1999 Information Technology Handbooks - Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing

Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing

General information
Introduction
Entry requirements
Course structure and sequence

General information

Gippsland campus
Course code: SBCC
Director of studies: To be advised

This double degree course caters for the demand within the information technology industry for people with both professional computing and professional communication skills. There is also a demand for graduates with computing expertise in a range of areas that require professional communication skills, including journalism and media-related occupations, including multimedia development. The course is directed towards those intending students who have relevant career goals and who combine ability with high motivation. Potential employers include mainstream and alternative media organisations and a wide variety of public and private organisations.
Students in the double degree course complete three subject sequences - in system development or business systems, communication, and in arts. The program is of four years duration if taken full-time. For more information about the course structure and application procedures, please refer to the current Arts undergraduate handbook.

Entry requirements

Applicants should have met the appropriate entry criteria for both the Bachelor of Arts (Communication) and the Bachelor of Computing. All applicants should be willing to undertake a normal workload of forty-eight points a year full-time or twenty-four points to thirty-two a year part-time or by distance education. Students who have good academic results from the first year of the Bachelor of Arts (Communication) or the Bachelor of Computing may be admitted to the second year of the double degree with full credit for appropriate first-year studies.

Course structure and sequence

The double degree offers students a structured sequence of study which combines studies in most aspects of computing and communication studies.
A candidate for the double degree must fulfil the following requirements to receive the awards of Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing:
(a) complete a total of 192 but not more than 216 points;
(b) complete the prescribed sequence in communication studies (fifty-eight points), an arts minor of four subjects (twenty-eight points) and an arts first-level sequence of two subjects (twelve points);
(c) complete the prescribed sixteen-subject computing sequence in either systems development or business systems (ninety-six points).

Communications compulsory sequence

GSC1901 Introduction to communication studies
GSC1402 Media studies
GSC1602 Introduction to methods of social research
GSC2410 Public relations and mass communication technologies
GSC2411 Media, culture, power: theories of mass communications
GSC3402 Policies, audiences, futures
GSC3407 Authorship and writing
GSC3409 Narratives and representations

Arts minor sequences

The arts minor can be chosen from history-politics, Indonesian, sociology, writing, gender studies, journalism or community studies (details are provided under the discipline headings).

Systems development sequence

GCO1811 Computer programming 1
GCO1812 Computer programming 2
GCO1813 Information systems 1
GCO1815 Computer technology
MAT1077 Discrete mathematics
GCO2811 Commercial programming
GCO2812 Computer organisation
GCO2813 Information systems 2
GCO2814 Operating systems
GCO2815 Database management systems
GCO2816 Object-oriented analysis and design
GCO3811 Software engineering
GCO3819 Computing project (Students may opt to take the twelve-point subject GCO3800 in place of GCO3819)

plus three elective subjects to be chosen from:

GCO3812 Data communications and networks 1
GCO3813 Systems programming
GCO3814 Human-computer interaction
GCO3815 Artificial intelligence
GCO3816 Information systems management
GCO3817 Computer graphics
GCO3821 Object-oriented programming
GCO3822 Multimedia concepts and applications
GCO3823 Client-server and mobile database applications
GCO3824 Data communications and networks 2

Business systems sequence

BEG1601 Introduction to electronic commerce or ¥ AFG1003 Business information
GCO1811 Computer programming 1
GCO1813 Information systems 1
GCO1815 Computer technology
GAS1751 Quantitative methods 1
GCO2802 Computer models for business decisions
GCO2811 Commercial programming
GCO2812 Computer organisation
GCO2813 Information systems 2
GCO2815 Database management systems
GCO2816 Object-oriented analysis and design
GCO3806 General operations management
GCO3816 Information systems management
GCO3819 Computing project (Students may opt to take the twelve-point subject GCO3900 in place of GCO3819)

plus two elective subjects from:

GCO3601 Infrastructure and electronic commerce
GCO3803 Inventory management systems
GCO3812 Data communications and networks 1
GCO3811 Software engineering
GCO3822 Multimedia concepts and applications
GCO3823 Client-server and mobile database applications
GCO3824 Data communications and networks 2