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Overview The ability to manage information services, technology, and systems is a worldwide need in businesses, industries, governments, and not-for-profit organisations. The demand for information professionals will continue for the foreseeable future. The Victoria University Master of Information Management will prepare you for a career in these exciting fields. The Victoria MIM is a post-graduate, post-experience, professional, managerial qualification that can be taken on either a full-time or part-time basis. It offers focused and comprehensive learning in information services, information systems, and electronic business. A strong emphasis is placed upon development of managerial skills in realistic organisational environments. Graduates will be recognized as having obtained a qualification enabling them to advance to the highest levels of their profession. The MIM will appeal to professionals with working experience who wish to pursue a career in management of information services, information systems, or electronic commerce. Graduates of computer science or technology who now wish to move into senior management, general managers who wish to equip themselves for senior responsibilities in information management, or university graduates who wish to make the move to information and knowledge management should consider this comprehensive, all-new, and exciting programme. The Victoria MIM is a 180-point qualification consisting of 10 courses: three core, seven electives, and a case study or research project. Students can specialise in one of four areas: Information Systems, Electronic Business, Information Services or Communications. This is done by taking at least four electives in a chosen specialist area. Alternatively, the MIM can be taken as a generic degree with no specialisation. The degree is normally completed over one year of full-time study, or two to three years part-time. A convenient learning schedule Studies usually begin the first trimester, in February, but students can begin in any of three trimesters during the year. Each paper consists of 12 classes of two hours each, primarily offered during the late afternoon and evening to accommodate working professionals. Teaching methods A variety of teaching techniques is used: lectures, tutorials, small group discussion, individual research, group assignments, case discussion, use of audio-visual and computer-based learning materials. The Victoria MIM is strongly experience-based. Concepts are explored in the context of real managerial situations, with case studies and examples used liberally. Current technologies are examined in class and in assignments and projects. Individual studies - case study or research The most important part of the MIM is the research component. Students with an orientation towards management practice are encouraged to pursue the case study option, while those with a leaning toward rigorous research should undertake the research project on a topic relevant and important to their career objectives. The case study should focus on the description and analysis of a realistic, current information management situation. The research project is more theoretical and requires the completion of a Research Methods course. Both are carried out under the personal supervision of one of the Victoria MIM academic staff, arranged once the student has submitted a Topic Approval Form to the Programme administrator.
Employer/student benefits Business and government employers have found that there are considerable benefits in helping key staff upgrade skills while remaining in full-time employment. Many MIM students are being sponsored by their employer. Employers directly benefit, especially through the research project, in which students may investigate key issues of direct relevance to their workplace. Employers may contact the Programme Director if they have concerns about their responsibilities to students in their employ.
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