Overview

The business studies major sequence offers you the opportunity to gain a broad understanding of units in human resource management, finance, marketing and accounting. If you’re studying a Bachelor of Arts you could choose to combine your business studies major with a range of related areas such as economics, politics and international relations or media.

The major is also a pathway to becoming a secondary-school business studies teacher when combined with a tertiary teaching qualification.

Career opportunities

Our graduates have pursued careers in:

  • government and non-government organisations
  • policy development
  • community development
  • consulting and public relations
  • social and cultural research
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Completion requirements

A student must complete 80 cp of the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:

  1. 20 cp from 100-level units (Part A)
  2. 30 cp from 200-level units (Part B)
  3. 30 cp from 300-level units (Part C)


*Students in the Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and Bachelor of Education (Primary and Secondary) must complete 60 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of no more than 2 units at 100-level and at least 2 units at 300-level.

Complete exactly 20 credit points from the following:

  • BUSN105Financial Literacy10 CP
  • BUSN113Managing People and Organisations10 CP

    HR Management / Management

  • BUSN114Marketing Essentials10 CP

Complete exactly 30 of the following:

  • ACCT207Financial Accounting10 CP

    Accounting

  • ACCT209Corporate Accounting10 CP

    Accounting

  • ACCT210Accounting Foundations10 CP

    Accounting

  • HRMG204Organisational Behaviour10 CP

    HR Management

  • HRMG209Human Resource Management and Employee Wellbeing10 CP
  • MGMT205Evidence-Based Decision Making10 CP

    Management

  • MGMT212Global Comparative Management10 CP

    Management

  • MGMT213Organisational Analysis10 CP

    Management

  • MGMT214Leadership and Organisational Sustainability10 CP

    Management

  • MKTG201Buyer Behaviour10 CP

    Marketing

  • MKTG202Marketing Communications: Engaging Stakeholders10 CP

    Marketing

  • MKTG209Digital Marketing: The Connected Space10 CP

    Marketing

  • MKTG207Marketing Toolkit10 CP

    Marketing

  • MKTG210Product Marketing and Innovation10 CP

Complete exactly 30 credit points from the following:

  • ACCT300Auditing10 CP

    Accounting

  • ACCT303Strategic Management Accounting10 CP

    Accounting

  • ACCT305Accounting Information Systems10 CP

    Accounting

  • HRMG308Strategic HRM: Metrics and Analytics10 CP

    HR Management

  • MGMT310Organisational Change for Sustainability10 CP

    HR Management / Management

  • MGMT304Strategic Management10 CP

    Management

  • MGMT309Governance, Risk and Operations Management10 CP

    Management

  • MGMT311Managing Entrepreneurship and Innovation10 CP

    Management

  • MKTG301International Marketing: The Borderless World10 CP

    Marketing

  • MKTG313Strategic Marketing and Planning10 CP

    Marketing

  • MKTG315Marketing Analysis: Evidence-Based Decisions10 CP

    Marketing

  • MKTG318Social Impact of Marketing10 CP

    Marketing

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