COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Courses Offered by Informatics Department
Course
Assignments/ Projects Tools/ Software
Description
CISB2113 Fundamentals of Information Test:20% No lab for this course.
Technology Assignment:30% Word processor, and
Quiz:10% spreadsheet (e.g.,
This course introduces the four components of
Final Exam:40% Excel). Maybe a tool
information technology; hardware, software, data
for drawing
and telecommunications. These components will
flowcharts (available
be explained in detail and relate to the current
online).
business environment. Different types of systems
will be introduced and the threats to the IT
environment will be discussed as well.
CIS32123 Structured Programming Test: 20% Visual C++,
Quiz: 15% CodeBlocks
This course is providing a foundation for students
Assignment/ Project:
to be able to perform logical thinking and apply
20%
problem solving skill on how to analyse, design
Lab: 15%
and code programs based on C language.
Final Exam: 30%
CISB3313 Fundamentals of Database Test: 20% Oracle SQL
Quizzes: 10% Live/SQL Developer
This course emphasizes on the concepts of
Lab Tests: 15%
database, database environment, and database
Projects: 15%
management system (DBMS). This course also
Final Exam: 40%
emphasizes on conceptual, logical and physical
design of relational database. The Entity
Relationship Diagrams are explained in detail and
discussion on normalization is presented from Un
Normalized Form (UNF), First Normal Form
(1NF), Second Normal Form (2NF), Third Normal
Form (3NF) and Boyce-Codd Normal Form
(BCNF). Database queries using SQL are also
discussed in detail.
CISB3113 System Analysis and Design Test: 20% No lab for this
Quizzes: 10% course.
This course introduces to students activities Assignments: 15%
involved in the development of information Project:15%
systems and applications, detailing a set of Final Exam: 40%
structured processes consist of analysis, design,
development, implementation and evaluation.
Students will be exposed to methodologies,
techniques and tools used in the management,
specification, evaluation, implementation, testing
and maintenance used in the information system
and application development process.
CISB3312 Principles of Management Assignments: 10% No Lab for this
Project 20% course
This course will cover the basic managerial
Midterm Test: 20%
functions of planning, organizing, leading, and
Test: 10%
controlling, as well as looking at the evolution and
Final Exam: 40%
best practices for management which are being
used currently in organizations. Students will be
provided with understanding of the principles of
management and the managerial processes
involved in any organisation as well as
understanding the human behavioural processes in
an organisation from management perspectives.
The purpose is to help enable students to function
more effectively when they join the workforce and
especially to help in understanding the
management issues and challenges associated with
information systems in organization.
CISB3123 Introduction to Object-Oriented Quizzes: 15% Classes are conducted
Programming Practical Test: 15% in lab and the
Test: 20% programming
This course emphasizes on the essentials of object-
Assignment: 20% platform used is
oriented programming. This subject provides
Project: 30% Netbean.
student with object-oriented programming concepts
and students will learn to write program in object-
oriented way. Students will learn to design,
develop, implement, test, and document program.
Topics covered include processing of programming
constructs, classes, array, string manipulation, data
validation, calculations, sorting and searching
techniques, subroutines, parameter passing and
GUI.
CISB2133 Business Statistics Tests: 20%
Quizzes: 10%
This course provides an understanding of basic
Assignment: 30%
statistical concepts and gives practice at some of
Final Exam: 40%
the methods and skills necessary for students to
collect, appraise, present, analyse and interpret
data. Students are introduced to the basic concepts
involved in descriptive and inferential statistics.
Emphasis is placed on understanding the basic
concepts and principles of dealing with data.
Students are also exposed to the application of
statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and
regression analysis in business decision making
process.
CISB3413 Business Intelligence
Test (Mid Term + Quiz): Power BI
This course introduces the concept of business 30%
intelligence and explores its’ various major Lab Report: 20%
components such as Data Warehousing, Business Assignment: 20%
Analytics and Data Visualization, Data Mining and Final Exam: 30%
Business Performance Management. The course
also looks at the process, contents and context of
managerial decision making and how the
implementation of Business Intelligence can help
to provide actionable insights that drive strategic
and tactical decisions. Students will also gain
hands-on experiences with leading BI tools to
create compelling data visualizations and
dashboards to effectively communicate findings for
decision making. The organization issues affecting
the success of Business Intelligence and possible
solutions are also explored
CISB3323 Human Computer Interaction Test (Mid Term + Quiz): Any suitable design
30% and prototyping tools
The course is intended to introduce the student to
Assignment:10% such as Canva, Figma,
the basic concepts of human-computer interaction.
