Fast Facts
Location
Commencing
- Townsville: February, July
- Cairns: February, July
Fees
$28,080.00+
+estimated annual tuition fee
Plus Student Services and Amenities fee
Scholarships and financial aid available if eligible
Duration
3 years full-time
Entry Requirements
English (Units 3/4,C) Assumed knowledge: Mathematical Methods (Units 3/4,C); or equivalent.
CRICOS Code
0100009
Course detail
Put your creativity to the test, challenge yourself, and improve your problem-solving skills. Learn to make meaning of data and find inventive ways to re-invigorate businesses.
Combine valuable IT skills with critical thinking and innovation to help businesses run efficiently. Use your broad knowledge of technology to make appropriate recommendations and identify opportunities. Network with industry mentors and undertake a Work Integrated Learning placement to graduate job-ready.
Additional information
About JCU's Bachelor of Technology and Innovation in Queensland
Prepare yourself for success with a Bachelor of Technology and Innovation (similar to a Bachelor of Innovation and Technology) from JCU. Build a complete portfolio of knowledge, experience, and skills that will make you valuable in the industry and help you get the job you want.
Study a Bachelor of Technology and Innovation and Get Results
Learn how to develop an organisation and manage a team as you study your Bachelor of Technology and Innovation. Gain experience in data analysis and developing iterative ways of improving business processes.
Build your problem-solving skills to address the biggest issues that face tomorrow's business environments. Develop your IT skills and combine them with your flair for innovation. Learn to recognise problems and opportunities and make the right recommendations for success.
Practice setting goals, managing time, and using effective communication. Understand the fundamentals of design thinking and apply these principals to real-world issues.
Choose Your Specialisation
Be ready for the jobs of the future as you pursue your Bachelor of Technology and Innovation in Queensland. Build a solid foundation of theoretical knowledge as you learn natural systems modelling, problem solving, and basic and advanced programming skills. Learn effective data visualisation methods to uncover truly meaningful information and use it to make decisions.
Choose a major that fits your skills and career goals. Become a robust innovator through a major in Information Technology. Use your creativity to find technological solutions that make a difference in the global economy. Apply your skills to make the world a better and more just place through the power of connected technology.
Use your major in data science in a government department, a private corporation, or your own start-up. Apply your analytical skills to understand data and build statistical models that offer effective solutions to the biggest problems facing industry and society.
Gain Experience
Be ready today for tomorrow through extensive experience that puts theory into practice. See first-hand how technology can have a positive and negative impact on society. Consolidate your passion for using and building technology and learn how to make positive changes in society and the built environment.
Build your strategic skills and apply them to achieve success. Integrate your knowledge and skills in practical placements in real-world settings, supervised by lecturers committed to student success.
Put your understanding of technology to work through developing systems and components that address and solve specific problems.
A Bachelor of Technology and Innovation with World-Class Education
Your world-class education begins here, at JCU. Build your professional network through JCU's links to industry and government departments. Work with leaders in technological innovation in courses with small class sizes.
Experience the incredible as you learn how to find sustainable solutions and safe innovations for the future's biggest problems. Develop your skills under industry mentors at a university committed to student success.
Study a Bachelor of Technology and Innovation at JCU
Challenge yourself, developing your skills and knowledge, at James Cook University. Graduate ready to enter the workforce and lead the way in building meaningful change for our future.
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Majors
Data Science
Gain data and analytics skills highly sought-after in every industry – from government departments to internet start-ups and financial institutions. Build your understanding of data science and learn the tools of the trade, including advanced statistical modelling, data mining, machine learning, linear algebra, and data visualisation.
Information Technology
Become an innovative developer with the skills to solve problems in a group. Learn to apply design thinking to deliver technological solutions to a wide range of issues. Analyse technology, creativity, and disruptive innovation in the global economy and across disciplines. Study web and software development, database modelling, and programming.
JCU Technology and Innovation graduates have the flexibility to solve complex problems across different industries, technologies, and contexts.
Graduates will possess a range of practical technology skills and an invaluable capacity for critical thinking and creativity.
You could find employment as a data scientist, technology manager, director of innovation, software engineer, systems analyst, digital product manager, solutions manager, business intelligence developer, infrastructure manager, enterprise architect, or project manager.
