iMakeApps (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- General Education Core Course from the Information Management Technology Category
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course aims to offer an experience at the intersection between design, software development and mobile technologies. iMakeApps leverages successful mobile application examples to motivate students to design and create their own mobile apps/games. This course adopts studio-based learning approach which offers high degree of interaction, collaboration and constant feedbacks to students. Technically, students learn about lightweight rapid prototyping of mobile apps and games. A variety of mobile technologies will also be introduced through a series of hands-on exercises.
ITEC2016 Data-driven Visualization for the Web (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- General Education Core Course from the Information Management Technology Category
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
Information today is overwhelming; we need a way to analyse and interpret information such that its underlying meaning could be quicker to be seen. Data visualization is the most intuitive solution, where visual elements like charts and maps are highly effective in communicating quantitative messages.
What would you do if you want to visualize data on your website today? Manually plotting charts with your drawing software, or generating the same old static charts with your word processing software? In this media-rich HTML5 era, a wide variety of interactive dynamic charts could be easily developed and presented on your website.
Thus, this course aims to equip our students with essential knowledge on web development and data-driven story-telling. On completion of the course, students should be able to develop and publish interactive data visualization on a website.
ITEC3005 Strategic Use of Information Technology (3 units)
This course provides the concepts and techniques to facilitate students to formulate appropriate IT strategy and plan to fit the company environment.
ITEC3006 Music, Photo and Movie Processing (3 units)
After completion of this course, students will have a good understanding on the basic concepts of music, photo and movie processing. Students will also be able to use software tools to process music, photo and movie data such as music file compression/conversion, photo enhancement and movie editing. This course is open to non-Visual Arts and non-CS majors only.