Changes to Business Programs for
2012
Cherida Longley
Senior Manager, Marketing and Business Development
Office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor
College of Business
Tass Katsoulidis
Senior Advisor, Learning and Teaching
Office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor
College of Business
Overview
• RMIT 3 year Bachelor of Business degrees
• Rationale for revisions
• Review and consultations undertaken in 2010
• Common degree structures
• Major and minor sequences
• Examples of student selections
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RMIT 3 year Bachelor of Business degrees
• VTAC course codes for 3 year Bachelor of Business degrees remain
unchanged from 2010:
– Bachelor of Business (Accountancy)
32441 (CSP), 32443 (IFP) , PT: 32611 (CSP)
– Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance)
32501 (CSP), 32503 (IFP) PT: 32781 (CSP)
– Bachelor of Business (Entrepreneurship)
33311 (CSP), 33313 (IFP)
– Bachelor of Business (International Business)
32511 (CSP), 32513 (IFP) PT: 32751 (CSP)
– Bachelor of Business (Logistics & Supply Chain Management)
32531 (CSP), 32533 (IFP) PT: 32631 (CSP)
– Bachelor of Business (Management)
32491 (CSP), 32493 (IFP) PT: 33041 (CSP)
– Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
32541 (CSP), 32543 (IFP) PT: 32801 (CSP)
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Rationale for revisions to 3-year degrees
• Improve student engagement and experience
– Transition to Higher Education and embedded academic/learning skills
– Cohort experience and degree-based tutorials
• Increase student choice and flexibility
– Unlocked degree structures
– 8 common core courses, 8 major courses and 8 flexible courses
– Approved suite of minors in Business and in other disciplines
• Broaden skills and enhance graduate outcomes
– Build and enhance communication and critical thinking skills, and global
and social awareness
– Opportunities to enhance outcomes by packaging disciplines to meet the
needs of the business community for flexible, well-rounded and broaderthinking graduates
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Review and consultations in 2010
• A 12 month review focussed on existing 3-year Bachelor of Business degrees
• The review was driven by consultations with internal and external
stakeholders:
– Careers Advisers
– VCE students, current students, recent graduates and Alumni
– Business community, professional associations and graduate employers
• Opportunities to package specialisations according to student interest or
professional need were favoured highly by students and graduate employers
• Degree structures were validated by graduate employers and representatives
of the business community
• A review of existing 4 year Bachelor of Business degrees in partnership with
stakeholders is planned for 2011-12
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Second business majors
• Accountancy
• Business Information Systems
• Economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Human Resource Management
• International Business
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Management
• Marketing
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Minors
Business minors
• Accountancy
• Chinese
• Business Information Systems
• French
• Economics
• Criminal Law and Legal Studies
• Economics and Finance
• Criminology
• Entrepreneurship
• Conflict and Conflict Mediation
• Finance
• Contemporary Crime
• Human Resource Management
• Geospatial
• International Business
• Global Aspects of Crime
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• GPS and Geospatial
• Management
• Indigenous Studies
• Marketing
• International Area Studies
• Work Integrated Learning
• International Studies
• Politics Global and Local
Other minors
• Japanese
• Advanced Applied Mathematics
• Spanish
• Advanced Statistics
• Social Justice
• Advanced Statistics and Data Management
• Statistics and OR
• Applied Mathematics and Statistics
• Sustainability and Environment
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Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
Incorporating a second major in Management
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Introductory Accounting
Commercial Law
Business to Business Marketing
Macroeconomics 1
Marketing Communication
Service Quality
Introduction to Management
Market Research
Product Innovation
Management
Business Computing 1
Strategic Marketing
Global Marketing
Marketing Principles
Organisational Behaviour
International Management
Prices and Markets
Ethics and Governance
Leadership and Managing
Change
Business Statistics 1
Organisational Theory
The Entrepreneurial Process
Buyer Behaviour
Human Resource Management
Strategic Management
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Bachelor of Business (Accountancy)
Incorporating two minors in Accounting Professional Services* and
Business Information Systems.
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Introductory Accounting
Commercial Law
Accounting Theory
Macroeconomics 1
Corporate Accounting
Management Accounting
Systems
Introduction to Management
Management Accounting and
Business
Strategic Decision Making for
Accountants
Business Computing 1
Cost Management and
Applications
Company Law
Marketing Principles
Taxation 1
Ethical Issues in Accounting
Prices and Markets
Auditing
Forensic Accounting
Business Statistics 1
Introduction to BIS
Development
Business Analysis and
Design 1
Financial Accounting
Business Database
Fundamentals
Business IT
* A requirement for students seeking to meet the requirements for admission to membership of the
professional accounting bodies in Australia.
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Bachelor of Business (International Business)
Incorporating minors in Economics and Chinese
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Introductory Accounting
Commercial Law
Global Entrepreneurship
Macroeconomics 1
Global Marketing
Strategic Management
Introduction to Management
Issues in International Business
Culture and Business Practice
in Asia
Business Computing 1
International Human Resources
International Political Economy:
Business, Resources and
Politics in the Global Era
Marketing Principles
Price Theory
International Monetary
Economics
Prices and Markets
Macroeconomics 2
International Trade
Business Statistics 1
Chinese 1
Chinese 3
International Management
Chinese 2
Chinese 4
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Bachelor of Business (Entrepreneurship)
Incorporating a minor in Work Integrated Learning and 4 student electives
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Introductory Accounting
Commercial Law
Finance & Regulation for
Entrepreneurs
Macroeconomics 1
Applied Entrepreneurship
New Venture Creation
Introduction to Management
Intrapreneurship
Family Business and
Entrepreneurship
Business Computing 1
Global Entrepreneurship
Human Resource Management
Marketing Principles
Learning portfolio
Industry-based project 1
Prices and Markets
Business strategy
Industry-based project 2
Business Statistics 1
Forecasting
Sustainability, Society and
Environment
The Entrepreneurial Process
Energy Policy and Management
Ethics & Governance
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