2001 Swinburne Undergraduate and TAFE Course Guide

Double Degree
Social Science/Business
Course title
Bachelor of Social Science / Bachelor of Business
Duration
Four years full-time or part-time equivalent. An
optional and additional year of Industry Based
Learning (IBL) is also available.
Location
Lilydale.
Entry requirements
Satisfactory completion of an appropriate Year 12
or equivalent. Special Entry is available for those
who do not have a Year 12 qualification or its
equivalent.
2001 VCE prerequisites: Units 3 and 4 – with a
study score of at least 20 in English.
Application procedure
Through VTAC or direct to Swinburne for mid-year
intake.
VTAC code: 35141 (full-time)
35231 (part-time)
2000 ENTER: 82.40
Karen Gilbert
what we had learnt was really relevant
Bachelor of Arts
Course overview
The course prepares students for employment or
self-employment in the rapidly changing cultural,
technological and business environments.
Students are able to extend their areas of study
beyond the combinations of major and minor
sequences required in single degree courses,
giving students flexibility and expertise beyond
the limits of a narrow vocational orientation.
For further information, refer to the individual
degree entries in this Course Guide.
Major studies
Accounting, marketing, economics, human
resource management, management, media,
psychology or sociology. Other major studies may
be taken from other degrees offered at Lilydale
campus. For further information refer to the
individual entries in this Course Guide.
Information sessions
Sunday 27 August between 11.00am and 3.00pm
and Wednesday 13 December between 4.00pm
and 8.00pm. Attendance at one of these sessions
is recommended.
Further information
Tel: 1300 368 777 (general enquiries)
Lilydale Administration
Tel: (03) 9215 7000
Email: ldinfo@swin.edu.au
Website: www.ld.swin.edu.au
Karen Gilbert collects hundreds of
Collingwood autographs every week. It’s
part of her job as media communications
and public relations manager for the
Collingwood Football Club. “Once a week
we get the players to do a signing
session and provide autographs for
sponsors, club activities and selected
charities. It takes quite a bit of
organisation to get all the people you
need there at the same time!”
That’s only one item in a job that has
Karen working six days a week during
the football season. “I arrange all the
media interviews and match day press
conferences for the players and coaching
staff, press releases, put together our
radio show on Sport 927, organise stories
for the quarterly Collingwood magazine,
the annual report, sponsor newsletter, the
Football Record…it goes on and on,
really. I love it.”
Karen enrolled at Swinburne in 1988 to
do a Bachelor of Arts majoring in
Psychology, but after the first semester
she decided psychology wasn’t for her
and changed over to a double major in
Media Studies and Marketing.
“The flexibility of courses at Swinburne
was really important for me. I could do
my BA with half my subjects from the
Business area, and when I got glandular
fever for a year I could switch to studying
part-time.”
Karen had worked in several sportsrelated
media and marketing jobs before
starting at Collingwood in 1997. “I went
overseas for a year in 1995 and ended
up working in the media centre for the
Dunhill Cup at St Andrews in Scotland!”
“I found that what we had learnt at
Swinburne was really relevant when I
started working. The lecturers had given
us a good grounding. I liked the fact that
Swinburne was a smaller university – it
made it more personalised. I still keep up
with the friends I made at Swinburne.”
Karen is revelling in her busy life at
Collingwood. “I want to stay here and see
the team win a premiership! These are
exciting times for the club, with Eddie
McGuire coming in as president and
other changes taking place. I’m looking
forward to being part of that.”
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