MANCOSA Bachelor of Business Administration
Upon successful completion of the programme, the student should be able to:
- Identify, analyse, formulate, and serve the needs of individuals and society creatively and innovatively.
- Work effectively both on own initiatives and 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 his or her activities and life responsibly and effectively, including his or her studies within the distance context.
- Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information, as required in the pursuit of the BBA.
- Communicate effectively using visual, mathematical and/or language skills in the modes of oral and/or written presentation in often extensive pieces of sustained discourse.
- Utilise 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 knowledge in the functional areas of business.
- Apply management principles in a work-based context.
- Anticipate and analyse trends in the business environment.
- Integrate theory and application from various functional areas in an interdisciplinary approach.
- 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.
Duration: 3 years
| Year | Semester | Description |
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| 1 | 1 | Business Management 1A Economics 1A End User Computing Business Mathematics |
| 2 | Business Management 1B Economics 1B Business Communication Financial Accounting |
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| 2 | 1 | Business Management 2A Business Administration 2A Business and Society Management Accounting |
| 2 | Business Management 2B Business Administration 2B Information Systems Business Statistics |
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| 3 | 1 | Business Administration 3A Business Administration 3B Business Management 3A Business Management 3B |
| 2 | Business Administration 3C Business Administration 3D Business Management 3C Business Management 3D |
- The minimum entry requirement is the National Senior Certificate or National Certificate Vocational with appropriate subject combinations and levels of achievement; or
- An equivalent NQF level 4 qualification with proven proficiency in English; or
- A Higher Certificate, an Advanced Certificate or Diploma.