Associate Degree of Business (Hospitality and Tourism Management)

This subject introduces the basic financial concepts and procedures that are fundamental to the generation of financial information for business decision-making. It emphasises the awareness of the ethical responsibilities and sustainable practices and considers how a variety of stakeholders use financial information to make planning, controlling, and investing decisions. You will examine, interpret financial statements, generate financial information by understanding the key concepts that underpin the preparation of financial reports. You will utilise various financial management concepts to apply budgeting, costing, and capital investment techniques that support decision-making.

Assessment Tasks: Accounting Language Quiz, Financial Analysis Report & Excel Workbook, Investment, Budgeting & Costing Decisions Board Briefing & Excel Workbook

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online, Intensive

It is critical for businesses to ensure that customers are at the core of all they do and that business strategy drives and supports a Customer Experience (CX) Management approach. In this subject, you will examine the Customer Journey Map and learn why every interaction (or Touchpoint) helps businesses to better understand their customers’ perceptions, feelings, and experiences with a brand’s products and services. Through the lens of the customer, you will propose new strategies to improve the customer experience.

Pre-requisites: MKT105 Marketing in the Digital Era

Assessment Tasks: Customer Experience Analysis Report, Customer Journey Map & Recorded Presentation, Customer Experience Strategy Proposal

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject will prepare you for a guest facing role in front office, reservations, or guest relations. You will learn how to manage guest booking, check-ins and check out procedures using hotel property management software. This subject will support the development of interpersonal skills such as communication, emotional intelligence, and cultural acuity to facilitate the delivery of optimal experiences to your guests.

Pre-requisite: IND101A

Assessment Tasks: Simulations, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, online

Every workplace has a culture; the question is whether it’s a culture anyone designed, and whether it makes room for the different cultures people bring with them. This subject extends your understanding of self and others. You will analyse people and cultural challenges, evaluate approaches to workplace culture and cohesion, and cultural diversity against established frameworks. You will recommend evidence-based initiatives, reflecting critical on yourself and others along the way.

Pre-requisites: BIZ106 Academic and Business Communication Skills, BIZ107 Understanding Self and Others

Assessment Tasks: People and Culture Diagnostic, Reflection and Strategic Action Plan

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Pre-requisite: BIZ202

Assessment Tasks: Revenue Optimisation Strategy, Strategic Business Decision Report, Q&A

Delivery Mode: On Campus, online

In this subject, you will participate in an industry-based consultancy project to develop your employability skills. Specific skills and competencies are required by global and Australian workplaces where the expectation is that you perform from the outset. Therefore, the project you will work on will introduce you to in-demand industry skills. A key goal of the subject is also assessing your skills and capabilities to align them with your learning needs and career ambitions. The consultancy project will be completed within the Social Enterprise Hub at Torrens University with external clients. Successful completion of this subject grants 100 hours of credit towards industry practicum requirements.

Pre-requisite: IND101A Industry Skills Project 

Assessment Tasks: Work Integrated Learning Activity Project Plan, Project Deliverable, Report 

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Integrated Marketing Communications provides students with a contemporary view on the use of all different promotional tools available to marketers today such as sales promotions, direct marketing, advertising, personal selling and public relations. The unit explores how marketers can increase the number of touch points a brand can explore among its target audience in a consistent and effective manner.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Campaign Plan, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

In this subject you will be introduced to the main aspects of consumer behaviour, including the societal, family and cultural influences on behaviour. You will examine vital topics such as consumer learning, needs and wants, motivations, perceptions and experience, and specific consumer behaviours and the internal and external factors involved in consumer decision making. Through completion of this subject, you will be able to critically appraise your own buying behaviour, which in turn will assist you in acquiring, critically examining, and communicating information from a range of different sources.

Assessment Tasks: Discussion Forum, Test, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Have you ever dreamt of launching a business, building a personal brand, or creating something with real-world impact? This subject introduces you to the foundations of entrepreneurship and helps you explore what it takes to think and act like an entrepreneur in today’s world. You will examine the mindsets and behaviours that drive everything from AI-powered start-ups to remote-first creative ventures. Whether designing around digital nomadism, building a creator-led brand, or pursuing a social enterprise, you will explore opportunities using practical tools and self-reflection. You will also consider how entrepreneurs address social, environmental, and ethical challenges. By the end of the subject, you will begin to map your entrepreneurial journey grounded in curiosity, creativity, and action. You will learn about entrepreneurship for start-up businesses as well as entrepreneurial behaviour within larger organisations. You will apply the theory and practice of entrepreneurship, and the assess the characteristics mindset and skills of entrepreneurs.

