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Available in Program(s)
Single degree program(s) in which this specialisation is available:

Bachelor of Science - BSc3778 - Computer Science
Bachelor of Science - BSc3978 - Computer Science

Specialisation Structure
96 Units of Credit:

Students must complete 96 UOC.

Core Courses

Students must take 72 UOC of the following courses.

COMP1511
6 UOC
Programming Fundamentals
COMP1521
6 UOC
Computer Systems Fundamentals
COMP1531
6 UOC
Software Engineering Fundamentals
COMP2511
6 UOC
Object-Oriented Design & Programming
COMP2521
6 UOC
Data Structures and Algorithms
COMP3311
6 UOC
Database Systems
COMP3900
6 UOC
Computer Science Project
COMP4920
6 UOC
Management and Ethics
MATH1081
6 UOC
Discrete Mathematics

Computing Elective

Students must complete 6 UOC of Computing courses (COMP3xxxx or higher)

Database Systems Prescribed Electives

Students must take at least 18 UOC of the following courses.

COMP6714
6 UOC
Information Retrieval and Web Search
COMP9313
6 UOC
Big Data Management
COMP9315
6 UOC
Database Systems Implementation
COMP9318
6 UOC
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
COMP9319
6 UOC
Web Data Compression and Search

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