Caulfield campus
Course code: 1167
Course leader: Ms Anne Rouse and Ms Helen Smith
The Master of Information Systems is offered by the School of Information Management and 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 school library and the school's honours and graduate studies centre.
Applicants are required to hold a Bachelor of Computing or Bachelor of Information Systems 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.
In 1998 the course fee is $8000 or $1000 per subject.
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 discipline of information systems. In particular cases, these may be supplemented by selected offerings from the fourth-year subjects offered by the discipline of information systems, and the fourth and fifth-year subjects offered by other schools in the faculty. No more than two of the subjects selected will be at fourth-year level or from another discipline.
The fourth and fifth-year subjects offered by the discipline from which individual courses of study will be developed are as follows:
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 to a managerial position may select: