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12. Bachelor of Information Systems (BIS)
12.1. Attributes of the Bachelor of Information Systems graduates
12.1.1. Information systems
12.1.2. Information technology
12.1.3. Organisations
12.1.4. Analytical skills
12.1.5. Professional competencies
12.1.6. Professional Skills Program (PSP)
12.2. Objectives of the course
12.3. Duration
12.4. Course requirements
12.4.1. Core information systems subjects
12.4.2. Electives
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 find employment in a variety of professional roles, ranging from the very technical to the very business oriented, in public and private organisations.
Specific capabilities will be developed through work in the five key areas 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 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 should:
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 a minimum (and maximum) of 300 points of approved studies, comprising:
200 points of core subjects in information systems at 100-, 200-, and 300-level;
25 points of core business-oriented subjects, including
325-101 Management, and
one of the following*:
306-102 Accounting Concepts
306-104 Accounting 1B (note that this subject has prerequisites)
316-101 Introductory Macroeconomics (note that this subject has prerequisites)
316-102 Introductory Microeconomics
732-103 Principles of Business Law
325-102 Business in the Global Economy
325-103 The Asian Economies
*This list may be modified from time to time
a maximum of 112.5 points at 100-level;
37.5 to 50 points of electives in information systems or other discipline areas at 200- or 300-level;
615-120 Introduction to Information Systems
615-145 Concepts in Software Development I
615-237 Telecommunications Concepts
615-240 Concepts in Software Development II
(or 615-241 Software Development (Advanced))
615-245 Systems Analysis and Design
615-328 Managing the Impact of IS
615-347 Application Environments
615-350 Case Studies in IS Management
Students may apply to undertake 615-373 Industrial Project instead of 615-370 Information Systems Project.
Students need to complete six electives (75 points): of these, up to three electives (37.5 points) can be taken at 100-level; and three electives (37.5 points) should be at 200-level or greater.
Students are encouraged to take electives that broaden their degree studies.
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