Overview
Overview
This is an ideal postgraduate degree for professionals who want to specialise or upskill in a particular area of commerce. Business professionals may also be eligible to gain credit for recognised learning (CRL) and gain their master degree in just one year.
This course incorporates Curtin Business School's future-focused ‘GRIT’ concepts – global, responsible, innovative, and technology-driven – which reflects the skills the World Economic Forum has identified as non-negotiable for the 21st century.
You will study commerce subjects that will broadly enhance your employability – including business project management, business analytics and data visualisation, and transformative technologies that impact society and its business practices. These core units will extend your knowledge in areas of business and STEM, and enable you to network with a wider range of peers.
You’ll then focus on a major of your choice from the list below, developing an advanced understanding of that area's principles and practices:
- Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics
- Finance
- Human Resources
- International Business
- Marketing
- Supply Chain Management
- Sustainable Business Leadership.
Through practical learning experiences, you will sharpen your ability to solve complex business challenges and acquire valuable research skills to apply to your chosen industry.
Your studies also include several transformative experience and capstone units:
- Corporate Sustainability Immersion: This is a work-integrated learning experience, in which you’ll participate in an industry-connected business innovation project centred on sustainable development and social impact.
- Wicked Problems: In this unit you’ll explore multifaceted real-world challenges that have global, community and individual repercussions.
- Executive Education: Choose five one-day masterclasses (or equivalent) that serve as focused training in leadership, strategy, innovation, negotiation, communication or digital transformation.
- Capstone Experience: This unit may comprise an internship, consultancy experience, research project or international study tour. In addition to growing your business acumen and skill sets, capstone experiences help you develop particular industry knowledge and networks.
Credit for recognised learning (CRL)
If you have a relevant degree and career experience, you may gain CRL, or advance standing, for your Master of Commerce studies and complete the course in just 12 or 18 months (full-time study).
Read our article to learn how CRL can help you to shorten the duration of your studies and gain advice from our program lead, Dr Abhi Singh.
Flexible learning
You can study for your Master of Commerce fully online if you choose, to help balance your commitments while gaining a higher-level qualification. Using CRL to shortening your studies by one or more semesters will also help to fit postgrad study into your life.
What you'll learn
- apply multidisciplinary knowledge to solve complex local and global business and societal challenges, fostering the development of innovative business solutions that are valued by industry, government, and community
- influence inclusively by analysing business problems in ways that demonstrate critical thinking to achieve responsible management decisions that consider the importance of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals when applied to international contexts, and diverse stakeholders including first nations peoples
- demonstrate the judicious use of information and technology to critically analyse business and societal challenges, leading to the formulation of innovative, responsible, and impactful decisions
- communicate professionally with ethical considerations in ways that are appropriate for local and global contexts
- demonstrate industry readiness by developing future-focused capabilities including a global, responsible, innovative, and technology driven mindset
