The MBC information booklet - RMIT University

Chapter 14: Frequently asked questions
14.13.2 What is the
Staff Student
Consultative
Committee
(SSCC)?
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the contacts for your program. Alternatively, you can email:
pgadmin@cs.rmit.edu.au. Your identity will be kept confidential.
This is an informal committee that meets, on average, three times each semester. SSCC
meetings involve students and relevant staff - including the program advisors, Teaching
and Learning Advisors and the Program Leader. All Computer Science Postgraduate
students are invited to attend these meetings and will usually be sent an emailed invitation
directly to their student account.
SSCC meetings provide students with an excellent opportunity to meet with the program
staff and to provide valuable input in order to help improve the quality and delivery of
programs and services.
Students are strongly encouraged to use this forum to give voice to issues that have not
been satisfactorily dealt with after attempts at direct consultation with the lecturer/tutor or
to give voice to issues that are considered by the students to be too sensitive to mention
directly to a lecturer.
Anonymity is ensured and protected. Lecturers will not know the names of the
students who make comments at SSCC meetings.
A link to dates and minutes of these meetings as well as student representative details and
information on how to feedback are obtainable from the CSIT SSCC page at:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/csit/sscc
14.14 Computer Accounts and System Issues
14.15 Computer Languages
14.15.1 What
Computer
Languages do
I need to
know?
See “System Help” on page 100.
Remember NEVER to allow someone else to use your account and do not give your
password to anyone. Check the “Last login” date and time that appears as soon as you log
in. If you suspect someone may know/guess your password change it IMMEDIATELY. It is
also good to change your password regularly.
You should also read the School’s Acceptable Use Policy to familiarise yourself with
security and privacy issues:
https://inside.cs.rmit.edu.au/rules/acceptable-use.shtml
Students undertaking the Master of Technology (Information Technology) (MC062), Master
of Technology (Internet and Web Computing) (MC063), Graduate Diploma in Software
Development (GD055), or Graduate Diploma in Internet and Web Computing (GD059) will
be provided foundations towards their chosen study area.
Students undertaking the Master of Applied Science (Information Technology) (MC061)
should have deep knowledge of C and Java under Unix.
If you are a GD055 GDipSD or MC062 MTechIT student you may wish to consider doing
an extra course - COSC1321 Computing Fundamentals. It provides instruction on
fundamental conceptual building blocks and C language programming. It is particularly
useful for those students from non-computing backgrounds.
It is important that you check the prerequisites for each course with the formal
course guide via:
http://www.rmit.edu.au (select ‘courses’ from the drop-down list, then type the course code
or title into the search box to locate the course guide).