Project:30% Wixx, Adobe XD and
The course will unfold by examining design and
Final Exam: 30% etc
evaluation. The students will gain principles and
skills for designing and evaluating interactive
systems. Among the topics studied are the design
and evaluation of effective user interaction designs,
including principles and guidelines for designing
interactive systems. Emphasis is also given to the
development process for user interaction designs
and development activities include requirements
and task analysis, usability specifications, design,
prototyping, and evaluation. The main goal is to
help students realize that user interface
development is an ongoing process throughout the
full product life cycle. During the course the
students will be involved with a real problem
solving/software development project. Students
will be required to gather requirements, identify the
problem, form a solution and present this solution.
CISB3112 Ethics and IT Professional Practices Test: 20% No lab for this course.
This course introduces students to ethics and Assignment: 10%
professional issues pertaining to Information
Technology. It prepares students (who will be the Presentation: 30%
future professionals in a complex technological Final Exam: 40%
society) to deal with issues related to computers
through introduction to issues ranging from ethical,
social, legal, and economical relevant to being a
responsible computer user (professional or
personal). It also exposes students to the use of
ethical/value analysis as a practical tool in defining
and solving day-to-day ethical conflicts they might
confront as computing and IT professionals.
CISB3453 Database Management and Test: 15% MySQL Workbench
Administration Quizzes: 15%
Assignment: 15%
This course introduces students to the concepts of
Lab:15%
database management, database administration,
Final Exam: 40%
threats and security, concurrency control, backup
and recovery, Distributed Database and Big
Data/NoSQL database. Selected DBMS is used in
the lab sessions to create stored procedures, user
defined functions and triggers.
CISB3433 IS Project Management Quizzes: 10% Any free online
Project: 15% project management
This subject explores information system project
Assignment: 10% tool. For example,
management’s theories, techniques, methodologies
Test: 15% Monday.com, Zoho
and relevant tools. It looks at key ideas about the
Lab:10% Project app (available
initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and
Final Exam: 40% in MS Teams)
controlling the information system project.
CISB3443 Business Process Reengineering Tests: 30% Students will be
Assignments: 20% exposed to business
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a
Case Study: 10% tools like Why
systematic approach to helping an organization to
Final Exam: 40% Analysis, Ishikawa
analyse and improve its business processes with the
Cause and Effect tool,
support of Information Technology. BPR is more
Swimlane, and other
than just business improvising; it is basically an
techniques apply in
approach of rethinking and radically redesigning an
BPR methodology
organization's existing resources, and the way the
business processes are carried out to improved
quality and efficiency, reduced costs, and increase
profitability. This course introduces concepts of
business processes, business improvements, and
business process reengineering. Students will be
exposed to the use of BPR in real organizations
through case studies, and work on projects in real
organizations.
CISB5213 Digital Business Quiz: 10% Students will be
Test: 15% exposed with
Digital Business is the creation of new business Group Case Study: business tools like
designs which involve people, businesses and things 20% business model
that disrupts existing business models. It was Individual Reflective canvas, SWOT,
reported by Gartner Inc. that by 2020, more than 7 Business Portfolio: strategic framework,
billion people and businesses, and about 30 billion 15% digital marketing
devices will be connected to the Internet. By having Mini Project: 40% framework, etc.
people, businesses and devices communicating,
transacting and negotiating with each other, it
describes the world of digital business. This course
covers the concepts and requirements of Digital
Business which includes models, strategies,
infrastructure, and current applications and media.
The implementation of customer support and
change management issues will also be discussed in
this course by examining practical management in
certain organization that involved in creating and
maintaining Digital Business solutions.
CISB4213 Enterprise Resource Planning Quizzes: 10% SAP S/4HANA
Midterm test: 15% client with GBI 4.1
This course is designed to provide students with an
Assignment: 15%
understanding of the theoretical and practical issues
Lab: 20%
related to the application of enterprise resource
Final Exam: 40%
planning (ERP) systems within organizations. The
focus is on demonstrating how ERP integrate
information and organizational processes across
functional areas (sales & marketing, accounting,
human resource and supply chain management).
Students will receive hands-on experience in SAP
software using data from Global Bike Inc. where
modules such as Sales and Distributions, Material
Management, Production Planning and Financial
Accounting will be covered accordingly.
CISB4223 Business Programming Quizzes: 15% Python IDE - Spyder
Practical Test: 15%
This course emphasized on the object-oriented
Test: 20%
programming concepts in business program
Assignment: 20%
development. Topics covered include program
Mini Project: 30%
constructs, subroutine, array, searching and sorting
techniques, packages, file handling and GUI.
