Bachelor of Business (Business Administration) BBus(BusAdmin)

• Important information
• The course
• Objectives
• Venue
• Credit for work done elsewhere
• Electives and subject sequence groupings
  • The general management stream
  • The human resource management stream
  • The manufacturing management stream
• Course structure
  • Year one
  • Year two
  • Year three

Important information

Course code: 0479

Course director: Ms Nell Kimberley

The course

This course is designed for overseas students, recent school leavers and mature age students wishing to undertake major studies in both general management and a functional discipline relevant to careers in business administration. Three major study streams are available:

• human resource management (HRM) (Caulfield and Peninsula campuses);
• management (Caulfield and Peninsula campuses);
• manufacturing management (Caulfield campus).

Accordingly the course provides a flexible program of rigour at the conclusion of which graduates will have:

• an understanding of management and how businesses operate;
• an ability to begin their careers in appropriate managerial, marketing, administrative or financial work.

Objectives

On completion of this course the student should be able to:

• have a broad understanding of management issues and the operation of business within a global, competitive and dynamic environment;
• have the ability to apply specialised knowledge and expertise in one of the areas of general management, human resources management or manufacturing management;
• with the flexible study program available, have the ability to commence and/or develop careers with the mix of management generalist and integrative skills and a complementary study area ;
• apply workteam and technological skills to specialist management decision making;
• have developed effective interpersonal and communication skills with continuous independent thinking;
• be eligible for membership of the Australian Institute of Management and/or Australian Human Resources Institute if appropriate subjects are undertaken.

Venue

Day and evening classes are offered at the Caulfield campus. Day-only classes are offered at the Peninsula campus.

Full-time and part-time studies are available at the Caulfield campus where specialist studies include accounting, arts, banking and finance, manufacturing management, marketing, international trade and computing. Evening classes are available at Caulfield campus for Caulfield-enrolled students only.

Credit for work done elsewhere

In addition to part one, section four of the degree regulations, the following credit transfers have been standardised for the Bachelor of Business (Business Administration) -

• members of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators will be granted credit for three subjects;
• holders of a recognised Certificate of Business Studies are eligible for credit for up to a maximum of four subjects in the course and holders of a recognised associate diploma from a TAFE college are eligible for credit for up to a maximum of eight subjects, to be determined by the course director.

Electives and subject sequence groupings

In common with other Bachelor of Business degree courses at Caulfield and Peninsula there are currently thirteen compulsory subjects which provide a common core of knowledge and basic business skills. These cover accounting, banking and finance, business statistics, commercial law, economics, management and marketing.

Elective subjects may be used to provide further in-depth study, or to gain functional skills in another study area to widen career options. Students wishing to apply for membership of the Australian Human Resources Institute must take all their elective studies in HRM subjects.

The general management stream

This specialisation comprises five subjects from business communications, quality management, human resource management, employee relations, organisational change, international business, information management or HRM information systems. Students choose their six elective subjects from another discipline.

The human resource management stream

Students in this stream are required to undertake the general management stream subjects. In addition, they must choose at least four of the six elective subjects from managerial communication, international management, HRM strategy and planning, performance management systems, cross-cultural communication and negotiation and current issues in HRM.

The manufacturing management stream

Available at Caulfield campus only. The specialisation comprises at least five subjects chosen from quality management, operations and manufacturing management, advanced manufacturing technologies, production planning and control, quantitative techniques and software applications in manufacturing, safety and environmental issues and an industry placement project.

Students in the management and manufacturing management streams may use their elective subjects to provide a specialised study program from other subjects offered by other departments and faculties at Monash.

Course structure

Year one

First semester

• FIN1010 Commercial law
• MGM1300 Introduction to management
• MGM1230 Business communication
• FIN1710 Macroeconomics

• ACC1110 Accounting and financial decision making
• ECN1640 Business mathematics and statistics
• MGM1510 Quality management
• MKT1120 Marketing theory and practice

Year two

First semester

• FIN1300 Money and capital markets
• MGM1500 Operations and manufacturing management
• or
• MGM2661 Human resource management
• MGM2691 Management of organisational performance
• ACC2051 Financial modelling

• MKT2111 Buyer behaviour
• MGM2621 Organisational change
• or
• MGM2881 Production planning and control
• MGM0011 Elective
• MGM0021 Elective

Year three

First semester

• ACC2631 Financial management
• MGM2341 Employee relations
• or
• MGM2801 Advanced manufacturing technologies
• MGM0031 Elective
• MGM0041 Elective

• MGM3401 Strategic management
• MKT3141 Issues in competitive advantage
• MGM0051 Elective
• MGM0061 Elective

Electives are chosen in liaison with the course director to represent a major study program. Relevant discipline areas include accounting, banking and finance, computing, human resource management, manufacturing management, international trade, management and marketing. The foreign business language program is only available at the Peninsula campus.

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