As one of Australia’s leading universities, Deakin has an excellent reputation for degrees that are relevant, practical and up to date. The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) programme is one of the most flexible and broadly based business programmes that Deakin offers.
The BCom offers students a choice of majors in Singapore:
This enables students to develop the knowledge and skills that lead to careers in virtually every area of business.
With the appropriate selection of units, students can satisfy the educational requirements for membership or associate membership in a number of professional associations including CPA Australia; Institute of Chartered Accountants; Australian Institute of Banking and Finace; Australian Marketing Institute and many others.
The degree consists of a total of 24 units (24 credit points), with core units from both Business, Accounting, Information Systems, Commerce, Law and a wide range of elective units. With each major, students must take the core units and between 6 to 10 further compulsory units, plus a number of electives.
Students with TMC’s Higher Diploma in Business can claim advanced standing for up to 12 modules.
Polytechnic Diploma holders with relevant qualifications can claim
advanced standing for up to 10 units.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The BCom is a 24 credit point degree consisting of a total of 24
units. The BCom comprises of a common core (10 units), major sequences,
plus elective units. One special requirement is that students at
TMC must complete one unit online.
Common Core
MAA103 Accounting for Decision Making
The unit covers: the impact of accounting; accounting reports;
introduction of the accounting equation; classification; analysis
and summarisation of transactions; accounting systems and
internal control; the management decision-making process;
cost concepts for management decisions; importance of budgets
in the decision-making process; management of financial resources;
techniques to analyse statements; limitations; evaluating
performance; evaluating financial position.
Assessment:
Test(s) 10%, written assignment 1800-2000 words 20%, examination
3 hours 70%
MAE101 Economic Principles
This unit is about the behaviour of consumers and producers
and their interaction in the marketplace. The study of how
markets operate is essential to understanding any form of
economic behaviour in the global arena. The tools of market
analysis developed in the unit provide the foundation for
an understanding of issues such as coordinating people's needs
with the world's limited resources, corporate pricing strategies,
monopoly power, government regulation, the environment, income
inequality, the economic relationships between countries and
foreign trade.
Assessment:
Assignment 1 750 words 5%, assignment 2 1500 words 10%, test(s)
15%, examination 3 hours 70%
MAE102 The Global Economy
This unit provides students with an understanding of the Australian
economic system within the world economy, and an ability to
identify and assess current macroeconomic problems. The unit
is concerned with the way in which the whole economy, or large
sectors of the economy, work. The major sectors analysed are
the household sector, the business sector, the government
sector and the international (rest-of-the-world) sector. Issues
such as economic growth, unemployment, inflation, balance
of payments, exchange rates and overall economic policy are
examined.
Assessment:
Assignment 10%, written assignment 1500 words 20%, examination
3 hours 70%
MAF101 Fundamentals of Finance
Topics to be addressed in this introductory finance unit include:
what finance is and why it is important to individuals and
businesses; basic mathematical concepts involving the time
value of money determining present values and future values;
the nature of return and risk; risk measurement and management;
the structure and operation of financial institutions and
markets; the structure, functions and role of prudential supervision
in the financial markets; equity markets and instruments;
sources and types of short, medium and long-term business
finance; foreign exchange transactions; sources and types
of personal finance; personal finance topics of insurance,
superannuation and estate planning.
Assessment:
Test(s) 10%, written assignment 2500 words 20%, examination
3 hours 70%
MLC101 Business Law
The unit provides a comprehensive introduction to commercial
law. It covers the Australian legal system and the law relating
to contract and negligence.
Assessment:
Test(s) 30%, examination 2.5 hours 70%
MMM132 Management
The aim of this unit is to provide students with a solid understanding
of the intellectual foundations of the study of management.
The unit will provide the opportunity to analyse how the solutions
to management 'problems' have developed under different conditions
throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The unit
also explores how management practice influences, and is influenced
by, the external environment. This will involve examining
how managerial action impacts on and is shaped by the environment,
through a consideration of globalisation, ethics, social responsibility
and the social and cultural context of management.
