FI1AMIT75 IT Foundations

The course provides general knowledge of the Information Technology and Information and Communication Technology field. Candidates are provided an understanding of why we do different things and how the elements all relate to each other in the bigger ICT picture. Candidates also learn to actively contribute to moving a project forward and to manage projects, with feasibility studies, planning, implementation, report writing and presentation. The course provides skills to break down problems into smaller and more manageable pieces and fundamental skills to analyse and develop a logical methodology towards problem solving. An important part of the course is the soft skills needed to enable a mindset to adapt situations, people, and a current problem and for the transferable knowledge needed in the rapidly changing job market. 

The aim of the course is that students understand the relevance and relations between the study programme courses and the topics within them. In addition to, project management and report writing skills that are essential to have in the working life in general and especially for relevant positions within ICT environments. In the IT business, projects will be run, and as employees, the students will be expected to contribute. Running a project, including time management, processes, goals etc. as well as finding information for different topics, learning to assess the reliability of the information, and documenting the findings in reports.