CITS3005 Knowledge Representation (University of Western Australia): rated 1.9/5 overall, difficulty 5.0/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 3.3/5 across 6 reviews collected on UWA Wall.
CITS3005 is a University of Western Australia course taught by the Physics, Mathematics and Computing in Information Technology. This page brings together its handbook details and what UWA students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 知识表示
Type: Undergraduate/Postgraduate unit
Credit points: 6
Subject area: Information Technology
Faculty: Physics, Mathematics and Computing
Level: Undergraduate Level 3
Handbook year: 2026
Knowledge Representation will cover tools and methodologies for the formal representation of knowledge in a machine readable format, and automated reasoning technologies. These technologies are important for capturing domain specific details and supporting and automating decision making processes.
CITS3005 has 6 scored reviews: overall 1.9/5 · usefulness 2.5 · difficulty 5.0 · would-recommend 3.3 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 3 reviews by UWA students on UWA Wall (1.8/5 overall); 1 StudentVIP review (average 4.0 stars); 2 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 1.0/5).
Student review (2026-10-16): Logic and symbolic AI, which has fallen out of fashion these days but it’s definitely an interesting topic. Plus the homework assignments + project were fun.
On Reddit: "This unit is outdated teaching a dead Programming language Prolog, and all the knowledge graph and ontology aren’t even remotely relevant to the model AI research or of any practical use. I feel this is cancer and not worth of my time at all, this is one of my core in BACS, and …"
On Reddit: "Trash units imo, for example I took CITS3005 it was like an outdated fking knowledge graph unit. Like dude, they used prolog language, like what in the world uses this, this language was a failed project to begin with in like 2000s, it’s literally dead. There are many outdated a…"
The course panel on UWA Wall shows every review and discussion in full.
Q: Is CITS3005 hard?
A: Students rate CITS3005's difficulty 5.0/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it one of the harder courses.
Q: Is CITS3005 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 6 reviews: would-recommend 3.3/5, usefulness 2.5/5, overall 1.9/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches CITS3005, and when is it offered?
A: CITS3005 is taught by the Physics, Mathematics and Computing. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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