The curriculum development of the unit is a major initiative in international co-operation. The development of this unit is sustained by links already established with Chinese and Taiwanese universities and by good Chinese and other Asian student representation at Monash. This unit is the world's 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 unit is in accordance with the University's key themes of Innovation, Engagement and Internationalisation in teaching and learning approaches.

The code for this unit has been changed from BUS5200 to FIT5058 in accordance with new Faculty procedures.

This unit is an elective unit in the Master of Business Systems.

This unit is a recoding of BUS5200.

This unit teaches students to gain knowledge and skills in using and developing global software systems for business applications.

ASCED Discipline Group classification: 029999 Information Technology not elsewhere classified.

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 human 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.

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 human 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.

1. Yeh, C.-H., Chinese Language Information Technology, School of Business Systems, Monash University, 2005.
2. Huang, Jack K.T. and T.D. Huang, An Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific Publishing, 1989.
3. Lunde, Ken, CJKV Information Processing, O'Reilly & Associates, 1999.
4. The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard Version 5.0, Addison-Wesley, 2006.

Students should expect to spend an average of 12 hours per week for 13 weeks on this unit. The breakdown of the workload is as follows:

1. Attending lectures and tutorials: 3 hours,
2. Reading and preparation for lectures and tutorials: 3 hours,
3. Class exercises, assignments, and project: 6 hours.

Computer labs for 1 hour per week (with Chinese-enabling computing systems installed on Windows XP).

100% from the Clayton School of Information technology.

Nil.

Chung-Hsing Yeh