Bachelor of Advanced Commerce (Honours) - Human Resource Management in Bentley Australia | Curtin University

Perhaps you dream of pursing advanced research at the PhD level, discovering new business theories and applications. Our Advanced Commerce degree will ensure you’re well-equipped to thrive in your chosen field, regardless of your desired career path. This advanced degree combines our three-year Bachelor of Commerce with our one-year Honours program, creating a holistic study journey where you’ll enjoy personalised education and professional development opportunities right from the start. With only a small cohort of elite students selected to study this degree, you’ll learn alongside the next generation of business leaders and researchers.

You’ll begin your study with a foundational year that will provide you with a solid knowledge base in business. You’ll focus on the principles of business acumen, professional practice, leadership, and entrepreneurship through the lens of real-world projects and assessments. In your second year you’ll begin study in your chosen major. You’ll also have access to higher level units from your second year, such as the Introduction to Research Methods for Honours unit, which is usually not available until your fourth year. Early access to this unit can help you decide between a research or practical pathway in your final year.

You’ll solidify your learning in your third year through a capstone experience, enabling you to apply your studies through a practical industry-based unit. Unique to this advanced degree, you’ll be assigned a personal mentor to help guide your decision-making through this unit. In your fourth and final year, you’ll apply and integrate your knowledge and skills through a thesis project or a practical industry experience and supporting project.

We spend one-third of our life at work, so understanding how to make work meaningful is vital to our wellbeing. Human resource (HR) management is a role where you can help others, by helping people derive meaning from work and understanding the role of work in their happiness. It is about achieving the best for employee wellbeing, performance and job satisfaction – and it is fundamental to a company meeting its business goals. HR management is increasingly relevant in the 21st-century era of automation. For example, many organisations now need HR managers to help with the workplace teaming of humans and machines – defining roles and responsibilities and devising the system for communication and collaboration. The future of work is certainly changing fast, and there will always be demand for HR leaders that can ensure an organisation has the policies and systems in place that help staff to flourish and achieve to their potential. In this course, the areas of HR management that you’ll gain skills in include: recruitment and selection, remuneration, performance, training and development, conflict management, HRM metrics and analytics and more.