UNSW Handbook Program - Commerce and Economics

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Commerce and Economics - 8404

Area(s) of Specialisation

Program Summary


	Faculty: Australian School of Business
	Contact: pgbusiness@unsw.edu.au
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Typical Duration: 1.5 Years
	Typical UOC Per Session: 24
	Min UOC Per Session: 6
	Max UOC Per Session: 24
	Min UOC For Award: 72
	Award(s):
	Master of Commerce (Specialisation)

Program Description

The Master of Commerce program has a long and distinguished history in providing high quality, relevant business education to graduates who wish to broaden their undergraduate business degree and those from non-business backgrounds wishing to develop their skills and knowledge in business. The Master of Commerce program is taught on-campus. The typical program duration is 1.5 years full-time, or 3 years part-time.

Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The program has been designed to:

Provide students with a fundamental grounding in commerce/business.
Allow students to pursue in-depth study of their chosen discipline.
Ensure students are equipped with a breadth and depth of generic and disciplinary knowledge and skills which can be applied to a range of complex business problems and contexts over time.
Allow students to place their disciplinary specialisation in the wider context of commercial activity.

Program Structure

The Master of Commerce consists of 12 courses (4 core courses, 6 disciplinary courses and 2 elective courses).

Core Courses

COMM5001 Bus Comm, Ethics & Practice (6 UOC)
COMM5002 Managing for Value Creation 1 (6 UOC)
COMM5003 Managing for Value Creation 2 (6 UOC)

and

COMM5004 Business Capstone Project (6 UOC)

COMM5005 Quant Methods for Business (6 UOC)

Note: Depending on the specialisation chosen students undertake COMM5004 or COMM5005.

Disciplinary Courses

The disciplinary courses selected will depend on the chosen specialisation. Fifteen specialisations are available within the MCom program.
Each specialisation includes 2 disciplinary core courses. The remaining 4 disciplinary courses may be prescribed or selected from a list.

Area(s) of Specialisation

Accounting · Accounting · Strategic Value Management	Business Law · Business Law	Commerce · Business Strategy · Financial Econometrics
Finance · Finance · Banking · Funds Management · International Finance	Human Resource Management · Organisation and Management Studies · Human Resource Management	Information Systems and Information Technology · Information Systems
International Business · International Business	Marketing · Marketing	Tourism and Hospitality Management · Tourism Marketing

Elective Courses

Elective courses may be taken within the same disciplinary stream as the specialisation, or from any disciplinary stream available in the MCom program.

Academic Rules

http://www.business.unsw.edu.au/mcom

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website: https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

Further Information

For further information regarding this program is available at the Australian School of Business website