Assessment:
Literature review 1000 words 10%, case study (group or individual)
3000 words 30%, examination 3 hours 60%
MSC120 Business Information Systems
The goals of the unit are to understand the importance of
information systems in businesses and to develop business
problem-solving skills using information technology. Other
topics include: an overview of hardware and software technologies;
the internet and electronic commerce; data communication and
computer networking; security; problem analysis and critical
thinking skills; current trends and future developments; and
practical work using personal computers.
Assessment:
Compulsory assignment 30%, examination 2 hours 70%
MSQ171 Business Data Analysis
This unit covers the process of data analysis including the
collection, presentation, and interpretation of data. An objective
of the unit is to demonstrate the importance of understanding
data and the crucial role of data analysis in business decision-making.
Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, random
sampling, inferential statistics and regression. The emphasis
of the unit is on the interpretation and applications of the
various techniques studied. Statistical software is used extensively
throughout the unit.
Assessment:
Compulsory assignment 20%, compulsory assignment 20%, examination
3 hours 60%
MMH299 Business Communication
This unit aims to broaden students' understanding of the complex,
sophisticated nature of communication and increase their awareness
of the skills and strategies required for effective communication
as a means of solving problems within a range of contemporary
business contexts. Students become equipped with a suite of
professional communication skills, which will assist them
in gaining employment and further developing as responsible,
global citizens throughout their careers. The unit features
a strong, practical emphasis on formal oral and written skills,
on a range of business documents and on the selection and
use of various technologies for specific communication purposes.
Students are also provided with opportunities to develop skills
for the effective management of teamwork as well as facility
with interpersonal and intercultural communication.
Assessment:
Document creation assignment 4000 words 40%, oral report 10%,
examination 3 hours 50%
MMK277 Marketing Management (Online Unit)
This unit examines the nature of marketing management from
a marketing planning perspective. The focus of discussion
is the coordinated activities of the network of producers
of goods, services and experiences which seek to satisfy their
customers. Emphasis is placed on marketing strategy formulation
and the use of strategic marketing mix elements in developing
and maintaining a market orientation and assessing organisational
performance. Such aspects of marketing as marketing research,
customer behaviour, product innovation, and marketing communication
are also examined.
Assessment:
Written assignment 3000 words 30%, test(s) 30%, examination
2 hours 40%
Electives
MLL382 Indian Commercial Law
This unit has two principal aims. First, to introduce the
current Indian legal system and, second, to study in detail
some aspects of Indian commercial law, particularly law
in relation to commercial transactions in India. The unit
introduces Indian legal history and India’s law-making
mechanisms and then examines in more detail some key topics
in Indian commercial law. After having completed the unit,
you should have an understanding of both the underlying
principles of the legal system, and Indian Commercial Law.
Furthermore, you will have some exposure to the particular
rules or principles which affect commercial transactions
with India. The unit is designed to maximise the benefits
to be gained from the study tour in India, drawing on the
expertise available at the Indian institutions.
Assessment:
Participation 10%, written assignment 1 20%, written assignment
2 70%
MME101 Business Academic Skills
This unit supports students in developing academic and communication
skills within the broad context of business disciplines,
as well as providing opportunities for students to address
personal communication weaknesses. It prepares students
for successful study within Commerce or Management and is
particularly useful for students who are articulating into
Deakin from post-secondary study. It is strongly recommended
for students from diverse or international backgrounds who
wish to establish a solid foundation for successful tertiary
study.
Assessment:
Report 1000 words 10%, essay 1500 words 20%, five in-class
assessments 50%, reflective journal 10%, skills development
portfolio 10%
MMI301 Business Internship 1
This unit aims to provide students with the opportunity
to undertake appropriate and relevant experiential learning
within their undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Business
and Law. Interns complete 100 hours (minimum) with an approved
host organisation. The unit aims to further the interests
of both the student and the host organisation and builds
on the skills gained in core units, particularly MMH299,
to prepare students for future graduate employment. Internships
can be completed in all majors or discipline areas as well
as general business opportunities.
Assessment:
Written assignment 1 1500 words 20%, written assignment
2 2000 words 30%, written assignment 3 3500 words 50%
MMI302 Business Internship 2
This unit aims to provide students with the opportunity
to undertake appropriate and relevant experiential learning
within their undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Business
and Law. Interns complete 100 hours (minimum) with an approved
host organisation. The unit also aims to further the interests
of both the student and the host organisation and builds
on the skills gained in the core units, particularly MMH299,
to prepare students for future graduate employment. Internships
can be completed in all majors or discipline areas as well
as general business opportunities. This unit enables a second
internship experience to be completed. This can be with
either the same host as the first internship but in a different
discipline or with a different host in the same discipline
area.
