Outline
Outline
Studying honours helps you gain research and critical thinking skills that are in high demand in business and industry, and build on your professional knowledge.
You’ll learn from researchers and professionals with many years of specialised industry experience, and undertake research under the guidance of a supervisor. You’ll study a topic that interests you in-depth, and will present your findings in a dissertation.
This course prepares you for stepping straight into professional roles in commerce, providing excellent project management skills and the ability to solve real industry problems.
Studying honours can also be a pathway to further learning in a master degree or doctoral degree.
Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.
Learn alongside the next generation of business leaders and researchers with the Bachelor of Advanced Commerce (Honours). This course is available to a selected cohort of elite students and combines the three-year Bachelor of Commerce with the one-year Honours program.
How this course will make you industry ready
This course prepares students for industry by enhancing their analytical, research and critical thinking skills. Students are able to undertake high quality research in an area of interest that can be aligned with real business problems within industry.
What jobs can the Commerce lead to?
On completion of the course, students will have further developed their analytical, critical thinking and research skills in preparation for the workplace. This course also enables students to align their career interests through investigation of a specific problem facing decision makers in their chosen industries.
What you'll learn
- apply various types of knowledge to understand and evaluate current and emerging research in commerce
- think creatively and critically to generate innovative solutions to complex business and commercial problems
- access, evaluate and synthesise relevant information from a range of organisational and external sources
- communicate appropriately and effectively in professional and public contexts
- use electronic resources to effectively interrogate databases, analyse data, collect information and communicate research findings
- demonstrate initiative, responsibility and lifelong learning skills by applying critical reflection and active participation
- describe global and cultural issues as related to commerce and their impact on local and international communities
- demonstrate ways of using cultural diversity to improve business and professional practice
- critique and reconceptualise the roles of leadership, ethical practice and professional integrity when working within a team and independently