Handbook

Overview

This course offers you the essential financial toolkit to manage, grow, and secure your personal finances with confidence as you navigate life’s financial milestones. Perfectly suited for students ready to build a strong financial foundation, this course explores key topics such as evaluating your current financial position, setting impactful long-term goals, and developing a strategic plan to achieve financial independence. We will delve into practical areas including career planning, homeownership, debt management, tax essentials, risk assessment and investment choices tailored to your aspirations. In this course, you will gain the skills and knowledge to make smart, informed financial decisions and take charge of your financial future with clarity and purpose.

Conditions for Enrolment

Excluded:All UG Business programs

Course Attributes

General Education

Delivery

In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

Fully online - Intensive

Please note that the above delivery information is an indication on how this course may be delivered within the year. Delivery mode(s) for each term can be viewed on other sources such as myUNSW and class timetable site.

This Handbook is a comprehensive catalogue of our offerings and includes courses that can be taken to satisfy program requirements irrespective as to their availability for a particular year. Availability of courses is best checked using filters on this site or on the class timetable site.

Fees

Type	Amount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)	$2124
Domestic Students	$6750
International Students	$6750

Disclaimer

Where a fee is displayed as “Not Applicable”, including some Work Experience and UNSW Canberra courses, please contact the relevant Faculty for any enquiry.

Note that the University reserves the right to vary student fees in line with relevant legislation. The fee information is provided as a guide and more specific information about fees, including policy, can be found here.

Commonwealth Supported Students:

Please refer to the information about new Student Contribution band classifications. Note that grandfathering arrangements are applicable for some cohorts of students, and other special arrangements apply for a limited number of programs. The Field of Education displayed on the right-hand side of this page may be applicable in understanding which fee rate will apply to you.

Where a Commonwealth Supported fee is displayed it does not guarantee that such places are available.

Pre-2019 Handbook Editions

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Faculty
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School
School: The academic unit responsible for teaching in disciplines or subject areas (school is part of a faculty).

Study Level
Study Level refers to the academic level of a program, specialisation or course.

Undergraduate

Offering Terms
Depending on the Academic Calendar type, an offering term generally refers to an academic teaching period of between 8-13 weeks in duration.

Summer Term, Term 1, Term 2, Term 3

Campus

Sydney

Academic Calendar

Field of Education

081199 Banking, Finance and Related Fields not elsewhere classified

Timetable

Course Outline
This link will take you to UNSW Course Outline website that is first released for all faculties for 2024 academic year. Note that the Handbook publishes course information regardless of whether the course is offered (and therefore has a course outline available), or not.

Personal Finance

GENC3004

6 Units of Credit