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.

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

23/07/2015 - Disestablished at FEC 3/15 (Item 8.3).

This unit is an elective unit in the Master of Business Information Systems and is also available as an elective unit for all other FIT and Monash Masters.

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.

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

• familiarise students with Chinese language and multilingual computing environments;
• learn the principles and skills of Chinese business computing through the practical use of Chinese software systems;
• acquire skills that can easily be translated into using software in non-Roman languages;
• understand Chinese and universal character encoding methods for multilingual information processing;
• develop ability to understand the techniques used to develop Chinese and global software for business applications.

029999

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.

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):

FIT

Familiarity with written Chinese

Chung-Hsing Yeh