Assessment:
Written assignment 1 1500 words 20%, written assignment
2 2000 words 30%, written assignment 3 3500 words 50%
MMK330 Tourism and Leisure Marketing
The unit examines current and future trends in tourism in
Australia and international tourist markets. Marketing strategy
principles are internationally used to examine alternative
ways of serving various market segments.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMM385 Business in Asia
This unit aims to provide an understanding of business issues
between Australia, China, India and Indonesia as major Asian
trading partners. The unit will encourage a keen understanding
of current developments in international business in these
countries and its implications in an objective manner along
with a thorough understanding of the fundamental theoretical
concepts.
Assessment:
Written assignment 2500 words 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMS308 Sport Marketing
The unit examines techniques and strategies applicable to
the marketing of sport as well as marketing through sport.
The unit will focus on sport as a service and the unique
characteristics of the sport product, the sport consumer,
and hence the sport marketing mix. A special emphasis is
placed on customer service and retention. A key learning
outcome for students will be the development of a strategic
sport marketing plan.
Assessment:
Assignment 4000 words 50%, examination 3 hours 50%
All modules from the various major sequences may also be
taken as electives, provided the pre-requisites of the modules
are fulfilled.
Accounting Major Sequence
Deakin has adopted a case based approach to this degree.
This offers students a programme that has professional relevance
and an emphasis on analysis and discussion rather than on
book keeping and routine accounting. In addition to the
10 core units students take:
MAA261 Financial Accounting
The unit includes a detailed look at the recording process
where double entry recording is introduced. Starting with
the analysing and recording of general transactions, the
unit advances to the recording of more specialised transactions
including merchandising, closing entries, and those needed
for certain partnership and company transactions. The unit
also includes a study of the development of a conceptual
framework; further study of assets, liabilities and owner's
equity.
Assessment:
Test 5%, individual case study 25%, examination 3 hours
70%
MAA262 Management Accounting
This unit aims to encourage independent thinking, enhance
analytical ability, creativity and initiative in students
who undertake the unit. We attempt to achieve this aim through
an exploration of the role of management accountants and
the theoretical and technical decisions that they have to
make in their work. The relationship between why we do something
and what we do is maintained throughout the unit. While
technical mastery is developed as progress is made through
the various topics students are rewarded for showing creativity
and initiative. This unit is designed to facilitate understanding
of how ‘cost accounting’ became known as ‘management
accounting’ in that it assists managers to make better
decisions. This requires a thorough investigation of cost
accounting concepts and practices.
Assessment:
Test(s) (x3 worth 10% each) 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MAA363 Corporate Accounting
The unit studies Australian financial reporting within the
international accounting environment, with the aim to provide
a broad context for the understanding of corporate reporting
issues. Issues to be examined include recognition and measurement
of assets, liabilities, equity income and expenses; the
processes for accounting for investment in subsidiaries
in Australian financial reporting; and the form and content
of published financial reports.
Assessment:
Written assignment 2500 words 20%, test(s) 10%, examination
3 hours 70%
MAA310 Accounting and Society
This unit examines accounting as a social construct and
the role of the accounting profession in society, accounting
theory approaches, and various accounting issues that stem
from these areas. Some of the key areas include positive
and normative accounting theories, corporate social responsibility,
fraud and forensic accounting, international accounting
and other contemporary issues in accounting in a broader
sense.
Assessment:
Individual written assignment 3000 words or group (2 students)
written assignment 4500 words 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MAA350 Ethics and Financial Services
As a requirement of International Education Standard 4 released
by the International Federation of Accountants, the unit
develops students' appreciation of ethics and their ability
to evaluate and apply ethical principles in the decision-making
process in accounting and finance. Topics covered include:
the nature of ethics; an ethics framework of relationships
for financial services; ethical factors influencing the
performance of financial services; ethical theories and
principles applicable to finance professionals; ethical
decision-making models; ethical issues and conflicts of
interest in the financial services industry; professional
codes and workplace ethics; corporate social responsibility;
applying ethical decisions in case scenarios; and international
business practices.
