Undergraduate Units

The Faculty of Information Technology revised its degree and units structure in compliance with the ACM's (Association for Computing Machinery) Curricula Recommendations, introducing new degree names and majors.

At the South African campus of Monash University, we offer the BITS (Bachelor of IT and Systems), which is locally known as the Bachelor in Computing and Information Sciences (BCIS) degree. The BITS degree name is used in Australia and Malaysia. The BCIS degree name is required by the South African Government's HEQC. The content of the BITS and BCIS degrees are exact equivalents - the difference is only in the name.

We offer three majors in the BCIS degree. The table below lists the units and the Major program for which the unit is offered.

• BCIS (Business Systems)
• BCIS (Applications Development and Networks)
• BCIS (Internet Systems)

Key

ADN	BS	INS
Applications Development and Networks	Business Systems	Internet Systems

1st level

Code	Unit name	ADN	BS	INS
Semester 1
FIT1001	Computer Systems	ADN	BS	INS
FIT1002	Computer Programming 1	ADN	BS	INS
FIT1003	IT in Organisations	ADN	BS	INS
FIT1011	Web Systems 1			INS
ETW1102	Business statistics (or in S2)		BS
Semester 2
FIT1004	Database	ADN	BS	INS
FIT1005	Networks and Data Communications 1	ADN	BS	INS
FIT1009	eCommerce Systems		BS
ETW1102	Business statistics (or in S1)		BS

2nd level

Code	Unit name	ADN	BS	INS
Semester 1
FIT2001	Systems Analysis and design 1	ADN	BS	INS
FIT2020	Networks and data communications 2	ADN
FIT2029	Web programming	ADN	BS
FIT2018	Network Administration			INS 2009
FIT2052	Electronic Business 2			INS 2009
Semester 2
FIT2002	IT Project Management	ADN	BS	INS
FIT2005	Systems Analysis and design 2	ADN	BS
FIT2009	Data structures and Algorithms	ADN
FIT2028	Web Systems 2			INS
FIT2033	Computer models for business decisions		BS
FIT2034	Computer Programming 2	ADN

3rd level

Code	Unit name	ADN	BS	INS
Semester 1
FIT3002	Applications of data mining		BS
FIT3021	Infrastructure for eCommerce		BS
FIT3031	Information and Network Security		BS	INS 2010
FIT3047	Industrial Experience Project 1	ADN	BS	INS
FIT3063	Human-Computer Interaction			INS 2010
FIT3046	Operating Environments	ADN
FIT3060	Service oriented computing			INS 2010
Semester 2
FIT3019	Information Systems Management		BS
FIT3048	Industrial Experience Project 2	ADN	BS	INS
FIT3130	Computer Network Design and Deployment	ADN
FIT3037	Software Engineering	ADN
FIT3043	Web Systems 3			INS 2010

Credits

There should be 4 units per semester, each with 6 credits. The structure of the course map is thus:

	Monash Credits	Total
Year 1
Semester 1	24
Semester 2	24
	48	48
Year 2
Semester 1	24
Semester 2	24
	48	96
Year 3
Semester 1	24
Semester 2	24
	48	144