Postgraduate - Edith Cowan University

information security policy, legislation and best practice will be
explored. On completion of this unit the student should have a
firm grasp of the existing standards and their potential use in the
corporate IT environment.
CSI5251 20 Credit Points
Project 1
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisites :
CSI5150 Project Preparation , or
CSG5141 Research Proposal
This unit is undertaken by students who have previously
undertaken a research proposal unit (CSG5141) or a project
preparation unit (CSI5150). In this unit the student is supervised
by a staff member who is allocated as their supervisor. For
administrative reasons such students are enrolled under this single
unit code. In this unit, students begin the implementation of an
independent software project or research project, under the
supervision of a staff member.
CSI5252 20 Credit Points
Project 2
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisites :
CSI5150 Project Preparation , or
CSG5141 Research Proposal
This unit is undertaken by students who have previously
undertaken a research proposal unit (CSG5141) or a project
preparation unit (CSI5150). In this unit the student is supervised
by a staff member who is allocated as their supervisor. For
administrative reasons such students are enrolled under this single
unit code. In this unit, students complete the implementation of an
independent software project or research project, under the
supervision of a staff member.
CSI5309 20 Credit Points
Information and Network Centric Operations
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisites :
CSI4104 Information Security and
CSI4110 Introduction to Information Warfare or equivalent
experience
This unit examines advanced concepts of information as a
resource of value. Using the concept of information superiority as
a basis, the unit covers the nature of information, its use as a
weapon and as targeted commodity within an organisation. It
covers the theory and practice of information warfare from the
perspective of network centric and effects-based concepts.
CSI5318 20 Credit Points
Wireless and Mobile Computing Security
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisites :
CSI4102 Computer Security and
CSI4207 Network Security Fundamentals
This unit is an introduction to wireless and mobile computing
security. The unit will focus on securing wireless services, mobile
devices including computer laptops, handheld computers,
Personal Digital Assistants, portable flash memory devices.
Students will be exposed to a wide range of techniques, tools and
policy to protect a wireless or mobile computing environment.
CSI5319 20 Credit Points
Computer Forensics
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisites :
CSI4102 Computer Security
CSI4207 Network Security Fundamentals
This unit is an introduction to many of the tools and techniques
used in computer forensics. Computer evidence is often not
accessible by usual access methods, so specialized software tools
and techniques must be employed to recover this. Modern
computer forensics involves the preservation, identification and
analysis of computer based evidence stored in the form of
magnetically encoded information on various devices and media.
CSI5322 20 Credit Points
Programming for Distributed Systems
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisites :
CSI5121 Administration and Programming in Linux
CSI5117 Principles of Distributed Systems
This unit is designed to articulate the theory of distributed systems
that students learnt in CSI5117 Principles of Distributed Systems.
Students engage in distributed application development using
tools, such as Java application programming interfaces (APIs),
remote method invocation (RMI), and the CORBA platform.
Some advanced distributed computing paradigms are analysed to
compliment the practical activities. All practical work in
completed in the Linux environment.
CSI6115 20 Credit Points
Information Technology Research Preparation 1
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The background research and proposal for Information
Technology research of a high level of complexity and quality.
CSI6216 20 Credit Points
Information Technology Research Preparation 2
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The background research and proposal for Information
Technology research of a high level of complexity and quality.
CSI6217 20 Credit Points
Information Technology Research Preparation 3
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The background research and proposal for Information
Technology research of a high level of complexity and quality.
CSI7200 0 Credit Points
Doctor of Information Technology Thesis
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Students in this unit are expected to develop and implement their
research project, collect and analyse the data, verify and validate
their strategies/techniques and write up their thesis. The research
work should possess a high level of originality, representing a
significant contribution to the IT profession.
CSP220R 15 Credit Points
Data Structures
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit focuses on data abstraction and the realisation of abstract
data types as re-usable and generic modules using Java as the
vehicular programming language. Basic algorithmic analysis is
also introduced.
CSP234Q 15 Credit Points
Object-oriented Programming with C++
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Prerequisite :
CSP4150 Programming Principles
This unit covers object-oriented design and programming using
C++. It explores in detail the C++ language including classes,
inheritance, virtual functions and polymorphism, encapsulation,
templates, streams, file-handling, exception handling and the
application of the Standard Template Library (STL).
CSP234U 15 Credit Points
UNIX and C
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
The UNIX system; C language including program structure, data
types, expressions, control structures and I/O facilities; the
interface between UNIX and C; simple systems programming.
CSP4102 15 Credit Points
Markup Languages
FACULTY OF COMPUTING, HEALTH AND SCIENCE
This unit explores the theory and practice of markup for the
creation of Web documents. It includes data structures, procedural
and descriptive markup, programmatic access to document
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