This flexible, work-ready degree can lead you to many exciting and rewarding careers from accounting and finance through to marketing and HRM. It provides excellent grounding in all areas of business as well as detailed knowledge and skills in your particular career choice. Students embarking on the Bachelor of Commerce undertake 8 common units and at least one 8 unit major. You will then have the flexibility to undertake minors (4 units in related subjects) or electives (free choices) for the remaining 8 units. Minors can be undertaken in business, in other faculties or even overseas. The benefit of this flexibility is that students can follow their passions with complimentary majors and minors to enhance career prospects. Course Structure Core Units: All students undertaking the Bachelor of Commerce must study the 8 core units, as follows: Introduction to Accounting: More than the Numbers OR Money Matters Community Engagement: Building Strengths and Capabilities (includes internship with a not-for-profit organisation) Ethical Communication for Business Working with Diversity and Conflict Managing: People, Systems and Culture Marketing: Creating and Capturing Customer Value Self and Community: Exploring the anatomy of modern society Understanding Self and Society: Contemporary Perspectives Marketing: Our courses cover marketing processes such as: Marketing research Consumer behaviour Marketing communications Marketing management Managing advertising and promotion Strategic marketing E-marketing You will gain valuable practical experience through professional placements within not-for-profit organisations in your second year of study followed by the opportunity for further professional experience in a business-related field in your third year, making you job ready upon graduation. Our graduates understand the ethical, social, political and economic contexts that guide decision-making. This means the Bachelor of Commerce will not only help launch your business career but also prepare you for future managerial positions. This summary mainly focuses on Marketing major. Career Paths: Graduate career opportunities arise in both the private and public sectors and cover a wide range of occupations: Accounting firms Advertising Business management Business regulation Data analytics Employment relations Event management Financial management Human resource management International trade and investment Marketing management Marketing research Personal investment Policy administration Retailing and wholesaling