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A064 Bachelor of Business (Honours)
lntroduction
The Bachelor of Business (Honours) program provides
students with an opportunity to enhance their research ability
and permits further studies and specialisation in their
discipline. The Bachelor of Business (Honours) program is
offered by the Schools of Commerce, Management and
Information Systems.
It is a program that offers students the opportunity to add
considerable depth to their understanding of concepts within
their chosen discipline and encourages students to pursue
excellence in their studies at a higher level.
The program encourages a multidisciplinary approach by
permitting students to undertake, where appropriate,
subjects offered by other schools, divisions or institutions.
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Program duration
g. The Bachelor of Business (Honours) program may be
undertaken over one year full-time or over two consecutive
years part-time.
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Admission requirements
A student may be admitted into the Bachelor of Business
I (Honours) program if they have satisfied the requirements for
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a Swinburne Bachelor of Business degree and have achieved
2 an average level of attainment of a credit (C) or better in an
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appropriate discipline or range of disciplines considered by
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the Division of Business, Humanities and Social Science
Honours Committee to be acceptable for entry to the
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2. The honours program consists of a 25% research
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methodology component, a 25% discipline specific
component and a 50% research project component.
Research methodology component
The research methodology subject (BQ405) aims to equip
students with the necessary research skills to conduct studies
for higher degrees. It is designed to facilitate the
development of independent learning skills. Students will be
presented with various research methodologies appropriate
to their chosen discipline as well as those used in other
disciplines. Two-thirds of the subject will be presented as a
common core, with one third of the syllabus being discipline
specific. Assessment will be based on assignments, case
studies and presentations and teaching methods will include
formal lectures and tutorial discussion groups and will make
extensive use of library resources.
This subject is compulsory for all Bachelor of Business
(Honours) students and no prerequisite is necessary. Subject
to approval from the Division of Business, Humanities and
Social Science Honours Committee, a pass in an equivalent
subject at a graduate level may entitle the student to an
exemption from this subject.
Discipline specific and research
components
Students should seek advice from the Honours Convener in
the appropriate school when formulating their disciplinespecific
course of study and their research project proposal.
Students may, subject to approval, undertake selected
honours level coursework subjects from other schools,
divisions, or institutions provided that they show the
relevance of these coursework subjects to their proposed
area of research. Such arrangements are subject to the
student having any necessary prerequisite studies and may be
subject to any quotas imposed on these subjects by the
offering school.
Students must submit a proposal to their Honours Convener
for approval prior to the commencement of their honours
program. Approval for a student's discipline specific course of
study and research project proposal shall be subject to the
availability of any necessary resources and the availability of
appropriate staff supervision. Research projects may be
individually supervised or supervised within a group seminar
setting.
As part of the Bachelor of Business (Honours) program,
students may be required to make class presentations at
progressive stages in their program and to attend and
participate fully in a series of seminars conducted by staff.
At the end of their research component students will be
required to submit a written dissertation of approximately
15,000 words in length.
1050 Bachelor of lnformation Technology
Manager
G.A. Murphy, BCom, CPA
Administrative Officer
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The course is offered only as a full-time program of three
years duration. Students are actively engaged in the course
for an average of forty-four weeks each year. There are eight
segments in the course - four semesters, two summer terms
and two twenty-week periods of industry based learning.
These provide a course which is essentially a four year course
completed in three years.
Swinburne awards a scholarship to each student admitted to
the course. Scholarship levels are expected to be an average
of $9,000.
Career potential
The course equips graduates to apply information
technology within business and industry and provides them
with an appropriate grounding in management education to
prepare them for future roles in management.
Prerequisites (entrance 1995)
Units 1 and 2: four units of Mathematics. Units 3 and 4: one
of Change and Approximation, Reasoning and Data, or Space
and Numbers.
Course structure
Segment 1
Credit points
BCl 10 Accounting 1 10.0
IT101 Computer Fundamentals 10.0
IT102 Introduction to Programming 10.0
IT103 Business Applications and Systems 1 10.0
IT105 Behaviour and Communications in Org. 10.0
Segment 2
IT201 Decision Analysis 10.0
IT202 COBOL programming 10.0
IT203 Business Applications and Systems 2 10.0
Plus two non-computing electives each 10.0