Monash University Handbook 2013 Postgraduate - Units

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• basic research concepts, major philosophical foundations (theory, framework, paradigm, scientific method and methodologies in general);
• research methods and techniques relevant to IT research;
• key issues in IT research;
• methods of argument analysis;
• how to design research;
• how to evaluate research and peer review procedures;
• the process of reviewing research literature on a specific topic;
• ethical research practices.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have confidence in themselves as informed consumers of published research, able to critically evaluate the relative quality and merits of reported research findings;
• have confidence in their ability to undertake independent research and to complete a thesis;
• have an awareness of the ethical issues that arise in the design and implementation of research.

Developed the skills to:

• match research tools and methods with research needs;
• write effective research papers;
• evaluate research ideas and designs;
• collect and analyse relevant data.

Demonstrated the communication skills necessary to:

• communicate research ideas effectively in oral and written form;
• assess research ideas and designs.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

• developed capabilities to undertake research in the information systems field;
• learned various research methods and studied published research papers in which these research methods have been used;
• learned to evaluate how well the research methods have been used in published research papers.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

• achieved an overview of different technologies that form the basis of intelligent information systems;
• understood the capabilities of these methods;
• learned to recognise tasks that can be solved with these methods;
• the ability to judge the limitations of these methods.With successful completion of the unit the students;
• the ability to apply the standard techniques in the chosen sub-fields of intelligent information systems to the construction and design of such systems;
• the ability to critically evaluate the performance of these approaches;
• the ability to compare these techniques to alternative approaches;
• gained an appreciation of the practical relevance of intelligent information systems.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

• an improved understanding of the issues involved in designing algorithms in the chosen specialisation area(s) and in analysing their performance;
• an understanding of the mathematical formalisms that are relevant for these algorithms;
• learned to recognise tasks that can be solved with these algorithms;
• the ability to judge the limitations of these methods.With successful completion of the unit the students;
• the ability to choose and apply algorithms and data structures in the chosen specialisation area(s);
• the ability to evaluate the performance of algorithms using formal approaches;
• the ability to design modified algorithms in the chosen area to suit particular problem structures.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the place of computational methods in the chosen field of specialisation and their relation to non-computational approaches;
• compare and contrast alternative computational approaches in this domain;
• critically evaluate the limits and capabilities of these methods;
• be able to select, design and test computer programs in the domain;
• where appropriate, be able to use the standard computational packages in the chosen domain effectively for practical problem solving.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand object-oriented design and programming with C++ for large software development;
• achieve sound knowledge of concurrent design and programming with programming languages which do not have built-in features to support concurrency like C++;
• know how to develop high performance software with programming languages that do not support concurrency such as C++;
• achieve sound knowledge and good experience of network and distributed programming using C++.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• Implement system analysis skills;
• Implement quality planning and project planning skills;
• Provide resolution of a realistic business problem;
• Implement software design and development skills;
• Implement software implementation skills;
• develop documentation.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• understand object-relational database design;
• understand multi-dimensional database design;
• understand query optimisation and its impact on programming;
• understand the database management systems recovery, concurrency, and transaction management mechanisms;
• understand database trends and current research directions in database management;
• use design a complex database system; and
• use a database programming language to access a relational database system.

At the completion of this unit students will

• recall the history of mobile platforms and the development of software for those platforms;
• describe the MVC design pattern and explain the importance of this design pattern in mobile applications development;
• critically analyse and distinguish between the design considerations for mobile application interface development and traditional interfaces;
• analyse and implement the use of graphic and audio components in the development of mobile applications;
• investigate, design, construct and publish applications for mobile platforms with particular focus on Android and iOS.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

• an understanding of web environments and their components;
• an understanding of the principles of object oriented Internet applications development;
• the knowledge and skills to design and implement web based applications, using a server side applications development environment;
• the knowledge and skills to design and implement mobile applications;
• the knowledge and skills to implement data stores in web based applications;
• a professional attitude towards the development of web based information systems.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• the underpinning theories relevant to HCI;
• the principles and practices of HCI in designing user interfaces;
• the importance and role of usability and evaluation in systems design;
• the issues relating to user diversity, different types of systems, interaction styles, devices and environments.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• appreciate the development of systems from a user perspective;
• differentiate between good HCI practice in systems development from other development practices;
• formulate attitudes which enable them to interact effectively with users;
• empathise with all users particularly those with specific needs.

Gained practical skills to:

• recognise the principles of HCI design required in systems development;
• gather user requirements effectively;
• design an effective user interface;
• conduct appropriate evaluation of systems from a HCI perspective and interpret the outcome.

Demonstrated the communication skills necessary to:

• work in teams to complete assessment tasks;
• empathise with users particularly those with some form of disability.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A theoretical and conceptual understanding of:

• the diversity of theoretical and conceptual frameworks which contribute to the current developments in the field of information technology, including human computer interaction, information visualisation and interface design;
• the grand challenges in the field of information technology and the emerging trends, including the range of applications to which emerging information technologies, information visualisation techniques and innovative interfaces can be applied, for example ubiquitous computing, geospatial information visualisation and mobile devices interfaces.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• critically evaluate the impact of rapid changes in information technology on society and to appreciate the pervasive and expanding range of applications and fields on which information technology is impacting.

Developed the skills to:

• locate and critically evaluate information on current research in the field, for example using electronic library databases, and to synthesise the information they have gathered into a logical and coherent argument;
• communicate results of their investigation to their peers effectively through written and/or oral presentations while correctly acknowledging and referencing source material;
• apply their theoretical understanding to a practical project negotiated with the lecturer using a learning contract.

Demonstrated the teamwork skills necessary to:

• work as a member of a team to present the finding of their research to their peers.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• their research topic and the wider research domain.
• research approaches and methods, and how to resolve research problems and issues.
• well honed skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have confidence in their ability to undertake independent research, and to plan and execute an individual research project.
• appreciate the significance and contributions of a research culture in both academic and workplace contexts.

