Overview 2021
Location
Full Fee Paying places available
This course may not be available to international students. Please see the International Online Course Guide (PDF 809KB) for courses that are offered to international students
Students who are offered a place in this course are digital innovators who want to advance their entrepreneurial, leadership, design, and technical skills. Upon completion, you will have an authentic and tested understanding of what it means to engage in innovative product and service design, with a go-to-market focus.
You will understand what it means to be entrepreneurial and how to be a highly effective communicator who can “feed-into” the complexities of different business contexts and thrive in them. Your studies will include a large project-based component where you will work with the local tech industry in the design and pitch of an ICT product.
This course will equip you with advanced and diverse opportunities to become an ICT entrepreneur in possession of superior skills and capabilities at the early graduate level. Designed for those who want to branch out, build their own paths, and bring new ideas to life.
Learning outcomes
- Design ICT Services and Products which are scalable and incorporate bilingual capabilities.
- Create an intuitive design using resilience enabling techniques during a rapid development process.
- Produce quality innovative projects using a holistic approach, that is solution focused, and evidence based.
- Research existing solutions and design to inform the pragmatic actualisation of a bespoke market ready solution.
- Provide evidence of leadership, empathy and collaboration when delivering a bespoke solution for markets or clients
Practical experience
Reverse Pitch Project
Gain first-hand experience pitching an innovative tech solution to investors. Your Reverse Pitch Project will give you exposure to how products are developed, pitched, and perceived by stakeholders and relevant markets.
Industry Driven Project
Create a prototype for a viable product or service advanced through a process of opportunity identification and analysis, iterative design development, and testing. You'll have the opportunity to explore the relationship between design and industry to develop skills in the planning, development, and production of products and services for a target market or use-case scenario.
Stakeholder Project
Apply your skills to an Indigenous based problem derived from the Indigenous community. Building a deep understanding of the unique needs of this community, you will move beyond basic stakeholder analysis and to exhibit empathy with stakeholder collaboration.
Career outcomes
The Graduate Diploma in Technology and Innovation explores entrepreneurialism, leadership, design, and technical programming specifically geared to the burgeoning Tasmanian technology start-up sector. Graduates will be qualified in the application, development, and user experiences of ICT services and products. With the capacity to plan high-quality innovative ICT projects.
This is an excellent opportunity to access mentoring and direct contact with the Tasmanian tech start-up sector. Demand for these skills continues to grow exponentially year on year as employment projections for Software and Application Programmers are upward trending and set to grow by grow by 23% by 2024.*
Graduates of this course will have the ability to advance their careers in:
- Technology start-up’s
- Consulting services
- Web development
- Application development
- Software development
- Business Analyst
- Entrepreneurial Projects
*Source: Job Outlook Australia, ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2019 and projections to 2024.
Course structure
The Graduate Diploma comprises 100 credit points. Each student completes 4 core knowledge units and 3 project units.
Accelerated Study Period 1
This unit extends a student's understanding of the development of applications on mobile ready platforms. To enable a richer experience in understanding the development process the unit will focus on one mobile platform. Emphasis is placed on the processes, tools…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Hobart | Accelerated Study Period 1 |
This unit will focus on enriching the student's current skill set for technical web programming and development. Students will explore data management techniques that support scalability and usability, and the efficient performance of web platforms. Integrated in the technological aspect…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Accelerated Study Period 1 |
The stakeholder project unit provides an opportunity for students to apply their skills to an Indigenous based problem derived from the Indigenous community. Building a deep understanding of the unique needs of this community will provide a platform for students…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Accelerated Study Period 1 |
Accelerated Study Period 2
This unit explores the relationship between design and industry to develop skills in the planning, development, and production of products and services for a target market or use-case scenario. You will learn how to identify opportunities for new product and…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Accelerated Study Period 2 |
The industry driven project unit provides an opportunity for students to apply their skills to an industry project that they will need to work together to produce an outcome that considers the relevant market and stakeholders. In this unit student…
Credit Points: 12.5
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Accelerated Study Period 2 |
Accelerated Study Period 3
The reverse industry pitch project unit is the capstone unit for the graduate diploma. This unit provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate their skills to a problem pitched by industry to develop a market ready and innovative solution. This…
Credit Points: 25
Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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Hobart | Accelerated Study Period 3 |
Entry requirements
Entry Requirements
Bachelor Degree preferably in IT or cognate discipline and successful completion of the programming ability test.
Entry to the course is competitive. Applicants will be ranked on a combination of their programming ability test result along with their undergraduate degree results.
Articulation to
Students who successfully complete the Graduate Diploma of Technology and Innovation may be eligible to enter the Masters of Information Technology and Systems (K7I) with up to 100 credit points of credit (entry depends on undergraduate qualifications because K7I is an accredited course).
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Detailed tuition fee information for domestic students is available at the Domestic Student Fees website, including additional information in relation to a compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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