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2025 unit information
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SIT772
1 x 2 hour online lecture per week, 1 x 2 hour practical experience (workshop) per week, weekly meetings.
Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 2 hour online lecture per week (recordings provided), 1 x 2 hour online practical experience (workshop) per week, weekly meetings.
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
This unit covers the fundamentals of designing, implementing, and managing relational database systems in industry-standard IT applications. It introduces data modelling, with a specific focus on entity-relationship (ER) modelling. Students will learn how to construct ER diagrams, ensuring that the model's semantics match those of the real-world object it represents. It also teaches how to construct, maintain, and retrieve information relational databases using SQL. Through real-world business case scenarios and project-based learning, students will gain the skills required to design, implement, and manage databases.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
ULO2
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solving
ULO3
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO3: Digital LiteracyGLO4: Critical thinking
ULO4
GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must meet certain milestones as part of the portfolio.
Prescribed text(s): Coronel and Morris, 2022, Database Systems Design Implementation Management, 14th Ed, Cengage Learning.
The texts and reading list for SIT103 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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