CM55 Diploma of Business in the Digital Age

In order to complete this course, you must:

  1. Complete the core structure

Core Structure

Number of units: 4 Total credit points: 48

The program enables you to invest in your current and future workforces through a work-integrated learning model, meaning your employees will not have to leave the workplace for the majority of their learning. In this way, on-the-job work tasks and assessments will contribute to the course requirements and enable your employees to deliver value to your business from day one. Advanced apprenticeships are accessible to a range of cohorts providing flexibility for your business in who you take on or nominate to participate in the program. This includes recent school leavers, mature-aged workers, LGBTQI+ individuals, unemployed individuals looking to enter the industry, and existing employees seeking to upskill or move into new job roles. A number of wrap-around support services will be available to prepare advanced apprentices for the program and to support them throughout the duration of the program. Off-the-job training does not have to include a specific day per week spent on campus. It can be delivered in a way and place that suits your advanced apprentice, your business, and the university, enabling your advanced apprentice to learn the new knowledge, skills and behaviours required. The style and timing of the off-the-job training are varied - it can be a block of time at the beginning of a Term or in line with workplace shifts.

For the purposes of the Future of Work Program, an advanced apprentice is a person that is enrolled in a higher education course with CQUniversity and has an employment contract with a registered employer. This structure enables you to earn and learn at the same time. The advanced apprenticeship model enables new employees to pursue alternative pathways into employment and allows existing employees to upskill and retrain to meet changing job role needs.

Students will be required to study the units in a systematic order. It is important to note that full-time students will enrol in 2 units per term.

For Course Planners please refer to the following website http://www.cqu.edu.au/student-life/new-students/planners-and-profiles.


Year 1 - Term 1
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
BUSN11018 Business Improvement Principles
BUSN11019 Business Systems and Technology
Year 1 - Term 2
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
BUSN11020 Business Law, Ethics and Data
BUSN11021 Business Automation and Improvement Processes