CISB4233 Business Analytics Test: 20% RapidMiner Studio
Project: 30%
This course is designed to provide students with
Lab: 20%
the fundamental understanding of business
Final Exam: 30%
intelligence, business analytics and big data,
focusing on their elements, implementation and
challenges in business environments. Through this
course, the students will appreciate the importance
of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics in
supporting managerial decision making. The
emphasis of the syllabus will be on the evolution of
decision support systems technology, the
components of Business Intelligence solution and
the various types of Business Analytics approach in
business solutions. Tools for Business Analytics
solution will be studied with regards to their
application in organizations. Students will be
trained to apply their knowledge in providing
Business Analytics solution to a given business
scenario.
CISB4413 Enterprise Architecture
Tests: 30% No lab for this course.
This course aims to introduce the basic level of
Assignments: 20%
knowledge about the Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Cas Studies: 10%
and it related components for Information
Final Exam: 40%
Technology (IT) development. This course will
provide a clear explanation of the relationship
between strategic planning, business planning, and
information technology planning. Strategic goals
and business requirements should drive IT
solutions, and EA’s contribution to this alignment
is another focal point of this course. Additionally,
the course also incorporates the basics of business-
process modelling, and creating information and
technology architectures. The basics in enterprise
engineering i.e. main models and methodologies of
enterprise architecture development are also
discussed.
CGEB4216 Industrial Training Host Supervisor n/a
Evaluation Report: 40%
This course requires the students to undergo a 12
Visiting Supervisor
weeks training at various industrial sectors related
Evaluation Report: 30%
to information technology. This course emphasizes
Logbook: 10%
on IT practicality and skills (communication,
Report: 20%
personal, human, presentation and technical
writing) in working environment related to the IT
industry.
CGEB4313 Project I Progressive assessment/ n/a
log book/ report/ demo:
This course requires students to apply knowledge
70%
gained through various taught subjects involving
Presentation: 30%
system design and development. At the completion
of each pre-determined milestone, students must
submit or present the agreed project’s deliverables.
At the end of this course, students are required to
present/demonstrate the expected project outcome
for evaluation.
CGEB4123 Technology Entrepreneurship Business Idea No Lab for this
Journals: 10% course
This course provides an overview of the essential Case studies: 20%
principles of technology entrepreneurship through a Assignment: 20%
diverse range of case studies, lectures, and projects Test: 20%
focused on high-growth ventures. It is intended to Final Business Report
benefit all undergraduate students looking to and Pitching: 30%
comprehend the entrepreneurial process and gain
the critical tools needed to recognize a genuine
technology-based business opportunity, and the
steps necessary to launch an entrepreneurial venture.
CISB4313 Information Systems Auditing Quizzes: 10% No lab for this course.
Midterm Test: 15%
This course aims to give students an understanding
Assignment: 15%
of the controls that are important in a computer-
Projects: 30%
based information systems environment and how
Final Exam: 30%
audit evidence is collected and evaluated to assess
the reliability of these controls. It emphasizes on
the risks attached to the deployment of IT projects,
IT network and telecommunications. The course
also covers; fraud and forensic auditing, and
auditors code of conduct.
CISB5143 Data Engineering Midterm Exam: 15% Any tools that may be
Quizzes: 10% used for data analytics
Data engineering is the aspect of data science that
Assignments: 15% includes Python,
focuses on practical applications of data collection
Project: 30% Cloudera, Hadoop,
and analysis. This course introduces the
Final Exam: 30% RapidMiner, etc.
fundamentals of data storage, retrieval, and
processing systems in the context of common data
analytics processing needs. As these fundamentals
are introduced, representative technologies will be
used to illustrate how to construct storage and
processing architectures. This course aims to
provide a set of “building blocks” by which one
can construct a complete architecture for storing
and processing data.
Exercises and examples will consider both simple
and complex data structures, as well as data that is
both clean and structured and dirty and
unstructured.
CISB5123 Text Analytics Midterm Exam: 15% Python
Quizzes: 10%
It is estimated that 80% of enterprise data today is
Assignments: 15%
unstructured, primarily in text form. Text analytics
Project: 30%
is the process of deriving significant patterns and
Final Exam: 30%
knowledge from unstructured text data to support
decision-making. This course will introduce a
variety of basic principles and techniques in text
analytics. Topics to be covered in this course
include text pre-processing, text classification, text
clustering, text sentiment, topic modelling, and text
visualization. Student will also have the
opportunity to use selected text analytics tools to
extract, process, analyze and visualize text data.
CGEB4323 Project II Progressive n/a
assessment/demo/ thesis:
This course demonstrates student’s ability to apply
knowledge and skills in CS/IT, which have been 50%
acquired throughout their studies. The system Presentation: 50%
development process will be based on the acquired
knowledge gained from the earlier phases of
system analysis and design. At the end of this
course, student will orally present and defend their
developed system in a panel presentation session.
