Bachelor of Commerce in Tourism Management
Business, Commerce and Management Studies - Generic Management
Purpose and Rationale
The primary purpose of this qualification is to provide qualifiers with graduate-level knowledge, specific skills, applied competence, and the necessary attitudes in the fields associated with commerce and industry. This prepares them to be lifelong learners, employable workers/entrepreneurs, and contributors to society and the business community.
The second purpose of the qualification is to provide South Africa (and other countries) with functional managers at the middle management level in all sectors of the economy.
A further purpose of the qualification is to provide graduates with a self-sustaining understanding of the process whereby productive resources are mobilized and utilized with a view to being gainfully employed in serving the material needs of society in a globalized world.
Outcomes
- Identify, analyse, formulate, and serve the commercial and economic needs of individuals and society creatively and innovatively.
- Work effectively with others as a member of a team, group, organisation, community, and contribute to the group output in tasks growing out of the business, commerce and management fields.
- Manage and organise her or his activities and life responsibility and effectively, including her or his studies within the distance context.
- Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information, as required in the pursuit of the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom).
- Communicate effectively using visual, mathematical and / or language skills in the modes of written presentation.
- Use science and technology effectively and critically, showing responsibility towards the environment and health and well-being of others, in community, national and global contexts.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem solving contexts do not exist in isolation, and by acknowledging their responsibilities to those in the local and broader community.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria:
- Identify needs by means of exploring and critically evaluating abstract and personal situations.
- Solve problems by generating alternative strategies for dealing with those problems.
- Overcome communication problems creatively.
- Critically evaluate various viewpoints and compare them to own views.
- Offer evidence in a variety of ways (from theoretical knowledge base, from experiential base, etc) to support their stated views.
- Identify needs and opportunities in their own lives.
- Identify needs and opportunities in business by use of case studies, primary research projects, etc.
- Identify and solve concrete and abstract problems by drawing upon the theoretical knowledge and experiential base of individual disciplines in the fields of Business, Commerce and Management.
- Identify and solve concrete and abstract problems by drawing upon their own experience base.
- Identify and propose ways to serve business and societal needs in a variety of routine and non-routine contexts within broad parameters of the Business, Commerce and Management fields.
- Use their knowledge and experience to offer suggestions for solving problems at a community, national, international, and global level.
- Analyse the global, national and local community in terms of problems, needs, opportunities.
Integrated Assessment:
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Formative Assessment:
- Learning and assessment are integrated.
- Study guides contain self-assessment tasks with feedback.
- Assignments in the scheme of work may be self-assessed based on learning material with feedback provided.
- Continuous process focusing on smaller sections of work and limited outcomes.
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Summative Assessment:
- Examinations or equivalent assessments, such as a portfolio of evidence, assess a representative selection of outcomes practiced and assessed in the formative stage.
- Tests the ability to manage and integrate a large body of knowledge to achieve module outcomes.
Qualification Details
- Type
- National First Degree
- NQF Level
- 07
- Min. Credits
- 360
- SAQA Source
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