Program Overview

Diploma in Information and Communications Technology

This program is designed to provide a tertiary level foundation for further study in the Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology and Bachelor of Information Systems degrees. It has been developed to provide students with a base understanding of core information and communications technology theory and concepts.

Students successfully completing the Diploma of Information and Communications Technology will be granted entry into the second year of a Bachelor of Computer Science course at Western Sydney University.

Leading to: Bachelor of Computer Science
Western offers a specialist Computer Science degrees to equip you with the skills you need to be career-ready by specialising in different applications of computer science and computer systems.

This is a three-year degree with distinct majors which allow you to specialise in different applications of computer science and computer systems.

Major: Networked Systems
This major is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Computer Science and Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced. This major aims to develop graduates with sound skills in the discipline of networked computer systems. Recent advances in computer and telecommunications networked systems, particularly those based on TCP/IP, have increased the importance of network technologies in the discipline of computer science.

This major covers a wide range of topics including computer communication network concepts and protocols, multimedia systems, Internet standards and technologies, network security, wireless and mobile computing, and distributed systems. The candidates are also introduced to some of the relevant current key research issues of the field.