CP1005 - Business and IT Interface
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
This subject focuses on IT in business, its uses, importance, and management. Areas covered include management of information services and infrastructures in organisations and the role of IT professionals in developing and implementing IT. The organisational framework for IT and IT professional practices is set within its broader social context. Techniques and tools for describing, analysing and managing IT services and infrastructures used in organisations will be introduced. The opportunities, problems and risks associated with IT uses in business will be examined.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand basic concepts of organisations, including organisational structures, the roles of individuals and groups in organisations, the role of communication in organisations;
- Understand linkages between IT and business, including the role and importance in organisations and society, and the role of IT in achieving organisational objectives;
- Consider ethics, rights and responsibilities associated with IT professionals in organisations;
- Apply techniques and tools for describing, analysing, and managing IT services and infrastructures in organisations;
- Recognise and evaluate the opportunities, risks and liabilities arising from the uses of IT in organisations.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
- The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively.
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Carrie Lui |
| Lecturer: | Mr Lindsay Ward. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (55%); other exams (10%); assessment 1 (15%); assessment 2 (20%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2011 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Carrie Lui. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (55%); other exams (10%); assessment 1 (15%); assessment 2 (20%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Carrie Lui |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (55%); other exams (10%); assessment 1 (15%); assessment 2 (20%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 17-Nov-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Carrie Lui |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (55%); other exams (10%); assessment 1 (15%); assessment 2 (20%). |
| Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 68 | |
| Census Date 30-Jun-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Carrie Lui |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (55%); other exams (10%); assessment 1 (15%); assessment 2 (20%). |
| Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 69 | |
| Census Date 15-Dec-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Mr Lindsay Ward |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (55%); other exams (10%); assessment 1 (15%); assessment 2 (20%). |
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