CB06 Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business

In order to complete this course, you must:

  1. Complete the core structure
  2. Complete 3 majors

Core Structure

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Student must complete:

  • 8 compulsory business units;
  • 1 Business major (8 units);
  • 2 Arts majors (16 units).

Business Majors can be selected from:

  • Marketing
  • Human Resource Management
  • Management
  • Information Systems
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Property
  • Public Relations
  • Accounting

Arts Majors can be selected from:

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • Writing
  • Geography and Environmental Studies
  • History
  • Liberal Arts
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Sociology

Please refer to the More Details section of this entry for information on campus availability of majors.

Core Business Units

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
ACCT11059 Accounting, Learning and Online Communication
ECON11026 Principles of Economics
HRMT11010 Organisational Behaviour
LAWS11030 Foundations of Business Law
MGMT11109 Introduction to Business
MGMT19128 Strategy and Change
MRKT11029 Marketing Fundamentals
STAT11048 Essential Statistics

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies draws upon a diverse range of disciplines including history, literature, anthropology, philosophy, politics, education and sociology. It is designed to provide students with an understanding of Australia's Indigenous past, the major issues faced by Indigenous people today, and what all this means for Australia's future. In so doing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies promotes respect for Indigenous cultures, encourages responsible custodianship of the land, enhances community spirit and advances reconciliation. Students who complete an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies plan often go on to enjoy careers in such areas as education, government, health care, social work or community development.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
INDG11006 Education and Learning: Colonisation and Decolonisation in the Cultural Interface
INDG11013 First Nation and Non-Indigenous History: The Interface
INDG11014 Family History and Australian Identity

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
INDG19015 Aboriginal Cultures and Country
INDG19016 Contemporary Indigenous Issues
INDG19017 Political Philosophy and Indigenous Perspectives
INDG19018 Indigenous Australians and Popular Culture
SOWK14004 Reconciliation in the Workplace and Community

Accounting Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
ACCT19060 Management Accounting
ACCT19062 Intermediate Financial Accounting
FINC19011 Business Finance
ACCT11057 Principles of Accounting
ACCT19084 Financial Accounting
LAWS19032 Company & Association Law
ACCT19083 Corporate Governance & Ethics
ECON19033 Macroeconomics

Geography and Environmental Studies Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

The Geography and Environmental Studies major offers a diverse set of courses that range from a more traditional liberal studies focus to units that concentrate on developing industry-specific knowledge and skills. Geography is a broadly based, integrative discipline where units may have humanities, social science or natural science foci, or some combination of these approaches. This major includes Environmental Geography units because the Geography discipline also deals with environmental issues that are more contempoary in nature and are aimed at improving our ability to manage the environment more effectively. Geography students will develop a unique set of knowledge and skills that are not only useful in a wide range of careers, but can play important roles in helping studetns to make sense of the world around them, including current events and future trends.

Students who wish to complete a Geography and Environmental Studies major are required to complete eight units (two of the three level 1 units plus six advanced level units) from those listed below. Students studying to be Geography teachers as part of an education degree will choose units as per the advice given as part of the structure of those courses. Students from all other courses are welcome to enrol in any unit in the major provided they meet the pre-requisite for that unit. Students who wish to include a research topic as part of their study should consult with a course advisor. Geography staff can also advise students about their choice of units for various career interests.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete 2 from the following units:
GEOG11023 Physical Geography of Australia
GEOG11024 Conservation in Australia
GEOH11001 Introduction to Human Geography

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
EVST19007 Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
EVST19008 Development and Environmental Policy
EVST19020 Environmental Management Systems
EVST19022 Climate Change: Risk and Assessments
GEOG19021 Geographic Information Systems
GEOG19029 Applied Demography

History Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

History is both a body of knowledge and a method of inquiry, a way of understadning ourselves and the world around us. It strives to comprehend complex processes of continuity and change and provides insights into how the past influences the present and the future. Historians drawn on teh largest storehouse of information that exists about how human beings actually behave: the past. Doing History, students learn to identify, evaluate and interpret evidence, make informed judgements about its significance, debate their findings and clearly and cogently communicate their informed opinions, all while studying a subject they enjoy!

