Caulfield and Clayton campuses
Course code: 1600
Course leader: Mr Peter O'Donnell
The aim of the Graduate Certificate in Decision Support Systems is to provide graduate students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to the appropriate application of information technology to the support of management decision making. Topics covered in the course include identification of decision problems, analysis and description of the nature of decision problems, alternative decision support systems designs, techniques and methods relevant to decision support. Graduates are expected to work as management support specialists and consultants.
Note that the Graduate Certificate Diploma in Decision Support Systems forms the first half of the Graduate Diploma in Decision Support Systems and that students may progress to Graduate Diploma with full credit for their study.
The fee in 1998 is $4000 or $1000 per subject.
The normal admission requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Decision Support Systems is a recognised bachelor degree with relevant subjects in computing or information systems or an equivalent qualification. Some places are available for applicants who do not satisfy this requirement but who have extensive high quality industry experience in information systems.
Typically six months full time, or one year part-time study.
Students will be required to complete twenty-four credit points of study comprising three core subjects (eighteen points) and one elective subject (six points). Core subjects are: