UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA

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Transition into New courses Information Session
on our New Undergraduate IT and SE degrees Dr
Bala M. Balachandran Course Convenor
UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA
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UC is changing from 4 credit point subjects to 3
credit point units !

• We have redesigned and refreshed our courses
• We have added some interesting new subjects.
• We have expanded the choice for professional
  options.

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Bachelor of Information Technology

• Year 1
• Information Systems in Organisations Database
  Design
• Introduction to Information Technology Software
  Technology 1
• Discrete Maths Professional Communication
  Skills
• Open Elective 1 Open Elective 2
• Year 2
• Designing Human-Computer Interaction Systems
  Analysis and Modelling
• Software Technology 2 Web Design and
  Programming
• System Software Maths for Information Sciences
• Open Elective 3 Open Elective 4
• Year 3
• Document and Workflow Management IT Project
• Object-Oriented Software Design IT Project
• Software Engineering Practice Distributed
  Systems Technology
• ISE Elective 1 ISE Elective 2

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Bachelor of Software Engineering

• Year 1
• Information Systems in Organisations Database
  Design
• Introduction to Information Technology Software
  Technology 1
• Discrete Maths Maths for Information Sciences
• Intro to Software Engineering Open Elective 1
• Year 2
• Designing Human-Computer Interaction Systems
  Analysis and Modelling
• Software Technology 2 Web Design and
  Programming
• System Software Security and Support in IT
• Open Elective 2 Open Elective 3
• Year 3
• Object-Oriented Software Design IT Project
• Software Engineering Practice IT Project
• Software Engineering Elective 1 Distributed
  Systems Technology
• Open Elective 4 Software Engineering Elective 2

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Interesting new subjects

• Security and Support in IT Sociology of
  Technology and Work
• Web Design and Programming
• System Testing
• Information Security
• Document and Workflow Management
• Mobile and Wireless Computing Soft Computing
• Software Engineering Practice

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Interesting Double Degrees

• BIT / BCom
• BIT / BComm Multi Media
• BIT / BA
• BSE / BBI
• BBI / Law
• These are 4 year IT degrees and this is popular
  amongst employers.

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Transfer Between Degrees

• As at present, our UG students can transfer
  between courses (eg the current BIT / BSE BIT /
  BBI) and they can still do so but it does not
  make much sense to transfer to one of our new
  degrees at this stage (wait till 2006 when all
  our new subjects are on offer all 3cp).

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Transition rules

• 2005
• first year subjects offered our new (3cp)
  subjects
• second and third year subjects offered our
  current 4cp subjects.
• 2006 all subjects are 3cp subjects as in our
  new course designs.
• UC will write to all UG students in 2005 advising
  them on their study requirements to complete.

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New ISE electives in 2005

• Our students can choose our new subjects as
  professional options
• Security and Support in IT
• Sociology of Technology and Work
• Web Design and Programming
• System Testing
• Information Security
• Document and Workflow Management
• Mobile and Wireless Computing
• Soft Computing

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Software Projects

• CPA / STPA will run for the last time in Semester
  2, 2005
• CPB / STPB will run for the last time in Semester
  1, 2006
• ITP 6cp will run from Semester 1, 2005.

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Majors and Minors and electives

• Minors four units 12 cp 14 cp
• Majors six units 18 cp - 22 cp
• Professional Options 2 units 6cp 8 cp

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Total Credit Points forCourse Completion

• 3-year courses - minimum 70
• 4-year courses minimum 94

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Further Studies

• HONOURS
• Enrol in Honours in IT or SE which you can
  complete in 2 semesters.
• MASTERS
• Enrol in the MIT which you can complete in 3
  semesters.

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Honours Programs1 year - Study

• BIT(Hons)
• BSE(Hons)
• Subjects
• Three Advanced IT Subjects
• One Research Subject
• One IT project

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My Contact Details

• Office 11C13
• Telephone [phone]
• Email Bala.Balachandran_at_canberra.edu.au

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Questions?
Thank You