Industry Insights

Course Information:
This unit is designed to target first year, first semester students. As an undergraduate student you need to acquire an understanding of the vast and diverse nature of the industry you will be working in, to plan for a successful career. This unit will provide you with a career roadmap to understand the diversity of technical and non-technical skills required to be successful in the ICT Industry. It is important that you recognise and prepare for the challenges of working in this rapidly evolving discipline and its relationship with other disciplines and the consequences of this. This requires the capability to manage a plethora of complex issues around you and the ability to work individually as well as collaboratively in a creative and ethical manner. ICT professionals also require essential information literacy skills to efficiently retrieve, use, and store information to keep up with the pace of the discipline.

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Description:
This unit introduces you to the diverse options in the ICT discipline and its relationship with other disciplines. You will study leading ICT Industry experts and consider them as potential role models for your own career path. Using a hypothetical entrepreneurial IT project as a vehicle, you will acquire the skills and knowledge required to participate as an individual and as an effective team member, learning how to critically reflect upon information to ensure you acquire high quality resources to utilise in your project. You will also be introduced to professional ethical issues and project management.

Recommendation and Rating:
There are many group projects to work on - 5/10

Recommended study time per week:
7 hours a week

Helpful Resources:
There is no set text for this unit. Most home work tasks are set around freely available university modules and resources and will be made available through the unit's black board site.

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