James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

BU4052:04

Advanced Business Issues

Townsville, Cairns

Prerequisites: Admission to BAdmin (Tour) and BBus honours program

26 lectures, 24 hours workshops. Full year.

Available to level 4 Tourism, Business, Management, Marketing and Human Resource Management Honours students.

Staff: Mr A Birtles (Townsville campus); Mr C Ware (Cairns campus).

An advanced analysis of current business issues.

Learning Objectives:

  1. develop an advanced understanding of the key current issues in the tourism, management, marketing and/or human resource management fields;
  2. develop high level skills in presentation of seminars;
  3. develop high level skills in analysis of complex tourism, management, marketing and/or human resource management problems.

Assessment by presentation of three seminars (20% each); report on current issues (40%).