Information Technology Handbook, 1998: Monash University, Australia - Contents

• A message from the dean
• Information for students
  • Computing and careers
  • Course selection
  • Undergraduate courses
    • General
    • Pass degrees
      • Table 1: The undergraduate degrees
    • Honours degrees
      • Table 2: The honours degrees of the faculty
    • Combined and double degrees
      • Table 3: Combined and double degrees
  • Graduate programs
    • General
    • Specialist discipline knowledge courses
      • Graduate diplomas
      • Masters degrees
      • Doctor of Philosophy
    • Professionally oriented and cross-disciplinary knowledge
      • Graduate diplomas
      • Masters degrees
    • Other
      • Graduate certificates
    • Fees for Australian residents for postgraduate courses
  • Applying for a course
    • Entrance requirements
    • Quotas
    • International students
    • Postgraduate students
  • Information for new students
    • Home campus
    • Transferring course
    • Problems with study
    • Orientation Week
    • Buying a computer
    • Internet access
    • Code of ethics
    • Accommodation
      • Berwick campus
      • Caulfield campus
      • Clayton campus
      • Peninsula campus
      • Gippsland campus
    • Parking
    • Fees
    • Scholarships and bursaries
    • Choosing subjects
    • Enrolment
    • Pre-enrolment
    • Assessment
    • Standards of thesis and assignment writing
    • Timetables
    • Textbooks and notes
    • Part-time students
    • Offshore students
    • Distance education students
    • Examinations and results
    • Special consideration and deferred examinations
    • Publication of results
    • Cheating
    • Regulations
    • Academic progress and exclusion
    • Unsatisfactory progress
    • Faculty policy on subject enrolments and results
    • Deferment
    • Leave of absence
  • Grievance procedures
    • 1.0 Introduction
    • 2.0 Application of procedures
    • 3.0 Confidentiality
    • 4.0 Lodging of grievances
    • 5.0 Composition of the student grievance committee
    • 6.0 Procedures
  • Student rights and reasonable expectations
    • General
      • 1.0 Basic student rights and responsibilities
      • 2.0 Unsatisfactory progress by students
      • 3.0 Basic staff rights and responsibilities
      • 4.0 Levels of service
        • 4.1 Computing facilities
        • 4.2 Faculty office services
        • 4.3 The services available from all school offices
        • 4.3.1 Assessment
        • 4.3.2 Subject choice
        • 4.3.3 Research
        • 4.3.4 Laboratories and other teaching accommodation
      • 5.0 Point value of subjects
  • Student support services
    • Disability support services
    • Language and Learning Services Unit (LLS)
    • English language proficiency
    • Support services for international students
  • Undergraduate studies
    • General
    • Applying for entry
      • Advanced standing
      • Alternative category entry (ACE)
        • 1 Age and education
        • 2 Aboriginal persons Monash Orientation Scheme for Aborigines (MOSA)
        • 3 Disadvantaged/country schools program
        • 4 Open learning and enhancement programs
    • Credit transfer
    • TAFE articulation
    • Honours study
    • Prohibited subject combinations
    • The semester program
  • Postgraduate studies
    • General
    • Applications for entry
    • Masters and PhD by research
      • Supervision
      • Attendance requirements
    • Roles and responsibilities for the supervision of masters candidates
    • Coursework
    • Fees
    • Admission for non-award study
      • Duration
      • Fees
      • Admission requirements
      • Applications
• Faculty information
  • Structure and organisation of the faculty
  • Pearcey Centre for Computing
  • Faculty and school offices
• School information
  • School of Business Systems
    • Profile of the school
    • Teaching
    • Links with industry
    • Research
      • Project management
        • Academic staff
      • Operations management
        • Academic staff
      • Accounting, financial and administrative systems
        • Academic staff
      • Advanced trading and marketing systems
        • Academic staff
      • Multimedia for business
        • Academic staff
      • Quality, reliability and software metrics
        • Academic staff
      • Chinese language and multilingual computing
        • Academic staff
      • Timetabling and scheduling
        • Academic staff
      • Applications of evolutionary computing to business
        • Academic staff
      • Further information
    • Objectives Bachelor of Business Systems
  • School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
    • Profile of the school
    • Teaching
    • Links
    • Environment
    • Research
      • Advanced digital design
        • Academic staff
      • Artificial intelligence
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
      • Biological computing
        • Academic staff
      • Computer graphics
        • Academic staff
      • Database systems and technology
        • Academic staff
      • Digital communications
        • Academic staff
      • Digital signal processing
        • Academic staff
      • Distributed computing, mobile and database systems and technology
        • Academic staff
      • Mobile and distributed object technology and systems
        • Academic staff
      • Graphical user interfaces
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
      • Image processing
        • Academic staff
      • Inductive inference
        • Academic staff
      • Information technology
        • Academic staff
      • Intelligent and knowledge-based information retrieval systems
        • Academic staff
      • Logic programming
        • Academic staff
      • Multiprocessor architecture
        • Academic staff: Dr R Pose.
