This combine degree gives students a specialisation in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) balanced by a broad understanding of the arts (humanities, languages or social sciences). This combined degree provides students with powerful communication and critical thinking skills coupled with a strong technological base. The degree provides students with an opportunity to gain qualifications that will provide more breadth and offer wider opportunities for employment.
As a system analyst I work in business process analysis and redesign and also project management and project support. I enjoy being able to make people's jobs easier. UTAS provided me with a sound basis of literacy (the ability to learn whatever I wish, or need, to learn) and it taught me to be objective.
The Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (BICT) aims to give students the opportunity to explore a broad range of aspects of ICT, and to graduate them with knowledge and skills in a variety of key areas of ICT for a lifelong career. The degree offers units across the complete spectrum of ICT, ranging from non-technical areas such as the nature of information and organisational needs for ICT, through the hardware, software, network and creative technologies which are used to satisfy these needs, to the communication, design, development and management skills needed to create, implement and integrate ICT components. The degree produces ICT professionals who are confident and articulate team players, and who are attuned to the needs, methods and attitudes of business and society. The BICT aims to provide ICT graduates with the skills and knowledge to take on appropriate professional positions in industry upon graduation and grow into leadership positions, achieve entrepreneurial ambition, or pursue research and graduate studies in ICT.
The Bachelor of Arts (BA) offers a broad foundation in a diverse range of humanities and social science areas of study. It provides students with the skills that employers want such as critical thinking, research analysis, problem solving, communication, creativity and versatility.
Course code: 13P, CRICOS code: 079994M
The learning outcomes for the combined degree will be an aggregation of those specified in the new BICT as well as the current BA.
Graduates of the BICT-BA should expect to have the same career outcomes as identified for the BA and BICT. Graduates of the combined degree would be particularly valuable to large organisations and government.
The BICT has been developed in consultation with the Australian Computer Society (ACS), and professional level accreditation will be sought after there have been some graduates. It is anticipated that graduates of the BA-BICT will be eligible for full membership of the ACS.
The Bachelor of Arts component of this combined degree follows a 4 year generalist structure. The students have a choice of a number of majors and minors and degree electives. The students complete one major, one minor and four degree electives.
The BICT component of this combined degree follows a 4 year specialist structure with a core reversed major and a choice of another major. All students will complete an ICT Professional (Combined) reversed major. The students have a choice of two accompanying majors:
Sample Program
This sample program demonstrates the ICT Professional major (orange), Games and Creative Technology major (green), BA Arts major (blue), BA Arts minor (yellow) and the BA degree electives (grey).
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Sample Program
This sample program demonstrates the ICT Professional major (orange), Software Development major (purple), BA Arts major (blue), BA Arts minor (yellow) and the BA degree electives (grey).
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1 If students don't need to complete KIT101, then students can choose either Computational Science or ICT Impact and Emerging Technology
GCT Major Electives
BICT Major electives
4 years, maximum time of 9 years
The BICT is available on both the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart and the Newnham campus in Launceston. Some units will use flexible delivery strategies including packaged online learning modules or recorded lectures allowing students to complete some learning off campus. Some units will use videoconference facilities to deliver content to both campuses at the same time. Some units/majors for the Bachelor of Arts component of the combined degree may not be available in Launceston.
Possession of the University's basic academic entry requirements as shown on:
http://www.utas.edu.au/admissions/undergraduate/admission-requirements
The English Language requirements will be those that are established for most University of Tasmania undergraduate programs, as shown on:
http://www.utas.edu.au/admissions/undergraduate/admission-requirements
BICT pre-requisites
While no prerequisites apply for the degree, students who have not successfully completed TCE MAP5C Mathematics Applied, or, an approved equivalent unit, or, a higher level Mathematics subject, are recommended to complete KMA003 Mathematics Foundation Unit.
Similarly, students who have not successfully completed TCE Computer Science (ITC315108 or ITC315113), or an approved equivalent unit, or a higher level Computer Programming subject, must complete either KIT001 Programming Preparation or KIT101 Programming Fundamentals before commencing KIT107 Programming.
BA pre-requisites
As described on the Bachelor of Arts.
