Bachelor of Commerce
Durban, South Africa
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Apr 2024
TUITION FEES
ZAR 23,100 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance learning
* for year 1; R24 200,00 for year 2; R25 400,00 for year 3; payment options available to suit your budget
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Introduction
The BCom degree equips students with both theoretical and practical exposure preparing them for a professional, commercial environment. The BCom Degree will empower learners with skills and competencies necessary to function in both the private and public sector environments. This qualification will also cater to the career and economic needs of learners who are in employment and prepare learners for further post-graduate studies.
Learners are given an opportunity to choose a focus area in the following career paths:
- Economics
- Accounting
- Marketing
- Project Management
- Health Management
- Information Technology
- Supply Chain Management
- Human Resource Management
- Risk Management
- Retail Management
Admissions
Curriculum
Program structure
Duration: 3 years
Year 1
Semester Modules
- Business Communication 101
- Statistics 102
Annual Modules
- Business Management 1
- Accounting 1
- Economics 1
Year 2
Semester Modules
- Commercial Law 201
- Information Systems 202
- 2 Elective Modules
Annual Modules
- Business Management 2
Year 3
Semester Modules
- International Business 302 or Taxation 302
- Entrepreneurship 301
- 2 Elective Modules that follow from year 2
Annual Modules
- Business Management 3
Electives Modules
- Economics 2 & 3
- Accounting 2 & 3
- Marketing 2 & 3
- Project Management 2 & 3
- Health Management 2 & 3
- Information Technology 2 & 3
- Supply Chain Management 2 & 3
- Human Resource Management 2 & 3
- Risk Management 2 & 3
- Retail Management 2 & 3
Program Outcome
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the program, the student should be able to:
- Display the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes, and applied competence to enable the demonstration of administrative proficiency.
- Display knowledge of management in general.
- Apply skills of rational judgment and planning.
- Recognize and appreciate changes within and around organizations.
- Make appropriate use of information technology.
- Analyze and solve operational problems.
- Display skills for the recording and processing of information.
- Display ethical behavior in a corporate management context.
- Possess the functional competence of a graduate to proceed to the middle management level within an organization.