Second Year Commerce - Welcome Back and Happy New Year
Second Semester
BComm Programme Director: Dr. Gerard Turley
J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics
Advisory/Information Session
• The purpose of this second year advisory session on day one
of semester two is to inform you of the requirements of your
BComm degree programme.
• It is your responsibility to now familiarise yourself with these.
• Semester One provisional results available on Bb, Friday 29th.
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B.Comm. (Three Year Degree)
Second Year
Required Credits: 60 ECTS => 50 Obligatory + 10 Optional
Semester One
30 ECTS
Semester Two
30 ECTS
Business Finance I
5
Employment Relations
5
Macroeconomics
5
Information & Operations Management
5
Total Obligatory
20
Two Optional Modules
10
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B.Comm.(International) (Four Year Degree)
Second Year
Required Credits: 60 ECTS Credits => 55 Obligatory + 5 Optional
Semester One
30 ECTS
Semester Two
Language
30 ECTS
15
Macroeconomics
or Business Law I
5
Business Finance I
or Employment Relations
5
Total Obligatory
One Optional Module
25
5
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Second Year Commerce (Three and Four Year Degree)
Optional Modules
Second Year Options
Final Year Stream
AY209 International Financial Reporting 1
Accounting
MG206 Management of Organisational
Change
Human Resource
Management
EC247 Introduction to Financial Economics
EC259 Economics of Public Policy
Economics
MK2101 The Psychology of Consumer
Behaviour
Marketing
MS117 Information Systems and Project
Management
BIS
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Second Year Commerce (Three and Four Year Degree)
Other Optional Modules Available
• LW 290 Business Law II (2BC1 only, and LW190 prereq.)
• CI200 Doing Business in China – Language and Culture I (2BC1 only)
• MA218 Advanced Statistical Methods for Business
B.Comm. students choose 2 options (10 ECTS) options must have a
different module prefix
B.Comm. International students choose 1 option (5 ECTS)
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Note
• Optional modules are not formal prerequisites for Final Year Streams
but are recommended.
• Students wishing to apply for the Master of Accounting Programme or
thinking of the accounting stream in final year and the exemptions from
the professional accounting exams thereafter, you are advised to check
details online, at
http://www.nuigalway.ie/business-public-policy-law/cairnes/currentstudents/exemptions/
http://students.charteredaccountants.ie/Student-Information/Courses/Exemptions/NUIGBCOM/
• Choose options based on your interests, aptitude and abilities, and final
year stream.
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Look ahead- Final Year Commerce
B.Comm. Three Year Degree
• Required Total Credits: 60 ECTS Credits derived as follows:
• 15 ECTS Obligatory Modules
• 25 ECTS modules from One stream/specialisation
• 20 ECTS selected from additional modules listed within the
same stream or from the list of electives.
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Look ahead - Final Year Commerce
B. Comm. (International) Four Year Degree with Language
• Required Credits: 60 ECTS Credits derived as follows:
• 15 ECTS Obligatory (Commerce)
• 20 ECTS Obligatory (Language)
• 25 ECTS additional optional credits from the list of electives
or from a single stream, or both.
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Progression to next Year
Pass a total of 60 ECTS: B.Comm –50 obligatory + 10 optional credits
B.Comm International –55 obligatory + 5 optional credits
Must pass ALL modules in Second Year to progress. The pass mark is 40%. Autumn repeat examinations/assessments are capped at 40%.
There is a compensation provision
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Progression: Compensation Provision
The Pass standard is 40% in each module. However a student with marks less than 40% in one or more modules will be deemed to have passed provided:
‐ The aggregate mark for all modules of the year is at least 40%
‐ No mark is below 35%
‐ Not more than 15 ECTS have marks in range 35 – 39%
Note: Where one or more of these conditions have not been met, each module with a
mark below 40% must be repeated. Marks of 40% and above are carried forward to the next session and are not repeatable. You cannot repeat a module that you have passed.
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Example of Student who can Compensate ‐ Pass
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Example of Student who cannot Compensate Fail
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Award of Honours in Degree
Degree Award:
The overall degree mark to be derived from adding together 30% of the Second
Year marks and 70% of the Final Year marks.
Degree Award
Grade in B. Comm. Degree
70% on the aggregate
H1
60% on the aggregate
H2.1
50% on the aggregate
H2.2
40% on the aggregate
H3
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Change of Mind for Semester II Options
•
You can change your Semester II Options up to Friday, the 5th of February online at
www.nuigalway.ie/registration. Feb 5th is the Friday of week 4 of semester.
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Check your registration statement online, and if necessary change your Semester II
Options between these dates.
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There will be NO CHANGES ALLOWED to modules after 5th of February so please
ensure you check your module registration carefully. This is your responsibility.
•
Many optional modules have coursework requirements. For these you must register
earlier – information will be provided for each module on individual blackboard sites. If
you think you might like to take a module ensure you comply with the coursework
requirements of that module even before Feb 5th. Otherwise you may forfeit some marks
for the module.
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Eligibility to Transfer to
B.Comm. (International Experience) Degree
4 Year Degree
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Two models:
1) Placement for one semester + One semester study abroad (USA or Europe
or Hong Kong or Australia)
2) Study Abroad for full year in one partner university (Eramus/Non-Erasmus)
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All modules through ENGLISH
Must successfully complete placement and pass all modules before progressing to
final year
To apply: First year average of 50%, Second year average of 50% Sem 1 (and
maintained throughout 2nd year). Interview and personal statement
Advisory session on soon (probably next week). Watch out for BB announcement.
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Career Planning – start now….
• B. Comm. students are now half way through your degree
programme. It is never too early to think about your career plan and
to seek advice and guidance.
• Register with Careers Office NOW. Work on CV development.
