Integrated Business Challenge

Unit code: BPD1100 | Study level: Undergraduate
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
City Campus
Footscray Park
Online Real Time
VU Sydney
N/A
Overview
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Overview

The Integrated Business Challenge is the first unit in the Business challenge stream. This unit will support students in their transition to University, engage students in student centred learning within group experiential activities and provide a challenge to students in an integrated activity that introduces other first year units. The unit aims to develop skills that are necessary for professional, personal and academic learning.

The challenge project will provide challenge, flexibility and model a real world business context. It will feature both individual and team activities within a professional business framework.

Learning activities will be scaffolded to include team dynamics and conflict management, critical thinking and information analysis, academic skill formation with both written and presentation business communications. Learning activities will develop reflective writing on team formation and management of team conflict, peer review of the team component of the challenge task, team based report and various presentation styles and formats, online group collaboration review and academic writing and referencing assessment.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Discuss the ethical, social, cultural, political, economic and legal dimensions of effective business practice;
  2. Demonstrate foundation skills and knowledge of the first year program within a professional business framework;
  3. Develop a written reflective journal;
  4. Apply critical thinking and problem-solving strategies to business issues using appropriate verbal, written and visual modes of delivery;
  5. Investigate and develop skills, interests & career motivation in individual and multidisciplinary team settings;
  6. Apply team-work skills to work collaboratively on open-ended tasks and produce timely outcomes; and,
  7. Participate in an academic community through reflective and critical engagement and understanding of principles of academic integrity.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Journal
|
Grade: 10%
Reflective journal
Assessment type: Essay
|
Grade: 20%
Ethical problem solving
Assessment type: Test
|
Grade: 20%
Individual and team readiness test
Assessment type: Case Study
|
Grade: 50%
Open-ended , experiential learning activity and presentation
Assessment type: Other
|
Grade: 0%
Evidence of completion of the Academic Integrity Modules

Other locations

For students studying at VU Sydney, Central University of Finance and Economics, Henan University, Liaoning University, National School of Business Management, Colombo, Sunway College Johor Bahru
Assessment type: Journal
|
Grade: 10%
Reflective journal
Assessment type: Essay
|
Grade: 20%
Ethical problem solving
Assessment type: Test
|
Grade: 20%
Individual and team readiness test
Assessment type: Case Study
|
Grade: 50%
Open-ended, experiential learning activity, report, and presentation
Assessment type: Other
|
Grade: 0%
Evidence of completion of the Academic Integrity Modules

Required reading

Strategies for Creative Problem Solving
Fogler, HS, LeBlanc, SE, Rizzo, B 2014| Prentice-Hall Ed., New Jersey.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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