Developed the skills to:

• plan and undertake rigorous independent research;
• locate relevant research literature, and critically analyse and evaluate published research findings;
• identify open problems in current research and promising new research directions, and from this to define a viable research topic;
• develop a sound research design and feasible research project plan and schedule;
• communicate effectively research results in a variety of forms, including informal oral presentations, written reports, seminar presentations and poster presentations.

Although research projects are carried out individually, students will be part of a wider research group, with whom they will interact regularly, and participate in research seminars and discussions. At the completion of the unit students will have demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• communicate research ideas effectively in formal or informal contexts;
• collaborate effectively with others involved in a research project (supervisors, research colleagues, industry collaborators).

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have a well-developed conceptual framework, enabling them to keep pace with developments in the rapidly changing field of network computing;
• have a thorough understanding of one or more specialised areas of study within network computing;
• be familiar with using current technology, systems and software relevant to network computing;
• be able to practise professionally as a network computing specialist.

At the completion of this unit students will have an understanding of:

• the general concepts of queuing theory and its application in network design;
• traffic dimensioning for circuit and packet switched networks;
• network performance modelling and analysis;
• traffic characterisation and modelling;
• network topology and routing techniques;
• key Quality of Service (QoS) measures and functions;
• analysis and evaluation of the operation of a local or wide area telecommunications network;
• major design aspects of a local or wide area network, including cable and wireless networks.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• their research topic and the wider research domain.
• research approaches and methods, and how to resolve research problems and issues.
• well honed skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have confidence in their ability to undertake independent research, and to plan and execute an individual research project.
• appreciate the significance and contributions of a research culture in both academic and workplace contexts.

Developed the skills to:

• plan and undertake rigorous independent research;
• locate relevant research literature, and critically analyse and evaluate published research findings;
• identify open problems in current research and promising new research directions, and from this to define a viable research topic;
• develop a sound research design and feasible research project plan and schedule;
• communicate effectively research results in a variety of forms, including informal oral presentations, written reports, seminar presentations and poster presentations.

Although research projects are carried out individually, students will be part of a wider research group, with whom they will interact regularly, and participate in research seminars and discussions. At the completion of the unit students will have demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• communicate research ideas effectively in formal or informal contexts;
• collaborate effectively with others involved in a research project (supervisors, research colleagues, industry collaborators).

At the completion of this unit students will:

• develop a detailed knowledge and understanding of all major protocols used for VPN;
• detailed knowledge and understanding of VPN architectures including interaction with firewalls
• develop an understanding of major issues in implementing the protocols;
• have the knowledge and skills to objectively compare and contrast various VPN protocols (eg. L2TP with IPSec and the platform specific variations);
• have the knowledge and skills to enable them to design and implement standard and non-standard VPNs.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have knowledge of the Service Oriented Computing paradigm, its evolution and the emergence of web services;
• understand the Service Oriented Architectures and the various key standards that enable the realisation of web services such as SOAP, WSDL and UDDI;
• compare and evaluate various Service Discovery Protocols;
• have the skills to build and deploy web services using a range of current technologies;
• be able to access, invoke and use publicly available web services in application development (e.g. Google Web Service);
• have an understanding on emerging issues, trends and topics in web services research.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be conversant with the principles and theoretical concepts of mobile software agents;
• appreciate models and approaches to building mobile agent systems;
• demonstrate knowledge of different mobile agent toolkits and development environments;
• utilise techniques for achieving mobile agent communication and coordination;
• understand security issues in mobile agent systems;
• select and apply appropriate tools for a particular application;
• foster critical and independent analysis of how mobile agents can be applied to distributed computing applications.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to -

• recall the history of web applications development;
• design, construct and publish web-database applications;
• understand and analyse the key technological issues confronting developers building web-database applications;
• understand the key features of programming languages which are commonly used for developing web-database application;
• describe the MVC design pattern and construct a web-database application using the MVC design pattern;
• apply a professional attitude towards the development of web-database applications.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

• exposure to a wide range of contemporary networking protocols and technologies at a level required from network management perspective;
• an in-depth understanding of key network management concepts, protocols, technologies, protocol analysis and practices;
• an understanding of the role of a network administrator through theory and hands-on work involving the use of software tools, simulations, and configuring core networking hardware;
• ability to adopt a problem solving approach;
• developed communications skills and accept the code of professional conduct and practice through short presentations and group work.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the design and implementation of advanced cryptographic algorithms for wired and wireless computing environments including the design and implementation of RSA and ECC;
• achieve sound knowledge of network security components including the design, implementation, and configuration of Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (static and dynamic checking of programs, anomaly detection, large-scale (Internet-wide) distributed intrusion detection, early sensing, complex attack scenario analysis, and automated response), Prevention Systems, Firewalls, IDSs, VPNs and prevention systems together;
• develop knowledge of advanced network security architectures to allow better network protection, load balancing and recovery from attacks;
• achieve sound knowledge of wireless network security;
• understand security in trusted-based computing environments;
• understand Quantum cryptography.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the role of distributed systems architecture in the design and implementation of cloud computing applications;
• understand the advantages and limitations of cloud computing over other enterprise web architectures;
• understand how to design effective web applications that incorporate cloud and web service components;
• have developed the knowledge and skills to develop enterprise-scale web systems relevant to current industry standards;
• understand advanced topics in cloud computing and related technologies;
• have developed a professional attitude towards the development of cloud computing applications.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand various issues pertaining to enterprise software architecture on the web;
• acquire techniques to develop enterprise applications using the Java programming language;
• discover various advanced Java technologies used to build web applications for the enterprise;
• learn to competently use the advanced Java libraries to build a medium-size web application for the enterprise.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be familiar with the currently available models, technologies for and approaches to building distributed database systems;
• have developed practical skills in the use of these models and approaches, so that they will be able to select and apply the appropriate tools for a particular case;
• be aware of the current research directions in the field and their possible outcomes;
• be able to carry out research on a relevant topic, identify primary references, analyse them and come up with meaningful conclusions;
• be able to apply learned skills to solving practical database related tasks.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• the fundamentals of Network Security issues including possible vulnerabilities in a computer system, software and hardware applications;
• basic symmetric and asymmetric cryptography including symmetric and asymmetric crypto systems such as DES, RSA, RC4;
• authentication systems;
• computer malicious codes such as viruses, logic bombs, etc;
• security design at different levels of OSI model, IPSec, SSL, and security at application layer;
• firewalls and detection and prevention systems.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be able to differentiate between supervised and unsupervised learning;
• know how to apply the main techniques for supervised and unsupervised learning;
• know how to use statistical methods for evaluating data mining models;
• be able to perform data pre-processing for data with outliers, incomplete and noisy data;
• be able to extract and analyse patterns from data using a data mining tool;
• have an understanding of the difference between discovery of hidden patterns and simple query extractions in a dataset;
• have an understanding of the different methods available to facilitate discovery of hidden patterns in a dataset;
• have developed the ability to preprocess data in preparation for data mining experiments;
• have developed the ability to evaluate the quality of data mining models;
• be able to appreciate the need to have representative sample input data to enable learning of patterns embedded in population data;
• be able to appreciate the need to provide quality input data to produce useful data mining models;
• have acquired the skill to use the common features in data mining tools;
• have acquired the skill to use the visualisation features in a data mining tools to facilitate knowledge discovery from a data set;
• have acquired the skill to compare data mining models based on the results on a set of performance criteria;
• be able to work in a team to extract knowledge from a common data set using different data mining methods and techniques.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• develop knowledge of the approaches and methods for building distributed and mobile computing systems;
• be familiar with the currently available models and approaches to building mobile and distributed computing systems;
• have developed practical skills in the use of these models and approaches, so that they will be able to select and apply the appropriate tools for a particular case;
• be aware of the current research directions in the field and their possible outcomes.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• the applications of intelligent software systems;
• the principles and theoretical underpinning of intelligent software systems;
• models and approaches to building intelligent software systems;
• different software toolkits and development environments;
• current research trends in the field.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• foster critical and independent analysis of how intelligent techniques can be used to enhance software applications and the development of smart environments.

