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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:•	Web and software developmento	Develop and build websites and software. Administer the front end, back end and server side of websites and IT systems.•	IT systems analysis and designo	Understand and analyse IT systems to deliver more efficient and effective IT solutions for your organisation.•	Designo	Learn about software, system and network design so you can contribute to making better programs and infrastructure.•	Programming and networkingo	Learn the language of computers and how they communicate with one another to create working code and smarter systems.•	Project management, estimation, documentation and report evaluationo	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.

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.

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.

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.

Every organisation and business that intends to protect itself from threats of cyber-attacks needs to know current practices in cyber defence. This subject will introduce common technologies used to identify and mitigate threats including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, intrusion protection systems and honeypots. This subject also introduces incident response processes and simple ways to incorporate secure programming practices to make computer programs less vulnerable to attacks.

Cybersecurity In Practice

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

This subject discusses the philosophical significance of Virtual Reality (VR) and other related technologies (like Augmented Reality and Video Games). These developing technologies raise many interesting ethical, social, metaphysical, and existential questions. This subject will introduce you to these issues and give you the conceptual tools to evaluate and analyse them, not only now but into the future as these technologies continue to change and evolve. Some of the questions we may look at include: Is a virtual life always less valuable than a real life? Is VR an empathy machine that can help us to better understand the inner lives of other people? Are the objects and events in VR real or fictional? What ethical constraints are there on our actions in virtual environments? In this subject you will also be encouraged to explore some of the virtual worlds we will be discussing (a cheap pair of cardboard VR googles and a smartphone will suffice), and to let those experiences influence your thoughts and philosophical arguments.

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world and articulating our place in it, at local and regional scales. Maps guide us in everyday tasks but can also be a means to get global overviews on current topics. Today, as in the past, geo-spatial information is a valuable commodity, harnessed by researchers, governments, business and the public. But maps are not purely scientific objects; they are inherently ideological and subjective, communicating the beliefs, power structures and aspirations of particular times, people and places. This subject introduces concepts and perceptions of geographical space and relationships in different cultures, past and present.

Entrepreneurship is an essential element of today’s society. This subject will outline the basic principles of Entrepreneurship. It will examine the steps required in developing an idea into a business and will explore the tools and necessary insights to make a successful venture. You will interpret and employ theory to case studies. Guest speakers will present and discuss start-up issues, pitfalls, and the ingredients for success. You will also develop professional skills related to ethical and moral decision making and evaluate the social implications of their work and the broader global context.

Professional Practices and Entrepreneurship in Information Technology

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

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