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Study it & computer science online with RMIT University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Understand how to design and apply governance and compliance frameworks to cyber security risks and incidents. Advance your career in a high demand field and lead your organisation’s cyber security management strategy.

RMIT co-created this postgraduate IT qualification with IBM to skill up professionals with industry ready capabilities. Apply governance strategies and manage risk with confidence. Plan for incident-readiness and know you’re primed to respond.

Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security Governance and Risk Management

Transform your career in User Experience (UX) Design by developing capabilities in design thinking, user research, prototyping, and more. Gain valuable hybrid skills that complement your UX skillset, and graduate with an industry-recognised portfolio.

Learn from industry experts, develop real world skills, and build a portfolio. In this course you’ll explore how to conduct user research and prototype solutions. Become the valued digital specialist who connects the business to their customer.

Graduate Certificate in User Experience Design

Accelerate your career with the practical and technical skills to lead and execute a successful digital transformation. Throughout this course you will focus on leveraging technology to reimagine organisational strategy, people, and processes to deliver improved customer and business outcomes.

An industry-backed qualification for business professionals. Learn how technology improves processes and productivity. Enhance your customers’ experience. Use data for decision making. Respond to the changing market and improve business outcomes.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Transformation

Transform your career with the service and strategic design skills, knowledge, and tools to deliver exceptional human-centred experiences.

Let your users’ needs guide you as you create and improve digital services. Learn how to conduct research. Get hands on with design processes and tools. Think strategically to solve problems and seek opportunities to improve the customer experience.

Graduate Certificate in Service Design

A product management qualification for managers and business professionals. Learn to combine business, technology and design know-how to take products from strategy through to delivery.

Learn to manage the entire lifecycle of new or improved digital products. From inception to delivery, drive the team to product success. Get to know product strategy, understand how development and operations work, and explore the customer experience.

Graduate Certificate in Product Management

Transform your career with in-demand digital product design capabilities and lead the delivery of successful digital products. Gain strategic insight into design problems, formulate effective solutions, and drive key product decisions with stakeholders.

In this course, you’ll learn how to craft exceptional digital solutions. Deep dive into the complex needs of online businesses and their customers. With this qualification, you’ll establish yourself as a strategic and effective digital professional.

Graduate Diploma in Digital Product Design

Elevate your career with multidisciplinary skills in digital product design. With the practical application of design tools and processes, gain the strategic skillset to execute or uplift successful digital products.

Let industry experts guide you towards an exciting career in digital product design. Gain practical skills in tools and processes. Get ready to work on digital products for online users, that meet your clients’ briefs and delight their customers.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Product Design

Develop the digital communication strategy, story, content development, and audience engagement skills to transform your career. Learn how to create and measure creative and compelling digital campaigns.

Co-created with expert digital publishers and industry partners, this qualification is for media professionals ready to diversify in this emerging discipline. Upskill your traditional publishing approach to new media. Engage customers in the digital space.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Communication Strategy

Our Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security will equip you with a deep understanding of scientific theories and practices in the field, empowering you to develop and communicate effective solutions to cyber security challenges. The program emphasises professional integrity and ethical conduct, ensuring you can design and implement sustainable, inclusive cyber security strategies. Pathways  After completing the Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security, you are able to apply to the on-campus Master of Cyber Security and carry over all credits achieved. You will be exempted from completing the four (4) courses (48 credit points) completed in the Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security and will be required to complete an additional twelve (12) courses (144 credit points) as specified in the program structure in order to qualify for the MC159P25 Master of Cyber Security degree. Credit outside of the above arrangements will be assessed consistently with the RMIT University credit policy . If you wish to apply for a credit transfer/RPL, please refer to Apply for credit.

Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security

Introduction to Cybersecurity

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Digital Design 1

Game Design Introduction

This subject is designed to provide you with hands on practical experience developing software in a project environment. You work in teams and will complete projects from inception to implementation.
This subject includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/ or community is integral to your experience.
As the project teams and projects will be assigned during the first week all enrolled students are advised to engage with the subject from the beginning of week 1.
Please note: This subject is considered to be a capstone subject for the Bachelor of Information Technology degree in which students demonstrate their competency in a (simulated) Work Integrated Learning (WIL) environment.
All students seeking the Bachelor of Information Technology award will need to complete this subject.

Progress a profession in programming. Get hands-on experience and work with teams developing software in a commercial project setting. Integrate formal project management methods. Track and manage project process from concept to implementation.

Programming Project

This subject aims to provide a broad introduction to the fundamentals of data communication and network technology. The emphasis is on higher aspects of data communication from the perspective of computer scientists and information technologists; the subject covers the underlying mechanisms and their characteristics that need to be considered by communicating application software.
Topics include:
<ul><li>principles and reference models of data communication;</li><li>basic operation of communication systems;</li><li>protocols and error handling, and applications in networked environments.</li></ul>

Learn how people, devices, information and services are continuously connected by an evolving data communications network. Gain critical analysis talent, uncover data communication methods, and reveal the drivers for adopting alternative technologies.