Developed the skills to:

• design and develop intelligent applications;
• select and apply appropriate tools for a particular application.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• examine and describe the concepts, techniques, and decision tools available to project managers;
• demonstrate the importance of strategy and prioritising for effective resource allocation and balancing a portfolio of projects;
• assess and synthesise diverse information for an integrative project management;
• create and critically evaluate innovative ideas and strategies within ambiguous and uncertain business environments.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• create a database system for practical application utilising forms, reports and graphics;
• understand the principal aspects of setting up a complete database application system;
• write complex queries using database query language;
• experience group work in building a complex database application system;
• produce a database system of professional quality.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the concept of revenue modelling in eBusiness context;
• understand OOP as principles of component based software systems;
• appreciate technology architecture that underpin the deployment of e-business systems, including data formats and various programming solutions;
• appreciate the use of the internet for commercial purposes;
• realise the challenges in the planning stage of an e-business venture;
• realise the challenges in the implementation stage of an e-business venture;
• appreciate the dynamics of the e-business modelling;
• appreciate the rapid advancement of enabling technologies and its impact on e-business implementation;
• be able to identify and communicate issues in the planning, implementation and management of the e-business system;
• be able to adopt object-oriented paradigm and implement e-business solutions using the three tier architecture;
• be able to implement simple e-business applications for displaying catalogs and processing transactions;
• be able to experiment with various technologies in the design and implementation of e-business applications;
• understand the various roles of e-business professionals (analysts, designers, systems developers, programmers) and how they work together in the current e-business context.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• describe the basic characteristics of layered protocol networking model and wireless mobile systems;
• understand architecture and signal characteristics of cellular communication systems;
• understand physical and media access control layers used in wireless technologies for signal encoding, spread spectrum and error control;
• understand architectures of: WiFi, WiMax, and advanced mobile networking systems like LTE as described in relevant standards;
• understand concepts behind mesh networks;
• analyse advanced topics in wireless networking.

At the completion of this unit students will have a knowledge and understanding of:

• the terms knowledge and knowledge management as used in an organisational context;
• a range of socio-technical approaches that support knowledge management;
• the structure and functions of knowledge management practice;
• the range of theoretical and disciplinary influences on knowledge management practices;
• the extent to which modern technology can support knowledge management practices.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the role of records and archives in organisations and society;
• understand and apply theories and models relating to recordkeeping and archiving;
• be able to specify recordkeeping requirements relating to the creation, management, and accessibility of records as evidence of social and organisational activity in a range of business and social contexts;
• have the skills to develop appraisal and metadata management programs in relation to contemporary and historical recordkeeping systems, including electronic recordkeeping systems; and
• be able to formulate appraisal and metadata management policies, strategies, tactics and tools with reference to international and national standards and best practice.

At the completion of this unit students will have knowledge and skills to:

• understand organisational contexts of technological infrastructures and emerging technological frameworks for electronic information and knowledge management systems, including intranet and Internet environments;
• appreciate the capabilities and limitations of many products on the information and knowledge management systems market and how to use implementation strategies to maximise their strengths and minimise their weaknesses;
• identify and select from appropriate strategic options for designing and implementing an information and knowledge management system;
• participate in electronic document lifespan management, involving document creation within systems and the use of documents for workgroup, organisational and social purposes, appreciating how these aspects interrelate and influence each other;
• conduct requirements identification, design and deployment of information and knowledge management systems.

On successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

• analyse the nature and operation of information communities within contemporary society;
• evaluate community informatics as an emerging discipline and professional practice;
• assess contemporary debates concerning the social impact of information technology use;
• distinguish the collaborative behaviours and interdependencies which contribute to notions of community;
• analyse and critique cases from the information industry.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• understand the key issues in the area;
• understand the issues relating to the selection of the most appropriate model for an organisation;
• understand the different technologies and e-business solutions from both a B2B and B2C perspective;
• understand the key issues in the design, development and implementation of e-business from the perspective of both large and small organisations.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the scope and application of OLAP technology and business intelligence systems;
• have knowledge of the major approaches to the development of business intelligence and reporting systems;
• be able to design simple multi-dimensional databases;
• be able to develop a simple business intelligence system using an OLAP tool;
• be able to develop a simple reporting system;
• be able to communicate and foster realistic expectations of the role of OLAP technology and business intelligence systems in management and decision support.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the scope and application of IT for decision support;
• have an understanding of the nature of managerial decision-making;
• be familiar with the major approaches of IT-based decision support;
• be able to choose the appropriate decision support approach for a particular project;
• be able to undertake systems analysis for management support projects.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have knowledge of the theories and principles of data warehousing;
• understand the potential benefits of data warehousing;
• understand the techniques and tools used to design a data warehouse;
• understand the theories and principles of data warehousing with regard to the practice of decision support;
• be able to design multi-dimensional data structures;
• appreciate how to interact effectively with managers, consultants and vendors in the development of a data warehouse.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have knowledge of a variety of techniques for modelling business decision problems;
• be able to choose the appropriate decision model for a particular problem;
• have skills in setting up simple models and solving with hand calculations;
• have skills in setting up mathematical models for solution in a spreadsheet or other application software;
• have skills in the validation of models and conducting a sensitivity analysis.
• have skills in analysing a real problem and reporting the results;
• understand the difficulty of applying models to real situations, which often requires that approximations, simplifications and generalisations be made;
• understand that the approximate nature of some types of business modelling means that a sensitivity analysis be conducted.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• identify the role of business wide systems to support the business strategy;
• identify the main suppliers, products and application domains of enterprise wide packages;
• understand the scale and complexity of enterprise system packages;
• understand the integrative role of enterprise systems for information within the organisational context;
• describe the role of enterprise systems as part of the larger IT infrastructure of large scale organisations;
• identify the implementation variables, individual variables and contextual variables that interact to influence a successful enterprise system implementation;
• use a process modelling tool to model processes.

At the completion of this unit students will understand:

• the characteristics and limitations of different IT and IKM governance frameworks and strategy perspectives, and how competing perspectives can be reconciled in practice;
• the concepts underpinning the dominant intellectual capital perspective on IT and IKM strategy, the strengths and limitations of this approach, and how social capital and emotional capital insights can augment this view of strategy;
• the distinct features, the functional/disciplinary origins, and the key drivers of IT and IKM strategies focused primarily on
  1. people,
  2. business processes, and
  3. content and technology, and the supporting technologies that can facilitate each approach;
• links between strategy, performance and measurement, and the issues associated with demonstrating the value and benefits of IT and IKM;
• the nature of the IT and IKM regulatory environment and approaches to controlling risk;
• the importance of marketing, leading and championing IT and IKM within the organisation, and of reflective practice.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• evaluate professional literature and knowledge in relation to practice;
• analyse current issues relating to the information industry;
• apply theories and practice of their selected specialisation to the workplace;
• demonstrate practical skills at a professional level in an information agency or information-related functional area, as well as an ability to interact effectively with work colleagues and clients;
• assess career opportunities within the information industry and develop a personal career plan;
• evaluate the role in professional practice of ethical codes, professional literature, professional networks and professional associations.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• implement decisions about applying organisational policies for reference and collection services, justify the principles of collection management strategies, and evaluate them;
• manage networked access for users in the case of electronic resources;
• develop information literacy programs; and
• select the best source of knowledge for a practical information need.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the key principles, concepts and standards that guide the development of information organisation and retrieval systems and web-based information architectures;
• have skills in applying standard cataloguing, classification, indexing, thesaurus construction, and knowledge discovery metadata schemes and tools;
• have developed experience in interacting with selected bibliographic utilities/ networks, and in using bibliographic software; and
• be able to develop systems for organising information and facilitating access to information resources in physical collections or digital/web-based repositories.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• explain the business processes that recordkeeping activities support, and the evidential requirements for business activities in various organisational settings;
• explain at a strategic and operational level how systems are designed and implemented to meet business needs and evidential requirements;
• identify and discuss the suite of policies, standards and best practice guidelines that relate to quality records management;
• undertake various forms of business analysis in support of records management activities;
• design and implement electronic recordkeeping systems in large organisations in collaboration with other professional groups, or undertake these activities alone in a small organisation; and
• advise senior managers on organisation-wide records management policies, programs and systems.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• gain detailed knowledge and in-depth understanding of a topic of interest to the student; which is not formally taught, but would be regarded as relevant to and enhancing the students studies;
• develop an ability to analyse and synthesise and construct arguments from a range of published sources;
• develop skills at critiquing and evaluating others ideas, opinions and arguments;
• demonstrate a willingness to present ideas for scrutiny to a supervisor;
• demonstrate a willingness and an ability to accept criticism of ideas.;
• appreciate the nature and demands of independent research.
• learn self-reliance and time management skills in order to gain greater independence as a learner;
• learn to work effectively in a close, cooperative relationship with a supervisor.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• gain detailed knowledge and in-depth understanding of a topic of interest to the student; which is not formally taught, but would be regarded as relevant to and enhancing the students studies;
• develop an ability to analyse and synthesise and construct arguments from a range of published sources;
• develop skills at critiquing and evaluating others ideas, opinions and arguments;
• demonstrate a willingness to present ideas for scrutiny to a supervisor;
• demonstrate a willingness and an ability to accept criticism of ideas.;
• appreciate the nature and demands of independent research.
• learn self-reliance and time management skills in order to gain greater independence as a learner;
• learn to work effectively in a close, cooperative relationship with a supervisor.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the evolution of systems development methodologies;
• understand the tools and techniques that are used in the development of information systems;
• be able to select appropriate tools and/or techniques for the development of information systems;
• understand the strategies that are used to improve productivity and quality during systems development;
• understand the organisational context within which systems development takes place;
• be able to evaluate and critique different system development methodologies.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand project management as knowledge based and reflective practice;
• have knowledge of the core disciplines that underpin project management;
• understand how the core disciplines inform the fundamental principles, concepts and standards that guide project management practices;
• be able to formulate the organising principles of the project management function;
• be able to specify the organisational capabilities to support project management;
• have the skills to design and develop an appropriate management structure for the project management function.

At the completion of this unit, students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• how to produce well-run, well-tested and well-documented object-oriented software by following solid software engineering principles of maintainability, reusability and expandability;
• effective use of popular object-oriented design patterns in the design process of larger systems;
• how to effectively and efficiently develop object-oriented application solutions to business-related problem specifications.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• appreciate the responsibility of coming up with well-tested and documented programs;
• appreciate the need to maintain ethical conducts when programming by making sure the code used my program is their own or taken from a legitimate source with full acknowledgement.

Gained practical skills to:

• navigate around in an Integrated Development Environment in order to efficiently produce quality applications;
• develop good software testing strategies.

Demonstrated the communication skills necessary to:

• work in a team to come up with an integrated business software solution

explain their design and testing strategies in writing and in person through interviews.

At the completion of this unit students should be able to:

• understand from a management as well as technology perspective how the theories, guidelines and standards can be incorporated into the design of user interfaces;
• understand and apply the principles of interface design relating to HCI, this includes recognising good and bad examples;
• apply the standards, principles and theories in practice.
• develop and conduct usability evaluations and be able to interpret the results, identify changes that are needed to a user interface
• understand the different design considerations for designing for the Web and other devices
• understand the different user centred development methodologies that look at design from a user perspective. In particular have knowledge of the basic principles of good interface design and HCI principles;
• appreciate the difficulties users face when working with systems and be able to comprehend the concepts and principles underlying effective interface design and recognise good design from poor design and what the difference is from a user perspective;
• develop attitudes which enable them to interact effectively with users in order to apply this knowledge to the design of interfaces for a range of technologies;
• analyse the component parts of an interface so to be able to identify what is good design;
• synthesise the knowledge, guidelines and theory to understand how each contributes to practice;
• effectively conduct an evaluation of an information system especially in terms of usability of information systems;
• understand the development of systems from a user perspective;
• appreciate the difficulties users face when working with systems;
• apply the principles, standards and theories relating to interface design and HCI to information systems development;
• gather user requirements effectively;
• design an effective user interface;
• conduct a usability test and interpret the outcome;
• recognise poor design and solutions.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand how service businesses operate and evolve;
• understand the management principles, concepts and standards that guide service operations and project management practices;
• be able to specify the organisational capabilities to support service operations management;
• have the skills to design and develop an appropriate management structure for service operations and the management of service projects.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• use software tools and techniques for identifying business opportunities;
• plan direct marketing campaigns and product introductions;
• analyse and understand customer churn with data mining tools;
• create stable and accurate predictive models and interpret results;
• provide advise to management on CRM;
• advise management on data mining techniques and tools.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the core foundations of finance, as appropriate to key financial analysis and decision making;
• understand the core technologies that support financial analysis and decision making;
• understand quantitative techniques supporting financial analysis and decision making;
• be able to apply the technologies and techniques studied to solving financial issues;
• be able to analyse financial solution requirements and select appropriate technical and quantitative decision aids;
• be able to interpret outputs from quantitative and technology based finance tools to aid in decision making.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have a thorough understanding of business organisations, their functional structure and the advantage of considering the process oriented view of organisations;
• demonstrate a thorough knowledge of business processes, their structure and how processes fit in to the overall organisation objectives;
• be able to use analytical tools for modeling, analysing, understanding and designing business processes;
• have acquired skills to use simulation software as a tool for analysing business processes;
• be able to report to and advise management on business process design and re-engineering issues.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have knowledge of risks, threats and the goals of information security;
• understand various controls and their effectiveness for information security in an organisation;
• be able to evaluate the effectiveness (both in terms of performance and limitations) of individual control techniques;
• match the risk against controls and evaluate their applicability.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be able to evaluate enabling technologies such as high-speed links and storage area networks for building computer grids;
• be able to utilise grid computing and clustering middleware, such as Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), Message Passing Interface (MPI), HPC Portals, and Peer-to-Peer networks for implementing virtual super computing resources;
• be able to design a grid computing application in one of the key application areas e.g. Computer Animation, E-Research;
• be able to install a grid computing environment;
• develop communications skills and accept the code of professional conduct and practice through short presentations and group work.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• appreciate the context and application of information retrieval systems;
• understand the different models of information retrieval and their comparative advantages and disadvantages;
• understand how objective and subjective evaluation strategies are used with information retrieval systems;
• be conversant with the issues and challenges of managing very large collections of heterogeneous data for information retrieval;
• understand how web search engines and search algorithms are constructed, utilised and deployed;
• appreciate how to index different media;
• understand how information retrieval systems can be used for the retrieval of audio-visual information;
• appreciate the theoretical and practical underpinnings of relevance feedback in information retrieval systems.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand basic computational principles underlying the operations of biological neural systems;
• have knowledge of computational methods of simulating biological and artificial neural systems;
• have knowledge of supervised, unsupervised and self-organising neuronal learning systems;
• be able to use computer software to simulate behaviour of neurons and neural networks.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the differences between structured and semi-structured data;
• know how to manage data that is not be appropriately modelled by the relational model;
• be able to design data repositories for XML documents;
• be able to apply appropriate technology to manage and transform XML data;
• be able to use current DBMS to store, retrieve and update non-relational data;
• appreciate strengths and weaknesses of object-relational and native XML DBMS for handling XML.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be able to design and build probabilistic expert systems;
• understand the application of probability theory to reasoning under uncertainty;
• be able to apply automated decision analysis tools;
• be familiar with the main Bayesian network tools and their capabilities;
• understand how to data mine graphical models;
• be able to knowledge engineer Bayesian networks.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the concepts and characteristics of distributed and concurrent software;
• identify and evaluate common distributed and concurrent software designs;
• design distributed software applications using typical distributed software architectures;
• write distributed and concurrent software programs.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have knowledge and understanding of the role of validation & verification methods in the system life cycle;
• have gained practical experience in using commercial validation tools to help detect software system defects;
• appreciate how assertion mechanisms impact reasoning;
• be able to analyse and control defects in complex systems;
• have an understanding of inspection & testing methods, configuration management, performance, and quality standards issues.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

