Information Systems

COURSES OFFERED

1. Doctor of Philosophy
   
2. Honours Master of Information Systems by Coursework and/or Research
   
3. Master of Information Systems
   
4. Graduate Diploma in Information Systems
   
5. Graduate Certificate in Information Systems
   

CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
The following areas of research are available to candidates undertaking research degrees or projects as part of their programs in Information Systems.

Systems in Context
This area addresses contextual, interpretivist and reflexive approaches to the description and development of work practices, workplaces, organisations and their associated information systems. Current research activities focus on:

(a) Systemic Semiotics
(b) the Application of Activity Theory and Other Techniques to the Study of Information Systems in Organisations.

Analysing, Developing and Integrating Internet Commerce Technologies in Organisations
This area addresses the study of Internet Commerce in terms of internet applications within businesses, inter-enterprise applications (between businesses) virtual communities (social systems) and electronic trading (relationships between business and customers). Current research activities focus on:

a) Successful Generation of Internet Commerce Application Requirements for Small/Medium Enterprises
b) Electronic Commerce Strategies
c) Modelling the Diffusion of Information.

Decision Systems
This area addresses theoretical and practical questions relating to modelling, prototyping, implementing and testing complex information systems applications to support specific classes of decisions and business processes. Technologies employed may include object-relational, object-oriented and OLAP databases, hypermedia, internet programming, data mining, groupware, knowledge-based systems, constraint based reasoning, and agent oriented systems. Current research activities focus on:

a) Decision Support for Scheduling Decisions
b) Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
c) Database Querying of the World-Wide Web
d) Data Mining and Data Sharing

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Candidates for the degree enrol in BUSS999 Doctoral Thesis, (48 credit points) and will be required to complete satisfactorily BUSS929 Information Systems Research Methods (6 credit points) if they have not already completed a subject equivalent to BUSS929 prior to commencing the course.

HONOURS MASTER OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
i. Candidates who have completed the requirements for the award of B.Com(Honours) in Business Information Systems at a standard of Class II Division 2 or higher or an equivalent degree may qualify for the award of the Master of Information Systems(Honours) degree by completing at honours standard one of the following programs of study:

(a) BUSS987 Masters Thesis (48 credit points);
(b) BUSS986 Research Report (24 credit points) and coursework selected from BUSS900 - level subjects aggregating to not less than 24 credit points.

In either case candidates will be required to complete satisfactorily BUSS929 Information Systems Research Methods (6 credit points) if they have not already completed a subject equivalent to BUSS929 prior to commencing the course.

ii. Candidates who have completed the requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce(Honours) degree at a standard less than Honours Class II, Division 2, or equivalent degree, may, subject to the attainment of a satisfactory standard in that degree, be permitted to register as candidates for the Master of Information Systems (Honours) degree. Such candidates may qualify for the award of the degree by completing at honours standard subjects aggregating not less than 96 credit points of which subjects aggregating not less than 48 credit points shall be selected in accordance with the requirements of (i) above.

Program of Study