Systems Analysis and Modelling (6365.5)

Required texts

The recommended textbook is:

Satzinger, JW, Jackson, JW & Burd, SD 2016, Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World, 7th edn, Cengage Learning.

Submission of assessment items

Special assessment requirements

In order to pass this unit, a student must complete every assessment item (including presentations), and achieve a mark of 50% or greater for the assignment, and 50% or greater for the examination. Higher grades will be awarded on the basis of total mark being ≥ 65 for a credit, ≥ 75 for a distinction and ≥ 85 for a high distinction. Some scaling of marks and academic judgement may be applied to determine students' final grades – in this process no student will be disadvantaged.

If you are at risk of failing the unit, appropriate moderation procedures will be used.

Students should keep a copy of all assessment items that are submitted at least until unit grades have been published at the end of semester.

If there is any doubt with regard to the requirements of any particular assignments or assessment procedure, the onus for clarifying the issue rests with the student who should contact the Unit Convener about the matter.

All work quoted from any source should be appropriately referenced using the "Harvard author-date" referencing style. This style is described in detail (including electronic sources) in the relevant Reference Guide which is available at
http://canberra.libguides.com/referencing. Any work that has not been appropriately referenced, or has not made a reasonable attempt to follow the "Harvard author-date" referencing style will be returned unmarked for resubmission. In such cases, the maximum mark that will be attainable will be 60% of the marks allocated to that assessment item.

Supplementary assessment

To be eligible for supplementary assessment in this unit, you must:
•    be enrolled in your final semester of study; and
•    have failed this unit, with a final mark between 45-49%; and
•    have passed all other units undertaken in this semester.

Also, this unit must be the final unit required to complete the academic requirements of your course.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

Students may use the following as a guide to help them plan their studies for this unit:

Lectures: 2 hours per week, 12 weeks 24 hrs
Tutorials: 2 hours per week, 11 weeks 22 hrs
Tutorial preparation: 2 hours per week, 11 weeks 22 hrs
Assignment preparation:
Part 1 12 hrs
Part 2 20 hrs
Part 3 20 hrs

Exam preparation: 27 hrs
Exam attendance: 3 hrs
Total 150 hrs

Participation requirements

Students are expected to be present during lectures and tutorials. It is compulsory to be present during student presentation sessions. If students have not previously notified (at least a week earlier) the lecturer/tutor of their intended absence, and emailed their presentation slides and notes for that assessment item to the lecturer/tutor, the student will receive zero marks for that presentation/assessment item. Illness and work commitments may not be acceptable reasons for non-attendance during student presentation sessions.  

Announcements will be made throughout the semester, typically to clarify requirements for the assignment.  Any such announcements will be made using your student email account and/or published on the unit website. Such announcements are deemed, within two working days, to be made to the whole group.  Announcements made in lectures or in an organised session are deemed to be made to the whole group.

Required IT skills

You are expected to be a competent computer user and familiar with word processing, presentation software, and workflow and document management software. It is also expected that you will teach yourself how to use software packages and case tools by working through the exercises in the software's tutorials and/or studying examples supplied with the software. All assignments are expected to be submitted electronically using the Canvas website and in Microsoft Office compliant format or PDF; unless specifically stated otherwise.

Work placement, internships or practicums

The unit requires students to research on a mini-case for the semester-long assignment and to use commercially available software and practices in assignments. Where relevant and practical, management practices in this unit are related to Australian legislation and standards.

Additional information

Sources of other information will be announced in lectures and/or on the unit website.

Feedback on progress may be provided to students in any of several ways, such as:
•    Through comments to the class during contact sessions;
•    Through the unit website;
•    In written form on your assignments;
•    During your seminar presentations;
•    By peers;
•    By email; and
•    In individual consultation.

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