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Subject Details I 139
Aims & Objectives
This course is designed to equip students with the necessary conceptual foundations
and practical skills to lead recreation participants and supervise staff.
Content
Students will learn to identify and articulate effective goals, and will review various
approaches to leadership styles appropriate forthe range of recreation settings.
Methods and materials for recreation instruction will be explored. This theory will be
used to explore and analyse the leadership skills of students and others.
0046SB001
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
finance for Small Business
To provide the participant with the underpinning knowledge, skills and attitudes to
manage the financial aspects of a small business, including: managing credit, controlling
inventory, setting prices, analysing cash flow, sourcing funding, and planning for
taxation.
Content
Credit Management.
Inventory Control.
Pricing Policy.
Cash-Flow Analysis.
Funding.
Taxation Planning.
0046SB002
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Business Start-Up and
Development
To provide the participant with the underpinning knowledge, skills and attitudes to start
up and to develop a business, including: conducting a feasibility study, determining
appropriate business legal structure, managing issues in a family operated business,
managing personal development needs, and dealing with growth obstacles and crisis in
a business.
Content
Feasibility Study.
Business Legal Structure.
Family Owned Businesses.
Personal Development.
Obstacles to Growth.
Business in Crisis.
0046SB003
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Managing Your Business
Efficiently
To enable participants to identify the various aspects required for efficiently managing a
small business in a competitive environment, controlling that business performance
while being mindful of business life cycles, system ising and developing business
procedures, options and strategies, and sourcing business assistance. To identify the
importance of successful staff management and the impact consultants,
communication and motivation can have in the small business environment.
Content
Management controls.
Motivating people in the organisation.
Using external personnel/consultants.
Business expansion options and strategies.
Dealingwith business difficulties.
Managing a financial crisis.
0046SB004
40 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Aims & Objectives
Information Technology
To provide the participants with the knowledge and skills to manage electronic
commerce, business applications and accounting systems in a small business situation,
with particular emphasis on applying the concepts and theories to a real life situation.
Content
eCommerce.
eMarketing.
Website Design.
Spreadsheets.
Accounting Systems.
0046T001
136 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: Nil
Content
English (Units 3&4)
English 3 focusses on the development of critical responses to both literary and nonliterary
texts, including media texts, and the use of oral language to interact positively,
critically and confidently with audiences in formal and informal settings. Students will
discuss in detail the ideas, experiences and issues dealt with in a selected text and in
current Australian media texts, and present complex ideas and information to an
audience through a prepared oral presentation.
English 4 focusses on the development of critical responses to both literary and nonliterary
texts, and the achievement of competence and confidence in writing for
different purposes and audiences, in a variety offorms. Students will develop and
justify a detailed interpretation of selected texts, and communicate complex ideas and
information effectively through finished writing for different purposes and audiences.
0046T002 legal Studies
136 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Legal Studies 3 focusses on the institutions which determine laws, and the processes
by which laws are made. It considers why laws are necessary and the main types of
laws which exist within the community. It also explores the way in which an individual
working alone oras a member of a group can influence the law. The law is not static
and is under constant review: legal rules tend to reflect community values and are
therefore modified as values change. This unit investigates the relationship between
these values and the law.
Legal Studies 4 focusses on the courts, tribunals and alternative avenues of dispute
resolution, and processes and procedures which operate within the legal system. It also
includes a review of the operation of the legal system, giving consideration to its
strengths and weaknesses, and possible areas for change and reform.
0046T005 Physics
136 nominal Hours· Prerequisite: Nil
Content
Physics 3 covers the areas of sound, electric power and electronic systems, and the
principles of investigation. The unit promotes the development of students' ability to use
physics to explain phenomena and events, and technological and social applications.
Students gain an understanding ofthe ways in which knowledge in physics advances
and is applied.
Physics 4 covers the areas of motion, gravity, structures and materials, ideas about
light and matter and principles of investigation. The unit promotes the development of
students' ability to use physics to explain phenomena and events, and technological and
social applications. Students gain an understanding ofthe ways in which knowledge in
physics advances and is applied.
0046T006 Chemistry 3&4
136 nominal Hours. Prerequisite: Nil
Swinburne University of Technology I TAFE Handbook 2002