Course code: 0962
Course coordinator: Dr Des Casey
For course map details, please refer to Map 6 in the `Undergraduate course maps' section.
The course for the pass degree consists of subjects to a total value of 144 points. This is made up of the major in applications development (ninety-two points) and at least one twenty-eight point minor in a non-computing discipline.
The applications development major occupies three-quarters (thirty-six points) of the first-year load, at least two-thirds (thirty-two points) of the second-year load, and at least half (twenty-four points) of the third-year load.
In addition, a non-computing minor of at least twenty-eight points (consisting of either a first-year sequence totalling twelve points and a second-year sequence totalling sixteen points, or a second-year sequence totalling sixteen points and a third-year sequence totalling at least twelve points), must be completed. The discipline is expected to be one from a faculty other than the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology.
The first-year subjects serve both as a general introduction to applications development and as a prerequisite for further studies. Thus they may be taken either by students wishing to major in applications development or by students whose major interest is in some other branch of business, science, arts or another discipline area.
No individual third-year subject may be taken until any prerequisite core subject has been completed.
Coordinator: Dr Yuliang Zheng
The school offers an honours program, CFR4000, to students who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the issues involved in developing computerised applications. The school's honours program has three specific purposes:
1 To develop in students a range of knowledge and skills concerning the integration of information system development methods, software engineering techniques and tools, and various emerging hardware and software technologies. This honours program further develops the knowledge and skills covered in the school's undergraduate program which focuses on applications development.
2 To develop in students, through active engagements in research projects, a deeper understanding of one or more specific research areas in computing and information technology.
3 To serve as the first training ground for those students who wish to further their studies towards a masters and/or PhD degree.
Students achieving credit or better in the third year of their degrees are eligible for the honours course. Normally students would be expected to have completed a degree in computing but other degrees may be acceptable at the discretion of the head of school.
The honours program consists of two parts, a research project and a course work component. The research project counts for fifty per cent or more of the degree work load, with the remainder being determined by the coursework component of the honours program. For each student, the exact percentage distribution of the two components in the honours program will be determined by the school after examining the student's academic performance in previous studies.
Coursework units in 1997 may include the areas of agent and multi-agent systems, computer security, computer-assisted information systems engineering, programming tools and environments, graphical user interfaces, informational retrieval, multimedia programming, object orientation and reuse, object-oriented CASE, object-oriented testing, operating systems for multimedia, software architecture and design, and software metrics and productivity.
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