Bachelor of Information Management

• Introduction
  • Entrance requirements
  • Accreditation
  • Honours year
• Course structure
  • First year
    • First semester
    • Second semester
  • Second year
    • First semester
    • Second semester
  • Third year

Introduction

Clayton campus

Course code: 1174

Course coordinators: Ms June Anderson and Mr David Foott

The Bachelor of Information Management integrates studies in information theory and practice and computer-centred information management. In addition students may undertake studies in a faculty other than Computing and Information Technology; these studies enable students to supplement their information management studies with another area of interest.

The Bachelor of Information Management can be completed in three years of full-time study.

It requires the completion of a major in information management, which is made up of subjects from the discipline of librarianship, archives and records, supported by complementary computing subjects from other schools of the Faculty of Information Technology. The computing options cover database concepts, network technology issues, systems analysis and design, programming and business applications of computing.

A minor sequence of studies may be taken from a faculty other than Computing and Information Technology, such as Arts, Science or Business and Economics.

Major studies cover the techniques of processing information for optimal storage, retrieval and service delivery to clients, users and the community; governance, policy and information infrastructure; the development of strategic information policy; electronic communications and office automation systems. A mandatory information management project involving small groups of students working on a real-world problem is also undertaken.

At third-year level, students can either undertake additional information management subjects or take subjects from a faculty other than Computing and Information Technology to extend a minor to a major study. Those wishing to gain a recognised qualification in recordkeeping or librarianship will undertake the program outlined below under `Course structure (third year)'.

Graduates will have a wide variety of skills relating to the implications of information management for people and organisations, and will be well suited to employment in business organisations, government instrumentalities, research bodies and universities.

Entrance requirements

Applicants will be required to have successfully completed the VCE or equivalent studies, with a grade average of D in VCE English in units 3 and 4.

Accreditation

Accreditation is being sought from the Australian Computing Society, the Australian Society of Archivists, the Records Management Association of Australia and the Australian Library and Information Association.

Honours year

A fourth year of study, leading to an honours degree, is available to students achieving a credit or better in third-year information management. The honours program will consist of a mixture of coursework and research and may be used to complete a qualification in recordkeeping or librarianship. Individual programs will be arranged to cater for particular needs; all will require the approval of the head of school.

Course structure

For course map details, please refer to Map 9 in the `Undergraduate course maps' section.

The course for the pass degree consists of subjects to a total value of 144 points, with a major in information management and at least a minor in one other discipline.

The Bachelor of Information Management consists of an information management major made up of a fifty-two-point sequence of subjects taken from the discipline of librarianship, archives and records and forty points of supporting computing studies from other schools of the Faculty of Information Technology.

Students may also complete a minor sequence of at least twenty-eight points in a non-computing discipline. The minor sequence is normally made up of twelve points of first-year subjects, followed by sixteen points of second-year subjects. Students may choose any area of study for their minor sequence.

In general, a maximum of sixty points of first-year subjects may be counted towards the degree. Students must complete at least thirty-six points of second-year subjects and at least thirty-six points of third-year subjects.

First year

First semester

• BUS1010 Introductory computing for business applications (6 points)
• COT1700 The computing environment (6 points)
• LAR1001 Documenting society I (6 points)
• First subject in minor from any faculty, including Computing and Information Technology (6 points)

Second semester

• BUS1060 Computer programming for business (6 points)
• COT1800 Public networks (6 points)
• LAR1002 Documenting society II (6 points)
• Continuation of minor (6 points)

Second year

First semester

• COT2180 Relational database (8 points)
• LAR2003 Information processing (8 points)
• Continuation of minor (8 points)

Second semester

Two electives (8 points) from

• LAR2004 Information policies and structures (4 points)
• LAR2005 Legal systems and recorded information (4 points)
• LAR2006 Electronic information sources (4 points)

• COT2004 Data communications and networks (4 points)
• COT2170 Electronic document operations (4 points)
• COT2200 Systems security and privacy (4 points);

• Continuation of minor (8 points).

Third year

• LAR3001 Information science (8 points)
• LAR3002 Information management project (8 points)
• Subjects offered by the discipline of librarianship, archives and records (8 points)

• LAR3004 Information policies and structures (4 points)
• LAR3005 Legal systems and recorded information (4 points)
• LAR3006 Electronic information sources (4 points)
• LAR3007 Group and corporate recordkeeping (4 points)
• LAR3008 The technology of print (4 points)
• LAR3009 Ethics and risks in information management (4 points)
• LAR3010 The role and management of information services (4 points)

• LAR3010 The role and management of information services (4 points)
• LAR3650 Information resources: acquisition and access (6 points)
• LAR3651 Information resources: organisation (6 points)
• LAR3652 Reference principles and practice (6 points)
• LAR3653 Library contexts and clients (6 points)
• LAR3654 Professional practice (librarianship) (6 points)

Those seeking a professional qualification in teacher librarianship will follow the program for librarianship but with LAR3653 and LAR3654 being replaced by:

• LAR3671 Libraries, curriculum and literature (6 points)
• LAR3672 Professional practice (teacher librarianship) (6 points)

• LAR3007 Group and corporate recordkeeping (4 points)
• LAR3010 The role and management of information services (4 points)
• LAR3630 Recordkeeping contexts and clients (6 points)
• LAR3631 Appraisal and description (6 points)
• LAR3632 Recordkeeping concepts (6 points)
• LAR3634 Professional practice (recordkeeping) (6 points)