• knowledge of a variety of parallel architectures, such as bus-based, massively parallel, cluster, vector;
• knowledge of a variety of parallel programming paradigms, synchronisation and parallelisation primitives, message passing, data parallel, tuple space;
• understanding of concurrency, synchronicity and parallelism;
• understanding of the design issues of parallel systems;
• skills in designing, developing and debugging parallel programs using a variety of paradigms.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• Prepare project network diagrams and do finite capacity scheduling of projects;
• do project and activity time compression to prepare quotations and meet due dates;
• prepare plans, budgets, and control systems for new projects;
• complete quotation, pricing, financial and profit calculations for projects;
• understand methods of project selection, net present value analysis, decision making, and risk analysis;
• understand the issues involved with project contract administration;
• advise on the issues of Quality Management and the ISO 9000 Standards;
• have a detailed understanding of modern Project Management software.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• Do financial and accounting calculations for projects. These topics will include in depth costing, balance sheet, NPV, IRR, capital budgeting, cash flow, variance analysis.
• Understand the legal issues which occur in project management. These will include business law, contract law, international law, understanding legal project management principles, applying project management principles to the practice of law, litigation matters, managing disputes, administrative and judicial way of solving disputes, contract risk analysis, liability in project management.
• Understand the modern theory of entrepreneurship in relation to project management. These topics will include types of entrepreneurs, problem faced by entrepreneurs, skills and knowledge necessary for entrepreneurs, innovative start-up, sources of finance, opportunity recognition, valuation and negotiations, financial and accounting issues.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

• developed capabilities to undertake research in the information systems field;
• learned various research methods and study published research papers in which these research methods have been used;
• learned to evaluate how well the research methods have been used in published research papers.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have developed capabilities to undertake research in the decision support systems field;
• have learned a particular research method and gained mastery of the application of some aspect of the method;
• be able to communicate their role and contribution to a DSS research project.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the concepts and characteristics of distributed and concurrent software;
• identify and evaluate common distributed and concurrent software designs;
• design distributed software applications using typical distributed software architectures;
• write distributed and concurrent software programs.

At the completion of this unit, students will be able to understand:

• the major philosophies and principles of research;
• the major research methods used in IT research;
• when a particular method is appropriate for a particular project;
• how to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative research data;
• how to communicate research findings to a variety of audiences;
• how to critically review research designs and literature.

On completion of this unit students will have a knowledge and understanding of:

• the applications of intelligent software systems;
• the principles and theoretical underpinning of intelligent software systems;
• the models and approaches to building intelligent software systems;
• the advantages and limitations of intelligent models and approaches for solving a wide range of practical problems;
• different software toolkits and development environments;
• current research trends in the field.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• describe the basic characteristics of layered protocol networking model and wireless mobile systems;
• understand architecture and signal characteristics of cellular communication systems;
• understand physical and media access control layers used in wireless technologies for signal encoding, spread spectrum and error control;
• understand architectures of: WiFi, WiMax, and advanced mobile networking systems like LTE as described in relevant standards;
• understand concepts behind mesh networks analyse advance topics in wireless networking.

On completion of this unit students will be able to understand:

• the major philosophies and principles of research;
• the major research methods used in IT research,;
• when a particular method is appropriate for a particular project;
• how to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative research data;
• how to communicate research findings to a variety of audiences;
• how to critically review research designs and literature.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• have a well-developed conceptual framework, enabling them to keep pace with developments in the rapidly changing field of network computing;
• have a thorough understanding of one or more specialised areas of study within network computing;
• be familiar with using current technology, systems and software relevant to network computing;
• be able to practise professionally as a network computing specialist;
• understand the fundamentals of Network Security issues including possible vulnerabilities in a computer system, software and hardware applications;
• be familiar with basic symmetric and asymmetric cryptography including symmetric and asymmetric crypto systems such as DES, RSA, RC4;
• understand authentication systems;
• understand security regime to prevent computer malicious codes such as viruses, logic bombs, etc;
• be familiar with security design at different levels of OSI model, IPSec, SSL, and security at application layer;
• understand the need of firewalls, detection and prevention systems.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

• an understanding of web environments and their components;
• an understanding of the principles of object oriented scripting and the knowledge of the various uses to which scripting may be put;
• the knowledge and skills to implement web applications, in an applications development environment;
• an understanding of the principles of large scale, and small scale, web site development including an understanding of advanced design principles;
• an understanding of the uses of mark-up languages and meta-languages in structuring data, particularly in a web context;
• the knowledge and skills to implement web sites varying size and complexity, using XHTML and XML;
• a professional attitude towards the development of web based information systems.

On completion of this unit, students will be able to:

• examine and describe the theories and concepts of program and portfolio project management;
• assess and synthesise diverse information regarding the ways of achieving maturity in global project management;
• evaluate innovative ideas and strategies in managing global projects;
• demonstrate the importance of software methodologies in creating and managing project data base;
• develop professional/personal skills - team work, leadership, ethical behaviour, analytical skills, including lateral problem solving and critical thinking.

At the completion of this unit students will have made substantial and measurable progress towards -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• their research topic and the wider research domain;
• research approaches and methods, and how to resolve research problems and issues;
• well honed skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have confidence in their ability to undertake independent research, and to plan and execute an individual research project;
• appreciate the significance and contributions of a research culture in both academic and workplace contexts.

Developed the skills to:

• plan and undertake rigorous independent research;
• locate relevant research literature, and critically analyse and evaluate published research findings;
• identify open problems in current research and promising new research directions, and from this to define a viable research topic;
• develop a sound research design and feasible research project plan and schedule;
• communicate effectively research results in a variety of forms, including informal oral presentations, written reports, seminar presentations and poster presentations.

