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Course
code: 0171 · Offered at Clayton campus · Normally completed in two
semesters of full-time study or four semesters of part-time study
The Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce and the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics
provide a fourth year of study for candidates wishing to extend their knowledge
of the areas of accounting and finance, econometrics, economics, or
management.
An applicant for admission to candidature to either the Postgraduate Diploma in
Commerce or the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics requires a pass degree in the
proposed discipline area of study (namely economics, economic history,
econometrics, accounting and finance, management) with an average grade of
credit or above from a recognised tertiary institution. Applicants lacking some
of the necessary background may be considered for admission subject to
successful completion of preliminary undergraduate subjects in the area of
deficiency. No credit for work done previously is available in these
postgraduate diplomas.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce and the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics
are HECS-based courses.
Students who successfully complete either the Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce
or the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics with an average of 70 per cent or
above may apply for admission to either the Master of Commerce (Honours) or
Master of Economics (Honours) degrees.
The course entails the satisfactory completion of six level 4 subjects and an issues seminar.
Course
director: Associate Professor Alan Ramsay
1. Three subjects selected from:
2. Three subjects chosen from:
In special circumstances,
the head of the Department of Accounting and Finance may approve as one of the
three core subjects a special subject which is based on a level 3 undergraduate
subject taught by the Department of Accounting and Finance. Students may be
allowed to take up to two subjects from another faculty where they are
complementary to the Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce program. Enrolment in
such courses must be approved by the head of the Department of Accounting and
Finance.
3. Issues seminar:
Course
director: Professor Maxwell King
1. At least three core subjects with at least one being selected from
those marked with a dagger:
2. Three
optional subjects selected from the above subjects or from any of the subjects
available to a Bachelor of Economics honours student in econometrics.
3. Issues seminar:
Course
director: Associate Professor Dietrich Fausten
1. Two core economics subjects:
2. One quantitative subject chosen from:
The subject selected
will depend on previous training in quantitative methods. Students who have
previously completed a subject or subjects equivalent to these quantitative
subjects will be required to substitute another subject from the list of
optional subjects.
3. Optional subjects as follows:
4. Issues seminar
1. Two core economic history subjects:
and one other subject taken from the following:
2. Two economics subjects chosen from:
The subjects selected will
depend on previous training in economics. Students who have previously
completed a subject or subjects equivalent to these economics subjects will be
required to substitute another from the list of optional subjects.
3. Two optional subjects at least one of which must be an economic history
subject:
4. Issues seminar:
Not
offered in 2000
1. The following four subjects:
2. The honours thesis:
3. Issues seminar:
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