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Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 1– Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Business graduates will be able to:

1. Demonstrate essential knowledge necessary for a career in business related professions
2. Synthesise underlying principles and concepts for making business decisions
3. Critically analyse the core professional obligations, values and operations of organisations including sustainability
4. Critically evaluate data and resources in the context of relevant academic literature
5. Apply critical thinking to address issues in business
6. Convey information clearly and fluently, in high quality written form appropriate for their audience
7. Demonstrate effective oral presentation skills for academic and professional audiences
8. Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively
9. Apply technical skills, including numeracy, necessary for professional practice in business
10. Demonstrate an awareness of ethical and social responsibility in professional practice
11. Identify and act upon, learning opportunities and self-improvements.

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Psychological Science, graduates will be able to:

12. Integrate a broad and coherent body of knowledge with depth in major theoretical perspectives and concepts, and philosophical and historical developments, in the core areas of psychology
13. Review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge and evidence bases in the core areas of psychology in a manner that is reflexive, culturally appropriate and sensitive to the diversity of individuals including but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
14. Review and reflect on the methods and ethics of scientific investigation as applied to psychology
15. Exercise critical thinking and judgement in the design and conduct of scientific investigations to solve psychological questions with intellectual independence
16. Apply advanced English language and technological and numeracy skills to generate, interpret and communicate knowledge, data, arguments and research findings appropriate for a diversity of audiences
17. Adapt and apply research skills, psychological and cultural understanding, to investigate human behavior in diverse contexts in regional, national and international communities including but not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
18. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for one’s own learning and practice in collaboration with others.

Credit points in major

24 credit points

Maximum time to complete

10 years

Eligibility

A student admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Business – Bachelor of Psychological Science at this university may be invited by the College Dean to undertake the Honours degree in Psychology if that student has

Psychology Honours

Completion of an AQF Level 7 bachelor degree that includes an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council approved three-year sequence in psychology completed within the past 10 years; and a minimum program GPA of 5.5; or

Completion of an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council approved bridging degree that achieves foundational competencies within the past 10 years; and a minimum program GPA of 5.5.

Special note: Applicants for the 2022 or 2023 intakes that have completed a JCU AQF Level 7 bachelor degree that includes an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council approved three-year sequence in psychology within the past 10 years, and that do not meet the above–stated entry requirement, may be assessed as a transitional arrangement under the previous entry requirement of a credit average (GPA 5.0) across PY2103, PY2107 and a minimum of a distinction average (GPA 6.0) across 15 credit points of level 3 PY subjects, including PY3101.

Business Honours

Normally a minimum average grade of Credit is required in the pass degree subjects relevant to the field in which Honours is to be taken.