Follow your love for travel and new experiences, or watch your event plans come to life.
Designed to prepare you for the demands of industry, our unique Bachelor of Business (Tourism, Leisure, and Event Management) program is your ticket to a fast paced career filled with opportunities. With a shift in focus to sustainable tourism, employers are looking for a new breed of tourism, leisure, and event managers. Real experiences include field work (e.g. Fraser Island) and industry projects that assist you to develop a solid foundation upon which you will enhance your knowledge of consumer needs and motivations, product development, service, stakeholder engagement, event management, business events, leisure, niche tourism, policy and planning, innovation and technology.
- Only a full-time option is available to international students on a Student visa. Online programs are not available to Student visa holders.
- * Estimated tuition fees are based on 2025 rates. Refer to international fees for more information.
- Not all majors/minors and elective options are available at every campus. You should refer to the What Can I Study tab, and the proposed study sequence for your chosen campus and intake for further information.
- * Campus note: In addition to being able to study all courses at Sippy Downs, students may choose to complete some core and foundation business subjects at the Noosa Centre or Gympie campus. There may be a limited selection of subjects available at South Bank. The option to study at Noosa is not available to international students on a Student visa.
- ** Only first-year and second-year courses are offered at Fraser Coast in 2017. Third-year courses will become available in 2018. Further elective courses are available at Sippy Downs.
- * Campus note: In addition to being able to study all courses at Sippy Downs, students may choose to complete some core and foundation business subjects at the Noosa Centre or Gympie campus. There may be a limited selection of subjects available at South Bank. The option to study at Noosa is not available to international students on a Student visa.
- ** Only first-year and second-year courses are offered at Fraser Coast in 2017. Third-year courses will become available in 2018. Further elective courses are available at Sippy Downs.
Designed to prepare you for the demands of industry, our unique Bachelor of Business (Tourism, Leisure, and Event Management) program is your ticket to a fast paced career filled with opportunities. With a shift in focus to sustainable tourism, employers are looking for a new breed of tourism, leisure, and event managers. Real experiences include field work (e.g. Fraser Island) and industry projects that assist you to develop a solid foundation upon which you will enhance your knowledge of consumer needs and motivations, product development, service, stakeholder engagement, event management, business events, leisure, niche tourism, policy and planning, innovation and technology.
This program gives you the confidence in public speaking, communication, team work, leadership, time management, and inter-cultural understanding. You’ll benefit from direct industry engagement through guest speakers, volunteer opportunities and work experience with local businesses and other industry-focused activities. Broaden your experience by studying a component of this program overseas with the Study Overseas program.
Further develop your practical skills, and your industry networks, on a supervised 12 week internship where you can really immerse yourself in the career you are striving for. Internships are as broad as the industry with students having interned with: V8 Supercars, Wedding events, Accommodation providers (Oaks Resorts), Woodford Folk Festival, Ecotourism Australia, Aussie World, Moreton and Sunshine Coast Councils and Visit Sunshine Coast (to name but a few).
Career opportunities
Accommodation/destination management; marketing; festivals/sporting events; attraction/leisure/conference management; research; policy; hospitality.
Membership
Australian Tourism Research Institute; Pacific Area Travel Association; Ecotourism Association of Australia; Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education.
Program structure
Introductory courses (8)
BUS101 Project Management
BUS102 Innovation and Creative Decision Making
BUS104 Organisational Behaviour
BUS105 Marketing Strategy
BUS106 Strategic Performance Measurement Systems
BUS108 Introduction to Psychology A
COR109 Introduction to Psychology B
TSM102 Counselling for the Human Services Professional
Advanced courses (8)
BUS203 Counselling Theory and Practice
BUS320 Trauma, Bereavement and Crisis Counselling
TSM211 Group Work
TSM221 Ethics and Professional Practice
TSM223 Developmental and Family Counselling
TSM313 Business Analytics
TSM314 Introduction to Economics
TSM315 Management and Organisational Behaviour
Elective courses (8)
Select 8 elective courses. Six electives must be advanced level (200/300 coded) courses. Two electives must be from the School of Business while the remaining 6 electives can be from either faculty (Arts, Business and Law or Science, Health, Education and Engineering).
Students can choose to use these electives towards a major from the Business majors listed below:
Note: Not all USC courses are available on every USC campus.
Total units: 288
Recommended study sequences
- (Sippy Downs / SouthBank) Study Plan - Semester 1 commencement (February)
- (Sippy Downs / SouthBank) Study Plan - Semester 2 commencement (July)
- Study Plan - Semester 2 (mid-year) commencement (South Bank) with Diploma in Buisness
- (SouthBank) Study Plan - Semester 1 commencement
- Study Plan - Semester 2 (mid-year) commencement (South Bank)
- (Fraser Coast) Study Plan - Semester 2 commencement - (July)
- (Fraser Coast) Study Plan - Semester 1 commencement (February)
Program requirements and notes
Program requirements
In order to graduate you must:
- Complete 8 required introductory level (100 coded) courses
- Complete 8 required advanced level (200/300 coded) courses
- Complete 8 elective courses, 6 must be advanced level (200/300 coded) courses
- (Optional) Use electives to complete a minor (4 courses) to supplement the required major
- Complete no more than 10 introductory level (100 coded) courses, including the core course
- Complete no more than 6 courses from the Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Register your selected major and/or minor
Program notes
- Completing this program within the specified (full-time) duration is based on studying 48 unit points per semester (normally 4 courses)
- Courses within this program are assessed using a variety of assessment methods including essays, seminar presentations, reports, in-class tests and examinations. Not all courses will necessarily include all methods
- As part of your USC program, you may apply to Study Overseas to undertake courses with an overseas higher education provider. It is advisable to contact your Faculty Program Advisor to discuss timing and course issues
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa