Program Requirements

The program requires the completion of 144 units of courses offered, or approved by, the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, including:
(a) completion of 90 units of IT courses, of which at least 36 units must be 3000/4000-series courses, and 6 units of maths courses. This must include:

• all the courses from the core and a major from Schedule 1 or
• all the courses from the core and a major from Schedule 2

(b) completion of a further 6 units of IT courses or a 6 unit elective chosen from Schedule 3.
(c) completion of a further 42 units of courses from anywhere in the university, including courses offered by the Department of Computer Science, of which no more than 18 units may be 1000-series courses;
(d) no more than 48 units of 1000 series courses.

IT courses are:
COMP courses
INFS courses that are specified in the major
NEWM courses that are specified in the major
ENGN1211 Discovering Engineering
ENGN2225 System Design
ENGN3213 Digital Systems and Microprocessors
ENGN3215 Communications Technologies
ENGN3226 Digital Communications
ENGN4528 Computer Vision
ENGN4612 Digital Signal Processing and Control
MATH3511 Scientific Computing

Schedule 1

Core

• COMP1710 Tools for New Media & the Web or ENGN1211 Discovering Engineering
• COMP2400 Relational Databases
• COMP2410 Networked Information Systems 
• COMP3120 Managing Software Development
• MATH1005 Mathematical Modelling 2 or MATH1014 Mathematics and Applications 2 or MATH1116 Mathematics and Applications 2 Honours

 

Majors
IT in New Media Arts

As specified in the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts (New Media Arts) program in the Faculty of Arts entry.

Information Systems

• COMP1110 Introduction to Software Systems or COMP2750 Java Programming for New Media
• COMP2600 Formal Methods in Software Engineering
• COMP3110 Software Analysis and Design
• COMP3410 IT in eCommerce or COMP3420 Database Systems
• INFS2024 Information Systems Analysis
• INFS3024 Information Systems Management
• COMP3760 Project Work in Information Systems or INFS3059 Project Management and Information Systems 
  

Schedule 2

Core

• (COMP1100 Introduction to Programming and Algorithms AND
  COMP1110 Introduction to Software Systems) OR
  (COMP1120 From Programming to Software Engineering AND
  6 units of unspecified 2000/3000-series COMP courses) 
• COMP1710 Tools for New Media & the Web or ENGN1211 Discovering Engineering
• COMP2100 Software Construction
• COMP2400 Relational Databases
• COMP2600 Formal Methods in Software Engineering
• COMP3120 Managing Software Development
• MATH1005 Mathematical Modelling 2 or MATH1014 Mathematics and Applications 2 or MATH1116 Mathematics and Applications 2 Honours

Majors
Computer Systems

• COMP2300 Introduction to Computer Systems
• COMP2310 Concurrent and Distributed Systems
• COMP3310 Computer Networks

And at least four courses from the following: 

• COMP3300 Operating Systems Implementation
• COMP3320 High Performance Sicientific Computation
• COMP3750 Project Work in Computer Systems
  
• COMP4300 Parallel Systems
• COMP4330 Real-Time and Embedded Systems
• ENGN3213 Digital Systems and Microprocessors
• ENGN3215 Communications Technologies

 

Software Development

• COMP2110 Software Design
• COMP2300 Introduction to Computer Systems 
• COMP2310 Concurrent and Distributed Systems
• COMP2410 Networked Information Systems or COMP3310 Computer Networks
• COMP3100 Software Engineering Group Project
• COMP3110 Software Analysis and Design 

Schedule 3

• BUSN1001 Business Reporting and Analysis
• BUSN1101 Introduction to Commercial Law
• ECON1101 Microeconomics 1
• EMET1001 Foundations of Economic and Financial Models
• FINM1001 Money, Markets and Finance
• MATH1003 Mathematical Modelling 1
• MATH1013 Mathematics and Applications 1
• MATH1115 Mathematics and Applications 1 Honours
• MATH2301 Games, Graphs and Machines
• PSYC1003 Introduction to Psychology 1
• SCOM1001 Science and Public Awareness
• STAT1003 Statistical Techniques
• STAT1008 Quantitative Research Methods

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