Course Outline
BUS501 Business Research and Statistics
Course Coordinator:Jenna Campton (jcampton@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
2021ATMC Semester 2
USC SydneyUSC Melbourne |
Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
What is this course about?
Description
Business research and statistics are essential for any organisation to remain competitive, understand their customer’s needs, and resolve business problems or opportunity’s. Through research and discussions students will explore how to define business problems and design business research. Having an ongoing dialog in the workshop’s students will focus on how to interpret business analytics for decision making. Students will acquire practical skills in evidence-based decision making, analysing data, and communicating outcomes.
How will this course be delivered?
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Lecture | 2hrs | Not applicable | Not Yet Determined |
| Laboratory 1 | 1hr | Not applicable | Not Yet Determined |
Course Topics
TBA
What level is this course?
500 Level (Advanced)
What is the unit value of this course?
12 units
How does this course contribute to my learning?
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Understand the principles of business analytics and its relation to business intelligence; and applied statistical terminology and techniques. |
Creative and critical thinker Ethical |
| 2 | Identify a business problem, nominate an appropriate business analytics approach to address the problem and apply that business analytics approach |
Knowledgeable Empowered |
| 3 | Apply appropriate quantitative techniques for descriptive and predictive business analytics |
Creative and critical thinker Empowered |
| 4 | Make reasoned decisions as to the appropriate data collection method(s) for specific business analytics applications | Creative and critical thinker |
| 5 | Apply computer technology in the solution of business analytics problems. | Empowered |
Am I eligible to enrol in this course?
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Pre-requisites
Must be enrolled in a postgraduate program.
Co-requisites
Not applicable
Anti-requisites
Not applicable
Specific assumed prior knowledge and skills (where applicable)
Not applicable
Microcredential Information
Not applicable
How am I going to be assessed?
Grading Scale
Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Details of early feedback on progress
From weeks 1-6 students will be given mini-practice quizzes to assess their knowledge of the weekly content from the lectures and tutorials. Weeks 1-3 practice quizzes will help to study for the week 4 graded quiz. Weeks 4-6 will help study for the week 7 graded quiz. It is expected that students will use this feedback to help identify topics in which they need to further study.
Assessment tasks
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Quiz/zes | Individual | 20% | 500 words |
Refer to Format | Online Test (Quiz) |
| All | 2 | Examination - not Centrally Scheduled | Individual | 30% | 2 Hours |
Week 10 | In Class |
| All | 3 | Examination - Centrally Scheduled | Individual | 50% | 2 hours |
Exam Period | Exam Venue |
| All - Assessment Task 1:In class quizzes | ||||||||||
| Goal: | To demonstrate understanding of business analytics and statistics |
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| Format: | Submit: Weeks 4 and 7 inclusive. This is an individual assessment. In Week 4 and Week 7 two online quizzes will be conducted in your enrolled tutorial. The week 4 quiz will cover content from weeks 1-3 and the week 7 quiz will assess content from weeks 4-6. Each quiz will comprise of 15 multiple choice questions and there is a 30-minute time limit. The quiz will assess content from the lectures, tutorials and textbook readings. |
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| All - Assessment Task 2:Examination | |||||||
| Goal: | To undertake a business analytics approach to solve a set of business problems that require the use of appropriately selected business analytics approaches. |
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| Format: | This is an individual assessmentThe exam will be held in the Lecture in Week 10 and assesses content covered from Weeks 5, 7, 8 & 9. The exam has two parts, the first part comprises multiple choice and true/false questions and the second part requires short answer responses. |
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| All - Assessment Task 3:Final examination | |||||||
| Goal: | To demonstrate understanding of business analytics and statistics |
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| Format: | This is an individual assessment. A two-hour final examination will be held in the examination period and will consist of a set of 50 multiple choice questions. |
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Directed study hours
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
What resources do I need to undertake this course?
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
Prescribed text(s) or course reader
You need regular access to the resource(s) below. Many texts are available as ebooks through the Library at no additional cost.
| Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
| Required | Zikmund, W. G., Babin, B. J., Carr, J. C., & Griffin, M. | 2013 | Business research methods | Cengage Learning Australia | |
| Required | Allen, P., Bennett, K., & Heritage, B. | 2014 | SPSS statistics version 22: A practical guide | Cengage Learning Australia |
Specific requirements
Not applicable
How are risks managed in this course?
What administrative information is relevant to this course?
Assessment: Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Assessment: Additional Requirements
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying: The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4% The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconductAssessment: Submission penalties
Late submission of assessment tasks may be penalised at the following maximum rate: - 5% (of the assessment task's identified value) per day for the first two days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - 10% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the third day - 20% (of the assessment task's identified value) for the fourth day and subsequent days up to and including seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. - A result of zero is awarded for an assessment task submitted after seven days from the date identified as the due date for the assessment task. Weekdays and weekends are included in the calculation of days late. To request an extension you must contact your course coordinator to negotiate an outcome.Links to relevant University policy and procedures
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