Course director: Dr Kosmas Smyrnios
The course
This one-year full-time or two-year part-time course offers selected students the opportunity for specialised study in banking and finance, management or marketing at an advanced level.
The course aims to provide a post-degree level of study for students seeking to widen their knowledge in one of the specialist areas offered by Syme departments and to expose students to both substantive theory and practice of research in the field of business. The course gives graduates the training necessary to conduct independent high-quality research in either business or academic settings, cultivates analytical and critical skills, and an awareness of emerging developments in business. The course is particularly suited to those who may wish to undertake further study at the higher degree level.
Objectives
On completion of the Bachelor of Business (Honours) course students should have:
* analytical and technical skills gained from advanced studies in specialist business areas;
* comprehensive and relevant business-related research skills, including extensive grounding in empirical, theoretical, practical, and research methodologies;
* the necessary skills to undertake independent research;
* a capacity to engage in critical, logical and independent thinking;
* effective communicational and interpersonal skills;
* benefited from an opportunity to have collaborated with students from other disciplines;
* a competitive advantage over a three-year graduate student.
Venue
Day and evening classes are offered at the Caulfield campus. The total formal time commitment is twelve hours per week for two semesters. Students should be prepared to devote approximately double that time (ie a further twenty-four hours per week) to private study. This course is also offered at the Gippsland campus.
Course structure
To qualify for the honours degree, a candidate shall complete
* SYM4910 Research methods,
one of
* FIN4900 Research report
* MGM4900 Research report
* MKT4900 Research report
and two subjects within a single stream as follows:
Banking and finance stream
* FIN4011 Advanced topics in banking 1 and
* FIN4021 Advanced topics in banking 2
Management stream
* MGM4000 Contemporary issues in management and
* MGM4010 Business consulting
Marketing stream
* MKT4000 Advanced marketing and
* MKT4010 Developing a marketing orientation