Undergraduate handbook 2005 - Information Technology

Undergraduate courses

The Faculty of Information Technology offers a wide range of undergraduate degree courses covering different aspects of computing. The courses are designed to equip students to enter the computing profession in a variety of areas including the application of computer technology to information systems in commerce and industry, and the design, construction and programming of computer equipment.
Students who satisfy the academic requirements and who wish to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of their area of major study may choose to take a fourth or honours year. The normal minimum qualification for admission to honours is a credit grade or better in the area of major study.

Multimedia programs

Monash provides courses in multimedia - the Bachelor of Multimedia Systems (Faculty of Information Technology), which covers a wide range of areas from a technical focus (including programming and games programming) to an applications or business focus. The Bachelor of Multimedia and Digital Arts (Faculty of Art and Design) focuses more on design aspects of multimedia.

Pass degrees

The degree courses offered by the faculty reflect the diversity of studies in information technology, business systems, computing and computer science, information management and systems, multimedia, network computing and software engineering that are available at the Monash campuses.

Policy on `near pass' (NP) grades

1. NP grades may be awarded to a unit whose mark falls within the 45-49 range.
2. No results are to be published until ratification by the Board of Examiners.
3.* NPs cannot be awarded for core units, unless that core unit is a final unit. 'Final' is interpreted to mean that it was the most recent opportunity to complete the unit. If the unit has been offered subsequently to the student's attempt, and the student did not enrol for or attempt that subsequent offering, then no NP can be awarded under this clause.
4. For undergraduate awards, no more than 12 points in any one year level, or 24 points across an entire degree, may be counted.
5. For graduate awards, no more than 12 points across an entire degree may be counted.
6. If more than 24 points of NP grades have been awarded, students will have the option of choosing which NPs they wish to keep and which units to repeat.
7. The Faculty of Information Technology NP policy will apply to FIT units undertaken by students enrolled in double degrees jointly owned by the Faculty of IT.
8. An NP grade is not a pass grade. Students granted an NP grade for a unit may not use that unit as a prerequisite requirement.
9. In degrees where core units may vary according to student choice (such as the BCompSc (2380)), NPs can be awarded to variable components, so that a student may avoid the above constraints by completing other elements of the core requirements at pass level or better.
Master of Network Computing students are ineligible to receive any NP grade for any level 9 unit.

* Note that in the case of rule 3, rule 4 or 5 must still be observed.

Table 1: Undergraduate degrees

Honours degrees

Study for honours degrees is available in each of the schools of the faculty. Students thinking of undertaking honours study should contact the relevant school coordinator to discuss their potential honours study. Students should be aware that the minimum academic requirement for admission to the faculty's honours program is a pass at credit standard or above in all computing units at the third stage of the relevant degree. Students who undertake a major in computer science in either the Bachelor of Science or the Bachelor of Economics are eligible to apply for entry to the honours program in computer science. Applications for entry to the honours program must be made to the faculty admissions office by 30 November each year. Application forms can be obtained from any of the faculty's offices.

Table 2: Honours degrees of the faculty

Combined and double degrees

There are a number of double degrees offered in conjunction with the faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Law and Science.

Table 3: Combined and double degrees

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