Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Global Studies

BCom/BGlobSt

Credit points

320

Minimum duration

4 years full-time or equivalent part-time.

Approved locations

• Brisbane
• Melbourne
• North Sydney
• Strathfield

Note:

Students in Sydney are required to complete units at North Sydney and Strathfield campuses. Enrolment is via North Sydney campus. Students will not be required to travel between campuses on the same day.

EFTSL value of units : All 10 cp units in this course have an EFTSL value of 0.125. Units with a cp value of a multiple of 10 have corresponding EFTSL values.

Admission requirements

Completion requirements

To qualify for the degrees, a student must complete 320 cp consisting of:

1. 180 cp selected in accordance with the requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce, consisting of:
2. 60 cp from Specified Business Units (Part A);
3. 80 cp from one Major[1] in Accounting, Human Resource Management or Marketing, Finance, Management, and Event Management (Part B);
4. 40 cp from one Minor (Part C); OR

40 cp Electives from the Schedule of Unit Offerings in School of Business, or units from other disciplines (subject to campus availability, unit limitation and provided that prerequisite requirements are met.) (Part D)

b. 120 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of;

1. 30 cp of Global Studies Specified Units (Part E)
2. 10 cp of units from Global Studies List A (Part F);
3. 10 cp of units from Global Studies List B (Part G);
4. 10 cp of units from Global Studies List C (Part H);
5. 40 cp from Global Study Abroad (with at least 30 cp normally at advanced level) (Part I); OR Global Studies International Internship
6. 20 cp from Global Studies Electives[2] (Part J);

c. 20 cp from the Core Curriculum Units (Part K).

Progression requirements

Students normally complete 100- level units before undertaking related 200-level units, and 200-level units before undertaking related 300-level units.

Part A : Specified Business Units

Complete exactly 60 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
ACCT100	Introduction to Accounting	10	Business Foundation Unit
OR
BUSN104	Money Matters	10	Business Foundation Units

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
BIPX202	Community Engagement: Building Strengths and Capabilities	10
BUSN111	Working with Technology	10	Business Foundation Units
BUSN112	Managing Markets	10	Business Foundation Units
BUSN113	Managing People and Organisations	10	Business Foundation Units

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
BUSN304	Working with Diversity and Conflict	10
OR
BIPX301	Professional Experience	10

Part B : Major

Complete exactly 80 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
ACCT	Accounting	80	Students undertaking an Accounting major must take ECON102 Microeconomics 1 as one of their Global Studies electives.
HRMG	Human Resource Management	80
MKTG	Marketing	80
FINC	Finance	80
MNGT	Management	80
EVMG	Event Management	80

Students undertaking an Accounting major must take ECON102 Microeconomics 1 as one of their Global Studies electives.

Part C : Minor

Complete exactly 40 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
ACCT	Accounting	40
DATA	Data Analytics	40
ENTR	Entrepreneurship	40
EVMG	Event Management	40
FINC	Finance	40
HRMG	Human Resource Management	40
INDB	Indigenous Business Studies	40
INFM	Informatics	40
INBU	International Business	40
MNGT	Management	40
MKTG	Marketing	40
OHSE	Occupational Health, Safety and Environment	40

Part D : Electives from the Schedule of Unit Offerings in School of Business, or units from other disciplines