      • Object-oriented software engineering
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
      • Operating systems
        • Academic staff
      • Pattern analysis and machine intelligence
        • Academic staff
      • Programming languages
        • Academic staff
      • Robotics
        • Academic staff
      • Software tools for high performance computers
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
        • Academic staff
      • Virtual reality display architectures
        • Academic staff
    • Objectives Bachelor of Computer Science
    • Objectives Bachelor of Computing: major in computer technology
    • Objectives Bachelor of Computing: major in software development
    • Objectives Bachelor of Digital Systems
  • School of Information Management and Systems
    • Profile of the school
    • Teaching
    • Research
      • Decision support systems laboratory
      • Electronic commerce research group
      • Intelligent decision support research group
      • information continuum research group
    • Further information
  • Centre for Information Systems Practice
    • Profile of the centre
    • Industry-based research
    • Consulting services
    • Industry training
    • Publications
  • Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology
    • Profile of the school
    • Teaching
    • Research
      • Computer-mediated communication and computer-aided learning
        • Academic staff
      • Data communications
        • Academic staff
      • Image processing
        • Academic staff
      • Multimedia information systems and communication
        • Academic staff
      • Multiple-valued logic
        • Academic staff
      • Operations management
        • Academic staff
      • Optimisation techniques
        • Academic staff
      • Reliability modelling
        • Academic staff
    • Objectives major in system development
    • Objectives major in business systems
    • Further information
  • Peninsula School of Computing and Information Technology
    • Profile of the school
    • Teaching
    • Research
      • Computer education
        • Academic staff
      • Computer security
        • Academic staff
      • Database systems
        • Academic staff
      • Humancomputer interaction
        • Academic staff
      • Information retrieval
        • Academic staff
      • Multimedia
        • Academic staff
      • Software and systems engineering
        • Academic staff
      • Further information
    • Objectives major in applications development
    • Further Information
• Undergraduate courses
  • Diploma in Computing
    • Introduction
    • Course structure
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
      • Fourth year
      • Elective subjects
  • Bachelor of Business Systems
    • Introduction
      • Entrance requirements
      • Accreditation
      • Industry-based learning program
      • Quota
      • Scholarship selection
      • International students
    • Course structure
      • Industry-based learning stream
      • First year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Second year
        • Summer school
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Third year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Normal stream
      • First year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Second year
      • Third year
      • Elective streams
      • Accounting stream
      • First year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Second year
      • Third year
      • Management streamFirst year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Second year
      • Third year
      • Language stream specialising in Japanese
      • First year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Second year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Third year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
    • Honours program in business systems
  • Bachelor of Computing
    • Introduction
      • Entrance requirements
      • Course structure
      • Fourth or honours year
  • Bachelor of Computing Caulfield
    • Introduction
    • Course structure for a single major
      • Part-time study
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Course structure for a double major
    • Major in computer technology
      • First year (12 points)
      • Second year (16 points)
      • Third year (24 points)
      • Computer technology electives
      • Computer technology project
      • Corequisite studies
        • First year
        • Second year
      • Honours program in computer technology
    • Major in information systems
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
      • Corequisite studies
        • First year
        • Second year
      • Honours program in information systems
    • Major in software development
      • First year (12 points)
      • Second year (16 points)
      • Third year (24 points)
      • Software development elective subjects
        • Subjects which present programming for particular environments
        • Subjects which support software paradigms and development processes
      • Corequisite studies
        • First year
        • Second year
      • Honours program in software development
  • Bachelor of Computing
    • Single or double major in system development and/or business systems
      • Prerequisites
    • Course structure system development major
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
      • Honours program in system development
    • Course structure business systems major
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Course structure double major in business systems and system development
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third level
  • Bachelor of Computing Peninsula
    • Introduction
    • Course structure for a major in applications development
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Honours year in applications development
    • Honours year in business systems or system development
      • Entrance requirements
      • Course structure
        • On campus
        • Distance education
  • Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science)
    • Introduction
    • Course structure
