This course is designed to provide students with practical skills in Object Oriented analysis and design methods. The student is introduced to object oriented principles namely abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. The student will also be introduced to the concepts of classes and methods, and what role these play in the overall object oriented analysis and design stage. The course also differentiates itself from the traditional system analysis and design approach by showing the differences between the two approaches. Students are then introduced to the different types of programming methods before being introduced to the main tool of OOAD namely the UML. The UML design tools are then discussed and taught in detail namely use case diagram, sequence diagram, class diagram, activity diagram, state chart diagram, component diagrams.