Bachelor of Software Engineering (Artificial Intelligence)

This subject provides students with introductory knowledge of data, life cycle of data science, ecosystem of data science, data scientist tools and relevant industry scenarios. In addition to students being introduced to the ideas behind turning data into information, they will also be introduced to the data scientist's toolbox that includes basic statistical knowledge and fundamentals of Python programming language. Key topics include data scientist skills and responsibilities in a business setting such as planning, performing and presenting insights, data manipulation tools and techniques, and data science codes of ethics.

Assessment Tasks: Essay, report, programming project

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces students to core concepts of Networking and Database Systems. Students learn fundamentals of Database Management Systems and network topology including network architecture. They are introduced to relational database models and learn fundamentals of structured query language (SQL). Students will apply these concepts through completing multiple software engineering projects.

Pre-requisite: Bachelor of Software Engineering (Game Programming) and Bachelor of Software Engineering (Artificial Intelligence): MAT101 Maths 1, ISE102 Introduction to Software Engineering, ADS103 Algorithms and Data Structures

Bachelor of Information Technology: MIS102 Data and Networking

Assessment Tasks: Software Program, Database

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject provides students with an opportunity to work collaboratively on a series of projects, enhancing skills such as project management, time management, prioritisation, resilience and a gamut of interpersonal skills within a team of people across multiple specialisations. Additionally, students will be challenged to find creative solutions to product development and small-scale rapid prototypes. Students will engage in peer learning through agile development and processes. This learning experience will enhance self-development and enable continuous learning.

Assessment Tasks: Prototype project, presentation, report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject explores the importance of understanding drivers of human behaviour throughout the software development process. The subject covers broad themes such as: the theory of knowledge, human cognition, ethical and moral values, analysis of human history, critical analysis, appreciation of literature and arts and social interaction among human beings through a technological context. Human Centred Design provides students the opportunity to recognise the factors that influence human behaviour and interactions so that they can apply specialised skills to solve problems that affect diverse societies.

Assessment Tasks: Essay, presentation, report, software program prototype

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces students to the fundamentals of entrepreneurship in the technology sector. It stimulates new ways of thinking about entrepreneurial behaviour in a multi-disciplinary environment. Students have the opportunity to identify market gaps and opportunities, creatively solve problems, network, communicate persuasively and work effectively in a team. In addition, this subject promotes the creation of ventures that focus on positive social impact.

Assessment Tasks: Software Program Prototype, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject builds on the skills and knowledge students acquired from Concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The subject begins by exploring different classifications of AI (e.g. Expert Systems, Planning and Robotics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Recognition, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision) and their current applications. Students will be presented with case studies focusing on the overview of the development of NLP, Speech Recognition and Computer Vision (most commonly used applications of AI and Machine Learning). This subject also covers the AI for Good movement and how AI is being used to address economic and socially relevant problems.

Pre-requisite: CAI104 Concepts of Artificial Intelligence

Assessment Tasks: Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces students to the statistical models for regression and classification necessary for more specialised subjects in this degree. The main topics covered are Classification Algorithms and Regression Algorithms; the practical use of both methods, how to evaluate the proposed models and how to choose between the different available methods.

Theoretical lectures about the main concepts to be studied are followed by demonstrations of the different applications. Then the students are asked to apply the learned concepts on different classification and regression problems.

Pre-requisite: PST107 Probabilities & Statistics

Assessment Tasks: Report, Source Code, Analysis of Source Code

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject is designed to provide students with the experience in a professional environment in an area related to their specialisation. The aim of providing industry-specific opportunities is to enable students to develop skills to enhance their prospects of gaining meaningful employment and building their career as software engineers in the future. Much of the benefit of work integrated learning comes from observation, practicing under supervision and reflection. Work Integrated Learning is an excellent way to broaden the student's learning environment while they are studying. It allows them to see first-hand how what they are learning in their degree, translates into practice, as well as how 'real world' practice relates to what they are learning at university. This subject is designed to develop work ready skills to boost students' employability while they are studying.

