The Associate Degree of Business Management is a sixteen (16) unit course with 12 core, and 4 elective units where students have flexibility in elective choice to build on core areas or broaden studies in digital marketing and entrepreneurship specialisations. With this design, the course provides students with the knowledge, competencies, and values necessary for a fulfilling career in various areas of business.
This course builds on the foundational business management skills providing students with some in-depth knowledge and analysis of business practices. The overall aim of this course is to provide a flexible, student-centred, and academically rigorous course of study, which seeks to develop students’ intellectual skills and competencies and give them a sound basis for work or further tertiary study in their chosen discipline.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Learning Outcome 1: Appraise appropriate knowledge and application of relevant frameworks and techniques in business contexts.
Learning Outcome 2: Adapt relevant business principles and theories to diverse situations and stakeholders.
Learning Outcome 3: Analyse the evolving business environment based on a range of information and concepts to identify potential impacts on the enterprise.
Learning Outcome 4: Communicate knowledge and concepts to a variety of stakeholders to identify and solve a range of complex business problems.
Learning Outcome 5: Apply business and management knowledge, skills, and concepts to complete projects independently and in teams.
Learning Outcome 6: Integrate technical and professional skills and knowledge to operate ethically and sustainably in business environments.
Learning Outcome 7: Apply reflective techniques and judgement to inform continuous learning and completion of work tasks.

Applicants with Recent Secondary Education (within the last 2 years)
Applicants for admission into IGI undergraduate courses must meet the following requirements:
• Year 12 in Australia with a minimum ATAR score of 60; or
• Recognised overseas qualification equivalent to Year 12 or above International Academic entry requirements

Applicants with Vocational Education and Training (VET) study
• Australian Certificate IV (AQF 4) or higher

Applicants with Higher Education study (bridging or enabling course)
• Recognised Foundation Studies course

Applicants with Work and Life Experience (Mature Age Applicants)
Applicants who are aged 21 years of age or over, who have finished secondary education more than two years ago, and who have had little or no tertiary study experience must demonstrate through appropriate work and life experience that they can undertake study at the required level. Evidence must be provided to demonstrate a reasonable prospect of success through:
• Appropriate, relevant work experience and/or
• Formal, informal, or non-formal study, completed or partially completed and/or
• Special Tertiary Admission Test (STAT) percentile rank or equivalent

Approved Articulation Agreements
Applicants may be granted direct entry through an approved articulation agreement. These articulation agreements provide pathways between a completed qualification from an external institute into a qualification at IGI. The Articulation Agreement may identify specific credit into an IGI award or may establish admission only. The Academic Board approves Articulation Agreements, and IGI will regularly report to the Academic Board on the progression of such students. If students entering IGI via an Articulation Agreement are not progressing as expected even after the implementation of intervention strategies, the Articulation Agreement will be reviewed and, in some cases, may be cancelled.

English Requirements
Approved English Test Score
Bachelor’s and Associate degree
• IELTS Academic: Overall 6.0, with no band less than 5.5; or
• PTE: Overall, 50 with no band less than 42
• Cambridge English C1 Advanced: Overall 169 with no band less than 162
Diploma
• IELTS Academic: Overall 5.5, with no band less than 5.0; or
• PTE: Overall, 42 with no band less than 36
• Cambridge English C1 Advanced: Overall 162 with no band less than 154

IGI reserves the right to waive the English Language requirement if the prospective student meets the following criteria:
• One of the following qualifications completed within the last two years:
o Successful completion of AQF Level 4 or higher at an Australian RTO or Higher Education provider
o Successful completion of one-year Higher Education study in Australia
o Successful completion of a Foundation Studies program in Australia
• Senior secondary study undertaken in English from the following countries: American Samoa, Botswana, Canada (excluding Quebec), Fiji, Ghana, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Malaysia Secondary School qualifications SPM1119 Grade C in English; STMP grade C in English Literature; UEC grade B5 in English
• Successful completion of an English for Academic Purpose course that satisfies the English requirements before commencing the degree at IGI. The English for Academic Purposes course must be undertaken at one of IGI’s approved ELICOS providers.

IGI reserves the right to ask a student to provide an English language test result.

Level 100

Level 200

List of Electives

Level 100

Level 200

Assessment methods

Assessment is an information gathering process with the aim of improving, evaluating, and understanding students’ learning to determine how well performance matches the expectations and learning outcomes of the unit.

Assessment tasks that make up a component of the total score for a unit have clear marking criteria highlighting the learning objectives; outcomes and expectations to achieve a particular grade. Specified unit learning outcomes are assessed through a combination of:
• individual and group tasks; and
• formative and summative tasks.

Formative assessment is the gathering of data on student learning during an instructional or classroom encounter. It helps to identify concepts or skills that students are not learning well, and to take steps to improve student learning while the course is still in progress. Examples include:
• presentations.
• participation in group assignments or in class learning activities.
• simulations.

Summative assessment is the gathering of data on student learning at the conclusion of a unit, as a basis for judging student knowledge and skills.
Examples include:
• case studies.
• literature reviews.
• reports or essay writing.
• quizzes.
• reflective journals (when completed at the end of a unit)
• assignments (when completed at the end of a unit)