Undergraduate: Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Business

(BBus)

Program of study
Honours degree
Majors - List A, List B
Combined degrees programs [see below]

INTRODUCTION

The Bachelor of Business requires three years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time) and the honours degree an additional year (or the equivalent part-time). The course is offered by the Flinders Business School, in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Enrolment in the honours program may be offered to a student who meets certain academic criteria and subject to the school/department being able to provide appropriate resources and staff to supervise the program of study.

The Bachelor of Business may also be studied in a combined degrees program with a:

• Bachelor of Arts (four years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) (four years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) (four years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of Engineering (Software) (five years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of Environmental Management (four years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of Government and Public Management (four years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of Information Technology (four years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of International Studies (four years full-time or equivalent)
• Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (five-and-a-half years full-time or equivalent)

Applicants who are offered a place in Business will be given the option of taking up one of the above combined degrees at enrolment, providing they meet the entry requirements for the other degree.

COURSE AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The overall aim of the Bachelor of Business is to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue a successful career in business, while also catering for students who might wish to pursue careers in the public sector which require business skills.

In particular, the Bachelor of Business aims to provide students with:

• a knowledge and understanding of fundamental business concepts and practices, including accounting, economics, statistical analysis, the role of management, and strategic management;
• the opportunity to develop specialist knowledge and skills across a range of professional business-orientated fields, including marketing, human resource management, international business, entrepreneurship, and business economics;
• the opportunity to undertake studies in other allied fields, such as a language, legal studies, computing, public policy and commercial law, thus further enhancing the scope for students to pursue specialist careers with a business orientation;
• an understanding of public policy issues as they relate to business and the opportunity to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to analyse these public policy issues.
• the opportunity to develop a range of broader skills highly valued by the business community and the public sector, including strong analytical skills, the ability to think logically and clearly, good interpersonal skills, and the ability to communicate effectively in a business environment, both verbally and in writing.

Learning outcomes

Students successfully completing this course should be able to:

• demonstrate a clear appreciation of the broad economic and social environment in which business operates;
• contribute effectively to carrying out the core administrative and managerial tasks necessary for the successful operation of a business;
• undertake a range of specialist administrative and managerial tasks within a business, depending upon the area(s) of study in which they have specialised (eg marketing, human resource management);
• effectively apply analytical skills, relevant theory and logical thought to the decision making processes within a business;
• communicate effectively in a business environment, both verbally and in writing.

COURSE RULE

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements.

PROGRAM OF STUDY [November, 2008]

To qualify for the Bachelor of Business a student must complete 108 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic. This must include 30 units of core topics and two 33 unit majors, as specified below.

At least one of the majors must be a Business major, included in List A below. The second major may be either another Business major from List A or a cognate major from List B below.

To complete the 108 units, elective topics may be selected from any offered by the University, provided course and topic prerequisites requirements are met. A minimum of 27 units, but no more than 45 units, of First Year topics is to be included in the 108 units.

Not all topics necessarily are available in a given year.

CORE TOPICS

First Year Level

BUSN1001	Accounting for Managers	4.5
BUSN1005	Introduction to Management	4.5
BUSN1007	Introductory Microeconomics	4.5
BUSN1009	Quantitative Methods	4.5

Upper Level

BUSN2014	Managerial Economics	6
BUSN3023	Strategic Management	6

BUSINESS MAJORS (List A)

Business Economics

33 units comprising:

BUSN1007	Introductory Microeconomics	4.5
BUSN1008	Introductory Macroeconomics	4.5
BUSN2011	International Trade Policy	6
BUSN2013	Macroeconomics	6

plus 12 units from the following #:

BUSN2001	Business Forecasting	6
BUSN3007	Enterprise, Government and Society	6
BUSN3008	Entrepreneurship and SMEs	6
BUSN3021	Strategic Business Decisions	6

# Students who choose Business Economics and International Business as their two majors must undertake an additional 6 units from the optional topics listed for either of these majors, to compensate for the fact that BUSN2011 is a required topic in both majors.

