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

Closing date

30 September

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 Bachelor of Business graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate essential knowledge necessary for a career in business related professions

• Synthesise underlying principles and concepts for making business decisions

• Critically analyse the core professional obligations, values and operations of organisations including sustainability

• Critically evaluate data and resources in the context of relevant academic literature

• Apply critical thinking to address issues in business

• Convey information clearly and fluently, in high quality written form appropriate for their audience

• Demonstrate effective oral presentation skills for academic and professional audiences

• Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively

• Apply technical skills, including numeracy, necessary for professional practice in business

• Demonstrate an awareness of ethical and social responsibility in professional practice

• Identify and act upon, learning opportunities and self-improvements

In the context of a JCU graduate, on successful completion of the Bachelor of Psychological Science, graduates will be able to demonstrate a broad and coherent body of knowledge with depth in:

• The major theoretical perspectives, concepts, and philosophical and historical developments in the core areas of psychology

• The methods and ethics of scientific investigation as applied to psychology

• The ethics of professional, evidence based practice and interventions.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Psychological Science will be able to:

• Review, critique, and synthesise the research literature in the core areas of psychology

• Exercise critical thinking and judgement in the design and conduct of scientific investigations to solve psychological questions with intellectual independence

• Communicate a clear, coherent, and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas through well-developed written and spoken English language skills

• Use information technologies and appropriate techniques to analyse, interpret, and report research findings and data and generate solutions to problems in psychology

• Adapt and apply research skills and their psychological understanding, including knowledge of cultural diversity, to investigate human and animal behaviour in diverse contexts

• Interact with others in an ethical and professional manner in research and/or professional practice

• Demonstrate responsibility and accountability in planning, problem solving, decision making, collaboration and ongoing professional learning in research and/or professional practice.

Credit points in major

24 credit points

Maximum time to complete

10 years

Eligibility

A student admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Business – Bachelor of Psychological Science at this university may be invited by the College Dean to undertake the Honours degree in Psychology if that student has

Psychology Honours

• obtained a minimum of 72 credit points including successful completion of all Psychology level 1, 2 and 3 subjects prescribed in Bachelor of Business-Bachelor of Psychological Science

• obtained a minimum of a Credit average (65%) across PY2103, PY2107 and a minimum Distinction average (75%) across 15 credit points of level 3 PY subjects, including PY3101

Business Honours

Normally a minimum average grade of Credit is required in the pass degree subjects relevant to the field in which Honours is to be taken.