Curriculum details

To succeed at university, students need to participate in academic and student life effectively. This unit offers students an introduction to university life, academic conventions, and insight into the discipline requirements in their first year of study. In this unit, students will develop and use the academic language and literacy skills required for university learning in Australia. Students will also develop research, critical reading and thinking skills, and reflective strategies required at an undergraduate level, in order to communicate effectively in academic contexts. The topics, issues and tasks explored will not only prepare students to navigate discipline-specific requirements and to apply those skills but also help them become independent learners. The aim of this unit is to assist students in developing academic knowledge, skills and strategies to succeed in their diploma program and transition into their future academic course in Business and Information Technology.

Technological advances over the past decades have fundamentally changed the nature of work and communications. As technology continues to evolve at an ever-increasing pace, all employees need an appreciation of how technology impacts various aspects of their lives.
In this unit, students will obtain a general understanding of Information Technology (IT) components, and emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), Extended Reality (XR), etc. that are having a significant impact on our work and life. Students will explore different applications of emerging technologies, and critically discuss ethics in IT, and technology’s broader impact on the stewardship of creation e.g. considering sustainability and the environment.
In addition to the foundational knowledge of IT, this unit will also develop students’ applied skills in using Microsoft Office applications and digital productivity tools which enables them to be a powerful contributor in many career fields. Microsoft’s Excel Associate curriculum has been embedded in this unit, and as part of the assessments, students are provided the opportunity to gain industry certification by completing the Microsoft Excel Associate exam which is recognised and validated by employers’ community.
The aim of this unit is to enhance students’ ICT (information and Communication Technology) literacy and knowledge of emerging technologies and their impact on the individuals, organisations, society, and the environment, highlighting both positive and negative impacts of technology on stewardship of creation, and to develop students’ skills in using IT to contribute positively to the effective operation of the workplace.

Anyone working in, or with, business will interact with organisational systems and the people within them. Understanding the characteristics of how people and organisations work, and are practically navigated, is an important part of any business practitioners’ role. This unit provides introductory information about these issues including basic management theory and practice, systems thinking and management, organisational structures, organisational communication, teams and leadership. It also introduces students to disciplines important in managing people in organisations, namely management and human resource management. The unit incorporates the values of global social responsibility. The unit will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work towards an inclusive and sustainable global economy. Students will have the opportunity to apply basic management models and concepts to organisational problems including international and indigenous perspectives. The aim of this unit is to provide students with a broad foundational base for those working with people and systems in organisations.

In the information age we live in, data is recognised as a vital asset for organisations. Databases have become an essential technology for the organisations to record, process and manipulate data and information efficiently, and preserving data quality and security. This unit will provide you with foundational knowledge and practical skills in database design and implementations. The unit further develops your practical skills in identifying and modelling organisational information requirements; developing using conceptual data models and verifying its structural characteristics with normalisation techniques; implementing and utilising a database using Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and Structured Query Language (SQL) to manipulate data and generate information. In addition, the unit introduces database administration activities and ethical consideration in handling organisational data.
The primary aim of this unit is to provide students with knowledge and practical skills needed to design, implement and administer database solutions to address real-world needs of organisations while preserving data privacy and security to support the dignity of humans served by the organisation.

Cyber security is the practice of protecting networks, computer systems, and data from malicious attacks. With the increasing threats of data breach and leaks in our interconnected world, fintech companies, hospitals, government agencies, and every other sector are investing in cybersecurity infrastructure to protect their data and consumers from malicious attacks. However, there is a global shortage of cyber security experts and this number is growing every year. This unit is designed to help students develop a deeper understanding of modern information and cyber security challenges, mitigation techniques and tools.
The unit demonstrates the basic cyber security concepts, security tools and the common architectures used as industry standards. Students will learn how to defend against cyber threats and attacks and study existing techniques for managing security issues and maintaining the working environment. The unit also covers ethical and legal issues in cyberspace to understand how cyber security affects legal compliance and solidarity in communities and society.
The aim of this unit is to equip students with some background knowledge in cyber security, which scaffolds an advanced unit in network security.

Information technology infrastructure underpins the effective delivery of digital services across contemporary organisations. A sound understanding of IT infrastructure architecture is essential for students seeking to operate responsibly and effectively within technology-enabled environments. This foundation level unit is designed to provide students with a broad understanding of architecture components of IT Infrastructure. It covers the Information Technology architectural building blocks which include hardware, software and network facilities that are necessary to deliver seamless and ethically informed Information technology services. This includes ethical considerations such as stewardship responsibilities.
The aim of this unit is to provide students with the fundamental understanding of IT infrastructure capabilities and the knowledge and practical skills they need to plan, design or manage Information Technology solutions.

Data is deemed as the world’s ‘new oil’ while data science is a new inter-disciplinary science of data that employs scientific methods, algorithms, tools and systems for uncovering insights, knowledge and value from massive data generated in different domains. Python, a general-purpose programming language, has gradually become the ‘engine’ of data and data science. In particular, many data scientists use Python because it provides a wealth of data science tools and libraries.
This unit will cover fundamental elements of Python programming language and its comprehensive use in the context of data science. This includes Python language basics, data structures, functions, files, tools, and various Python data science libraries for data processing, analysis and visualisation. Data ethics and elementary statistics and probability in data science will also be introduced. The aim of the unit is for students to learn how Python can be used for building data science solutions.

Computer programs are widely used to drive practical business applications. As a result, global demand for people with programming skills is increasing. Programmers are commonly required to ethically maintain legacy code, to develop new applications to make business competitive and to improve software security. This unit introduces students to key concepts of computer program design and development using appropriate data structures, control structures and functions. In addition, students will learn object-oriented programming and basic testing and debugging skills. The aim of this unit is to introduce the basics of a modern programming language for building simple software applications involving objects and functional components. Hence by studying this unit students will be able to support the common good of mankind by overcoming chronic shortages of programmers to drive modern business applications.