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13. Bachelor of Information Systems (BIS)
13.1. Attributes of the Bachelor of Information Systems graduates
13.1.1. Information systems
13.1.2. Information technology
13.1.3. Organisations
13.1.4. Analytical skills
13.1.5. Professional competencies
13.1.6. Professional Skills Program (PSP)
13.2. Objectives of the course
13.3. Duration
13.4. Course requirements
13.4.1. Core information systems subjects
13.4.2. 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 (BIS), BCom/BIS, BSc/BIS, BGeomE/BIS or the Diploma in Information Systems are able to participate in the Professional Skills Program. It covers a range of communication, professional and analytical skills that develop and enhance personal attributes seen as critical by employers, over and above their degree. The program is provided at no cost to those enrolled in the various Information Systems courses.
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. Upon successful completion of the PSP, students will be awarded a certificate that will confirm their valuable professional skills.
It is made up of three subjects taught over three semesters and 33 hours in total. The PSP subjects are not compulsory but provide very strong advantages in areas relevant to careers and employment.
615-103 comprises an introduction to a range of professional skills including communication in different environments and situations as well as conflict resolution and negotiation. In 615-203, students develop and enhance skills in teamwork and collaboration along with decision making, leadership and handling differences. The final subject 615-303, covers advanced presentation skills, employment and commercial expectations and transition into a business environment.
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:
187.5 points of core subjects in information systems at 100, 200, and 300-level;
25 points of information systems elective subjects at 300-level;
One business-oriented subject (12.5 points) chosen from the following:
306-108 Accounting Transactions and Analysis (note that this subject has prerequisites)
316-101 Introductory Macroeconomics (note that this subject has prerequisites)
333-101 Finance 1 (note that this subject has prerequisites)
75 points of elective subjects including 37.5 to 50 points at 200 or 300-level;
Students may not undertake more than 112.5 points at 100-level towards this course.
615-110 Foundations of Information Systems
615-140 Technologies for Information Systems
615-145 Concepts in Software Development I
615-237 Telecommunications Concepts
615-240 Concepts in Software Development II
615-245 Systems Analysis and Design
615-346 Information Systems Architecture
Students need to complete six elective subjects (75 points): of these, up to 37.5 points can be taken at 100-level; and the remaining points must be subjects at 200-level or greater.
Students are encouraged to take electives that broaden their degree studies.
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