CGEB4112 Energy and Computing Mid Term Exam: 20% No Lab for this
Assignments/Case course
This course provides student with an avenue to be Studies/Mini Project:
introduced to a real industry and organization in 30%
Malaysia, namely the energy industry. In the hope Quizzes: 10%
of providing an end-to-end insight, the course starts Final Exam: 40%
off with the history and ends with the challenges
and opportunity at present and in the future. This
includes elements of ICT services and systems such
as Smart Grid are presented and discussed at length
to form an understanding of how ICT plays its part
in the overall picture of an organization particularly
energy.
CISB5233 Social Media for Business Quiz(s): 10% Google Analytics
Lab Test(s): 15%
This course is designed to introduce students to all
Project:15%
digital channels and platforms from the social
Mid-Term: 20%
media lens. This course also acquaints students
Final Exam: 40%
with the concepts, tools and best practices in social
media analytics for informed strategic decision
making. This course is taught through lecture and
lab sessions with focus on analytics assignments
for an organization/business.
CGMB4113 Information Visualization Quizzes: 10% Tableau, Microsoft
Tests: 20% Excel
This course explores the concepts and techniques of Assignments: 20%
visually and effectively presenting data/information Lab Exercises: 10%
to enhance user comprehension. In this course, Final exam: 40%
students will learn to analyse, identify appropriate
visualisation techniques, and transform
data/information into insightful graphical
presentations. The course emphasizes the cognitive
and psychological aspects involved in designing
data/information visualizations.
CISB5133 Data Governance and Management Assignments: 20% No lab for this course.
Quiz/Presentation: 10% However, students are
This course will provide an overview of data
Written Tests: 15% exposed to suitable
governance, including building a governance
Class Activities:15% tools for Data
infrastructure with organizational management,
Final Exam: 40% Governance in one of
roles and responsibilities, stewardship, governance
the chapter.
communications, regulatory compliance, privacy
concerns, data security, and risk management. Data
quality will be addressed as a continuous issue in
data management, and the challenge it poses as the
volumes of data increase and the uses for data
expand. This course will utilize case studies,
trends, techniques, and best practices as it
examines the topics of data governance.
COURSES OFFERED BY OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Assignments/
Course Description Tools/ Software
Projects
CSNB2223 Computer System Quizzes 15% No lab for this
Test 25% course.
This course aims at providing students with the Assignments 10%
fundamentals knowledge on the concepts of Final exam: 50%
Computer Organization and Operating Systems. The
content is structured around the three primary
building blocks of computing systems: processors,
memories, and input output system. In addition to
that, the course also covered basic concepts of
System Administration.
CCSB2113 Cyber Security Essentials Written Test/Midterm: Online tools
Des encrypt
20%
The course develops foundational understanding of Online hash
Quizzes: 10% calculator
cybersecurity. The course introduces students to
Steganography
characteristics of cybercrime, security principles and Assignments: 30%
Online
technologies. It covers understanding of Final Exam: 40% Spam mimic
cybersecurity’s basic principles, foundational
knowledge, and core skills of cybersecurity needed
for monitoring, detecting and responding to security
events, thus protecting systems and organizations
from cybersecurity risks, threats and vulnerabilities.
CSNB3123 Data Communication and Networks Tests: 20% Cisco Router
Quizzes: 10% 2900
Assignments: 10% Cisco Switch
This course aims at giving the students the general Catalyst 2960
Lab: 20%
understanding on the concepts of data Plus
CCNA Coursework: Cat5, 5E UTP
communication that covers networking architecture,
10% Simulator: Packet
structure, and functions. The course introduces the
Final Exam: 40% Tracer v8.1.0
principles and structure of IP addressing and the
fundamentals of Ethernet concepts, media, and
operations to provide a foundation for the
curriculum.
CSEB4123 Web Programming Test: 15% Wamp Server (for
Quizzes: 10% windows-based
Learn about the Internet and the World-Wide Web Assignments:20% OS) /Xampp (for
(WWW) and their applications; learn different iMac-based OS)
Lab: 15%
programming techniques for the Internet & World- Text editor
Final Exam: 40% (notepad or
Wide Web. Emphasis on web programming
notepad++)
languages includes basic & advanced HyperText Mysqli (Database)
Markup Language (includes Cascading Style Sheets, Language use in
JavaScript Client-Side Scripting, Introduction to this subject: a.
Database design using MySQL and PHP Server- HTML 5 & CSS.
Side Scripting. JavaScript, PHP
