Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central.
The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 8
Note: This course is only available part-time for T2 and T3 intakes.
Information systems play a vital role in contemporary business and practitioners with skills in this area are in high demand. Take your understanding of information systems and commerce to the next level with Deakin’s Graduate Certificate of Information Systems.
Are you looking to add information systems knowledge to your skill set?
Designed as an introductory course for professionals working in business and government, you will gain a strong technical background in specific areas of eBusiness and supply chain management.
Whether you’re a graduate of business, management, marketing, social policy or public administration, you can increase your employability with our Graduate Certificate of Information Systems.
Considering further study? This course is a pathway to the Master of Information Systems.
You can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include lectures, seminars, online interactions, or professional experiences for Work Integrated Learning (WIL) units. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Units in this course may have participation requirements that include compulsory placements, work-based training, community-based learning or collaborative research training arrangements.
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Units which contain work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, working with children check or other check. These requirements will be detailed in unit guides upon enrolment.
| Graduate Learning Outcome | Course Learning Outcome |
| Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities | Demonstrate advanced knowledge needed to perform duties as a highly skilled information systems professional within an organisation or social setting |
| Communication | Effectively transmit models, frameworks and management theory to both specialists and non-specialists |
| Digital literacy | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
| Critical thinking | Apply critical thinking relative to complex information systems settings |
| Problem solving | Formulate and recommend well developed solutions based on organisational needs and a critical evaluation of alternatives |
| Self-management | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
| Teamwork | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
| Global citizenship | Not explicitly addressed as a learning outcome in this award |
To complete the Graduate Certificate of Information Systems, students must attain a total of 4 credit points comprising of 2 credit points of core units, 2 credit points of course elective units plus completion of the compulsory 0-credit point module, DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin.
To be completed in the first trimester of study:-
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect At Deakin |
| MIS770 | Foundation Skills in Data Analysis |
| MIS782 | Value of Information |