Information Technology
Deakin’s IT courses accurately reflect the needs of the burgeoning IT and business sectors. From communications to entertainment, finance to security, these courses are tailored to produce outstanding graduates with diverse and highly employable IT skills.
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Information sessions and displays -
Melbourne Burwood Campus
Displays:
- Information Technology display
- Games display
Sessions:
- New initiatives in IT @ Deakin
- Network Engineering and Cisco
- IT Security
- Games and Animation
- Multimedia and Interactive Design
- Games Design and Development
- Business Information Systems - be the business face of Facebook
- You don't get 500 million friends without computer science
Information Technology display
All day
Building T, Room T1.01
Come and visit our display of all things IT!
This interactive display will allow you to see examples of what we teach in IT. Bring a friend to join in the fun!
Games display
All day
Building T, Room T1.05
Gaming and interactive technology – visit the games lounge and see how to design computer games.
New initiatives in IT @ Deakin
10.30–11.00 am
Building B, Room B1.20, Lecture Theatre 11
Deakin’s IT courses have been updated with industry input to reflect industry needs, offering areas of study that are of crucial importance to IT development and applications; producing graduate skills that employers are looking for.
Network Engineering and Cisco
11.00–11.30 am
1.30–2.00 pm
Building T, Room T1.02, Cisco Lab
Jump-start your IT career with a Bachelor of Network Engineering and discover the advantages of Cisco certification, which can open up new IT networking career opportunities.
IT Security
11.30 am–12.00 pm
Building B, Room B1.20, Lecture Theatre 11
Find out about IT Security – computer crimes, cryptography, digital evidence and forensic IT investigation, communication and mobile security, system security and security management – and the growing skills shortage.
Games and Animation
12.00–12.30 pm
2.30–3.00 pm
Building B, Room B1.81, Deakin Motion.Lab
Come and see the best motion capture facility in Australia and how IT degrees in games and interactive media make use of it.
Multimedia and Interactive Design
12.30–1.00 pm
Building B, Room B1.20, Lecture Theatre 11
Building interactive web sites and developing interactive media have become important areas of information technology. Learn more about how the new course in multimedia and interactive design can add to your skills and knowledge of information technology.
Games Design and Development
1.00–1.30 pm
Building B, Room B1.20, Lecture Theatre 11
This is an exciting and fast-growing area of IT, due in part to the popularity of systems such as XBox, PlayStation, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo GameCube.
Business Information Systems –
be the business face of Facebook
1.30–2.30 pm
Building X, Room X2.05, Lecture Theatre 12
Business Information Systems graduates are the information systems professionals of the future, with every type of industry offering graduates in this area well-paid and challenging careers.
You don’t get 500 million friends without computer science
2.00–2.30 pm
Building B, Room B1.20, Lecture Theatre 11
See how you can make a difference with the click of a button.
We bust the myths of a computer science career, and show you how cool it is to be a computer scientist who creates software solutions to change and improve the way we live, work and have fun.
Register to attend Open Day for your chance to win a $50 iTunes voucher. A winner will be drawn every Friday until end of August.
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