Bachelor of Business in People Management

at Deakin University - Geelong Waterfront Campus Australia

Study Deakin’s Bachelor of Commerce and earn a well-recognised qualification that’s a pathway into the professions. You’ll receive an education that’s relevant to industry via commerce majors accredited to each discipline’s top industry bodies. Plus, you’ll get a taste of professional life and understand what it takes to be job ready in work-integrated learning and experiential learning programs.

Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management, the management of people, is one of the fastest growing fields of professional employment. Human Resource Management (HRM) includes recruitment, selection, training and development, workplace diversity, employee relations, performance and change management, and remuneration. You will also gain invaluable counselling, mediation and negotiation skills that will stand you in good stead in any field you enter in the future. 

Deakin’s Bachelor of Design (Architecture)/Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) is a unique degree that combines studies in key aspects of the built environment. Explore architectural ideas and design approaches while learning how to manage construction projects, no matter their scale or scope. Gain in-depth knowledge and skills in architecture, design, construction and project management, while exploring your options for a diverse career in the built environment industry.

With an emphasis on practical learning, you will gain plenty of hands-on experience with opportunities for industry placements and involvement in real-world projects. Develop creative process and practical skills by exploring design, drawing, digital fabrication, measuring, estimating, project management and construction knowledge. Graduate workplace-ready with opportunities for site visits, international study tours and exchange.

Dive into diverse cultures and build a global career by studying Deakin’s Bachelor of International Studies. If you are interested in different cultures, languages and perspectives outside of your own, this experience-rich course gives you a deep understanding of the international forces shaping the world today. The Bachelor of International Studies is a degree that can take you anywhere.

Gain an understanding of globalisation and development, global power and capitalism and build your intercultural communication skills through core units. Combine these foundation skills with specialised study in your area of interest and add value to your degree through one of our many international experiences.
 

Gain a competitive business foundation with global application. Through Deakin's Bachelor of International Studies/Bachelor of Commerce, you'll develop your understanding of the international forces shaping government, business and communities, and gain skills to analyse and interpret these forces.

Take your business ideas to the world stage. You'll develop knowledge and capabilities and gain insights through valuable international experiences.

You’ll commit to an exciting international learning program, either as a student at one of our university exchange partners or in an approved internship. Develop your understanding of foreign governments, businesses and communities on the ground, and immerse yourself in the culture while you’re there.

Deakin's Bachelor of Nursing gives you the knowledge, skills and ethical understanding you need to become a successful registered nurse – launching you into a career where you can make a real difference. Ranked #33 in the world*, this course prepares you to provide high-quality, safe, patient-centred care in a range of settings. Our state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Centres, which replicate real-world health service facilities, to prepare you for your clinical placements.

Clinical placements begin in Trimester 1 of first year and continue throughout every trimester of the course, totalling 800 hours. Clinical placements enable you to care for people from diverse cultural backgrounds in a range of healthcare settings, enabling application of knowledge and further development of technical and non-technical skills. They are undertaken in various metropolitan, regional and rural healthcare settings and are supported by qualified and experienced clinicians.

Do you have a degree in a civil engineering or built environment discipline? Deakin’s Master of Construction Management (Professional) gives you the opportunity to further your interests and take the next step in your career.
Develop the specialised skills in the theoretical, evaluative and research frameworks that underpin the construction profession. Challenge yourself to stretch your thinking in a supportive environment and enhance your motivation to be an independent life-long earner.

This course is also suited to those with undergraduate qualifications in non-related disciplines who have demonstrable professional experience in construction, through public or private enterprises. This degree provides you with an opportunity to formalise your entry into the construction management profession.

Realize your full potential as a creator while specializing in an area of passion with a Master of Creative Arts. Graduate with an eye-catching portfolio and build transferable skills that prepare you to be flexible across the creative jobs of the future.

The Master of Creative Arts allows you to focus your studies on one of six creative areas: visual arts, photography, animation and motion capture, visual communication design, dance or drama. But that doesn’t mean your knowledge will be limited to your specialisation. Throughout the course, you’ll be studying complementary disciplines and practising alongside creative thinkers from different backgrounds, broadening your understanding of creativity and arming you with transferable skills that prepare you for any creative pursuit.

The multidisciplinary aspect of the course could see you specialising in dance while taking an elective unit in film writing, ultimately leading to the production of a dance film for your final creative project.

While core study areas will be tailored to your specialisation, there are common threads throughout each pathway that set you up to be a versatile creative practitioner. Build transferable skills that employers value, like imaginative thinking, problem solving and creative collaboration, and discover what it takes to be adaptable and resourceful – two key attributes of the modern creative.

Develop an in-depth understanding of the business of construction, from economics and law to technology. Deakin’s Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours) equips you with market-ready skills for construction management, quantity surveying and property development. Work confidently across projects large and small, with a strong focus on practical learning, you will develop the initiative and ability to hit the ground running.

Undertaking industry placements will help you kickstart your professional experience while building professional networks, technical knowledge and skills. Collaborate with Deakin’s architecture students to gain a sound understanding across both disciplines. This experience prepares you for the real world and ensures you graduate with the well-rounded and adaptable skillset employers are looking for. 

Are you passionate about human rights and have a strong sense of social justice? Deakin's Bachelor of Social Work will equip you with the knowledge and skills to enhance the wellbeing of others through an understanding of policy, socioeconomic factors and social equity issues. With job opportunities expected to grow by 23.3% by 2026^, graduate career-ready with the skills to work effectively with individuals, families and communities to address key factors causing inequality.

With an emphasis on progressive, student-centred teaching practices, you will learn the latest approaches to enable social change and improve the lives of others. 1000 hours of practice education placements will give you invaluable hands-on experience as you learn from qualified social work practitioners. You will complete two placements in a variety of communities and workplaces in online, metropolitan, regional or rural settings, ensuring you gain multiple perspectives.

Protect society from the growing threat of cybercrime by studying Australia's only combined law and cyber security degree. Through Deakin's Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Cyber Security, you can explore roles in both fields or use your dual expertise to become an in-demand cyber security lawyer, capable of handling the complex issues of our evolving digital world.

Professionals with cyber security risk detection and mitigation skills are needed more than ever and it's not just everyday consumers who are facing the threat of cybercrime. Government and businesses need professionals who can identify risks and provide legal protection for their digital operations.

This degree puts you in a position to answer the call. Graduate with two degrees in two years fewer than if you studied each degree separately and develop advanced skills in cyber security that perfectly complement legal knowledge.