Bachelor of Information Management


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

Course structure

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
Second semester

Two electives (8 points) from

plus two electives (8 points) from

plus

Third year

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.

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

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:

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