1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

skills of organisation behaviour and to transfer that
learning into information systems contexts.
to enable students to develop a perspective which
demonstrates the place of IS departments in the total
organisation;
* to give an understanding of themselves, their impact on
others and of the way others influence their behaviour;
to allow students to experience the satisfactions and
difficulties inherent in working in groups;
to learn behavioural skills applicable to IS environments
to be able to analyse and provide solutions for people/
technology problems;
to enable students to make sense of interdepartmental
relations and suggest some ways of overcoming
intergroup conflict;
0 to apply OB knowledge to and further learn from
industry based learning experiences.
Content
Organisational socialisation; theories of managing people;
motivation; personal growth; career development; group
dynamics and team performance; managing multigroup
work; leadership; organisation culture and change; power
and influence; managing presentations.
Recommended Reading
To be advised.
IT303 Data Base Management Systems 1
16.5 credit points 27 hours over 3 weeks Prerequisites:
IT202 COBOL Programming and IT203 Business
Applications and Systems 2 Assessment: examination/
assignment
A Bachelor of Information Technology subject studied at
the end of 1st year, during the Summer Semester
Objectives
To equip students with a practical and theoretical
knowledge of Database Management Systems so that they
can work productively on projects involving database
applications. The emphasis is on relational databases.
Students will use a major commercial relational DBMS for
their practical work.
Content
SQL, DBMS terminology and concepts, including database
object types, data dictionaries, data integrity, data
independence, transaction management, concurrency
control, recovery, triggers, stored procedures and cursors.
Designing and programming on-line database transactions
using a forms tool.
Batch programming using SQL embedded in a 3GL.
Recommended Reading
Pratt, P.J. & Adamski, Database Systems and Design, 3rd edn,
South-Western, 1994
Date, C.J., An Introduction to Database Systems, 5th edn, Addison-
Wesley, 1990 (6th edn, 1994)
IT401 Industry Based Learning
fiO credit points 20 weeks full-time project work in industry
Hawthorn Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the
subjects of the first three segments Assessment: assignment
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Information
Technology.
Objectives
The objectives of the placement are threefold:
personal development;
learning first hand the environment and culture of
business/industry;
development of information technology skills.
Specific objectives are:
To gain first hand experience of the operation of the
information technology environment
To extend the learning of the preceding segments of the
course.
To provide an opportunity for personal development and
social maturation of the student.
To address issues which can better be learned from within
the industrial environment, such as user liaison and systems
security.
To allow the student to obtain an understanding of the ways
in which business organisations function and the context in
which they operate.
To provide a practical basis for further Information
Technology and business related studies.
Content
Students will work under the supervision of both an
Industrial Supervisor and an Academic Manager.
Projects and assignments and participation in the
professional activities of sponsors information systems and
information technology environments are assessed by the
student manager and industry supervisor.
Students will be expected to gain experience in the following
areas: Programming, User Liaison, Systems Design; and to
be closely involved with the application of some of the
following: Data Base, Communications, User Support,
Object Oriented Techniques, Imaging.
IT501 Systems and Information Analysis 1
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: IT303 Data Base Management Systems 1
Assessment: examination/assignment.
A second year subject in the Bachelor of Information
Technology. This subject provides students with the skills
necessary to perform information analysis, process and data
modelling for small systems applications as well as at the
corporate level.
Objectives
By the end of the subject students should be able to:
prepare a requirements specification for a small
application, to be used for preparation of a structured