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Commerce

Academic English
Mathematics S or Mathematics C
Economics
Legal Studies
Accounting
Computing Studies

Academic English (10 units of credit)
Academic English & Study Skills

Content
Reading: understanding the meaning of unknown words; understanding the relationship between ideas in a text; skimming and scanning of texts; critical reading within a text; comparison and evaluation of different texts.

Writing: writing in an appropriate academic style; improving grammatical accuracy; developing an awareness of different essay genres; developing a knowledge of paragraph and essay structures; developing notetaking, summarising and paraphrasing skills; producing a research essay, emphasising critical thinking and the use of acknowledgments and references; presenting a research report, emphasising primary and secondary research skills, understanding the formal structure of a report, emphasising the use of descriptive and evaluative writing.

Listening: understanding stress and intonation patterns; recognising styles appropriate to different situations; following and understanding the structure of an academic talk or discussion; taking effective lecture notes; evaluating academic talks.

Speaking: becoming familiar with English spoken in the Australian context; practising pronunciation and stress patterns; participating effectively in small group discussions; presenting and participating in summary presentations and seminars.

Study skills: developing an awareness of differences in learning styles; practising research skills; developing personal organisational skills and effective time management; learning to cope with stress; examination skills.


Course Assessment
Final examination 50%
Semester 1 examination 15%
Assignments/participation 35%

Mathematics C (10 units of credit)
Most Commerce and some Design programs (Industrial Design)

Content
Rational and irrational numbers, indices, factorisation, equations and inequations, sequences and series.

Functions, limits, differentiation and applications, curve sketching; logarithmic and exponential functions; indefinite and definite integrals, applications.

Probability and statistics; frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion; normal distribution.


Course Assessment
Final examination 70%
Semester 1 examination 30%

Legal Studies (6 units of credit)

Content
Australian political institutions: the Constitution, the federal system, the High Court, Parliament, Cabinet.

The Australian legal system: the role of law in society, branches of law, sources of law, criminal law, interpretation of legislation, legal processes and the courts, administrative law, alternative dispute resolution.

Introduction to business law: contracts, torts, trusts, corporations law.


Course Assessment
Final examination 50%
Semester 1 examination 30%
Essays/assignments/tutorial participation 20%

Economics (12 units of credit)

Content
Economics as a social science; production possibilities; demand and supply analysis; government interference in the price mechanism.

Economics of the firm; costs and revenue; market structures; perfect competition; monopolistic competition, oligopoly and monopoly models; competition policy.

National income and expenditure analysis; economic growth; international trade and protection; exchange rates.

The Australian economy; financial sector; Reserve Bank; government economic policy management; monetary and fiscal policy.


Course Assessment
Final examination 60%
Semester 1 examination 30%
Assignment/tutorial participation 10%

Accounting (4 units of credit)
Content
What is Accounting? Purpose, types of reports, users, requirements of accounting reports; distinction between bookkeeping and accounting. Concepts/conventions; double entry and equity concepts; accounting doctrines; accounting standards.

Elements of the accounting equation; debit and credit rule; effect of revenue and expenses on owner’s equity; effect of business transations on the equation. The use of accounts; commonly used accounts; chart of accounts; chart of analysis of transactions.

The use of Journals: transactions and documents; recording transactions in journals; specialised journals; general journal; posting from journals to ledgers; control accounts and subsidiary ledgers.

Trial balance; financial statements; period adjustments; closing the ledger and tools for analysis.


Course Assessment
Final examination 90%
Tutorial participation/performance 10%

Computing Studies (6 units of credit)
Content
Computer technology: computer systems, hardware, software; history, potential and limitations.

Information and communication: management information systems, database processing, decision support systems, networks, including Internet.

Intelligent technology: expert systems, robotics, artificial intelligence.

The computer industry: magnitude, structure and career paths.

Computers and society: social, ethical and legal issues.

The tutorial/laboratory component will cover word processing, spreadsheets, database systems, networking and communications, computer graphics, desktop publishing.


Course Assessment
Final examination 30%
Semester 1 examination 20%
Tutorial/laboratory participation 50%