Course code: 3315 + Gippsland + Offcampus learning + Course leader: Dr Kai Ming Ting + Australian residents - 2004 annual fees: TBC + International students - 2004 annual fees: $2400 per six-point unit
This course has been developed in response to industry and university needs to facilitate access to information technology professional graduate diploma programs and to facilitate access by people with no or little previous university study but with appropriate relevant industry experience.
On successful completion, the student will
Admission is only available to people with appropriate, relevant information technology work experience. Specifically, applicants must have four or more years of work experience involved in information technology, information systems or information management activities at or above either a project, management or technical level.
This certificate is intended to lead to a professional, coursework graduate diploma program. Information industry research and development tasks such as the design and implementation of information systems, information technologies or information management procedures will be appropriately recognised in the articulation process. In order to gain entry to the university's graduate programs from this professional certificate, students must attain a credit average in their studies in this certificate. Students who wish to use the professional certificate to articulate into professional graduate awards are advised to seek advice from the appropriate course leaders as to selection of units within the professional certificate.
Prior work experience is recognised for the purposes of gaining entry to the program only. Except for appropriate units studied `not for degree', prior university or even postgraduate study will not gain credit. The faculty offers graduate, postgraduate and masters-level awards that will better suit graduates in that they allow students to study the same range of units and can grant credit for studies partially completed.
The course comprises four units. Typically, students undertake two units per semester for part-time mode, or four units per semester for full-time mode.
Students intending to further their studies in the Graduate Diploma in Computing by off-campus learning are required to complete the following four units of Professional Certificate in Information Technology:
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