UnitLevel 4Undergraduate

FZA4443 Honours thesis part 3

Faculty of Information Technology

FZA4443 Honours thesis part 3 is a level 4, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology, offered in 2020 in Semester 2 at South Africa. It has no prerequisites.

Credit points
6
Offered in 2020
Semester 2
South Africa
Workload
12 hours
per semester

The 2027 handbook has no page for FZA4443. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.

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Requisites

Before FZA4443

Prohibitions

You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.

Corequisites

Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.

After FZA4443

No unit lists FZA4443 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.

Enrolment rules

Prerequisite: Admission to an FIT Honours program or stream.

Equivalent units

The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.

Overview

This unit is a research unit and a requirement for the FIT Honours degrees. Due to the nature of IT, a wide range of Honours project types can be offered to students. Some project components are of a practical nature and may involve some software development and/or experimentation, while other components are of a more theoretical nature.

This unit forms part of the sequence of units comprising the Honours thesis in the Faculty of Information Technology.

Two exit points exist for the Honours thesis, FIT4444 (24 pts) and FIT4448 (18 pts).

The 24 credit point exit point is applicable to:

  • Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)
  • Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced (Honours)
  • Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Honours)

The 18 credit point exit point is applicable to:

Honours stream in the Bachelor of Software Engineering.

Offerings in 2020

Teaching periodCampusMode
Second semesterSouth AfricaOn campus

Learning outcomes

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

  1. 1

    Design a rigorous Bachelor Honours level research project and develop project proposal;

  2. 2

    Critically review research literature, research design and reported findings;

  3. 3

    Evaluate and select research methods and techniques of data collection and analysis appropriate to particular research designs, projects and disciplines;

  4. 4

    Conduct ethical research;

  5. 5

    Communicate research findings in written and oral form in research and industry settings.

Workload and teaching

  • Teaching approachResearch activities

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week. Students will be expected to hold regular meetings with supervisor(s) over the course of the semester.

Contacts

Unit Coordinators
Dr Stella Ouma
Chief Examiners
Dr Stella Ouma

Common questions

What are the prerequisites for FZA4443?

None, but you must take FIT4442 or FZA4442 before or alongside it.

When is FZA4443 offered?

In 2020, FZA4443 runs in Semester 2 at South Africa.

How much work is FZA4443?

The handbook expects about 12 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.

More details

Credit points
6
Level
4
Study level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Faculty of Information Technology
Type
Coursework
EFTSL
0.125
Student contribution
SCA Band 2
Study abroad
Not available
Handbook years
2020