Course code: CSB
The course
This course has been designed to prepare students to work at a professional level in a scientifically oriented environment in which application of modern business techniques is required, or in a commercial environment in which a background in science, technology or information technology is desirable.
Australia as a nation must improve its track record in developing and marketing products and services which exploit its resources and strong scientific and technological expertise. This will require more graduates with the breadth of skills offered by this combined degree.
The course is primarily directed towards intending full-time students whose career goals are in line with the above objectives and who combine ability with high motivation.
In addition, some well-motivated mature-age students who are currently working as technical managers, scientific officers, technical sales people, computer software developers and marketers, accounting paraprofessionals, and so on, will be enrolled on a part-time or distance education basis.
The course involves four years of full-time study or the equivalent in part-time or distance education study.
Entry requirements
The basic requirement for entry to the course is satisfactory completion of an upper secondary school program equivalent to the Victorian Certificate of Education. Applicants will be expected to have well above-average results in Year 12 level English and Mathematics, plus preferably at least one of Information Technology, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Some studies in business-related areas are helpful but not essential.
Students who have completed the first year of the normal Bachelor of Applied Science or Bachelor of Business at the university, with good academic results, may be admitted to the second year of the combined degree with full credit for appropriate first year studies.
Mature-age applicants are assessed on the basis of their employment and overall educational background and career objectives.
Credit for previous studies
Appropriate credits or exemptions may be granted for approved studies completed at a recognised tertiary institution. The course advisers in the schools of Applied Science and Business will be able to give advice.
Course requirements
Subjects with a total credit value of at least 192 points are to be completed, meeting the following requirements.
(a) Completion of the following business core subjects with a total credit value of forty-two points:
* Introduction to marketing
* Introductory accounting A
* Introduction to business law
* Management theory and functions
* Introduction to economics
* Computers in business
* Quantitative methods 1
(b) Completion of three subjects covering information transfer and problem solving in science and interdisciplinary perspectives on science and technology:
* Scientific thought and methods (first level) - 6 points
* Scientific thought and methods (second level) - 6 points
* Science and society - 6 points
(c) Either
(i) completion of two business major sequences, each of thirty-six points of credit (but including one core subject from (a) above) selected from:
* Accounting
* Economics
* Management
* Marketing management
or
(ii) completion of one business major sequence of thirty-six points drawn from strands in (c)(i) above, combined with two sub-major sequences each of twenty-four points of credit drawn from:
* Accounting
* Economics
* Management
* Marketing management
* Business computing
* Business law
(d) Either
(i) Completion of two major sequences, each of thirty-six points of credit, selected from the strands of the Bachelor of Applied Science (multidisciplinary program), which include:
* Biological science (either biochemistry or microbiology)
* Chemical science (either chemistry or applied chemistry)
* Physical science (either physical science or applied physics)
* Computing
* Mathematics (one of applied mathematics, pure mathematics or statistics)
* Operations research
* Psychology
or
(ii) completion of one major, selected from the appropriate majors of the Bachelor of Applied Science or the Bachelor of Computing together with the appropriate project-based subject; the balance (if any) to at least seventy-two points of credit is to be drawn from School of Applied Science studies.