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Faculty of Engineering |
Course: | Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology (Advanced) (2016) |
CP Required: | 144 |
Min FT Duration: | 3.00 Years |
Min PT Duration: | N/A |
Faculty/School: | Faculty of Engineering |
Years Offered: | 2025, 2017, 2016, 2015 |
Type | CP | CP From |
Core
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6 |
ENGG1805: Professional Engineering and IT Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Replacement unit is INFO1111. |
Core
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6 |
INFO1103: Introduction to Programming Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Replacement units are INFO1110 and INFO1113. If you have not completed INFO1103, you must complete both INFO1110 and INFO1113. You will take one less elective unit as a result. |
6 |
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Unit Block: Maths Units for IT Note: MATH1001/MATH1021 and MATH1002 are recommended for first semester, or advanced alternatives MATH1901/MATH1921 and MATH1902. |
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6 |
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Unit Blocks: Level 1000-2000 Recommended Units Other Electives for IT Degrees or other units. |
Note: Continuing students should note that 2015 BCST (Advanced) tables shown here differs from previous years by bringing the Computer Science and Informations Systems streams together, rather than treating as separate courses. The merging of the stream details was done to to make it easier for students to compare the different requirements of each stream, and see where the requirements are the same in both cases. Apart from this change, the BCST (Advanced) remains as it was before.
Type | CP | CP From |
Core
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6 |
ELEC1601: Introduction to Computer Systems |
Core
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6 |
INFO1105: Data Structures Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Replacement unit is COMP2123. COMP2823 (advanced version) can be taken as an alternative core to COMP2123. |
6 |
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Unit Block: Maths Units for IT Note: MATH1003/MATH1023 and MATH1005 are recommended for second semester, or advanced alternatives MATH1903/MATH1923 and MATH1905. |
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6 |
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Unit Blocks: Level 1000-2000 Recommended Units Other Electives for IT Degrees or other units. |
Type | CP | CP From |
Core
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6 |
COMP2129: Operating Systems and Machine Principles Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Replacement unit is COMP2017. |
Core
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6 |
INFO2820: Database Systems 1 (Advanced) Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Replacement unit is ISYS2110. |
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12 |
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Unit Blocks: Maths Units for IT Level 1000-2000 Recommended Units IT Stream Units or other units. Note: At least 6 credit points of Level 2000 Maths Units and 6 credit points of Level 2000 Stream Units must be taken across the year as a whole. The Stream unit must be selected from: (a) ISYS2140 in Semester 1 for the Information Systems stream) OR, (b) COMP2022 in Semester 1 or COMP2121 in Semester 2 for the Computer Science Stream. |
Type | CP | CP From |
Core
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6 |
COMP2907: Algorithms and Complexity (Advanced) Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Please complete a unit from Maths Units for IT, Level 1000-2000 Recommended Units, IT Stream Units or other units in this semester instead. Please note: if you have not yet completed COMP2907, you must select COMP3927 in the next semester as an alternative core unit. |
Core
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6 |
INFO2110: Systems Analysis and Modelling Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Replacement unit is ISYS2120. |
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12 |
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Unit Blocks: Maths Units for IT Level 1000-2000 Recommended Units IT Stream Units or other units. Note: At least 6 credit points of Level 2000 Maths Units and 6 credit points of Level 2000 Stream Units must be taken across the year as a whole. |
Type | CP | CP From |
Core
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6 |
INFO3402: Management of IT Projects and Systems Note: This unit is discontinued from 2018. Replacement unit is INFO3333. |
6 |
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INFO3220: Object Oriented Design ISYS3401: Information Technology Evaluation Note: In the Computer Science stream, choose INFO3220. In the Information Systems stream: choose ISYS3401. |
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12 |
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Unit Blocks: Level 3000 Recommended Units IT Stream Units or other units. |
Note:
If you have not yet completed COMP2007, you must select COMP3027/COMP3927 in this semester as an alternative core unit.
BCST (Advanced) students must take 42 credit points of Level 3000 units in Year 3: INFO3402/INFO3333 (6 credit points) plus INFO3600 (12 credit points) plus another 24 credit points of Level 3000 Stream and/or Recommended Units, including 18 credit points of units for their specified stream.
- Computer Science stream: INFO3220 (6 credit points) plus 12 credit points from COMP3109, COMP3308, COMP3419, COMP3520, COMP3530 and/or COMP3608.
Please note: COMP3109 and COMP3530 are discontinued from 2018.
- Information Systems stream: ISYS3401 (6 credit points) plus 12 credit points from INFO3220, INFO3315, INFO3404, INFO3504, DATA3404 or INFO3406.
Please note: INFO3404 and INFO3504 are discontinued from 2018.
