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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

12034 (v.5) Business Capstone 301

Note

Tutition Patterns

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Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Curtin Business School
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
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 400 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?
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
2011 Bentley Campus Summer School Y        
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Sydney Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Sydney Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 1 Y        
2011 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 2 Y        
2011 INTI Intern'l College Penang Semester 1 Y        
2011 INTI Intern'l College Penang Semester 2 Y        
2011 Metropolitan College Malaysia Semester 1 Y        
2011 Metropolitan College Malaysia Semester 2 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Study Period 1 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Singapore Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Singapore Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Singapore Campus Summer Semester Y        
2011 UHK SPACE Admiralty Ctr Semester 2 Y        
2011 UHK SPACE Admiralty Ctr Summer Semester Y        
2011 UHK SPACE CIDP Semester 2 Y        
2011 UHK SPACE CIDP Summer Semester Y        
2011 UHK SPACE Main Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 UHK SPACE Main Campus Semester 2 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