Bachelor of Commerce Honours
Business, Commerce and Management Studies - Finance Economics and Accounting
Purpose and Rationale
Commerce Intermediate Level Qualification
Purpose:
- To provide learners with a deep understanding of Business Management, Human Resources Management, Economics, and Accounting.
- To equip learners with the ability to critically question assumptions, understand elementary research methods, and express their opinions coherently.
- To prepare learners for a wide range of professions in Commerce, essential for societal welfare.
- To develop lateral, critical, and creative thinking skills for life-long learning.
- To instill principles of critical citizenship and the ability to propose, execute, analyze, and report on basic research projects logically.
Rationale:
- Relevance: This qualification meets the needs of the South African labor market by producing graduates fit for management and law roles.
- NQF Objectives: Facilitates access, mobility, and progression in Management and Law career paths.
- Research Capacity: Develops a research capacity in graduates for academic and professional advancement.
- Personal & Economic Development: Contributes to individual and societal development, addressing workplace needs.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate a scope of knowledge and knowledge literacy in the chosen discipline of specialisation. Consolidate and deepen one's expertise in a particular discipline.
- Acquire problem solving skills use related methods and procedures to solve problems.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and address ethical issues in the related field of specialisation.
- Apply effective learning strategies to cope with the high level of theoretical engagement and intellectual independence.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
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Demonstrate an understanding of knowledge application in one of the following fields, viz. Business Management, Human Resources Management, Economics, or Accounting.
- Utilize multiple sources to gain knowledge and insight.
- Synthesize academic arguments from various sources.
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Draw on the applicable body of knowledge in the discipline and identify, analyse, and address problems.
- Present and communicate information effectively.
- Present and communicate occupational ideas and texts effectively.
Associated Assessment Criteria 3:
- Demonstrate the learner's critical reflection on the suitability of different ethical value systems and the application to specific contexts.
Associated Assessment Criteria 4:
- Report research under supervision of at least 30 credits in the form of a research component that reflects theoretical engagement and intellectual independence.
Integrated Assessment:
- Learning and assessment across exit level outcomes within the qualification should be integrated to ensure a well-structured cohesive qualification.
- Formative assessments provide continuous learning and feedback to learners.
- Summative assessments ensure a judgment of learning at exit level outcomes.
- Assessments should assess the learner's ability to integrate the larger body of knowledge, competencies, and attitudes represented by the exit-level outcomes.
- Assessments may focus on the qualification as a whole or as components.
Qualification Details
- Type
- Honours Degree
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 120
- SAQA Source
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