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Master of Information Technology

Course code: 2402 + Course abbreviation: MIT + Total credit points required: 72 + 1.5 years full-time, 3 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Off-campus (Gippsland)

Course description

This course provides a broad program in information technology, enabling students to select specific areas for in-depth study or to construct a program from a range of suitably advanced units.

The program aims to provide the conceptual and theoretical framework in which students can appreciate and integrate new software and hardware technologies, and, within an information technology context, use them to develop solutions to complex problems in our society; and deepen students' theoretical knowledge in specific areas so that they will have the intellectual and conceptual foundation to play leading roles in the development of the information technology industry.

Course objectives

The MIT Enterprise Architecture professional track aims to educate IT professionals who are capable of: designing cost effective Enterprise IT architectures and systems; demonstrating advanced understanding of business issues (including costs), strategic and operational objectives, potential difficulties, and recognising and capitalising on envisioned strengths; demonstrating an advanced understanding of the relevant technologies, including enterprise application development, distributed databases, content management, and mobile systems; communicating an enterprise architecture to the organisation; and overseeing the implementation of an enterprise architecture.

The MIT Security professional track aims to educate IT professionals who are capable of: identifying and analysing the risks and threats to the security of an information system that encompasses computer hardware, software, networks, processes and people; specifying appropriate techniques to mitigate risks and threats; designing and adapting techniques to mitigate new risks and threats; carrying out information systems planning and strategic management with full appreciation of security issues; demonstrating advanced knowledge of how to ensure that corporate and enterprise level information systems are secure; and providing leadership in information technology security for the public and/ or private sectors on the basis of advanced technical skills and an understanding of the business and legal implications.

The MIT Multimedia professional track aims to educate IT professionals who are capable of: demonstrating in depth understanding of the multimedia industry within the context of the wider ICT industry; carrying out effective analysis of the business, aesthetic and technical issues related to a multimedia project; designing cost effective multimedia systems; making recommendations on technologies relevant to multimedia systems, which include application development languages and tools and application environments; and overseeing the implementation of a multimedia system.

The MIT Service Oriented Computing professional track aims to educate IT professionals who are capable of: understanding the role of SOC in providing IT solution to meet organisational needs; understanding both technical and organisational components of SOC; understanding the underlying enabling technologies of SOC, such as XML, web services, process modellings and grid computing; using underlying technologies to develop systems based on SOC principles; adopting information system methodologies in the development of SOC based systems; and exploring and understanding state of the art research in the SOC area.

Entry requirements

The normal entry requirement is a degree that is equivalent to an Australian bachelors degree in computing, computer science or a technical information technology field. Candidates without formal tertiary qualifications can enter via the Executive Certificate in Information Technology.

Credit for prior studies

Generally, students who have completed similar units in previous studies will normally be required to make substitutions. Specified credit will only be granted for postgraduate units that have not counted for the award of any other degree or diploma. Where credit is granted, the number of credit points that may be counted towards the MIT on the basis of study completed in units offered by faculties other than the Faculty of Information Technology may be reduced. Students who complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology offered by Monash University will be granted up to 24 points in credit towards the MIT.

Course structure

Students may elect to complete the MIT with or without a ‘professional track’. The MIT with a professional track requires that students complete units from a track-specific list of units during their MIT degree. These track-specific lists of units may total 24, 36 or 48 credit points, depending on the professional track. The MIT without a professional track allows students the flexibility to construct their degree subject only to the general course structure rules outlined below.

Subject to course coordinator approval, students may elect to complete a 24-point minor thesis within the MIT.

The following general rules govern the course structure of the MIT with or without a professional track:

(i) completion of the MIT requires the awarding of 72 credit points of study at fourth or fifth year level

(ii) at least 24 credit points must be awarded on the basis of study in units at fifth year level

(iii) at least 60 credit points must be awarded on the basis of study in units offered by the Faculty of Information Technology. With approval of the course coordinator, up to 12 credit points may be counted towards the MIT on the basis of study in units offered by Monash University faculties other than the Faculty of Information Technology

(iv) with approval of the course coordinator, up to 12 credit points may be counted towards the MIT on the basis of study in foundation level (9xxx) units.