There are two work integrated learning options available to students:

Option 2: Industry Project
This subject requires students to respond to criteria set within the context of an Industry Project. An understanding of research methodologies appropriate to professional practice and the documentation of personal creative investigation will be explored. Students will also further investigate and examine entrepreneurial and commercial opportunities through collaborative work practice. The subject is delivered from a cross specialisation perspective and draws on both specialised and common software engineering practices.
Students are required to work both independently or as part of a collaborative team in order to conduct research, analyse and define project parameters and deliver innovative solutions that expand the notion of an Industry Project.

Assessment Tasks: Report, presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Credit: This is a 30-credit point subject

This subject introduces students to the concepts, principles, and techniques of machine learning, such as supervised and unsupervised methods, learning theory, reinforcement learning and model performance improvement. Applications such as robotics, data mining, computer vision, bioinformatics and natural language processing as well as the risks and limitations of machine learning will also be explored.

Pre-requisite: CLR204 Classification and Regression

Assessment Tasks: Presentation, Source code, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

The aim of this subject is to teach students data mining techniques for both structured and unstructured data. Students will be able to analyse moderate-to-large sized datasets, data preparation, handling missing data, modelling, prediction and classification. Students will also be able to communicate complex information in results of data analytics through effective visualisation techniques.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Source Code, Data Visualisation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject extends students’ skills and knowledge learned in Machine Learning Principles and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. It discusses application of statistical and other machine learning algorithms to intelligently analyse written and spoken language. It begins with discussion of foundation concepts in natural language processing (NLP) and speech recognition such as language modelling, formal grammars, statistical parsing, machine translation, and dialog processing. Students will then be presented with modern NLP and speech recognition quantitative techniques. Students will be working around different examples applying techniques and NLP toolkits.

Pre-requisite: MLP301 Machine Learning Principles

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation, Source Code

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject builds on the skills and knowledge students acquired from Machine Learning Principles and focuses on deep learning. It introduces students to foundational topics on neural networks, its applications to sequence modelling, computer vision, generative models and reinforcement learning. Focus will be given on learning how to model and train neural networks to implement a variety of computer vision applications. Students will be presented with practical examples of how to develop applications using deep learning. Knowledge in programming and understanding of machine learning concepts is required in this subject.

Pre-requisite: MLP301 Machine Learning Principle

Assessment Tasks: Online Test, Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

In this subject students learn the fundamental elements of Cloud Computing. They identify the building blocks of Cloud Computing including essential characteristics, different service models and how these models differ from each other. In addition, students also develop an understanding of resource pooling and virtualisation in Cloud. They learn about various deployment models in cloud computing and how these deployment models differ from traditional IT deployment models.

Assessment Tasks: Online Test, Test, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject explores the groundwork theory and practice of user experience (UX), user interface (UI) and interaction design for digital media. The subject covers the core research phases of UX before enabling students to create UI and web-based solutions to identified problems. Students will focus on interpreting and structuring information architecture and focus on the visual aspects of UI design – how visual design affects end-user experience.

Assessment Tasks: Webpage Development, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject develops students’ understanding of typographic convention in both traditional and contemporary applications. Students will use their understanding of basic typographic formatting, page composition and layout to explore advanced typographic setting, work flow and content editing across print and digital platforms.
Students will also explore the role of typographic narrative within the sequenced delivery of information across a variety of environments. They will be challenged to consider the ‘voice of type’ and develop a greater appreciation and understanding of how content is read and viewed in traditional and non-traditional mediums.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Design Project, Test

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces students to the theory and practice of Information Design. Students will visualise both quantitative and qualitative data from a variety of sources via linear and non-linear typography, signs, icons, pictograms and mapping techniques. They will explore theories and practical approaches that examine instructional systems, methods to convey instructions and complex information systems.

Working individually students are required to research a number of given topics. They will analyse and process this information within the context of the LATCH organisational system, demonstrating their knowledge via the design of a series of visual graphics that dramatise both the research they have conducted and the skills they have gained.

