Bachelor of Business

Program handbook

Description

The Bachelor of Business is one of the most popular and dynamic degrees offered by the Faculty of Business and Law. It is a three year full-time (or equivalent part-time) program which starts with broad core courses and then progresses to one of the nine major sequences of study offered in the degree:

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation;
• Governance, Policy and Political Economy;
• Human Resource Management;
• International Business;
• Leadership and Management;
• Marketing;
• Sports Management;
• Tourism Management.

The program has a practical orientation, with students learning from case studies of real business situations.

Program learning outcomes

Details

Admission information

Credit transfer

Academic requirements for program completion

Total units required

240 units

Program duration

3 years full-time or part-time equivalent up to 8 years maximum.

International student visa holders who are studying the program on campus are required to enrol full time as per student visa requirements.

Program requirements

To complete the degree, students must pass courses totalling 240 units (generally made up of 24 courses worth 10 units each). The academic program has three distinct components: core courses, a major sequence and elective courses.

• To satisfy the requirements for the Bachelor of Business degree program you must complete:
• A total of, but no more than, 240 units (generally made up of 24 courses worth 10 units each)
• No more than 100 units at the 1000 (first year) level
• Between 40 and 100 units at the 2000 (second year) level and 3000 (third year) level
• The Core Bachelor of Business courses must be completed by all students and consists of seventy (70) units of prescribed courses and ten (10) units of directed courses. All core courses are at the first year (1000) level.
• The Compulsory and Directed courses for at least one major sequence.
• The remaining units (electives) can be chosen from any discipline area within the University. You may utilise your electives to undertake a double major. You must ensure that each major has 60 units of unique courses.

Some core courses count towards specific majors as listed below.

• IBUS1000 - International Business major.
• LEIS1000 - Sports Management; and Tourism Management majors.
• IRHR1002 - Human Resource Management major.
• LEGL1001 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Governance, Policy and Political Economy; Leadership and Management majors.
• MNGT1001 - Human Resource Management; International Business; Leadership and Management; Marketing and Tourism Management majors.
• MNGT1002 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation major.
• MKTG1001 - Marketing; and Sports Management majors.
• POLI1010 - Governance, Policy and Political Economy major.

Please note that some courses within the major sequences may require additional assumed knowledge other than the compulsory courses in the major.

Students may study 40 units of courses which comprise a minor (see additional program information below). When you have successfully completed your program, your transcript and testamur will specify completed major/s but will not specify completed minors. Details of minors are listed below.

ACFI1002 Accounting Practice

ACFI2003 Management Accounting

ACFI2011 Financial Accounting

ACFI3001 Accounting Theory

EBUS2000 Information and Communication in Business

EBUS3050 The Digital Economy

INFT3100 Project Management

INFT3150 Business Analysis

CHIN1110 Elementary Chinese I

CHIN1120 Elementary Chinese II

CHIN2301 Intermediate Comprehensive Chinese I

CHIN2302 Intermediate Comprehensive Chinese II

CMNS1230 Foundations of Media Production

CMNS1000 Introduction to Digital Communication

CMNS2800 Creative Industries Entrepreneurship

CMNS3310 Communication, Creativity and Cultural Production

ECON1001 Microeconomics for Business Decisions

ECON1002 Macroeconomics in the Global Economy

Plus one of the two options: Option A

ECON2001 Intermediate Microeconomics

ECON3005 Economics of Entrepeneurship and Innovation

OR Option B

ECON2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics

ECON3008 International Macroeconomics

MNGT1002 Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Innovation

MNGT2002 Business Venturing

MNGT2003 Entrepreneurial and Innovation Diversity

MNGT3007 Social Entrepreneurship

ACFI1002 Accounting Practice

ACFI2070 Business Finance

ACFI2080 Corporate Finance

ACFI3130 Derivatives Securities

IRHR1002 Dynamics of People and Work in Organisations

IRHR2270 Introduction to Human Resource Management

IRHR2010 Introduction to Industrial Relations

IRHR3000 Applied Human Resource Management and Employment Relations

MNGT1002 Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Innovation

MNGT2003 Entrepreneurial and Innovation Diversity

MNGT2004 Managing Innovation

MNGT3008 Advanced Innovation Management

IBUS1000 Managing International Business Risk

IBUS2001 Cross Cultural Management and Negotiations

IBUS2003 International Trade Logistics

ACFI3140 International Finance

ECON3003 Global Trade and Finance

IRHR3540 International Human Resource Management

MKTG3060 International Marketing

JAPN1110 Elementary Japanese 1

JAPN1120 Elementary Japanese 2

JAPN2111 Intermediate Japanese 1

JAPN2112 Intermediate Japanese 2

MNGT1001 Introduction to Management

MNGT2005 Leadership & Ethics

MNGT2006 Decision Making Under Uncertainty

MNGT3011 Leading Organisational Change

MKTG1001 Foundations of Marketing

MKTG2101 Consumer Behaviour

MKTG2010 Marketing Research

MTKG3002 Digital and Social Media Marketing

POLI1010 Australian Politics and Government

POLI2203 International Political Economy and Global Development

POLI2180 Politics, Policy and Government

POLI3130 Principles of Public Policy

PSYC1010 Psychology Introduction 1

PSYC1020 Psychology Introduction 2

PSYC2600 Personality and Social Psychology

PSYC3600 Advanced Social and Organisational Psychology

LEIS1000 Leisure Behaviour and Organisation

LEIS2000 Sports Operations Management

TOUR2002 Visitor Management

LEIS3000 Managing Events

LEIS1000 Leisure Behaviour and Organisation

TOUR2001 Tourism and Cultural Heritage

TOUR2003 Global Tourism

TOUR3000 Tourism and Environmental Management

Program plans

Download a program plan for further details on what you will study. Please refer to the program plan for the year that you commenced or transitioned into this program.

• 2016 Program Plan B Business Ourimbah Single Major 40027.pdf 975.3 KB
• 2016 Program Plan B Business Ourimbah Double Major 40027.pdf 1.2 MB
• 2016 Program Plan B Business Callaghan Single Major 40027.pdf 1.1 MB
• 2016 Program Plan B Business Callaghan Double Major 40027.pdf 2.3 MB

Transition arrangements

Program structure

Students are advised to read their program handbook information in conjunction with the program plans for course sequence/enrolment advice. Please refer to the Program Plan for the year that you commenced, or transitioned into, this program - Program Plans are available above.

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