1. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 POSTGRADUATE INFORMATION SESSION 2011 Computer Science and Informatics

2. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons Requirement You must be in possession of a B.Sc. or B.Com degree with CIS as one of your majors and must have passed with an average of at least 60% in the CIS modules in the third year.

3. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons To obtain the Honours degree you must pass eight modules plus a project. At most two of the modules may be outside the Department. Compulsory modules RIS693 – Project RIS620 – Advanced Programming I RIS621 – Advanced Programming II RIS626 – Research Methodology

4. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons First Semester Modules RIS609 – Knowledge Management (Mr. Burger) Tue 17:00 RIS615 – Human-Computer Interaction (Dr. De Wet) Mon 18:00 RIS619 – Advanced Internet Programming (Mr. Nel) Wed 17:00 RIS620 – Advanced Programming (Miss. Beelders) Thu 17:00 RIS626 – Research Methodology (Mrs. Dednam) Mon 17:00 Venue MSB 223

5. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 B.Sc. Hons (IT) and B.Com Hons Second Semester Modules RIS604 – Information Security (Mr. Nel) RIS621 – Advanced Programming (Miss. Beelders) RIS622 – Advanced Databases (Mr. Wessels) RIS625 – Data Warehousing (Dr. Kotze) OBS634 – Project Management OBS664 – e-Commerce

6. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 M.Sc. and M.Com Requirement You must be in possession of a B.Sc. Hons. or B.Com. Hons. degree and must have passed all the modules with an average of at least 60%

7. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 Structured M.Sc. and M.Com To obtain the Structured Masters degree you must pass three modules plus an extended dissertation. The modules will be in the form of a literature study. There will be no formal classes and no examination. You will receive a topic and then you must summarize from the literature all the work that has been done on the topic. You will hand-in a document consisting of an Introduction, Summary of the literature, a Problem Statement and a Conclusion. You will be evaluated on this document.

8. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 Structured M.Sc. and M.Com Four modules will be presented during the first semester of which you must select three. For the second semester you select one of your three topics and then continue with that topic towards an extended dissertation. In other words you add the Objective, Methodology, Data Gathering, Data Analysis and Final Conclusion

9. UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE UNIVERSITEIT VAN DIE VRYSTAAT YUNIVESITHI YA FREISTATA P O Box 339, Internal Box 65, Bloemfontein, 9300, Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 (0)51-401 2754 Fax+ +27 (0)51-401 2754 Structured M.Sc. and M.Com The available modules are: RIS715– Intelligent Agents (Dr de Wet) RIS725– Business Intelligence (Dr Kotze) RIS730– Educational Technolgies (Dr Nel) RIS731– Eye-Tracking Technologies (Prof Blignaut