Type | CP | CP From |
Core
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12 |
INFO3600: Major Development Project (Advanced) |
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12 |
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Unit Blocks: Level 3000 Recommended Units IT Stream Units or other units. |
Type | CP | CP From |
6 |
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COMP2022: Models of Computation COMP2121: Principles of Distributed Systems and Networks Note: Choose at least one of these units in Year 2. |
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6 |
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INFO3220: Object Oriented Design Note: This unit is completed in Year 3, Semester 1. |
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12 |
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COMP3109: Programming Languages and Paradigms COMP3308: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence COMP3419: Graphics and Multimedia COMP3520: Operating Systems Internals COMP3530: Discrete Optimization COMP3608: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Adv) Note: Two units (12 credit points) must be taken. |
Note:
The Computer Science stream of the Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology BCST (Advanced) requires completion of the following stream units across Years 2 and 3 of the degree (in addition to the 90 credit points of common core and recommended IT units, and 30 credit points of electives, required in both BCST streams).
1) 6 credit points of Level 2000 Stream units taken in Year 2. Either COMP2022 Formal Languages & Logic (Semester 1 - 6 CP) or COMP2121 Principles of Distributed Systems and Networks (Semester 1 - 6 CP).
2) 18 credit points of Level 3000 Stream units taken in Year 3, comprising:
- - INFO3220 (6 credit points, Semester 1) plus
- - 12 credit points selected from COMP3109, COMP3308, COMP3419, COMP3520, COMP3530, and/ or COMP3608.
Type | CP | CP From |
6 |
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ISYS2140: Information Systems Note: This unit is completed in Year 2, Semester 1. |
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6 |
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ISYS3401: Information Technology Evaluation Note: This unit is taken in Year 3, Semester 1. |
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12 |
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INFO3220: Object Oriented Design INFO3315: Human-Computer Interaction INFO3404: Database Systems 2 INFO3406: Introduction to Data Analytics [not offered in 2020] INFO3504: Database Systems 2 (Adv) Note: Choose two units (12 credit points) from these. |
Note:
The Information Systems stream of the Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology BCST (Advanced) requires completion of the following stream units across Years 2 and 3 of the degree (in addition to the 90 credit points of common core and recommended IT units, and 30 credit points of electives, required in both BCST streams).
1) 6 credit points from ISYS2140 Informations Systems, taken in Year 2, Semester 1.
2) 18 credit points of Level 3000 Stream units taken in Year 3, comprising:
- - ISYS3401 (6 credits) in Semester 1
- - 12 credit points selected from INFO3220, INFO3315, INFO3404, INFO3406 and/or INFO3504.
Type | CP | CP From |
6 |
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ISYS2140: Information Systems Note: Taken in Year 2, Semester 1. |
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12 |
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COMP2022: Models of Computation COMP2121: Principles of Distributed Systems and Networks Note: Either COMP2022 (Semester 1) or COMP21221 (Semester 2) must taken in Year 2, along with ISYS2140. |
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12 |
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INFO3220: Object Oriented Design ISYS3401: Information Technology Evaluation Note: Both of these units must be taken. |
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24 |
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Unit Block IT Stream Units Note: Select 12 cp from COMP3109, COMP3308, COMP3419, COMP3520, COMP3530, COMP3608 for the Computer Science stream and 12 cp from INFO3220, INFO3315, INFO3404, INFO3406, INFO3504 for the Information Systems stream. |
Note:
The Computer Science/Information Systems double stream in the BCST (Advanced) requires completion of the following stream units across Years 2 and 3 of the degree (in addition to the 96 credit points of common core IT units and electives required for the rest of the degree).
1) 12 credit points of Level 2000 Stream Units, taken in Year 2, including ISYS2140 Informations Systems (6 CP taken in Semester 1) plus either COMP2022 in Semester 1 or COMP2121 in Semester 2.
2) 36 credit points of Level 3000 Stream units, taken in Year 3, comprising:
- - 12 credit points from mandatory units INFO3220 (Computer Science stream) and ISYS3401 (Information Systems stream), taken in Semester 1.
- - 12 credit points from Computer Science recommended units COMP3109, COMP3308, COMP3419, COMP3520, COMP3530, and/or COMP3608.
- - 12 credit points from Information Systems recommended units INFO3220, INFO3315, INFO3404 (or INFO3504) and/or INFO3406.
Note:
Students are expected to complete ELEC1601, ENGG1805/INFO1111, INFO1103/(INFO1110+INFO1113), INFO1105/COMP2123, COMP2129/COMP2017, INFO2110/ISYS2110, INFO2820/ISYS2120, COMP2907/COMP3927, INFO3402/INFO3333 and INFO3600 as core units.
INFO1905/COMP2823 may be taken as advanced alternatives to INFO1105/COMP2123.
Note:
A minimum of 18 credit points is required with:
- - at least 12 credit points Maths or Stats units at Level 1000, and
- - at least 6 credit points at Level 2000.
