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Bachelor of Business Information Systems

BBIS

240 cp

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

Course available at:
Brisbane, Queensland* (*not offered in 2011)
Melbourne, Victoria* (*not offered in 2011)
Sydney (North Sydney), 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. Admission Requirements1

To be eligible for admission to the course, an applicant must have completed the following prerequisites at year 12, or equivalent:

New South Wales
Assumed knowledge: Mathematics (any).

Queensland
Prerequisites: English (4, SA).

Victoria
Prerequisites: Units 3 and 4 – a study score of at least 30 in English (ESL) or 25 in any other English, and a study score of at least 25 in Mathematics (any).

2. Definitions

“Major”: 80 cp from prescribed units.

3. Requirements for Completion of the Pass Degree

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

  1. 240 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:
    1. 110 cp from Core Units;
    2. 80 cp from one Major;
    3. 50 cp from Electives;
  2. BIPX100 Professional Experience A.

Schedule of Unit Offerings

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

Core Units

Unit CodeCredit PointsUnit Name
ACCT100 10 Principles of Accounting
BUSN100 10 Reasoning and Communications
BUSN202 10 Professional Ethics
HRMG100 10 Management and People
ISYS101 10 Fundamentals of Business IS
ISYS203 10 Application Development 1 (Pre: ISYS101 Fundamentals of Business IS)
ISYS300 10 Application Development 2 (Pre: ISYS203 Application Development 1)
MGMT308 10 Project Management (Pre: 80 cp)
MKTG100 10 Principles of Marketing
STAT102 10 Business Data Analysis

and
Unit CodeCredit PointsUnit Name
ISYS305 10 Information Systems Project (Pre: 120 cp including MGMT308 Project Management)

or
Unit CodeCredit PointsUnit Name
BIPX301 10 Professional Experience B (Pre: 120 cp)

Majors

Business Intelligence

Unit CodeCredit PointsUnit Name
ISYS110 10 Applied Business IS
ISYS201 10 IT Infrastructure
ISYS202 10 Business Analysis 1 (Pre: ISYS101 Fundamentals of Business IS)
ISYS209 10 Business Analysis 2 (Pre: ISYS202 Business Analysis 1)
ISYS206 10 Business Intelligence (Pre: ISYS202 Business Analysis 1)
ISYS304 10 Data Warehousing and Mining (Pre: ISYS209 Business Analysis 2)
ISYS308 10 Business Modelling and Analytics (Pre: ISYS206 Business Intelligence; STAT102 Business Data Analysis)
ISYS309 10 Current Issues in BI (Co: ISYS304 Data Warehousing and Mining; ISYS308 Business Modelling and Analytics)

E-Business

Unit CodeCredit PointsUnit Name
ISYS110 10 Applied Business IS
ISYS201 10 IT Infrastructure
ISYS202 10 Business Analysis 1 (Pre: ISYS101 Fundamentals of Business IS)
ISYS209 10 Business Analysis 2 (Pre: ISYS202 Business Analysis 1)
ISYS205 10 E-Business Design (Pre: ISYS202 Business Analysis 1)
ISYS210 10 Systems Management (Pre: ISYS101 Fundamentals of Business IS)
ISYS301 10 E-Business Applications (Pre: ISYS205 E-Business Design)
ISYS302 10 Current Issues in E-Business (Pre: 40 cp from E-Business Major)

Electives

Unit CodeCredit PointsUnit Name
BIPX301 10 Professional Experience B (Pre: 120 cp)
BIPX302 10 Professional Experience C (Co: BIPX301 Professional Experience B)

Other units listed in this Schedule of Unit Offerings or from any other discipline (subject to campus availability, unit limitations and provided that prerequisite and co-requisite requirements are met).

Professional Experience

Unit CodeCredit PointsUnit Name
BIPX100 0 Professional Experience A


1A student must also comply with the Admission Rules.