Subjects overview
This program can be completed in 2 years 8 months (8 semesters)
Core Curriculum
Students must complete the following three (3) subjects plus the Beyond Bond Program.
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CORE11-011: Critical Thinking and Communication (10CP)
In this subject, students will be introduced to critical thinking and clear expression. They will evaluate arguments, identify assumptions, judge patterns of inference, and recognise and apply various methods of reasoning. Students will learn how to clarify and visually represent their thinking to make better decisions, evaluate and use evidence, and communicate more effectively in their writing and speaking. Using these skills, students will structure and write an academic essay and deliver an oral presentation.
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CORE11-012: Responsibility, Integrity and Civic Discourse (10CP)
Integrity, and the courage and capability to act on one’s sense of responsibility, are key components of a thriving life. Responsibility, Integrity and Civic Discourse fosters students’ lifelong commitment to responsible discourse and action in all spheres of human interaction, recognising the global aspect to contemporary citizenship. Students explore the complex relationship between character, responsible action, and creative critical thinking, learning how to reflect on and articulate their unique sense of global citizenship and responsibility. By accentuating the importance of justification and articulation of the reasons for our actions, students exercise their critical, communicative, and cooperative capabilities so that they can thrive with integrity in the multiple contexts of action they will face as private, civic, professional, and global citizens.
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CORE11-013: Collaboration for Global Change (10CP)
In today's work and study environments, individuals often encounter complex, open-ended problems that necessitate collaboration in both physical and virtual realms and across sectors and specialisations. In Collaboration for Global Change, students engage collaboratively to craft genuine solutions for global issues. In this context, students link their endeavours to specific sustainable development goals, thus positioning their actions as contributions to global citizenship. As they learn to defend their ideas and perspectives, students apply critical thinking, design thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills within a problem-based learning environment. This comprehensive approach equips them with the necessary skills and mindset to excel in future work, academic pursuits, and global initiatives.
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Beyond Bond Program
To keep up with the ever-changing work landscape, we aim to help our students future-proof their careers by developing broader employability skills that are actively sought out by employers. Unique to our University, Beyond Bond is a compulsory professional development program with a practical, activity-based approach that is integrated into all undergraduate degrees.
Entrepreneurial Transformation Subjects
Students must complete the following one hundred and sixty credit points (160CP).
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BUSN12-200: Responsible and Sustainable Organisations (10CP)
Considering the increasingly complex environmental, social and governance challenges facing today's business organisations, it is essential to develop an integrated understanding of business and its role in society. In this subject, students will be challenged to explore a multinational business from multiple perspectives to develop a systems view of the organisation and its global business environment. Through readings, discussions, case studies, projects and other learning activities, students will develop a more nuanced view of the purpose and functioning of business, the expectations of stakeholders, and the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing those expectations. This exploration will include understanding the functional areas of business as well as how each can work together in an overall design to enable an integrative and innovative approach to responsible and sustainable business.
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COLB11-100: Global Citizenship (10CP)
The course encourages participants to identify and overcome the primary barriers to effective global citizenship found in epistemological, political, and historical modes of thinking. Students will also explore how an absence in institutions and civil society of robust concepts of global citizenship can institute dehumanising social and political practices. Through investigating such practices, participants will explore how a notion of global citizenship can inform critical thinking on issues such as climate change, international justice, and human rights. Furthermore, students will learn to propose effective solutions to such global challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of proposed policy and action. Ultimately, students in this course will consider a range of contemporary and imminent global challenges and gain proficiency in thinking critically about them and applying insights to their own lives.
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COLB12-100: Immersion 1: Work-Based Experience (10CP)
Immersion 1: Work-Based Experience provides students with a transition from study to the workplace. This subject offers an experiential application of previously studied theories and methodologies within a simulated professional context. Students will complete a work-based project as they enhance their understanding of the workplace.