Assessment Tasks: Test, Design Project, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Students will gain a solid foundation in the marketing discipline introducing relevant and contemporary concepts, theories and models. The unit magnifies the importance of understanding consumer behaviour, segmentation, targeting and positioning, the extended marketing mix and ethics in marketing. Industry relevance provides students with the opportunity of applying key concepts in practical settings. These marketing foundations are expanded on in other subjects available as electives.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Test

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Game Design Principles introduces students to game design foundations, techniques and paradigms through a series of lecture-led and student-led activities. Students will explore game design principles through the analysis of existing game artefacts, applying those findings to the development of their own games. Students are introduced to a variety of analysis, development and presentation techniques encouraging discussion, creation and dissemination of their design choices through prototyping and documentation.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Digital Game Artefact and Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Game Production Foundation combines art assets and basic scripting, enabling students to recognise how user experience is affected through art, design, and code. Utilising game development techniques and tools, students will create their own games, which requires a multifaceted approach including the following: project management, art and design theory, user interaction, menu systems, audio integration, scripting, game design and release. These trans-disciplinary artefacts scaffold the student’s knowledge for when they will interact with other disciplines in a professional development environment.

Pre-requisite: GDP102 Game Design Principles

Assessment Tasks: Game Development Report, Software Project, Website / Press Kit

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This is a core unit in all the Applied Social Science courses. This subject explores aspects of counselling as a form of interpersonal communication and considers the role of self and culture, as well as important relational skills such as perception, listening and reflection. Students learn about different modes of interpersonal communication including verbal, nonverbal, written and oral, as well as the barriers to effective communication and approaches for overcoming them. The subject also examines how different types of relationships (family, work, personal, and social groups) can be enhanced through effective communication. An informed awareness of power and rank is discussed.

Assessment Tasks: Discussion Forum, Essay, Report, Residential Participation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online, Intensive

This subject introduces students to the field of developmental psychology and explores what drives or motivates human behaviour throughout their life from birth to death.

Assessment Tasks: Discussion Forum, Report, Essay

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online, Intensive

Students develop social analysis skills to critically examine how human and social elements shape our views about equality, justice and fairness. The subject encourages students to assess the relevance of these elements to our social and professional relations.

This subject provides a context for information systems by exploring computer architecture - specifically hardware, software and peripherals in the context of global business. You will be introduced to the key concepts and technologies of information systems that drive change and support organisations to achieve strategic goals.  This includes the application of business information systems, data and information management, disruptive technologies and issues such as ethics, privacy and security.  You will gain insights into the technologies that are disrupting and transforming society both now and into the future.

Assessment Tasks: Poster, Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Design Thinking 1 is a theoretical and practice based subject that encourages students to consider audience, purpose and context, while creating personas and stories to inform practical outcomes that fuse commercial reality with design thinking tools. It introduces students to traditional and non‐traditional digital, 2D and 3D design with a strong emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility. Students will justify the physical and conceptual format their outcome will take, to innovatively challenge existing conventions of what is currently available commercially, and deliver an empathic, holistic solution from point of sale through to consumer use and finally to disposal.

Assessment Tasks: Proposal, Report, Presentation, Design Outcome

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces the practical and conceptual skills and knowledge required to design and produce online user interfaces. Students learn how to use compliant standards-based markup and scripting language to develop interfaces. The subject covers concept development, prototyping, development, testing and troubleshooting concepts and techniques typical to interface development. Students also learn how to produce animated elements suitable for online interactive media.

Pre-requisite: DIG103A Interaction Design

Assessment Tasks: Proposal, Website Development

Delivery Mode: On Campus

In this subject you will learn what it takes for a project manager to deliver a project on time, within budget and scope, whilst managing a team and stakeholders. The fundamentals of project management will be covered and you will assess the different global industry methodologies that guide project managers to project success, with a focus on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) version 7 standard. This latest version of PMBoK is supported by a range of project management principles and performance domains, and considers that projects can be waterfall based, agile or a hybrid of both. Through your learning, you will gain a solid understanding of project management, and no matter the industry, why project managers are highly sought after.

Assessment Tasks: Case Study, Case Analysis, Test

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online 

In this subject you will explore basic microeconomic and macroeconomic principles and their application to individuals, households, firms and the macroeconomy. You will explain key basic concepts such as the economic question and resource allocation and apply the microeconomic concepts of demand and supply, types of market structure and profit maximisation to everyday economic problems and real world case studies. In addition you will analyse the macroeconomic environment through calculating and comparing GDP, inflation, unemployment and analyse how the authorities apply fiscal and monetary policies in an attempt to achieve sound macroeconomic management.

