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The
Clayton campus of the Faculty of Business and Economics offers nine
undergraduate degrees at pass and honours level as well as a variety of double
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 generalist 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, business regulation, finance, quantitative studies,
management, marketing, taxation, and economics, as well as some opportunity to
include subjects such as computing, a language, mathematics, or psychology,
from outside the faculty.
The three specialised Bachelor of Commerce degrees (specialising in accounting
and finance, or business statistics, or management) are similar to the
generalist Bachelor of Commerce except that they allow greater specialisation
in the selected major field of study and have less compulsory first year
subjects.
The Bachelor of Economics 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.
Since most other faculties are based on the Clayton campus a wide range of
double degrees is offered with the faculties of Arts, Information Technology,
Education, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, and Science. In addition to this the
combined Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Economics degree is designed to allow
a substantial number of subjects from any other faculty, or a range of
faculties to be included.
The faculty requires entrants to these courses to have obtained a C grade in
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 and Business
Statistics, Marketing (supporting studies only), Management, or Business Law
and Taxation (supporting studies only). All subjects taken as part of the
major specialisation and some of the subjects taken as supporting studies are
limited to subjects taught by these departments on the Clayton campus (ie the
third character of the subject code is C). 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.
Students
are advised that, while the faculty will endeavour to give every possible
assistance and advice concerning subject choice, the onus is on the student to
ensure that the subjects selected meet the course regulations and requirements.
This is not the faculty's responsibility and the faculty does not take any
responsibility for error in subject selection.
Course structures shown are the normal full-time program; part-time students
would be expected to undertake 50 per cent of the prescribed subjects.
Subjects taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics have subject codes comprising three alphabetical characters followed by a four-digit number. The first two characters indicate the department responsible for the subject:
The third alphabetical character indicates campus:
The first digit indicates the year
level at which the subject is available and the remaining digits the subject
number.
A complete list of subjects available in the undergraduate degree programs is
set out in the 'Details of subjects' sections towards the end of this handbook.
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