Business Informatics

Tasks, possibilities and limits of business informatics

  • Basics of business informatics (technical terms)
  • Information systems
  • Data protection and security (incl. legal aspects)
  • Phishing
  • Digital signatures
  • Databases (basics, relations, ER)
  • Data warehouses
  • Internet (basics, eCommerce)
  • Recapitulation of how to use office software (text, spreadsheet and presentation software programs - if required for other courses)

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

PowerPoint slides and exercise sheets

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Integrated course (ILV), Lecture, exercises, group work, presentation and continuous assessment quizzes

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment (quality of work assignments and tasks completed by students, presentations, commitment) and written exam

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Basics of word-processing and spreadsheets

Infos

Degree programme

Banking and Finance (engl.)

Cycle

Bachelor

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

English

Curriculum

Full-Time

Academic year

2023

Semester

1 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of the course, students can

  • name and explain the basics of IT
  • name security-relevant topics in the IT area and communicate their meaning
  • formulate working assignments for out-house specialists as a customer in a software development process, and assess proper compliance
  • oversee this development process and, as a link between financial and IT experts, display data and frequency distributions in spreadsheets and graphs
  • present data using a spreadsheet software
  • perform mathematical operations on the data, making use of software
  • illustrate and graphically outline the desired final results

Course code

1229-19-01-VZ-EN-10