Undergraduate handbook 2005 - Information Technology

Bachelor of Computing (Honours)

Course code: 0194 + Course abbreviation: BComp(Hons) + Total credit points required: 48 points + 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

The purpose of the honours year is to allow students to study an area of software development or computer technology in depth. This is achieved via applied research leading to a minor thesis. It prepares students for both a research and a professional career. Students are normally expected to conduct their research within one of the research groups in the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Assessment is based on written and oral presentations through out the year.
The School of Computer Science and Software Engineering sometimes offers scholarships sponsored by industry, Monash or government. Students may be employed on an established research project as a part-time research assistant or by the school as a sessional tutor.

Course structure

Honours students are able to undertake either a 50% research project or a 25% applied research project. For a research project worth 50%, students must complete 24 points of coursework at fourth-year level and a minor thesis (24 points). For an applied research project worth 25%, students must complete 36 points of coursework and an applied minor thesis of 12 points. Students select their program within the prerequisite structure as approved by the honours coordinator.

Course requirements

Honours students complete a 24-point research project and 24 points of coursework units. Students select their program within the prerequisite structure as approved by the honours coordinator. Honours students are expected to complete 12 points of coursework units at fourth and fifth-year levels from the broad research areas of the school.

• CSE4020 Specific non-sequential and real-time systems
• CSE4030 Software lifecycle process
• CSE4040 Language design and semantics
• CSE4151 UNIX software design and development
• CSE4400 Systems programming 1
• CSE4490 Object-oriented programming
• CSE4500 Information retrieval systems
• CSE5000 Distributed object technology
• CSE5020 Distributed computation and simulation
• CSE5030 Visual programming
• CSE5040 Case study in engineering software for reuse
• CSE5050 Software metrics and reliability
• CSE5200 Distributed database systems
• CSE5210 Advances in information security
• CSE5220 Advanced topics in database systems
• CSE5230 Data mining
• CSE5501 Mobile and distributed computing systems
• CSE5510 Software systems engineering
• CSE5610 Intelligent software systems

Not all units are offered in any one year. Students may also study up to 12 points of units at fourth or fifth-year level from other discipline areas in other schools within the Faculty of Information Technology, subject to the approval of the honours coordinator.

Contact details

Inquiries: email enquiries@csse.monash.edu.au or visit http://www.csse.monash.edu.au.

Course leader

Mr Peter Granville

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