BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Unit Description

This unit provides an overview of Information Systems (IS) and its role in organisations and contribution to business decision-making processes. The unit explains how technology is used to develop systems that effectively support, enable, and add value to business processes. An understanding of IS, is important to the work of managers because it serves as a bridge between management and technology in business operations.

Mastering both business and technology skills and knowledge, creates job opportunities as individuals with these abilities can better contribute to shaping a company’s strategy and value operations. Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to understand IS concepts, analyse and evaluate issues contained in BIS case studies, appreciate, and analyse the impact of IS on business decision-making, and utilise IS in creating business value and competitive advantages.

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the basics of programming. Students will learn the basics of programming using Python including procedural and object-oriented programming approaches.

This will include designing and creating programmes in a high-level language; using data structures and algorithms; using libraries; coding style; debugging; and testing. They will also be able to adapt relevant programming styles, standards, and practices in a problem-solving context.

Unit Description

This unit equips students with basic business and academic writing and presentation skills necessary for completing their course of study and for entry-level work-ready business positions. The ability to develop documents relevant for business studies and write well-researched and solidly structured arguments in a clear, concise, and factual manner is emphasised.

Additionally, this unit explores the types of interpersonal and group communication skills relevant to the business workplace. This includes developing in students an understanding of and ability to utilise fundamentals of negotiation, including evidence-based arguments and utilise these skills for professional communication, presentations and well-written business relevant documents.

Ethical and socially responsible considerations in negotiation, business communication, and academic writing, including avoiding plagiarism and ensuring academic integrity such as correct citing and referencing practices, are threaded throughout the unit.

Unit Description

In this unit, students will learn about fundamental networking topologies and protocols and understand the importance of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) models, protocol stacks and their operation in computer networks.

As part of the practical activity, students will employ a range of network tools to test, map and configure a typical network. By the end of this unit of study the student will be able to identify and understand how to address network infrastructure requirements in a business environment.

Unit Description

Managing operations and technology is critical for every business that is concerned with delivering value to its customers. This unit introduces students to the principles, tools, quantitative models, and strategies used in the management of operations and technology and examines key issues facing both service and manufacturing organisations.

In this unit, students develop basic understanding of product and service design, technology-enabled innovations, process design, operations planning and control, quality, performance, and IT service delivery. It equips students with the basic skills and techniques to analyse operations in a digitalised world and improve them.

In addition, it explores the concepts of information technology enabled innovations and IT services and equips students with an ability to evaluate, implement and manage enabling technologies in business operations.

Unit Description

Digital information systems produce vast amounts of data, and appropriate management of this data is essential for decision making and value-adding. This unit introduces the fundamental concepts in database design and development, covering the conceptual level and physical level of database management systems (DBMS).

It will cover different categories of DBMS, data modelling and design, query languages, and practical challenges involved with deploying database management systems such as database performance tuning, transaction management, internet connectivity, and security.

Prerequisite:

ICT101 Business Information Systems and ICT102 Programming Fundamentals

Unit Description

In this unit, students develop skills in systems analysis and design. The unit will provide an overview of the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), associated techniques and methodologies. SDLC is the process applied by organisations when designing and developing information systems.

The unit will look at two types of SDLC, specifically waterfall and iterative (agile). The unit explains how to develop system requirements (elicitation and specification), using techniques, tools, and perspectives essential for information systems analysts.

The unit will require students to apply the tools and techniques of system analysis and design to solve a real industry business problem.

Prerequisite:

BIS102/ICT102 Programming Fundamentals and BIS103/ICT103 ICT Networking Essentials and BIS105/ICT105 Database Management Systems

Unit Description

Cloud computing allows the provision of computing services such as software, storage, analytics, and intelligence over the internet. It enables service users to trade fixed computing expenses for usage-based variable expenditures, to benefit from reduced service costs due to economies of scale, increase agility and flexibility, and to reduce maintenance costs.