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Subjects
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
  • Bachelor of Computer Science
    • Introduction
      • Entrance requirements
    • Course structure
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Double major in computing
    • Subjects
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Honours program in computer science
    • Honours program in computer science/accounting
  • Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) Caulfield and Peninsula
    • Introduction
      • Third year
  • Bachelor of Digital Systems
    • Introduction
      • Entrance requirements
    • Course structure
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Honours program in digital systems
      • Prerequisites
      • Structure
      • Coursework units
      • Project topics
  • Bachelor of Education (School Librarianship)
    • Introduction
    • Course structure
  • 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
  • Bachelor of Information Systems
    • Introduction
      • Entrance requirements
      • Employment
    • Course structure
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
      • Honours year
  • Bachelor of Multimedia
  • Bachelor of Software Engineering
    • Introduction
      • Entrance requirements
  • Minor sequences from faculties other than the Faculty of Information Technology
    • General
    • Accounting sequence
      • Accounting minor
        • First year
        • Second year
      • Accounting major
        • First year
        • Second year
        • Third year
    • Banking and finance sequence
    • Econometrics sequence
    • Management sequence
    • Marketing sequence
    • Mathematics sequence
      • Mathematics major, minor and electives
        • Mathematics subjects
        • Mathematics minor sequence
        • Mathematics major sequence
      • First year
      • Second year
      • Third year
    • Psychology sequence
    • Sociology sequence
      • First-year level
      • Second/third-year level
  • Combined and double degrees
  • Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Computing
  • Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Computing
  • Bachelor of Arts (Communication)/Bachelor of Computing
    • Introduction
    • Entry requirements
    • Course structure and sequence
      • Communications compulsory sequence
      • Arts minor sequences
      • Systems development sequence
      • Business systems sequence
  • Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Information Management
  • Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Computing
    • Introduction
    • Entry requirements
    • Course structure
      • Core subjects
      • Business majors and submajors
      • Computing major
      • Electives
      • Further information
  • Bachelor of Business (Accounting)/Bachelor of Computing
    • Introduction
    • Entry requirements
    • Course structure
      • First year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Second year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Third year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Fourth year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
    • Further information
  • Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)/Bachelor of Computing
    • Introduction
    • Entry requirements
    • Course structure
      • First year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Second year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Third year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Fourth year
        • First semester
        • Second semester
    • Further information
  • Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Business Systems
  • Bachelor of Business Systems/Bachelor of Laws
  • Bachelor of Computing/Bachelor of Education
  • Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering
• Undergraduate course maps
  • Map 1 Bachelor of Business Systems (Industry-based learning stream)
  • Map 2 Bachelor of Business Systems (non-IBL stream)
  • Map 3 Bachelor of Computing, Caulfield (single computing major)
  • Map 4 Bachelor of Computing, Caulfield (double computing major)
  • Map 5.1 Bachelor of Computing, Gippsland (system development major)
  • Map 5.2 Bachelor of Computing, Gippsland (business systems major)
  • Map 5.3 Bachelor of Computing, Gippsland (double major in business systems development)
  • Map 6 Bachelor of Computing, Peninsula
  • Map 7.1 Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science)
  • Map 7.2 Bachelor of Computer Science
  • Map 8 Bachelor of Digital Systems
  • Map 9 Bachelor of Digital Systems (double major in digital systems and computer science)
  • Map 10 Bachelor of Information Management
  • Map 11 Bachelor of Information Systems, Caulfield
  • Programming language table
• Graduate studies
  • Graduate Certificate in Computing
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Certificate in Computing by distance education
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • First semester
      • Second semester
  • Graduate Certificate in Information Technology
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Certificate in Decision Support Systems
    • Introduction
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Admission requirements
    • Duration of the course
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Certificate in Digital Communications Clayton campus
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Certificate in Information Systems
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Certificate in Robotics Clayton campus
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
    • Applications from Australian residents
    • Applications from international students
      • 1 Language
      • 2 TOEFL
      • 3 IELTS
      • 4 Australian Year 12 English examination (eg VCE, SAME, TEE)
    • Campus addresses
      • Caulfield campus
      • Clayton campus
      • Gippsland campus
      • Peninsula campus
  • Graduate Diploma in Archives and Records Management
    • Introduction
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Fieldwork and research seminars
      • Timetable