Assessment:
Written assignment 1 1500 words 20%, written assignment
2 2500 words 30%, examination 2 hours 50%
PLUS
9 Other Electives
- For intending Accounting Honours students MAA302 and MAA303
are strongly recommended units and should be taken as electives.
- M300T Bachelor of Commerce is the recommended pathway
to qualify for membership of professional organisations.
Professional recognition Students wishing to apply for membership
or further study recognised by Accounting professional associations
should also complete the following:
MAA302 Strategic Management Accounting (CPA/ICAA)
This unit examines management accounting from a strategic
perspective. Topics include the development of strategic
management accounting and uses of management accounting
tools and techniques in formulation, implementation and
evaluation of organizational strategies. In particular,
the unit focuses on activity-based management, uses of financial
and non-financial performance measures in performance measurement
system, corporate social responsibility and environmental
management accounting.
Assessment:
Written assignment 2000 words 20%, test(s) 15%, examination
3 hours 65%
MAA303 Auditing (ICAA, recommended CPA)
The unit examines auditing and assurance services with a
focus on the financial report audit. The regulatory and
legal environment is discussed. Students learn about the
planning, execution and reporting phases of the audit. A
practical group assignment requires students to assess the
inherent risk of misstatement in an Australian listed company's
financial reports.
Assessment:
Written assignment 2000 words 25%, test(s) 15%, examination
2 hours 60%
MLC203 Corporations Law
Topics covered in this unit include: the origins of our
corporate law; corporate personality; other forms of business
organisation; incorporation of companies; promoters and
corporate fundraising; directors and their duties; membership;
meetings; minority rights; share and loan capital and corporate
insolvency; and winding up.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70% or examination 3
hours 100%
MLC301 Principles of Income Tax Law (ICAA, recommended
CPA)
This unit covers legal principles applicable to income taxation
in Australia. Topics include: assessable income and deductions;
capital gains; trading stock; taxable entities; taxation
administration; Fringe Benefits Tax; and Goods & Services
Tax.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70% or examination 3
hours 100%
Please see a Programme Advisor for further details.
Graduates who are employed in the banking and financial
sectors are eligible for affiliate membership of the Australian
Institute of Bankers.
Finance Major Sequence
This major sequence is recognised by the Australian
Institute of Banking and Finance. It provides students
with a broad understanding of the structure and operations
of financial markets and the Australian financial market.
It provides a thorough grounding in the theories and techniques
underlying the financial market preparing students for
a career within the banking and finance industry. In addition
to the 10 core units students must take:
MAF202 Money and Capital Markets
Topics addressed in this unit include: the operation and
structure of a modern financial system; direct and intermediated
finance; interest rate determination and yield curve analysis;
financial institutions; prudential supervision; equity
markets; sources and types of short-term, medium-term
and longer-term debt finance; financial instrument pricing;
the foreign exchange market; off shore-funding in the
international markets; and an introduction to the derivatives
markets.
Assessment:
Written group assignment (2-3 students) 2000 words 20%,
tests x 2 (5% each) 10%, examination 3 hours 70%
MAF203 Business Finance
The focus of the unit is the finance function of a typical
firm. The finance manager's role in financial decisions
is emphasised. Topics include: valuation concepts; risk
and rates of return; capital budgeting and project evaluation;
working capital management; capital structure; cost of
capital; and dividend policy.
Assessment:
Test 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MAF356 Analytical Methods in Economics and Finance
The unit introduces students to advanced statistical techniques
in finance, economics and business. At the completion
of the unit, students will have an appreciation of the
role of these advanced quantitative techniques in finance
and economics, in business decision making, as well as
in research.
Assessment:
Written assignment 1000 words 15%, test(s) 25%, examination
3 hours 60%
MAF307 Equities and Investment Analysis
The unit introduces students to topics including: the
operations of the share, money, debt, property, options
and futures markets. It will also provide students with
knowledge about the various market instruments, the structural
characteristics of the various markets, the fundamental
concepts and theories underlying valuation, investment
decisions, market trading activity, and developing investment
portfolios.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
EITHER
MAF303 Treasury Management
This unit provides an overview of the treasury management
function, the organisational structure of the treasury
management function, understanding risk, risk management
models and treasury performance evaluation. In addition
there is coverage of: exchange traded and over-the-counter
instruments; the concept of pricing of derivative instruments;
the structure of foreign exchange markets (forex) forex
risk management; measuring interest rate risk; interest
rate risk management and commodity risk management.
