Bachelor of Information Technology

at ATMC - Federation University - Sydney Campus Australia

This degree teaches students how to harness technology to help organizations achieve a competitive advantage. 

Course Outline
This program examines organizational and technological issues required to analyze and design business information systems.

Throughout the program, you will develop an understanding of organizational settings, and recognize technology threats and opportunities, utilizing modern principles and theories with practical applications.

Subjects such as information security, multimedia, knowledge management, databases, and emerging technologies in business will help you become familiar with the latest developments in IT, as well as different types of tools and their applications.

This program provides an opportunity for you to develop an advanced understanding of data science by incorporating and interpreting complex information, concepts and theories to relevant disciplines, using data science tools and methods to manage, process, and analyse data.

Throughout the program, you will utilise your skills to handle large volumes of data, working with real-time data, cloud computing, unstructured data and statistical models.

The Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) is designed as a comprehensive program. It focuses on the courses needed for professional accreditation with the major professional bodies along with providing a well-defined career path for professionals in the world of commerce.

This comprehensive degree is designed for people with an aptitude for numbers and desire to forge a career in professional accounting.

Course Outline
Whether you see yourself working for the government, a company or even your own business, this degree will teach you the ins and outs of the systems and financial strategies that will prepare you for a rewarding career.

Your core subjects will include accounting, taxation, law, auditing, finance, and economics. In addition, you’ll be future proofing your career by developing skills in creativity, innovation, marketing, and digital business.

You will have the opportunity to undertake a practical placement, internship, or project. The Bachelor of Professional Accounting is recognised by both CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, enabling you to pursue a pathway to qualification as a professional accountant.

The degree is also accredited with the Tax Practitioners Board, allowing graduates a streamlined pathway to becoming a registered tax agent.

The Master’s course covers the key knowledge and skills required for engineering project and resource planning and execution. This includes contracts and costing, business analysis and decision making, the global management environment, human and financial resources, risk, and research methodology. You will also undertake an independent piece of research in the last year of your course.

The unique course structure will ensure you are well prepared to make your mark, not only in Australia, but worldwide, where efficient and competent planning and execution of large projects, particularly in infrastructure, is essential in ensuring the success of key global industries.

The Graduate Certificate of Professional Accounting has been developed as both an entry point and exit point for the Master of Professional Accounting. Please see Master of Professional Accounting for further program outline information.

Graduates of this program will have be able to design, implement and maintain IT systems using a well-informed software engineering approach and create high quality software in a systematic and efficient manner. Graduates may find employment in a wide range of industries including security and defence, education, aerospace, health, business and finance.

This degree will enable students to apply strategic creativity and innovation to protect data using ethical hacking to test systems and security protocols.

Course Outline
Learn how to defend business, government and individual databases that hold sensitive data. Employment in this area has experienced strong growth over the last ten years and is forecast to continue.

Your specialisation in security will allow you to be on the frontline of the war in cyberspace and become familiar with methods attackers use. You will learn how to investigate and protect against security breaches on vulnerable private information, whilst developing an understanding of the security models provided by the major operating systems involved in modern computer networks.

Through core studies and practicals, you will delve into networks, their protocols and hardware, to investigate how these systems can be vulnerable to a malicious attack. Your problem-solving skills will come to the fore when ethical hacking – testing a system to break-in or to find weak points.

As a network architect, or an IT security specialist, you can look forward to a varied career in information security or IT operations.

The Bachelor of Information Technology (Mobile App Development) develops students to take on the rapidly growing mobile app industry, which now has hundreds of millions of users every day. This three-year degree will teach you the key IT skills you will need in the workplace, with a particular focus on designing and building mobile apps. You will also learn about the security risks involved with such technologies. You will study wireless communications, mobile networks, cloud computing and more.

This post-graduate program gives students the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of relevant topics and technology pertaining to ES (like ERP, SCM, and CRM), BPR, Big Data, Business Analytics, Project Management, and IT strategy, using some cutting-edge technologies from leading vendors like SAP, IBM, SAS, and Teradata. Students will participate in ERP simulation games which teach ERP concepts “by doing”.

This program provides students with an opportunity to gain up to date knowledge and skills to analyse, implement and use ES. It further enhances the student ability to comprehend how and why these systems provide economic, technological, operational, and strategic value to an adopting organisation. It unleashes the strategies to manage ES implementation to achieve the anticipated benefits.

To provide hands on experience with ES, courses in this program are embedded with software’s from leading ES vendors like SAP. Students not only develop skills in learning SAP but also gain the opportunity to prepare for SAP certifications related to business processes, business intelligence and HANA. By doing this, students will have a competitive advantage in the job market.