Attend career events
• Have you got involved in extracurricular activities? If not, do so this
semester.
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Career Planning – Dates….
•
Career Development Centre – Open House Event January 14th 1pm -2pm Career Development Centre
– drop in with your career question and pick up a copy of our semester event schedule, goodies and enter
our prize draw.
•
Teaching Fair – January 19th 12.30 – 3pm – Bailey Allen Hall
•
Internship and Graduate Opportunities Fair –26th January 12.30-3pm - Bailey Allen Hall.
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Ernst & Young –Employability Workshop – 10th Feb 1pm -2pm - Careers Seminar Room
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CV Workshops – 2nd Feb & 2nd March @ 6pm in the Careers Seminar Room
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LinkedIn Workshops – 27th Jan & 9th March - Careers Seminar Room
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PWC – Interview Tips for Summer Internships , Mon 1st Feb, Careers Seminar Room
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Interview Workshops – 23rd Feb & 14th March @ 6pm Careers Seminar Room
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Employers in Residence every Monday and Wednesday in the CDC from 2pm -5pm to get informal
advice from employers including: PWC, EY, ESB, Enterprise Rent a Car, Grant Thornton, A&L
Goodbody. Register now on Careers Connect to keep up to date and get your career on track.
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If you have any queries/questions, who
do you contact?
B.Comm. Programme Director
Gerard Turley, at gerard.turley@nuigalway.ie, Ext 3095
Room 205, 2nd floor of Cairnes building – old part, St. Anthony’s
School Office (Top floor of Cairnes Building)
Room 355 at business@nuigalway.ie, Ext. 2612 (091 – 492612)
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Advice on Optional Modules this
Semester…..
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Studying Accounting…
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Why Accounting?
• For those with an interest and aptitude for accounting, it
offers a varied and rewarding career path with lots of
opportunity to progress to top management level
• The demand for accounting graduates is very high; in 2014
more than 50% of ALL graduate jobs were recruited in the
area of accountancy and financial management (Grad Ireland
Graduate Recruitment Trends Survey, 2015)
• The Big 4 Accounting firms have to work REALLY hard to
find enough high quality graduates each year
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AY209 International Financial Reporting I
• Completes the study of basic accounting
• Moves on to considering financial reporting: how do we present
a true and fair view of a complex organisation in a set of
financial statements?
• Addressing this question has given rise to entire industry
devoted to preparing, auditing, regulating and analysing
financial information
• AY209 required to obtain exemptions from Chartered
Accountants Ireland, ACCA, CIMA and CPA
• Not required for stream in 3rd year, however strongly advised
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Marketing 2nd Year The Psychology of Consumer Behaviour 5 ECTS Optional
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Marketing in Final Year 95% Graduates Employed
Semester 1
Semester 2
Compulsory Compulsory MK3100 Qual. Mkt. Research
MK3101 Cases Mkt. Strategy
MK3102 Mktg Analy. & Research
MK3103 Digital Marketing Planning
MK303 Global Marketing Electives MK311 The Mktg. of Services
MK314 Media & Mktg. Comm.
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Economics Undergraduate Handbook:
Economics in 2nd Commerce
http://www.nuigalway.ie/economics/current/undergrad/
Economics Website:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/economics/
Economics Coordinator :
Email: paddy.gillespie@nuigalway.ie
• Semester I:
– EC209 Managerial Economics
(oblig)
• Semester II:
– EC213 Macroeconomics
(oblig)
+
– EC247 Introduction to Financial Economics
or
– EC259 Economics of Public Policy
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Economics Undergraduate Handbook:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/economics/current/undergrad/
Economics in Commerce
Economics Website:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/economics/
Economics Coordinator :
Email: paddy.gillespie@nuigalway.ie
• A total of 25 ECTs is required to complete the Economics stream in 3rd Year
• Note: EC423 Ireland in the Global Economy does not count for the stream!
Semester I
Microeconomics and Public Policy (core)
Options include Health Economics, Development Economics, Money & Banking, Environmental
and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics
Semester II
Macroeconomics and Public Policy (core)
Options include Economics of Financial Markets, International Economics, History of Economic
Thought, Public Economics, Economics and Philosophy, Marine Economics
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Business Information Systems in 2nd Year
• Compulsory: MS217 - Information and Operations
Management
• Optional: MS117 - Information Systems & Project
Management
– How to effectively manage an IS function within an
organisation to create and appropriate business value for the
organisation and how to sustain it over time
– Topics such as: Aligning IS and the rest of the organisation,
IS Governance, measuring the value of IS, how IS is funded,
systems security and ethics
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Business Information Systems in Final Year
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BIS Stream Compulsory Subjects
Semester 1
– Contemporary Project Management
– Database Technologies
– Business Intelligence & Analytics
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Plus IS Stream options
Semester 2
– Cloud Computing
– E-Business Strategy & Planning
Why BIS?
– Interested in business coupled with an interest in technologies and how
business can best leverage information?
– Still excellent job prospects as Data Scientist, Technology Consultant,
Web Developer, Business Analyst, Project Manager…….
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Management Modules in 2nd
Commerce
• MG325 Employment Relations 5ECTS (obligatory)
• MG206 Management of Organisational Change
5ECTS (optional)
• Thinking ahead to final year & beyond…
The HR Stream
Postgraduate study & career prospects
CIPD accredited MSc HRM and SIPM
MSc International Management
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HR Stream in Final Commerce
Semester 1
• Human Resource Management (5 ECTS)
• ER: Rights & Obligations (5 ECTS)
• Work and Organisations (5 ECTS)
Semester 2
• Cross Cultural Management (5ECTS)
• Global Employment Relations (5 ECTS)
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Questions?
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