This course provides students with the skills and conceptual understandings required by entrepreneurial managers and business owners in industries founded on high-level technical skills. The course supports graduates to continue to manage their professional and learning development including further study at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

• Location:
  City King St, Footscray Nicholson and Footscray Park
• Other locations:

  City King, and Workplace delivery.

• College:
  College of Business
• Study mode:
  Full Time and Part Time
• Delivery mode:
  Burst Mode, On campus and Working in the Workplace
• Course code:
  BADA
• Duration:
  2 years
• This information is for Australian residents.
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How to apply

The Associate Degree in Enterprise Skills will provide an appropriate course of study for graduates from trade or paraprofessional level technical courses seeking a further qualification, at higher education level, to support their career transition into a management or entrepreneurial role. Typically such people become unit or project managers within enterprises or seek to establish their own small to medium business.

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To provide students with the skills and conceptual understandings required by entrepreneurial managers and business owners in industries founded on high-level technical skills. To enable students to apply their skills in, and knowledge of selected areas of, business and management to the development of unique approaches to their work as managers or supervisors and to the identification of new business opportunities. To provide students with advanced technical skills in areas relevant to their career aspirations. To enable students to develop effective professional practices such as ethical and accountable approaches to work, reflective practice and strategic self and career management. To enable students to develop the personal and professional attributes required in effective technical workplaces. To enable students to demonstrate insight and entrepreneurial thinking in the performance of management and leadership tasks. To provide the foundational knowledge and skills which will support graduates to continue to manage their professional and learning development including further study at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

The course is offered over two years on a full-time basis or over four years on a part-time basis.

The course consists of four components: An Individual Professional Development Portfolio (12-24 credit points); A work-based Professional Project (24 credit points); 8 units of enterprise skills units providing the opportunity to combine skills based Vocational Education (VE) units with more conceptual Higher Education (HE) units in enterprise, management and business studies (96 credit points) and 4-5 units of advanced technical skills in an area of technical specialisation relevant to the learner's work and based on both VE and HE choices (60 credit points). An initial recognition of prior learning (RPL) assessment will be conducted for each student. The RPL process will include a diagnosis of 'capacity to complete' and negotiation of an Individual Professional Development Portfolio as a basis for structuring each student's learning program during their enrolment. If literacy skills development is required this will be incorporated into the Individual Professional Development Portfolio.

• Communicate in the Workplace

  Unit code

  FNSICGEN301B

• Use Technology in the Workplace

  Unit code

  FNSICGEN302B

• Develop and Use Complex Spreadsheets

  Unit code

  BSBITU402A

• Conduct Market Research

  Unit code

  BSBMKG408B

• Ensure Team Effectiveness

  Unit code

  BSBWOR502A

• Manage People Performance

  Unit code

  BSBMGT502B

• Manage Compliance With Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Requirements in an Organisational Environment

  Unit code

  VPAU084

• Make Decisions Within a Legal Context

  Unit code

  FNSACCT404B

• Develop and Implement Strategic Plans

  Unit code

  BSBMGT616A

• Career Planning and Development

  Unit code

  BMO2300

  Credits

  12

• Business Integrated Learning

  Unit code

  BBB3100

  Credits

  12

• The Enterprise Project

  Unit code

  BMO3100

  Credits

  12

• Business Communication

  Unit code

  BMO1192

  Credits

  12

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  Unit code

  BMO4422

  Credits

  12

• Entrepreneurial Business Management

  Unit code

  BMO2182

  Credits

  12

• Human Resource Management

  Unit code

  BMO3220

  Credits

  12

• Business Communication

  Unit code

  BMO1192

  Credits

  12

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  Unit code

  BMO4422

  Credits

  12

• Entrepreneurial Business Management

  Unit code

  BMO2182

  Credits

  12

• Operations Management

  Unit code

  BMO2181

  Credits

  12

• Business Communication

  Unit code

  BMO1192

  Credits

  12

• Employment Law

  Unit code

  BLO2207

  Credits

  12

• Employee Relations Management

  Unit code

  BMO3323

  Credits

  12

• Human Resource Management

  Unit code

  BMO3220

  Credits

  12

• Mature: The entry requirements to the Associate Degree in Enterprise Skills are a trade qualification (Certificate Three or Certificate Four) and at least three years work experience. Applicants with relevant higher level qualifications may have their work experience requirements reduced.