AD006 - Associate Degree in Information Technology

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Plan: AD006P11 - Associate Degree in Information Technology
Campus: City Campus

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure
Program transition plan

Approach to learning and assessment

The following teaching and learning approaches form the basis of the your learning experiences:

  • You will be offered an interactive teaching and learning environment. Offering a learner-centred curriculum that encourages more learner engagement and participation than traditional lecture style.
  • Laboratory work will be a major component of your learning.
  • You will be required to solve hardware and software problems.
  • You will be engaged in projects that require you to report results qualitatively, quantitatively, graphically, electronically and textually
  • Formative and summative assessments in all courses emphasise a range of written and oral skills.
  • You will be exposed to learning activities and projects that require you to work in teams and critically engage with aspects of team development and conflict resolution.
  • Learning activities focus on practical application of technical skills and an assessment program that includes the assessment of technical competence both in practice and theory.
  • You will be engaged in projects that require you to access a wide variety of knowledge repositories including professional journals, discussion lists and online sources of material.

If you have a disability, long-term illness and/or mental health condition it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning and assessment methods, depending on your circumstances. You can contact the program coordinator or the Equitable Learning Services (ELS) if you would like to find out more:https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-support/equitable-learning-services. 

If you have already developed areas of skill and knowledge included in this program (for example, through prior studies or work experience), you can apply for credit once you have enrolled in this program. There is information on the RMIT University website about how to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL): http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit/he

Program Specific Information:

In order to successfully acquire the required knowledge and skills in this program, you are expected to attend all of the timetabled teaching sessions and complete any online activities required. You will be required to attend all scheduled on campus assessment activities and all online assessment activitiesand achivee a minimum grade of 50% in each course in this program in order to meet standard program completion requirements. 

Information relating to Covid

Please note that this program’s courses (whether core, option, or university elective courses) may have mandatory in-person attendance or assessment to pass the course.

If you are choosing to enrol in a course which has mandatory in-person attendance or assessment, you will need to comply with RMIT vaccination requirements which are applicable during the duration of the course. This RMIT requirement includes being vaccinated against COVID-19 or holding a valid medical exemption.

Please read this RMIT Enrolment Procedure as it has important information regarding COVID vaccination and your study at RMIT: https://policies.rmit.edu.au/document/view.php?id=209.

Please read the Student website for additional requirements of in-person attendance: https://www.rmit.edu.au/covid/coming-to-campus

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Work integrated learning

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will:

  • undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
  • interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities;
  • complete these activities in real or simulated work contexts or situations; and
  • these interactions and the work context provide a distinctive source of feedback to you to assist your learning.

Any or all of these aspects of a WIL experience may be in a simulated workplace environment. 

In this program, you will be doing a specific course which focuses on work integrated learning (WIL). You will be assessed on professional or vocational work in a work place setting (real or simulated) and receive feedback from those involved in your industry.

You will work on equipment and software current to industry standards. Industry case studies will used where appropriate. A variety of simulated workplace experiences is embedded into the following course: 

  • INTE2507 Virtualisation

INTE2507 Virtualisation is a capstone course where you will apply many of the skills and techniques learned over the duration of the whole program. You will be assessed in a simulated workplace context, with feedback from an industry and/or community representative.

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Program Structure

To graduate you must complete the following. All courses listed may not be available each semester.
 

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Year One of Program

Complete the following Eight (8) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

User-Centred Design (AD) 12 ISYS3356 City Campus
Web Programming 12 COSC2446 City Campus
Networking 1 12 COSC2385 City Campus
Introduction to Computer Systems and Platform Technologies 12 COSC2510 City Campus
Workplace Communication A 12 COMM2326 City Campus
Introduction to Programming 12 COSC2511 City Campus
Database Concepts 12 ISYS2390 City Campus
Networking 2 12 COSC2384 City Campus
 
AND

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Year Two of Program

Select and complete Four (4) of the following core courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Programming 1 12 COSC2395 City Campus
Software Engineering Fundamentals 12 COSC2398 City Campus
Unix Essentials for System Administrators 12 COSC2506 City Campus
Virtualisation 12 INTE2507 City Campus
AND
Select and Complete Three (3) of the following courses. If you want to articulate into Bachelor of Computer Science or Bachelor of Software Engineering, you must select COSC2391 Further Programming as one of your three program options.

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Operating Systems Administration 12 COSC2534 City Campus
Advanced Networking 1 12 COSC2382 City Campus
Advanced Networking 2 12 COSC2383 City Campus
IT Essentials 12 COSC2386 City Campus
Further Programming 12 COSC2391 City Campus
Cyber Security 12 INTE2557 City Campus
AND
{
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any:
University Elective
OR
If you want to articulate into Bachelor of Computer Science or Bachelor of Software Engineering, you must select and complete One (1) of the following courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Discrete Mathematics 12 MATH1150 City Campus
Discrete Structures in Computing 12 COSC2627 City Campus
}
 

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Program transition plan

Domestic Students - the following transition statement applies to domestic students only

The AD006P11 Associate Degree in Information Technology will be discontinued. The final intake in AD006P11 Associate Degree in Information Technology will be in Semester 2, 2023.

 

All students who are currently enrolled in AD006P11 Associate Degree in Information Technology, will have the opportunity to complete their program by the end of  June 2025. 

Students who do not complete by June 2025, can transfer into the new AD006P24 Associate Degree in Information Technology program plan with credit for equivalent courses but may need to enrol in additional courses if required. Students who need to enrol into additional courses may take longer to complete the award.

 

Students will be provided with transition advice by Luke Eberbach, Program Manager.

International Students

RMIT is seeking CRICOS registration for the replacement program. Further advice will be provided at a laterstage.

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