This unit starts by discussing the business case of cloud computing, including benefits, challenges, business models, and types. Thereafter, it dives deep into the underlying technology of cloud computing systems and covers an overview of virtualisation, containers, and virtual networks. It also covers selected topics in automation and orchestration, which are essential for cloud computing systems. Students experience implementing and deploying basic cloud applications and learn about cloud computing programming paradigms.

This unit also introduces emerging technologies closely connected to cloud computing, including Edge Computing, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Software Defined Networks (SDN), and discusses the opportunities and challenges for cloud providers and customers.

Prerequisite:

ICT103 ICT Networking Essentials

Unit Description

This unit provides a broad understanding of information systems security principles and practices in today’s modern enterprises. It enables students to develop insights into cyber security attacks and the available security tools and defences to protect systems and users.

This unit also covers foundational concepts on how to devise cyber security plans as well as considerations for implementing them. Notably, students are introduced to the multidisciplinary challenges involved in cyber security, including technical, legal, organisational, and human aspects. Recent technological advances in enterprises and their potential impact on cyber security are also highlighted.

Prerequisite:

ICT101 Business Information Systems

Unit Description

This unit provides an introduction to managing information systems projects. The unit will provide an overview of the project management process. It will explain how project management techniques, tools and processes are used by organisations to ensure projects can be delivered to stakeholders within the agreed scope, cost, and time (the Iron Triangle).

The unit will also provide an overview of agile project management (but this will not be a complete agile course). The unit will require students to apply the tools and techniques of project management to solve a real industry project management problem.

Prerequisite:

60 credit points including ICT101 Business Information Systems

Unit Description

This unit focuses on the ethical considerations in the field of Information & Communications Technology (ICT). It covers various philosophical theories of ethics and their relationship with current ethical and legal issues in information and communication technology.

The unit also explores professional ethics in the information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) fields, including ethical issues in professional practice and their implications. Finally, students will learn how to critically evaluate solutions to ICT ethical problems and apply ethical theories and the Australian Computing Society (ACS) code of ethics to these problems.

By the end of this unit, students will have a comprehensive understanding of ethical considerations in Information Systems/Technology and be equipped to navigate complex ethical scenarios in their professional careers. The complex ethics associated with the emerging area of artificial intelligence will be examined within this unit.

Prerequisite:

ICT201 Systems Analysis and Design and ICT205 Project Management and Agile SystemsDevelopment and ICT206 ICT Ethics and Professional Practice, and ideally taken after at least one specialisationunit has been completed.

Unit Description

ICT350 Capstone IT Project – Part A and ICT351 Capstone IT Project – Part B together comprise the capstone unit for the Bachelor of Information Technology. These units provide students with the opportunity to integrate, apply and demonstrate the skills and knowledge acquired throughout the course.

In ICT350 Capstone IT Project – Part A students work as team to plan an IT project to address a real-world industry problem. By investigating and applying current well-established industry standard approaches and methodologies students devise a technical solution to the IT problem.

As part of the unit, students will develop a set of system requirements and specifications that define the solution to be constructed to address the IT problem. Students will assess various technologies and/or approaches to determine a feasible approach for the creation of a solution. Finally, the students will create a prototype demonstrating the concept of the proposed solution and a system design for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Students also will consider and address any ethical, sustainability, security and/or privacy impacts of their potential solutions.

Prerequisite:

ICT350 Capstone IT Project – Part A and at least one specialisation unit

Unit Description

This unit follows from ICT350 Capstone IT Project – Part A and together these demonstrate the ability of a student to develop a solution to an IT problem. These units require students to work as a small team to integrate, apply and demonstrate the skills and knowledge acquired throughout the course.

In ICT351 Capstone IT Project – Part B student teams will further develop their initial design solutions, by reviewing the set of system requirements and specifications together with a design for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that was previously developed in the preceding unit. Students have an opportunity to refine the specifications and design based on further considerations and stakeholder feedback.

