DP003 - Diploma of Commerce

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Plan: DP003 - Diploma of Commerce
Campus: City Campus

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure
Program transition plan

Approach to learning and assessment

Your class time will comprise a combination of lectures, tutorials, class discussion and activities. 

The following teaching and learning approaches form the basis of your learning experiences:

  • You will be offered a learner-centred curriculum that encourages learner engagement and participation providing you with opportunities to communicate in a variety of modes.
  • You will be engaged in projects and authentic tasks that require you to work in multidisciplinary teams on multidisciplinary problems and critically engage with aspects of team development and conflict resolution.
  • You will undertake projects that require you to access a wide variety of knowledge repositories including professional journals, discussion lists and online sources of material.
  • Your learning experiences will contain a broad mix of study modes, including lectures, seminars, workshops and weekly classes, using face-to-face, on-line and other flexible delivery mechanisms.

Assessment:
To ensure that you have achieved the required learning outcomes and developed critical capabilities you must be assessed.  Assessment is designed to give you opportunities to demonstrate your capabilities.  You will find that the forms of assessment used may be different for each course, as the assessment you receive must be appropriate to the objectives of each course. The assessment you receive is critical to the success of your degree program, and to your future success in the workplace.  The Graduate Capabilities designed into your program (a pre-requisite for your success) are satisfied only if the Learning Outcomes specified for each course are known to have been satisfied.  Assessment may be expected to take different forms, such as:

  • Assignments and projects: these may be done individually or in groups.  This method may also enable you to demonstrate your ability to work alone or as a member of a team;
  • Reflective journals: where you pause to consider what you have learnt, along with reflecting on the self-development associated with that learning;
  • Assessed tutorials: a form of in-class test, which may be done individually or as a team;
  • Laboratory reports: which provide an exercise in experimentation, report writing and critical analysis of data;
  • Self-assessment and peer-assessment: for assessment activities such as seminars you will assess yourself or your own group; or assess the work of other groups.  This is part of equipping you to become more independent in your own learning and assessing your own and others’ performance.
  • Assessments: an individual form of assessment where you have the opportunity to demonstrate your ability to explain fundamental principles and solve problems;
  • Industry and business projects: connected to the discipline areas that may be simulated or :"real life" business projects to allow opportunities to further enhance the relevance of your study and experience.
  • Most of the assessment you undertake will enable your lecturer to provide you with feedback on your strong and weak points.  This will enable you to improve your future performance.  Speak to your lecturer if you are not receiving helpful feedback.

If you have a disability, long-term illness and/or mental health condition you can access support from the Equitable Learning Services (ELS).  In consultation with you, the ELS determines Reasonable Adjustments (RAs) and Equitable Assessment Arrangements (EAAs) This support provides equal opportunity in their studies in accordance with the Commonwealth Disability Discrimination Act 1992. The ELS also provides staff and students with information and assistance in relation to disability related matters.

If you require assistance you can access the Equitable Learning Services (ELS):
https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-support/equitable-learning-services

If you have already developed areas of skill and knowledge included in this program (for example, through prior studies or work experience), you can apply for credit once you have enrolled in this program. There is information on the RMIT University website about how to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit/he

To view the Assessment Policy go to: https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/governance-and-management/policies/assessment-policy

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Work integrated learning

As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will be provided with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. The designated Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course(s) in this program is MKTG1329 Marketing Principles (12 credit points). These courses will provide you with opportunities to apply your academic skills to a work-based context. 

In particular, you will:

  • undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice; and
  • be involved in authentic engagement with partner organisations that includes industry feedback.

These learning opportunities may be in the form of industry-based projects or simulations.

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Program Structure

To graduate you must complete the following. Please note, all courses listed may not be available each semester.
 

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Year One of Program

Semester One: Complete the following Four (4) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Business Information Systems (Diploma/Associate Degree) 12 ISYS3314 City Campus
Accounting in Organisations and Society (Diploma/Associate Degree) 12 ACCT2213 City Campus
Business Law (Diploma/Associate Degree) 12 LAW2497 City Campus
Prices and Markets 12 ECON1275 City Campus
AND
Semester Two: Complete the following Four (4) Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Business Statistics 12 ECON1274 City Campus
Introduction to Management 12 BUSM4323 City Campus
Marketing Principles (Diploma/Associate Degree) 12 MKTG1329 City Campus
Macroeconomics 1 12 ECON1273 City Campus
 

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Program transition plan

The DP003 Diploma of Commerce is scheduled will be discontinued from Semester 1, 2023. The last intake for this program will be Semester 2, 2022.

If you are a current student who commenced in DP003 in Semester 2, 2022 or prior, you will have until the end of Semester 2, 2024 to complete the program requirements.  You will receive enrolment advice to support you to complete your studies by this teach-out date.

To ensure that all students complete within the teach-out period, applications for leave of absence or reduced study load requests may not be approved.  Additional offerings outside of the main semester 1 and 2 semesters may be available to students if required.  If you have any questions about this please speak to your Program Coordinators (details below).

A new Diploma of Commerce Program has been created.  The College of Vocational Education is currently seeking CRICOS registration and will provide further advice at that time for any students unable to complete their studies by the end of Semester 2, 2024. 

If you have any questions around your program discontinuation, please contact your Program Coordinators Sylwia Greda-Bogusz (sylwia.greda-bogusz@rmit.edu.au) and Annitta Siliato (annitta.siliato@rmit.edu.au)

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