Master of Information Systems

• Important information
• Introduction
• Admission requirements
• Fees for Australian residents
• Course structure
  • Course options some examples

Important information

Caulfield campus

Course code: 1167

Course leader: Ms Anne Rouse

Introduction

The Master of Information Systems is offered by the Department of Information Systems. It provides specialised and directed advanced study in specific areas in the information systems domain of current interest and importance to computing professionals.

Subjects will primarily take the form of seminars. They normally focus on the lecturer's current areas of research. This results in the students gaining considerable insight into active research domains, in sufficient depth to enable them to apply the results of current research in their place of employment.

Graduates of the Master of Information Systems program are expected to play leading roles in the profession in Australia and other countries.

Masters students have access to the department library and the department's honours and graduate studies centre.

Admission requirements

Applicants are required to hold a Bachelor of Computing with honours, or the Monash University Graduate Diploma in Information Technology, Graduate Diploma in Information Systems, or equivalent qualifications. Marks in fourth-year subjects should be at the HII level or equivalent.

Fees for Australian residents

In 1996 the course fee is $8000 or $1000 per subject.

Course structure

The Master of Information Systems comprises forty-eight credit points of coursework taken over one year full-time or two years part-time. The course contains no research component. There is one compulsory subject SYS5100 (Contemporary issues in information systems) in which leading information systems practitioners and academics discuss major issues of current concern to IS practitioners. Students can choose their remaining seven subjects to suit their own needs and interests. Subjects will be taken primarily from the fifth-year offerings of the Department of Information Systems. In particular cases, these may be supplemented by selected offerings from the fourth-year subjects offered by the Department of Information Systems, and the fourth and fifth-year subjects offered by other departments in the faculty. No more than two of the subjects selected will be at fourth-year level or from another department.

The fourth and fifth-year subjects offered by the department from which individual courses of study will be developed are as follows:

Fourth-year

• SYS4010 Reading subject (6 points)
• SYS4110 Information systems security (6 points)
• SYS4130 Information systems strategic planning (6 points)
• SYS4140 Information modelling (6 points)
• SYS4160 Decision aids (6 points)
• SYS4170 Executive information systems (6 points)
• SYS4180 Knowledge-based systems (6 points)
• SYS4190 Knowledge engineering (6 points)
• SYS4210 Decision support systems (6 points)
• SYS4220 Soft systems analysis (6 points)
• SYS4270 Systems design and implementation (6 points)
• SYS4280 Electronic commerce (6 points)
• SYS4360 Information systems management (6 points)
• SYS4470 Human-machine interfaces (6 points)
• SYS4540 Intelligent decision aids

• SYS5010 Reading subject (6 points)
• SYS 5100 Contemporary issues in information systems (6 points)
• SYS5110 Applied neural networks (6 points)
• SYS5120 Requirements acquisition and modelling (6 points)
• SYS5150 Decision support methods (6 points)
• SYS5240 Management and information systems (6 points)
• SYS5250 Advanced topics in information systems management (6 points)
• SYS5260 History of computing thought (6 points)
• SYS5270 Brains, minds, and computers: current topics in cognitive science (6 points)
• SYS5280 Knowledge-based decision support (6 points)
• SYS5306 Advanced topics in systems design (6 points)
• SYS5316 Design theory (6 points)

Course options some examples

• A student can develop a course of study to meet specific goals. For example, a project leader with many years industrial experience who wishes to change role to a managerial position may select:
  SYS4130 Information systems strategic planning
• SYS4360 Information systems management
• SYS5100 Contemporary issues in information systems
• SYS5120 Requirements acquisition and modelling
• SYS5150 Decision support methods
• SYS5240 Management and information systems
• SYS5250 Advanced topics in information systems management
• SYS5316 Design theory

• SYS4170 Executive information systems
• SYS4470 Human-machine interfaces
• SYS5100 Contemporary issues in information systems
• SYS5110 Advanced topics in artificial intelligence
• SYS5150 Decision support methods
• SYS5240 Management and information systems
• SYS5280 Knowledge-based decision support
• SYS5316 Design theory

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