The design of the MVP is refined and a project plan for the implementation of the MVP is created. The MVP is then implemented with feedback from stakeholders prior to implementation of the full solution.

Students will document and present the solution along with a detailed project report, to explain the operation of the system and how it addresses the IT problem. Students will justify choices made, approaches taken, and discuss the methods/techniques adopted in the development of the IT solution.

Prerequisite:

BIS103 IS Networking Essentials or ICT103 ICT Networking Essentials

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the key concepts and technologies of routing and switching for computer and communication networks. These networks are a critical part of any small, medium or large organisations and their efficient design and operation impacts on the operations of these organisations. Students learn important theoretical concepts and practical implementations/troubleshooting related to routing and switching in this unit.

The key idea is to develop students’ evaluation and analysis skills so that they can design, develop and operate real life computer networks. Students will also gain an understanding of how Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) work and can be configured for efficient, reliable and secure operation.

The unit covers concepts of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), inter-VLAN routing, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), EtherChannel, switching concepts and security, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP and troubleshooting the configured devices. Furthermore, the impact of AI on the design of routing and switching protocols and techniques are introduced to the students.

Prerequisite:

BIS208/ICT203 Cyber Security and Information Security

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the latest concepts and technologies used to create an Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is one of the most rapidly evolving technologies today and this unit imparts the knowledge, skills and practical use cases of IoT ecosystems to students. Students will learn a combination of technical and high-level understanding of the principles of IoT systems. Students will gain a clear understanding of the practical use cases of IoTs in real life applications.

The unit covers some basics of data communication and networking technologies, IoT architecture, IoT smart sensors, IoT connectivity, analytics and IoT security and privacy and IoT use case examples. The unit begins with the introduction of IoTs and presents several examples of IoT use cases to teach students how IoT can be applied to various IoT verticals.

The concept of smart sensors as well as their use in IoT ecosystem is then described. Because internet connectivity is an essential part of any IoT system, the unit explores wired and wireless connectivity schemes including cellular IoT in the 4G and 5G eras.

Throughout the unit, students will develop skills related to IoT protocols, analytics as well as IoT security and privacy which are important and essential elements of any IoT system. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques are crucial part of any IoT system and are taught in the context of IoT systems in this unit. Finally, students will learn how to design IoT based smart applications that can be implemented for many real-life scenarios.

Prerequisite:

BIS208/ICT203 Cyber Security and Information Security

Unit Description

This unit introduces the students with some basic and advanced concepts of wireless communication and network security. Wireless communication is everywhere as in modern society, we want to be connected everywhere, anywhere and anytime.

The role of wireless communication in our daily lives is critical whether it’s for entertainment, work, socialisation or business. The invention of new wireless communication technologies such as 5G, Massive MIMO and Internet of Things have made this role even more critical. This unit discusses the basic as well as advanced concepts of wireless communication and emphasises on the role of these technologies in modern society.

The unit begins with introducing the fundamental radio frequency communication networks and how they evolve to the modern complex systems. The importance of frequency spectrum and its uses in wireless communication are then discussed. The role of modern AI and ML technologies in wireless networks and security are discussed in the unit. For a practical wireless communication network, knowing functionality of various components is crucial which is covered in this unit.

Several wireless networks spanning from personal area networks to more broad enterprise networks are taught to the students. Finally, wireless network security challenges and concerns are discussed, and their mitigation strategies are presented in the unit.

Prerequisite:

ICT207 Routing and Switching

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the key concepts and technologies for designing computer networks for individual and enterprise applications. Students will learn advanced networking knowledge and skills in network architecture, analysing needs of individuals as well as enterprise related to networks, propose appropriate network design, implement the proposed network design, and analyse the performance of the designed network using professional standards.

Students will develop their capabilities in designing, as well as working and troubleshooting practical networks and related technologies such Local Area Networks (LANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Internet of Things (IoT).

