Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing
Applicants should have met the appropriate entry criteria for both the
Bachelor of Arts (Communication) and the Bachelor of Computing. All applicants
should be willing to undertake a normal workload of forty-eight points a year
full-time or twenty-four points to thirty-two a year part-time or by distance
education.
The double degree offers students a structured sequence of study which
combines studies in most aspects of computing and communication studies.
A candidate for the double degree must fulfil the following requirements to
receive the awards of Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing:
(a) complete a total of 192 but not more than 216 points, comprising at least
ninety-six points from each of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and
the School of Computing and Information Technology;
(b) complete the prescribed sequence in communication studies (fifty-eight
points), an arts minor of four subjects (twenty-eight points) and an arts
first-level sequence of two subjects (twelve points);
(c) complete the prescribed sixteen-subject computing sequence in either
systems development or business systems (ninety-six points).
- GSC1901 Introduction to communication studies
- GSC1402 Media studies
- GSC1602 Introduction to methods of social research
- GSC2410 Public relations and mass communication technologies
- GSC2411 Media, culture, power: theories of mass communications
- GSC3402 Policies, audiences, futures
- GSC3407 Authorship and writing
- GSC3409 Narratives and representations
The arts minor can be chosen from history-politics, Indonesian,
sociology, writing, gender studies, journalism or community studies (details
are provided under the discipline headings).
- GCO1811 Computer programming 1
- GCO1812 Computer programming 2
- GCO1813 Information systems 1
- GCO1815 Computer technology
- GAS1614 Discrete mathematics
- GCO2811 Commercial programming
- GCO2812 Computer organisation
- GCO2813 Information systems 2
- GCO2814 Operating systems
- GCO2815 Database management systems
- GCO2817 Computer programming 3
- GCO3811 Software engineering
- GCO3819 Computing project
Students may opt to take the twelve-point
subject GCO3800 (Industry project) in place of GCO3819 (Computing project).
plus three elective subjects to be chosen from:
- GCO3812 Data communications
- GCO3813 Systems programming
- GCO3814 Human- computer interaction
- GCO3815 Artificial intelligence
- GCO3816 Information systems 3
- GCO3817 Computer graphics
- GBU1601 Introduction to electronic commerce or GBU1015 Business
information
- GCO1811 Computer programming 1
- GCO1813 Information systems 1
- GCO1815 Computer technology
- GAS1751 Quantitative methods 1
- GCO2802 Computer models for business decisions
- GCO2811 Commercial programming
- GCO2812 Computer organisation
- GCO2813 Information systems 2
- GCO2815 Database management systems
- GCO2816 Object-oriented analysis and design
- GCO3806 General operations management
- GCO3816 Information systems management
- GCO3819 Computing project
Students may opt to take the twelve-point
subject GCO3900 (Business systems project) in place of GCO3819 (Computing
project).
plus two elective subjects from:
- GCO3601 Infrastructure and electronic commerce
- GCO3803 Inventory management systems
- GCO3812 Data communications and networks 1
- GCO3811 Software engineering
- GCO3812 Data communications and networks 1
- GCO3822 Multimedia concepts and applications
- GCO3823 Client-server and mobile database applications
- GCO3824 Data communications and networks 2
The course of study is normally a minimum of four years full-time or
eight years part-time, and normally cannot extend beyond eleven years.