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The degree in information systems focuses on the design, specification, and creation of information systems, and on the human and organisational arrangements needed to use information systems to achieve organisational goals. To cover these increasingly interrelated topics, the course offers study in five key areas: information systems, information technology, organisations, analytical skills, and professional competencies.
Bachelor of Information Systems graduates will find employment in a variety of professional roles, ranging from the very technical to the very business oriented, in public and private organisations in Australia and overseas.
Specific capabilities will be developed through work in the five general themes of the course.
This is the central theme of the course: information systems collect, process, store, and distribute information so that it can be used to make decisions, to keep track of resources, and to plan for the future. Particular focus is placed on imagining, specifying, designing, justifying, building, implementing, managing, and using information systems to add value in organisations.
An understanding of the potential of information technology to add value is essential to the successful implementation and use of information systems. Students will become familiar with computer hardware and software, telecommunications, databases and data structures, information technology architectures, and information technology infrastructures. Practical experience in these areas will help students learn how to assess the current and future capability of information technology.
To implement information systems efficiently and effectively in organisations requires the ability to analyse and understand organisational functions, processes, environments, characteristics, and cultures. This organisational perspective on information systems, and its relationship to the technical perspective developed in the information technology theme, is a distinguishing characteristic of the Bachelor of Information Systems course.
Effective design, development, and implementation of information systems in organisations requires a broad range of analytical skills, including data classification and modelling, information mapping and representation, systems analysis and design, and statistics. These and other analytical skills are essential for understanding, and communicating about, complex organisational situations and the potential and performance of information systems.
Graduates will, in the course of their jobs, work with people across a broad spectrum of technical and business interests and skills. Success in these interactions will require a well-developed set of personal competencies, including listening, collecting and synthesising information, writing, presenting, and working in teams.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Information Systems will participate in a Professional Skills Program covering a range of communication, professional and analytical skills. Students will be expected to complete the sequence satisfactorily at first, second and third year levels, and will be awarded a certificate on successful completion of this element of the course. The Professional Skills Program (PSP) aims to prepare students for the information systems workplace by teaching skills in communication, teamwork, leadership, writing, presenting in public, problem solving and more. It is a 55-hour course taught over a three-year or five-semester period. The PSP is a non-credit subject but attendance is a requirement of the Bachelor of Information Systems course.
First year PSP comprises an introduction to a range of professional skills, and the rationale for bringing such professional skills to the workplace. In second year, students study thinking skills, people skills, and oral and written communication skills. Third year PSP covers advanced presentation skills, advanced people skills such as negotiation and conflict resolution, and advanced problem-solving.
Note: Students in combined Bachelor of Information Systems courses can complete PSP over the five years of their course.
The objective of the Bachelor of Information Systems course is to prepare students to be part of teams that imagine, specify, design, justify, build, implement, manage, and use information systems. To accomplish this objective, graduates must understand how to use information technology, including hardware, software, and telecommunications, as a conduit for the value-added information content of formal organisational systems. This understanding is based on a solid theoretical grounding in both technology and organisations, as well as on experience working both individually and in teams to apply the theory to practice.
Upon completion of the Bachelor of Information Systems course, students will:
understand how people use information and information systems;
understand the business value of information and information systems in organisations;
understand the organisational settings in which information systems are used, including major business functions and processes;
have familiarity with, and some experience in, studying large, complex information systems;
understand, and be able to specify, the technical aspects of an information system;
be able to build small information systems;
be familiar with a range of techniques, standards, and tools for building and using large information systems in an organisational setting;
be able to participate in imagining, designing, justifying, implementing, and managing large information systems;
have professional competencies for effective work in organisations, including listening, writing, researching, analysing, presenting, and working in teams; and
know how to operate ethically within society's legal framework.
The Bachelor of Information Systems course normally requires three years of full-time study, and may be taken part time.
Students must complete at least 300 points of approved studies, comprising:
core studies in Information Systems or other disciplines at 100-, 200-, and 300-level;
a maximum of 100 points at 100-level;
at least 50 points of electives in Information Systems or other discipline areas at 200- or 300-level;
Note: This list may change from time to time.
615-102 Accounting & Finance for Decision Making
615-120 Information Systems in Organisations
615-145 Concepts in Software Development I
615-150 Organisational Processes
615-237 Telecommunications Concepts
615-240 Concepts in Software Development II
615-245 Systems Analysis and Design
615-328 Managing the Impact of IT
615-347 Application Environments
615-350 Case Studies in Information Systems
In no case may students receive credit for both a core subject and its alternate.
Normally students enrolled in the BIS course select 615-150 Organisational Processes. However students who plan to include substantial elective studies in Accounting may instead enrol in 306-106 Enterprise Process Analysis.
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Students are encouraged to take electives that broaden their degree studies.
Subjects with content that may overlap Information Systems core subject content are not encouraged.
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