Bachelor of Economics

• Course structure

Course code: 0023 + Course abbreviation: BEc + The following describes the course structure introduced in 2000 + For details of the old structure, refer to the 2000 university handbook
The Bachelor of Economics degree provides for a compulsory study of economics at first and second-year level, and a compulsory study of econometrics and business statistics at first year. The degree requires students to undertake a three-year specialisation in one of the areas of economics, econometrics and business statistics, or economic history. A second three-year major sequence may be taken in these disciplines, or in accounting, finance, business law and taxation, management, or a discipline from another faculty. Such disciplines include languages, mathematics, computing, business systems, the social sciences, sciences and humanities.

Course structure

All first, second and third-year units offered by the faculty of Business and Economics have a value of six points. Full-time students are expected to progress at the rate of eight units or 48 points per year. First-year students may not normally take a second-year unit until at least four first-year units have been successfully completed. It should be noted that units in the later years of the course have prerequisites and corequisites. In addition, students are normally expected to take units in a yearly sequence even if there are no prerequisite units specified.
Students are required to complete the following compulsory units:

• AFC1021/AFC1022 (Accounting)
• BTC1110/BTC2110 (Business law)
• ECC1000 and ECC1100/ECC2100 (Economics)
• ECC2000 Intermediate microeconomics and ECC2010 Intermediate macroeconomics
• ETC1000 and ETC1010/ETC2010 (Econometrics and business statistics)
• MGC1010 (Management)
• MKC1200/MKC2200 (Marketing)

Students wishing to take first-year units other than those on the above list are able to undertake the second-year versions of the appropriate number of compulsory units. This allows students to complete substantial work in related fields.
Students must also complete two additional second-year level and three third-year level units drawn from one of the departments of Economics (Clayton) or Econometrics and Business Statistics (Clayton).
The following are also requirements of the course:

• satisfactory completion of 24 units, or units to the value of a total of 144 points, over three full-time years or a maximum of 10 years of study
• a maximum of 10 first-year-level units (60 points)
• a minimum of six third-year-level units (36 points) of which at least four must be from those offered in the faculty at the campus delivering this program
• at least two non-compulsory units (12 points) must be from disciplines other than economics or econometrics and business statistics
• an option to include units to a maximum value of 48 points from disciplines outside the faculty or from an approved list of faculty units offered on campuses other than Clayton.

Students must have their program of study approved by the course coordinator or the course coordinator's nominee prior to commencement of the relevant year.

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