IPT HSC Syllabus HSC Syllabus

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Stage 6 Preliminary Course Content:

• Introduction to Information Skills and Systems
  • Information systems in context
  • Information processes
  • The nature of data and information
  • Reasons for digital data representation
  • Social and ethical issues
• Tools for Information Processes
  • Collecting
  • Organising
  • Analysing
  • Storing and Retrieving
  • Processing
  • Transmitting and Receiving
  • Displaying
  • Integration of processes
• Developing Information Systems
  • Traditional stages in developing a system
  • Complexity of systems
  • Roles of people involved in systems development
  • Social and ethical issues

Stage 6 HSC Course Content:

• Project Management
  • Techniques for managing a project
  • Understanding the problem
  • Planning
  • Designing solutions
  • Implementing
  • Testing, evaluating and maintaining
• Information Systems and Databases
  • Information systems
  • Database information systems
  • Organisation
  • Storage and retrieval
  • Other information processes
  • Issues related to information systems
• Communication Systems
  • Characteristics of communication systems
  • Examples of communication systems
  • Transmitting and receiving in communication systems
  • Other information processes in communication systems
  • Managing communication systems
  • Issues related to communication systems
• Option Strands
  • Transaction Processing Systems
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Automated Manufacturing Systems
  • Multimedia Systems