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COLB12-110: Trust and Privacy in the Digital Age (10CP)
Emergent digital processes and virtual spaces create new business and governance opportunities and risks. This subject introduces a range of challenges related to trust, privacy, ethics and governance, which arise from digitally-mediated practices. Using a case-based approach, students will analyse significant controversies from a range of disciplines. Topics to be canvassed may evolve as the technological landscape develops and, in light of what is topical at any given time, may include the legal and ethical issues surrounding such matters as: data privacy, and the collection, processing and use of personal data; the protection of intellectual property rights in areas such as computer programs, new inventions and designs through patent, copyright, and design protection; cybersecurity and cybercrime; issues surrounding the rise of algorithms, including through blockchain/distributed ledger technology; the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning; and the potential liability of social networks over the spread of sensitive or inaccurate information. This subject prepares students not just to understand the ramifications of an organisations’ digital practices, but more broadly to assist organisations in producing strategies and solutions for effective economic, political, and social processes.
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COLB12-120: Design: Process, Methods and Mindsets (10CP)
This subject challenges students to understand and use processes and models at the core of design thinking. Students are given problems that challenge even the greatest organisations and minds both in and out of business, often referred to as wicked problems. Students will demonstrate design thinking processes by framing a problem and choosing from a set of transdisciplinary tools and strategies, such as abductive reasoning, spatial modelling, ideation, prototyping and implementation, to deliver innovative solutions. Students who successfully complete this subject will have the knowledge and skills to use ‘design thinking’ as professionals, in teams and for society.
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COLB12-200: Global Challenges 1 (20CP)
Global Challenges 1 provides students with an opportunity to effectively identify and address a significant and complex problem that will form the basis of a major project. This innovative subject focuses upon wicked problems and the challenges they pose. Wicked problems are highly complex and difficult to define; clean solutions to wicked problems prove elusive, with proposed solutions generating unintended consequences that require resolution of new problems, which are themselves difficult and often wicked. Global Challenges 1 provides students with an opportunity to investigate such problems while integrating their theoretical understanding and practical experience. Students will work in an experiential and collaborative learning environment as they develop the skills and knowledge to identify and conceptualise a wicked problem.
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COLB13-110: Immersion 2: Work Placement (10CP)
Immersion 2: Work Placement provides students with the opportunity to further their theoretical understanding and practical application of workplace principles. This subject is grounded in experiential learning in which students will be required to complete a discipline-related work placement. Successful completion of the placement is essential in order for students to gain the practical experience necessary to demonstrate their ability to effectively engage industry experts and professionals and adhere to workplace requirements. To support work placements, students will participate in regular peer and business mentor sessions. Through these sessions, students will develop skills in critical reflection and professional goal setting, as evidenced through portfolio completion.
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COLB13-200: Global Challenges 2 (20CP)
Global Challenges 2 provides students with an opportunity to further explore the complexities and potential solutions of the types of problems identified within Global Challenges 1. This innovative subject is the second stage in a series of two subjects that encompass project-based investigation of prominent global challenges, allowing students to integrate their theoretical understanding and practical experience to design and develop a methodology to address a chosen challenge. Global challenges are typically highly complex and difficult to define, with the solution to such problems often evolving into unintended consequences that require resolution of a new problem. Students will study the complexities of global challenges within a dynamic social context encouraging the exploration and integration of multiple perspectives.
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COMN12-302: Digital Media and Society (10CP)
This subject examines changes to the global media environment to help you prepare to become a knowledge worker who will work in the rapidly changing professional employment market. Some of the most profound changes have occurred in global communication networks, digitalisation of media, mobile content creation and delivery, human-machine interaction, virtualisation, artificial intelligence, big data, and video, sound and text democratisation. These global media trends are examined in their social context drawing on interdisciplinary studies that include humanities, arts, social sciences, and business. You will learn about these and you will create professional public media content to demonstrate your digital knowledge and skills.
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DTSC11-110: Cyber and Fraud Threats in Organisations (10CP)
All organisations today face cyber and fraud threats: small and large businesses, non-profits, health organisations, government and more. Valuable corporate data is highly sought after in the criminal and business communities. Emerging intellectual property and organisational data provides an insight into competitors as well as being valuable commodities to sell on the criminal markets. In this subject, you will be introduced to cybercriminals, learn their motivations and methodologies, and identify potential vulnerabilities and proactive strategies to protect the organisational network, its employees and its data.
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LAWS10-210: Enterprise Law (10CP)
This subject is an introductory level examination of the law regulating enterprises in Australia today. Students will develop a foundational understanding of the Australian legal system and the laws associated with starting, financing, managing, and closing an enterprise. They will also cultivate the skills and knowledge to recognise and respond appropriately to legal problems, including those involving causing harm, making and enforcing deals, dealing with consumers and competitors, and protecting IP.
