Bachelor of Commerce
Bachelor of Commerce
Reach your potential in a business career and prepare for the changing job market. This is a flexible course designed to help you reach your potential and gain in-depth knowledge and skills of one or more areas of business. You will develop decision-making and leadership skills, which are essential in…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Reach your potential in a business career and prepare for the changing job market.
This is a flexible course designed to help you reach your potential and gain in-depth knowledge and skills of one or more areas of business. You will develop decision-making and leadership skills, which are essential in a future marketplace and benefit from exposure to industry through field trips, internships, work-related tasks, guest lectures and networking events.
In your final year you’ll undertake a capstone experience.
You’ll begin by applying for the Bachelor of Commerce. In your first year, you’ll study business core units, select your major and choose customisation options that complement your major.
Study our business core
The degree starts with our business core experience that helps you build skills, knowledge and goals to help you progress into your major.
Analytics for Decision Making: You’ll learn basic data analysis to derive essential information from numerical, textual and visual datasets.
Communication, Culture and Indigenous Perspectives in Business: You’ll develop awareness of responsible business practices and cultural, academic and professional integrity in business.
Financial Decision Making: You’ll develop the skills and knowledge needed to make informed and responsible decisions using accounting and financial information.
Markets and Legal Frameworks: You’ll explore how key business disciplines are connected and understand the relationship between a business enterprise and stakeholders including government, customers and the broader community.
Strategic Career Design: You’ll explore the impact of changes in the global labour market and social trends and how technological innovation will affect career opportunities and the future of work.
Customise your degree
Step A: Choose your primary major
You’ll select your major during your first semester, to align the Bachelor of Commerce to your dream career:
Accounting1
Audit Analytics1,2
Business Information Systems
Business Information Systems Extension3
Business Law1
Economics
Finance1
Financial Planning2
Human Resource Management
International Business
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Management1
Marketing1
Property Development and Valuation Extension3
Property Investment and Development
Taxation1
Tourism and Hospitality
1. Available to study online
2. Available as part of a defined double major
3. Includes an embedded specialisation for accreditation by a professional body. Cannot be studied as part of a double major
Step B: Complement your major
Option 1: A second major
With this option you benefit from studying two disciplines in equal depth and graduating with a double major. You can choose a second Commerce major, or a one of the following majors from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Creative Arts:
Anthropology and Sociology
Creative Writing
Digital and Social Media
English and Cultural Studies
Fine Art
Geography
History
International Relations
Journalism
Screen Arts
Security and Strategic Studies
Theatre Arts.
Option 2: Two Business specialisations
Option 3: A Business specialisation and a non-Business specialisation
Option 4: A Business specialisation and electives
Step C: Choose your capstone experience
Professional recognition
Curtin Business School is recognised as an elite business school through its accreditation by AACSB International.
REQUIREMENTS
Students from different countries should have qualifications equivalent to Australian Year 12 and a scaled mark of at least 50 in English, Literature, or English as an Additional Language or Dialect.
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) – Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking – 6.0; Overall band score 6.0; TOEFL Score: 79 (overall); Reading 13; Listening 13; Speaking 18; Writing 21; Pearson Test of English – Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking – 50; Overall band score 58; TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and PBT (Paper Based Test) – 570 and 4.5 in TWE; C1 Advanced Formerly known as Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) 176 with 169 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. C2 Proficiency Formerly known as Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) 190 with 176 in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Curtin University is Western Australia’s largest and most culturally diverse university with Australia’s third largest international student population. Around 60,000 students from more than 130 countries study a Curtin degree, at locations including Perth, Margaret River, Kalgoorlie, Sydney, Malaysia and Singapore. Our cultural diversity adds a rich and valuable dimension to the campus atmosphere, preparing all graduates to live and work effectively in an increasingly global environment. We offer a range of industry-aligned undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business, humanities, health, engineering and related sciences. We also have a long-standing focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education and culture, supported by our Centre for Aboriginal Studies.Curtin is widely recognised for its practical research that is focused on solving timely, real-world problems. In recent years our research activity has grown significantly, driving our rapid rise up the international university rankings.As a university that never settles, we will continue to develop existing partnerships and establish new ones in areas relevant to our research and teaching.
