GC129 - Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (Executive)

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Plan: GC129 - Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (Executive)
Campus: RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus

Program delivery and structure

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

Approach to learning and assessment

The program is designed to minimise disruption to your normal work demands and work activities. Courses are mostly offered in the evening and occasionally on weekends. The program facilitators will utilise a range of teaching and learning methods, which are appropriate for the capabilities to be developed in each course. A statement of learning objectives is included in each course information document. Through a facilitated learning framework, a combination of issue-based seminars, case study analysis, student-based topic research and facilitator led class discussions, you will better understand the nature of the business constructs as they impact on your business decisions and organisational processes and performance in particular.

As indicated above, the principles of facilitated learning are important in the delivery of the content of this program. This facilitated learning approach follows the principles espoused in the seminal work of Revans (The Origins and Growth of Action Learning, Bikley: Chartwewll-Bratt, 1982). As a teaching and learning strategy, facilitated learning derives from the experience of both the facilitator and student.  In the program, face-to-face encounters as well as an on-line learning space are utilised.  The Facilitated Learning Model (FLM) used can be represented as the intersection of the experience of the facilitator, the experience of students and the teaching and learning resources.

Work experience is an essential component for the successful implementation of the FLM, in which the various concepts that underpin a course are anchored to the concrete experience of both the facilitator and the students. In this sense, there is a double-loop learning strategy also at work, where the facilitator and the students constantly strive to learn from each other as they navigate the content of a course.

Underpinning this navigation of the content is the real work experience of both the facilitator and the students. The identification of workplace and management issues and problems as well as proposing solutions and appropriate interventions and implementation strategies are all significant components of the approach to the FLM. As such, the FLM is also anchored in the principles of management development.

Various collaborative methods are also a widely used feature of the FLM. These delivery strategies include traditional syndicates, research learning circles, communities of practice and the collaborative learning networks.

Assessment
Assessment tasks include: business reports, academic essays, in-class presentations, group reports and examinations.


A critical feature of all assessment tasks is the requirement to link rigorous academic literature with your own organisational experience. In this way your reflective practice is encouraged to apply new knowledge and insights towards effective and professional business practices.

 
The assessment you must complete is designed to provide you with opportunities to demonstrate the extent to which you have developed your capabilities and achieved specific learning outcomes in a given area. Methods of assessment will also vary with the learning outcomes and core capabilities of the relevant course but may include case studies, research projects and reports.

If you have a long term medical condition, disability and/or other form of disadvantage it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.

Academic integrity
The originality verification software Turnitin (see http://www.turnitin.com), may be used on assessments in your program.

Note you must complete a hardcopy of the RMIT coversheet with your assessment submissions: http://mams.rmit.edu.au/rbkf8knmzbla1.doc. Specifically, support resources for yourself as a student to ensure that your submitted assessment accurately represents your work are provided at: http://www.rmit.edu.au/academicintegrity/students

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Work integrated learning

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will:

- undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice;
- interact with industry and community when undertaking these activities;
- complete these activities in real work contexts or situations; and
- be provided with distinctive sources of feedback to assist your learning.

Any or all of these aspects of a WIL experience may be simulated.

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Program Structure

To graduate you must complete the following:
 

All courses listed may not be available each semester

 

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This Program consists of FortyEight Credit Points

COMPULSORY COMMENCEMENT COURSE: Complete the following One (1) Course:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Business in a Global Context 12 BUSM3965 RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus
AND
Select Three (3) of the following Courses:

Course Title

Credit Points

Course Code

Campus

Accounting for Bus Decisions 12 BUSM4128 RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus
Leading People and Organisations 12 BUSM4133 RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus
Financial Management 12 BUSM4143 RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus
Marketing 12 MKTG1283 RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus
Any Postgraduate Course
 

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Program transition plan

From old courses and program (pre 2011) to new program (from 2011).

Where there is a one-to-one correspondence between old and new courses students will enrol in the new course from the first implementation of the new program structure.  Students are precluded from enrolling in a new course if they have already completed the old equivalent.

Most students in this program are part time, and apart from the initial and final course can complete the courses in any order. Any student who is concerned about how they are to transition into the new structure may have an individual structure designed and approved by the program coordinator.

Basic transition rules:

  • A student who has completed Finance and Accounting for Business Decisions must not enrol in either of Accounting for Business Decisions or Financial Management.
  • If a student has done either one or both of Leadership & Management or Managing People Relationships & Performance then they may not enrol in Leading People & Organisations.
  • Any student who has completed Business & Economic Analysis in the old structure can count it as an elective in the new structure.
  • If students have completed the equivalent of all core courses in the new program with a combination of new and old courses then they may have to complete an extra elective course to make up the required credit points.
  • A student who has completed 108 or fewer credit points at the time of implementation of the new program will be encouraged to complete the two new courses Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law, and Change and Innovation, as well as the capstone course Strategic Business Leadership (if they have not done Implementing Strategy) to qualify for the award.
  • Any student who has completed 120 credit points at the time of implementation of the new program will be encouraged to enrol in either one of the two new courses Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law, and Change and Innovation, as well as the capstone course Strategic Business Leadership (if they have not done Implementing Strategy) to qualify for the award.

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