Diploma of Business

This subject is an introduction to the skills required for successful learning in an academic environment at the tertiary level, and for effective communication in a business environment.

This subject provides an introduction to various types of professional communication, and helps students to develop essential skills for being able to effectively communicate in business environments and lays the foundations for working effectively in teams.

This subject provides students with a broad overview of the management functions within an organisation, with a focus on planning, organising, leading and controlling. Critical thinking and problem-solving is introduced.

This subject provides students with a conceptual base for understanding the role of the marketing function in modern organisations. It explores the major components of the marketing mix including customer segmentation, products, pricing, placement, advertising, selling, and digital marketing, with an emphasis on demonstrating how marketing contributes to creating value for customers, and eventually increasing value for the company.

This subject provides basic statistical methods that are widely used in modern business applications, and develops ideas for making decisions based on data. The aim is to equip students with essential knowledge and skills to interpret & forecast real-world data in a business context.

This subject introduces basic economic concepts and theories. The topics covered in this course are split between microeconomics, focusing on decision making of individual customers and firms (e.g. customers’ decisions on consumption, and firms’ decisions on production) and macroeconomics, which addresses economic issues at aggregate level (e.g. international trading, interest rates, taxes and government spending). The course lays the foundations for rational economical reasoning and develops skills of economic analysis.

This subject provides students with an introduction to the Australian legal system, and the legal rules regulating commercial activities in Australia. A substantial amount of the subject is dedicated to explaining the law of contract, relevant to most commercial exchanges of goods and services.