5 core components: Business and ICT: role and uses of ICT in business organisations; systems analysis and design: develops skills for the specification and design of an information system; the application development: software development; plus dissertation is produced on a contemporary ICT topic; a project is undertaken in industry; students choose 3 optional modules; topics include: project management; business strategy; the law and ICT; highly technical areas dealing with advanced software topics; and software issues concerning digital TV.