Version

2

Division

Tropical Environments and Societies

Minimum English Language Proficiency Requirements

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 1 – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

Special admission requirements

Nil

Additional course rules

Nil

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate of Business Administration, JCU graduates will be able to:

• Critically analyse business-related knowledge and practice from both historical and recent perspectives

• Consolidate the application of differing sustainable business performance methods

• Synthesise sustainable economic, social and environmental practices and value systems

• Apply established concepts to provide solutions to complex business and professional practice problems

• Critically analyse contemporary business issues using appropriate models and make reasoned recommendations

• Apply creative and innovative thinking effectively to business practice

• Present complex information appropriately to differing audiences using:

• Effective oral presentation skills

• Clear and fluent written communication

• Work effectively in achieving common goals, demonstrating both:

• Collaboration

• Leadership

• Adapt sustainable business constructs and skills to theoretical or practical situations

• Exercise independent ethical judgment in solving differing business problems creatively

• Demonstrate a capacity for personal reflection and self-development in relation to professional business learning and practice.

Maximum time to complete

3 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

No

Accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

A student who has failed a single subject towards the award in their final teaching period and who gained 40% or more of the marks for that subject may be granted a supplementary examination in that subject. However if that subject is required for accreditation, then the criteria specified by that accreditation will apply.

Maximum allowed

6 credit points

Expiry

Advanced standing gained for any subject shall be cancelled 7 years after the date of the examination upon which the advanced standing is based if, by then, the student has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree.

Approved abbreviation

GCertBusAdmin

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable