Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Life Science (X0F:4) (0100808) + Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Honours (K4I) (079195J)

Program Description Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Life Science (X0F:4) (0100808):

The Foundation Studies program is a direct academic pathway to first-year undergraduate degree study, or an equivalent. The program acts as a bridging course for international students who wish to study a university undergraduate degree course but who don’t yet meet academic requirements and/or have the English language skills for tertiary study.

To successfully complete the program, students must achieve a 50% pass in all units, including English.

Upon successful completion of the course, graduates can enter one of the University of Tasmania’s undergraduate degree courses.

Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Honours (K4I):

This honours degree is an optional continuation of the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology allowing students to pursue advanced studies in a particular area of interest in ICT. It provides high achieving students with an opportunity to cultivate research and development skills appropriate to the ICT discipline and to understand the fundamentals of ICT-related research.

BICT(Hons) graduates should be ICT professionals with the additional attitudes, abilities and skills to: • Select, adapt and effectively apply research processes, methodologies, tools, and techniques to plan, conduct and manage and independent ICT-related research project; • Critically analyse research literature to conduct a literature review; • Be aware of the social consequences of ICT-related research and respond appropriately to ethical considerations and act in accordance with best practice and industry standards; • Analyse, synthesise and evaluate factors to answer a research question, and to defend a research approach; • Document and communicate effectively the research techniques used and the results of the research both orally and in a written thesis; • Evaluate and communicate the likely utility of emerging or advanced ICT to an individual or organization; • Apply abstraction and computational, creative and critical thinking to a problem, identify and define the ICT requirements, apply knowledge of advanced ICT principles and technical skills to develop and evaluate strengths and weaknesses of potential solutions; and • Continue lifelong learning.