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MGMT13-311: Leading Innovation and Change (10CP)
A ubiquitous challenge in organisational life is how to effectively initiate, implement and sustain desired change. Although organisations continue to expend staggering amounts of time and resources on change initiatives, the majority of such efforts do not achieve their intended outcomes. In this subject, students will explore the underlying reasons for these failures to examine the fundamental nature of change and the challenges that change agents at different organisational levels face as they plan and execute change. Since organisations consist of people, students begin with an examination of individual change to explore fundamental concepts before extending and expanding their scope to consider change at the organisational level. Students will have the opportunity to apply and test their understanding of change management principles through readings, case study discussions, exercises, role plays and individual and group projects.
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MKTG11-100: Marketing Fundamentals (10CP)
Marketing is the art and science of understanding and satisfying customer needs by creating value for both the customer and the marketer. Facilitating these exchanges requires several interrelated processes and activities including market research, market segmentation, product, pricing, promotional strategies and distribution. In this introductory subject, you will explore the various theories and frameworks of marketing and learn to apply them to marketing phenomena around you.
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MKTG13-312: Digital Marketing for Customer Engagement (10CP)
This subject aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the theory and practice of digital marketing. It focuses on the behavioural considerations of target buyers and how search engine, email, mobile and content marketing may be strategically leveraged to build profitable customer relationships. This experiential subject offers students the opportunity to practice Internet marketing through planning, researching, executing, analysing, and iterating multi-format Internet marketing campaigns. It also features the use of artificial intelligence to augment and enhance performance.
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Required Global Studies (Sustainability) Subjects
Students must complete the following one hundred credit points (100CP) of subjects.
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BMED12-123: Global Health Issues (10CP)
This subject focusses on issues of global health in the 21st century. It includes examining public health approaches that are practical and effective in the context of developing countries compared and contrasted to those that may be applicable in developed countries including Australia.
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ENGL12-106: World Literature (10CP)
This subject focuses on the power of literature to grow empathy and to increase our understanding of different conceptions of human life. You will explore key texts which, although created in specific cultural and geographical locations for a local audience, have transcended those boundaries. These texts are being read in the global village, in multiple languages, in times different from their authorship. The investigation of these texts will give you an opportunity to understand the value of learning the myriad ways with which the human experience is depicted in literature. Furthermore, analysing how literary features, such as translation, impact our understanding of the world described in these stories, will enhance your capabilities as global citizens. The subject aims to develop a greater awareness of how studying world literature can create new, more responsible understandings of humanity.
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GLBE11-100: Climate Change and the Future World (10CP)
Understanding how the planet works has never been more important as a topic in tertiary education. A practical understanding of that and how it can affect humanity is vital. This knowledge will be required to combat climate change through all career structures. Understanding climate change is now as important as learning how the economy, the legal system and how our national and international society works because it will affect all of these in the future. This subject will introduce you to climate change through Earth and Global Systems, climate mechanisms, ocean and atmospheric interactions and changes in the future world. In this subject, the climate change complexity is explained within the realm of general undergraduate knowledge. We will discuss current and future outcomes of climate change together with climate processes, human activity, impacts on biodiversity, the oceans and biological extinction. Major issues arising include drought, desertification, rising heat, natural disasters and loss of habitats and habitable and agricultural areas. Increasing sea levels and severe weather events will impact human habitation, cause forced migration, food production and the loss of animals, fish, and their habitats. All these issues will challenge the world’s economic systems, political boundaries, global communities, international law, geopolitical boundaries and our philosophy towards others and the natural world. Forced population movement and migrations caused by sea level rise as well as changes in disease patterns will compound these problems, particularly with a growing world population. The subject will provide you with the ability to filter out misinformation about the causes and consequences of climate change, and how you can face your future with a greater understanding of how to tackle a changing world.
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INTR11-100: Introduction to International Relations (10CP)
This subject introduces you to the basic concepts and theoretical approaches in International Relations, and it forms the essential foundation for further explorations of the field. Introduction to International Relations provides you with a framework for the analysis of contemporary international affairs. You will learn a theoretical foundation that allows you to investigate and analyse specific matters in international relations such as war and peace, the state and nationalism, sovereignty and intervention, non-state actors, and human security.
