Monash University Handbook 2011 Undergraduate - Area of Study

Decision support

All areas of study information should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook. The units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the Faculty of Information Technology component of any bachelors double degrees.

Managing faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered by	Clayton School of Information Technology
Campus(es)	Clayton

Description

Organisations and the environments they operate in become increasingly more complex, and information technology has become an indispensable component of the decision making processes that allow us to deal with this complexity. Decision support systems use innovative IT techniques to model organisations and to reveal the impact of alternative choices on the quality of service, operational costs, etc. Decision support applications include strategic planning, market analysis, resource allocation and scheduling, online adaptation and operational control. The decision support major complements the foundational studies in computer science, with topics on data analysis, decision making, intelligent systems, and decision support systems.

Sequence requirements

Minor in decision support

Students complete:

FIT1006 Business information analysis or STA1010 Statistical methods for science
FIT2017 Computer models for business decision making
FIT3003 Business intelligence and data warehousing
FIT3080 Intelligent systems

It is also recommended that students complete STA2032 Advanced data analysis as an elective.

Major in decision support

Students complete the minor in decision support (above) and:

FIT1010 Introduction to software engineering
FIT3022 Intelligent decision support systems
FIT3107 Advanced programming for database applications
STA2032 Advanced data analysis

Contact details

Website: visit http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/bcs

Relevant Courses

+ 2380 Bachelor of Computer Science