The unit covers two aspects of network design, first investigating the user requirements and secondly designing and implementing the practical cutting-edge networking technologies. Students will learn how to customise their proposed design as per the needs of customers (individual as well as enterprise) and then using the modern technologies such as AI and the best industry practices implement their proposed design.

Students will learn measuring performance of the networks using professional standards and automation processes through AI technologies. Finally, students will learn how to apply appropriate design measures for the best user experience.

Prerequisite:

BIS208/ICT203 Cyber Security and Information Security

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the latest concepts and technologies used to create an Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is one of the most rapidly evolving technologies today and this unit imparts the knowledge, skills and practical use cases of IoT ecosystems to students. Students will learn a combination of technical and high-level understanding of the principles of IoT systems. Students will gain a clear understanding of the practical use cases of IoTs in real life applications.

The unit covers some basics of data communication and networking technologies, IoT architecture, IoT smart sensors, IoT connectivity, analytics and IoT security and privacy and IoT use case examples. The unit begins with the introduction of IoTs and present several examples of IoT use cases to teach students how IoT can be applied to various IoT verticals.

The concept of smart sensors as well as their use in IoT ecosystem is then described. Because internet connectivity is an essential part of any IoT system, the unit explores wired and wireless connectivity schemes including cellular IoT in the 4G and5G eras.

Throughout the unit, students will develop skills related to IoT protocols, analytics as well as IoT security and privacy which are important and essential elements of any IoT system. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques are crucial part of any IoT system and are taught in the context of IoT systems in this unit. Finally, students will learn how to design IoT based smart applications that can be implemented for many real-life scenarios.

Prerequisite:

BIS208/ICT203 Cyber Security and Information Security

Unit Description

This unit introduces the students with some basic and advanced concepts of wireless communication and network security. Wireless communication is everywhere as in modern society, we want to be connected everywhere, anywhere and anytime.

The role of wireless communication in our daily lives is critical whether it’s for entertainment, work, socialisation or business. The invention of new wireless communication technologies such as 5G, Massive MIMO and Internet of Things have made this role even more critical. This unit discusses the basic as well as advanced concepts of wireless communication and emphasises on the role of these technologies in modern society.

The unit begins with introducing the fundamental radio frequency communication networks and how they evolve to the modern complex systems. The importance of frequency spectrum and its uses in wireless communication are then discussed. The role of modern AI and ML technologies in wireless networks and security are discussed in the unit. For a practical wireless communication network, knowing functionality of various components is crucial which is covered in this unit.

Several wireless networks spanning from personal area networks to more broad enterprise networks are taught to the students. Finally, wireless network security challenges and concerns are discussed, and their mitigation strategies are presented in the unit.

Prerequisite:

BIS208/ICT203 Cyber Security and Information Security

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the key concepts and techniques of penetration testing and ethical hacking. Penetration testing is conducted on computer systems and networks to evaluate the security vulnerabilities of the systems and networks.

Students learn skills of performing penetration tests on isolated environments using techniques such as network scanning, port scanning, information gathering, vulnerability scanning and enumeration. The unit introduces the concepts of ethical hacking of a computer system and network in an isolated environment for the purpose of vulnerabilities assessment.

Students will gain a clear understanding of modern information security systems and how to prevent these systems from attackers by identifying the system weaknesses in advance using ethical hacking and penetration testing. The unit explains the laws, standards and regulations related to information security and their applications in various system models. Furthermore, the unit describes the role and impact of AI technologies in the field of penetration testing and ethical hacking.

Students develop their skills of practicing these information security laws and regulations while using modern AI based applications. One of the important skills in penetration testing and ethical hacking is to communicate the vulnerability assessment results.

Students will learn how to communicate their findings in a penetration testing report and propose appropriate security solutions for technical and non-technical audience. Finally, students will develop their research and critical analysis skills to keep themselves up to date with the new cyber-attacks and system vulnerabilities.