Students wishing to complete a History major are required to complete eight units (normally two level 1 and six advanced) from those listed. Those studying to be a History teacher as part of an education course will choose units from the major as per the advice given as part of the structure of those courses. Students from all other courses are welcome to enrol in any unit in the major provided they meet the pre-requisite for that unit. Those who wish to include a research topic as part of their study should consult with the Course Advisor.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
HIST11037 Dawn of Humanity: An Introduction to World History
HIST11038 The Modern World Emerges: An Overview

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
HIST19029 Modern Japan
HIST19032 War and Australian Society
HIST19031 Australia on the World Stage: History and Politics
HIST19038 20th Century: Crucible of the Modern World
HIST19035 Modern South East Asia
EVST19015 Australian Environmental History

Human Resource Management Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
HRMT11011 Human Resource Management
HRMT19012 Performance Management
HRMT19013 Human Resource Training and Development
HRMT19014 Human Resources Planning, Recruitment & Selection
HRMT19016 Contemporary HRM Issues
HRMT19020 Perspectives on Organisational Change
HRMT19021 Principles of Employment Relations
HRMT19023 Conflict and Negotiation

Information Systems Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Students should note that they will be required to take some units in the Distance education Mode depending on the campus of study

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
COIS13013 Business Intelligence
COIT11223 Information Technology and Society
COIT11226 Systems Analysis
COIS11011 Foundations of Business Computing
COIS12073 Enterprise Systems
COIT11237 Database Design & Implementation
COIT12205 Knowledge Management Principles
COIT12208 ICT Project Management

Liberal Arts Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Liberal Arts provides students with an opportunity to design their own major by selected 48 units of credit normally including no less than six advanced level units from the Arts majors available in the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business degree. This will allow students the flexibility to pursue a study stream that suits their interests. Students must meet the usual pre and co-requisites for units. Please note that the units selected must be from the Arts majors in the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business degree. Units selected for the Liberal Arts major may not be selected from any other major or minor.

Literary and Cultural Studies Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

The Literary and Cultural Studies major brings together two distinct but complementary disciplinary approaches: literary studies where literature is read for its own sake and for the values it reveals in stories, poems and placys about our lived and imaginery experiences; and cultural studies where ideas and concepts derived from a broad study of culture are explored through a variety of texts including film, media, television, advertising and the like. Both disciplines examine the assumptions used to support the way that meaning is made across a range of texts and in a variety of contexts.

Literary Studies students will be able to demonstrate advanced reading and writing skills; to apply critical thinking and advanced modes of textual analysis to a broad range of texts, genres and media; to communicate using cogent, discipline-based and context-relevant research; and to participate, both self-reflexively and ethically, in discipline critical debates.

Students wishing to complete a Literary Studies major are required to complete eight units (nromally two level 1 and six advanced) from those listed. Students studying to be English teachers as part of an education degree need to consult the advice given to students studying for these courses BEFORE they choose their 'English' units. Students from all other courses are welcome to enrol in any unit in the major provided they meet the pre-requisite for that unit. Students who wish to include a research topic as part of their study should consult with the Course Advisor.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
LITR11055 Popular Genres
LITR11043 The Short Story

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
CULT19015 Explorations in the Gothic
LITR19049 Romantic and Contemporary Poetry
LITR19051 Literary Theory
LITR19052 The Modern Novel
LITR19056 Shakespeare Today
LITR19057 Contemporary Australian Literature

Management Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
HRMT11011 Human Resource Management
MGMT11109 Introduction to Business
HRMT19020 Perspectives on Organisational Change
MGMT19105 Quality Management
MGMT19126 Operations Management
MGMT13151 Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Start-ups

Available units
Students must complete 2 from the following units:
FINC19011 Business Finance
COIS12073 Enterprise Systems
HRMT19016 Contemporary HRM Issues
HRMT19021 Principles of Employment Relations

When a unit in a major is also offered as a core unit in the degree (MGMT11109), the student should choose an additional elective to comply with the overall degree rules requiring the completion of 24 units (144 units of credit).

