Overview

This unit is designed to introduce the student to the ICT profession and the ethical, legal and professional obligations which must be met by people working in the cybersecurity field. These include recognition of and compliance with ethical standards, laws, governance, software design processes and project management, service management, acquisition and delivery, security management and human factors.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Develop an understanding of ethical and socio-technical challenges faced by an ICT professional, including human factors, accessibility and usability
  • Evaluate the role of standards, codes of conduct and legislative/regulatory obligations on the level of professionalism of the ICT industry
  • Review the roles and responsibilities of ICT professionals in organisations and society from a range of perspectives such as work-life balance, mentoring and life-long learning
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of software development, acquisition, security and service management

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
2.00 12 weeks 24
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial Labs
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 100% 1,2,3,4 

Content

  • Codes of Ethics
  • Professional expectations
  • Teamwork concepts and issues
  • nterpersonal communication
  • Societal issues/legal issues/privacy
  • Understanding the ICT profession
  • IT governance and organisational issues
  • IT project management
  • Service management
  • Systems acquisition
  • Human factors
  • Systems development 

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.