Prerequisite:

ICT202 Cloud Computing and BIS208/ICT203 Cyber Security and Information Security

Unit Description

The unit introduces students to both basic and advanced concepts in security and privacy in cloud computing. Cloud computing and cloud services play a crucial part of our lives in modern society whether we use these services for business, entertainment, and social interaction. There is a large amount of data, including personal and financial sensitive information, in the ‘cloud’. Hence, cloud services have become an attractive target for cyber-attacks.

This unit discusses the best practices for securing cloud data and other cloud services to protect data and information privacy against adversarial attacks. The unit begins by introducing the best practices in security and privacy for cloud compute, storage and networking services. The unit also discussed the impact of modern AI technologies in cloud security and privacy.

Throughout this unit, students will develop skills and knowledge of understanding cloud service models, designing the best security and privacy protocols for cloud services and implementation plans for deploying these security protocols.

This unit emphasises compliance and regulatory requirements related to cloud security and privacy and provides knowledge and skills to students related to compliance and regulations.

Prerequisite:

BIS201/ICT201 Systems Analysis and Design

Unit Description

This unit provides students with the comprehensive practices in human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience (UX) design, which is a human-centered process that focuses on designing the right thing by exploring people’s needs, defining problems, and delivering iterative improvements to ensure exceptional experiences. It explores a wide range of topics including UX understanding, designing, usability and accessibility, implementing, managing, and refining for different user interfaces from mobile app, website, social media, to wearable devices and virtual reality environments.

Throughout this course, students will develop hands-on UX skills and knowledge in real world contexts, gain experience with industry-recognised best practice tools. Students will master the principles and design guidelines including usability and accessibility to create and enhance the human-centred user interface and will be prepared for future professional or research practices in user experience design.

Prerequisite:

BIS105/ICT105 Database Management Systems and BUS201/ICT201 Systems Analysis and Design

Unit Description

In this unit students learn the design and development of mobile applications for mobile and ubiquitous computing platforms. This unit provides students with a foundational understanding of the technologies, methods and skills required to design and develop apps on the Android mobile platform. The underlying environments made available by mobile devices will be reviewed and the relative merits of different implementation technologies will be evaluated.

Students will focus from a technical and user experience perspective on the processes, tools, and frameworks required to develop applications for current mobile devices. Students will be required to consider the impact of usability, device capabilities, networking infrastructure, security, privacy, and the deployment environment, in order to develop applications that suit the requirements of users and industry. The unit will also explore how AI tools can enhance productivity in mobile application development.

Prerequisite:

BIS201/ICT201 Systems Analysis and Design and ICT202 Cloud Computing

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the key concept of software testing and deployment. Students will gain theoretical and practical knowledge of advanced techniques for testing software applications including functional and non-functional testing.

Moreover, student will delve in functional testing types such as unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, smoke and sanity testing and security testing. The security testing includes black box testing and white box testing using a variety of software application tools. Students will also learn about industry best practice tools that support continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD).

In additional to the functional testing, students will learn non-function testing that supports software deployment on-premises or on the cloud. Students will learn different options of hosting software applications depending on the required performance, usability, scalability, and security. They will be provided with a simple hosting example, and more advanced cloud hosting methods such as AWS.

Finally, the impact that AI technologies are having on the software testing automation and management. AI technology will apply various testing and deployment techniques according to the most appropriate and secure environment.

Prerequisite:

BIS201/ICT201 Systems Analysis and Design

Unit Description

This unit provides students with a comprehensive insight into object-oriented principles and practices that are crucial for software design and development. It emphasizes the application of these principles to create robust, maintainable software solutions. Key areas of focus include object-oriented programming (OOP) core concepts, methodologies, modelling techniques, design patterns, and best practices.

These elements collectively enhance students’ abilities to analyse, design, and implement effective software systems using OOP. The unit extends the basic OOP knowledge that students have gained in preceding units. This unit stresses the importance of encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism and how these play an important part in the design and development of modern robust software systems.

