1997 QUT Handbook

new hardware.
Courses: IT30, IT35/IT40 Prerequisites: ITB530
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: ITB541
■ ITN553 OS SECURITY & MANAGEMENT
Computer professionals need to be able to identify, assess,
and advise on the security features (in particular the enforcement
techniques used) in computer systems.
Courses: IT30, IT35/IT40 Corequisites: ITN531
Credit Points: 12
■ ITN554 SPECIAL TOPIC
An advanced topic in data networks is studied in detail. The
topic concerned will depend on the interests of the Faculty
member or visitor responsible for the unit in any semester in
which the unit is offered.
Courses: IT30, IT35/IT40
Prerequisites: Approval of Head of School of Data
Communications
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITN555 SPECIAL TOPIC
Refer to ITN554 .
Courses: IT30 Credit Points: 12
■ ITN556 ADVANCED TOPICS IN CRYPTOLOGY
Design and cryptanalysis of ciphers; indepth study of methods
for forming secure ciphers and attacking various ciphers;
secret sharing schemes; crypto-protocols, including zero
knowledge systems; current topics in cryptology.
Courses: IT30, IT35/IT40 Prerequisites: ITB548
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITP312 ORGANISATION OF KNOWLEDGE
The organisation of knowledge in libraries and information
agencies. Emphasis is placed on the description, classification
and subject analysis of information in print media using
AACR2 (1988 revision), DDC and LCSH. Other related topics
are mentioned briefly, e.g. LCC, MARC, ABN and other
efforts.
Courses: IS25, IT20
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITP327 INFORMATION ORGANISATION 1
Description of recorded knowledge in its various forms, rules
and standards for description and organisation in different
environments; database creation, control and report formatting;
comparison of bibliographic and nonbibliographic report
formats; citation and citation software; content analysis
and vocabulary control; indexing and indexing display formats;
classification and introduction to general classification
systems, and comparison with subject-specific systems.
Courses: IT25
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITP328 INFORMATION SOURCES 1
Different media and the publishing process; primary, secondary
and tertiary published information resources; critical success
factors and environmental scanning: what environmental
scanning is and how it works; characteristics of resources
in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and technology;
‘lead in’ tools, general reference tools, abstracting and indexing
services both hard copy and machine readable; conducting
a client interview; selecting an online or hardcopy database,
selecting a database provider, developing a search strategy,
designing a search query; the proliferation of Internet
resources; identification and location of specialist publications.
Courses: IT25
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITP329 INFORMATION RESOURCES PROVISION
The concept of information and the information life cycle;
intellectual property and intellectual freedom; assessing community
information needs and wants; evaluation and maintenance
of resource collections; cooperative collection development
and resource sharing; the multifaceted role of conspectus;
writing and testing a collection policy document; print,
nonprint and multimedia publishers/producers; legal and ethi-
cal issues in information resource provision; locating alternative
information resource providers; selection aids and tools
for acquiring information resource items; techniques for assessing
community information needs.
Courses: IT25
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ ITP330 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Historical perspective of the role of libraries and information
agencies; alternative approaches and technologies for information
provision and dissemination; processes and techniques
of communication; social and legal framework affecting information
provision; the role of librarians and other information
professionals; field experience involving day to day employment
in a library or other information agency.
Courses: IT25
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ JSB011 SOCIAL ISSUES FOR JUSTICE
PROFESSIONALS 1
This unit introduces students to the concepts of race, ethnicity,
class and gender in order to provide a framework for understanding
the way in which inequality is produced and reproduced.
This unit will argue that such knowledge informs
our interpretation and understanding of justice and injustice
in Australian society.
Courses: JS31, JS33, LW41
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: JSB101
■ JSB012 COMMUNICATION FOR JUSTICE
PROFESSIONALS
Personnel in human service agencies such as law enforcement
and justice administration are highly dependant upon communication
skills. In particular, good written communication
is essential. It is also essential for academic success. This unit
aims to lay the foundation for effective writing skills which
will form the basis for academic success and professional
competence. Students will be assisted to think, plan and write
effectively and will be encouraged to assess and improve the
technical aspects of their writing and to explore and practise a
variety of writing styles.
Courses: JS31, JS33, LW41
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: JSB104
■ JSB013 LAW & GOVERNMENT 1
This unit introduces students to institutions of government
and law, with an emphasis on the criminal justice system and
its aims and objectives. Government and legal processes have
recently been subject to increased scrutiny across Australia,
and particularly in Queensland. In response to this, the unit
provides students with an understanding of the relationship
between law and society, and of calls for reform of the criminal
justice system. The unit aims to assist students to develop
the depth and breadth of knowledge on these issues necessary
for their participation in legal and government institutions as
justice professionals.
Courses: JS31, JS33
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: JSB103
■ JSB014 INTRODUCTION TO JUSTICE STUDIES
Justice Studies adopts a multidisciplinary approach to knowledge.
Several disciplines such as sociology, psychology, criminology,
philosophy and law form the basis of the Justice Studies
program. This subject will focus on these different
knowledges which various professions use to inform their research
and practice.
Courses: JS31, JS33, LW41
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: JSB108
■ JSB015 SOCIAL ISSUES FOR JUSTICE
PROFESSIONALS 2
This unit uses the knowledge and understanding of inequality
and injustice gained in JSB011 to introduce students to the
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