Complete exactly 40 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
LAWS108	Commercial Law	10
LAWS106	Criminal Law and Procedure	10
LAWS105	Contract Law	10
BUSN113	Managing People and Organisations	10
BUSN112	Managing Markets	10
BUSN111	Working with Technology	10
BUSN104	Money Matters	10
LAWS107	Introduction to Australian Public Law	10
LEGL101	Introduction to Business Law: Legal Frameworks for Businesses	10
LAWP100	Pro Bono / Legal Professional Experience 1	0
LAWS104	Foundations of Law and Legal Research	10
ACCT100	Introduction to Accounting	10
ACOM105	English Language Communication Skills	10
BAFN204	Portfolio Management: Investing Wisely	10
MKTG209	Digital Marketing: The Connected Space	10
MKTG207	Marketing Toolkit	10
MKTG202	Marketing Communications: Engaging Stakeholders	10
MKTG201	Buyer Behaviour	10
LAWS213	Community Legal Engagement Pro Bono	10
LAWS208	Family Law	10
LAWS206	Torts	10
LAWS205	Property	10
LAWS203	False or Misleading Conduct and Economic Torts	10
LAWS202	Comparative Legal Systems	10
LAWS200	Business Organisations	10
ITEC202	Data Analytics and Visualisation	10
HRMG201	Strategic Human Resource Development	10
HRMG200	Applied Human Resource Management	10
ENTR202	Social Entrepreneurship	10
ENTR201	Entrepreneurial Mindset	10
EMGT202	Event Management: Design and Sustainability	10
EMGT201	Event Management: Planning a Successful Event	10
BAFN203	Financial Planning	10
BIPX202	Community Engagement: Building Strengths and Capabilities	10
BAFN200	Principles of Finance	10
BAFN205	Financial Instruments and Institutions	10
ECON200	Economics: Policy Frameworks and Markets	10
LAWS207	Contemporary Legal Issues	10
LAWS209	Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States	10
ITEC225	Systems Analysis and Design	10
HRMG213	Sustainable Staffing and Remuneration	10
LAWS211	Psychology and the Law	10
ITEC217	Programming Concepts	10
LAWP200	Pro Bono / Legal Professional Experience 2	0
HRMG204	Organisational Behaviour	10
MGMT213	Organisational Analysis	10
BAFN206	New Venture Finance	10
MGMT214	Leadership and Organisational Sustainability	10
LAWS210	Lawyers, Problem-Solving and Professional Identity	10
LAWS204	Land Law	10
OHSE201	Introduction to OHS	10
BUSN201	International Business	10
OHSE222	Influencing Ohse Performance	10
MGMT212	Global Comparative Management	10
ITEC201	Fundamentals of Information Technology	10
ITEC228	Fundamentals of Business Information Systems	10
MGMT205	Evidence-Based Decision Making	10
LAWS212	Employment Law	10
ITEC200	Data and Information Management	10
LEGL201	Company Law: Directors and Corporate Regulation	10
LAWS201	Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution	10
STAT207	Business Data Analysis	10
ACCT204	Management Accounting	10
ACCT207	Financial Accounting	10
ACCT209	Corporate Accounting	10
ACCT300	Auditing	10
MKTG318	Social Impact of Marketing	10
MKTG315	Marketing Analysis: Evidence-Based Decisions	10
MKTG314	Managing Products and Brands in the Competitive Marketplace	10
MKTG313	Strategic Marketing and Planning	10
MKTG301	International Marketing: The Borderless World	10
LAWS308	Human Rights in Contemporary Australia	10
LAWS304	Evidence	10
LAWS301	Competition Law	10
ITEC313	Advanced Programming Concepts	10
ENTR303	Strategic New Venture Planning	10
ENTR302	Product Creation in Start Ups	10
ENTR301	Managing Entrepreneurship and Innovation	10
EMGT301	Event Management: Economic Social and Environmental Impacts	10
BUSN306	Field Experience	10
BUSN304	Working with Diversity and Conflict	10
BUSN302	International Trade	10
BIPX301	Professional Experience	10
BAFN307	Financial Risk Management	10
BAFN306	Entrepreneurial Finance	10
OHSE312	Worker Health and Wellbeing	10
LAWS315	Welfare Law	10
LEGL300	Taxation Law	10
LAWS306	Taxation Law	10
HRMG305	Sustainable Human Resource Management and Stakeholders	10
MGMT304	Strategic Management	10
HRMG308	Strategic HRM: Metrics and Analytics	10
LAWS314	Statutory Interpretation	10
MGMT308	Project Management	10
BIPX302	Professional Experience C	10
OHSE321	Physical Hazards in the Occupational Environment	10
MGMT310	Organisational Change for Sustainability	10
OHSE341	Occupational Health Safety and Environment Performance Measurement	10
LAWS313	Mooting and Advocacy	10
MGMT305	Management and Leadership	10
OHSE331	Introduction to Occupational Health Safety and Environmental Law	10
LAWS312	International Study Tour	10
ITEC322	Information Technology Project Part B (Software Engineering)	10
ITEC312	Information Technology Project Part A (Project Management)	10
ITEC321	Information Systems Strategy and Management	10
ITEC326	Information Systems Security	10
LAWS316	INTERNATIONAL STUDY TOUR 2	10
OHSE313	Hazard and Incident Management	10
MGMT309	Governance Risk and Operations Management	10
HRMG310	Global Human Resource Management and Sustainability	10
LAWS311	Environmental Law	10
HRMG302	Employment Relations and Legal Frameworks	10
LAWS310	Discrimination and the Law	10
ITEC300	Data Visualisation	10
LAWS309	Communications Law	10
ITEC316	Business Process Modelling	10
ITEC324	Business Analysis	10
LEGL309	Australian Financial Markets and Services Law	10
LAWS307	Advanced Criminal Law	10
ITEC323	Web and Mobile Application Development	10
ACCT303	Strategic Management Accounting	10
ACCT305	Accounting Information Systems	10

