Off-Campus Learning Guide 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Business and Commerce

Course code: 3511 + Gippsland campus + Normally four years full-time or eight years part-time + Course coordinators: Associate Professor Philip Raymen (science), Dr Mindi Nath (business) + Total credit points required: 198 + Attendance compulsory for some units

General course information

The course has been designed to prepare students to work at a professional level in a scientifically oriented environment in which application of modern business techniques is required, or in a commercial environment in which a background in science or information technology is desirable. The course involves four years of full-time study or the equivalent in part-time study or off-campus learning.

Majors

To complete the requirements of the Bachelor of Business and Commerce, students must complete a major sequence in one of the following disciplines: accounting, business law, economics, electronic business, international business, management or marketing.

To complete the requirements of the Bachelor of Science, students must complete a major sequence in applied biology, applied statistics, applied chemistry, mathematics and modelling, human physiology, psychology, or resource and environmental management.

Supporting studies available

Supporting studies can be chosen from the other disciplines taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics. Students can combine their major with one or more professional specialisations, consisting of a sequence of four units.

Attendance

Students enrolling in all laboratory-based second and third-level units, as well as some first-level units, must attend on-campus laboratory sessions. The majority of these sessions are conducted in residential schools held once per semester, and are typically from three to seven days duration. For some units, laboratory work is conducted twice per semester during weekend schools.

Course structure

Units with a total credit points value of at least 96 points from the Faculty of Science and 108 points from the Faculty of Business and Economics are to be completed, meeting the following requirements:
(a) Completion of six compulsory units:

• AFW1001 Introductory accounting A
• BTW1200 Business law
• ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics
• ETW1102 Business statistics
• MGW1010 Managing people and organisations
• MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice

Note: Credit will be given for unit ETW1102 upon successful completion of STA1010, thereby reducing the total credit point requirement from 204 to 198 points.

(b) Completion of a business major of at least 48 points, including at least 12 points at each of second and third levels (one core unit from part (a) may form part of the 48 points requirement).
(c) Completion of at least 48 points of business units beyond first level, including at least 24 points at third level (the business sequence meets part of this requirement).
(d) Completion of two six-point science core units:

• STA1010 Statistical methods for science at first level
• SCI2010 How science works at second level

(e) Completion of two science disciplines sequences (excluding computing) consisting of:

• a major sequence of at least 48 points in one discipline area, including at least 36 points at levels 2 and 3 with at least 18 points of those studies at level 3, and
• a minor sequence of at least 24 points in a second discipline area (including at least 12 points from second and third levels)

(f) Completion of one six-point first-level science unit from a discipline area other than those studied under part (e).

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