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Career ~otential
Employment opportunities are found in a range
of administrative and office support areas such as:
secretaries, administrative officers, personal assistants.
Professional recognition
Students who successfully complete the Associate
Diploma of Business (Office Administration) are eligible to
apply for membership of the Institute of Professional
Secretaries Association.
Entry requirements
Students are eligible to enter this course if they
have satisfactorily completed Year 12 or equivalent.
Mature-age students with suitable business background will
also be admitted to the course.
Course availability and duration
The Associate Diploma of Business (Office Administration)
is offered on a full-time basis over two years. Subjects must
f be completed in the correct sequence and prerequisites
met. Variations must be approved by course coordinators
4 or heads of department.
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y. Course structure
First year
5 NOS124 Accounting - to Trial Balance
TS247 Business Law 1
TS421 Business Computer Applications 1
TS422 Business Computer Applications 2
g. TS800 Practical Placement
TS872 Document Production 1
W TS873 Document Production 2
3 TS874 Office Administration 1
TS875 Office Administration 2
TS904 Page Layout Software
Plus one elective from the following subjects:
NOS219 Accounting Basic Reports
TS905 Electronic Publishing 1
Second year
TS801 Practical Placement
TS897 Document Production 3
TS898 Document Production 4
TS899 Office Supervision 1
TS900 Office Supervision 2
Plus six eledives from the following subjects:
TH435 Management Skills 2
TS248 Business Law 2
TS906 Electronic Publishing 2
TS907 Electronic Publishing 3
TS919 Legal Office
TS955 Buyer Behaviour
TS958 The Marketing Concept
TS970 Organisations and Management
* Elective subjects may be selected from other associate
diploma courses.
* Electives will be offwed at the discretion of the
University.
Further information
For further information please contact the Information
Studies Department on 9214 5206 (Hawthorn) or
9214 6765 (Prahran).
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~~OODGB Associate Diploma of
Business (Operations
Management)
This course is offered at the Hawthorn campus only. The
scheduling of classes for specific subjects is conditional on
there being sufficient enrolments.
Course aims
The course is designed so that a student obtains
an understanding of the operations management
functions within an organisation and the techniques, skills
and knowledge that are required to manage these functions.
On satisfactory completion of the Advanced Certificate
in Operations Management the student should be able
to perform the duties and tasks of the purchasing and
planning functions.
Career potential
On satisfactory completion of the Associate Diploma of
Business (Operations Management) the student should be
able to:
a) perform, supervise, and manage one or more of the
operations management functions;
or
b) perform duties as a manufacture/production/
operations manager of a medium to large organisation.
Course description
The Associate Diploma of Business (Operations
Management) can be completed in two stages.
Stage 1 -
Advanced Certificate in Operations Management
Students must complete fourteen subjects from the following:
Group A Six compulsory subjects 6
Group B Eight specified or elective subjects 8
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Stage 2 -
Associate Diploma of Business (Operations Management)
Students must complete a further fourteen subjects from
the following:
Group B Four elective subjects 4
Group C Ten compulsory subjects 10
TOTAL 28
Professional recognition
Students who have successfully completed the
Advanced Certificate in Operations Management and/or
the Associate Diploma of Business (Operations
Management) are qualified for membership with the
following professional institutes:
8 Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management
PSM)
Australian Institute of Materials Management (AIMM)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIEA)
Australian Institute of Management (AIM)
Entry requirements
For both Advanced Certificate in Operations Management