Assessment:
Written individual assignment 1500 words 15%, written
group (2-3 students) assignment 2000 words 15%, examination
3 hours 70%
OR
MAF308 Applied Investment Analysis
The unit covers a range of topics, including: investment
setting and selecting portfolio investments; advanced
security valuation and multifactor models of risk and
return; equity portfolio management and measurement; equity
portfolio insurance strategies; advanced bond analysis
and valuation; bond portfolio management and measurement;
real estate investment markets; real estate valuation
and measurement; alternative real estate financing techniques.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
PLUS
9 Other Electives
Management Major Sequence
Students examine a range of topics including: change;
innovation and technology; globalisation; quality and
service cultures; participation and performance. These
help students develop key management skills including:
communication; problem solving; planning; organisation;
managing change and working co-operatively with others.
Graduates are eligible for Affiliate status with the
Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
In addition to the 10 core units students must take:
MMM240 Organisational Behaviour
This unit examines the processes and structures at the
individual, group, and system level which influence organisational
behaviour. The aim is to develop an ability to analyse
and evaluate the behaviour of people in organisations.
The unit covers topics such as perception, values and
attitudes, motivation, leadership, power and politics,
work and organisation design, organisational culture,
organisational change and development.
Assessment:
Critical essay and 2 progress reports 30%, examination
3 hours 70%
MMM262 Understanding Organisations
This unit will develop in students a range of attributes
that will enable them to be active, knowledgeable, reflexive
participants in debates related to the key concerns of
organisation studies. The unit will also develop those
social scientific skills, capacities and attitudes that
will enable them to contribute to workplace discussions
and processes concerned with organisations in contemporary
and future contexts. Images of organisations as machines,
organisms, brains, cultures, political systems, instruments
of domination, flux and transformation and as psychic
prisons will be used to differentiate theoretical perspectives
and assumptions about the roles of management.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMM365 Strategic Management
This unit is the capstone unit of the Management major.
It serves to integrate students' knowledge of business
and management gained through other units studied in the
BCom. It includes an examination and application of the
concepts, theories and tools of strategic management as
they apply to both private and public sector organisations.
Case studies are used extensively to enable practical
assessment and analysis of the strategic performance of
managers and their organisations.
Assessment:
Test 10%, written assignment 3500-4000 words 40%, examination
3 hours 50%
MMM356 Change Management
The unit is constructed around the change management analytical
framework made up of four constituents: driving change,
change levers, change enactors and maintaining change.
The first section, 'driving change' sets out to consider
the factors associated with recognising that change is
necessary. The second section, 'change levers', highlights
the many tools, techniques and practices that are employed
to facilitate planned change. The third section, 'change
enactors', focuses on the factors that ease or obstruct
the operation of the change levers. The final section
of the unit, 'maintaining change', considers the requirements
for ongoing change.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMM385 Business in Asia
This unit aims to provide an understanding of business
issues between Australia, China, India and Indonesia as
major Asian trading partners. The unit will encourage
a keen understanding of current developments in international
business in these countries and its implications in an
objective manner along with a thorough understanding of
the fundamental theoretical concepts.
Assessment:
Written assignment 2500 words 30%, examination 3 hours
70%
Marketing Major Sequence
This major sequence provides students with a thorough
knowledge of how marketing influences companies decision
making and the role it plays in strategy. It provides
career opportunities in a variety of areas including:
marketing management; marketing research; public relations;
advertising and promotion; sales management and sales.
Graduates are eligible for membership with the Australian
Marketing Institute and the Market Research Society of
Australia.
In addition to the 10 core units students must take:
MMK265 Marketing Research
This unit illustrates the important role of marketing
research in strategic decision-making. The marketing research
process will be examined in detail including: problem
identification; research design; questionnaire design;
sampling; data collection; data analysis; and report preparation.
A range of statistical analysis techniques will be discussed.
