AUT - Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Honours)
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Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Honours)
The Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Honours) offers students who have graduated with the Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences, or a similar qualification, the opportunity to complete an honours year, enabling them to fast track their progress to doctoral studies and also providing them with a competitive advantage in the international information, communication and technologies job market.
Quick facts
Programme Code: AK3687
Level: 8
Points: 120
Duration: Two Semesters full time
Venue: City Campus
Start date: 22 July 2013 and 3 March 2014
AUT encourages early application. There are limited places available. Late applications will be accepted if the programme is not full. Applicants will normally be selected on the basis of their level of academic achievement and may be required to attend a selection interview.
Entry requirements
In order to be admitted to the Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Honours) an applicant must have completed the Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences with a B+ grade average or higher in papers at level 7, or equivalent.A Postgraduate Research Proposal (PGR1 form)
Guidelines to entry
Structure
Students in the honours programme take one compulsory research methods paper, and four other papers chosen from one of the following discipline clusters:
- Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering
- Information Systems and Technology
- Software Systems Engineering
For more information about these discipline clusters, please see the Master of Computer and Information Sciences.
In the second semester of their studies students undertake an honours dissertation – normally a small scale research project – under the guidance of an academic supervisor.
Most papers last one semester and are worth 15 points. Students must complete 120 points in total.
CORE PAPERS
408220 Research Methods 1 (15)
408222 Dissertation (45)
ELECTIVE PAPERS
SELECT FOUR (60 points in total):
408203 Net-centric Computing (15)
408204 Usage Centred Design (15)
408207 Ubiquitous Computing (15)
408208 Information Technology Strategy and Policy (15)
408211 ICT Issues in the SME Sector (15)
408212 Service Relationship Management (15)
408214 Special Topic (15)
408215 Bioinformatics (15)
408216 Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering (15)
408217 Information Security (15)
408221 Research Methods 2 (15)
409009 Special Topic B (15)
409217 Data Warehousing (15)
409219 Health Informatics (15)
409220 Software Requirements Engineering (15)
409221 eSystems Design and Development (15)
409224 Artificial Intelligence (15)
409225 Nature Inspired Computing (15)
409226 Geocomputation (15)
409227 Video and Image Processing (15)
409228 Search Based Software Engineering (15)*
409229 Human Computer Interaction (15)
409230 Information Visualisation (15)*
409231 Autoidentification (15)
409232 Software Development Methods (15)
409233 Natural Language Processing (15)
409234 Intelligence Surveillance (15)
718304 Software Architecture (15)
* Papers not offered for enrolment in 2013
Click here to view programme structure and paper outlines.
Additional course information can also be found here.
Please contact the Programme Administrator, Ann Wu for programme information and availability of papers.
Career opportunities
- Chief technology officer
- Database architect
- E-commerce solutions architect
- Group IT manager
- Integration architect
- IT manager
- Programme manager
- Project manager/leader/director
- Senior technical consultant
- Software architect
- Software developer/architect
- Further postgraduate study