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HIT164 - Computing Fundamentals

2025

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Information Technology

Credit Points

Equivalent Units

Prerequisites

Incompatible

Assumed Knowledge

Unit Description

This unit provides an overview of the discipline of IT, the historical perspectives and fundamental concepts of computation. It describes IT relates to other computing disciplines. It covers topics related to both computer and systems' architecture, with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that IT infrastructure solutions enable in an organizational context. This unit equips students with the appropriate skills to troubleshoot hardware problems for a computer. An introduction to web development technologies xhtml and css will also be explored.

HIT164 is a foundation IT unit and has two main sections: hardware and web that lead on to more advanced web knowledge in HIT226.

This unit is reliant on on-line materials. Students must have access to a reliable high-speed broadband connection.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Explain how the components of an IT system interrelate.
2.	Analyse how IT has impacted the globalisation of the world economy, culture, political systems, health, security, warfare and corresponding ethical issues.
3.	Apply formal methods of propositional logic to a given set of problems.
4.	Design well-formed and semantically marked up documents using HTML5 & CSS.
5.	Solve basic computer hardware problems.
6.	Write academically in the area of information technology and computing.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Online quiz (30 minutes)	5	1,2
2.	Research report - Group (Approx. 300 words/student)	30%	1,2,3,5,6
3.	Build a website - Group (Approx. 2 to 3 web pages/student)	40%	4
4.	Test (online) (2 hours)	25%	2,3,4,5,6

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2025	Semester 1	Internal	Danala - Education and Community Precinct	OLS	View
2025	Semester 1	External	External Studies	OLR	View

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OL/OLS: Supplementary material will be provided on-line through Learnline. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

OLR: Internet access is required for this unit as students are required to access study materials provided on-line through Learnline. Please log into Learnline on the first day of each teaching period. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

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