1999 Information Technology Handbooks - Master of Information Systems

Master of Information Systems

General
Introduction
Fees for Australian residents
Course structure
- Graduate subjects

General

This course will not be taking new enrolments in 1999.
Please refer to the course entry for the Master of Information Management and Systems.
Caulfield campus
Course code: 1167
Course coordinator: Ms Anne Rouse

Introduction

The Master of Information Systems is offered by the School of Information Management and Systems. It provides specialised and directed advanced study in specific areas in the information systems domain of current interest and importance to computing professionals.
Subjects will primarily take the form of seminars. They normally focus on the lecturer's current areas of research. This results in the students gaining considerable insight into active research domains, in sufficient depth to enable them to apply the results of current research in their place of employment.
Graduates of the Master of Information Systems program are expected to play leading roles in the profession in Australia and other countries.
Masters students have access to the school library and the school's honours and graduate studies centre.

Fees for Australian residents

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

Course structure

The Master of Information Systems comprises forty-eight credit points of coursework taken over one year full-time or two years part-time. The course contains no research component. There is one compulsory subject IMS5022 (Contemporary issues in information management and systems) in which leading information systems practitioners and academics discuss major issues of current concern to IS practitioners. Students can choose at least thirty-six points from the graduate subjects listed below and a maximum of twelve points of graduate subjects offered by other schools in the faculty.

Graduate subjects

IMS5002 Information systems security (6 points)
IMS5004 Executive information systems (6 points)
IMS5005 Decision support systems (6 points)
IMS5006 Systems development methodologies (6 points)
IMS5007 Electronic commerce (6 points)
IMS5008 Multimedia theory (6 points)
IMS5022 Contemporary issues in information management and systems (6 points)
IMS5024 Information systems modelling (6 points)
IMS5025 Decision support systems development (6 points)
IMS5026 Data warehousing (6 points)
IMS5027 Knowledge management (6 points)
IMS5029 Managing legacy systems (6 points)
IMS5030 Multimedia systems (6 points)
IMS5042 Information systems strategic planning (6 points)
IMS5043 Information technology management (6 points)
IMS9001 Systems analysis and design (6 points)
IMS9003 Business information management (6 points)