Code: 4308

Honours

Monash South Africa offers a BCIS Honours degree, which is an exact equivalent of the BITS Honours degree offered at other Monash Uinversity campuses.

• Requirements
• Structure of Honours degrees
• Credits
• Duration
• Unit details

Requirements

• An average mark of 60% for the final 3rd year levels is a requirement.
• A computing degree, such as
  1. BCIS degree
  2. B Business Systems
  3. B Computing
  4. B IT Systems (BITS)

Structure of Honours degrees

The core units are compulsory. In addtion, 3 electives must be selected among those offered in a specific year. The Research Project is basically a mini-thesis.

Core

Code	Name
FIT4441	Honours Thesis Part 1	The Honours Thesis is an individual research project extending over the whole year. The thesis has different codes for administrative purposes only.
FIT4442	Honours Thesis Part 2	It is just one thesis! Don't be confused about the different codes required for administrative reasons!
FIT4443	Honours Thesis Part 3
FIT4444	Honours Thesis Part Final
FIT4005	IT Research methods	This unit is a formal research training and methods component.

Thesis topics

You need to choose a theme for your thesis in one of these disicplines:

• Development Informatics
• Community Informatics
• Music Informatics
• Networks
• Human Computer Interaction
• Education and IT
• Systems Development
• Semiconductors and nanotechnology

Electives

Not every unit is on offer in every calendar year. We cannot offer a unit if only one or two students apply for that unit.

See the list of possible units. We do not offer all these units every year, and new students should let us know in the beginning of each calendar year which units they might be interested in taking. The list must be in ranked order.

Electives for 2011

Thes electives are offered in Semester 2.

• FIT4007 Advanced topics in information systems
• FIT4008 Reading unit
• FIT5046 Mobile and distributed computing systems
• FIT5057 Project management
• FIT5083 Wireless networks
• FIT5090 Social Informatics
• FIT5111 Information systems development practices
• FIT5152 User interface design and usability

Credits

		Monash University Credit Point System		NQF Point System
FIT4441	Honours Thesis Part 1	6 points - 0 credit		0 points
FIT4442	Honours Thesis Part 1	6 points - 0 credit		0 points
FIT4443	Honours Thesis Part 1	6 points - 0 credit		0 points
FIT4444	Honours Thesis Final	6 points - 24 credits		66 points
FIT4005		6 credits		16.6 points
FIT4007		6 credits		16.6 points
Elective unit 1		6 credits		16.6 points
Elective unit 2		6 credits		16.6 points
Total points		48 credits		132 points

Duration

The Honours degree takes 2 Semester full-time, and 3-4 Semesters part-time.

Should you wish to register in Semester 2 of a calendar year, please keep in mind that the Research Methods unit (only offered in Semester 1) is a requirement for your Research Thesis. In practice this means that you cannot commence with your Research Thesis until Semester 1 of the following year. It is thus advisable that you rather commence with your Honours studies in Semester 1 of any calendar year.