Recommended units at Level 1000 are MATH1001/MATH1021 (3 cp), MATH1002 (3 cp), MATH1003/MATH1023 (3 cp), MATH1005 (3 cp). At Level 2000, MATH2069, MATH2063, STAT2012 and/or STAT2912 are recommended for Computer Science stream students. STAT2012 and/or STAT2912 are recommended for Information Systems stream students. Additional Maths or Stats units may be taken depending on availability. See Science Faculty handbook for details of available MATH and STAT units at http://sydney.edu.au/handbooks
Unit Code | Unit Name | CP | Sessions Offered |
BUSS1001 | Understanding Business | 6 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 Summer Late |
BUSS1002 | The Business Environment | 6 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
DATA1002 | Informatics: Data and Computation | 6 |
Semester 2 |
ELEC1103 | Fundamentals of Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 6 |
Semester 1 |
INFO1003 | Foundations of Information Technology | 6 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
INFO1903 | Informatics (Advanced) | 6 |
Semester 1 |
INFO2150 | Introduction to Health Data Science | 6 |
Semester 2 |
INFO2315 | Introduction to IT Security | 6 |
Semester 2 |
INFS2020 | Business Process Modelling & Improvement | 6 |
Semester 2 |
INFS3040 | Enterprise Systems & Integrated Business | 6 |
Semester 1 |
PHIL1012 | Introductory Logic | 6 |
Semester 2 |
Note:
Recommended Units also include all Level 2000 COMP, INFO, ISYS unit and ELEC units. See Faculty of Engineering/IT Unit of Study page at http://cusp.sydney.edu.au/students/view-units-page/did/742 for full list of COMP, INFO, ISYS and ELEC units of study.
Up to 30 credit points may be completed from these units.
Note:
This collection is intended to cover Level 3000 Recommended IT units that are outside of your selected stream (Computer Science or Information Technology. All Level 3000 COMP, INFO, ISYS unit and ELEC units may be selected as Recommended IT Units. Students in BCST (Advanced) may take also take Recommended units from fourth year BIT (including Level 5000 COMP, INFO, ISYS unit and ELEC units), with Special Permission from the School of IT.
Overall, 24 credit points of Level 3000 IT (or above) electives must be taken for the BCST (Advanced), including a minimum of 18 credit points from Level 3000 units in the your selected stream. If you are only doing the minimum number of Level 3000 units within your stream (18 credit points, or three units), you will need to select at least 6 credit points (one extra unit) from the units of study here.
See IT Stream Units list below for units within your stream.
See Faculty of Engineering/IT Unit of Study page at http://cusp.sydney.edu.au/students/view-units-page/did/742 for full list of COMP, INFO, ISYS and ELEC units of study.
Note: Electives may be chosen from Level 1, 2 or 3 ENGG units, Level 2 or 3 PMGT units or any Level 1, 2 or 3 unit in Architecture, Arts, Business, Science , Health Sciences or Bioscience. Up to 30 credit points may be taken from these units.
Unit Code | Unit Name | CP | Sessions Offered |
COMP2022 | Models of Computation | 6 |
Semester 2 |
COMP3221 | Distributed Systems | 6 |
Semester 1 |
COMP3308 | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence | 6 |
Semester 1 |
COMP3419 | Graphics and Multimedia | 6 |
Semester 2 |
COMP3520 | Operating Systems Internals | 6 |
Semester 2 |
COMP3608 | Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Adv) | 6 |
Semester 1 |
COMP3615 | Computer Science Project | 6 |
Semester 2 |
DATA3404 | Scalable Data Management | 6 |
Semester 1 |
INFO3220 | Object Oriented Design | 6 |
Semester 1 |
INFO3315 | Human-Computer Interaction | 6 |
Semester 2 |
INFO3406 | Introduction to Data Analytics [not offered in 2020] | 6 |
Semester 2 |
ISYS2160 | Information Systems in the Internet Age | 6 |
Semester 2 |
ISYS3400 | Information Systems Project | 6 |
Semester 2 |
ISYS3401 | Information Technology Evaluation | 6 |
Semester 1 |
ISYS3402 | Decision Analytics & Support Systems [not running in 2019] | 6 |
Semester 2 |
Note:
Completion of a stream is a requirement of the course. Candidates have the option of completing up to two streams. The streams available are: (a) Computer Science and (b) Information Systems. Each stream requires 24 credit points for the BCST (Advanced).
The Information Systems stream requires ISYS2140 in Year 2 plus ISYS3401 Year 3, and two units (12 credit points) from Information Systems units INFO3220, INFO3315, DATA3404, ISYS3402 and/or INFO3406.
The Computer Science stream requires either COMP2022 or COMP2121 in Year 2, then INFO3220 in Year 3, and 12 credit points from Computer Science units COMP3308, COMP3419, COMP3520, and/or COMP3608.