Students will gain a sound understanding of how marketing
research benefits the marketing function of an organisation.
The main techniques used to gain information for marketing
decision-making will be examined. This unit will provide
a conceptual and practical base to further studies in
marketing.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMK266 Consumer Behaviour
This unit looks at marketing from the perspective of the
consumer. It covers consumer decision making, the psychology
of the consumer and the social and economic environment
in which the consumer operates. The unit shows how this
understanding of consumers can be used to develop marketing
strategies for both innovative and existing products and
services.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMK325 Strategic Marketing
The unit considers the nature of marketing strategy and
its relationship to corporate strategy formulation. Strategic
planning is looked at from a marketing orientation, focusing
on how an organisation's resources can be more effectively
utilised to achieve objectives. This includes an examination
of the relationship between marketing activities and organisational
strategic planning, an analysis of strategic marketing
concepts and the evaluation and control of the strategic
marketing process.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMK393 Advertising and Public Relations
This unit offers an examination of promotion management
as a key area of marketing decision-making. The unit looks
in detail at the promotion management mix - advertising,
public relations, direct marketing, sales promotion and
personal selling - and how these five promotional elements
are coordinated to formulate an effective promotional
strategy. Special emphasis is put on the integration of
promotional tools and utilising each according to its
respective strengths and weaknesses.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMK358 International Marketing
The unit examines the factors that shape marketing strategy
in a global setting. It develops a framework to identify
the nature of marketing tactics in foreign markets. Content
includes developing business objectives for offshore markets,
product design and development, promotional alternatives,
distribution systems and pricing, marketing research,
mechanisms of export trade and international marketing
organisation and control.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
Management-Marketing Double
Major Sequence
Additional Units for Management-Marketing Double Major
Sequence
MMM240 Organisational Behaviour
This unit examines the processes and structures at the
individual, group, and system level which influence organisational
behaviour. The aim is to develop an ability to analyse
and evaluate the behaviour of people in organisations.
The unit covers topics such as perception, values and
attitudes, motivation, leadership, power and politics,
work and organisation design, organisational culture,
organisational change and development.
Assessment:
Critical essay and 2 progress reports 30%, examination
3 hours 70%
MMM262 Understanding Organisations
This unit will develop in students a range of attributes
that will enable them to be active, knowledgeable, reflexive
participants in debates related to the key concerns of
organisation studies. The unit will also develop those
social scientific skills, capacities and attitudes that
will enable them to contribute to workplace discussions
and processes concerned with organisations in contemporary
and future contexts. Images of organisations as machines,
organisms, brains, cultures, political systems, instruments
of domination, flux and transformation and as psychic
prisons will be used to differentiate theoretical perspectives
and assumptions about the roles of management.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMM356 Change Management
The unit is constructed around the change management analytical
framework made up of four constituents: driving change,
change levers, change enactors and maintaining change.
The first section, 'driving change' sets out to consider
the factors associated with recognising that change is
necessary. The second section, 'change levers', highlights
the many tools, techniques and practices that are employed
to facilitate planned change. The third section, 'change
enactors', focuses on the factors that ease or obstruct
the operation of the change levers. The final section
of the unit, 'maintaining change', considers the requirements
for ongoing change.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MMM365 Strategic Management
This unit is the capstone unit of the Management major.
It serves to integrate students' knowledge of business
and management gained through other units studied in the
BCom. It includes an examination and application of the
concepts, theories and tools of strategic management as
they apply to both private and public sector organisations.
Case studies are used extensively to enable practical
assessment and analysis of the strategic performance of
managers and their organisations.
Assessment:
Test 10%, written assignment 3500-4000 words 40%, examination
3 hours 50%
MMM385 Business in Asia
This unit aims to provide an understanding of business
issues between Australia, China, India and Indonesia as
major Asian trading partners. The unit will encourage
a keen understanding of current developments in international
business in these countries and its implications in an
objective manner along with a thorough understanding of
the fundamental theoretical concepts.
Assessment:
Written assignment 2500 words 30%, examination 3 hours
70%
PLUS
4 Other Electives
Business Information Systems
Major Sequence
This major sequence allows students to appreciate and
understand the impact of information technology on organizations
and businesses today. Information management now has a
massive impact in determining the effectiveness and efficiency
of operations. The focus will be on the analysis and design
of solutions and the global implications of technology
in the modern economy.