Marketing Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
MRKT11028 Digital Marketing
MRKT19030 Marketing Communications
MRKT19031 Consumer Behaviour
MRKT19036 Marketing of Service Products
MRKT19037 International Marketing
MRKT19038 Marketing Research and Analytics
MRKT19049 Customer Relationship Marketing
MRKT19040 Strategic Marketing and Planning

Property Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
LAWS19035 Property Law A
BLCN11033 Construction 1
FINC19011 Business Finance
PROP11001 Property Valuation
BLAR13040 Building Life Cycle Maintenance
FINC19014 Property Investment and Finance
LAWS19038 Planning & Environment Law
PROP19002 Property & Asset Management

Public Relations Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
COMM11110 Introduction to Public Relations
COMM11007 Media Writing
COMM12018 Advanced Public Relations
COMM12022 Communication and Global Technologies
COMM12025 Organisational Communication
COMM12033 Speech and Script
COMM13110 Journalism Project
JOUR19024 Public Relations & the Media

Sociology Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Sociology is a social science that uses various empirical and critically analytic techniques to develop an understanding of human social activity. Sociology is the study of social life in all its forms including political economy, criminality, deviance, the environment, health and medicine, tourism, rurality, Indigenous issues, gener, consumption, leisure and social ecology. Sociology helps us understand how we came to be who we are by placing individuality in a social context. Sociology is multi-disciplinary. Sociology helps prepare graduates to create a role for themselves in the globalised, multicultural world of the twenty-first century. Students wishin to complete a Sociology major are required to complete the eight units (two level 1 and six advanced) listed.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
SOCL11055 Sociology of Australian Society
SOCL11056 Australian Identity

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
SOCL19060 Human Ecology
SOCL19061 Movements, Cults and Social Change
SOCL19064 Understanding Social Life
SOCL19069 Social Research Methods
SOCL19072 Criminality, Deviance and Social Control
SOCL19081 The Body Sexuality and Society

Supply Chain Management Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
LAWS11030 Foundations of Business Law
MGMT11109 Introduction to Business
MGMT19105 Quality Management
COIS12073 Enterprise Systems
MGMT19103 Logistics Management
MGMT19106 Supply Chain Management
MGMT19125 Inventory Management
MGMT19126 Operations Management

When a unit in a major is also offered as a core unit in the degree (LAWS11030 & MGMT11109), the student should choose an additional elective to comply with the overall degree rules requiring the completion of 24 units (144 units of credit).

Writing Major

Number of units: 8 Total credit points: 48

Writing across a range of genres requires understanding and appreciation of established and emerging techniques and an ability to apply different writing strategies depending on audience, purpose, and genre context. Students undertaking a Writing major will be exposed to the divergent genres of media and literary/creative writing, and will be required to explore different writing styles through critique and review. Students will learn to identify the differing requirements of media and creative writing, and will develop writing skills that will enable them to apply different techniques as required for different writing purposes. Upon completion of this major, students will be able to write, as a minimum, effective media releases, news stories, feature articles, blogs, and pieces for social media, and will also be able to exercise creativity through more diverse forms such as poetry, literary prose, creative non-fiction, and experimental writing.

Students are required to complete two level one and six advanced level units as detailed.

Level 1

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
WRIT11023 Beginning Creative Writing
Available units
Students must complete 1 from the following units:
COMM11007 Media Writing
JOUR11005 Introduction to Journalism

Advanced

Available units
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
WRIT11025 Creative Nonfiction
WRIT12010 Creative Writing: Adventures in Craft
JOUR12010 Feature Writing
WRIT13013 Writing Project
Available units
Students must complete 2 from the following units:
MMST11010 Illustration and Visualisation
COMM12030 Desktop Publishing
FAHE13002 Special Project
LITR19049 Romantic and Contemporary Poetry
LITR19052 The Modern Novel

NOTE

Students wishing to complete WRIT13013 Writing Project are required to have completed at least WRIT11023, COMM11007 OR JOUR11005, WRIT11025, WRIT12010 and JOUR12010

Students will be able to undertake a creative writing project (WRIT13013) in terms 1 and 2, but those undertaking a media/professional writing project will only be able to do so in term 1.

Students who select MMST11010 in the writing plan need to remember that in the Bachelor of Arts students can only take 10 level 1 units.