* This course is under review for 2004. Contact the faculty for further details.
Course code: 0171 + Course abbreviation: PostgradDipEc + Clayton + Day + Two semesters full-time, four semesters part-time + Course director: Associate Professor Alan Ramsay (accounting), Professor Keith McLaren (econometrics), Dr Michael White (economics, economic history), TBA (management) + Total credit points required: 48
The Postgraduate Diploma in Economics provides a fourth year of study for candidates wishing to extend their knowledge in the areas of their undergraduate majors in accounting and finance, econometrics, economics, or management.
Candidates for admission require a pass degree in the proposed discipline area of study (namely economics, economic history, econometrics, accounting and finance, management) with an average mark of 70 per cent or above from a recognised tertiary institution.
No credit for work done previously is available in this postgraduate diploma.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Economics is a HECS-based course.
The course entails the satisfactory completion of six level-four units and an issues seminar.
(a) Students must complete three units (21 credit points) from the following list:
(b) Students must complete three units (21 credit points) from the following list:
In special circumstances, the head of the Department of Accounting and Finance may approve as one of the three core units a special unit which is based on a level 3 undergraduate unit taught by the Department of Accounting and Finance. Students may be allowed to take up to two units from another faculty where they are complementary to the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics program. Enrolment in such courses must be approved by the head of the Department of Accounting and Finance.
(c) Students must complete one unit (6 credit points)
(a) Students must complete three units (21 credit points) from the following list, with at least one being selected from those marked with an asterisk:
(b) Students must complete three units (21 credit points) from the following list:
(c) Students must complete one unit (6 credit points):
(a) Students must complete two core units (14 credit points)
(b) Students must complete one quantitative unit (7 credit points) from the following list:
The unit selected will depend on previous training in quantitative methods. Students who have previously completed a unit or units equivalent to these quantitative units will be required to substitute another unit from the list of optional units.
(c) Students must complete three units (21 credit points) from the following list:
(d) Students must complete one unit (6 credit points):
(a) Students must complete two core units (14 credit points) as
follows:
(i) One core unit:
(ii) One unit from the following list:
(b) Students must complete two units (14 credit points) from the following list:
The units selected will depend on previous training in economics. Students who have previously completed a unit or units equivalent to these economics units will be required to substitute another from the list of optional units.
(c) Students must complete two units (14 credit points) from the following list, one of which must be an economic history unit:
(d) Students must complete one unit (6 credit points):
(a) Students must complete four core units (28 credit points):
(b) Students must complete one thesis unit (14 credit points):
(c) Students must complete one unit (6 credit points):
Students who successfully complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics with an average of 70 per cent or above may consider applying for the Master of Philosophy.
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