Bachelor of Technology and Innovation
Handbook year | 2020 |
Course code | 118410 |
Course type | BAC – Bachelor Pass (AQF level 7) |
Division | Tropical Environments and Societies |
Award Requirements
Admission Requirements
Course pre-requisites | English Assumed Knowledge: Maths B |
Minimum English language proficiency requirements | Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 1 – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy. |
Additional Course requirements | Applicants who have not completed high school intermediate level Mathematics B (or equivalent) must select MA1020: Preparatory Mathematics as part of their study plan to successfully complete the Bachelor of Technology and Innovation. Students required to undertake MA1020 should enrol at the first availability of their study plan and may be required to undertake the subject in intensive mode in order to complete the program in the normal 3 year timeframe. |
Academic Requirements for Course Completion
Credit points | 72 credit points as per course structure |
Course learning outcomes | On successful completion of the Bachelor of Technology and Innovation, graduates will be able to:
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Course Structure
CORE SUBJECTS
Level 1
Note: All students who have not completed high school level Mathematics B or equivalent must undertake MA1020 Preparatory Mathematics
MA1020:03 Preparatory Mathematics or select one level 1, 2, 3 or 5 subject
SC1101:03 Science, Technology and Truth
CP1401:03 Fundamentals of Problem Solving and Programming I (recommended for students undertaking the Information Technology Major) or CP1404:03 Programming II (recommended for students undertaking the Data Science Major)
SC1102:03 Modelling Natural Systems or SC1109:03 Modelling Natural Systems-Advanced
CP1403:03 Design Thinking
PLUS
Select one level 1, 2, 3 or 5 subject
Level 2
MA2830:03 Data Visualisation
SC2202:03 Quantitative Methods in Science or SC2209:03 Quantitative Methods in Science-Advanced
EV2502:03 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
PLUS
Select 6 credit points of level 1, 2, 3 or 5 subjects
Level 3
SC3008:03 Professional Placement
BX3173:03 Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship
EG3000:03 Engineering Project Management
PLUS
Select 3 credit points of Level 3 or 5 subjects
PLUS
Select 3 credit points of Level 2, 3 or 5 subjects
PLUS
Select a Major from Table A
TABLE A (MAJORS)
Type of major | Mandatory, single |
Credit points in major | 24 credit points |
MAJOR | AVAILABLE AT | NOTES |
Cairns Townsville | ||
| Information Technology | Cairns Townsville | |
| Sensor Technologies and the Internet of Things | Cairns Townsville | Suspended in 2020 |
Campus
COURSE AVAILABLE AT | NOTES |
Cairns | Not available to any student seeking to complete the program prior to 2022 |
Townsville | Not available to any student seeking to complete the program prior to 2022 |
Candidature
Expected time to complete | 3 years full-time or equivalent part-time |
Maximum time to complete | 7 years |
Maximum leave of absence | 1 year |
Progression
Course progression | Nil |
Course includes mandatory professional placement(s) | Yes This course includes prescribed professional placements. Students may be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense. Further information about placements can be found at Coursework Enrolment Procedure. |
| Course includes mandatory Fieldwork | No |
Special assessment | Nil |
Professional accreditation | Nil |
Maximum allowed Pass | 3 credit points Subjects taken with a PC grade may not be part of the Core or the Major. |
Supplementary exam for | Not applicable |
Credit
Eligibility | Students may apply for a credit transfer for previous tertiary study or informal and non-formal learning in accordance with the Credit Transfer Procedure. |
Maximum allowed | 36 credit points except where a student transfers from one JCU award to another, then credit may be granted for more than two-thirds of the new award, where there is subject equivalence between the awards |
Currency | Credit will be granted only for studies completed in the 10 years prior to the commencement of this course. |
Expiry | Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 17 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree. |
Other restrictions | A maximum of 6 credit points of credit may be granted at level 3 or above. |
Award Details
Award title | BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION |
Approved abbreviation | BTechInnov |
Inclusion of majors on | Majors will appear on the testamur |
Exit with lesser award | Students who exit the course prior to completion and have successfully completed 12 credit points of appropriate subjects, may be eligible for the award of Certificate of Higher Education. Students who exit the course prior to completion, and have successfully completed 24 credit points of appropriate subjects, will be eligible for the award of Diploma of Tertiary Studies. |
Course articulation | Not applicable |
| Special Awards | Not applicable |
Honours
Honours availability | Graduates may be eligible to be admitted to honours programs in Science, Information Technology, Social Science or other disciplines appropriate to their interests. Interested students should seek advice from the Course Coordinator. |
Eligibility | Normally an overall GPA of 5.5 is required in the bachelor (pass) degree subjects relevant to the field in which Honours is to be taken. |
Estimated annual tuition fee: $AUD28,080.00
Courses are charged per year of full-time study. International course fees are reviewed annually and subject to change.
A Student Services and Amenities Fee is payable per subject up to a maximum amount per year.
Student Visa holders must have Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) for the duration of their Student Visa (except Norwegian, Swedish and Belgian citizens). Costs depend on the length of study and the number of dependants accompanying the student. For more information see Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC).
Scholarships and financial aid are also available for international students.
JCU offers pathway study options if you don't meet the academic of English language requirements for direct entry into your preferred JCU degree, or if you want to enhance your career prospects.
Contact us for more information.
Advanced Standing (credit for prior learning)
To apply for credit for previous studies you must submit the course syllabi (subject outline) for each relevant subject and ensure the subject corresponds to a similar JCU subject.
Real stories
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Lecturer
Heather Robson
Senior Lecturer
Innovation does not happen at a desk — it happens when people have new influences and ideas. Students will be inspired to use creative abilities to explore emerging technologies that will impact in the world. They’ll have a diversity of thinking and hands-on experiences in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship