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Bachelor of Business - Stage Two

International business involves transactions that cross national borders, and takes a number of forms including trade, international investment and offshore sourcing. The international business climate is complex – with different currencies, cultures, regulatory systems and risks. International businesses are often large, multi-market and multi-product, and must be managed across vast distances and time differences.

The International Business major in the Bachelor of Business (BBus) degree will equip you with an understanding of how businesses operate across national borders, and the importance of emerging markets like China, India, Brazil and Russia. You will review trade policies, and explore how and why the world economy is changing, and what these changes mean for business strategy. You also investigate what New Zealand will need to do to prosper in this new world.

  • Prepares you for the opportunities and challenges of the changing business world and emerging new markets
  • Contemporary approach: covers today’s key issues including cross-cultural leadership, business in new international markets and new ways of doing business
  • Overseas experience: you must either study overseas for a full semester or complete your co-operative education with an organisation overseas
  • Real business experience through Students in Free Enterprise, an applied business project or a industry placement (recent placements included New Zealand Customs Service, the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Spain, , ATS Pacific Fiji, Chrisco hampers (Sydney, Australia) and the International Department at Waiariki Institute of Technology.)
  • Choice of papers that cover conducting business in different markets, such as Europe or Asia
  • Guest speakers from leading overseas universities and New Zealand companies that are active in foreign markets
  • Department has strong links with organisations such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, American Chamber of Commerce or UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
  • The AUT Business School is among an elite group of 6% of business schools worldwide accredited by AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

More information about the Bachelor of Business

Structure and content

Part One
Papers in part 1 provide you with an introduction to the roles of business and fundamental concepts in business disciplines. You complete 5 core papers in part 1 which are:

  • Business in Context (30 points)
  • Management and Organisation (15 points)
  • Accounting for Decision Making (15 points)
  • Quantitative Methods for Business (15 points)
  • Economic Principles I (15 points)

In addition to the 5 core papers you choose 2 elective papers from the list below, or from elsewhere in the university:

  • Economic Principles 2 (15 points)
  • Introduction to Finance (15 points).
  • Fundamentals of Marketing, Advertising, Retailing and Sales (MARS) (15 points)
  • Business Information Systems (15 points)
  • Design Thinking (15 points)
  • Introduction to Tourism (15 points)
  • Leadership for Sustainable Enterprise (15 points)

Part Two
Over the next 2 years, you will gain an understanding of the international business environment, analyse business from cultural perspectives, review trade policies, and understand how businesses operate across boundaries.

Part Three
This is the final part to the Bachelor of Business degree and takes a full semester of study. You have the opportunity to apply what you have learnt in your major(s) to the real world in a business, not-for profit organisation, or entrepreneurial venture. You choose 1 of the 3 following papers:

1) Co-operative Education
A supervised industry placement related to your major in an organisation of your choice. Placements can be done either in New Zealand or overseas. Recent placements included New Zealand Customs Service, the Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Spain, ATS Pacific Fiji, Chrisco hampers (Sydney, Australia) and the International Department at Waiariki Institute of Technology.)

Or

2) Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
You work as part of a team and create and manage a project to benefit a group within a New Zealand community.

Or

3) Applied Project (normally by invitation only)
You do a supervised individual or group project based within an academic department in the AUT Business School. This option is primarily aimed at those students interested in continuing on to postgraduate study.

For further information about Co-operative Education

Papers (90 POINTS)

Level Six:

356800 International Business Environment
356803 Business and Culture
376305 Business and the Macroeconomic Environment

Level Seven:

357800 International Business Management

Select Two:

287203 International Relations
357801 International Business Strategy
357802 Leadership Challenges in International Business
357805 Contemporary Issues in International Business
367810 International Accounting
377406 Growth and Development in the Asia-Pacific Region
397001 International Corporate Finance
467809 International Human Resource Management
467943 Strategic Management
487962 International Marketing

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Career opportunities 

  • Account manager – international
  • Export manager
  • International project manager
  • International sales representative
  • Management consultant
  • National or regional trade development advisor
  • Regional marketing manager
  • Overseas buyer
  • Policy and research advisor
  • Regional marketing manager

Graduate and students of business

 

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