Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Economics

Course code: 0170 + Course abbreviation: BA/BEc + On-campus + Day classes only + Four years full-time, eight years part-time + Course director: Associate Professor Marg Lindorff + Total credit points required: 192

General course information

The Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Economics double degree provides a professional education in the disciplines of economics or econometrics and business statistics, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills It enables students to include in their studies a range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Majors and other studies in the degree

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.
Students must also complete a major sequence, a minor sequence, and a third first-year sequence from the units offered in the Faculty of Arts degree.
All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics (Clayton) and the Faculty of Arts.

Course structure

The degree requirements are:
(a) Students must complete 16 units (96 credit points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics (Clayton) as follows:
(i) Ten compulsory units (60 credit points):

• AFC1021/AFC1022 Accounting principles
• BTC1110/BTC2110 Business law
• ECC1000 Principles of microeconomics
• ECC1100/ECC2100 Principles of macroeconomics
• ETC1000 Business and economic statistics
• ETC1010/ETC2010 Data modelling and computing
• MGC1010 Managing people and organisations
• MKC1200/MKC2200 Principles of marketing
• ECC2000 Intermediate microeconomics
• ECC2010 Intermediate macroeconomics

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. First-year students normally may not take a second-year unit until at least four first-year units have been completed successfully.
(ii) Either:

• 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
• 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).
(iii) A maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 credit points).
(iv) A minimum of four third-year-level units (24 credit points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the campus delivering this program.
(b) Students must complete 16 units (96 credit points) from the Faculty of Arts as follows:
(i) One major sequence of eight units (48 credit points).
(ii) One minor sequence of four units (24 credit points).
(iii) A third first-year sequence (12 credit points) from units offered in the Bachelor of Arts degree.
(iv) A minimum of four third-year-level units (24 credit points).
(c) Students must also satisfy the following degree regulations:
(i) A total of 32 units (192 credit points).

(ii) Overall, a maximum of 14 units (84 credit points) of first-year-level units.
The degree must be completed in a maximum of 10 years of study.
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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