(subject to campus availability, unit limitation and provided that prerequisite requirements are met.)

Part E : Global Studies Specified Units

Complete exactly 30 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
HIST115	Global History: Six Degrees of Separation	10
POLS104	Introduction to International Relations	10
GLST305	Global Studies Research Project	10

Part F : Global Studies List A

Complete exactly 10 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
DVST200	Refugees and Forced Migration	10
GEOG207	Precarious States: Development, Geopolitics and Livelihoods	10
HIST251	Human Rights in History	10
PHIL202	Justice, Authority and Human Rights	10
POLS213	Security, Terrorism and Human Rights	10

Part G : Global Studies List B

Complete exactly 10 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
GEOG204	Environmental Sustainability: the Global Challenge	10
HIST267	Diasporas and Journeys: Migration in World History	10
POLS219	Post-Colonial and Non-Western Politics	10
SOCS243	Global Health	10
SOCS201	Social Justice and the New Economy	10

Part H : Global Studies List C

Complete exactly 10 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
DVST303	Development Advocacy	10
POLS309	World Politics and Justice	10
SOCS302	People Count: Researching Globally with Quantitative Methods	10

Part I : Global Study Abroad or Global Studies International Internship (40 cp)

PART I.1 OR PART I.2

Part I.1 : Global Study International Internship

Complete exactly 40 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
GLST300	Global Study International Internship	40

* At the discretion of the National Head of the School of Arts, a student who can demonstrate exceptional and ongoing personal circumstances beyond their control (eg. chronic illness) that prevent them from travelling overseas may be allowed to substitute study abroad or the international internship with GLST306 Global Studies Special Project. Where an ongoing risk applies to more than one student, eg (travel advisory bans; health pandemic etc) GLST306 may also be offered at the discretion of the National Head of School Arts).

Part I.2 : Global Study Abroad

Complete exactly 40 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
GLST301	Global Study Abroad A	10
GLST302	Global Study Abroad B	10
GLST303	Global Study Abroad C	10
GLST304	Global Study Abroad D	10

