BUS110 Professional Practice (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Management (MANAG)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject is the first of three workplace learning subjects and focuses on providing an orientation to the business environment. Students will be introduced to the study of business as an integrated whole, thus gaining an understanding of how core business disciplines that will be studied in their degree e.g. management, marketing, human resource management, finance, economics and law, inform business practice. It has a particular emphasis on building professional knowledge of working in a business environment and developing employability skills in the areas of communication, team work, problem solving and self management. Students may have the opportunity to gain practical experience in a professional setting as part of this subject.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
| Internal | Bathurst |
| Internal | CSU Study Centre Sydney |
| Internal | Port Macquarie |
| Internal | Wagga Wagga |
| Distance | Wagga Wagga | Session 3 |
| Internal | CSU Study Centre Sydney |
| Distance | Wagga Wagga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: BUS110
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- Be able to identify personal examples of key employability skills, evaluate where personal skills require development and create a plan of action to show how skills will be developed
- Be able to discuss the relationship between learning and career and life development; apply this personally
- Be able to research, appraise and explain how paid and non-paid work relates to society and the economy
- Be able to identify personal career and life choices, go on to develop a strategy to achieve these, begin to apply them and appraise their efficacy
- Be able to modify personal career and life choices according to changes in personal and environmental influences
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Reflective practice:
- Self development as a business professional
- Emerging professional identity in relation to the professionals engaged within the business environment
- Professional knowledge and practice:
- Systems thinking and values in business management
- Writing a business report
- Work preparation and employability skills:
- The concept of employability
- Organising data
- Communication within the workplace
- Team work and problem solving
- Self management.
Workplace Learning
This subject contains a Compulsory Workplace Learning component of 5 days duration.
Required Duration of WPL Component is 35 hours
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.