2001 Swinburne Undergraduate and TAFE Course Guide

Business, Innovation and Management – Degrees
Business (Hawthorn)
Business, Innovation and Management – Degrees
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Course title
Bachelor of Business
Duration
Three years full-time or six years part-time.
An optional and additional year of Industry Based
Learning (IBL), and an honours year is also
available.
Location
Hawthorn.
Entry requirements
Satisfactory completion of an appropriate Victorian
Year 12 or its equivalent.
2001 VCE prerequisites: Units 3 and 4 – a study
score of at least 20 in English.
Application procedure
VTAC code: 34411 (full-time)
34701 (part-time)
2000 ENTER: 85.20
Course overview
The Bachelor of Business equips students with a
diverse range of theoretical knowledge and practical
skills to prepare them for the demands of
tomorrow’s business world. Key features of this
degree are the ability to integrate a wide range of
business, information technology, arts and social
science subjects, the opportunity to undertake the
Industry Based Learning (or work experience)
program and/or travel overseas on international
student exchanges or overseas study tours.
In the first year of the course students undertake a
range of foundation studies across all Business
disciplines, enabling students to ‘sample’ subject
areas before committing. Subjects include:
Accounting, Microeconomics, Organisations and
Management, Law in Global Business, The
Marketing Concept, Quantitative Analysis, and
Introduction to Information Systems.
Business students can then undertake major and
minor study sequences or electives, depending on
career aspirations or interests, from the following:
Accounting*
Asian Studies
Australian Studies
Business Law#
Business Modelling#
Cultural Studies
Economics#
eMarketing#
European Studies
Finance*
Human Resource Management/
Organisation Behaviour*
Information Systems*
International Business*
Italian Language and Culture
Japanese
Literature
Management*
Manufacturing Management*
Marketing*
Media Studies
Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
See separate entries for further details on each
of these.
*Bachelor of Business students are required to
undertake a major study sequence in at least one
of these subject areas.
#Available as minor study sequence only.
Honours
An Honours degree reflects an achievement of
excellence in a chosen field of study and can
enhance employment prospects and increase
managerial opportunities. Honours students work
independently but in close consultation with a
supervisor on a substantial project of their choice.
Students are required to collect and analyse data
and produce a substantial written thesis (10,000 to
15,000 words) on their findings. Many students
continue on to undertake their Honours year
immediately after their Bachelors degree while
others gain full-time employment and concurrently
study part-time (by this method Honours normally
takes two years).
Honours can be undertaken in Accounting,
Business Law, Business Modelling, Economics,
Finance, Human Resource Management, Information
Systems, International Business, Manufacturing
Management, Marketing, or any of the above areas
of study combined with a language component
from either Italian or Japanese.
To undertake an Honours degree, students need to
have completed a major study sequence in one of
the listed areas of study in their Bachelor degree
course.
Career opportunities
Accountancy, advertising, company legal work,
computer programming, financial advice, human
resources, market research, public relations,
systems analysis.
Professional recognition
Associate Membership of the Institute of Corporate
Managers, Secretaries and Administrators and the
Australian Institute of Banking and Finance. See
also separate subject area entries for specific body
recognition.
Business Specialisations
Students studying degrees or double degrees in
Arts, Business, Information Systems, Engineering
or Social Science have the option of undertaking
subjects from these study areas.
Honours year and Industry Based Learning
program available (except for Bachelor of Arts or
Social Science students).
Accounting
A knowledge of accounting can help individuals
and business organisations understand how to use
money (resources) to the best advantage. Gaining
wealth and maintaining wealth are important
elements in a market economy, plus understanding
accounting is important in organising personal
finances.
Accounting skills are relevant to many areas of
professional interest – marketing, economic
forecasting, engineering, health care or the arts.
Students can also undertake major studies in
accounting through the Swinburne Bachelor of
Business (Accounting).
Subjects include
Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Management
Accounting, Financial Management, Auditing,
Financial Risk Management, current issues in
Accounting, Taxation and Personal Investment.
Career opportunities
Public accountancy, finance, business consulting,
general management.
Professional recognition
Australian Society of Certified Practising
Accountants (ASCPA) and the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in Australia (ICAA). Students who wish
to meet the requirements for Professional
Recognition by these professional bodies should
apply to either the Bachelor of Business, the
Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Arts (Language)
or the Bachelor of Business (Accounting).
Business Law
Business Law enables students to appreciate the
impact law has on the business environment.
Law subjects emphasise skills such as the ability
to understand arguments, to manipulate abstract
concepts and to communicate verbally and in
writing. The study of Business Law should be seen
as providing support to other business subject
areas, in particular the areas of Accounting,
Finance, Marketing, Human Resource
Management, Economics and, to a lesser extent,
Information Systems. Studies in Business Law may
be relevant to Arts students in support of
vocational areas such as psychology, urban studies
or government.
Subjects include
Law in Global Business, Contract Law, Company
Law, Marketing Law, International Business Law,
Finance Law, International Taxation and
Investment, and Taxation.
Career opportunities
Insurance, banking, finance, public sector. Legal
knowledge would be valuable to a property officer,
accountant, trust officer, administrator, company
legal officer, company secretary or local
government administrator.
Business Modelling
Students completing a minor sequence of study in
Business Modelling acquire valuable
multidisciplinary skills that are extremely
marketable within the business community.
Modelling production processes, developing
strategies for site locations for retail businesses
and analysing market research survey data are
examples of the work carried out by people with
business modelling skills.
Subjects include
Quantitative Analysis, Business Forecasting, Market
Modelling, eBusiness and eCustomer Relationship
Marketing.
Career opportunities
Market analysis, business consultancy.