Assessment Tasks: Presentation, Test, Case Analysis

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject expands the understanding of symbols, signs and semantic conventions within communication systems and media. Students are introduced to the history and application of semiotics and encouraged to review, relate and re-evaluate design and communication strategies within the context of de-constructing conventional thinking and design practices. There is particular reference to the cultural shift from words to pictures and the role of meaning in an evolving creative and technological environment. Students present individual and group solutions for the development of a system of symbols and information graphics.

Assessment Tasks: Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Game Studies introduces students to the study of video games as texts situated within wider cultural and theoretical settings. Students will explore histories of video games as creative technologies and as cultural artefacts. These ideas will be framed through critical analysis of specific case studies, informed by a wider reading of contemporary games scholarship.

Through a series of lecture and seminar-based talks, discussions, and play sessions, students are encouraged to critically analyse the wider context of the game industry in relation to the economic, social, & cultural determinants surrounding the production & consumption of games & game technology.

This look into society develops scholarly skills by encouraging students to research and debate contemporary issues surrounding the production, dissemination, and consumption of interactive media.

Assessment Tasks: Essay, Digital Artefact and Documentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject focuses on defining the value of design in modern business. It embeds a systematic process for leveraging relationships between design and business processes and encourages students to think through design to exceed user’s needs. Students must understand and influence how people give meaning to things, by transforming ideas from conception to innovative business strategies. Students can generate unique user- centered offerings, build emotional brand engagements and gain insight into all aspects of establishing a unique and viable business. Students are required to conduct research, analyse and define an entrepreneurial and commercially viable opportunity.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

In this subject you will be taught how to apply advanced analytical, planning and implementation skills in the field of marketing, as well as the role marketing strategy plays within the overall business strategy. You will assess the critical role strategic marketing plays in business performance and how market driven strategies can help organisations be successful when competing in a wide variety of industries and markets. You will explore the importance of planning for the future and developing appropriate strategies to be successful in today’s fast moving business environment, in order to gain a competitive advantage.  Through completion of this subject, you will have the opportunity to create, implement, and evaluate a marketing strategy, including the analysis of market opportunities and formulating marketing strategies for a variety of different business environments.

Pre-requisite: MKT202A Marketing and Audience Research

Assessment Tasks: Report, Test, Marketing Plan, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

In this subject you will learn about how to take an idea and create it into something that is a potential business opportunity. That opportunity could be a new product, service, process or operational improvement, to name a few. You will assess, research, develop and create a proposed opportunity. From there, you will construct a venture ready business plan and presentation pitch that you could send to a potential investor.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Group Venture Plan, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online, Intensive 

This subject will show you how to be ethical and create sustainable business ecosystems. You will learn the most common practices associated with environmental ethics, evolving to sustainability ethics. The link between corporate social responsibility and corporate governance will also be covered. You will explore how organisations acknowledge the impact of their activities in economic, ethics, social and environmental terms. Important issues, including why organisations around the world are increasingly moving to reduce the adverse effects of business operations on their stakeholders and local communities will be examined.  Through completion of this subject, you will acquire a set of tools for managing and leading organisations more ethically and sustainably.

Assessment Tasks: Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject examines how new ideas and end-user experiences are translated into marketable products or services and how design driven innovation creates new meaning to deliver competitive advantage. It also looks at the seductive power of design thinking to match necessity to utility, constraint to possibility, and need to demand. Working in small collaborative teams, students are required to embrace the multifaceted challenges we encounter every day in society and describe and define an innovative and sustainable solution to a user experience problem.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation, Video

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

In this subject you will learn how to identify new market opportunities to inform the development of new innovative products, gain competitive advantage and to expand the customer base that will bring long term value for the organisation. This subject focuses on these functions and you will study how to analyse a target market and the process of developing a new innovative product through concept creation and product design. You will also examine marketing decisions involved in pricing, distribution and promotion of the new product that aim to create product positioning and brand equity. Finally, you will apply these skills and come up with your own new product idea and develop prototypes.

Assessment Tasks: Test, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online