Integrating professional skills into the curriculum

The need for the teaching of professional skills to undergraduates in areas such as communications, team work, conflict resolution, and ethics has for some time been articulated by the information systems profession. These skills are particularly required by information systems graduates. Changes to the traditional systems development life cycle towards use of package software, prototyping, distributed computing, JAD etc have all placed a further demand on interpersonal skills as opposed to technical skills. While this need has been recognised by some universities, there have been a number of approaches to the incorporation of these skills into the teaching programme. This paper describes how professional skills teaching has been introduced within the University of Tasmania's undergraduate programme.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: ACSE
• Authors: John Lamp, Chris Keen, Cathy Urquhart
• Keywords: ACSE 1996, Information Systems, Professional Skills, Skills, Theoretical Computer Science