Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2022-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2020-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in a graduate IT course or permission of the Academic Chair.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Establish how organisations identify and use information systems in order to achieve their objectives

2.

Provide examples of the various types of information systems that support the operations and decision-making processes of organisations

3.

Plan the phases and activities typically involved in the systems development life cycle

4.

Develop a variety of techniques for analysing and defining business problems and opportunities and determining system requirements

5.

Model system requirements using UML, including use case diagrams and descriptions, activity diagrams and domain class diagrams

6.

Demonstrate practical knowledge of normalisation and database design

7.

Demonstrate the principles of user interface design. 

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

This unit covers the following topics:

  • · The role of information systems in organisations
  • · Types of information system
  • · Information systems analysis and design
  • · Investigating system requirements
  • · Use case modelling
  • · Domain modelling - entity relationship diagrams and domain class diagrams
  • · From analysis to design 
  • · Database design 
  • · User interface design