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Availability: Available from 1998.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: To be announced.
Prerequisite: 615-255 (Organisational Processes)
Contact: Two two hour lectures and two one hour small group meetings per week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
At the completion of this subject, students should:
- be familiar with the experiences of a variety of organisations as they design, develop, implement, and use information systems;
- have experience in dealing with the complexity, politics, and reality of information systems in actual organisational contexts;
- have experience with the case method of learning to develop analytical, synthesis, listening, and presentation skills;
- know how to learn and generalise from the experiences of individual organisations;
- be exposed to the operations and culture of organisations, both well and poorly run, in various countries.
Content:
This is an integrative subject intended to incorporate the principles that have been addressed in earlier parts of the course. A combination of Australian and overseas case studies will be used.
Assessment:
Class participation, individual case study analysis and presentation, group case study assignment, end of semester case study examination of up to three hours. The individual and group case study assignments are expected to take up to eight hours per week in total. The weighting of the assessment components will be announced at the commencement of the subject.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 201)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
Maintained by: Dept. of Information Systems, Faculty of Science.
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