AUT - Master of Service-Oriented Computing
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Master of Service-Oriented Computing
Service science, cloud computing and service-oriented computing are growth sectors that are starting to demand experienced graduates. There is an acknowledged lack of IT professionals equipped with skills to work in the new environment where both applications and services are increasingly reliant on distributed computing in its contemporary forms such as cloud computing.
In service-oriented computing, application components are assembled into a network of services, such as the internet based web services. The service-oriented approach allows the creation of flexible and dynamic business processes across organizations and computing platforms.
The programme will:
- Provide a further training opportunity for those who have already been in employment in the IT sector;
- Engage students in one year postgraduate study in a computing discipline which will offer prospective employers a valuable mixture of professional and technical skills;
- Enable high quality graduates from other disciplines who meet the entry criteria to develop their practical competencies in a similar set of professional and technical skills and;
- Provide all students with advanced knowledge in the specialist area of service-oriented computing.
Quick facts
Programme Code: AK1316Level: 9
Points: 120
Duration: One year full time / Two years part time
Venue: Manukau Campus
Start date: 16 July 2012 and 4 March 2013
Entry requirements
In order to be admitted to the MSOC, applicants need to have completed one of the following or equivalent:
- An approved bachelor's degree or graduate diploma and three years of relevant work experience as approved by the dean (or representative) or;
- A relevant postgraduate certificate and two years of relevant work experience as approved by the dean (or representative) or;
- A relevant postgraduate diploma or;
- A relevant bachelor's degree with honours or;
- A relevant four-year bachelor's degree.
Structure
Papers - 120 points in totalCORE PAPERS
408212 Service Relationship Management (15 points)
409110 Service Science for IT (15 points)
409111 Service-Oriented Architecture (15 points)
409113 Cloud Computing (15 points)
SELECT 60 points FROM:
408203 Net-centric Computing (15 points)
408207 Ubiquitous Computing (15 points)
408217 Information Security (15 points)
408220 Research Methods I (15 points)
409009 Special Topic (15 points)
409112 Global IT Project Management (15 points)
409114 Software Engineering for Services (15 points)
409115 Contemporary Service Science Infrastructure (15 points)
409116 Web Services Development (15 points)
409117 Readings (15 points)
409221 eSystems Design and Development (15 points)
Enrolment in papers is subject to meeting all requirements and availability of papers (not all papers listed above will be open for enrolment in a given year).
Please contact the Programme Administrator, Ann Wu for programme information and availability of papers.
Career opportunities
- Technical enterprise architect
- Enterprise solution architect
- Transformation analyst
- Operational process consultant
- Capacity planner
- Capacity manager
- Business integration and service delivery manager
- Business analyst
- Business process manager
- Service performance manager
- Business solution architect
- IT operations manager
- Project manager
- Middleware systems administrator
- Load balancing specialist
- IT security specialist
- IT services consultant
- Software engineer
- SE Service design engineer
- Enterprise architecture integration specialist