Course code: 3309 + Off-campus (Gippsland) + Australian residents - 2005 annual fees: TBC + International students - 2005 annual fees: $20,400, or $2550 per six-point unit + Course director: Dr Kai Ming Ting
The following course structure is under review. Please visit
the website at http://www.gscit.monash.edu.au for current information
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, students will have gained fundamental
knowledge in the areas of system analysis and design, programming, computer
technology, database technology, and 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 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, and demonstrated an ability to
master the application of state of the art and developing technologies.
A degree that is equivalent to 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 the credit rules indicated below.
Subject to assessment, the maximum credit normally available is:
The course consists of 16 units, each of six credit points to a total of 96 credit points. It consists of a core of four units from group 1 in the first stage, compulsory project/case study and a choice of electives from a large collection of units from group 2 in the second stage, and a minimum of four units from group 3 in the third stage. Students may, with course director's approval, study up to two units from any of the graduate units in the university.
Students may choose to exit the program early and take exit awards as follows:
The Master of Applied Information Technology degree meets the professional-level membership requirements of the Australian Computer Society.
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