Aims: To give students an understanding of: human-computer interaction: styles of interaction, requirements for an interactive system in relation to the nature of the tasks being supported, issues in the design of interactive systems, critical assessment of designs, the ways in which databases contribute to the management of large amounts of data, the professional and ethical issues raised by the existence of databases and networks, mathematics to support the previous items and to provide a foundation for the second semester of level 2 in Computing Science and beyond.