Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

***Alternative entry is available through the Division of
Business, Humanities and Social Science, however different
prerequisites apply.
Course structure
Full-time course -Applied Science only
Year 1
Semester 1
Credit points
AYl 00 Psychology 12.5
SP132 Introductory Psychophysiology 12.5
SP135* Monitoring Instrumentation 10.0
SM106 Mathematics 7.5
SC133t Chemistry 7.5
Semester 2
AYlOl Psychology 12.5
SP231 Monitoring Technology 10.0
SP233 Psychophysiological Systems 19.0
SK290 Computer Science 8.5
Year 2
Semester 1
AY203 Development Psychology 16.5
SP331 Neurohumoral Bases of Psychophysiology 23.5
SM.278 Design and Measurement 2A 10.0
Semester 2
AY202 Cognition and Human Performance 16.5
AY204 Social Psychology 16.5
SP431 Psychophysiology of Perception 17.0
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Year 3
Semester I
2 AY312 The Psychology of Personality 16.5
AY319 Psychological Measurement 12.5
BPS27 Neurophysiology of the Normal Brain 12.5
. SPS28 Higher Cortical Function 12.5
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Semester 2
lo. AY313 Cognition and Human Performance 16.5
AY320 Psychological Foundations of Counselling 8.5
. SP631 Neurophysiology of Mental Disorders
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SP632 Psychophysiology Project
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3 * Students who have units 3 and 4 Physics do SP134,
a otherwise do SP135.
t Students who have Units 3 and 4 Chemistry do SC133P.
2 otherwise do SC133.
Application procedure
See entry under 'General Divisional information -Applied
Science'.
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Bachelor of Information Technology
VTAC Course Code-3431 5
Manager
G.A. Murphy BCom(Melb), CPA
The course is offered only as a full-time program of three years
duration. Students are actively engaged in the course for an
average of forty-four weeks each year. There are eight
segments in the course - four semesters, two summer terms
and two twenty-week periods of industry based learning.
These provide a course which is essentially a four year course
completed in three years.
Swinburne awards a scholarship to each student admitted to
the course. Scholarship levels are expected to be an average
$9.000.
Career potential
The course provides 'raduates to apply information technology
within business and industry and ~rovides them amrooriate
grounding in management education to prepare ihem' for
future roles in management.
Prerequisites (entrance 1995)
Units 3 and 4: English, Mathematics (any).
Segment I
Credit points
IT1 01 Computer Fundamentals 10.0
IT102 Introduction to Programming 10.0
IT1 03 Business Applications and Systems 1 10.0
IT1 05 Behaviour and Communications in Organisations
10.0
BCl 10 Accounting 1 10.0
Segment 2
IT201 Decision Analysis 10.0
IT202 COBOL Programming 10.0
IT203 Business Applications and Systems 2 10.0
Plus 2 Non-computing Electives each 10.0
Segment 3 (Summer Term)
IT301 Systems Software 1 16.5
IT302 Organisation Behaviour 17.0
IT303 Data Base Management Systems 1 16.5
Segment 4
IT401 Industry Based Learning 50.0
Segments 5 and 6
Ten subjects must be studied in these two consecutive
segments. They can be taken in any order that prerequisites
allow, and must include six core subjects, two chosen from the
specialist subjects on offer and two non-competing electives.
Core subjects*
IT501 Systems and Information Analysis 1 10.0
IT503 Data Base Management Systems 2 10.0
IT504 Data Communications 1 10.0
IT509 Software Engineering 1 10.0
IT601 Systems and Information Analysis 2 10.0
IT609 Software Engineering 2 10.0
Specialist subjects*
IT502 Systems Software 2 10.0
IT603 Data Base Management Systems 3 10.0
Other approved specialist computing subjects may be chosen
from either the Bachelor of Applied Science or the Bachelor of
Business courses.
Segment 7
IT701 Industry Based Learning 50.0
Segment 8 (Summer Term)
IT803 Emerging Information Technologies 25.0
IT804 Computing in the Human Context 25.0
* All subjects will not be offered each semester.
Application procedure
See entry under 'General Divisional information -Applied
Science'.
Regulations
The Course Regulations are available from the School of
Computer Science and Software Engineering and each student
will receive a copy at the beginning of the course.