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: Tourism, Leisure and Event Management

If you are passionate about travel and enjoy connecting communities with culture, then consider studying Tourism, Leisure and Event Management.

The Sunshine Coast region is a booming tourist destination and a great place to learn about the ‘experience economy’. Set in the backdrop of pristine beaches and national parks, your studies will focus on sustainable tourism to prevent potential harm to local communities or the environment.

You will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a cross-cultural exchange and draw upon your own experiences to help local communities thrive in the wake of a global pandemic.

Taught by award-winning international staff with global connections, this major is listed in Shanghai Ranking’s top 200 hospitality and tourism programs.