Comments

• Ready for VBS to check.
• Stair-cased programmes covered on the same page. Not sure what the page title would be nor where to explain this yet.
• We have an issues with the word programme referring to both an individual qualification and the family.

Programme structure

The Master of Information Management (MIM) is integrated with the Postgraduate Certificate and the Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management, which provide stepping stones to the full MIM for those who are uncertain whether they can commit to the entire programme.

Thoughts and questions

• Graphic to show nested or stair-cased programmes, maybe like the Applied Finance programmes?
• Need one word/phrase to describe the stair-cased, integrated, stepping stones. Then use it for all sets of programmes that work the same way (i.e. in VBS all except the Professional Accounting ones).
• Is it easier to get an entry requirement exemption for the PGCertIM than the PGDipIM? For the PGDipIM than the MIM?

Programme structure

Graduate Certificate in Commerce (GCertCom)

Entry requirements

• Before enrolment, a candidate for the MIM GCertCom shall have:
  • completed a Bachelor's degree;had a minimum of three years of relevant work experience at a level acceptable to the MIM Director; BCom degree; and
  • been accepted by the Director the appropriate Head of School or the Associate Dean (Students) of the Faculty of Commerce as capable of proceeding with the proposed course of study.

Supplementary information

• Students who wish to enrol for the MIM GCertCom but don't meet some the entry requirements should contact the Victoria Business School to discuss their suitability for a possible exemption.

Programme requirements

• Total of 180 of 60 points required .
• Complete two core courses:
  • MMIM 501
  • MMIM 502.
• Complete one case-study courses, MMIM 590.
• Complete a further elective courses worth 120 points (usually eight) from:
• MMIM 503
• MMIM 510-514
• MMIM 522
• MMim 524
• MMIM 525
• MMIM 532
• MMIM 552
• MMIM 571
• MMIM 572
• MMIM 577
• MMIM 580-582
• MMIM 590
• MMIM 592
Approved courses from other Honours or Master's programmesfrom 200-level courses or above.
• At least 40 points from 300-level courses.
• The courses shall be a coherent programme of study approved by the Associate Dean.

Supplementary information

• Standard ones on Requirements of PG programmes
• The case study courses MMIM 590 may be substituted with MMIM 592. Note that MMIM 592 has MMIM 552 as a prerequisite.
• Approved: Approval is requested from the MIM Programme Director.
• Students considering courses from other Honours or Master's programmes should consider the required prerequisites.

Tool tips

• Standard ones on Requirements of PG programmes

Thoughts and questions

• Programme structure seems to differ between '2016 Professional Programmes', '2016 Master of Information Management' and the Calendar, with some differences being errors not style/preference. Clearing these up should be a priority for somebody (Publications, VBS, ?) even if not actually my job. I really only need to know:

  • The facts / what is correct: More often than not it is the Calendar.

  • What (or how much) do I say on the web (as we don't have to convey every requirement).

  • What message or style do I follow: For example, are these professional programmes inclusive and supporting, even of those who don't meet the minimum entry requirements?

• Some examples of the differences:

  • MIM structure. The Calendar states two courses in Part 1, one (of two) in Part 2 and electives from the MIM and other Honours and Master's programmes to make up the 180 points. '2016 Professional Programmes' states two courses in Part 1, eight electives from the MIM in Part 2 and (tacked on at the end) an individual case study project with no mention of courses, points, Parts, or MIM 592. '2016 Master of Information Management' states two courses in Part 1, eight electives from the MIM and other Honours and Master's programmes in Part 2 and a consulting-style case-study project (MMIM 590, but no mention of MMIM 592).

Subject requirements

• The GCertCom may be awarded in one of the following specialisations
• To qualify for a specialisation the course of study shall consist entirely of courses from the relevant subject area):
  • Accounting
  • Commercial Law
  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
  • Information Systems
  • International Business
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Public Management
  • Public Policy
  • Tourism Management

Thoughts and questions

Graduate Diploma in Commerce (GDipCom)

Entry requirements

• Same as

• GDipCom (above).

Programme requirements

• Total of 

• 120 points required

• from 200-level courses or above.
  • At least 75 points from 300-level courses.
• The courses shall be a coherent programme of study approved by the Associate Dean.

Supplementary information

• Standard ones on Requirements of PG programmes

Tool tips

• Standard ones on Requirements of PG

• programmes

Subject requirements

• The GCertCom may be awarded in one of the following specialisations

• To qualify for a specialisation the course of study shall (in addition to the programme requirements) either include the 200- and 300-level requirements or the corresponding BCom major subject or satisfy the requirements listed below

Accounting

• Complete three courses at 200 level:
  • ACCY 223
  • ACCY 231
  • One course from 
    • ACCY 225
    • COML 204
    • TAXN 201.
• Complete five courses at 300 level:
  • Two courses from: 
    • ACCY 302
    • ACCY 308
    • ACCY 330
  • One further course from ACCY 300-399
  • Two approved 300-level courses.

Thoughts and questions

• How does the 'two approved 300-level course' above differ from the 'two approved 300-level electives' stated for most subjects/specialisations?

Commercial Law

• Complete three courses at 200 level:
  
  • COML 203
  • COML 204
  • One course from:
    • COML 205
    • COML 206
    • TAXN 201.
• Complete five courses at 300 level:
  • COML 310
  • Two further courses from COML 300-399
  • Two approved 300-level electives.

Economics

• Complete three courses at 200 level:
  • ECON 201
  • ECON 202.
  • One course from:
    • ECON 211
    • ECON 212
    • FINA 201
    • MATH 277
    • QUAN 201
    • QUAN 203
    • STAT 231
    • STAT 233.
• Complete five courses at 300 level:
  • Three courses from:
    
    • ECON 300-399
    • FINA 304
    • FINA 306
    • PUBL 303
  • Two approved 300-level electives.
    
    

Finance

• • Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations

  • Information Systems

  • International Business

  • Management

  • Marketing

  • Public Management

  • Public Policy

  • Tourism Management

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Thoughts and questions