Courses Handbook 2010

12034 (v.5) Business Capstone 301


Area: Curtin Business School
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Individual Study: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Seminar: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s): Admission: Students must have accumulated a minimum of 475 credits in their business degree course.
Syllabus: The Capstone unit is largely a problem based learning activity that encourages you (as a team member and also individually) to apply your business knowledge within a competitive simulated business environment. Your team will be assigned to manage a company operating within an electronic sensor industry. Companies will have to consider what is happening in their industry, why changes take place and make decisions that lead to successful outcomes. Managing the company will require your team to make a wide range of decisions, including: Which markets to emphasise? What types of research and development to conduct? How to effectively market products? How to manage production facilities and a sales force? How to contract and implement team roles and responsibilities? How to effectively manage information that will support critical decisions? How to finance operations?
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 080500 Sales and Marketing (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Summer School Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    
2010 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 1 Y        
2010 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Trimester 1A Y        
2010 Metropolitan College Malaysia Semester 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Study Period 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2010 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2010 Singapore Campus Trimester 1A Y        
2010 UHK SPACE Main Campus Trimester 1A Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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