School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    International Business Study Tour
  • Unit Code

    MBA6055
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Judy LUNDY

Description

This unit is designed to enable postgraduate students to be involved in an international business experience offshore and to develop their cultural awareness and intelligence capabilities. The tour aims to provide students with first-hand exposure and experience of business operations and issues that present themselves in today's marketplace. It will provide students with an opportunity to draw together theory and practice concerning the country or region of focus. Please check with the Unit Coordinator what is required to enrol into the unit.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will attend the study tour as per the dates advertised.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Implement strategies in business to improve cultural awareness and cross-cultural skills in a multicultural organisation.
  2. Discuss major social, political, cultural and/or economic challenges that apply to businesses.
  3. Exercise critical thinking and judgment to analyse cultural and global environments.
  4. Identify recent global trends relevant to discipline that apply to international businesses in today’s market.

Unit Content

  1. Social, political, cultural and economic challenges.
  2. International business environments.
  3. Cultural awareness and intelligence capabilities.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The learning experiences for this study tour will vary according to the mode of delivery and teaching period it is offered. The unit will comprise participation in an intensive (usually between one and three weeks duration), in-person or virtual study tour, which involves engagement with industry professionals and university academics from a range of business and discipline areas. Students will usually be required to complete assessments pre-, during- and post- the study tour period. As the study schedule is arranged and customised each semester by the Unit Coordinator, students should contact the Unit Coordinator for further information.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentStudy Tour Learning Plan 30%
AssignmentStudy Tour Workplace Application Plan 70%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentStudy Tour Learning Plan 30%
AssignmentStudy Tour Workplace Application Plan 70%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

MBA6055|2|1

School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    International Business Study Tour
  • Unit Code

    MBA6055
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Judy LUNDY

Description

This unit is designed to enable postgraduate students to be involved in an international business experience offshore and to develop their cultural awareness and intelligence capabilities. The tour aims to provide students with first-hand exposure and experience of business operations and issues that present themselves in today's marketplace. It will provide students with an opportunity to draw together theory and practice concerning the country or region of focus. Please check with the Unit Coordinator what is required to enrol into the unit.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will attend the study tour as per the dates advertised.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Implement strategies in business to improve cultural awareness and cross-cultural skills in a multicultural organisation.
  2. Discuss major social, political, cultural and/or economic challenges that apply to businesses.
  3. Exercise critical thinking and judgment to analyse cultural and global environments.
  4. Identify recent global trends relevant to discipline that apply to international businesses in today’s market.

Unit Content

  1. Social, political, cultural and economic challenges.
  2. International business environments.
  3. Cultural awareness and intelligence capabilities.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The learning experiences for this study tour will vary according to the mode of delivery and teaching period it is offered. The unit will comprise participation in an intensive (usually between one and three weeks duration), in-person or virtual study tour, which involves engagement with industry professionals and university academics from a range of business and discipline areas. Students will usually be required to complete assessments pre-, during- and post- the study tour period. As the study schedule is arranged and customised each semester by the Unit Coordinator, students should contact the Unit Coordinator for further information.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentStudy Tour Learning Plan 30%
AssignmentStudy Tour Workplace Application Plan 70%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentStudy Tour Learning Plan 30%
AssignmentStudy Tour Workplace Application Plan 70%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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