Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor and Lecturer
Yue Wang
Contact via Email
Please view consultation hours via iLearn - https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
BUS301
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit integrates the materials that are covered in BUS201, BUS202 and BUS301 and requires students (individually or in teams) to complete two major research projects in international business under the supervision of a faculty member. By the end of the unit students gain a sound understanding of how to research and analyse an international business or industry, as well as how the various concepts covered in previous units fit together.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Individual project report | 40% | No | Week 12 |
Group project presentation | 40% | No | Week 7 - Week 13 |
Reflection and Participation | 20% | No | Weekly |
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 40%
Late assignments must also be submitted through Turnitin. No extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 10% made from the total available marks for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission incurs a 20% deduction). Late submissions will be accepted up to 96 hours after the due date and time.
This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Special Consideration is made and approved. Note: applications for Special Consideration Policy must be made within 5 (five) business days of the due date and time.
Due: Week 7 - Week 13
Weighting: 40%
Group project encourages students to experience the partner organizations and the international business issues they face, and to assist the client companies in achieving the partner’s strategic purposes. Group members should work closely with each other to research, analyse, interpret and assess data and information from various sources, and to draw connections across fields of knowledge they learned in the university, in order to develop solutions and/or recommendations for the identified issues faced by client partners.
Your group project presentation is a formal and professional presentation that provides solutions or recommendations to the client partners on the issues defined by client partners’ speakers. Your presentation should built upon your creative and innovative application of knowledge and skills learned in the previous units. Students should apply critical and integrative thinking and innovation capabilities to develop appropriate and realistic business proposals or solutions in a professional fashion.
The assessment task requires students to work as a team to conduct original research, which involves the collection and analysis of information from a range of sources and the recommendation of solutions for clients. Students should also use concepts, frameworks and theories learned from previous units (especially BUS201, BUS202, and BUS301) to address the problems and issues identified by industry speakers.
This assessment task is composed of two parts: a group mark on group presentation performance (20%) and an individual mark on individual performance during the presentation (20%).
Type of Collaboration Group Submission Group Presentation (In class) Format Please refer to the iLearn Unit page Length 45 minutes Inherent Task Requirements Tutorial attendance is required to complete this task. LateNo extensions will be granted. Students who have not participated in the group project presentation or have not contributed to the preparation of the group presentation will be awarded a mark of zero for the task.
This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Special Consideration is made and approved. Note: applications for Special Consideration Policy must be made within 5 (five) business days of the due date and time.
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 20%
From week 2, during each week’s lecture, your lecturer will distribute a Seminar Participation and Reflection Sheet to the entire class. During each week’s tutorials, your tutor will collate every week’s Seminar Participation and Reflection Sheet for each student and give a mark at the end of the semester, based primarily on your participation record with consideration to the quality of your comments and reflections. Seminar Participation and Reflection Sheets are used for keeping a record of your participation in lectures and will not be returned to students
Format Please refer to the iLearn Unit page Length Inherent Task RequirementsAttendance for both Seminar and Conference series (i.e. lectures) and Mentoring and Reflection series (i.e. tutorials) is required to complete this task: 10% for your participation in lectures and 10% for your participation in tutorials.
Please, do NOT forget to return/submit the signed Seminar Participation and Reflection Sheet to your tutor in each week's tutorials, failing to do so will be treated as 'no show' in the seminars (i.e. lectures)
Late SubmissionNo extensions will be granted.
This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for Special Consideration is made and approved. Note: applications for Special Consideration Policy must be made within 5 (five) business days of the due date and time.
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Unit web page | The web page for this unit can be found at: https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/ |
Technology Used and Required | Students will need to be familiar with a web browser to access the unit web page. |
Delivery Format and Other Details |
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Recommended readings | Please Refer to iLearn. |
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Lecture Topic & Readings |
Tutorial Topic |
Week 1 |
Associate Professor Yue Wang |
No Tutorials |
Week 2 |
Brendon Cho, Exetel |
Week 2 Reflection workshop: |
Group and presentation allocation What did you learn from the industry speaker? |
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Additional online material: How a tiny country bordering Russia became one of the most tech-savvy societies in the world |
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/how-estonia-became-a-digital-society.html |
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Week 3 |
Pradeep Khanna, Global Mindset |
Week 3 Reflection workshop: |
What did you learn from the industry speaker? |
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Additional online material: A tale of two toymakers: Mattel soars, Hasbro sinks, but there's more to the story |
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/08/a-tale-of-two-toy-makers-mattel-soars-hasbro-sinks.html |
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Week 4 |
David Provest, IBM |
Week 4 Reflection workshop: |
What did you learn from the industry speaker? |
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Additional online material: How have Chinese firms evolved? Your grandfather's Buick is hot in China, but maybe not for long |
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/why-china-is-so-important-to-buicks-survival.html |
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Week 5 |
Nick Polidoros, HIS Global |
Week 5 Reflection workshop: |
What did you learn from the industry speaker? |
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Additional online material: What are your thoughts on the dynamic auto industry changes towards sustainability? GM is going 'all-electric,' but it doesn't expect to make money off battery-powered cars until early next decade |
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/gm-doesnt-expect-to-make-money-off-electric-cars-until-ne xt-decade.html?recirc=taboolainternal |
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Week 6 |
Andrea Hoymann, Sinorbis |
Week 6 Reflection workshop: |
What did you learn from the industry speaker? How to prepare for group project presentations? |
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Week 7 |
Jonty Ephron - Rabobank |
Week 7: Group 1 Presentation |
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Mid Semester Break |
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Week 8 |
TBC |
Week 8 Group 2 Presentation |
Week 9 |
Public Holiday, no lecture |
Week 9 Group 3 Presentation (no tutorials/presentations for Monday classes in this week) |
Week 10 |
Dr. Partha Mukherjee, AIBC |
Week 10 Group 4 Presentation |
Week 11 |
Mike Boyle, HP |
Week 11 Group 5 Presentation |
Week 12 |
Student Showcase Presentations |
Week 12 Group 6 Discussion |
Week 13 |
Student Showcase Presentations |
Week 13 Group 7 Presentation |
The Unit Schedule is subject to change depending on participating companies' availability.
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We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.
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Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.
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As local citizens our graduates will be aware of indigenous perspectives and of the nation's historical context. They will be engaged with the challenges of contemporary society and with knowledge and ideas. We want our graduates to have respect for diversity, to be open-minded, sensitive to others and inclusive, and to be open to other cultures and perspectives: they should have a level of cultural literacy. Our graduates should be aware of disadvantage and social justice, and be willing to participate to help create a wiser and better society.
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Participating companies have changed and new industry projects are used for students assignments
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17/07/2019 | Pace Prizes Added |