1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

1050 Bachelor of Information
Technology
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 of $9000.
Application procedure
Selection will be based on academic merit and interview.
Applications must be made both through the Victorian
Tertiary Admissions Centre and directly to the course
authorities at Swinburne. Applications direct to Swinburne
must be received by 27 September 1996. Interviews will be
held shortly after the end of VCE examinations. Deferment
of offered places will not be possible. No alternative entry
schemes apply. See also entry under Undvaduate
Information: General Information.
Career potential
The course equips graduates with the knowledge to apply
information technology within business and industry and
provides them with an appropriate grounding in
management education to prepare them for future roles in
management.
Prerequisites (entrance 1997)
Units 3 and 4: English. Mathematics: any.
Course structure
Segment 1
Credit Points
BCllO Accounting 1 10.0
IT101 Computer Fundamentals 10.0
IT102 Introduction to Programming 10.0
IT103 Business Applications and Systems 1 10.0
IT105 Behaviour and Communications in
Organisations 10.0
Segment 2
IT201 Decision Analysis 10.0
IT202 COBOL programming 10.0
IT203 Business Applications and Systems 2 10.0
Plus two non-computing electives each 10.0
Segment 3 (Summer Term)
IT301 Systems Software 1 16.5
IT302 Organisation Behaviour 17.0
IT303 Data Base Management Systems 1 16.5
Segment 4
IT401 Industry Based Learning 50.0
Segments 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, four chosen from
the specialist subjects on offer and two non-computing
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 Engineeering 1 10.0
IT601 Systems and Information Analysis 2 10.0
IT609 Software Engineering 2 10.0
Soecialist subiects*
Approved spe'cialist computing subjects may be chosen
from either the Bachelor of Applied Science or the
Bachelor of Business courses (10 points each).
Segment 7
IT701 Industry Based Learning
Segment 8 (Summer Term)
IT803 Emerging Information Technologies 30.0
IT804 Computing in the Human Context 20.0
'*Not all subjects will be offered each semester.
Further lnfortmation
For futher inforamtion please contact:
Manager
G.A. Murphy, BCom, CPA
Administrative Officer
Anne Lahza
Honours year
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Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
This program provides opportunities for selected students
who have achieved a high standard in the major areas to
undertake a specialised fourth year of study , graduating
with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree. The honours
year is offered in the areas of Cultural Studies, Industry and
Community Studies, Languages, Psychology and Social
Science
The Bachelor of Arts(Honours) program is available to
students who have completed all requirements for the
three-year Bachelor of Arts course at a high standard. A
Bachelor of Arts(Honours) qualification denotes strong
academic performance and provides the background
required to pursue a range of postgraduate studies.
A four-year undergraduate course is required by most
universities as a prerequisite to enrolment in masters and
doctoral programs. In many cases, an Honours degree is
preferred to other forms of fourth year study (e.g.,
postgraduate diplomas).
The Bachelor of Arts(Hcnours) program consists of five
strands. Students will be required to complete two
seminar/coursework subjects and a thesis which consists of
two subjectsin one of five strands. The total program
consist of four subjects.
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