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Transform your career in User Experience (UX) Design by developing capabilities in design thinking, user research, prototyping, and more. Gain valuable hybrid skills that complement your UX skillset, and graduate with an industry-recognised portfolio.

Learn from industry experts, develop real world skills, and build a portfolio. In this course you’ll explore how to conduct user research and prototype solutions. Become the valued digital specialist who connects the business to their customer.

Graduate Certificate in User Experience Design

Develop the digital communication strategy, story, content development, and audience engagement skills to transform your career. Learn how to create and measure creative and compelling digital campaigns.

Co-created with expert digital publishers and industry partners, this qualification is for media professionals ready to diversify in this emerging discipline. Upskill your traditional publishing approach to new media. Engage customers in the digital space.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Communication Strategy

Security in Computing and IT

This course aims to provide you with the foundation knowledge of contemporary Information Technology areas, software, applications and job skills required to enter the IT market.A major component of the course is the practical application of the knowledge gained from the theoretical content. The material covers a broad range of introductory Information Technology concepts.

Get real about current information technology trends, concepts, software and applications. Apply your technical knowledge in business settings. Acquire critical analysis skills to solve problems, overcome constraints and meet specified requirements.

Introduction to Information Technology

Security has become a focal area in IT; it has grown and evolved significantly in recent years and different areas of specialisation have emerged.This course gives an introduction to technical aspects of security for future IT professionals, and presents the foundations. It looks at fundamental cryptographic and security mechanisms used in various areas of networked applications and computing, including operating systems, databases and web-based applications as well as modern privacy preserving systems and blockchains.For computer systems that are used and relied upon in many areas of life, security has become an important aspect; availability and correct operation are essential. IT professionals working in the field need to be well acquainted with the security features of the tools and applications they use and produce. Protection of data regardless of the information they contain is a critical task, and requires expertise.

Secure a solid technical grasp of IT security systems. Clarify and assess security measures and privacy issues across diverse digital platforms. Verify and protect data. Lock in a career as an IT security expert in a high demand, growth industry.

Cloud Computing is a large-scale distributed computing paradigm which has become a driving force for information technology over the past several years. The exponential growth data size in scientific instrumentation/simulation and social media has triggered the wider use of cloud computing services.This course covers topics and technologies related to Cloud Computing and their practical implementations. You should explore different architectural models of cloud computing, the concepts of virtualisation and cloud orchestration. You should gain hands-on experience with various features of popular cloud platforms such as Google App Engine and Amazon Web Service throughout the lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions. Advanced cloud programming paradigms such as Hadoop’s MapReduce is also included in the course. You should also learn the concept of modern Big Data analysis on cloud platforms using various data mining tools and techniques. The lab sessions cover cloud application development and deployment, use of cloud storage, creation and configuration of virtual machines and data analysis on cloud using data mining tools. Different application scenarios from popular domains that leverage the cloud technologies such as remote healthcare and social networks will be explained. The theoretical knowledge, practical sessions and assignments aim to help you to build your skills to develop large-scale industry standard applications using cloud platforms and tools.This course focuses on learning emerging issues related to Cloud computing technology. The objectives are:<ul><li>Understand various basic concepts related to cloud computing technologies</li><li>Understand the architecture and concept of different cloud models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS</li><li>Understand big data analysis tools and techniques</li><li>Understand the underlying principle of cloud virtualization, cloud storage, data management and data visualization.</li><li>Understand different cloud programming platforms and tools</li><li>Have details knowledge on reading and writing in cloud storage</li><li>Be familiar with application development and deployment using cloud platforms</li><li>Create application by utilizing cloud platforms such as Google app Engine and Amazon Web Services (AWS)</li><li>Learn to develop scalable applications using AWS features.</li><li>Learn basic concepts of MapReduce programming models for big data analysis on cloud.</li></ul>

Round off your IT course with an exploration of cloud platforms, apps, and databases. Elevate your coding to include advanced cloud programming. Unpack big data and cloud storage. Complete problem-solving tasks and gain hands-on experience.

