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course. Project and operation management is covered in
depth to ensure that students have a thorough
understanding of how systems can be developed and
operated efficiently. The course stresses commercial
applications with particular emphasis on the involvement of
the eventual users of these systems in the process of their
development.
The program is made up of eight units and candidates are
required to take these from two groups as follows:
Group 1
The following units are compulsory:
BT503 Software Engineering Strategies (2 units)
BT502 Current Issues in Systems Design
BT601 Systems Project Management
BT602 Information Systems Management
BT603 Management Systems
Group 2
Students must take an approved pair of units from this
section:
BH604 Management, Organisation and People
BM602 Strategic Management
or
BC503 Introduction to Financial Management
BC604 Financial Structures and Policy
The Graduate Diploma in Management Systems forms the
first two years of the Master of Business (Info. Tech.). Candidates
wishing to proceed to the Master of Business (Info.
Tech.) should choose the elective pair:
BH604
BM602
Management Organisation and People
Strategic Management
Preclusions
It is not normal policy to grant preclusions; if however,
students have appropriate prior training, they may be
allowed to choose other approved units including BT605
Systems Development Project (2 units).
Extension seminars
In addition to normal class contact each student is required
to attend up to six three-hour seminars each year of the
course. The aim of the seminar program is to present the
latest developments and trends in the data processing
industry or present specialised topics of particular interest to
the computer industry.
Suitable applicants
The intake into this course is usually:
(1) computing professionals progressing past the programmer
level into systems analysis and project management;
(2) systems analysis, consultants and some user department
representatives who have had considerable experience in
the development of management systems.
Entrance requirements
Entry is open to graduates who have a degree, diploma or
equivalent from a recognised university or other institution.
Graduates from any discipline may apply but applicants are
expected to have work experience in a computing
environment.
The course is available also to a number of carefully selected
candidates without tertiary qualifications or who have substantial
computer experience. These comprise only a small
percentage of total enrolments.
An information seminar is conducted for short listed
candidates prior to entrance to the course. Interviews may be
required.
Fees
The Graduate Diploma in Management Systems is a full-fee
paying course. $4,400.00.
~089 Graduate Diploma in Market
Modelling
The Graduate Diploma in Market Modelling is an important
offering to business and government in order to improve
workplace performance by:
increasing the level of skill and knowledge deemed
necessary to generate efficient and appropriate
information and forecasts,
providing a basis for developing alternative models that
can test the impact of decisions or proposed courses of
action,
improving the ability of graduates to conceptualise
market problems and market dynamics,
recognising the importance of incorporating information
and forecasts into the strategic planning process.
There are three broad aims of this course.
a) to develop course participants' skills so that they will be
better equipped to perform an evaluation of the
dominant environmental factors which affect the markets
in which different business organisations operate.
b) to utilise the evaluation of the market and together with
the necessary tools and knowledge dwelop a market
model. The model will then be used to obtain
appropriately based forecasts for the market parameters
considered important by business or government for the
short, medium and long run horizons.
C) to be able to take the results obtained in a) and b)
above, and prepare the necessary management and
technical reports that will allow efficient and effective use
of the information obtained.
Admission requirements
Course participants will normally be selected from those
applicants who possess an undergraduate degree (or its
equivalent) from a recognised uniwrsity or tertiary
institution. It is expected that participants will have a
minimum of two years relevant work experience subsequent
to initially graduating.
In addition, a limited number of places (up to ten per cent)
will be made available to persons who do not hold a formal
tertiary qualification and who meet minimum standards as
may be laid down from time to time by the Faculty of
Business. A limited number of places (up to ten per cent)
will also be offered to recent graduates who wish to embark
on higher degree studies.
Candidates may receive recognition by way of credits for
units of structured education and training completed at
either tertiary education establishments or in the work place.
Recognition of prior learning will have a maximum credit
transfer of twenty-five per cent of the course.
Structure and student workload
The course structure consists of enabling units in
information technology and statistics, a faculty generic core
unit in Research Methodology, six core units and one elective
unit.
It is anticipated that students wishing to undertake this
program will have a background in information technology
and statistics at the undergraduate level or through
appropriate industry based training. Students who cannot
demonstrate introductory knowledge in these areas will be
required to undertake formal coursework.
The unit in Research Methodology has been designed to
meet the needs of all students proceeding to postgraduate
studies. The unit aims to provide students with the basics for
persuing self directed learning.