Aims:

Students will learn fundamental theories and methods of database systems: what they are, how they are developed and how they function to achieve their...

Database and Information Management Systems (COMP0022)

Aims:

Students will learn fundamental theories and methods of database systems: what they are, how they are developed and how they function to achieve their purposes. The module will exemplify these constructs with contemporary database technologies and students will learn how these technologies are exploited to build effective information systems of different scale.Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of the module, a student will be able to:

Understand the theories and methods of database systems.
	Apply the theories and methods of database systems in creating effective information systems.
	Understand current and emerging database technologies and the application settings in which they are used.
Content:

The Database Management System.
	Transaction management and failure management.
	Query processing and optimization.
	Distributed databases.
	Data warehousing.
	Data mining and online analytic processing.
	Semi-structured data databases.
	Emerging database models and technologies.
	Database implementation and optimisation.
Requisites:

To be eligible to select this module as optional or elective, a student must ​be registered on a programme and year of study for which it is a formally available.

This module will analyse the emergence of Asian, European and North American-based but globally-known media conglomerates and the television networks...

Media Conglomerates and Television Networks (CMII0185)

This module will analyse the emergence of Asian, European and North American-based but globally-known media conglomerates and the television networks distinctive to these super corporations. Media conglomerates are defined as a single company that owns and controls multiple companies involved in global media enterprises such as television, radio, film, telephony, publishing and internet. As new system builders of infrastructure, technology, policies and cultural content for the twentieth and twenty-first century, this course will probe each week one media conglomerate and one of its signature programmes/franchises as a means to assess it cultural, social and industrial impacts. For example: Sony and Columbia Pictures (Japan), Grupo Globo and Telenovelas (Brazil), Vivendi and Dailymotion (France), ITV and The X Factor (UK), CCTV and Africa Now (China), The Walt Disney Company and ABC (USA), 21st Century Fox and Fox and Friends (USA), Bertelsmann and Random House (Germany).

 