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Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Economics

Course code: 1319 + Course abbreviation: BCom/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 Commerce/Bachelor of Economics double degree provides professional education in a range of commerce disciplines, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills. It allows the student increased breadth and depth in the major discipline areas, plus considerable opportunity for major studies from other faculties.

Majors and other studies in the degree

Students must complete a major specialisation in one of economics or econometrics and business statistics, and a second major specialisation in either the other field of study, or in one of the following disciplines taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics: accounting, finance, business law and taxation, management and marketing.
Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the Clayton campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics, or from other campuses or other Monash faculties. In some cases, these other studies can for a major specialisation in a third discipline area.

Course structure

The degree requirements are:
(a) Completion of 12 compulsory units (72 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) Completion of a major specialisation of at least eight units (48 credit points) in either economics (ie units with the prefix ECC), or econometrics and business statistics (ie units with the prefix ETC) with at least two units (12 credit points) at each of second and third-year level.
(c) Completion of a major specialisation of at least eight units (48 credit points) in a discipline or field of study of the faculty, including the discipline not selected in (b), with at least two units (12 credit points) at each of second and third-year level (disciplines are defined by department prefixes and fields of study are those sets of related units that may be defined in the catalogue of courses and units).
All units taken as part of the major specialisations must be taught by departments of the faculty on the Clayton campus (ie the third character of the unit code is C).
(d) A maximum of 13 first-year-level units (78 credit points).
(e) A minimum of eight third-year-level units (48 credit points), of which at least five (30 credit points) must be from those offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics on the campus delivering this program.
(f) At least two non-compulsory units (12 credit points) must be taken outside the main fields of study.

(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.
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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