BP162 - Bachelor of Information Technology

Plan: BP162OUA17 - Bachelor of Information Technology
Campus: OUA CSP

Program delivery and structure

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

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Approach to learning and assessment

Your learning experiences will contain a broad mix of study modes, including lectures, seminars, webinars, virtual classrooms, and online collaborative project work, using online and other flexible delivery mechanisms. 

Assessment is designed to give you opportunities to demonstrate your capabilities. You will find that the forms of assessment used may be different for each course, as the assessment you receive must be appropriate to the objectives of each course. 

Your assessment in this program will include all or some of the following:

• Examinations: an individual form of assessment where you are asked to demonstrate your ability to explain principles and to solve problems;
• Assignments and projects: some will require you to demonstrate an ability to work alone, while some will involve group work requiring you to be part of team with other students;
• Reflective journals: where you pause to consider what you have learnt and reflect on the further development of the related capability;
• Assessed tutorials or presentations: a form of in-class test, which you will be required to complete either individually or as a team:
• Self-assessment and peer-assessment: for assessment activities such as seminars you may be asked to assess your own work, the work of your group, or the work of other groups. This is part of equipping you to become more independent in your own learning and to develop your assessment skills.

The assessment you complete, with the exception of exams, will enable the teaching staff to provide you with feedback on your strong and weak points.  This will enable you to improve your performance in the future.

If you have a long-term medical condition, disability and/or other form of disadvantage, it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.

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Work integrated learning

RMIT is committed to providing students with an education that strongly links formal learning with workplace experience.  As a student enrolled in this program you will:

- undertake and be assessed on a structured activity that allows you to learn, apply and  demonstrate your professional practice

- interact with industry and community when undertaking this activity

- complete an activity in a work context or situation that may include teamwork with other students from different disciplines

- underpin your learning with feedback from interactions and contexts distinctive to workplace experiences

In this program, you will be doing specific courses that focus on work integrated learning (WIL).  You will be assessed on professional work in a workplace setting (real or simulated) and receive feedback from those involved in the IT industry.

The designated work-integrated learning courses for this program are (1) the project management course, ISYS3379 Software Engineering Project Management and (2) the capstone course, COSC2693 Programming Project 1.

Software Engineering Project Management (ISYS3379) simulates realistic work situations where you will have the opportunity to learn, apply and demonstrate professional software project management practices. You will work in a team on a software engineering project, interacting with a professional software project manager.

Programming Project 1 (COSC2693) is designed to provide you with hands-on practical experience developing software in a workplace environment. Your project team of 4 to 6 students will complete industry projects from inception to implementation. The emphasis is on understanding and working within a corporate environment, using formal project management and software engineering methodologies and integrating all the skills and knowledge that you have acquired in the program.

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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 Seven (7) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Building IT Systems 12 COSC2678 OUA CSP Essentials of Information Technology 12 COSC2677 OUA CSP Introduction to Programming 12 COSC2680 OUA CSP User-centred Design 12 COSC2679 OUA CSP Introduction to Computer Systems 12 COSC2682 OUA CSP Web Programming 12 COSC2690 OUA CSP Practical Database Concepts 12 ISYS3415 OUA CSP
AND
Select and Complete One (1) Course from any Information Technology Options listed at the end of the program structure.
AND
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Year Two of Program
Complete the following Three (3) Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Professional Computing Practice 12 COSC2691 OUA CSP Security in Computing and Information Technology 12 COSC2688 OUA CSP Software Engineering Fundamentals for IT 12 ISYS3417 OUA CSP
AND
Select and Complete Three (3) Courses from any Information Technology Options listed at the end of the program structure.
AND
Select and Complete Two (2) Courses from one of the minor streams offered by Open Universities Australia (see explanation above):
AND
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Year Three of Program
Complete the following One (1) Course:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Software Engineering Project Management 12 ISYS3379 OUA CSP
AND
Complete One (1) Capstone Project Course:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Programming Project 1 12 COSC2693 OUA CSP
AND
Select and Complete Two (2) Courses from the Advanced Information Technology Options list at the end of this program structure.
AND
Select and Complete Two (2) Courses from one of the minor streams offered by Open Universities Australia (see explanation above):
AND
Select and Complete Two (2) Courses from any:
University Elective
AND
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Information Technology Option
List of Information Technology Option Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Data Communication and Net-Centric Computing 12 COSC2687 OUA CSP Database Applications 12 ISYS3405 OUA CSP Database Administration 12 COSC2698 OUA CSP Cloud Foundations 12 COSC2773 OUA CSP Full Stack Development 12 COSC2772 OUA CSP Mobile Programming Fundamentals 12 COSC2771 OUA CSP Network Programming 12 COSC2700 OUA CSP Programming 1 12 COSC2681 OUA CSP Scripting Language Programming 12 COSC2685 OUA CSP Further Programming 12 COSC2684 OUA CSP Software Testing 12 ISYS3381 OUA CSP Systems Deployment and Operations 12 COSC2770 OUA CSP Unix Systems Administration and Programming (Linux) 12 COSC2701 OUA CSP
AND
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Advanced Information Technology Options
List of Advanced Information Technology Option Courses:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Advanced Programming Techniques 12 COSC2696 OUA CSP Cloud Computing 12 COSC2697 OUA CSP iPhone Software Engineering 12 COSC2686 OUA CSP Mobile Application Development 12 COSC2699 OUA CSP Web Development Technologies 12 COSC2694 OUA CSP Web Database Applications 12 ISYS3382 OUA CSP
AND
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Minor: Cloud Technologies
Cloud Technologies Minor Courses List:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus Cloud Foundations 12 COSC2773 OUA CSP Cloud Developing 12 COSC2827 OUA CSP Cloud Architecting 12 COSC2932 OUA CSP Cloud Operations 12 COSC2828 OUA CSP
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Program transition plan

Very Important: This plan is being phased out.

BP162OUA17 - Bachelor of Information Technology has been discontinued and will no longer accept new students from OUA UGRD Study Period 1 2023. The plan will be taught out to current students until OUA UGRD Study Period 4 2025. If you are unable to complete your program by the end of Study Period 4 2025, you may consider transferring to another program within RMIT subject to entrance requirements.

For more information and advice on your enrolment, please contact your program manager, Vic Ciesielski, by email at vic.ciesielski@rmit.edu.au or the Student Connect team via https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-services/student-connect.

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From Sem 1 2021 a new minor stream titled Cloud Technologies has been added to the structure.

All credit points successfully completed in accordance with the previous program structure will count towards completion of this updated program plan.

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In 2019, some of the core courses have been moved into IT program option courses. In addition, the list of courses in existing minor streams has been updated. 

If you commenced the BP162 program in 2018 or earlier, the following transition rules will apply:

Retained Credit

All credit points successfully completed in accordance with the previous program structure will count towards completion of this updated program plan.

COSC2681 - Programming 1

COSC2681 Programming 1 is no longer a core course. If you have already completed this course, it will be counted as an Information Technology Option Course.

COSC2687 - Data Communication and Net-centric Computing

COSC2687 - Data Communication and Net-centric Computing is no longer a core course. If you have already completed this course, it will be counted as an Information Technology Option Course.

ISYS3378 Software Engineering Fundamentals

ISYS3378 - Software Engineering Fundamentals is no longer a core course. If you have already completed this course, you will receive credit for ISYS3417 Software Engineering Fundamentals.

Removed courses from existing minor streams

If you have already completed any courses that have now been removed from a minor stream, they are still counted towards your minor stream.

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