Data Communication and Net-Centric Computing

This course introduces you to the principles and practice of developing applications using C# programming language. Topics include the C# programming language, ASP.NET, Web API, client-side libraries and security.What you will learn:<ul><li>Gain a solid architectural understanding of ASP.NET Core MVC.</li><li>Explore the entire ASP.NET MVC Framework as a cohesive whole.</li><li>See how MVC and test-driven development work in action.</li><li>Learn what&#39;s new in ASP.NET Core MVC and how best to apply these new features to your own work.</li><li>See how to create RESTful and Angular Single Page Application.</li></ul>

Design and build your technically creative future. Apply skills developing applications for Microsoft using CLI and C# programming language. Consider security and performance. Integrate web applications with back-end databases and create web services.

Web Development Technologies

Cloud Computing is a large-scale distributed computing paradigm which has become a driving force for information technology over the past several years. The exponential growth data size in scientific instrumentation/simulation and social media has triggered the wider use of cloud computing services.This course covers topics and technologies related to Cloud Computing and their practical implementations. You should explore different architectural models of cloud computing, the concepts of virtualisation and cloud orchestration. You should gain hands-on experience with various features of popular cloud platforms such as Google App Engine and Amazon Web Service throughout the lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions. Advanced cloud programming paradigms such as Hadoop’s MapReduce is also included in the course. You should also learn the concept of modern Big Data analysis on cloud platforms using various data mining tools and techniques. The lab sessions cover cloud application development and deployment, use of cloud storage, creation and configuration of virtual machines and data analysis on cloud using data mining tools. Different application scenarios from popular domains that leverage the cloud technologies such as remote healthcare and social networks will be explained. The theoretical knowledge, practical sessions and assignments aim to help you to build your skills to develop large-scale industry standard applications using cloud platforms and tools.This course focuses on learning emerging issues related to Cloud computing technology. The objectives are:<ul><li>Understand various basic concepts related to cloud computing technologies</li><li>Understand the architecture and concept of different cloud models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS</li><li>Understand big data analysis tools and techniques</li><li>Understand the underlying principle of cloud virtualization, cloud storage, data management and data visualization.</li><li>Understand different cloud programming platforms and tools</li><li>Have details knowledge on reading and writing in cloud storage</li><li>Be familiar with application development and deployment using cloud platforms</li><li>Create application by utilizing cloud platforms such as Google app Engine and Amazon Web Services (AWS)</li><li>Learn to develop scalable applications using AWS features.</li><li>Learn basic concepts of MapReduce programming models for big data analysis on cloud.</li></ul>

Round off your IT course with an exploration of cloud platforms, apps, and databases. Elevate your coding to include advanced cloud programming. Unpack big data and cloud storage. Complete problem-solving tasks and gain hands-on experience.

Cloud Computing

This subject serves to introduce the basic principles of engineering software projects. Most, if not all, students complete projects as part of assignments in various degrees undertaken. These projects range in size, subject and complexity but there are basic project essentials that need to be understood and practised for successful team project outcomes.
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Engineer a future leading IT software projects. Understand how industry manages projects and IT operations. Plan and manage the project lifecycle from start to finish. Work with others using proprietary and non-proprietary tools in practical settings.

Software Engineering Project Management

This course is an introduction to computing ethics, law and employability. It is intended for computing students who have not studied business principles, or who have little work experience in industry. The course provides a survival kit for computing graduates entering the workforce. During this course, you should consider computing ethical issues, such as information privacy, computer crime, computer security, social networks, online identity. During this course, you should also consider the international legal frameworks available to protect software system development. This includes non-disclosure agreements, employment contracts, intellectual property law (copyright, patents, licensing, royalties), trademarks and warranty disclaimers. Additionally, you should examine the marketing of a software system development, involving SWOT analysis and action plan.

Gain commercial insight into computing ethics, law and marketing in a professional, technical setting. Dig into the dark corners of malware, computer crime and terrorism. Study privacy, patents, royalties and global laws protecting software systems.

Professional Computing Practice

This course teaches programming principles, skills and practices for modern software development, continuing the study of software design and development in pre-requisite courses. Concepts in this include dynamic memory management, advanced typing and polymorphism, automated build systems, defensive programming, debugging, testing, and adherence to modern coding standards and practices. This course uses the C++ programming language for the practical implementation and practice of these concepts. This course may serve as a foundation for further studies in Information Technology, Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Advanced Programming Techniques

This subject was previously known as “Software Architecture: Design and Implementation”
This subject provides students with an advanced understanding of software development with an emphasis on architecture and design, and how this relates to programming and implementation. Students will explore advanced object oriented concepts and the relationship between design in Unified Modelling Language (UML) and its expression in code and how this is supported by modelling tools and development platforms; parallelism using multi-threading, and first principles client server architecture using socket communications and basic protocols. Students will also explore common object oriented design patterns and their application in domain-specific contexts as well as user interface programming.
The subject builds upon existing programming knowledge using Java as the implementation platform, and assumes students already have a basic understanding of Java programming and basic object oriented concepts.

Explore object orientated concepts for designing software architecture. Learn how UML talks in code backed by multi-threading and modelling tools. Build on your prior knowledge, and use interface programming with Java as the implementation platform.

Further Programming

This course introduces Object-Oriented programming using the Java programming language. This course covers: algorithm development using standard control structures; design methods such as step-wise refinement and object oriented programming; the use of standard Java classes and interfaces; the use of standard APIs; I/O processing; and programming style and code reuse.

Program a future in Object-Orientated Programming using Java classes and interfaces. Create algorithms to specification using standard control structures and step-wise refinement. Reuse code and devise strategies to test new software.

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