Entrepreneurship

33 units comprising:

BUSN1007	Introductory Microeconomics	4.5
BUSN1005	Introduction to Management	4.5
BUSN2006	Enterprise Management	6
BUSN2007	Financial Management	6
BUSN3008	Entrepreneurship and SMEs	6

plus 6 units from the following:

BUSN3006	Electronic Commerce	6
BUSN3017	Leadership in Business and Society	6

Human Resource Management

33 units comprising:

BUSN1010	Introduction to Business Law	4.5
BUSN1005	Introduction to Management	4.5
BUSN2009	Human Resource Management	6

plus 18 units from the following, including at least one of BUSN2017 Employment Law for Managers OR LLAW3067 Dispute Management:

BUSN2017	Employment Law for Managers	6
BUSN3013	International Human Resource Management	6
BUSN3017	Leadership in Business and Society	6
LLAW3067	Dispute Management	6
PROF2902	Interpersonal Communication Skills	6
SOCI2012	Sociology of Work	6

International Business

33 units comprising:

BUSN1008	Introductory Macroeconomics	4.5
BUSN1004	International Business Context	4.5
BUSN2010	International Business Management	6
BUSN2011	International Trade Policy	6

plus 12 units from the following #:

BUSN3014	International Marketing *	6
BUSN3013	International Human Resource Management	6
BUSN3012	International Finance	6
BUSN3025	Marketing in Practice: Implementation Skills	6
BUSN3020	Multinational Corporations: America, Japan and Australia	6

* To take this topic a student must have taken BUSN2015 Marketing Management as an elective.

#Students who choose Business Economics and International Business as their two majors must undertake an additional 6 units from the optional topics listed for either of these majors, to compensate for the fact that BUSN2011 is a required topic in both majors.

Marketing

33 units comprising:

BUSN1005	Introduction to Management	4.5
BUSN1006	Marketing: the Consumer Focus	4.5
BUSN2015	Marketing Management	6
BUSN3025	Marketing in Practice: Implementation Skills	6
BUSN3014	International Marketing	6
BUSN3018	Marketing Research for Business	6

COGNATE MAJORS (List B)

Commercial Law

33 units comprising:

BUSN1010	Introduction to Business Law	4.5

plus 4.5 units from the following:

ENGL1001	Professional English	4.5
ESOL1705	ESL for Business	4.5

plus

BUSN2018	Corporations Law	6
BUSN3022	Taxation Law and Practice	6

plus 12 units from:

BUSN2017	Employment Law for Managers	6
LLAW3056	Securities Regulation	6
LLAW3066	Banking and Finance Law	6
LLAW3067	Dispute Management	6
LLAW3068	Personal and Corporate Insolvency Law	6

Other List B Majors.

Any of the following major sequences offered within the Bachelor of Arts program:

• Computer Studies
• French
• Globalisation
• Indonesian
• Italian
• International Relations
• Legal Studies
• Modern Greek
• Public Policy
• Spanish

Electives

Restrictions / conditions

Except with permission of the Faculty Board the course must be completed within 10 consecutive years or, where credit has been granted for previous work, a period determined by the Board.

The award of a grade of Fail (F) in the same topic on more than one occasion may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress.

HONOURS DEGREE

To qualify for the honours degree, a student must complete satisfactorily 36 units of study as follows:

BUSN7100	Business Honours Thesis	12/18
BUSN7002	Business Research Methods*	6

plus 12 or 18 units of electives as approved by the BBus(Hons) Coordinator.

Students must undertake Honours in one only of the following areas of Business specialisation: Business Economics, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management, International Business, Marketing, or any other Business specialisation which may be included in List A of the Ordinary Degree of Bachelor of Business. However, a student's chosen area of specialisation for the Honours Degree of Bachelor of Business is not required to be the same field as the List A major(s) which the student has included in his or her Ordinary Degree.

Honours topics offered outside the school may be undertaken with the permission of the BBus(Hons) Coordinator.

* The Dean of the Flinders Business School may approve substitution of an alternative research methods topic of the same weighting, offered elsewhere in the Faculty of Social Sciences.