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Graduate Diploma in IT

Our Graduate Diploma in IT is also designed to prepare students for employment or career progression through a combination of technical and leadership skills.

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Course Overview

Qualification Info

Award
Graduate
Diploma

AQF Level
Level 8

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Study Method

In class face to face

Entry Requirements

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Duration

1 Years

Credit Points

80 credit points

(Each unit is worth 10 credit points).

Unit Summary

8 Units

  • 7 Core ICT Units
  • 1 Elective Unit choices from 3 units

Course Structure

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Potential Job Opportunities

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Important Enrolment Dates

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CRICOS Course Codes

  • Master of Information Technology (109070C)
  • Graduate Diploma in Information Technology (109071B)
  • Graduate Certificate in Information Technology (109071B)
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About this Course

Career-focused
Our Graduate Diploma in IT is also designed to prepare students for employment or career progression through a combination of technical and leadership skills.

Student Centered
It enables students to further their studies by enrolling in a postgraduate IT course. It also fulfils career needs of those interested in a career progression in IT by preparing them with fundamental and advanced knowledge and skills.

Transition Enabled
The Graduate Diploma is comprised of the first eight units of the Master program. This allows students to transition directly into the Master qualification with 8 units of credit towards the 16 units required.

Course Diagram
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Our Graduate Attributes

Our graduate attributes represent the graduate qualities and skills our students may develop throughout their course of study.

  1. Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and skills in their chosen discipline and apply them in relevant professional contexts.
  2. Demonstrate the capacity to be innovative, entrepreneurial, and take on leadership roles in their chosen career.
  3. Communicate effectively to culturally diverse professional audiences across multiple platforms to achieve common goals.
  4. Solve problems independently and as part of a team by applying research methodologies, critical, creative, and evidence-based thinking to provide innovative responses to existing and future challenges and to solve real-world problems.
  5. Act with professional integrity and promote ethical practice in work and business.
  6. Display resilience, reflexivity, and self-awareness and respond appropriately in a range of professional contexts including new environments and issues.
Course Learning Outcomes
  • Demonstrate appropriate knowledge and understanding of ICT infrastructure technologies and explain the relationships and interdependencies between these. (ACSGA2)
  • Skill and ability to identify the need for transformative digital solutions, especially those relating to provision of ICT systems and infrastructure, elicit requirements from relevant stakeholders and research and plan solutions to meet these requirements. (GA1, GA5, ACSGA1, ACSGA3)
  • Demonstrate problem-solving skills to apply contemporary technologies to previously unseen problems in innovative ways when implementing, maintaining, documenting, and troubleshooting systems. (GA3, GA5, ACSGA1, ACSGA3, ACSGA4)
  • Assess and analyse the appropriateness of competing methodologies and technologies for the analysis, design, and implementation of ICT solutions, including consideration of alternative approaches to enterprise architecture and ICT procurement. (ACSGA1, ACSGA3, ACSGA4)
  • Plan and deploy secure network systems utilising current practices in IP technologies, network security, and scalable server deployment, considering issues of virtualisation and cloud deployment. (ACSGA2)
  • Communicate effectively in English in a professional context, adapt interaction style to a given audience, work efficiently in a team, and identify and address pertinent legal, social, and ethical issues in particular ICT contexts. (GA2, GA4, ACSGA3)
  • Offer computer support services to individuals and small to medium sized enterprises, as well as becoming employed as a computer services professional in an organisation. (GA1, ACSGA1).
Course Units
Master of Information Technology
First Year
  • ICT501
    Foundations of IT

    This unit introduces the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to use information and communications technologies (ICT) effectively. It covers the Information Technology (IT) architectural building blocks which include hardware, software and network, databases, and security elements that are necessary to deliver seamless and ethically informed IT services.

  • ICT502
    Internet and Web Development

    The advent of the internet and the World Wide Web have contributed to significant changes in the way society and businesses engage in this digital world. The world wide web leverages off the internet to enable people to connect, collaborate, and coordinate across different time zones so they can increase business productivity and growth.

  • ICT503
    Database Management Systems

    This unit provides students with a detailed conceptual and practical introduction to the use of common platforms that manage the relational databases. Students will develop an understanding of the foundations of database modelling and database management and will have the opportunity to enhance their theoretical and practical knowledge of widespread relational database systems.

  • ICT504
    IT Project Management

    This unit explores the fundamentals and the advanced theories and concepts that underpin IT project management frameworks and tools. It provides students with the opportunity to apply and evaluate the technical and soft concepts relating to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Agile project management that enable the delivery of information technology solutions in the form of products, services, and improvements that maintain organisational competitiveness.

