Description
Focus College's Advanced Certificate in Software Development can help students get started in a software job or advance to the next level of their study — a degree!
Software developers are in high demand across a wide range of sectors, from biotechnology to telecommunications and transportation. Students will get the skills they need to enter the expanding Information Technology profession and establish their careers in this one-year full-time programme.
Students can finish the certificate programme, find a job, continue their education at the institution for another year to get an Advanced Diploma or transfer to a university to pursue a degree.
What you'll learn
The Advanced Certificate in Software Development will provide a breadth of competencies. Upon completion of this program students will have:
- Developed knowledge and skills in planning, developing and evaluating
- Developed employment skills, particularly relating to the IT industry
- Developed and enhanced transferable skills for employability and core skills
- Developed study and research skills as well as academic stimulus
- Developed a range of contemporary computer and software skills that are required by the technology industry
- Been prepared for employment in competitive international markets or for progression to degree study at partner universities around the world
- Been provided with underpinning knowledge associated with appropriate vendor qualifications.
Curriculum
- An introduction to developing software, ethics in computing, troubleshooting, an introduction to project management
- Database design fundamentals, relational database, as well as an introduction to SQL and mathematics for computing.
Instructor
- 9 Courses
