Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

Specialist unitst
IT502 Systems Software 2 10.0
IT603 Data Base Management Systems 3 10.0
Other approved specialist computing units may be chosen
from either the Bachelor of Applied Science or the Bachelor
of Business courses.
Segment 7
IT701 Industry Based Learning 50.0
Segment 8 (Summer Term)
IT803 Emerging Information Technologies 25.0
IT804 Computing in the Human Context 25.0
t All units will not be offered each semester.
Application procedure
See entry under 'General Information'.
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Postgraduate Course
information
Graduate Certificate in Business
Administration
This program is a two semester course intended to provide
entry to management studies for managers with excellent
business experience. Special provision is made for nongraduate
entrants who are excluded from similar graduate
diploma programs through lack of an acceptable
undergraduate qualification.
Course objectives
At the completion of the course, it is expected that
candidates:
will haw completed a business coune containing a body
of knowledge and technology which is relevant to
immediate and potential business opportunities;
will have a recognised qualification which will assist them
in developing their careers in business, and;
will be equipped with suitable skills necessary to
continue with further postgraduate study in business
administration.
As candidates will already be established in business careers,
it is expected that the key vocational outcomes will arise
from better current job performance as well as new
opportunities opening in the broader fields of management
and administration within their current organisations.
Entrance requirements
In order to be accepted into this course, applicants must
haw:
a recognised undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a
discipline other than business and a minimum of four
years practical business experience, or;
at least six years practical business experience at middle
management level and a good track record as judged by
the selection panel.
Course structure
BC401 Accounting for Management
BH403 Managing Organisations and People
BM401 Marketing Management
BE401 Economics for Businesses
Plus
Four sessions in Financial Modelling
The coune is based on two, sixteen week semesters. Classes
will be conducted either on Friday afternoons between
1 p.m. to 6 p.m. or on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The course may be run 'in-house' for organisations where a
significant number of candidates are available. In such cases,
organisations may choose an alternative course comprising:
BC401 Accounting for Management
BE401 Economia
BH403
BM401
Managing Organisations and People
Marketing Management
Progression to graduate diploma
Students who perform very well in the graduate certificate
may be eligible for entry into the Graduate Diploma in
Business Administration. However, success in the graduate
certificate does not guarantee entry to the graduate
diploma. Graduate certificate students who are accepted into
the graduate diploma would normally gain exemptions in
four graduate diploma units, viz BC503 Introduction to
Financial Management 1, BM501 Marketing Management,
BH501 Administration of Organisational Systems and BE501
Economics.
Fees
The Graduate Certificate Business Administration is a full-fee
paying course. $5,750.
~072 Graduate Certificate in Business
lnformation Technology
This course is equivalent to one semester of full-time study
or two semesters part-time. There are a number of options
associated with this course, which are relevant both to
people without any computing and those with substantial
computing experience.
Course objectives
to widen the opportunities for access and participation in
the tertiary education system of those currently employed
in the business sector;
to provide a re-entry to tertiary study for graduates who,
for whatever reason, would benefit from a more
supportive learning environment;
to provide an entry to postgraduate study for those
people with excellent business experience but not formal
undergraduate qualifications and who, by virtue of their
age, experience, work responsibilities and other
commitments, are in practical terms excluded from
undergraduate and TAFE certificate courses; and
to prepare candidates for further postgraduate studies in
business information technology.
Option 1 - no prior experience
Objectives
The course is designed to prwide candidates with the basic
information technology skills necessary to support a
successful career in business.
The primary objectives of this course are:
to develop within candidates the basic information
technology skills necessary to support a successful career
in business;
to provide formal information technology education for
personnel involved in information systems but who lack a
broad perspective of information technology;
to develop candidates' analytical and creative skills in
using information technology for business planning,
decision making and opportunity analysis.
At the completion of the course, it is expected that
candidates:
will have completed a business course containing a body
of knowledge which is relevant to immediate and
potential opportunities;