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Top considerations when choosing your electives

  1. Carefully plan your elective choices. Elective topics can be used to add increased value to your degree.
  2. BGL Enrolment and Course Advisors can help you cluster your electives together to compliment your degree.
  3. Enhance your professional experience by choosing a least one topic from the professional experience cluster.
  4. Have a look at some recruitment sites to see what skills employers are really looking for, choose electives that help you develop skills in that area.
  5. Remember to check the prerequisites before trying to enrol into your chosen topic. 

Not sure how to choose your electives?

An elective is a topic you can choose from the University topic list.

Use your elective choice to add value to your degree, by choosing electives that enhance your interests and knowledge in a specific area and will give you a competitive edge. Which skill sets do you need to improve on?

If you are confused about which topics to choose, contact a BGL Enrolment and Course Advisor (courseadvice.BGL@flinders.edu.au) who can help you cluster your electives together to compliment your degree, or you may wish to choose an overseas exchange program  or a placement.

Select an area below that you are interested in to see what topics are available to you as an elective.

Please note that not all topics may be offered each year/semester.

 

Industry Experience Opportunities

BUSN3027 Digital Marketing and Analysis **

BUSN3044 Industry Placement**

BUSN3044B Industry Placement** 

BUSN3060 International Placement **

BUSN3061A Industry Project **^

BUSN9125A Industry Project **^

BUSN3037 Import-Export Theory and Practice

BUSN3055 Strategic Management

GOVT3005 International Relations and Political Science Practicum

 

** topic has prerequisite requirements
^ this is a 9-unit topic
+ this is a 9-unit topic and approval must be obtained by the topic coordinator prior to enrolling

Business analytics skills

BUSN1009 Quantitative Methods

BUSN2031 Business Forecasting **

BUSN2048 Social Media Marketing

 

** topic has prerequisite requirements

Communication skills

BUSN2033 Branding and Advertising

BUSN2034 Interpersonal Skills for Professionals**

COMS1004 Digital and Social Media

COMS2000 Crisis Communication

COMS3000 Workplace Experience in Communication**

COMS3005 Business Communication

LING3105 Intercultural Communication

PSYC1108 The Psychology of Surviving and Thriving

 

** topic has prerequisite requirements

Digital business skills

BUSN2048 Social Media Marketing

BUSN2104 Wine and Spirits in a Digital World

BUSN3027 Digital Marketing and Analysis **

BUSN3065 The Future of Work in the Digital Age **

COMS1004 Digital and Social Media

GOVT3002 Digital Governance, Cyber Security & the Future of Democracy

 

** topic has prerequisite requirements

Innovation skills

INNO1001 Innovative and Creative Thinking: Recognising Opportunities

INNO1003 Collaboration, Co-Creation & The Crowd: Leveraging your Ecosystem for Innovation

INNO2001 Innovation for Social Impact: Doing Good While Doing Well

INNO2004 From Intuition to Insight: Validating Desirability, Feasibility and Viability

INNO3001A From Innovation to Impact: Creating a Roadmap from Opportunity to Action

INNO3002 Going Live. Entrepreneurial Strategies, Resources & Activities

PSYC1108 The Psychology of Surviving and Thriving

 

** topic has prerequisite requirements
# Approval from the topic coordinator is required for enrolment in this topic

IT skills

COMP1102 Computer Programming 1

COMP1711 Database Modelling and Knowledge Engineering

 

** topic has prerequisite requirements

Management skills

BUSN1012 Management, People and Organisations

BUSN1021 Organisational Behaviour

BUSN2038 Human Resource Management

BUSN2039 International Business Management

BUSN2046 Operations and Supply Chain Management

BUSN3052 Leadership in Business and Society

BUSN3059 Human Resource Strategy and Change Management**

 

** topic has prerequisite requirements

Marketing skills

BUSN1022 Marketing Principles

BUSN2020 Consumer Behaviour**

BUSN2028 Market Research **

BUSN2033 Branding and Advertising**

BUSN2048 Social Media Marketing

BUSN2051 Sports Marketing

BUSN3042 Marketing Planning and Strategy: Contemporary and Future Focused**

** topic has prerequisite requirements

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