Overview
Overview
This is an internationally focused course that is an ideal degree if you want to move into a career in business in Australia or globally. As part of the global approach, the course incorporates the ‘GRIT’ concepts – global, responsible, innovative, and technology-driven – reflecting skills that the World Economic Forum has identified as non-negotiable for the 21st century.
In your first semester, you will study commerce units that will enhance your employability, including business project management, business analytics and data visualisation, and transformative technologies that impact society and its business practices. These core units will extend your knowledge in areas of business and STEM, and enable you to network with a wider range of peers.
You’ll then study a major of your choice from the list below, developing a solid understanding of that subject’s principles, concepts and practices:
- Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics
- Finance
- Human Resources
- International Business
- Marketing
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainable Business Leadership.
You’ll also engaging in practical learning experiences that will sharpen your ability to solve complex business challenges, and acquire valuable research skills that you can apply to your chosen industry.
Your studies also include the following transformative experience and capstone units:
- Corporate Sustainability Immersion: This is a work-integrated learning experience, in which you’ll participate in an industry-connected business innovation project centred on sustainable development and social impact.
- Wicked Problems: In this unit you’ll explore multifaceted real-world challenges that have global, community and individual repercussions.
- Executive Education: Choose five one-day masterclasses (or equivalent) that serve as focused training in leadership, strategy, innovation, negotiation, communication or digital transformation.
- Capstone Experience: This unit may comprise an internship, consultancy experience, research project or international study tour. In addition to growing your business acumen and skill sets, capstone experiences help you develop particular industry knowledge and networks.
Entry pathways and credit for recognised learning
If you have a relevant degree and experience, you may gain entry to our Master of Commerce and complete your course in 12, 18 or 24 months (full-time study).
What you'll learn
- apply multidisciplinary knowledge to solve complex local and global business and societal challenges, fostering the development of innovative business solutions that are valued by industry, government, and community
- influence inclusively by analysing business problems in ways that demonstrate critical thinking to achieve responsible management decisions that consider the importance of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals when applied to international contexts, and diverse stakeholders including first nations peoples
- demonstrate the judicious use of information and technology to critically analyse business and societal challenges, leading to the formulation of innovative, responsible, and impactful decisions
- communicate professionally with ethical considerations in ways that are appropriate for local and global contexts
- demonstrate industry readiness by developing future-focused capabilities including a global, responsible, innovative, and technology driven mindset
