The curriculum development of the subject is a major initiative in international co-operation. The development of this subject is sustained by links already established with Chinese and Taiwanese universities and by good Chinese and other Asian student representation at Monash. This subject is the worlds first on teaching multilingual (universal) character encoding systems, software localisation, and software internationalisation. Students will gain skills that can easily be translated into using software systems in a multilingual computing environment, and develop the ability to understand the leading edge information technology used for processing computer information in multinational business environments. The introduction of the subject is in accordance with the University's key themes of Innovation, Engagement and Internationalisation in teaching and learning approaches.

May 2014 (Admin) - objectives updated to learning outcomes for AQF compliance.

This unit has been updated as part of a 2009 review and comparison of data with current Handbook, Syllabus + and Callista data.

This is an elective unit in the Bachelor of Business Information Systems and is a recoding of BUS3200.This unit introduces students to Chinese language computing.

On successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

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This unit will cover a wide variety of techniques and computing systems developed for supporting business applications software systems in Chinese language. Specific topics include Chinese-enabling systems, Chinese character sets and encoding methods, Chinese character input methods, Chinese character output, and Chinese computing on the Internet. To enable students to understand the development of global software for all languages including Chinese, the principles and techniques for multilingual information processing, including universal character encoding methods will be discussed. The unit will be taught in English, but students need to have a good knowledge of written Chinese.

On-campus

Examination (2 hours): 70%; In-semester assessment: 30%

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

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