Course code: 0023 + Course abbreviation: BEc + On-campus + Day classes only + Three years full-time, six years part-time + Course director: Associate Professor Marg Lindorff + Total credit points required: 144
The Bachelor of Economics degree provides a professional education in the disciplines of economics or econometrics and business statistics, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills. There are also opportunities for undertaking one third of the degree as elective units from outside the faculty, or from those offered by departments of the faculty on other campuses.
Students must complete a major specialisation in either economics
or econometrics and business statistics. All units taken as part of the major
specialisation are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the
Clayton campus (ie the third character of the unit code is C).
Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the Clayton
campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics. These other studies can, in
some cases, form a second major specialisation in a commerce discipline.
Up to eight open electives may also be taken from other campuses or other
Monash faculties. These open electives can also, in some cases, form a major
specialisation.
The degree requirements are:
(a) Completion of 10 compulsory units (60 credit points):
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 such
as languages, computing, psychology, or mathematics. First-year students
normally may not take a second-year unit until at least four first-year units
have been completed successfully.
(b) Students must complete either:
(i) two additional second-year-level units (12 credit points) and three
third-year-level units (18 credit points) drawn from the department of
Economics (ie units with the prefix ECC) to complete a major specialisation in
economics, or
(ii) a major specialisation of at least eight unit (48 credit point) in
econometrics or business statistics (ie units with the prefix ETC) with at
least two second-year-level units (12 credit point) and three third-year-level
units (18 credit points).
All units taken as part of the major specialisation must be taught by
departments of the faculty on the Clayton campus (ie the third character of the
unit code is C).
(c) A total of 24 units (144 credit points) over a maximum of 10 years of
study.
(d) A maximum of 10 first-year-level units (60 credit points).
(e) A minimum of six third-year-level units (36 credit points), of which at
least four (24 credit points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the
campus delivering this program.
(f) At least two non-compulsory units (12 credit points) must be taken from
disciplines other than economics or econometrics and business statistics.
(g) An option to include a maximum of eight units (48 credit
points) from disciplines taught by other faculties or from an approved list of
faculty units offered on campuses other than Clayton.
Students should 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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