This certificate gives students an introduction to concepts in Business and Information Technology. It has been designed to build a strong foundation for further knowledge required to work in either Business or Information Technology professions.
You may also study four or five more subjects to complete either the Diploma of Business or Diploma of Information Technology. With either diploma you may be eligible for direct entry to the second year of a variety of undergraduate degrees at La Trobe University.
After completing the Bachelor, depending on subject choices, you may graduate eligible for registration with the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI), CPA Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), the Australian Computer Society (ACS), or the Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA).
You'll need to complete four subjects during your program.
Units
Any modern business today will utilise some form of spreadsheet tool to review, manipulate and visualise data (in the form of charts for reporting). A spreadsheet tool also enables one to undertake advanced tasks on business data, such as performing scenario analyses and undertaking complex data analytics, for example creating a forecasting model. In this subject, you will learn how to use two technological tools to undertake data analysis. The first tool is Structure Query Language (SQL), which we will use to pull relevant data into Excel and facilitate further analysis. Next, various advanced Excel analyses including pivot tables, statistical analysis, and creation of basic forecasting models will be covered. Upon successful completion of this subject, you will be proficient in basic data analysis using Excel and SQL, setting you up to become an analytical and data driven problem solver. With these skills, you will also be ready to identify insights allowing you to disrupt typical business operations systematically and with a higher chance of success.
Class requirements
Timetabled hours per week (4 hours)
Economics is the study of human behaviour and in particular the choices that individuals, businesses, and governments make to deal with scarcity and the incentives that guide those choices. In Investigating Economic Issues, you will learn how the forces of demand and supply coordinate the behaviour of individuals and businesses in the market and how government policy affects those market outcomes. You will study the decisions that businesses make in determining how much to produce and at what cost. Further you will investigate how the market structure affects firms’ choices. At the macro level, you will explain how to measure economic activity, including levels of inflation and unemployment, and you will examine some of the factors that influence these variables and the impact they have on business.
Class requirements
Timetabled hours per week (4 hours)
In this subject, students learn and apply fundamental programming concepts. Students analyse, design, construct and document solutions to simple programming problems. Java programs are developed using command line interface tools and Unix operating system.
Class requirements
Timetabled hours per week (5 hours)
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