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Graduate Certificate in Application Development
Course information for - 2025 entry
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Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Application Development provides you with advanced knowledge in producing industry-strength software applications. You’ll be introduced to multiple programming languages and software tools, fundamental data structures and algorithms and taught the techniques to design, create and test interactive desktop, web and mobile applications. All our units are embedded with the United Nations sustainable goals.
Graduate with full-stack application programming and development skills and be ready to step straight into the industry or continue on the pathway to a Master of Information Technology. Units from this course can also count towards an application development specialisation in the MBA.
Careers
Our graduates have pursued careers in:
- full stack development
- web development
- mobile development
- software development
- programming
Course details
Course structure
To complete the Graduate Certificate in Application Development, a student must complete 40 credit points (cp).
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Staff Profile
Dr Walayat Hussain
Head of the Discipline of Information Technology, Peter Faber Business School
Dr Walayat Hussain is currently the Head of the Discipline of Information Technology at Peter Faber Business School. He has an academic and industry experience of more than 17 years. Before joining the ACU, he was a Lecturer at Victoria University Melbourne, lecturer and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney for seven years. He worked as an Assistant Professor and postgraduate program coordinator at the department of Computer Science at BUITEMS University for many years. He holds a PhD, Master, Postgraduate Diploma, and Bachelor's (Hons.) degrees in Computing and Information Systems from the UTS, AIT, BUITEMS, and Hamdard University.
Walayat has developed and revitalised multiple postgraduate and undergraduate subjects of Information Systems and has taught more than 30 subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has supervised several research students as the principal and co-supervisor to completion. Walayat's research areas are Service Computing, Business Intelligence, AI, Information Systems, Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Decision Support Systems. He has published more than 74 high-quality research documents.
Dr Kewen Liao
Senior Lecturer in information technology, Peter Faber Business School
Dr Liao is currently a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology and Master of IT Coordinator in the Peter Faber Business. Previously, Dr. Liao was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Charles Darwin University (CDU) Sydney. Dr. Liao's research and teaching interests are data science and algorithms.
Dr. Liao was a Research Fellow in Data Analytics at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) and a Postdoctoral Researcher in Big Data and Algorithms at The University of Melbourne (UoM). Dr. Liao has also worked as a Research and Development Engineer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Canon Information Systems Research Australia with a US patent.
Dr. Liao holds a PhD (with focus on algorithms) and a First-Class Honours Bachelor (with focus on software engineering) both in Computer Science from The University of Adelaide (UoA). Dr. Liao did undergraduate exchange at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA.