Bachelor of Information Systems Pass and Honours

Bachelor of Information Systems (Pass and Honours)

BIS

240 cp (Pass)

Minimum duration:  3 years full-time or equivalent part-time.

80 cp (Honours)

Minimum duration:  1 year full-time or equivalent part-time.

Available at                     Brisbane Campus Qld

                                     Melbourne Campus Vic

                                     North Sydney Campus NSW

EFTSL value of units: All 10 cp units in this course have an EFTSL value of 0.125. Units with a cp value of a multiple of 10 have corresponding EFTSL values.

1.          REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLETION OF THE PASS DEGREE

To qualify for the Pass degree, a student must complete:

(a)                 200 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:

(i)         160 cp from Core units;

(ii)         40 cp from Electives;

(b)        40 cp from Electives[1] taken from other courses. A maximum of 20 cp may be obtained from additional Information Systems Electives;

c)                   three Professional Experience units.

2.          REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLETION OF THE HONOURS DEGREE

To qualify for the Honours degree a student must, in addition to satisfying the requirements of the Pass degree, complete 80 cp from the Schedule of Honours Units, consisting of:

(a)                 30 cp from Coursework units;

(b)                50 cp from Honours Proposal and Thesis units.

SCHEDULE OF UNIT OFFERINGS

Prerequisite (Pre), co-requisite (Co) and incompatible (Inc) units are indicated in parentheses where applicable.

CORE UNITS

INFO101           10         Fundamentals of Information Systems

INFO106           10         Programming Techniques 1

INFO108           10         Communication Skills

INFO109           10         Programming Techniques 2 (Pre: INFO106 Programming Techniques 1)

INFO110           10         Operating and Hardware Systems

INFO111           10         Discrete Mathematics for Information Systems

INFO117           10         Reasoning and Critical Thinking for Information Systems Professionals

INFO202           10         Systems Analysis and Design (Pre: INFO101 Fundamentals of Information Systems)

INFO204           10         Database Design 1

INFO205           10         Data Communications 1 (Pre: INFO101 Fundamentals of Information Systems)

INFO206           10         Ethics and Informatics

INFO303           10         End User Support (Pre: INFO108 Communication Skills)

INFO304           10         Project Management (Pre: INFO202 Systems Analysis and Design)

INFO305           10         Information Technology Project (Pre: INFO319 Decision Support Systems or INFO304 Project Management)

INFO310           10         State of the Art in Information Systems (Pre: 120 cp with at least 60 cp from INFO units)

INFO319           10         Decision Support Systems (Pre: INFO202 Systems Analysis and Design)

ELECTIVES

INFO207           10         Data Communications 2 (Pre: INFO205 Data Communications 1)

INFO208           10         Technology Management

INFO214           10         Software Engineering

INFO215           10         Human Computer Interaction

INFO306           10         Programming Techniques 3 (Pre: INFO109 Programming Techniques 2)

INFO307           10         Virtual Organisations (Pre: INFO205 Data Communications 1)

INFO313           10         Network Computing (Pre: INFO207 Data Communications 2)

INFO314           10         Object Oriented Systems Development (Pre: INFO202 Systems Analysis and Design)

INFO315           10         Database Design 2 (Pre: INFO204 Database Design 1)

INFO316           10         Web Design and Web Development (Pre: INFO109 Programming Techniques 2 and INFO204 Database Design 1)

INFO317           10         Programming Techniques 4 (Pre: INFO306 Programming Techniques 3)

INFO318           10         Intelligent Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE UNITS

BIPX100           0          Professional Experience 1

BIPX200           0          Professional Experience 2

BIPX300           0          Professional Experience 3

SCHEDULE OF HONOURS UNITS

COURSEWORK UNITS

BUSO401          10         Research Methods

BUSO403          10         Research Analysis

INFO400            10         Advanced IT Coursework Unit

HONOURS PROPOSAL AND THESIS UNITS

(a)   INFO403     10         Honours Proposal (Full-time)

        INFO404    40         Honours Thesis (Full-time)

or

(b)   INFO405     10         Honours Proposal (Part-time)

       INFO406     10         Honours Thesis A (Part-time)

       INFO407     10         Honours Thesis B (Part-time)

       INFO408     20         Honours Thesis C (Part-time)