Additionally, it highlights the critical role of testing and quality assurance in object-oriented systems development, ensuring the development of reliable, efficient, and robust software.

Prerequisite:

BIS102/ICT102 Programming Fundamentals and ICT202 Cloud Computing

Unit Description

DevOps has become a prominent paradigm due to the continuous operation of contemporary enterprise systems, along with the need for regular updates, patching, and the integration of new features.

This unit acquaints students with various concepts, practices, and technologies, including techniques for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the implementation of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for software updates, utilisation of containers and container orchestration tools, open-source tools for streamlined deployment of containerised applications, and the principles of Microservices.

Additionally, students will gain insights into DevOps best practices through critical reflection after participating in a major group-based development project.

Prerequisite:

BIS102/ICT102 Programming Fundamentals and ICT202 Cloud Computing. Ideally take after or same time as ICT308 Software Development and DevOps

Unit Description

This unit is dedicated to equipping students with the essential skills and knowledge in the specialised domain of DevOps automation, where the focus is on rapidly deploying iterative updates to applications that are already in production, enabling a continuous and agile delivery pipeline.

In the contemporary landscape of software development and IT operations, the ability to streamline and automate workflows is critical for achieving efficiency and agility. This unit delves deeply into the core principles, tools, and techniques that underpin successful automation practices within the DevOps framework.

Prerequisite:

BIS201/ICT201 Systems Analysis and Design and ICT202 Cloud Computing

Unit Description

This unit explores the principles and practices of cloud approach to application development, which reflects modern demands to adapt to new business requirements and deliver high quality reliable and scalable services using rapid cloud technologies. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of software needs and requirements and map these needs to the current cloud architecture and services.

The unit focuses on designing and building scalable and resilient cloud applications. Students will learn cloud app development approaches and technologies related to microservice architecture, infrastructure as code, collaboration between development and operations teams, authentication and authorisation.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, latency management, serverless computing and security. Finally, the impact that AI technologies are having on the cloud application and development will be explored including auto coding and code analysis.

Prerequisite:

ICT202 Cloud Computing and BIS208/ICT203 Cyber Security and Information Security

Unit Description

The unit introduces students to both basic and advance concepts in security and privacy in cloud computing. Cloud computing and cloud services play a crucial part of our lives in modern society whether we use these services for business, entertainment, and social interaction.

There is a large amount of data, including personal and financial sensitive information, in the ‘cloud’. Hence, cloud services have become an attractive target for cyber-attacks. This unit discusses the best practices for securing cloud data and other cloud services to protect data and information privacy against adversarial attacks.

The unit begins by introducing the best practices in security and privacy for cloud compute, storage and networking services. The unit also discussed the impact of modern AI technologies in cloud security and privacy. Throughout this unit, students will develop skills and knowledge of understanding cloud service models, designing the best security and privacy protocols for cloud services and implementation plans for deploying these security protocols.

The unit emphasises on the compliance and regulatory requirements related to cloud security and privacy and provides knowledge and skills to students related to compliance and regulations.

Prerequisite:

BIS105/ICT105 Database Management Systems

Unit Description

eBusiness or e-Commerce is the term used to describe models, methodologies, techniques, and tools used for exploiting the evolving Information and Communication Technologies (e.g., web/mobile) for modern businesses that rely so heavily on internet-based computer and communication technologies.

This introductory unit provides an overview of the role of eBusiness and e-Commerce in the operation and management of modern businesses. The unit illustrates the role of eBusiness technologies in the achievement of business functions, such as strategy, marketing, finance/accounting, human resources, and operations that have been covered in earlier units.

On completion of this unit, students will learn the role of eBusiness and e-Commerce in the context of various aspects, such as marketing, business models, supply chain management, legal environments, global outreach of the Internet/mobile technologies and social issues in various business sectors (e.g., retail, finance, healthcare etc.) that affect the success and growth of modern businesses within and across countries.

