Bachelor of Commerce

Purpose

The purpose of the Specific Business qualification is to

• Allow candidates to be able to inject their competencies to the business world.
• Offer the highest standardized curriculum to ensure that our students compete and respond effectively to the needs of the business world.
• Develop and create candidates who will able to perform duties of being business practitioners to businesses.
• Empower and assist students to improve the efficiency in business management related issues.

Rationale

The rationale for the development and implementation of the programme is to

• Create and provide a suitable commercial degree that provides an entry into the business world.
• Prepare students with the necessary theoretical business background and to expose them to a practical field in the business world.
• Allow students to participate in most of the spheres of the economy.
• Allow students with the qualification to further their studies to post graduate levels.

Candidates are accepted on the basis of their National Senior Certificate or Matriculation performance or institutional Recognition of Prior Learning policy.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Alternative routes of entry including the assessment of adult learner's capacity to benefit from a particular programme through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) or other alternative means will apply using the Senate Discretionary selection requirements.

Access to the qualification

• The qualification targets all the candidates who intend to or switch on to pursue business related careers.
• Candidates may be accepted on basis of their matriculation performance or Recognition of Prior Learning.

• The Bachelor of Commerce degree entails minimum credits of 120 each year to 360 over a period of 3 years. The period of three years in this qualification is taken to be the total duration of the course.
• Bachelor Commerce structure does allow fundamentals, core and electives.

After successful completion of the programme students will able to demonstrate

• That they have gained and acquired sound theoretical knowledge to start and manage new and/or existing businesses.
• Their abilities to provide information for management decision making such as planning, organizing, leading and control.
• Their abilities to identify strengths and weaknesses (within an organization); and opportunities and threats (outside the organization).
• Their assessment of viability and evaluation of old/new businesses, products/processes and services.
• At a highest level the identification, processing and communicating useful data.
• Their ability to understand and apply management theories in the respective functional areas.

Integrated assessment

Since this is an undergraduate qualification which is unique on its own merits students in appropriately stages of their learning progress are assessed through written tests, assignments, tutorials activities, class group work, case studies, projects, class participation activities and individual assertiveness. This is meant to ensure that outcomes have been sufficiently grasped.