1999 Business and Economics Handbook - Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Commerce

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Commerce - BA/BCom

Course code: 0542
The following should be read in conjunction with the statement on the Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Arts in the Faculty of Arts handbook.
The double degree course of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce requires a minimum of four years full-time study, or five years for a degree with honours, or the equivalent in part-time study. Entry to this combination is based on the entry requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce degree. To qualify for the award of both degrees, candidates must meet the requirements of the commerce degree, together with one major sequence and one minor sequence from subjects offered in the Bachelor of Arts degree. Students must therefore complete subjects to the value of a minimum of 188 credit points over the length of the course, of which 108 points should come from subjects offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics (Clayton). The course structure is shown in chart 7 in the section 'Charts of degree structures'.
Whilst there is some flexibility in the course structure, students must normally complete the compulsory first-year commerce subjects ETC1020 and ETC1031 (Business and economic statistics), AFC1021/AFC1022 and AFC1031/AFC1032 (Accounting), and ECC1000 and ECC1010 (Economics) in the first year of the course. These could be combined with the first-year subject sequence from arts to complete the first-year program. The exception to this arrangement, however, is for those students wishing to undertake a management studies specialisation in their degree. In this case, students may delay the completion of one of the first-year compulsory subject sequences to a later year, in order to complete the subjects MGC1020 and MGC1030 in first year. Management studies would then become the category A specialisation for such students and the remaining first-year compulsory subjects would be counted as supporting subjects (category B) in second year.
Students wishing to complete an accounting specialisation, and who wish to become eligible for membership of the professional accounting bodies in Australia, must complete the following subjects: AFC1021/AFC1022, AFC1031/AFC1032, AFC2110, AFC2120, AFC2130, AFC2140, AFC3110, AFC3120, AFC3130 or AFC3140, AFC3150 and AFC3160. In order to fit these subjects into the structure of the combined degree, students must substitute one additional third-year category A subject in accounting for a third-year category B subject.
Before enrolling for the combined degree, students should collect from the faculty office of either faculty an information sheet setting out a number of course structure options available for the combined degree.