1999 Information Technology Handbooks - Bachelor of Information Management

Bachelor of Information Management

General information
Course structure
- Second year
  - First semester
  - Second semester
- Third year

General information

This course is not open to new enrolments in 1999.
Clayton and Caulfield campuses
Course code: 1174
Director of studies: Mr David Foott

For course map details, please refer to map 7 in the 'Undergraduate course maps' section.
The course for the pass degree consists of subjects to a total value of 144 points, with a major in information management and at least a minor in one other discipline.
The Bachelor of Information Management consists of an information management major made up of a fifty-two-point sequence of subjects taken from the discipline of librarianship, archives and records and forty points of supporting computing studies from other schools of the Faculty of Information Technology.
Students may also complete a minor sequence of at least twenty-eight points in a non-computing discipline. The minor sequence is normally made up of twelve points of first-year subjects, followed by sixteen points of second-year subjects. Students may choose any area of study for their minor sequence.
In general, a maximum of sixty points of first-year subjects may be counted towards the degree. Students must complete at least thirty-six points of second-year subjects and at least thirty-six points of third-year subjects.

Second year

First semester

COT2180 Relational database (8 points)
LAR2003 Information processing (8 points)
Continuation of minor (8 points)

Second semester

Two electives (8 points) from

LAR2004 Information policies and structures (4 points)
LAR2005 Legal systems and recorded information (4 points)
LAR2006 Electronic information sources (4 points)

plus two electives (8 points) from

COT2004 Data communications and networks (4 points)
COT2170 Electronic document operations (4 points)
COT2200 Systems security and privacy (4 points);

plus

Continuation of minor (8 points).

Third year

LAR3001 Information science (8 points)
LAR3002 Information management project (8 points)
Subjects offered by the discipline of librarianship, archives and records (8 points)

Students complete the final twenty-four points in several ways. They can extend the minor sequence to a second major by the addition of, usually, twenty-four points of third-year subjects from that discipline. Alternatively, they can pursue further studies in information management by selecting subjects from the list of third-year subjects below.

LAR3004 Information policies and structures (4 points)
LAR3005 Legal systems and recorded information (4 points)
LAR3006 Electronic information sources (4 points)
LAR3007 Group and corporate recordkeeping (4 points)
LAR3008 The technology of print (4 points)
LAR3009 Ethics and risks in information management (4 points)
LAR3010 The role and management of information services (4 points)

Those seeking a professional qualification in librarianship will add to LAR3001 and LAR3002:

LAR3010 The role and management of information services (4 points)
LAR3650 Information resources: acquisition and access (6 points)
LAR3651 Information resources: organisation (6 points)
LAR3652 Reference principles and practice (6 points)
LAR3653 Library contexts and clients (6 points)
LAR3654 Professional practice (librarianship) (6 points)

Note that the prescribed third-year involves a fifty-point load.
Those seeking a professional qualification in teacher librarianship will follow the program for librarianship but with LAR3653 and LAR3654 being replaced by:

LAR3671 Libraries, curriculum and literature (6 points)
LAR3672 Professional practice (teacher librarianship) (6 points)

Those seeking a professional qualification in recordkeeping will add to LAR3001 and LAR3002: