Overview 2024
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Professional industry certifications offer a credible, skills focused means for you to demonstrate advanced competency with a particular sub discipline or technology. The value of professional certification to employers is high, and even for existing employees there is an ongoing need to maintain and build technical skills and knowledge.
This degree will provide you with a broad range of knowledge in key ICT areas including data science, game development, cybersecurity, and Virtual and Mixed Reality. Through the Diploma, you will have the opportunity to attain professional certifications that offer a credible, skills-focused means of demonstrating advanced competency with leading industry technologies and systems. This means you’ll graduate with the necessary qualifications desired by employers.
Led by expert staff that deliver distinctive, rewarding, and place-based learning experiences, the teaching environment aims to provide a university experience that is student-centred and personal, enabling you to realise your individual career goals.
On graduation, you may choose to build on your achievements and broaden your skills and knowledge by continuing your study in the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology.
Learning Outcomes
Practical experience
The units within the Diploma of ICT Professional Practice integrate real-world learning tasks and hands-on, practical experience. The course stresses workplace-authentic, high-impact learning. Units involve groupwork problem solving, and all coursework is aligned with in-demand industry-certification skills.
Refine your entrepreneurial skills with project management experience. In KIT203 ICT Project Management and Modelling, you will work alongside an industry client to consult on opportunities to incorporate contemporary ICT into their business model. By identifying new opportunities, this unit will allow you to put project management principles, techniques and tools into practise, ready for workplace scenarios.
Our ITC staff continually identify opportunities for you to build industry networks beyond the classroom. By applying best-practice, industry standards, this course will grow your soft-skills and professional network to set you up for future employment opportunities.
Work placement
Career outcomes
From contemporary business transactions to online and software-based products, systems and services, our world relies on ICT professionals for maintenance and innovation. That’s why gaining professional certifications through your Diploma of ICT Professional Practice is highly sought after by a range of employers.
Graduates often enter technical positions such as software programmer, network administrator, systems or business analyst, and web design/development, before progressing into management roles after 3 – 5 years. Advanced level positions can see you formulating insights as a business analyst, testing networks as a systems manager or protecting important assets as a security specialist.
The employment market for ICT roles promises high growth in the coming years, with an expected of increase of 38.9% (that’s 39,200 additional jobs) by 2026.
Here are some of the top jobs projected to grow in the next five years:
- ICT Support and Test Engineers 43.7%
- Computer Network Professionals 22.2%
- ICT Managers 17.7%
- ICT Business and Systems Analysts 12.9%
* ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2022 and projections to 2026
Course structure
The Diploma of ICT Professional Practice is an 8-unit course that students can complete within two semesters but can take up to 3 years to complete.
Core
This unit introduces fundamental programming skills, developing students' ability to think algorithmically to solve problems and to express their ideas in well-constructed Python code. Beginning with the fundamental characteristics of computers and how they represent information, the unit develops the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Games (whether they be video games, console games, computer games, mobile games, or web games) differ from other media as they elevate the viewer to the level of a participant. Games are an ever-growing cultural phenomenon which has increasing relevance…
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This unit introduces students to fundamentals of distributed networked environments, primarily focusing on wired networks but students will examine some of the different approaches in wireless networks. It provides knowledge of internetworking standards and understanding of the networking architecture, technology…
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This unit explores cybersecurity as it is managed in the business context. It covers the processes of threat and risk analysis, security policy development, incident prevention and response, issues around privacy, professional codes of conduct, and looks at legislative efforts…
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View all details for KIT118 Introduction to Cybersecurity Policies and Practices
This unit provides both a theoretical and practical overview of project management as it relates to technology-oriented projects. Specifically, this unit will introduce project management principles, techniques and tools that can be used to guide traditional business-oriented ICT projects, as…
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View all details for KIT203 ICT Project Management and Modelling
This unit introduces the topic of game design and production. Students will work in teams to design and develop a prototype of their design using an agile development methodology. During the development process students will document aspects of the game's…
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This unit will explore the exciting field of virtual reality, mixed reality and the advanced concepts and technologies for interfacing humans with complex machines. We will discuss their potential impact on the way we think about computers and the way…
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View all details for KIT208 Virtual and Mixed Reality Technology
Cloud computing forms the backbone of many internet-based applications nowadays. These platforms use advanced operating systems and web service technologies to create and share information. Data stored and exchanged in this cloud-based application follow specific formats. The data exchange can…
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View all details for KIT214 Intelligent and Secure Web Development
Entry requirements
For Domestic students
Applicants who have completed secondary education
- This course does not use ATAR as part of the admission process.
- To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have completed the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) or an equivalent qualification.
Applicants with previous higher education study
- To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have completed at least one unit of study (equivalent to 12.5 UTAS credit points) or completed the university preparatory program or equivalent
Applicants with previous TAFE/VET study
- To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have completed Certificate III or above.
Applications on the basis of work or life experience
- This course accepts applications based on work or life experience.
- Applicants who have not completed senior secondary, tertiary, or TAFE/VET study, but who have relevant work and life experience can complete a personal competency statement.
Credit transfer
Credit for a maximum of 4 units of study will be provided upon completion of an Undergraduate Certificate or TAFE Certificate IV or above in ICT (or an equivalent field).
Articulation
Students can articulate into the BICT with 100 credit points for prior learning. Students who have completed 4 units can exit with an Undergraduate Certificate in ICT Professional Practice.
Detailed Admissions Information
Detailed admissions information and advice for all undergraduate courses, including comprehensive, course-level student profiles, is available from UTAS Admissions.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Cost shouldn’t get in the way of you studying.
If you’re a domestic student, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place in this course. This means your fees will be subsidised by the Australian Government. You’ll only need to pay the student contribution amount for each unit you study within the course.
You may also be able to defer payment of the student contribution amount by accessing a HECS-HELP loan from the Government. If eligible, you’ll only have to pay your tuition fees once you start earning above a specific amount.
Further information is available at Scholarships, fees and costs.
Student contributionStudent contribution amounts are charged for each unit of study. This means that how much you’ll pay will depend on which units you choose. Find out more about student contribution amounts.
Further informationDetailed fee information for domestic students is available at Scholarships, fees and costs, including additional information in relation to the compulsory Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF).
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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