Graduate Certificate of Management

Duration (International)

0.5 years
 
Assessment (Internat.) 

Assignments, group work and exams.

Outline 

To undertake a Graduate Certificate of Management students apply for entry to the Master of Business Administration and exit after completing the following requirements:

Career Opportunities 

Management, Business
 
RPL and Credit Transfer 

International students wishing to apply for RPL and Credit Transfer are required to provide syllabus of previous study undertaken at time of applying for course. Not all courses offer RPL and Credit Transfer. Contact the International Student Programs office at international@ballarat.edu.au
 
International students wishing to apply for RPL and Credit Transfer are required to provide syllabus of previous study undertaken at time of applying for course. Not all courses offer RPL and Credit Transfer. Contact the International Student Programs office at international@ballarat.edu.au
 
Objectives 

The course aims to provide:
- A coherent, integrated development program designed to prepare students for assuming broad managerial responsibilities;
- A variety of focused specialist courses that prepare the student for the immediate demands of a particular industrial or professional managerial setting; and
- A basis for further formal studies in management.

Objectives also include:
- Developing approaches to learning that will enable practising managers to demonstrate initiative, flexibility, problem solving ability, innovative thinking and responsiveness to change in their work environments;
- Providing a strong foundation in management and communications, accounting, human resource management, economics and marketing as the base disciplines of management;
- Developing a managerial focus and style that promotes awareness of the environment in which graduates will operate, and to develop approaches that are appropriate to these environments; and
- Developing relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable graduates to contribute to a specific managerial setting and promote the contribution of effective management in that setting.

Requirements 

To undertake a Graduate Certificate of Management students apply for entry to the Master of Business Administration and exit after completing the following requirements:

Three units chosen from the following:
BA401 Accounting and Finance
BM401 Marketing
BN412 Human Resource Management
BN921 Organisations: Behaviour, Structure, Processes
BN923 Knowledge and Information Management
BN927 Creativity and Innovation
BN930 Change Agent Strategies
BN961 Managerial Skills Workshop
Plus Any unit* from the graduate program
*pre requisites permitting

After graduating with the Graduate Certificate of Management you may apply to continue in the Graduate program, but time restrictions will apply for continuation in the program.