Programme Curriculum

The MSc in Electronic Commerce programme is jointly offered by the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Department of Information Systems of the Faculty of Business, with support from the School of Law and other academic departments within the University. To be awarded the degree, a student completes 9 courses from the required set (of which up to 3 courses can be credit transferred based on the student's previous study) and 2-3 courses from the rich set of electives.

Required courses:

Introduction to eCommerce
Computer Networks and Internets
Internet Application Development
Information Security for e-Commerce
eBusiness System Integration
Analysis and Design of e-Commerce Systems
eCommerce Business Strategies and Management
eCommerce Project
eCommerce Law

Sample Elective courses:

Financial Accounting
Taxation and Tax Planning
Multimedia Technologies and Applications
Distributed and Interoperable Databases
Cyber Marketing and Customer Relationship Management
Supply Chain Management
Information Retrieval
Data Warehousing & Data Mining
Multimodal Interface Design
Internet and Distributed Systems Programming
Topics on eCommerce Technologies
Managerial Economics
Financial Management
Advanced Data Management for eCommerce
Management Support and Business Intelligence Systems
Knowledge Management
Algorithms & Techniques for Web Searching
Information Technology Based Organization Transformation

A student normally completes the study programme in 2 academic years of part-time study.

The courses have been included in the list of reimbursable courses for Continuing Education Fund purposes.