DAPE1400 Programming Course description

The course shall give the students a basic understanding of and skills in imperative programming principles and object-oriented programming. Students from the bachelor's degree program in applied computer technology can choose between this course or ADTE1400 Basic Programming for 1 semester.

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge The student has acquired a basic understanding of the following programming topics:

• types
• instructions, instruction sequences and instruction jumps
• functions (procedures)
• tables (arrays)
• classes and objects
• inheritance
• polymorphism

Skills

The student is capable of handling the following programming constructs in Java:

• operators and types
• control structures
• classes, constructors and methods
• abstractions and simple graphic user interfaces

General competence

The student is familiar with:

• basic principles for creating programs
• the connection between programming language and program development
• concepts relating to the quality and readability of code

Lectures and individual exercises. The exercises are based on the students’ own work, supervised by the lecturer and/or a student assistant.

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can sit the exam:

• 3 assignments
• 2 individual tests

Emnet er en innføring i og kvalifisering for profesjonsutøvelse gjennom praksis i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsarbeid i offentlig og privat sektor.

Informasjon og kommunikasjon i praksis er et valgfritt emne i 5. semester.

Første og andre studieår.

The course presents the main debates concerning the impact of economic, cultural and political globalisation on health and social welfare in different parts of the world, and the role of multilateral agencies (including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) in influencing social and health policies in high-, middle-, and low-income countries.

Language of instruction is English.

None.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has advanced knowledge of

• main theoretical and empirical debates concerning how globalisation impacts upon health and social welfare in different parts of the world
• trends in economic growth, poverty and inequality
• the importance of the demographic and epidemiological transitions for understanding differences in health status and social welfare between as well as within countries
• welfare state changes in high, middle and low income countries
• how decisions are made in multilateral agencies (in particular the World Health Organisation, the World Bank and IMF), and the polities of multilateral organisations
• the relationship between international and national health policy and social policy

Skills

The student can

• review and discuss different theoretical perspectives on the relationship between globalisation and local policy development
• investigate health and social policy outcomes in different countries
• investigate how demographic and socioeconomic changes influence disease patterns and changes in health and social inequality
• analyse how various aspects of globalisation influence health and social policy outcomes in high, middle and low income countries

General competence

The student is capable of

• contributing to the debate on how various aspects of globalisation pose challenges as well as opportunities for the development of health and social policy
• identifying and evaluating how health and social policy designs can be adopted to global policy challenges
• participating in the debate concerning how multilateral organisations such as the World Bank and WHO perform their roles with regard to global health and social policy challenges