Business information technology and systems
R Simpson
6 points * 3 hours per week * First/Second/Summer semester * Caulfield/Peninsula
Computer hardware and software, data storage retrieval and processing facilities, disk directories, PC/DOS and UNIX operating systems, spreadsheet concepts and design, database functions in Lotus, word processing, windows. Structured and non-structured databases, retrieval systems. Management information systems, system development life cycle, communications, distributed processing. Banking, finance, marketing and accounting applications. Professionalism and social implications of information technology. Developments in technology.
Assessment
Examination (2 hours): 50% * Practical work and laboratory work: 50%
Prescribed texts
Hutchinson S E and Sawyer S C Computers: The user perspective 3rd edn, Irwin, 1990