FZA4444 Honours thesis final
Faculty of Information Technology
FZA4444 Honours thesis final 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
- Assessment
- No exam
- 1 task
- Workload
- 12 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for FZA4444. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before FZA4444
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After FZA4444
No unit lists FZA4444 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite: Admission to an FIT Honours program.
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 period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | South Africa | On campus |
Assessment
- Final Presentation (5% of the 24 cpt thesis)5%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Design a rigorous Bachelor Honours level research project and develop project proposal;
- 2
Critically review research literature, research design and reported findings;
- 3
Evaluate and select research methods and techniques of data collection and analysis appropriate to particular research designs, projects and disciplines;
- 4
Conduct ethical research;
- 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
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Stella Ouma
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Stella Ouma
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for FZA4444?
None, but you must take FZA4442 or FIT4442 before or alongside it.
When is FZA4444 offered?
In 2020, FZA4444 runs in Semester 2 at South Africa.
How much work is FZA4444?
The handbook expects about 12 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does FZA4444 have an exam?
No. FZA4444 has 1 assessment task and no exam.
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