Part J : Global Studies Electives

Complete exactly 20 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
ECON204	Development Economics	10	Global Economics Units
ECON209	Global Economy	10	Global Economics Units
DVST100	Introduction to International Development Studies	10	International Development Studies
DVST101	Humanitarian Work and Aid	10	International Development Studies
DVST200	Refugees and Forced Migration	10	International Development Studies
DVST204	Project Management for Development	10	International Development Studies
DVST205	Peace and Conflict	10	International Development Studies
DVST303	Development Advocacy	10	International Development Studies
HIST251	Human Rights in History	10	Race, Rights and Ethics Units
HIST327	Settler Colonies in Indigenous Lands	10	Race, Rights and Ethics Units
PHIL202	Justice, Authority and Human Rights	10	Race, Rights and Ethics Units
SOCS209	Race and Ethnicity: Australian and Global Perspectives	10	Race, Rights and Ethics Units
GEOG207	Precarious States: Development, Geopolitics and Livelihoods	10	International Units - Asia
HIST261	The Rise of Asia in the Modern World	10	International Units - Asia
POLS211	The Dragon Awakens: China and the New World	10	International Units - Asia
THSR200	Introducing Asian Religions	10	International Units - Asia
ENGL232	Irish Literature	10	International Units -Europe and Britain
HIST208	Fascism	10	International Units -Europe and Britain
HIST209	Revolutionary Europe 1789-1917	10	International Units -Europe and Britain
HIST215	Europe Divided and United 1945-Present	10	International Units -Europe and Britain
HIST260	Keep Calm and Carry on British History Since 1901	10	International Units -Europe and Britain
POLS201	Middle Eastern Politics	10	International Units - Middle East
ENGL204	American Writing	10	International Units - The Americas
HIST225	Us Foreign Policy Since 1945	10	International Units - The Americas
HIST229	Rebels and Revolutions in Latin America	10	International Units - The Americas
HIST263	The Making of Modern America, 1865 to 1945	10	International Units - The Americas
HIST264	From Truman to Trump the Us Since 1945	10	International Units - The Americas
POLS203	American Politics and Culture	10	International Units - The Americas
HIST214	Immigrants and Refugees in Australian History	10	Global Migration Units
HIST267	Diasporas and Journeys: Migration in World History	10	Global Migration Units
HIST256	War and Peace	10	War, Peace and Security Units
POLS213	Security, Terrorism and Human Rights	10	War, Peace and Security Units
BIOL129	Foundations of Ecology	10
COMM222	Communication in a Global Society	10
ENGL111	Literature Across Time and Space	10
ENGL333	Global Literary Cultures	10
ENVR102	Earth Science	10
GEOG204	Environmental Sustainability: the Global Challenge	10
GEOG206	Climate Change: Past, Present and Future	10
GEOG306	Extreme Earth: Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability	10
HIST342	A History of the Present	10
HUMA252	Art, Politics and Society in Renaissance and Baroque Rome	10
HUMA317	History and Geography of Rome	10
ITAN101	Introductory Italian	10
MUSC280	Music, Culture and Diversity	10
PHIL107	Philosophy of World Religions	10
POLS105	Introduction to Human Rights	10
POLS214	The Nature of Democracy	10
POLS216	Populism in the 21st Century: From Brexit to Trump and Beyond	10
POLS218	Authoritarianism in the 21st Century	10
SOCS201	Social Justice and the New Economy	10
SOCS202	Culture: Rights, Representation, Resistance	10
SOCS206	Globalisation, Religion and Modernity	10
SOCS207	Meaning of Life: Researching Qualitatively	10
SOCS226	Global Youth Cultures	10
SOCS243	Global Health	10
SOCS302	People Count: Researching Globally with Quantitative Methods	10
SPAN101	Introductory Spanish	10
THSR205	Introducing Judaism and Islam	10

A unit cannot be double counted or fulfil two different roles within the Arts-Global Studies double degree. For example, a Global Studies elective unit cannot also be counted towards a student’s Arts Major or Minor.

A student undertaking an Accounting major must undertake BAFN200 Principles of Finance instead of ECON200 Business Economics.

Students may also choose electives from the following units (subject to availability and prerequisites):

Part K : Core Curriculum Units

Complete exactly 20 credit points from the following:

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
UNCC100	Self and Community: Exploring the Anatomy of Modern Society	10
OR
PHCC102	Being Human	10
OR
PHCC104	Ethics and the Good Life	10

Code	Title	Credit Points	Notes
UNCC300	Justice and Change in a Global World	10
OR
PHCC320	The Just Society	10