Assessment Tasks: Entrepreneurial Journey Blog, Entrepreneurial Capability Reflection Video, Entrepreneurial Action Plan

Delivery mode: On campus, Online

This subject develops the skills to generate, evaluate, and communicate entrepreneurial venture (business) ideas. Students apply market research and ideation tools to identify opportunities, refine concepts into a structured business case, and pitch solutions to stakeholders. Reflective practice is used throughout to improve ideas based on feedback and support the development of entrepreneurial capability.

Assessment Tasks: Pitch Your Idea Presentation, Build Your Business Case, Pitch Your Venture Infographic Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online, Intensive

Assessment Tasks: Event Impacts & Stakeholders Infographic, Client Brief Event Plan, Event Pitch

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject develops your ability to apply project management tools and techniques to plan and manage both waterfall and agile projects. You will use industry-recognised terminology, including frameworks from the Project Management Institute (PMI), to support effective project delivery. You will analyse and apply key project management principles and performance domains from the PMBOK guide, including development approaches and lifecycle selection, project planning, execution of project work, performance measurement, and delivery outcomes. Through practical activities, you will develop the skills to make informed decisions and manage project processes in contemporary organisational contexts.

Assessment Tasks: Project Selection Pitch, Consultative Report, Project Delivery Presentation

Ever wondered what it takes to bring a festival, conference, or sporting event to life? This subject dives into the dynamic world of events where planning meets logistics, meets creativity and delivery for unforgettable experiences. You will explore the full event lifecycle; from concept and budgeting to marketing, risk management, and post-event evaluation while engaging with real-world case studies and current industry trends. Whether you're passionate about music, business, tourism, or social impact, this subject equips you with the tools to design and deliver events that leave lasting impressions. By the end, you will not only understand what makes an event successful, you will be ready to plan one yourself. 

Assessment Tasks: Report, Portfolio, Event Operations Manual

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

In this subject you will explore basic microeconomic and macroeconomic principles and their application to individuals, households, firms and the macroeconomy. You will explain key basic concepts such as the economic question and resource allocation and apply the microeconomic concepts of demand and supply, types of market structure and profit maximisation to everyday economic problems and real world case studies. In addition you will analyse the macroeconomic environment through calculating and comparing GDP, inflation, unemployment and analyse how the authorities apply fiscal and monetary policies in an attempt to achieve sound macroeconomic management.

Assessment Tasks: Presentation, Test, Case Analysis

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

How might we change the world through strategic intent?

To thrive amidst uncertainty, digital disruption, and sustainability imperatives, we must be agile. This subject equips you with modern methodologies, including scenario planning and design thinking, to develop effective, evidence-based responses to complex challenges in entrepreneurial, non-profit, social enterprises, government, business, gig economy and other settings.

You will analyse external environments, evaluate industry structures, and assess internal capabilities to create strategic solutions that enable you to pivot and thrive. Through real-world case studies, you will bridge theory and practice, enhancing your capacity to think critically and act decisively.

Pre-requisites: BIZ301 Organisational Creativity and Innovation

Assessment Tasks: Boardroom Scenario, Q&A

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

What if your big idea isn’t solving the real problem?This subject introduces Lean Start-Up as a practical approach to developing and testing business ideas. Students learn to identify customer problems, test assumptions, and refine their ideas using stakeholder feedback and Build–Measure–Learn cycles. Across the subject, they develop, validate, and improve a business model based on evidence. The subject culminates in a portfolio and pitch demonstrating how the idea creates value and is both sustainable and viable.

Assessment Tasks: Lean canvas, Report, Video pitch

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Business and law are tied together more closely than most people realise; behind every contract, sale, or hire sits a set of legal rules. In this subject you will explore the areas of law in creating and operating businesses in the Australian regulatory environment. You will explore the role of agency in business operations and how the law of negligence works, learn to identify risk , and explore the role of consumer law in a business and corporate context.You will examine how property is classified and what determines the right business structure, and how contracts are formed, discharged and what happens when they are breached. The subject focuses on companies, how they are formed, run, and wound up,including, key duties and responsibilities of directors and the corporate governance and capital management strategies.

Assessment Tasks: Foundations Case Analysis & Advice, Collaborative Legal Argument, Integrated Legal Reasoning  

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online