Foundation level units

BUS9300 Business communications
BUS9520 Business systems A*
BUS9530 Business systems B *
CPE9001 Java programming
CPE9005 Web development
CSE9000 Foundations of programming
CSE9001 Computer technology
CSE9002 Database technology
CSE9020 Case study
CSE9801 Data communications
GCO9800 Computing project*
GCO9801 Business programming*
GCO9802 Computer systems*
GCO9803 Information systems 1*
GCO9804 Database management systems*
GCO9805 Object-oriented programming 1*
GCO9806 Information systems design*
GCO9807 Data structure and algorithms*
IMS9001 Systems analysis and design
IMS9003 Business information management
IMS9043 Information technology in organisations
IMS9049 ICT fundamentals for IS/IM professionals

Level 4 units

BUS4420 Logistics and operations research methods
BUS4530 Software systems design and development
BUS4620 COBOL programming
CPE4001 Distributed programming in Java
CPE4002 Data communications and internetworking
CPE4004 Analysis and design of distributed information systems
CSE4020 Specifying non-sequential and real-time systems
CSE4030 Software lifecycle processes
CSE4040 Language design and semantics
CSE4151 UNIX software design and development
CSE4180 CASE technology
CSE4200 Computer equipment and operating systems
CSE4213 Formal methods in software engineering
CSE4310 Information resource management and data administration
CSE4333 Parallel systems
CSE4400 Systems programming I
CSE4430 Database design and administration
CSE4490 Object-oriented programming
CSE4500 Information retrieval systems
CSE4530 Object-oriented application programming in C++
CSE4700 Formal methods in database systems
CSE4702 Formal methods in distributed computing systems
CSE4704 Formal methods in information and image retrieval
CSE4710 Reading unit
CSE4881 Internet architecture and protocols
CSE4882 Digital communications technologies
CSE4883 Communications software
CSE4884 Network design and management
CSE4885 Communications practical
CSE4886 Project (digital communications)
CSE4890 Proprietary network architectures
CSE4891 Public telecommunications networks
CSE4892 Information security
GCO4010 Research methods and reading in information technology*
GCO4015 Evolutionary and neural computing*
GCO4802 Computer models for business decisions*
GCO4806 General operations management*
GCO4807 Business statistics and applications*
GCO4824 Data communication and networks
IMS4036 Introduction to information management and systems research
ITW4003 Directed reading unit 2**
ITW4001 Information technology research methods**
ITW4002 Directed reading unit 1**

Level 5 units

BUS5000 Research methods
BUS5010 Reading unit II
BUS5020 Trading systems and electronic (B2B) commerce
BUS5030 Financial modelling
BUS5071 Database systems and data management
BUS5112 Computer facilities and network management
BUS5150 Project management
BUS5200 Chinese language information technology
BUS5410 Advanced programming for database applications
BUS5500 Business systems project 3
BUS5502 Business process design
BUS5510 Business systems project 4
BUS5540 Quality and reliability
BUS5550 Business statistics
BUS5570 Computer models for business decisions
BUS5580 Business systems project 1
BUS5590 Business systems project 2
BUS5600 Business case development
BUS5630 Operations management systems
BUS5650 Business applications of neural networks
BUS5700 Integrated business systems SAP R/3
BUS5710 Applied e-business – B2B
BUS5720 Corporate groupware
BUS5750 Applied intelligent techniques for business modelling
BUS5800 Risk analysis models for business
BUS5900 Advanced computational finance
BUS5960 B2C internet commerce
CPE5002 Network security
CPE5004 Advanced multimedia programming techniques
CPE5006 Virtual private networks
CPE5007 Object-orientated middleware
CPE5008 Electronic commerce technologies
CPE5009 Internet devices and services
CPE5010 Mobile software agents
CPE5011 Web topics
CPE5012 Web database technologies
CPE5013 Network administration
CPE5014 Analysis and design of portal enterprise applications
CPE5020 Global software
CPE5021 Advanced network security
CPE5100 Reading unit in network computing
CPE5501 Network computing project A
CPE5502 Network computing project B
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
CSE5060 Multimedia applications on the web
CSE5200 Distributed database systems
CSE5210 Advances in information security
CSE5220 Advanced topics in database systems
CSE5230 Data mining
CSE5301 Neuro-fuzzy computing
CSE5302 Digital video coding and compression
CSE5303 Advanced digital signal processing
CSE5310 Introduction to advanced computing
CSE5312 Advanced digital design
CSE5320 Statistics of data and data mining
CSE5501 Mobile and distributed computing systems
CSE5510 Software systems engineering
CSE5530 Systems verification, quality and standards
CSE5610 Intelligent software systems
CSE5701 Information technology – project A
CSE5702 Information technology – project B
CSE5710 Reading units
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
FIT5920 Graphic design for multimedia
FIT5930 GUI design and programming
FIT5940 Multimedia authoring
GCO5001 Information technology project A*
GCO5002 Information technology project B *
GCO5801 Trading systems and electronic commerce*
GCO5802 Financial modelling*
GCO5804 Forecasting methods*
GCO5805 Multimedia computing and communications*
GCO5806 Internet commerce*
GCO5807 Project management*
GCO5828 Applications of data mining*
GCO5900 Introduction to multimedia computing*
IMS5002 Information systems security
IMS5004 OLAP and business intelligence
IMS5005 Decision support systems
IMS5006 Information systems development practices
IMS5007 Electronic commerce
IMS5010 Evidence and metadata
IMS5011 Recordkeeping, archiving and the internet
IMS5015 Professional practice
IMS5016 Information access
IMS5017 Information organisation
IMS5022 Contemporary issues in the information society
IMS5023 Information enterprise management and marketing
IMS5024 Information systems modelling
IMS5026 Data warehousing
IMS5027 Knowledge management principles
IMS5033 Electronic document management and recordkeeping systems
IMS5036 Information management and systems research methods
IMS5042 Information systems strategic planning
IMS5047 Managing business records
IMS5048 The information continuum
IMS5052 Enterprise systems
IMS5302 Human factors and usability
IMS5320 Managing IT risk
IMS5401 Web-based systems development
ITW5001 Advanced topics in information technology**
ITW5002 Management of information technology research**
MMS5008 Multimedia interfaces
MMS5030 The internet and multimedia
MMS5940 Multimedia authoring
MMS5950 The multimedia industry
MMS9405 Developing multimedia systems