  • ICT505
    Fundamentals of Data Analytics

    Data analytics focuses on transforming large amounts of data into meaningful and commercially important information. It encompasses a variety of IT areas that include statistical methods for finding patterns in data and inferring conclusions; database technologies for managing the data sets to be mined; a variety of advanced systems that derive patterns from data automatically; and visualisation and other multimedia methodologies that aid human pattern discovery abilities.

  • ICT506
    Cyber Security

    This unit introduces students to real-world cyber security issues faced by the community and by industry. An overview of professional, legal, and ethical issues related to the security of computer systems which are of significant concern in contemporary society is provided.

  • ICT507
    Cloud Computing

    This unit will provide students with a comprehensive study of the principles, strengths, and limitations of Cloud Computing. Various cloud service and deployment models will be discussed in detail in this unit.

Second Year
Digital Leadership Specialisation
  • ICT601
    Enterprise Architecture and Governance

    This unit explores the practice of effective enterprise architecture and governance to deliver humancentred outcomes that align business and technology strategy. The unit also explores the execution of roadmaps and the delivery of strategic objectives to achieve the business vision.

  • ICT602
    Data Management and Decision Making

    This unit discusses the key areas of data management including database development, data quality and corporate data modelling. The unit also discussed how effective data management is vital for organisation’s success as it aids in the decision-making process.

  • ICT603
    Enterprise Systems and System Integration

    This unit introduces the basics of enterprise systems and how to implement enterprise systems for success in organisations. This unit discusses the components of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and the process of implementing ERP systems to increase the overall success of the organisation.

  • ICT604
    Digital Transformation and Sustainability

    This unit introduces students to recent technology innovations in business and explores how digital technology adoption is playing an important part in disrupting traditional businesses or services through digitisation and automation. Students will explore the fundamentals of green IT and sustainability, and they will learn how to apply sustainability tools to analyse digital transformation in their professional and community activities.

  • ICT651
    IT Research Methods

    This unit sets out to help students design and develop their research projects from inception to completion. It does this by synthesising rigorous coverage of methodologies with an accessible “real-world” approach.

  • ICT654
    IT Capstone Project

    This unit will give students an opportunity to work on an Information Technology (IT) or Information Systems (IS) related business problem and to develop a research-informed solution. During this unit, students, working with an external client in a real-world context, will have the opportunity to develop a project or provide recommendations for improvements to an existing process.

Second Year
Cyber Security Specialisation
  • ICT611
    Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing

    This unit provides a comprehensive study of principles, procedures, and methodologies that are currently used to carry out ethical hacking and the penetration testing (pentesting) of an Information Technology (IT) system with the consent of its owner to verify the weakness and vulnerabilities of the system. This unit will provide students with the knowledge and skills to conduct ethical hacking and pentesting in a systematic way by using different open-source tools and techniques. In addition, this unit will cover the legal and ethical challenges related to ethical hacking and pentesting in detail.

  • ICT612
    Cloud Security and Privacy

    Cloud computing is widely used these days because of it offers on-demand resources and pay-asyougo model to individuals and corporate end-users. However, cloud suffers from various security and privacy issues.

  • ICT613
    Digital Forensics

    This unit provides a comprehensive study of principles, procedures, and methodologies that are currently used to carry out Digital Forensics As network breaches and digital crimes become more common in the digital landscape, the need for cyber forensics investigators is growing rapidly. This unit prepare students with the knowledge and skills required to conduct a digital investigation in an organised and systematic way.

  • ICT614
    Cyber Security Law and Policy

    This unit introduces the cybersecurity laws, policies, legal frameworks, and standards that are used in the IT profession and businesses both in Australia and globally. In this unit, cybersecurity threats that involve the use of a computer or online network to commit crimes such as fraud, identity theft, or threats and intimidation are discussed.

  • ICT651
    IT Research Methods

    This unit sets out to help students design and develop their research projects from inception to completion. It does this by synthesising rigorous coverage of methodologies with an accessible “real-world” approach.

  • ICT654
    IT Capstone Project

    This unit will give students an opportunity to work on an Information Technology (IT) or Information Systems (IS) related business problem and to develop a research-informed solution. During this unit, students, working with an external client in a real-world context, will have the opportunity to develop a project or provide recommendations for improvements to an existing process.

Second Year
Data Analytics Specialisation
  • ICT621
    Big Data

    This unit introduces the core concepts and technologies involved in handling and processing Big Data. In recent years, due to enormous growth of internet technologies, there has been a massive surge in both the amount and types of data available to organisations.

  • ICT622
    Data Mining

    This unit covers the fundamental concepts of data mining. It will focus on methods, techniques, and tools to collect, integrate, pre-process, and process large amounts of data to find anomalies, trends, correlations, and patterns in different datasets.

  • ICT623
    Data Visualisation

    This unit covers the fundamental concepts, tools and techniques associated with data visualisation. The unit focuses on solving data interpretation and storytelling problems. It will cover topics on data abstraction, task abstraction, marks and channels, arranging different data, and view manipulations.

