Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) (Faculty of Sciences) (BINH) - BIT(Hons)

This program is offered only to continuing students. No new admissions will be accepted. Students who are interested in this study area should contact us.

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Current students

Contact the Administration Officer (Mathematics and Computing), telephone +61 7 4631 1490, email sciences.enrolment@usq.edu.au or submit a question via USQAssist.

Program focus

The Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) provides you with a high level of skill and proficiency in computing and research, and meets the requirements to undertake further Masters or Doctoral-level studies.

Career opportunities

Completion of the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) program will provide the graduate with a highly competitive and specialist qualification.

Program objectives

Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will be able to:

• work as a professional in the Information Technology industry

• demonstrate knowledge of key areas of computing at an advanced level

• demonstrate understanding of higher level concepts and systems in key areas of computing

• carry out the required analysis and synthesis involved in modelling computing systems and networks, information systems or other complex systems

• demonstrate sound practical skills to enable them to address problems which arise from computing systems and industry

• have the capability to proceed to research in applied and experimental computing

• demonstrate sound presentation and communication skills that are required in a university environment or in the computing industry

• proceed to PhD study subject to competitive evaluation of qualifications.

Admission requirements

To qualify for entry to the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours), students will:

• have been awarded a degree in computer science or information technology from an Australian University or from a recognised overseas university

• have pre-requisite knowledge of computing equivalent to the Applied Computer Science, Games and Creative Technologies, Multimedia Technology, Networking, Software Engineering or Web Information Systems majors of the Bachelor of Information Technology (Faculty of Sciences) at the University of Southern Queensland

• have met minimum academic requirements in the relevant undergraduate program. These requirements normally include one or more of the following:

  • achieved a Grade Point Average equivalent to the level of Credit or better for the whole program

  • achieved a Grade Point Average equivalent to the level of Credit or better in the second or third years of the undergraduate degree

  • achieved a Grade Point Average equivalent to the level of Credit or better in the major study in the undergraduate degree.

  
  

  International applicants must have met the University's English language requirements or have completed the University's ELICOS/UNIPREP programs .

Discretionary Admission

The Dean may, on the advice of the Head of Department, admit students who do not satisfy all the general requirements for entry but who, in the opinion of the Head of Department, have a reasonable chance of success.

Program fees

Student contribution amount

For domestic students who are offered Commonwealth supported places, the Government pays some money directly to the University, but students are also required to make a contribution. This contribution is called the ‘student contribution’. For more information about student contribution amounts, including the calculation of fees for a particular program of study, refer to USQ fees.

Tuition fee

Domestic fee-paying places are funded entirely through the tuition/direct fees paid by the student. Tuition/direct fees vary depending on the courses that are taken. For more information about Tuition Fees, including the calculation of fees for a particular program of study, refer to USQ Fees.

International fees

International students pay tuition fees. For details about international student fees, refer to the International Fee Schedule provided by USQ International.

Program structure

The program has two components, four units of coursework and four units of project work.

For the coursework component, students have a choice of four courses as indicated in the following table. The specific Honours courses offered may vary from year to year.

Each student is required to complete the two two-unit courses MSC8001 Research Project Methodology and MSC8002 Research Project Dissertation under the supervision of appropriate staff of the Department of Mathematics and Computing.

Complementary Studies

The two Computing Complementary Studies courses are designed to allow students to pursue studies in Computing not contained in the program. These studies could be staff-initiated and depend on staff research interests and/or areas of special expertise or may be initiated by students. If student-initiated, the student will be required to submit a proposal and a staff member would have to agree to supervise the student. In both instances the Postgraduate Coordinator would need to approve the study.

Topics available from time-to-time for Computing Complementary Studies include Logic Programming, Functional Programming, Formal Methods in Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Parallel and Distributed Languages and Programming, Object-Oriented Design Patterns, Distributed Object Programming, Graphics Tools Development, Spatial Data Structures and their Applications, Object-Oriented and Multimedia Databases, Database Systems and Data Mining.

All students must have their course enrolment approved by the Program Coordinator.

Required time limits

Students have a maximum of 2 years to complete this program.

IT requirements

All students are required to have access to a personal computer with a minimum configuration of:

Pentium, 64Mb RAM, 8Gb Hard Disk, CDROM, Sound Card, SVGA with 2Mb memory, three-button mouse, external modem, printer, dual boot operating system: Linux and Microsoft Windows.

Macintosh computers are not recommended due to the software used in the courses in the Bachelor of Information Technology (Faculty of Sciences).

Software is specified on a course-by-course basis and, in some instances, it is provided with the textbook required for the course.

Students studying CSC2406 Web Publishing and/or CSC3407 Network Fundamentals and Routing will require Internet access.

The University is installing a wireless network for students' computers. In order to take advantage of this facility and further enhance their on-campus learning environment, students should consider purchasing a notebook/laptop computer with wireless connectivity. A notebook/laptop may be required for some courses.

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