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INTR12-230: Terrorism (10CP)
Terrorism is recognised as an irregular form of global conflict and a central concern of national and international politics. Terrorism affects all the complex elements of international relations, including trade, economics, information transfers, culture and religion. Understanding terrorism requires an interdisciplinary approach, and this subject equips you with the theoretical frameworks to analyse the motivations and transnational nature of this phenomenon. The subject also provides you with an overview of the strategies deployed by states and institutions to combat this lethal form of political activism.
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INTR13-309: Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (10CP)
Diplomacy: Theory and Practice provides you with a rigorous understanding of conceptual and practical issues relating to modern diplomacy. You will learn about diplomacy and get to practice diplomacy, via a range of innovative, authentic and diverse negotiation exercises. The aims of this subject are twofold and unique: to allow you to put theory into practice and to encourage you to think and act like diplomats.
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INTR13-313: Contemporary Globalisations (10CP)
This subject introduces you to contemporary formulations of international relations, the global system and related institutions. Beginning with an overview of the existing approaches to globalisation and International Relations, you will examines the role of multilateral institutions in providing frameworks for global and regional governance. Various United Nations agencies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the African Union (AU), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other groups have been increasingly involved in addressing non-traditional security challenges including climate change, transnational crime and weapons proliferation. In this subject, you will explore alternative approaches to power, globalisation, environmental diplomacy, the role of strategic and political cultures, and new ‘world order’ transitions.
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LING11-102: World Languages (10CP)
World Languages introduces you to a fascinating world of human languages. This innovative subject prepares you for the challenges of language learning and explores how languages are interconnected with communities and their cultures. You will investigate why we all sound differently and how the languages we speak condition our world view. You will also learn reasons for potential difficulties with learning languages and the phenomenal advantages of learning an additional language. The subject provides you with a unique opportunity to explore and sample languages offered by the Faculty of Society and Design. This language education subject can either be taken as an introduction to learning the language of your choice, or as an elective. The subject aims to reinforce your love and enthusiasm for languages, the way they express cultures and help us become global citizens.
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SSUD11-102: Sustainable Development and Society (10CP)
This subject introduces students to the principles, theory and practice of sustainable development and its role in our society. It provides an insight into the key underpinning fundamentals of ecology, natural environment and the built environment before illustrating how they can be put into practice in areas such as the environment, cities and urban development, construction, architecture, property and urban planning.
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Global Studies Option
Students must choose ten credit points (10CP) of the following subjects.
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SDUP12-201: Land Use and Infrastructure Development (10CP)
Land use and infrastructure are important elements that shape city development. There is a need for integration of land uses and infrastructure, and systematic development of key sites in cities for building sustainable cities. Cities also require management of land use conflicts and building disaster resilience through proactive land use planning. This subject provides an overview of land use, site development and infrastructure planning processes with a focus on land use and infrastructure integration, land use conflicts and disaster resilience. Through place-based practical exercises, the students will learn to conduct land use and site analysis for a parcel of land and formulate development options.
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SSUD11-105: Land Economy and the Environment (10CP)
Issues relating to land economy and the environment underpin sustainable development. Land is both a vital resource and an environmental asset. The subject's focus is on human relationships with land and environment, supply and demand, land and environmental market structures and the management of land as a scarce resource. This subject uses case studies to illustrate the integration and conflict between the land economy and development.
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General Elective
Students must choose ten credit points (10CP) of undergraduate subjects from across the University.
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University Undergraduate Electives
Students may choose from all Undergraduate subjects across the University that are available as general electives.
Statistics Option
Students must complete one (1) of the following two (2) subjects.
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STAT11-111: Business Statistics (10CP)
This subject introduces students to fundamental quantitative theory and tools to support the data analysis and decision making needs of modern organisations. This subject covers descriptive statistics, probability distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing and regression. This subject focuses on developing practical computational skills and systematic problem-solving capabilities to analyse and interpret data for various business problems and decisions. The tools and techniques introduced in this subject, including the use of spreadsheets for data management and analysis, can be applied to exploratory big data analysis.
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STAT11-112: Quantitative Methods (10CP)
Designed to foster the development of foundational mathematical and statistical skills necessary for subsequent quantitative subjects in the Bond Business School. This includes applications of calculus, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, and application of the central limit theorem to large sample inference and data analytics. The use of popular statistical computing packages is integral to providing an applied approach to these topics.
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