The Clayton campus of the Faculty of Business and Economics offers three undergraduate degrees at pass and honours level as well as a variety of combined degrees. The Bachelor of Accounting is a specialist degree, based on a cooperative education scheme with scholarships sponsored by industry. It is available only to school leavers who are citizens or permanent residents of Australia. The Bachelor of Commerce offers the choice of a wide range of subjects related to commerce and management. It allows specialisations in the areas of accounting and finance, quantitative studies, management studies and economics, as well as some opportunity to include subjects such as a language, from outside the faculty. The Bachelor of Economics, restructured in 1992, now allows for greater emphasis on social science and less on business orientation than is possible in the Bachelor of Commerce. Students may pursue a major study in economics, quantitative studies, economic history and accounting and finance. It also has the flexibility to allow students to take up to half of their course from subjects offered by other faculties.
The Faculty requires entrants to these courses for 1995 to have successfully completed two units of mathematics, chosen from units 3 and 4 of Mathematical Methods, Specialist Mathematics, or an equivalent.
An area of study involves a number of subjects taught in a cumulative fashion with the group of subjects jointly seeking to meet the specific objectives and characteristics of each course. To ensure cohesion, depth and breadth in their program of studies, students must include in their course a major specialisation and supporting studies, chosen from the subjects taught by the Departments of Accounting and Finance, Economics, Econometrics (Clayton) and Management. It is possible to undertake the same major sequence of study in more than one of these degrees, however the combination of major subject area and other permitted studies varies considerably between each degree. The Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Economics degrees, where students may choose a discipline major, provide students with considerable flexibility in their choice of subjects. Subjects often have prerequisites and corequisites and some subject combinations are forbidden. These are specified in the charts at the end of this chapter.
This section has been arranged so that the subject offerings and details of discipline specialisations from particular departments are discussed first. The degree structures themselves are then covered.