* Units offered on-campus and by off-campus learning.

** Units available in Malaysia for minor thesis option.

Professional track course structure rules

The following rules govern the structure of specific professional tracks and apply in addition to the general course structure rules. Eight units must be completed for each track.

Enterprise architecture professional track (not offered in 2007)

All of the following units must be completed:

CPE4004 Analysis and design of distributed information systems
CPE5007 Enterprise application development
FIT5005 Enterprise architecture
IMS5052 Enterprise systems

The remaining four units must be selected from the business and technical lists below:

At least one of the following technical units must be completed:

CPE4001 Distributed programming in Java
CPE5014 Analysis and design of portal enterprise applications
CPE5020 Global software
CSE5000 Distributed object technology
CSE5200 Distributed database systems
CSE5501 Mobile and distributed computing systems
FIT5004 Advanced software architecture

At least one of the following business units must be completed:

BUS5700 Integrated business systems – SAP R/3
IMS5026 Data warehousing
IMS5027 Knowledge management principles
IMS5042 Information systems strategic planning

Multimedia professional track

All of the following units must be completed:

CSE5060 Multimedia applications on the web
CSE5900 Introduction to multimedia programming
CSE5930 GUI design and programming
FIT5015 Advanced programming for multimedia entertainment
MMS5940 Multimedia authoring
VCM4002 Graphic design for multimedia

plus, at least two of the following units must be completed:

CSE5000 Distributed object technology
CSE5210 Advances in information security
CSE5230 Data mining
CSE5501 Mobile and distributed computing systems
GCO5806 Internet commerce

Security professional track

Select at least eight units from:

BUS5800 Risk analysis models for business
CPE5002 Network security
CPE5006 Virtual private networks
CPE5013 Network security
CPE5021 Advanced network security
CSE4431 System validation and verification, quality and standards
CSE4881 Internet architecture and protocols
CSE4892 Information security
CSE5210 Advances in information security
ECE5509 Reliability engineering
FIT5003 Software security
IMS5002 Information systems security
LAW7213 Law of the internet

Service oriented computing professional track

All of the following units must be completed:

CSE4500 Information retrieval systems
CSE5000 Distributed object technology

The remaining six units must be selected from the system development and system management lists below:

At least two of the following system development units must be completed:

CPE5009 Internet devices and services
CPE5010 Mobile software agents
CPE5014 Analysis and design of portal enterprise applications
CSE4333 Parallel systems
CSE5610 Intelligent software systems

At least two of the following system management units must be completed:

BUS5150 Project management
IMS5006 Information systems development practices
IMS5025 Information systems modelling
IMS5042 Information systems strategic planning

Exit awards

Students wishing to exit the Master of Information Technology early may apply to graduate with the:

Postgraduate Certificate in Information Technology after successful completion of 24 points of study, or
Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology after successful completion of 48 points of study

provided they have satisfied the requirements for these awards.

Professional recognition

The Faculty of Information Technology has applied for accreditation in 2007 for the Master of Information Technology from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) which may enable graduates of the course to be eligible for professional-level membership of the ACS.

Contact details

Course coordinators

Dr Campbell Wilson (Caulfield); Dr Iqbal Gondal (Gippsland off-campus)

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