Bachelor of Science In Information Technology (BSc-IT)

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Computing is one the fastest growing areas of industry in the world, including developing countries. Thus the need for information technology (IT) work force is high everywhere.
A dual focus on both social context and technical opportunities is important in the field of IT education. After their graduation, students will be using technology to design meaningful application to be used in their communities and societies.
Tumaini University offers IT application courses and has focused on active development of IT

education as an important part of capacity building. Tumaini's IT curriculum is based on an approach that is contextualized to take into account the environment, culture, socioeconomic situation, and needs of Tanzania. Tumaini's IT curriculum is based on research, and our innovations in development of IT education have been widely published in international academic publication.
OBJECTIVES
A meaningful information technology curriculum should not be oblivious to the needs of the surrounding society. In a developing country, that challenge goes hand in hand with the incoming IT students' limited experience with technology. Tumaini University's contextualized IT program emphasizes early identification of societal expectations of technology. The degree program follows six principles;
  1. It is designed to be contextualized,
  2. Practical,
  3. Interdisciplinary,
  4. Internationational recognized,
  5. Problem-based (using local problems), and
  6. Based on continuous research on the program's formative development.
The curriculum also makes use of international academic visitors not only as lecturers,but as experts helping students to specify solutions o their identified problems and to elaborate them towards working solutions, for the benefit of local end users.

PROGRAMME
The degree is aimed at developing five competency areas;
  1. Programming and Software engineering,
  2. Networking administration,
  3. Web developmentand e-business,
  4. Hardware and Software support, and
  5. General academic competency.
Strands of ethics and law, multimedia, robotics, team-working, interdisciplinary, innovation, leadership and management, sustainable planning, life-long learning, customer service, and global responsibilty are woven into a number of courses in the curriculum. Environmental issues, as well as issues of computing in challenging environments have their own courses in curriculum.