  • ICT624
    Advanced Data Analytics

    This unit focuses on advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to perform supervised and unsupervised learning. In addition, other advanced techniques, such as ensemble learning methods, boosting, deep learning, cognitive computing, knowledge systems, and anomaly detection techniques are also discussed in this unit.

  • ICT651
    IT Research Methods

    This unit sets out to help students design and develop their research projects from inception to completion. It does this by synthesising rigorous coverage of methodologies with an accessible “real-world” approach.

  • ICT654
    IT Capstone Project

    This unit will give students an opportunity to work on an Information Technology (IT) or Information Systems (IS) related business problem and to develop a research-informed solution. During this unit, students, working with an external client in a real-world context, will have the opportunity to develop a project or provide recommendations for improvements to an existing process.

Entry Requirements

General Admission

  • have attained 18 years of age on commencement of studies
  • Australian Senior secondary qualifications (New South Wales Higher School Certificate, ACT Year 12 Certificate, Queensland Senior Examination, South Australian Certificate of Education, Tasmanian Certificate of Education, Victorian Certificate of Education, Western Australian Year 12) with a minimum ATAR of 60; or
  • overseas secondary qualifications for meeting the admission requirements are listed in Appendix B. or
  • VET Certificate IV or above in a relevant discipline; or
  • satisfactory completion of at least one year of accredited full-time study at a registered institute of higher education at AQF level 4 or above in Australia; or
  • completion of an Australian University Enabling Program, or
  • credit granted under the SISTC Credit Transfer and Advanced Standing Policy.

School leavers

Australian Senior secondary qualifications as listed above with a minimum ATAR of 60.

International Students English Language Requirements

Applicants require one of the following, completed within the last 2 years:

  • IELTS Academic: 6.0 with no band less than 6.0; or
  • TOEFL: 536 or better; or
  • TOEFL IBT (International Benchmark Test): 74 or better; or
  • TOEFL CBT (Computer Based Test): 203 or better; or
  • Academic PTE (Pearson Test of English): 50 or better; or
  • Cambridge English: CAE and CPE (from 2015): 169 or better; or
  • General Certificate of Education (GCE): A Levels with a C or better in English; or
  • KITE: all bands B2 with a result greater than 425 in each band; or
  • Duolingo: overall 105 with no band less than 90. or
  • completed 12 months of study in Australia.

Applicants require an IELTS Test Score result of minimum 6.0, with no band lower than 6.0 (or equivalent TOEFL or Pearson Test for English).

Special and/or alternative entry

This includes mature age applicants and/or those who do not hold their HSC or equivalent. In the event that individuals without HSC or equivalent apply for admission, they are considered on the basis of credit granted under the SISTC Credit Transfer and Advanced Standing Policy. The school may also administer such procedures as tests and interviews

Genuine Student (GS) and Financial Requirements

International Students applying from offshore will be required to meet GS and financial requirements. The GS check is to ensure the student genuinely intends to stay in Australia temporarily to complete their chosen course of study.

Students must also be able to show sufficient financial resources to cover travel to Australia and 12 months of living costs and course fees for the student and any accompanying family members. The checks may also include an interview with the student to confirm their knowledge of study in Australia, their obligations under a student visa and their understanding of SISTC and the course they are planning to undertake.

Applicants for the Bachelor of Information Technology are assumed to have a knowledge of Mathematics at least at the standard of Australian Year 11 attainment.

Credit for Recognition of Prior Learning

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Fees and Charges

Fees and Charges
Our fees and charges are set periodically by our Board of Directors.

How to Pay
It is easy to pay your fees to Sydney International School of Technology and Commerce. You’ll find various fee payment options when you receive your application to study with us.

Fees and Charges Schedule
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Orientation and Induction

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Potential Job Opportunities

On completion of the Bachelor of Information Technology, some potential jobs you might consider.

Potential jobs:

  • Web Developer:
    Focused on developing web applications for client-server communication.
  • Cybersecurity Engineer:
    Designs, implements, and maintains security solutions against cyber threats.
  • Penetration Tester (Ethical Hacker):
    Identifies system vulnerabilities for security enhancement.
  • Digital Forensic Analyst:
    Investigates and analyses digital evidence for cybercrime investigations.
  • Data Scientist:
    Extracts insights from large datasets for decision-making.
  • Business Intelligence Analyst:
    Provides actionable insights for business optimisation.
  • Data Engineer:
    Designs and maintains data infrastructure for analytics.
  • Digital Transformation Manager:
    Drives organisational change through digital integration.
  • IT Project Director:
    Oversees large-scale IT projects for organisational success.
  • Enterprise Systems Manager:
    Manages implementation and optimisation of enterprise-level IT systems.
  • Cloud Solutions Architect:
    Designs and implements cloud-based solutions to meet business requirements.
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