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Study it & computer science online with La Trobe University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Designed to help you build our digital future, La Trobe’s Bachelor of Information Technology online is designed specifically for online learning. The study materials are designed by our academic experts with years of experience in the field. The course ensures that you are career-ready at the end of your degree with an industry relevant curriculum and equips you with skills across programming, networking, databases, systems analysis and design, and project management.Along with building a strong set of core IT skills you can choose to major in software engineering or cloud analytics, areas aligned to future industry growth.Broaden your knowledge and capabilities by combining your core IT skills with business, social sciences, humanities, web engineering, computer technology, security and information systems analysis subjects.With industry-based projects and certification opportunities embedded in the course, you’ll receive professional mentoring opportunities as you build career ready skills. You’ll also gain access to our expert research centres, including the Centre for Technology Infusion and our state-of-the-art Technology Innovation Lab for the Internet of Things – developed in collaboration with Microsoft and CISCO.You&#39;ll learn:<ul><li>Web and software development</li></ul>Develop and build websites and software. Administer the front end, back end and server side of websites and IT systems.<ul><li>IT systems analysis and design</li></ul>Understand and analyse IT systems to deliver more efficient and effective IT solutions for your organisation.<ul><li>Design</li></ul>Learn about software, system and network design so you can contribute to making better programs and infrastructure.<ul><li>Programming and networking</li></ul>Learn the language of computers and how they communicate with one another to create working code and smarter systems.<ul><li>Project management, estimation, documentation and report evaluation</li></ul>It is more than just computers. Learning to manage projects and communicate effectively is a must in any organisational environment.

Graduate with industry relevant knowledge and experience—and work across almost any sector. You’ll develop your core IT skills in programming, networking and databases. Sharpen your competitive edge with AI and cloud tech to get you job-ready.

Bachelor of Information Technology

La Trobe’s Bachelor of Cybersecurity offers you the opportunity to step into the rapidly evolving digital world of cybersecurity.You’ll build a highly specialised technical skillset as you learn about the history of hacking, build your coding expertise, and access industry-based projects and mentoring opportunities with major corporations.You’ll also have the opportunity to complement your industry-focused learning with a choice of elective subjects, which are available to you.You&#39;ll learn:<ul><li>Cybersecurity fundamentals<ul><li>Learn the basic principles and best practices of cybersecurity. Understand how it mitigates cyber vulnerabilities and protects confidential information.</li></ul></li><li>Ethical hacking and defence<ul><li>Gain evaluation techniques to assess the security of network configuration and apply these skills to defend against network-based threats.</li></ul></li><li>Programming and cyber algorithms<ul><li>Explore the widely used Python programming language and learn how algorithms are used to solve cybersecurity challenges.</li></ul></li><li>Network engineering<ul><li>Study the architecture of computer networks and the internet, and examine protocols and services used in the defence of online information.</li></ul></li><li>Cyber governance and risk management<ul><li>Learn the frameworks for cybersecurity governance and risk mitigation based on your emerging understanding of business strategy and risk appetite.</li></ul></li></ul>

Discover how to safeguard businesses from digital threats. This course covers both IT fundamentals and cyber security techniques, so you can pursue opportunities across the ICT sector. You will also learn Python, one of the most used programming languages.

Bachelor of Cybersecurity

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Data Analytics Concepts

Mapping, Analysing and Visualising Data

Inside Information Technology

Programming Environment

Data-Based Critical Thinking

Disruption in Business

Virtual Reality as Philosophy

Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals

Network Engineering Fundamentals

In the modern Internet era, industries and organisations need to be prepared to defend against cyber threats and attacks. Stakeholders should be familiar with basic principles and best practices of cybersecurity to protect their businesses and personal information. In this subject, these principles and strategies for future cyber security are explored. Key topics include: information security; ethical and legal practices; mitigating cyber vulnerabilities; and the process of incident response and analysis. The subject introduces the broad discipline of cybersecurity and outlines how to ensure the privacy, reliability, confidentiality and integrity of information systems and mitigate against cyber threats and risks.

Explore the basic principles of cybersecurity. Get familiar with industry terminology, software, and best practices. You’ll learn about the importance of protecting data. Study real-world cyber threats and delve into current solutions.

