Graduate Diploma in Decision Support Systems

• General
• Introduction
• Fees for Australian residents
• Duration of the course
• Course structure
  • Core subjects
  • Elective subjects

General

Caulfield and Clayton campuses
Course code: 1597
Course Coordinator: Dr Peta Darke

Introduction

The Graduate Diploma in Decision Support Systems is offered by the School of Information Management and Systems. The aim of the Graduate Diploma in Decision Support Systems is to provide graduate students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to the appropriate application of information technology to the support of management decision making. Topics covered in the course include identification of decision problems, analysis and description of the nature of decision problems, alternative decision support systems designs, techniques and methods relevant to decision support, normative decision modelling, financial modelling, intelligent decision support. Graduates are expected to work as management support specialists and consultants.
Note that half of the Graduate Diploma in Decision Support Systems may be undertaken as the Graduate Certificate in Decision Support Systems.

Fees for Australian residents

The course fee is $8000 or $1000 per subject.

Duration of the course

Typically one year full-time or two years part-time study.

Course structure

Students will be required to complete forty-eight credit points of study comprising twenty-four points of core subjects and eighteen points of electives.

Core subjects

• BUS4030 Financial modelling IV (6 points)
• BUS4570 Computer models for business decisions (6 points)
• IMS5004 Executive information systems (6 points)*
• IMS5005 Decision support systems (6 points)*

Elective subjects

• BUS4502 Business process design IV (6 points)
• BUS4550 Business statistics IV (6 points)
• IMS5025 Decision support systems (6 points)*
• IMS5026 Data warehousing (6 points)*
• IMS5027 Knowledge management (6 points)*

* SUBJECT TO APPROVAL.

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