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Postgraduate handbook 2004
Information Technology
Master of Applied Information Technology
Course code: 3309 + Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland and Peninsula + Course leaders: Dr Campbell Wilson (Caulfield and Clayton), Dr Lee Seldon (Peninsula) and Dr Kai Ming Ting (Gippsland, off-campus) + Part-time for a minimum of four years or full-time for a minimum of two years (four semesters)
This course consists of 16 units, each of six credit points to a total of 96 credit points. The course consists of a core of four units from group 1 in stage 1, compulsory project/case study and a choice of electives from a large collection of units from group 2 in stage 2, and a minimum of four units from group 3 in stage 3.
Students may choose to exit the program early and may then take exit awards as follows:
- On completion of the four units in group 1 - a Graduate Certificate in Computing or a Graduate Certificate in Network Computing.
- On completion of the four units in group 1, the case study/project and three other units from group 2 - a Graduate Diploma in Computing or a Graduate Diploma in Network Computing.
In general terms, the course consists of the core of the Graduate Diploma in Computing in the first stage. Once those units are completed, the student moves to stage two of the course. In stage two, the student must attempt the applied project/case study and may study, subject to prerequisites, units from the transition group of units as listed in group 2. Once the student has completed eight units in total, the student moves to stage three of the course. At stage three, they must complete at least four masters-level units (group 3) from the list in stage three.
It is recommended that students do not take more than three units of the year-three level from group 2.
Students may, with course leader's approval, study up to two units from any of the graduate units in the university.
Group 1
| On-campus study |
Off-campus |
- CSE9000 Foundations of programming
(or equivalent)
- CSE9001 Computer technology
(or equivalent)
- CSE9002 Database technology
(or equivalent)
- IMS9001 System analysis and design
(or equivalent)
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Group 2
| On-campus study |
Off-campus |
- CSE3000 Database management and implementation
- CSE3001 UNIX system call programming
- CSE3020 Network technology
- CSE3151 Communication network performance
- CSE3153 Network administration
- CSE3211 Handheld applications and operating systems
- CSE3231 Client server database
- CSE3420 Developing graphical www application in Java
- CSE3821 Internet architecture and protocol
- CSE4500 Information retrieval systems
- CSE9020 Case study (or equivalent)
- CSE4310 Information resource management and data administration
- CSE9801 Data communications
- CPE3003 Web development II
- CPE3004 Internetworking
- CPE3010 Mobile middleware
- CPE3012 Network administration
- CPE3016 Web development III
- CPE4001 Distributed programming in Java
- CPE4002 Data communications and internetworking
- CPE4004 Analysis and design of distributed information systems
- CSE4530 Object-oriented application programming in C++
- CSE4810 C++ programming for embedded systems
- CSE4881 Internet architecture and protocols
- CSE4884 Network design and management
- CSE4890 Proprietary network architectures
- CSE4892 Information security
- IMS3001 Business intelligence systems
- IMS3002 Information systems strategy and management
- IMS3230 Information systems development practices
- IMS3280 Electronic commerce
- CSE3400 Application programming in C++
- CSE3204 Fourth-generation systems
- CSE3205 Commercial programming in COBOL
- CSE4400 Systems programming†I
- CSE4151 UNIX software design and development
Elective units may also be selected from the off-campus list, for study by off- campus learning. |
Elective units may also be selected from the on-campus list, for study on-campus. |
Group 3
| On-campus study |
Off-campus |
- CSE5200 Distributed database systems
- CSE5210 Advances in information security
- CSE5220 Advanced topics in database systems
- CSE5230 Data mining
- CSE5250 Multimedia retrieval technologies
- CSE5701 Mobile and distributed computing systems
- CPE5002 Network security
- CPE5004 Advanced multimedia programming techniques
- CPE5006 Virtual private networks
- CPE5007 Object-oriented middleware
- CPE5008 Internetworking and digital commerce
- CPE5009 Internet devices and services
- CPE5010 Mobile software agents
- CPE5011 Internet applications development
- CPE5013 Network administration
- CPE5014 Analysis and design of portal enterprise applications
- CPE5020 Global software
- CPE5021 Advanced network security
- CSE5802 Distributed systems
- CSE5803 Advanced internet protocols and application
- CSE5804 Protocol engineering
- CSE5805 Advanced network design
- CSE5806 Telecommunications management
- FIT5900 Introduction to multimedia computing
- FIT5910 Multimedia programming in Java
- FIT5930 GUI design and programming
- FIT5940 Multimedia authoring
- CSE4490 Object-oriented programming
- CSE5000 Distributed object technology
- CSE5030 Visual programming
- CSE5060 Multimedia applications on the web
- CSE5510 Software systems engineering
- CSE5610 Intelligent software systems
Elective units may also be selected from the off-campus list, for study by off- campus learning. |
- GCO5804 Forecasting methods
- GCO5805 Multimedia computing and communication
- GCO5806 Internet commerce
- GCO5807 Project management GCO5816 Information technology managment
- GCO5828 Applications of data mining
- GCO5900 Introduction to multimedia computing
- GCO5910 Multimedia programming in Java
- GCO5930 GUI design and programming
Elective units may also be selected from the on- campus list, for study on-campus. |
This course will prepare students for work in the information technology industry at the highest levels. It will prepare the students with the advanced knowledge, understanding and skills to enable them to deal effectively with advanced issues involving the application of information technology.
The objective of the early (core) parts of the course is to educate students, with a previous tertiary qualification in another discipline area, to the level of a computing professional.
On successful completion of the core of the course, students will have gained fundamental knowledge in the following areas:
- system analysis and design
- programming
- computer technology
- database technology
- data communications and networking technology
and will have demonstrated their ability to work in a group to analyse the requirements for a computer system, design a system to meet those requirements, create the system and its documentation, train the system users and implement the system.
In the advanced, later part of the course, successful students will have:
- specialised in a number of advanced areas of IT
- developed a professional, responsible, self-reflective attitude to the practice of IT
- demonstrated an ability to master the application of state of the art and developing technologies.
The normal entry requirement is a degree that is the equivalent of an Australian bachelors degree, not necessarily in an IT-related discipline. A Year 11 (or equivalent) mathematics background is desirable. Special pathways into postgraduate coursework studies exist for students who have appropriate work experience. Such students may apply for entry into the MAIT after completing either the Monash Executive Certificate in Information Technology or the Monash Professional Certificate in Information Technology.
Units in the core (group 1) of the course may have been studied in prior undergraduate or graduate study. In that case, the student can apply for exemptions. The exemptions may be denied if the previous study is assessed as inadequate for an exemption. Exemptions may be granted with or without credit subject to these credit rules.
Subject to assessment, the maximum credit normally available is:
- for an undergraduate degree in an IT discipline - four units
- for a Graduate Diploma in Computing or equivalent - four units
- for a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology or equivalent - eight units.
The core of the MAppInfoTech consists of sequences of units including programming languages, software engineering, systems analysis and design, programming, database management, data communications, networks and an applied IT project called a case study. This covers all phases of the design, building and implementation of an IT application.
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