Overview

This unit is a research unit and a requirement for the FIT Honours degrees. Due to the nature of IT, a wide range of Honours project types can be offered to students. Some project components are of a practical nature and may involve some software development and/or experimentation, while other … For more content click the Read More button below. This unit forms part of the sequence of units comprising the Honours thesis in the Faculty of Information Technology. Two exit points exist for the Honours thesis, FIT4444 (24 pts) and FIT4448 (18 pts). The 24 credit point exit point is applicable to: Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced (Honours) Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Honours) The 18 credit point exit point is applicable to: Honours stream in the Bachelor of Software Engineering.

Offerings

S1-01-CLAYTON-ON-CAMPUS
S1-01-MALAYSIA-ON-CAMPUS
S1-01-SAFRICA-ON-CAMPUS
S1-FF-CLAYTON-FLEXIBLE
S2-01-CLAYTON-ON-CAMPUS
S2-01-MALAYSIA-ON-CAMPUS

Requisites

Corequisite

Rules

Enrolment Rule

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Professor Patrick Olivier
Dr Reuben Kirkham

Unit Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Anuja Dharmaratne

Teaching approach

Research activities

Assessment summary

At the completion of the requirements for the thesis the following components of assessment will be completed:

Semester 1, 2020:

Research Proposal: 5%; Literature Review: 10%; Interim Presentation: hurdle; Final Presentation: 5%; Thesis: 80%

Presentation: this will take the form of a 7-8 minute video. Thesis: the substantive thesis (including appendices) should normally be 9,000-18,000 words for 18 credit point theses and 12,000-24,000 words for 24 credit point theses.

From semester 2, 2020 onward:

Literature Review + Interim Presentation: 15%; Final Presentation: 5%; Thesis: 80%:

The Literature Review is due on Friday end of Week 8 at 3pm in the student's first semester. The Interim Presentation is a short (less than 3min) video presentation followed by online discussion. The video will be due Friday, end of Week 12 at 3pm in the student's first semester.

The Final Thesis is due on Friday end of Week 12 at 3pm, in the students second semester.

The Final Presentation will take the form of a public poster session in Week 14 in the students second semester.

These assessment tasks will be completed over the course of several units in the Honours program but the overall grade for the thesis will only be finalised on completion of either FIT4444 (24cpts) or FIT4448 (18cpts)

Assessment

1 - Literature Review + Interim Presentation
2 - Final Presentation
3 - Thesis

Workload requirements

Workload