Course code: 0171 * Course abbreviation: PostgradDipEc * 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 mark of
65 per cent 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 this postgraduate diploma.
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-four 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 2001
1. The following four subjects:
2. The honours thesis:
3. Issues seminar:
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