Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Business Management

1. To provide potential business managers with advanced intellectual, entrepreneurial and practical skills relevant to the dynamic market needs in order to manage the marketing function efficiently and effectively.
2. To provide prospective entrepreneur with advanced intellectual, entrepreneurial and practical skills in order to manage own business efficiently and effectively.
3. To prepare Learners for advancement to master degree Qualifications.
4. To acquaint Learners in problem solving approach in their learning and to inculcate in them the ethical responsibility towards their prospective work place and the community at large.

Entry requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is

• Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management, NQF Level 7.

BCom (Hons) (Business Management)

1. Ability to manage a marketing department as a professional manager.
2. Ability to establish and manage own business profitable.
3. To be conversant with Strategic Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing Research, Small Business Management and Research Methodology.
4. Ability to formulate and execute a research study.
5. Ability to compile a detailed business plan.

Specific critical cross-field outcomes

1. Identify, analyse, formulate and solve problems in which responses display that responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking have been made.
2. Working effectively with others as a member of a team, group, organisation and community.
3. Organising and management oneself and one's activities responsibly and effectively.
4. Using science and technology effectively and critically showing responsibility towards the environment and health of others.
5. Communicating using visual aids, mathematical and language skills in the modes of oral and or written persuasion
6. Demonstrating an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation.

Association assessment outcomes

1. Solve problems by means of exploring, and critically evaluating abstract and personal situations.
2. Solve problems by generating alternative strategies for dealing with those problems.

Specific outcomes

1. Think contextually, and reflects on learning from individual experience and academic disciplines in relation to political, social, cultural, technological and economic realities, locally and globally.
2. Think and do business or conduct oneself in public in a professional manner.

Associated Assessment Outcomes

1. Relate learning from individual experience to knowledge encountered in an academic environment and vice versa.
2. Relate learning from experience and academic contexts to different contexts using present and future scenarios.
3. Relate learning from academic context to the expected professional and business ethics.

1. Qualification is awarded on successful completion of all the prescribed modules at honours level.
2. In addition the following formative and summative continuous assessments apply:
3. Qualification is awarded on successful completion of all modules in year 1

• Examinations: 50%
• Assignment/class work 30%
• Group Project: 20%

Integrated assessment incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the degree is achieved

1. Written examinations.
2. Oral examinations.

Other

Group Projects

Assignments