In addition to the 10 core units, students must take:
MSC228 Information Systems Analysis and Design
This unit provides an introduction to the discipline of
systems analysis and design. Students will learn two methods
of analysis and design, a structured approach and an object-orientated
approach, for designing business information systems. Students
will also learn how to gather information from businesses,
investigate solutions and undertake feasibility studies.
Assessment:
Asignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
SIT102 Introduction to Programming
This unit explores the relationship between computer program
code and the software systems that are generated from them.
Students experience developing simple software in the context
of laboratory-based practicals and individual assignment
tasks. They explore and use a variety of data types including
arrays and structures, and elementary flow control including
function calls, alternation and iteration. They examine
I/O in which software interacts with simple text files and
users via console and GUI components.
Assessment:
Examination 50%, 2 x assignments (10%, 15%) 25%, 5 x online
practical assessments (5% each) 25%
ONE From:
MSC233 Information Systems Networks
This unit provides an overview of a typical business organisation's
data communication and networking environments within an
information systems framework. Students will develop an
understanding of data communication systems and the ability
to design data communication solutions to meet the information
systems needs of an organisation. Topics include standards,
media, network architectures, security, administration and
industry trends.
Assessment:
Asignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MS244 Business on the Internet
The Web is a critical component in any modern organisation.
This unit provides students with an understanding of how
a business can exploit the Internet's capabilities in a
business-to-consumer context. It also develops students'
skills in designing, evaluating and using websites as a
means of revenue generation and marketing communication.
Further, it introduces students to the legal, ethical and
security concerns which must be taken into account when
businesses utilise the Web.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MSC245 eSystems for Business
As we enter the third millennium, we are experiencing profound
changes to our daily lives, none of which are more significant
than the digital revolution. The most prominent change is
in how businesses use information systems to perform their
basic functions such as buying and selling, liaison with
customers and collaborating with their trading partners.
The unit is not technical and instead aims to provide an
understanding of how modern business organisations use information
systems, specifically, inter-organisational systems (IOS)
to facilitate electronic trading between trading partners.
Overall, the unit examines the role of IOS especially supply
chain management and electronic procurement in the modern
business world. Further, it looks at essential information
infrastructure that is needed to implement IOS. Finally,
we identify and review the key managerial decisions required
by organisations moving to electronic business platforms
together with legal and social issues such as security,
ethics and privacy that may arise as a consequence.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
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MSC302 Information Systems Methodologies
This unit focuses on the methodologies used by industry
practitioners for information systems development. A methodology
in this context is a collection of techniques that are brought
together, with an overall philosophy. A range of techniques
will be covered along with several contemporary methodologies,
including blended methodologies (SSADM), rapid development
methodologies (James Martin's RAD), organisational-oriented
methodologies (SSM) and people-oriented methodologies (ETHICS).
An evaluation approach will be presented to provide a framework
where any methodology can be assessed for its suitability
in a given situation.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MSC347 Information Systems Management
This unit explores best practices in business. For managers
to make the best possible decisions about information systems,
managers need to know the types of systems available to
them. Modern business could not operate effectively without
information systems, therefore information systems are now
considered a strategic asset that is used to create competitive
strategies and change organisational processes. In this
unit we introduce modern ideas such as SAP, an enterprise
resource planning (ERP) system, customer relationship management
systems, knowledge management, data warehousing and outsourcing.
The unit highlights ways of evaluating the effectiveness
of systems in organisations to promote better understanding
(or at least provide an effective interface) between managers
and IT practitioners.
Assessment:
Assignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
MSC348 Information Systems and Global Issues
This unit focuses on the ethical role of information systems
professional and related professions in organisations. The
rapid development of information and communication technologies
and the rise of global eBusiness have made significant changes
in the way people, organisations and societies operate and
new ethical, social and professional issues have emerged.
The key aim of this unit is to equip the student with the
skills to understand, identify and analyse these issues.
The unit will consider some of the key ethical and social
issues that have arisen as a result of global eBusiness
and provide practical experience in policy analysis and
project management.
Assessment:
Asignment 30%, examination 3 hours 70%
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