Program Overview

To manage staff properly, you need to understand them. This degree gives you a deep practical understanding of how people work, and how to create a business environment conducive to individual success. You’ll gain a strong foundation in the fundamentals of business, with a focus on human resource management, including areas such as workplace relations, staffing and remuneration, training and development, leadership and team dynamics, and managing organisational change. You’ll also learn about human behaviour and cognitive, social, physiological and intercultural psychologies.

In this degree you will:

• Develop specialist skills through your understanding of the key areas of human resource management
• Gain practical experience in the human resources sector through an elective internship
• Learn fundamentals of business such as economics, management, marketing, research methods, accounting and informatics
• Participate in paid research assistant work relating to psychology in your second or third year of study

Major: Small Business Management

Do you have a dream to one day start your own business? Studying Small Business Management will equip you with the entrepreneurial skills you need to start your own enterprise and succeed in small business.

Your studies will introduce you to the world of business but maintain a strong focus on regional community. You will have the opportunity to test the viability of an entrepreneurial start-up and learn how businesses can make a difference in the local community.

Make the most of USC’s staff expertise and open doors to a diverse range of employment opportunities in the corporate world through industry connections. This is the first and only university curriculum in Queensland to offer specialised Small Business Management and offers the flexibility to study face-to-face or online.