Information Technology

About the course
The information technology (IT) industry is already large and continues to expand, with employers actively seeking appropriately qualified IT professionals.

The MIT is also designed to meet the needs of practising information technology professionals, to enable them to further develop their level of expertise in particular and cutting edg' areas of the profession.

Aims
The Graduate Diploma of Information Technology aims to:

• provide advanced training in information technology for graduates with either IT or non-IT backgrounds
  
• provide students with a detailed knowledge of the design, implementation, and management issues involved in the application of IT.
  

• provide advanced training in information technology for graduates with either IT or non-IT backgrounds. Students without IT will be given a general coverage of the IT discipline before proceeding on to more advanced material. All students will be encouraged to undertake a specialisation, and a project is possible .
  

• to provide the skills for graduates to be proficient in the use of information technology and information systems to professionally develop solutions to real world problems
  
• to provide sufficient theoretical and conceptual background and associated skills to people already working in industry to use information technology more effectively as part of their jobs, and to deal effectively with information technology professionals who provide services to them.
  

• to provide the skills for graduates to be proficient in the use of information technology and information systems to professionally develop solutions to real world problems
  
• to provide sufficient theoretical and conceptual background and associated skills to people already working in industry to use information technology more effectively as part of their job, and to deal effectively with information technology professionals who provide services to them
  
• to provide training in cutting edge information technology for IT professionals wishing to upgrade their qualifications and/or skills.

Entry and exit points

The MIT may be viewed as consisting of two stages:
Stage one is comprised of postgraduate subjects and is equivalent to the Graduate Diploma in Information Technology.
Stage two consists of Master level subjects. Some applicants may enter directly into stage two by receiving credit for all of stage one.
Upon completion of four information technology subjects, a student may exit the MIT course and be awarded a Graduate Certificate in Information Technology.
On completion of eight subjects, which consists of six core and two other IT elective subjects, a student may graduate the MIT course with the award Graduate Diploma of Information Technology.
On completion of 16 subjects, a student will graduate with the Master of Information Technology. The extra eight subjects (beyond stage one) will be chosen from the Master level information technology subjects offered by the University.
Up to two subjects may be chosen from non-IT subjects with the approval of the Course Coordinator. These would normally be related to information technology in some way.

Articulation
The Graduate Certificate is an exit point only course within the Master degree. The Graduate Diploma is an entry and exit point from the Master degree. Students with such qualifications will be given the appropriate number of subjects credit. Conversely, students may choose to exit the Master course without completing it and be awarded one of these two qualifications.

Credit
Applicants may be granted credit for up to a maximum of eight subjects from the Master course.
Applicants will be granted credit for up to a maximum of eight subjects if they have:

• an undergraduate (or Honours) degree with specialisation in IT, or
  
• eligibility for full membership of the Australian Computer Society (ACS)* or
  
• a postgraduate diploma in IT at an acceptable level
  

* Full membership of the ACS requires both an educational and industry experience component. The amount of experience varies from two to four years depending on the level of accreditation of the educational component.
Other bases for the granting of credit (within the normal credit limits) would be the successful completion of appropriate graduate level prior studies or through existing credit transfer arrangements including IT industry certificates such as the Microsoft Certified training programs.

Graduation requirements
To graduate, students must satisfactorily complete 128 points for the Master degree and 64 points for the Graduate Diploma.

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