C10326v4 Bachelor of Business Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation
Award(s): Bachelor of Business (BBus)Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCIInn)
UAC code: 609530 (Autumn session)
CRICOS code: 079756C
Commonwealth supported place?: Yes
Load credit points: 240
Course EFTSL: 5
Location: City campus
Overview
Career options
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Course intended learning outcomes
Admission requirements
Inherent requirements
Assumed knowledge
Recognition of prior learning
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course program
Levels of award
Professional recognition
Other information
Overview
This course is designed for individuals seeking a comprehensive business education, whether they are a recent school leaver or a professional aiming to refine their career path. Choose this course to gain a robust understanding of business fundamentals alongside the opportunity to specialise in areas that align with their career goals, including the option for international study.
What sets this course apart is its transdisciplinary approach, blending insights from various fields to tackle complex global challenges. They learn to think critically and creatively, fostering innovation and entrepreneurial skills that are prized in today's fast-paced business landscape.
Students acquire key business concepts and the ability to apply them innovatively across disciplines. The course emphasises real-world problem-solving, future scenario planning, and developing the agility to adapt to change.
Teaching methods are interactive and varied, including industry projects and self-directed work, ensuring they graduate with the practical skills and strategic mindset to excel in a dynamic professional environment.
Career options
Career options include but are not limited to jobs in accounting, advertising, banking, economics, finance, financial services, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, or marketing communication.
By being creative thinkers, initiators of new ideas, scenario planners, global strategists, open network designers or sustainable futures innovators within their chosen field of study, graduates maximise the potential of their chosen profession, making them highly sought after graduates with the ability to identify and develop solutions to some of the most complex issues that face their disciplines and society.
Innovation and Transdisciplinary program
Transdisciplinarity and Innovation at UTSAll UTS students have the opportunity to develop distinctive capabilities around transdisciplinary thinking and innovation through the TD School. Transdisciplinary education at UTS brings together great minds from different disciplines to explore ideas that improve the way we live and work in the world. These offerings are unique to UTS and directly translate to many existing and emerging roles and careers.
Diploma in InnovationThe Diploma in Innovation (C20060) teaches innovation, supports personal transformation and provides the hard skills needed to support the inventors and inventions of the future. Students come out of the Diploma in Innovation, with the hard skills to create and support sectoral and societal transformation. Graduates are able to fluently integrate ideas, across professional disciplines and are inventors of the future.
All UTS undergraduate students (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation) can apply for the Diploma in Innovation upon admission in their chosen undergraduate degree. It is a complete degree program that runs in parallel to any undergraduate degree. The course is offered on a three-year, part-time basis, with subjects running in 3-week long intensive blocks in July, December and February sessions. More information including a link to apply is available at https://dipinn.uts.edu.au.
Transdisciplinary electives programTransdisciplinary electives broaden students' horizons and supercharge their problem-solving skills, helping them to learn outside, beyond and across their degrees. Students enrolled in an undergraduate course that includes electives can choose to take a transdisciplinary subject (with the exception of students concurrently enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation). More information about the TD Electives program is available here.
Course intended learning outcomes
| BUS.1.1 | Apply evidence, creativity and critical reasoning to solve business problems |
| BUS.2.1 | Communicate information clearly in a form appropriate for its audience |
| BUS.2.2 | Demonstrate ability to work independently and with others as a member of a team to achieve an agreed goal |
| BUS.3.1 | Make judgements and business decisions consistent with the principles of social responsibility and inclusion |
| BUS.4.1 | Apply technical and professional skills to operate effectively in business |
| BUS.5.1 | Acquire and apply knowledge and skills relevant to working with and for Indigenous peoples in a specific professional business context |
| CII.1.1 | Identify and evaluate complex challenges by analysing system dynamics, constraints, and potential leverage points, using disciplinary perspectives, evidence, and diverse viewpoints |
| CII.2.1 | Identify, create, and employ a range of appropriate creative intelligence methods and boundary-crossing methodologies to construct and solve problems and generate transformative possibilities |
| CII.3.1 | Practice mutual, responsible value creation, including the implementation of sustainable and entrepreneurial innovation |
| CII.3.2 | Communicate transdisciplinary ideas and solutions succinctly and persuasively using appropriate modalities |
| CII.4.1 | Develop reflexive connection with an evolving self, demonstrating ethical and intellectual positions that reflect well-considered values that enable greater purpose and inclusivity |
| CII.5.1 | Critically reflect on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s contexts across innovation and entrepreneurship to inform professional capability and practices to work effectively with and for Indigenous Australians |
Key
CII = Creative Intelligence and Innovation course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
Admission requirements
Applicants must have completed an Australian Year 12 qualification, Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma, or equivalent Australian or overseas qualification at the required level.
