1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

and managers with an entrepreneurial outlook who wish to
stay within an organisation and practise entrepreneurship
by generating new ventures under the corporate umbrella
Each subject may be taught in the traditional mode of one
(three-hour) night class per week over a thirteen week
semester or in 'block mode' (usually two three-day block
modules).
Students are expected to spend a minimum of the
equivalent class contact hours per week in private study
and/or team project work.
Admission requirements
Applicants at Graduate Diploma level should comply with
one of the following:
the completion of a degree or diploma with experience
in new business creation;
the completion of the Graduate Certificate in
g Enterprise Management with no grade less than a credit
$ and at least two grades of distinction or above;
a limited number of applicants not meeting the criteria
above may be admitted after interview on the basis of
considerable relevant experience and level of
responsibility in industry or business.
In selecting students for this program, the Selection
Committee takes into consideration the balance of skills
& required for team participation, hence attendance at an
g. interview may be required.
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Admission to the Graduate
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8' Students who have completed Swinburne's Graduate
E Certificate in Enterprise Management with at least two
Diploma with advanced standing
grades of credit or above, will be given full credit for the
first year of the program. However, there is no automatic
R
0 guarantee that a holder of a Graduate Certificate will be
admitted to the Graduate Diploma Program.
Program structure
Year 2 (the Graduate Diploma Year)
(Year 2 of both the Graduate Diploma in
Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Master in
Entqrise Innovation. Year 1 of the Graduate Diploma
is as per the Graduate Certificate in Enterprise
Management program.)
Total
Semester l
hoqn
EF940 Innovation Creativity And Leadership 39
EF920 Managing The Growing Business 39
Semester 2
EF811 New Venture Financial Planning 39
EF8 14 The Business Plan 39
Course convener
Kevin Hindle
Telephone: 9214 8732
NO83 Graduate Diploma in Japanese
The Graduate Diploma in Japanese is an intensive language
course based on an examination of Japanese current affairs.
It is designed to enable students to develop their language
skills through reading recent Japanese newspaper articles
and listening to media broadcasts and to extend their
knowledge of contemporary Japan. Specific training is
focused on reading, aural comprehension and speaking.
The course is ~lanned so that students who have completed
a three-year undergraduate program in Japanese can further
their knowledge of the Japanese language to a stage where
they are competent to deal with a wide variety of topics in
the written and spoken language.
Development of expertise in grammar is essential,
particularly in the understanding of long and complex
sentence structures, the acquisition of a wider vocabulary
and the inclusion of a large number of characters. Students
become familiar with a wide variety of journalistic and
written styles found in newspapers. Training in precis
writing, and in the various styles and speech levels which
characterise modern spoken Japanese, is also a part of the
course.
Language development is focused on four major areas of
Japanese studies: social, cultural, business and political.
Students consider:
general problems and trends as they are analysed by
Japanese writers within the framework of the society as
a whole; and
the validity of assertions and generalisations which are
made by Japanese, as well as foreign writers.
Entrance reauirements
Applicants must .. have a degree - with a major in Japanese
language, or equivalent, from a recognised university,
college or institute. All applications are assessed by a
seleciion committee and l; certain cases applicantH may be
required to complete appropriate subjects of the Bachelor
of Arts degree course, or undertake a preliminary reading
course before being accepted for enrolment.
Course structure
The course may be completed part-time in the evening over
two years. It comprises eight semester subjects in all and
each subject involves four hours of class meetings per
week. Usually students enrol for two subjects concurrently
in each of the four semesters but may, in special
circumstances, enrol for only one subject per semester.
Reading material and tapes will be available at the
Swinburne Bookshop approximately one week before the
commencement of the semester. In all assignments,
students are required to complete four minor tests, eight
assignments, one research essay and one major test per
subject. All classes are conducted in Japanese.
The subjects offered are:
AJ400 Japanese Society A
AJ401 Japanese Society B
AJ402 Japanese Culture A