1999 Business and Economics Handbook - Undergraduate diplomas

Undergraduate diplomas

General
Objectives
Course structure

General

(Subject to Malaysian government approval.)
The diplomas offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics provide an international qualification in a range of business and commerce specialisation in line with undergraduate diplomas recently introduced as award offerings of the university. The diplomas have been designed in conjunction with the faculty's new international undergraduate degree offering, the Bachelor of Business and Commerce. The structure of each diploma course allows an in-depth specialisation in a discipline or area of study of the Faculty and generally corresponds to a major sequence in the degree course. The diplomas provide an opportunity for those without previous tertiary qualifications (but with secondary education at the level of VCE or equivalent), or students concurrently enrolled in undergraduate degree courses, to undertake studies in defined discipline areas. The diplomas may also be of interest to those who are in full-time employment and who wish to undertake a sequence of university studies in an area related to their occupation; such diplomas also allow students to articulate into the faculty's undergraduate degree programs.

Objectives

On completion of this course, diplomates should:

have acquired a fundamental knowledge of the general principles and applications of a particular specialisation in a discipline or area of study of the faculty;
have developed technical and communication skills and knowledge that are appropriate in the discipline or area of study;
have developed skills in problem solving in the discipline or area of study.

Course structure

The diploma requirements are:

subjects comprising an academically coherent program of study in the major specialisation of accounting from the discipline groupings or areas of study of the faculty;
a total of at least forty-eight points, comprising at least twelve points of subjects at each of first, second- and third-year levels;
within these point requirements, discipline prerequisites must be met.