Students will be able to comprehend the language of eBusiness, thus enabling them to communicate with technology professionals and help bridge the gap between business professionals and technologists.

Prerequisite:

BIS101/ICT101 Business Information Systems and BIS104 Operations and Technology Management

Unit Description

In today’s digital world, managing business processes is critical for improving performance, costs, decision making and customer orientation. This unit provides an in-depth understanding of the role of business process management in organisations and equip students with the skills required to manage the entire business process management life cycle from both the business as well as technology perspectives.

This unit helps students develop an ability and skills in process modelling, analysis, and improvement and a sound understanding of the implications, associated risks and change in the process redesign and improvements. Students develop hands-skills in using a popular industry-standard process management software tool.

Prerequisite:

BIS101/ICT101 Business Information Systems and BIS104 Operations and Technology Management

Unit Description

This unit provides a broad overview of the data mining and business intelligence techniques used by organisations to gain insight into their customers and competitors. By doing so it may enable organisations to achieve a competitive advantage or improve their operations and better meet customer needs.

Students will be introduced to the tools and techniques of data mining and business intelligence thus enabling students to manipulate data and to view data in new ways. An important technique in data mining is presentation of the findings of data mining to stakeholders, so students will also learn the fundamentals of data visualisation and presentation.

This unit is a practical application of the tools, Python programming for developing new models and create visual dashboards for the users. Students will be acquainted with the knowledge of exploring the Weka machine learning open-source software and its associated libraries to discover patterns and develop expertise in machine learning. Probabilistic modelling, decision trees, classification, clustering, linear modelling, instance-based learning, and emerging topics in data mining are included in this subject. This subject also discusses the ethical conduct of data mining-related analyses and appraise the associated ethical and social concerns.

Prerequisite:

BIS203 eBusiness Development

Unit Description

Enterprise systems, pervasive today in all types of firms (large, small, and medium sized), have a strategic role in supporting the key business processes and decision making. Building on the basic knowledge of information systems, business processes and data bases, this unit introduces the concepts, features and technologies of integrated enterprise systems including cloud-based enterprise systems and their extensions and equips students with the knowledge and skills required to evaluate their adoption and implementation.

It equips students with skills in the configuration of a simple enterprise system and demonstrate the ability to perform transactions and reports relevant to key business processes such as order to cash, procure to pay and hire to fire through hands-on exploration of a packaged software tool.

It analyses the characteristic features, benefits, and challenges in the adoption of various extensions to enterprise systems – such as supply chain management, customer relationship management and business intelligence.

Prerequisite:

A minimum of 160 credit points including BIS204 Business Process Management

Unit Description

Information Systems (IS) Strategy focuses on the issues, concepts, and practical application of IS strategy management. The strategic value is first examined and where IS strategic management fits within a 4th Industrial Revolution world, with the opportunities and challenges it brings.

The unit then introduces analytical frameworks and tools to evaluate these opportunities and challenges to assist in IS decision-making processes. Key issues in IS decision making include planned and emergent strategies, cyber security management and mitigation, privacy issues and IS governance.

Finally, the unit addresses the role of IS leadership and communication in developing and deploying technology projects and portfolio management. Current trends and innovations in IS are also considered.

Prerequisite:

ICT102 Programming Fundamentals and BUS107 Applied Statistics

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence with an emphasis on machine learning and its applications in business. Several statistical algorithms for supervised and unsupervised learning such as regression, classification, decision trees, support vector machines, ensemble methods, clustering, and dimension reduction are covered in this course.

Students will build models capable of learning from data and apply them to recommender systems, Forecasting and other business applications.

Prerequisite:

BIS105/ICT105 Database Management Systems and BIS201/ICT201 Systems Analysis and Design

Unit Description

Information Systems (IS) professionals are expected to develop Information Technology (IT) solutions to real-life problems and require the knowledge they gained in different aspects of a course in information systems (e.g., systems analysis and design, databases, eBusiness technologies, programming etc.).