The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: IELTS Academic: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL iBT: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64 with a writing score of 50; or C1A/C2P: 176-184 with a writing score of 169.
Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.
International students
Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are academic and non-academic requirements that are essential to the successful completion of a course. For more information about inherent requirements and where prospective and current students can get assistance and advice regarding these, see the UTS Inherent requirements page.
Prospective and current students should carefully read the Inherent Requirements Statement below and consider whether they might experience challenges in successfully completing this course.
UTS will make reasonable adjustments to teaching and learning, assessment, professional experiences, course related work experience and other course activities to facilitate maximum participation by students with disabilities, carer responsibilities, and religious or cultural obligations in their courses.
For course specific information see the UTS Business School Inherent Requirements Statement.
Assumed knowledge
Mathematics and any two units of English.
UTS offers a range of bridging courses for students who do not meet the assumed knowledge requirements.
Recognition of prior learning
Information on recognition of prior learning in the business component is available from the Bachelor of Business (C10026).
Course duration and attendance
The course can be completed in a minimum of four years of full-time or eight years of part-time study.
Course structure
Students must complete 240 credit points, comprising 144 credit points of business subjects and 96 credit points of creative intelligence and innovation subjects. Full details of the Bachelor of Business component of the combined degree are available from the Bachelor of Business (C10026). The creative intelligence and innovation subjects are undertaken in accelerated form within July and December sessions during the first three years of study, and through one full year of study after completion of the professional degree. The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation is not offered as a separate degree, but is completed only in combination with the professional degree program.
Industrial training/professional practice
This course involves significant industry engagement as part of the learning process. Students may be required to relinquish intellectual property when they opt in to certain industry-related experiences, particularly relating to internships and capstone projects.
Course completion requirements
| STM90273 Core subjects (Business) | 48cp | |
| CBK90169 Major choice (Business) | 48cp | |
| CBK92276 Major/2 Submajors/1 Submajor + 4 Electives/8 Electives BBus | 48cp | |
| STM90839 Core subjects (Creative Intelligence and Innovation) | 96cp | |
| Total | 240cp |
Course program
Typical full-time and part-time programs for the core subjects are provided below.
| Typical program, full time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 22108 Accounting and Accountability | 6cp | |
| 23115 Economics for Business | 6cp | |
| 26134 Responsible Evidence-Based Decisions | 6cp | |
| 21212 People and Organisations | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81511 Problems to Possibilities | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 24109 Marketing and Customer Value | 6cp | |
| 25400 Financial Literacy | 6cp | |
| 22208 Accounting, Business and Society | 6cp | |
| 21214 Business and Social Impact | 6cp | |
| December session | ||
| 81512 Creative Practice and Methods | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| July session | ||
| 81513 Past, Present, Future of Innovation | 8cp | |
| Year 3 | ||
| February session | ||
| 81514 Creativity and Complexity | 8cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81515 Leading Innovation | 8cp | |
| December session | ||
| 81516 Initiatives and Entrepreneurship | 8cp | |
| 81522 Innovation Internship A | 6cp | |
| Year 4 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 81531 Industry Innovation Project | 12cp | |
| March session | ||
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 81521 Envisioning Futures | 6cp | |
| 81528 New Knowledge-making Lab | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| Select 6 credit points from the following: | 6cp | |
| 81525 Innovation Internship B | 6cp | |
| 81523 Speculative Start-up | 6cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 81524 Transdisciplinary Practice at the Cutting Edge | 6cp | |
| 81532 Creative Intelligence Capstone | 12cp | |
| Typical program, core subjects, part time | ||
| Year 1 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 22108 Accounting and Accountability | 6cp | |
| 21212 People and Organisations | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81511 Problems to Possibilities | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 26134 Responsible Evidence-Based Decisions | 6cp | |
| 23115 Economics for Business | 6cp | |
| December session | ||
| 81512 Creative Practice and Methods | 8cp | |
| Year 2 | ||
| Autumn session | ||
| 24109 Marketing and Customer Value | 6cp | |
| 22208 Accounting, Business and Society | 6cp | |
| July session | ||
| 81513 Past, Present, Future of Innovation | 8cp | |
| Spring session | ||
| 25400 Financial Literacy | 6cp | |
| 21214 Business and Social Impact | 6cp | |
Levels of award
The Bachelor of Business may be awarded with distinction, credit or pass.
Professional recognition
Refer to the Bachelor of Business (C10026) for details on professional recognition of that award.
Other information
Further information is available from the UTS Student Centre on:
telephone 1300 ask UTS (1300 275 887)
or +61 2 9514 1222
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