DATA BASES FOR HUMANISTS

Academic year
2019/2020 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
DATA BASES FOR HUMANISTS
Course code
M77034 (AF:325060 AR:174994)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
1
Degree level
Master di Primo Livello (DM270)
Educational sector code
INF/01
Period
Annual
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
The course aims at providing students a better understanding of the nature of relational databases.
By the end of the course the students will have acquired:
- Basic knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge and understanding database normalization
- Ability to judge the organization of existing databases
Basic knowledge of cataloguing and spreadsheets.
By assembling and organizing a database from printed sources and pre-existing tables the participants develop together a more complex relational database and data model. For didactic purposes we will use MS Access or Base for visualisation.
Successful completion of a complex query of the database created during the course.
The approach is laboratory-based, highly interactive. Students will work on complementary tasks, putting individual results together.
Italian
written and oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 16/02/2020