The Peninsula School of Computing and Information Technology has two interrelated roles: the provision of quality courses and the conduct of research in the academic discipline of commercial computing. The commercial computing discipline includes the elicitation, analysis and modelling of client requirements, the design of computerised information systems to meet these requirements and the engineering of computer software to implement the designed system. Emphasis is also placed on computer hardware and software technologies such as database management systems, local area networks, and graphical user interface management systems and how these technologies may be used most effectively in the construction of computerised information systems.
The teaching and research aspects of the school's mission complement each other. To teach courses that are both pedagogically sound and relevant to current theory and practice invites avenues of research. The research, in turn, energises the teaching with a freshness and breadth of ideas.
The aim of the school is to provide students with a quality learning environment, which includes not only good teaching from a committed and competent staff, but also, the necessary physical resources and a pastoral and administrative infrastructure that guides and serves its students. The school seeks to develop its students to prepare them for entrance into the computing profession.
The school aims to provide an environment for its staff that will both support and challenge them: support them with the facilities and environment conducive to productive achievement and challenge them with the opportunities to develop themselves professionally.
The school offers the Bachelor of Computing with a major in applications development at the pass and honours level. Postgraduate research degrees may be taken at the masters and doctoral levels.
Graduates in a non-computing discipline can enter the computing profession by completing the graduate diploma offered by the school. Flexibility is available in the school's courses with provision for the inclusion of non-computing majors and minors, the availability of double degrees conducted jointly with other faculties.
The school conducts a summer semester offering a full range of computing subjects. Students can use these summer semesters in several ways: to accelerate (fastrack) the degree, to spread subject load more evenly throughout the year, or to catch up on previously failed subjects.
The School Advisory Board, composed of staff and senior computing industry representatives, ensures the relevance of subject offerings to current industry practice. The Education Forum provides a venue for academics to discuss pedagogical ideas and concerns.
The school has a wide range of research interests. Currently it conducts research in the following areas.
Computer education
Computer-assisted instruction, training and assessment; teaching methods for the computing discipline; selection of tertiary course applicants.
Information security; cryptography; security engineering.
Integrity and performance of database systems; transaction management in multi-database systems; mobile database systems.
User interface management systems; graphical user interfaces; user interfaces for hypertext and multimedia systems.
Information retrieval in hypertexts; concept-based information retrieval systems.
Multimedia information systems; multimedia support for concurrent engineering; management of multimedia objects; synchronisation in multimedia systems; evaluation of multimedia systems; multimedia applications in education.
Software engineering environments; software traceability and consistency; software object management systems; software process modelling and enactment; computer-supported cooperative work; environment support for formal methods; CASE tools and their interoperability; information systems engineering methods; system modelling techniques; information systems method engineering; software reuse; object-oriented approaches. For further information, contact Dr J Han (postgraduate coordinator for Peninsula SCIT), telephone (03) 904 4604.
The applications development major is a sequence of subjects available to students studying for a Bachelor of Computing at Peninsula campus. The subjects are also available to students in a range of other courses on other campuses.
The major aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes to enable them to analyse a wide variety of business problems, and to design, construct and implement computerised information systems that can be used to solve these problems. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding computing and the development of computerised information systems. This framework enables students to understand, integrate and use new and emerging methods, tools and technologies.
Students completing this major will have knowledge of:
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