Doctor of Philosophy (Information Technology)

Compulsory Core Courses

Subject Name

Credit

CPRM 7103 : Research Methodology
This course focuses on the research elements, components, and processes in scientific research, its purpose and importance. Various types of research, characteristics of scientific research, logical methods of reasoning and hypothetic-deductive method are discussed. The course will also focus on formulating research problem, research objectives, theoretical framework, hypothesis formulation, research design, data collection techniques, scale and measurements, reliability and validity, data analysis methods, report writing and presentation.

3

CPDS 7103 : Doctoral Seminar
In this course, students will identify the basic area of study for research. Students will present the literature review, methodology, and theories relevant for the proposed research area. After each presentation, students will make the necessary amendments and improvements of the paper for subsequent seminars.

3

Elective Courses

Subject Name

Credit

CPDS 7203 : Knowledge Management
This course, in knowledge management, provides students with principles of Knowledge Management, in particular on concepts and techniques for the development of Knowledge Management Systems. This course will also discuss issues that are of interest to the current research in Knowledge Management.

3

CPAS 7103 : Special Topics in Computer Information Systems
This course on special topics in Computer Information System including areas of interests to current research, practical or theoretical, in information system. For example special topics in methods and techniques in information system development, database.

3

CPMS 7103 : Information Security
Information security covers a number of knowledge areas, namely mathematical foundation. In this course on information security, students will be exposed to concepts, theory and methodology necessary for them to understand and carry out research in information security or related areas.

3

CPNS 7103 : Advances In Database
Advance database covers a number of knowledge areas. In this course on advance database students will be exposed to concepts, theory and methodology necessary for the student to understand and carry out research in database or related areas.

3

GPRE 7103 : Research Epistemology
The focus is on the elements of theory of knowledge, including schools of thoughts and debates in the construction of knowledge. The close relation between epistemology and the philosophy of science and social sciences in the first half of the twentieth century will also be an area of focus. The course will look closely at the changing relations between the justification of knowledge claims and the confirmation of scientific hypotheses. The entire structure of scientific reasoning and the justification of theoretical entities will be critically analyzed, including how knowledge is possible in even the most mundane cases.

The course will also take a critical look at the close connection between epistemology and the philosophy of science, in the general positivist view, that the natural sciences provided the clearest cases of human knowledge. The epistemological debates of clarifying the logical form and evidential basis of the latter are part of the attempt to underwrite the legitimacy of the natural sciences, sometimes allegedly by appealing to extra-scientific methods. The inability of positivism to provide a convincing philosophical underpinning for science left a void with regard to the criteria of knowledge and justification. This course will take a critical survey of the fundamental intellectual positions adopted by epistemologists, including how the major issues influence and contribute to production of modern knowledge and academic research.

3