Students will be introduced to the rapidly expanding and influential field of information technology which comprises various types of technologies in computers (both hardware and software) and computer networks. It is therefore relevant to students in a wide range of disciplines: for examples, health sciences, business, engineering and technology. Students will be taught the fundamental principles of computer operations, different types of input/output and storage devices, computer networks including Local and Wide area networks, information systems, Database, the Internet, the World Wide Web and HTML. Students will acquire the knowledge and practical skills in information technology and be able to apply them to their field of study.

In this subject you are introduced to the steps involved in designing and creating a software solution to simple real-life problems. To enable students to design a program, the subject introduces the way to break down the problems into smaller parts and analyse them methodically by using simple techniques such as drawing flowcharts. You will be introduced to the Python programming language as a means of creating executable program code to implement working software solutions.

This subject helps the student evaluate data-based evidence encountered in everyday life. It provides the fundamental numeracy skills required by business people, scientists, lawyers, nurses, journalists, social scientists, teachers and other professionals who need to evaluate data-based arguments, whether found in newspapers, television or on-line websites. This is achieved by a combination of studying newsworthy topics introduced in lectures, laboratory classes which encourage engagement with others and on-line quizzes that assess numeracy skills. The four themes covered in this subject are gathering useful data, turning data into information, probability and from data to decision making.

This subject starts with an overview of the architecture and management of database systems, and a discussion of different existing database models. The main focus includes relational database analysis, design, and implementation. This subject prepares students for subjects such as the final year industry project which require an understanding of database design and implementation. The students learn: relational algebra as the formal foundation of relational databases; relational conceptual design using an entity-relationship diagram; relational logical database design; foundation of normalisation; security and integrity; and SQL implementation of relational database queries. Students are required to design a database application that meets the needs of a system requirement specification, and to implement the system using a commercial standard database system such as ORACLE or POSTGRESQL. In addition, a selection of advanced topics in databases will be introduced and discussed.

Database Fundamentals

Any modern business today will utilise some form of spreadsheet tool to review, manipulate and visualise data (in the form of charts for reporting). A spreadsheet tool also enables one to undertake advanced tasks on business data, such as performing scenario analyses and undertaking complex data analytics, for example creating a forecasting model. In this subject, you will learn how to use two technological tools to undertake data analysis. The first tool is Structure Query Language (SQL), which we will use to pull relevant data into Excel and facilitate further analysis. Next, various advanced Excel analyses including pivot tables, statistical analysis, and creation of basic forecasting models will be covered. Upon successful completion of this subject you will be proficient in basic data analysis using Excel and SQL, setting you up to become an analytical and data driven problem solver. With these skills, you will also be ready to identify insights allowing you to disrupt typical business operations systematically and with a higher chance of success.

Get up to speed with basic data analysis using SQL and Excel. You’ll delve into the data analytics concepts and processes used in business today. Find, present, and explain data trends. Solve complex business problems.

Throughout your studies to date, you’ve learned how to program a computer. You should already be very familiar with the basic building blocks of computer programs: variables, loops, branching structures, functions, and the like. This subject will focus on tools and techniques for software development, the process of designing, delivering, and maintaining high-quality software. You will develop substantially complex software using design patterns in the C++ programming language, and you will learn about the realities of software development from industry experts.

Professional Software Development

Creating websites that scale to serve hundreds of millions of users with acceptable response times is challenging. The main focus of this subject is on cloud computing concepts and tools needed to make websites scalable. This subject assumes the fundamental web technologies have already been taught in the prerequisite subjects. The subject will cover topics in the cloud computing concept and technologies, such as cloud repository, virtualisation, the framework for frontend and backend development, API, web server storage, and the management of application development (CI/CD) This subject will also cover the fundamental of cloud computing platform and its features.

Cloud-Based Web Application

User Interface (UI) Design focuses on creating interactive interfaces which are intuitive and easy to access and understand. This subject will introduce you to the main theories, methods and techniques that are applied to UI design and evaluation. Main topics include design thinking, user research analysis, iteration and prototyping, and user testing. Based on these UI theories and techniques, you will create mobile prototypes with wireframe tools and evaluate them with UI testing methods in practice classes and assignments.

User Interface Design

The ability to visualise data is one of the most useful forms of data analysis and data presentation. Data visualisation provides an accessible way to see and understand trends, outliers and patterns in data. Nowadays there are many different tools for collecting and querying data. In order to gain full benefit from the collected data we need to visualise the data. In this subject you will learn the following: how to prepare data for visualisation; the design principals for creating effective data visualisations; and how to communicate your data analysis using reports containing data visualisations. You will learn how to use state of the art software tools for generating insightful and interactive data visualisations.

Data Visualization

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