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Bachelor of Information Technology/Bachelor of Science (Forestry)

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Degree Structure

Information Technology/Science (Forestry) -- a typical full-time program pattern with an IT in New Media Arts major in the Bachelor of Information Technology

 First semesterSecond semester
Year 1
(48 units)

COMP1100 Introduction to Programming & Algorithms or Schedule 3 Elective
COMP1710 Tools for New Media and the Web
ENVS1001 Resources, Environment and Society
ENVS1004 Australia's Environment

BIOL1003 (offered in S1) or BIOL1009 Diversity of Life
COMP2720 Automating Tools for New Media
MATH1005 Mathematical Modelling 2
ENVS1003 Environment & Society Research Methods

Year 2
(48 units)
COMP2410 Networked Information Systems
COMP2750 Java Programming for New Media[1]
ENVS2016 Landsforms & Soils
ENVS2019 Vegetation Ecology
COMP2400 Relational Databases
IT elective(6u)
ENVS2009 Ecological Measurement & Modelling
ENVS2010 Australia's Forests
Year 3
(48 units)
3000/4000-series IT Elective (6 units)[2]
IT elective (6 units)
ENVS2007 Economics for the Environment
ENVS3014 Ecological Restoration & Management
COMP3900 Human Computer Interface Design and Evaluation
IT Elective (6 units)
ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote Sensing & GIS
ENVS4008 Forest Products
Year 4
(48 units)
3000/4000-series IT Elective (6 units)[2]
3000/4000-series IT Elective (6 units)[2]
ENVS3008 Fire in the Environment
ENVS3028 Environmental Policy & Planning
COMP3120 Managing Software Development
COMP4610 Computer Graphics
IT or Science later year course (6 units)
ENVS4009 Forest Operations
Year 5 (48 units)IT or Science later year course (12 units)
ENVS4006 Forest Policies & Practices
ENVS4035 Forestry Honours 1 (6 units) or BIOL2121 Plant Structure and Function* (6 units)
ENVS4002 Sustainable Forest Management
ENVS4003 Sustainable Forest Planning
ENVS4045 Forestry Honours 2 (12 units) or ENVS2015 Introduction to Remote Sensing & GIS*
and Science later year course (6 units)

[1] Can be replaced with COMP1110 Introduction to Software Systems.
[2] Some 3000/4000-series IT electives may have specific prerequisites that are not covered by the courses specified in the table.
*These courses would normally be taken in year 2 or 3.

Bachelor of Information Technology
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

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