Although research projects are carried out individually, students will be part of a wider research group, with whom they will interact regularly, and participate in research seminars and discussions. At the completion of the unit students will have demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• communicate research ideas effectively in formal or informal contexts;
• collaborate effectively with others involved in a research project (supervisors, research colleagues, industry collaborators).

At the completion of this unit students will have made substantial and measurable progress towards-

A knowledge and understanding of:

• their research topic and the wider research domain;
• research approaches and methods, and how to resolve research problems and issues;
• well honed skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have confidence in their ability to undertake independent research, and to plan and execute an individual research project;
• appreciate the significance and contributions of a research culture in both academic and workplace contexts.

Developed the skills to:

• plan and undertake rigorous independent research;
• locate relevant research literature, and critically analyse and evaluate published research findings;
• identify open problems in current research and promising new research directions, and from this to define a viable research topic;
• develop a sound research design and feasible research project plan and schedule;
• communicate effectively research results in a variety of forms, including informal oral presentations, written reports, seminar presentations and poster presentations.

Although research projects are carried out individually, students will be part of a wider research group, with whom they will interact regularly, and participate in research seminars and discussions. At the completion of the unit students will have demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• communicate research ideas effectively in formal or informal contexts;
• collaborate effectively with others involved in a research project (supervisors, research colleagues, industry collaborators).

At the completion of this unit students will have made substantial and measurable progress towards -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• their research topic and the wider research domain;
• research approaches and methods, and how to resolve research problems and issues;
• well honed skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have confidence in their ability to undertake independent research, and to plan and execute an individual research project;
• appreciate the significance and contributions of a research culture in both academic and workplace contexts.

Developed the skills to:

• plan and undertake rigorous independent research;
• locate relevant research literature, and critically analyse and evaluate published research findings;
• identify open problems in current research and promising new research directions, and from this to define a viable research topic;
• develop a sound research design and feasible research project plan and schedule;
• communicate effectively research results in a variety of forms, including informal oral presentations, written reports, seminar presentations and poster presentations.

Although research projects are carried out individually, students will be part of a wider research group, with whom they will interact regularly, and participate in research seminars and discussions. At the completion of the unit students will have demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• communicate research ideas effectively in formal or informal contexts;
• collaborate effectively with others involved in a research project (supervisors, research colleagues, industry collaborators).

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• their research topic and the wider research domain;
• research approaches and methods, and how to resolve research problems and issues;
• well honed skills in critical thinking, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have confidence in their ability to undertake independent research, and to plan and execute an individual research project;
• appreciate the significance and contributions of a research culture in both academic and workplace contexts.

Developed the skills to:

• plan and undertake rigorous independent research;
• locate relevant research literature, and critically analyse and evaluate published research findings;
• identify open problems in current research and promising new research directions, and from this to define a viable research topic;
• develop a sound research design and feasible research project plan and schedule;
• communicate effectively research results in a variety of forms, including informal oral presentations, written reports, seminar presentations and poster presentations.

Although research projects are carried out individually, students will be part of a wider research group, with whom they will interact regularly, and participate in research seminars and discussions. At the completion of the unit students will have demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• communicate research ideas effectively in formal or informal contexts;
• collaborate effectively with others involved in a research project (supervisors, research colleagues, industry collaborators).

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

• design rigorous and ethical research studies;
• conduct high quality independent ICT research;
• assess research design across a range of research strategies and paradigms;
• consider and evaluate appropriate data collection instruments, and sampling strategies to fit the research purpose;
• understand the key principles of ethical and professional research conduct;
• understand the key principles of research presentation.

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

• design rigorous and ethical research studies;
• conduct high quality independent ICT research;
• assess research design across a range of research strategies and paradigms;
• consider and evaluate appropriate data collection instruments, and sampling strategies to fit the research purpose;
• understand the key principles of ethical and professional research conduct;
• understand the key principles of research presentation.

At the completion of this unit, students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• the purpose of requirements specification, of functional modelling of processes and data, and of the database concept;
• the relational database model;
• how to allow them to apply integrity constraints and business rules to a system design and implementation based around an enterprise level database management system.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• understand business information systems as the implementation of company policies and objectives;
• respect the points of view of both technical and business actors in the system development process.

Developed the skills to:

• undertake the functional modelling of processes and data for a business problem;

design and implement a database;

• implement integrity constraints and business rules in a database;
• write queries in SQL to maintain and use a relational database.

Demonstrated the communication skills necessary to:

• communicate requirements for business functionality in terms of data required, management of that data and its processing;
• work co-operatively in a professional systems development team.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

• a knowledge of the fundamentals of spreadsheets which will provide them with an understanding of spreadsheet modelling presentation and analysis using Excel;
• learnt the fundamentals of OO concepts;
• gained an understanding of the Excel object model;
• learnt how to create Excel macros;
• learnt the basics of programming including variables, data types, control structures, subroutines and functions;
• learnt to create custom dialog boxes and custom forms using VBA;
• the ability to create non-trivial applications using Visual Basic for Applications;
• learnt to create executable programs with custom dialog boxes and custom forms using appropriate software tools.

At the completion of this unit students will have:

Developed the ability to:

• understand basic Computer Structure and Operation and demonstrate use of the associated vocabulary;
• demonstrate knowledge of Arithmetic-Logic Unit, computer registers, Internal Bus, Memory, I/O organisations and interfacing standards;
• describe the operation of the CPU and explain how it is used to execute instructions;
• demonstrate an understanding of the basics of operating systems software using examples from File Systems, User Interfaces and Software Development Tools;
• discuss network architecture standards for open systems;
• describe TCP/IP network protocol;
• understand the fundamental functions and architectures of LAN and WAN.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• adopt a problem solving approach;
• accept the code of professional conduct and practice;
• act in accordance with best practice, industry standards and professional ethics.

Demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• cooperate effectively within small groups;
• present their work in various forms.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A knowledge and understanding of:

• the strategic contexts of IT management, including: the strategic value and impacts of IT; the strategy process; the need to effectively align business strategy and IT strategy; the value of a portfolio approach to managing IT investments and mitigating risk; the critical importance of a customer-centric approach to IT strategy; and key management roles and relationships (eg CEO-CIO);
• the more common business processes, and the role that IT can play in managing these processes and in providing information systems that are appropriate for an organistions operational needs;
• the technical processes of a generic SDLC model, contract development, outsourcing and package purchase as alternative approaches to providing information systems;
• the project management processes related to in-house and contract software development, software outsourcing, package acquisition and implementation;
• the requirements for ongoing management of the IT infrastructure of an organisation that takes appropriate advantage of technological innovation to address the short-term and long-term objectives of the business;
• IT professional ethics, and ethical issues in the management and use of IT within organisations.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• have a systematic approach to IT provisioning in a business whilst maintaining a pragmatic approach to business needs;
• critically assess the worth of technological innovations for their contribution towards meeting business objectives in both the short-term and the longer term;
• recognise the management of IT infrastructure as a corporate resource, and business information as critical to meeting business objectives;
• develop a project management approach to developing information systems that are appropriate to the organisations needs;
• maintain ethical principles and practices in IT management.

Developed the skills to:

• apply selected systems development techniques associated with SDLC-based system developments;
• model business processes using industry standard modelling conventions and a standard commercial business process modelling software package;
• determine requirements and specifying development or acquisition projects, using both traditional and innovative techniques and methods;
• apply project management techniques and using project management software.

Demonstrated the communication and teamwork skills necessary to:

• acquire understanding of the IT management and project management processes not only in terms of objective criteria like budgets, resources and software tools, but also as social activities and relationships involving individual, group and corporate-wide objectives and imperatives.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be competent in designing, constructing, testing and documenting small computer programs using Java;
• be able to demonstrate the software engineering principles of maintainability, readability, and modularisation; and,
• understand the concepts of the object-oriented style of programming.

At the completion of this unit students will be expected to have understanding of:

• basic computer hardware and architectures;
• process management;
• memory management;
• operating systems architectures;
• basic network protocols;
• network topologies;
• the architecture of Linux;
• usage and administration of Linux systems;
• deployment of Linux in personal and enterprise contexts.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand the motivations behind the development of database management systems;
• appreciate the underlying theoretical basis of the relational database model and how this model may be implemented in practice;
• understand the differences between non-relational database models and the relational database mode;
• be able to apply logical and physical database design principles to a database implementation;
• be conversant with Structured Query Language (SQL);
• understand the processes involved in database administration, transaction management, concurrency control, restart and recovery.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• understand layered ISO and TCP/IP protocols;
• have knowledge of data transmision technology, signal encoding techniques and data link control protocols;
• understand multiplexing methods and technologies;
• understand the functions and architectures of LAN and WAN.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A theoretical and conceptual understanding of:

• the characteristics of commercial web sites and the authoring/management issues associated with them;
• the features and applicability of a range of software tools which are used in the development of websites;
• internet standards and protocols, in particular the impact of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards in this area;
• a web based document as an instance of the W3C Document Object Model;
• website usability issues;
• the role that products such as Macromedia Flash can play in web authoring;
• copyright related issues as they apply to web authoring.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• appreciate the flexibility required in dealing with clients in a variety of situations encountered in the tendering/authoring process;
• demonstrate a critical attitude towards assessing the success of websites;
• demonstrate a recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of information technology in the context of the development and use of web based multimedia systems.

Developed the skills to:

• create and manipulate digital content for websites, including basic audio and animation;
• code web pages using standard HTML/XHTML, including tables and forms;
• make use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to add style to web documents;
• use JavaScript to add interactivity to HTML pages;
• access and manipulate DOM objects in a web document;
• write HTML embedded script code to produce dynamic database driven web documents;
• produce design specification documents applicable to a web site authoring task.

Demonstrated the teamwork skills necessary to:

• work as a member of a project team.

At the completion of this unit students will have -

A theoretical and conceptual understanding of:

• information technology and the software tools as they relate to (and are used in) multimedia systems;
• the Adobe Flash authoring environment for CD-ROM and web based systems development

techniques associated with digital video, images and sound and the appropriate application of these for use in CD-ROM and web development;

• the formal process undertaken for preparing and documenting the various development stages of a multimedia system;
• how to achieve a range of special effects which are commonly required for advanced interactive design in multimedia systems;
• fundamental programming techniques and how to carry this knowledge across multiple languages.

Developed attitudes that enable them to:

• outline strengths and weaknesses of information technology in the context of the development and use of multimedia systems;
• make informed decisions on the most appropriate blend of tools and technologies to support a given multimedia system requirement;
• formulate constructive criticism within the construct of critical analysis.

Developed the skills to:

• apply advanced interactive design techniques to a multimedia system using a time/frame based authoring environments;
• use a blend of industry standard multimedia tools and products;
• write code to assist in advanced system interaction with the programming language ActionScript 3.0;
• further enhance and refine user interface and navigational design and creativity skills in multimedia systems;
• specify an appropriate tool set for developing and supporting advanced features/functionality in a multimedia system.

Demonstrated the teamwork skills necessary to:

• build confidence in formal presentation techniques presenting personal ideas, research concepts and developmental progress;
• discuss and share developmental processes and techniques within an informal populated environment.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• an understanding of the role of information systems in organisations;
• an understanding of some of the techniques used to analyse and design information systems;
• an understanding of the framework used to structure information systems development projects;
• an understanding of when the use of a particular technique is appropriate;
• the attitudes to appreciate the capabilities and limitations of an information system;
• the practical skills to apply some of the analysis and design techniques in a systems development situation;
• have the practical skills to communicate requirements for business functionality of an information system in terms of data required, data storage and processing.

At the completion of this unit students will:

• be familiar with Chinese language and multilingual computing environments;
• learned the principles and skills of Chinese business computing through the practical use of Chinese software systems;
• acquired skills that can easily be translated into using software in non-Roman languages;
• understand Chinese and universal character encoding methods for multilingual information processing;
• developed the ability to understand the techniques used to develop Chinese and global software for business applications.