School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Business Study Tour
  • Unit Code

    BUS3700
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Claire Marion LAMBERT

Description

This unit is designed to enable undergraduate students to be involved in an international business experience offshore. The tour aims to provide students with first-hand knowledge and experience of business operations in their relevant discipline. The tour will provide students with an opportunity to draw together theory and practice in the country or region visited. Acceptance to this unit will be by application only.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge and skills relevant to discipline.
  2. Develop an understanding of the major social, political, cultural and/or economic challenges that apply to these international businesses.
  3. Exercise critical thinking and judgment to analyse cultural and global environments.
  4. Identify recent global trends relevant to discipline.
  5. Operate with increased cultural awareness and cross-cultural skills.

Unit Content

  1. Cultural sensitivity.
  2. International business environments.
  3. Social, political, cultural and economic challenges.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

The learning experiences for this study tour will vary according to the mode of delivery and semester it is offered. The unit will comprise participation in an intensive (usually between one and three weeks duration), in-person or virtual’ study tour, which involves engagement with industry professionals and university academics from a range of business and discipline areas. Students will usually be required to complete assessments pre-, during- and post- the study tour period. As the study schedule is arranged and customised each semester by the Unit Coordinator, students should contact the Unit Coordinator for further information prior to enrolment.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment I30%
AssignmentAssignment II30%
AssignmentAssignment III40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 130%
AssignmentAssignment 1130%
AssignmentAssignment III40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Business Study Tour
  • Unit Code

    BUS3700
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Claire Marion LAMBERT

Description

This unit is designed to enable undergraduate students to be involved in an international business experience offshore. The tour aims to provide students with first-hand knowledge and experience of business operations in their relevant discipline. The tour will provide students with an opportunity to draw together theory and practice in the country or region visited.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge and skills relevant to discipline.
  2. Develop an understanding of the major social, political, cultural and/or economic challenges that apply to these international businesses.
  3. Exercise critical thinking and judgment to analyse cultural and global environments.
  4. Identify recent global trends relevant to discipline.
  5. Operate with increased cultural awareness and cross-cultural skills.

Unit Content

  1. Cultural sensitivity.
  2. International business environments.
  3. Social, political, cultural and economic challenges.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

The learning experiences for this study tour will vary according to the mode of delivery and semester it is offered. The unit will comprise participation in an intensive (usually between one and three weeks duration), in-person or virtual’ study tour, which involves engagement with industry professionals and university academics from a range of business and discipline areas. Students will usually be required to complete assessments pre-, during- and post- the study tour period. As the study schedule is arranged and customised each semester by the Unit Coordinator, students should contact the Unit Coordinator for further information.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment I20%
AssignmentAssignment II40%
AssignmentAssignment III40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 120%
AssignmentAssignment 1140%
AssignmentAssignment III40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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