Undergraduate - Area of study Systems development

Students who commenced study in 2014 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirments; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.

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This area of study entry applies to students commencing this course in 2014 and should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook. Any 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

Notes

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Description

Large-scale systems development requires not only a solid grounding in computer science, but also sound knowledge of technological topics, such as computer architecture and networking. The systems development major combines the study of these areas with basic training in software engineering and is aimed at students who want to focus on the engineering aspects of information technology.

Units

Minor in systems development

Students complete:

FIT1010 Introduction to software engineering
FIT2043 Technical documentation for software engineers
FIT2069 Computer architecture
FIT2070 Operating systems

Major in systems development

Students complete the minor in systems development (above) and the following:

FIT3063 Human-computer interaction
FIT3077 Software engineering: architecture and design

plus any two units from:

FIT2024 Software engineering practice
FIT3013 Formal methods in software engineering
FIT3042 System tools and programming languages
FIT3080 Intelligent systems
FIT3088 Computer graphics
FIT3139 Computational science
FIT3141 Data communications and computer networks
FIT3143 Parallel computing
FIT4004 System validation and verification, quality and standards

Contact details

Website: visit http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/contact.html

Relevant courses

2380 Bachelor of Computer Science