The pressures on business in today’s global environment are increasingly focused towards delivering sustainable growth through adaptation, innovation, and responsible management of risks associated with rapidly changing environments, around resource usage (physical and human).
Managing commercially sustainable businesses necessitates understanding constant, pervasive and paradigm shifting political, social and economic changes, and their systemic impact on organisational growth and business sustainability.
The Master of Commerce consists of 12 units. Students not wishing to undertake the full Masters course may exit with:
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Graduate Certificate of Commerce (4 units)
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Graduate Diploma of Commerce (8 units)
Course Objectives
This course provides you with the concepts, models, frameworks, research and analytical skills to enable you to understand, strategise and deal effectively with complex business challenges.
This course will prepare you for the global business environment. It will build your understanding of sustainability (commercial, environmental and people oriented) in the business world and your skills in leadership, management, business decision-making and risk taking in a constantly changing environment.
Career Outcomes
Organisations increasingly require people with skills, knowledge and attributes that reflect an understanding of the complex interactions between external pressures and adaptive business strategy. There is also a need for strategic human resource management that sustains people and respects wider community interests. This course should help graduates to drive these agendas and display sophisticated understanding of business sustainability issues and practices in private and public enterprise.
Eligibility
• Entry to the Master of Commerce will be available to applicants who have completed the Graduate Diploma in Commerce or approved equivalent.
• Entry to the Graduate Diploma of Commerce will be available to applicants who have completed the Graduate Certificate of Commerce or approved equivalent.
• Entry into the Graduate Certificate of Commerce will be available to applicants:
- with an undergraduate degree from a recognised tertiary institution or approved equivalent
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- without a degree but who have significant relevant business experience, normally at least 4 years
How to Apply
This course is restricted. Students are required to apply and be approved by Swinburne University of Technology before they can enrol in units through OUA.
Applications for the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Commerce are due two weeks prior to the close of enrolment.
Please complete the application form below.
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requirements and your personal circumstances, specifically:
- Your curriculum vitae - required for entry into postgraduate courses
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eligibility rules.
- A letter of recommendation from your employer on company letterhead -
recommended for entry using work experience.
- Certified legal documentation - if you have changed your name e.g. a marriage
certificate, deed poll name change certificate.
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birth e.g. a birth certificate.
- English language test results - if your courses were not predominantly in
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Transition Arrangements
From 2012 the Master of Commerce offers students the option of selecting elective units instead of completing twelve core units. The new course structure will be available from Study Period 1 2012. Students who have completed units before 2012 should refer to the information below and contact Swinburne for enrolment advice.
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The two research units LMC604 and LMC704 are being withdrawn and replaced by MTB820 Business Research Methods and MTB830 Research Report. LMC704 is offered for the last time in SP1 2012 to enable existing students who have completed LMC604 to complete their study program.
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Students who have completed LMC604 may use this unit as a level six unit to complete the new program as an elective. These students will be precluded from completing its replacement unit, MTB820.
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Students who have not completed LMC604 but wish to complete the research stream must enrol in MTB820 and MTB830 at the masters level.
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Students who have already completed LMC501, LMC603 or LMC702 will be precluded from enrolling into their respective replacement units (LMC501B, LMC603B and LMC702B respectively).
Study Materials
Online delivery is supported by a unit website, learning materials and online activities. Voluntary face to face workshops may also be offered. Assessment is designed to encourage problem-oriented research, independent and innovative thinking, team based capabilities and project work. In addition you will be encouraged to understand relevant business research methods and apply program learning to your own or other organisational situations and challenges.
Award Requirements
To qualify for the award of Master of Commerce students must complete 12 units.
Recognition of Prior Learning / Credit
Applicants with prior tertiary studies that satisfy part of the academic requirements of this course may be granted ‘credit’ and/or entry to the course with ‘advanced standing’. University policies apply and applicants are assessed on a case-by-case basis.
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a process where a student may be granted credit or partial credit towards a qualification in recognition of skills and knowledge gained through work experience, life experience and/or formal training.
Contact the Swinburne OUA Coordinator for more information on RPL: ouald@swin.edu.au
Recommended Study Pattern
Master of Commerce students complete three core units, plus nine additional units drawn from any level of the Master of Commerce suite of programs, with a minimum of three units at level 7, the latter including the two research units MTB820 and MTB830
Students who want to enrol in the project unit MTB830 must have prior approval from the program coordinator.
Related Courses
This course sits within a group of courses, giving you the flexibility to study towards different levels of qualification. The courses are listed from the highest to the lowest qualification.
