Students enrolled in the BIT Bachelor of Information Technology should consider transferring to the newly accredited WINT01 Bachelor of Information Technology from 2019.
A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 240 credit points as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless indicated.
Unit type |
Credit Points
|
Specific requirements |
Common
(2 units) |
20
|
Common units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.
CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability (replaced by IAS201 from 2024) (Compulsory)
CUC106 Design and Innovation: Communicating Technology
Select Common Units to find out more about individual units and advanced standing options. |
Core
(11 units) |
110
|
Compulsory Core units totalling 110 credit points as detailed below.
BIS134 System Analysis and Design (last offered 2015, removed from core 2015)
HIT137 Software Now
HIT164 Computing Fundamentals
HIT172 Operating Systems and Applications
HIT174 Network Engineering Concepts (no longer available from 2020)
STA101 Statistics (moved to Core from Specialist Elective from 2016) (replaced by HIT140 from 2021)
BIS234 Database Concepts (replaced by HIT234 from 2019)
BIS243 Organisational Security (replaced by HIT333 from 2019)
HIT381 Human Computer Interaction Design
HIT226 Mobile Web Structures
PMO201 Project Management
PMO301 Project (replaced by HIT401 from 2019)
|
Specialist Electives
(5 units) |
50
|
Specialist Electives totalling 50 credit points selected from the list available units detailed below. (Students must choose at least 2 level 300 specialist elective units)
HIT220 Algorithms and Complexity
HIT235 Digital Systems and Computer Architecture
HIT237 Building Interactive Software
HIT238 The Mobile Paradigm
HIT272 Network Infrastructures (replaced by HIT372 from 2019)
HIT274 Network Engineering Applications
BIS342 Enterprise IT Management (replaced by HIT363 from 2019)
BIS551/BIS351 Business Intelligence and Data Mining (replaced by HIT353 from 2020)
HIT326 Database-Driven Web Applications
HIT332 Embedded and Mobile systems
HIT337 Distributed Development (no longer offered)
HIT365 C Programming
^ students completing a Bachelor degree and who need to undertake a level 5 (500 level) unit must do so via manual enrolment. See Special Enrolment, accessed via the eForms tile through the CDU Portal.
|
Electives
(6 units) |
60
|
Elective units totalling 60 credit points selected from undergraduate units offered by the University. Students must complete at least 20 credit points at 300 level in order to meet the course rules. |
|
240
|
Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the above course structure) (240cp)
- A maximum of 100 credit points may be taken from 100 level units.
- A minimum of 60 credit points must be taken from 300 level units or above.
- See the Higher Education Course Rules (Award Requirements) in the Units and Courses Policy.
If course commenced prior to 2023:
No more than 20 credit points shall be counted with a grade of "PC" in a Bachelor AQF Level 7 course award and no more than 10 credit points at "PC" may be received at the highest level of the program of learning.
If course commenced prior to 2013:
A maximum of 100 credit points may be taken from 100 level units.
A minimum of 40 credit points must be taken from 300 level units.
A maximum of 30 credit points shall be included with a grade of "PT" or "PC" or "PS".
Course Changes and Transitional Arrangements - 2016
Discontinued Units from 2016:
Unit Code |
Unit Title |
BIS134 |
System Analysis and Design |
BIS134 has been discontinued from 2016 and thus removed from the Core Units. Students who have completed BIS134 will receive 10cp towards Electives.
Additional Information for Students
ICT Job Roles
The ICT job roles are defined by ACS and the SFIA skills needed for the respective job roles are listed in the ICT Skills White Paper. Students should complete the following units for the ICT job roles listed below:
Web Developer / Analyst Programmer |
Core Units |
Specialist Electives |
HIT137 Software Now
HIT164 Computing Fundamentals
BIS234 Database Concepts (replaced by HIT234 from 2019)
PMO301* Project (replaced by HIT401 from 2019) |
HIT220 Algorithms and Complexity
HIT237 Building Interactive Software
HIT238 The Mobile Paradigm
HIT326 Database-Driven Web Applications
HIT337 Distributed Development (not offered in 2019)
HIT365 C Programming |
*For PMO301, students need to select project topic related to their chosen job role.
Business Analyst |
Core Units |
Specialist Electives |
BIS234 Database Concepts (replaced by HIT234 from 2019)
BIS243 Organisational Security (replaced by HIT333 from 2019)
PMO301* Project (replaced by HIT401 from 2019) |
BIS342 Enterprise IT Management (replaced by HIT363 from 2019)
BIS351 Business Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy |
*For PMO301, students need to select project topic related to their chosen job role.
See ACS ICT Skills White Paper for more information about ICT job roles.
Also see SFIA Skills.