COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a course to be taught as a compulsory course for candidates in their 1st year of study.
Learning Outcome
This course seeks to impart to the Law candidates the essential computer knowledge and skills needed in legal work.
COURSE CONTENT
- Introduction
to Information Communication Technology (ICT)
- Introduction
to computers
- Hardware
and software packages
- operating
systems, applications systems, programmes, presentation of programmes, (Excel,
power point, spreadsheet) databases, cyberspace, computer networks, e-mail,
- Introduction
to computer ethics/crimes
COMPULSORY READINGS
- Floyd,
Fuller, Computer and Information process, Boyd and Fraster Publication Co. 1996
- Arbib, MA
Computer and Cybernetic Society, 2nd Ed. Academic Press, 1984
- Ramani, S.
Information Technology for Development. IOS Press, 1995
OPTIONAL READING MATERIALS
- Bakar, S
The Survey of Information Technology in Tanzania, Tanzania Commission for
Science and Technology, 1993
- Hutchinson,
S.I Computers, Communication and Information: A Users Introduction, MacGraw
Hill, Boston (2nd Ed) 1988