BX3061 - International Business
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
International business competes within a dynamic, strategic and global arena. The international business environment is always subject to change, as is the immediate business sphere. Business components including e-Business, e-Commerce, Services, Logistics, Finance, Marketing, HR, Politics, Law, Trade are also often subject to incremental or disruptive changes. The customer is yet another component to consider. Understanding this complex ingredient mix sets the framework for international success. A plan for strategic international business expansion is developed.
Learning Outcomes
- understand the broad history and foundations of international business;
- discuss, analyse and apply international business theory and policy;
- understand business from a global perspective and within the global marketplace;
- develop an international business solution eg. a global business plan, a business web site, a business/e-Business strategy, or an business simulation game solution;
- acquire insight(s) into the role of business enterprises in the expansion of business into the international environment.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
- The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
- The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
- The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.
| Prerequisites: | 12CP OF LEVEL 1 BU, BX, EC, CO, MG, TO SUBJECTS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | MG3715 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 10 | |
| Census Date 09-Dec-2010 | |
| Face to face teaching 06-Dec-2010 to 15-Dec-2010 (Video Conferenced pre-course breifing from 6-8pm on 6 December; Face to face dates are - 9, 10, 13, 14 & 15 Dec, 2010. Exam will be held on 17 December.) | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Zhang-Yue Zhou |
| Lecturer: | Dr Boaz Bernstein. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); presentations (15%); assignments (35% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 3 | |
| Census Date 21-Jan-2010 | |
| Face to face teaching 18-Jan-2010 to 29-Jan-2010 (Pre-Course briefing 6-8pm on 18 Jan, face-to-face teaching dates - 9-5pm on 23, 24, 25, 28 & 29 Jan. Exam on 3 Feb from 6-9pm.) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor John Hamilton |
| Lecturer: | Dr Boaz Bernstein. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); presentations (15%); assignments (35% - 45%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Compulsory attendance requirements in pre-course briefing, first lecture, and presentation sessions, for other lectures flexible option exists |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 18-Nov-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Boaz Bernstein |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); presentations (15%); assignments (35% - 45%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 25-Mar-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Zhang-Yue Zhou |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); presentations (15%); assignments (35% - 45%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 15-Apr-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Zhang-Yue Zhou |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); presentations (15%); assignments (35% - 45%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 12-Aug-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Boaz Bernstein |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); presentations (15%); assignments (35% - 45%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 09-Dec-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Boaz Bernstein |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); presentations (15%); assignments (35% - 45%). |
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