Cloud Computing

This is an introductory course to user-centred design and usability experience; consequently, if you have already completed User Interface Design or User Interface Programming, you do not need to take this course.User-centred design is a design methodology that focuses on the needs of end users, limitations of end users, preferences of end users, and business objectives. This course is concerned with the development of interactive systems with a strong focus on user-centred design and usability principles. You will learn what characteristics of a user interface can make it easy or hard for people to use, and how to design user interfaces that take into account human capabilities and constraints. The emphasis will be on design first (iteratively, on paper or with prototyping tools). The design principles you learn here will be applied in the follow up courses in web and mobile application development.

Focus on improving experiences and engagement for end-users. Adopt a design first approach to create meaningful, useful and functional interfaces. Apply user-centred design to develop interactive systems considering people’s abilities and limits.

User-Centred Design

This subject is about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and how enterprise systems fit into business operations. ERP Systems are becoming common in medium to large organisations as it removes the need to have a large number of individual computer-based applications. An ERP system integrates the various applications into a single package, increasing the efficiency of the organisation in delivering goods or services to customers. This subject is therefore viewed as a combination of business management practice and technology.

Find out where enterprise systems fit inside business operations.
Show how enterprise resource planning systems help medium to large organisations streamline their operations. Experiment with SAP software. Predict future enterprise system trends.

Intelligent Enterprise Systems

This subject provides you with the opportunity to engage in an in-depth study of the legal and regulatory issues associated with new and emerging technology and innovation. The coursework will focus on current issues in law and technology, examining the way that law and legal practice has adapted, or is likely to adapt, to new developments in technology, digital disruption, new business models, and new forms of governance. This subject will also consider the regulatory response in the face of innovation. This subject&#39;s content draws on Australian and international comparative materials where appropriate. The specific topics covered may vary from year to year, ensuring that the subject is at the cutting edge of technological developments and the implications for the law and legal practice.

Law and Technology

This course is an introduction to computing ethics, law and employability. It is intended for computing students who have not studied business principles, or who have little work experience in industry. The course provides a survival kit for computing graduates entering the workforce. During this course, you should consider computing ethical issues, such as information privacy, computer crime, computer security, social networks, online identity. During this course, you should also consider the international legal frameworks available to protect software system development. This includes non-disclosure agreements, employment contracts, intellectual property law (copyright, patents, licensing, royalties), trademarks and warranty disclaimers. Additionally, you should examine the marketing of a software system development, involving SWOT analysis and action plan.

Gain commercial insight into computing ethics, law and marketing in a professional, technical setting. Dig into the dark corners of malware, computer crime and terrorism. Study privacy, patents, royalties and global laws protecting software systems.

Professional Computing Practice

IT today is everywhere and is involved in many aspects of life, including mobile devices, electronic voting and robotic fish. Many advancements have come from people passionately following an inspiration, and developing it into a concrete outcome. This subject is an opportunity for you to pursue an idea in IT and to work with a team of like-minded people to develop it. You will be provided with assistance to choose an appropriate topic, find a project team, generate a project plan, and to implement your project. This subject is designed to engage and inspire you with the wide world of IT, with a particular emphasis on finding appropriate tools, methodologies and techniques to meet your own personal challenge.
This subject will give you substantial hands-on, practical learning experiences and will motivate you through engagement in the creative, explorative and meaningful development of technological artefacts that operate in real world contexts.  
During the duration of the subject you will collaborate in a group with fellow students to progress through the full lifecycle of an IT project/product, from ideation to design to development to delivery.  
Formal project group formation and registration will occur during week 1 of the subject and regular (weekly) ongoing engagement with members and mentors will be required throughout the subject starting from week 2 onward, including synchronous online communication with your group and mentor using via live interactive chat, as well as asynchronous communication via collaboration tools/message boards.

Get inspired and informed about building IT. Find a team, form a plan, seed an idea and watch it grow it from start to finish. Use tools and tactics to deliver the full lifecycle. Learn from hands-on experience how to grow and harvest your IT ideas.

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