Design thinking helps IS professionals to think of an IS/IT solution from the perspectives of end users (e.g., marketing assistants, production clerk, store clerk, payroll officer, mentally or physically disadvantaged users etc.).

On completion of this unit, students will learn how to develop an information system as a real business project involving design thinking, UML (Unified Modelling Language) use cases, sequence diagrams, object diagrams etc.

Students will be able to apply all the relevant knowledge gained throughout the first one and half years of the BIS (Business Information Systems) course. They will learn the importance of practical business skills, such as interpersonal communication, negotiations, conflict resolution and teamwork in the context of information systems development.

Unit Description

This unit presents the foundations and core principles of marketing for businesses including an appreciation of marketing concepts utilised by businesses in Australian and globally. Emphasis is placed on creating customer value through different marketing activities and strategies, understanding the marketing mix within an environment of change, maximising utility of limited resources amidst industries in constant flux, and exploring new methodologies used by marketing practices.

Responsible and ethical marketing is crucial to sustainable and productive, long-term relationships between organisations, their customers and stakeholders. This unit includes careful consideration of ethical and socially responsible practices within marketing activities. In addition, students will be introduced to current topics including the marketing process in an increasingly digital and global environment.

Unit Description

The unit equips students with the basic principles, fundamental practices and techniques required for effective organisational management. The principles of management presented are premised on four basic functions: planning, organising, influencing / leading and controlling. The unit overviews topics such as organisational culture, decision-making, motivation, managing diversity, and styles of personal management.

The topics are then expanded to include human behaviour in organisations with a specific focus on the workplace. The unit examines the ways in which an understanding of organisational behaviour is necessary to, and facilitates the management of people at work.

Emphasis is placed on identifying internal and external environmental influences on organisational and individual performance and the role of the manager as well as developing an ethical and socially responsible managerial philosophy.

Unit Description

This unit aims to provide students with a basic understanding of the principles and practical skills necessary for the application of statistics in the business context. The unit emphasises the use of statistical methods to draw inferences from sample data to inform decision-making across business generally and more particularly in the areas of economics, accountancy, finance, and marketing.

Topics covered in the unit include descriptive statistics, random variables and their distributions, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation of parameters, hypothesis testing, and regression models.

Students are also introduced to the ever-increasing importance of Big Data for the operation and decision-making purposes of businesses as well as ethical and social implications of Big Data. Students learn to organise and present data as well as solve statistical problems using Excel.

This unit complements the study of other units and provides a foundation for further study of statistical methods.

Prerequisite

BIS101/ICT101 Business Information Systems

Unit Description

The increasing dominance of technology companies in the Fortune 500 warrants critical analysis and dissection of “technology” and “tech” businesses. This unit examines the full scope of technology’s role and meaning in business contexts, from low-tech to high-tech, legacy to emerging, front-end to back-end, process innovation to intellectual property. Students will audit the range of technology used in a real-world business and assess its “digital maturity” according to different criteria.

This Unit will allow students to compare and contrast a variety of digital maturity models, as well as applications of technology in business to demonstrate the spectrum of digital maturity, as well as ethical and social implications across organisations and communities. This unit seeks to develop students’ organisational technology literacies and their capacity to work effectively and add value to businesses using digital transformation.

Prerequisite

BUS107 Applied Statistics

Unit Description

This unit deals with understanding data and how to analyse and present data in real-world scenarios. The unit gives students the opportunity to investigate and reflect on the data held about consumers and businesses by big data companies of the world such as Facebook and Google. Students also learn to assess datasets which have been collected by governments, including the purpose and quality of data.

Data is not objective and neutral; students will learn to evaluate the integrity of datasets, understanding that this is the basis for good practice in data analytics. Students will also learn to use and critically assess a range of data analytics and visualisation tools to collaboratively interpret and articulate data including assessing the ethical and social dimensions of data collected by companies.