AVCE Information and Communication Technology
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Course Structure
The AVCE is an advanced level vocational qualification aimed at students in the 17 - 19 age range. To be awarded an AVCE (Double Award) qualification in ICT, a student must complete a total of twelve modules, to include the six compulsory modules and any six optional modules.
Modules
Compulsory Modules
- Presenting information
- ICT serving organisations
- Spreadsheet design
- System installation & configuration
- System analysis
- Database design
Optional Modules
- Programming
- Communications & networks
- Multimedia
- Graphics
- Computer-aided design & manufacture
- The internet: systems & services
- Managing & developing websites
- Project management
- Numerical modelling & simulations
- The human-computer interface
- ICT & business accounts
- User support
- Impact of computers on society & the environment
- Animation, sound & video
- Data logging, computer control & robtics
- Programs: specification to product
- Operating systems & systems architecture
- Artificial intelligence & knowledge-based systems
- Local area networking technologies
- Wide area networking & routing technologies
