Master of Computer and Information Sciences

• Chief information officer/Chief technology officer
• Database architect
• E-Commerce solutions architect
• General manager IT
• Integration architect
• IT director/manager
• Programme manager
• Project director/manager/leader
• Senior technical consultant
• Software developer/architect

You take the core Course Research Methods, and complete either a research project or thesis under the guidance of an experienced academic supervisor. Your project or thesis may involve the creation of a software artefact. Enrolment in a thesis is subject to achieving at least a B- average in coursework courses including a pass in Research Methods I and approval of research proposal.

The Master of Computer and Information Sciences enables you to focus on one of the discipline clusters below, or combine courses from different clusters.

Including bioinformatics, health informatics, neuroinformatics, data mining and knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, nature-inspired computing and geocomputation.

Including data warehousing and big data, IT strategy and policy, ICT issues in the SME sector, eSystems design and development, visual information processing, information visualisation, human computer interaction.

Including usage centred design, software requirements engineering, software architecture, software development methods.

• ENGE817 STEM Research Methods (15 points)

• Elective courses (45 points)
• COMP989 Thesis (120 points)

• Elective courses (75 points)
• COMP998 Thesis (90 points)

• Elective courses (105 points)
• COMP971 Research Project (60 points)

• COMP800 Neuroinformatics (15 points)
• COMP806 Software Architecture (15 points)
• COMP809 Data Mining and Machine Learning (15 points)
• COMP810 Data Warehousing and Big Data (15 points)
• COMP812 Next Generation Networking (15 points)
• COMP813 Artificial Intelligence (15 points)
• COMP814 Text Mining (15 points)
• COMP815 Nature Inspired Computing (15 points)
• COMP816 Internet of Things and Applications (15 points)
• COMP818 Intelligent Surveillance (15 points)
• COMP819 Ubiquitous Computing (15 points)
• COMP820 Video and Image Processing (15 points)
• COMP821 Information Security (15 points)
• COMP822 Human Computer Interaction (15 points)
• COMP823 Readings (30 points)*
• COMP824 Special Topic A (15 points)*
• COMP825 Special Topic B (15 points)*
• COMP826 Mobile System Development (15 points)
• COMP838 Deep Learning (15 points)
• COMP842 Applied Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies (15 points)
• INFS803 Cloud Computing (15 points)
• INFS809 Software Development Methods (15 points)
• INFS813 Information Technology Strategy and Policy (15 points)

*Enrolment subject to approval by the programme leader.

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Enrolment in courses is subject to meeting all requirements and availability of courses.