1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Accounting 1
Legal environment and business
Organisations and management
The marketing concept
Microeconomics
The availability of business subjects in any given year will
depend upon demand and resource constraints at the time of
enrolment.
Students undertake:
6 Engineering subjects
4 Business subjects
Year 4
Students undertake
4 Engineering subjects
6 Business subjects
Year 5
5 Students undertake
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0 4 Engineering subjects
d 3 6 Business subjects
n
Application procedure
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Refer to pages 54 and 106.
Further lnformation
8 For further information on this new course please contact
the Division of Science, Engineering and Design.
Telephone: 9214 8781
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loso Bachelor of Information
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9 Technology
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- 1 996 VTAC course code-343 15
:. Manager
G.A. Murphy BCom(Melb), CPA
The course is offered only as a full-time program of three
years duration. Students are actively engaged in the course
for an average of forty-four weeks each year. There are eight
segments in the course - four semesters, two summer terms
and two twenty-week periods of industry based learning.
These provide a course which is essentially a four year
course completed in three years.
Swinburne awards a scholarship to each student admitted to
the course. Scholarship levels are expected to be an average
$9000.
Career potential
The course teaches graduates to apply information
technology within business and industry and provides them
with appropriate grounding in management education to
prepare them for future roles in management.
Prerequisites (entrance 1996)
Units 3 and 4: English, Mathematics (any).
Course structure
Segment 1
IT101
IT102
IT103
IT105
BCllO
Segment 2
IT20 1
IT202
IT203
Plus
Credit points
Computer Fundamentals 10.0
Introduction to Programming 10.0
Business Applications and Systems 1 10.0
Behaviour and Communications in
Organisations 10.0
Accounting 1 10.0
Decision Analysis 10.0
COBOL Programming 10.0
Business Applications and Systems 2 10.0
2 Non-computing Electives each 10.0
Segmat 3 (Summer Term)
IT301 Systems Software 1
IT302 Organisation Behaviour
IT303 Data Base Management Systems 1 16.5
Segment 4
IT401 Industry Based Learning
Segment 5 and 6
Ten subjects must be studied in these two consecutive segments.
They can be taken in any order that prerequisites allow, and must
include six core subjects, two chosen from the specialist subjects
on offer and two non-competing electives.
Core subjects *
IT501 Systems and Information Analysis 1 10.0
IT503 Data Base Management Systems 2 10.0
IT504 Data Communications 1 10.0
IT509 Software Engineering 1 10.0
IT601 Systems and Information Analysis 2 10.0
IT609 Software Engineering 2 10.0
Specialist subjects*
IT502 Systems Software 2 10.0
IT603 Data Base Management Systems 3 10.0
Other approved specialist computing subjects may be
chosen from either the Bachelor of Applied Science or
the Bachelor of Business courses.
Segment 7
IT701 Industry Based Learning 50.0
Segment 8 (Summer Term)
IT803 Emerging Information Technologies 25.0
IT804 Computing in the Human Context 25.0
* Not all subjects will be offered each semester.
Regulations
The Course Regulations are available from the School of
Computer Science and Software Engineering and each student
will receive a copy at the beginning of the course.
Application procedure
Refer to pages 54 and 106.
Further lnformation
For further information on this new course please contact
the Course Administrator, Anne Lahza.