Diploma of Science (Computing/IT)

This unit introduces the foundations of academic writing – from library research using databases, selection of approved academic resources, to writing paragraphs and essays, using the APA referencing system and delivering oral presentations using multi-media.  The unit also includes essential study skills to assist with time management, note-taking and the use of memory aids for study purposes.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit develops knowledge and skills in computing systems – software, hardware, digital security, communication networks, internet, information and data management. Students will develop their digital literacy and gain practical skills in specific computing applications from the Microsoft Office Suite. Students will also be introduced to some basic hands-on skills in program design using Pseudocode.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit introduces concepts and skills used by managers to propose, plan, secure resources, budget and lead project teams to successful project completion.  Students will examine and apply fundamental principles, strategies and approaches for project management in a variety of contexts that are universally applicable across organisations and project types.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit is designed for students who require a general mathematics background suitable for studies in business, health sciences and computing/IT courses.  Students will learn to use a scientific calculator and develop critical thinking skills to identify, analyse, synthesize and solve mathematical calculations in arithmetic, statistics, algebra, functions and their graphs, optimisation, sequences, series, growth and decay, trigonometry, geometric sequences, series, set theory and interest.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This English language unit aims to enable you to improve your ability to communicate in English to participate effectively in academic and professional environments. A balance of receptive (reading, listening) and productive (speaking, writing) skills are developed through communicative classes and self-study. The unit will also provide language awareness tools to enable self-directed and ongoing learning.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

Students will identify, analyse and apply communication, social and intercultural skills for effective interpersonal and workplace relationships.  This unit develops written skills, oral presentation skills and research skills, to prepare students for academic or professional environments.  Students will make connections between learning and future employability through topics such as effective workplace relationships, negotiation, managing conflict, and skills for teamwork and leadership.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

The unit introduces students to intercultural interaction in the contemporary world, focusing on multiple and diverse audiences, modalities, globalisation, cultural symbols and values, language, and interpretations of intercultural sites. Accounting for the international students’ experiences, they are given a practical introduction to relevant processes leading to expanding their cultural knowledge. Global citizenship, including intercultural communication skills, is introduced and enhanced, focusing on cultural diversity and contemporary implications for professional practice. Students will explore, report and present on their intercultural communication journey, and its’ relevance to their discipline / professional interests.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This module enables students to acquire both an introductory knowledge of the theoretical concepts in programming and fundamental practical skills in writing programs.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit develops a student’s understanding of the components of systems analysis: definition of a system, the role of and context of systems analysis, interfacing with the user; the life cycle of a management information system from the feasibility study through to the post-implementation audit. Applying skills by fact gathering, interviewing, presenting, group working, documenting an existing system; analysis techniques involving use cases, state diagrams, data modelling, data from diagrams, data dictionaries, decision tables, web page, screen and report design.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit introduces students to the principles of programming, including data manipulation, control structures, and abstraction. The unit focuses upon developing the ability to design and implement programs to solve problems.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit presents fundamental topics in mathematics that are essential to computing studies including propositional and predicate calculus, Boolean algebra, set theory, computer arithmetic and number systems in computing. It also provides an introduction to matrix algebra with applications to computing and cryptography.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit will introduce students to the skills required of professional scientists, with a special focus on effective communication. These professional skills include techniques of accessing, evaluating and presenting scientific information. Written, visual and oral presentation skills for scientific and general audiences will be developed through the analysis of topical scientific issues. This unit will prepare students to develop careers in the science discipline of choice.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit introduces students to current and proposed telecommunications and networking infrastructures and their application in business and communications services. With a primary focus on the Internet and the World Wide Web, students examine in detail the principles, processes and technologies associated with data communications and computer networking, applications of the major carriage media, communications standards and emerging broadcast and narrowcast technologies based on communications channels.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit introduces students to the concepts of relational databases, including database design via normalisation and entity-relationship modelling in order to solve problems. It explores the use of Structured Query Language (SQL) to create, populate and administer relational databases and to perform complex queries upon the data inside them.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

The unit is an introduction to computer security which serves as a preliminary unit to prepare students for various advanced studies within their respective courses. The unit focuses on understanding the potential threats and vulnerabilities geared towards a variety of computer-related assets and examines a wide range of countermeasures to overcome weaknesses and minimise threats.

Pre-Requisite Units: None

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15

This unit introduces the fundamental architecture and operating principles of digital computer system. Students will learn how modern computers are organised and operated, and how they can be programmed at an assembly (machine) language level, as well as using higher level languages, and the role of operating systems in this. Students will also learn fundamental concepts related to the interfacing of peripheral components to computer systems, including memory and secondary storage, and explore different types of computer systems including an overview of virtualisation and cloud technologies.

Pre-Requisite Units: MAT1252D – Mathematics for Computing

Tuition Pattern: Weekly 4hr Class

Credits: 15