  • Graduate Diploma in Business Systems Clayton
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Group 1
      • Group 2
    • Entry to the Master of Business Systems second year
  • Graduate Diploma in Business Systems by distance education Gippsland
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Diploma in Business Technology
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Core subjects
      • Foundation subjects
    • General entry, business entry and technical entry streams
      • General entry
        • First year
        • Second year
      • Business entry
        • First year
        • Second year
      • Technical entry
        • First year
        • Second year
  • Graduate Diploma in Computer Science
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Diploma in Computing Caulfield
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Full-time
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Part-time
        • First year
        • Second year
  • Graduate Diploma in Computing Peninsula
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • First year
      • Second year
  • Graduate Diploma in Computing by distance education Gippsland
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • First year
      • Second year
  • Graduate Diploma in Decision Support Systems
    • Introduction
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Admission requirements
    • Duration of the course
    • Course structure
      • Core subjects
      • Elective subjects
  • Graduate Diploma in Digital Communications
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Bridging subjects
      • Core subjects
      • Elective subjects
  • Graduate Diploma of Education (School Librarianship) distance education
    • Course structure
  • Graduate Diploma in Information Management with specialisations in librarianship, teacher librarianship and recordkeeping
    • Introduction
    • Course objectives
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Graduate Diploma in Information Management (Librarianship)
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Graduate Diploma in Information Management (Teacher Librarianship)
        • First semester
        • Second semester
      • Graduate Diploma in Information Management (Recordkeeping)
        • First semester
        • Second semester
  • Graduate Diploma in Information Systems
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Third-year
      • Fourth-year
    • Course options some examples
      • Computer programmer systems analyst
      • Systems analyst management systems support
  • Graduate Diploma in Information Technology
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Subjects
      • Stream summaries
        • Information technology stream (COT4230, COT4300, COT4310, COT4330 and COT4430)
        • Programming stream (SFT4020 and SFT4040)
        • Distributed systems stream (COT4200, COT4230 and COT4350)
        • Systems programming stream (COT4200, SFT4100 and SFT4151)
        • Object-oriented software engineering stream (SFT4030 and SFT4490)
  • Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Studies
    • Introduction
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Timetable
  • Graduate Diploma in Robotics
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Core units
      • Bridging subjects
      • Elective subjects
  • Master of Arts (Archives and Records)
    • Introduction
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Part one
      • Part two
      • Fieldwork and research seminars
      • Timetable
  • Master of Arts in bibliographical and textual studies
    • Introduction
  • Master of Arts in Librarianship
    • Introduction
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Fieldwork
      • School seminars
      • Part one
      • Part two
  • Master of Business Systems by coursework
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Preliminary coursework
      • Masters year
  • Master of Business Systems by distance education Gippsland
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
  • Master of Business Systems by research
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Masters preliminary year
      • Masters year
  • Master of Business Systems by distance education Gippsland
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
  • Master of Computing by coursework
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
    • Software engineering stream
  • Master of Computing by research
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Course structure
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Attendance requirements
    • Duration
  • Master of Digital Communications
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Level 4
        • Bridging subjects
        • Core subjects
        • Elective subjects
      • Level 5
  • Master of Information Management (Archives and Records) and Master of Information Management (Librarianship)
    • Introduction
    • Course objectives
    • Admission requirements
      • Part I
      • Part II
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Part I
      • Archives and records specialist stream
      • Library and information studies specialist stream
        • Librarianship
        • Teacher librarianship
      • Part II
      • 100 per cent coursework option: on campus and by distance education
        • Archives and records specialisation
        • Librarianship specialisation
        • Common stream
        • Archives and records stream
        • Librarianship stream
      • 50 per cent coursework/50 per cent research option: on campus only
      • 100 per cent research option in archives and records: on campus only
  • Master of Information Systems
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Fees for Australian residents
    • Course structure
      • Fourth year
      • Fifth year
    • Course options some examples
  • Master of Librarianship
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
    • Duration
    • Course structure
      • Timetable
      • School seminars
      • Thesis
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    • Introduction
    • Admission requirements
  • Research scholarships
• Details of subjects