C11190v1 Graduate Certificate in Strategic IT Leadership

Overview

This Graduate Certificate in Strategic IT Leadership is designed for those who want to develop a broader understanding of the strategic value of technology for business organisations. The aims of the course are to alert business leaders (with or without an IT background) to the increasingly important role that technology plays in business success and its potential for disrupting conventional business models and practices.

The Graduate Certificate in Strategic IT Leadership will enable participants to gain a 'big picture' view of global trends in business leadership with a specific focus on the strategic value of technology, and on the leadership implications thereof for the creative management of intangible assets such as morale, social, knowledge and human capital.

Course aims

This course aims to provide graduates with broad strategic leadership frames of reference and knowledge bases.

Career options

On completion of this course graduates will be recognised as IT specialists who understand the strategic business value of technology in a dynamic global knowledge economy.

Articulation

Graduates will be able to enrol in a range of Graduate Diploma or Master level courses after completing the certificate. The most appropriate of these would be the Master of Business in IT Management or an MBA.

Additional admission requirements

Applicants require one of the following:

• a recognised Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate discipline such as business or computing and a minimum of five years' professional work experience in the IT industry, plus some supervisory experience, or
• evidence of general and professional qualifications, such as other post-secondary school qualifications that can establish the applicant's aptitude, knowledge and practical experience, which will satisfy the Faculty Board in Information Technology that the applicant possesses the educational preparation and capacity to pursue postgraduate studies; and a minimum of five years' professional work experience in the IT industry, plus some supervisory experience.

Additional recognition of prior learning

Exemption from subjects in the program is not normally given on the basis of previous study or work experience.

Course duration and attendance

This course is completed in one year on a part-time basis only.

Course structure

The Graduate Certificate in Strategic IT Leadership comprises four core subjects that can be taken in any order subject to timetable availability.

Course completion requirements

Other information

Further information is available from the Faculty Student Centre on: