La Trobe Diploma in Information Technology

About this course

The La Trobe Diploma in Information Technology is a one-year programme awarded by La Trobe University, Australia, and taught at Horizon Campus. It runs over two semesters and covers network engineering fundamentals, artificial intelligence fundamentals, making sense of data, algorithms and data structures, data-based critical thinking, introductory cybersecurity, inside information technology and the programming environment. The diploma is the entry route to the La Trobe Bachelor of Information Technology. The campus states that entry to year two requires passing the eight prescribed diploma units with a weighted average mark of 55. The bachelor's specialisations listed on the page are software engineering, artificial intelligence, network engineering, data science and cyber security. The page also names industry links with Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Optus and Pivot Maritime International, and notes Cisco as a partner for AI research and training.