Course code: 1469 + Course abbreviation: BCom/BSc + On-campus + Day classes only + Four years full-time (minimum), eight years part-time + Course director: Associate Professor Marg Lindorff + Total credit points required: 216
The Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Science double degree provides professional education in a range of commerce and business disciplines, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills, combined with complementary studies in science. Each science discipline is designed to lead to careers in relevant employment areas.
Students must complete a major specialisation in one of the
following disciplines taught by the faculty: accounting, finance, economics,
business law and taxation, econometrics and business statistics, management or
marketing. 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 from the disciplines offered by
the Faculty of Science.
All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics and the
Faculty of Science.
The degree requirements are:
(a) Students must complete 18 units (108 credit points) from the Faculty of
Business and Economics as follows:
(i) Ten 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. First-year students normally may not take a second-year unit until at
least four first-year units have been completed successfully.
(ii) A major specialisation of at least eight units (48 credit points) in a
discipline or field of study of the faculty with at least 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 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
Science as follows:
(i) The core units, either SCI1020 or MTH1030 and SCI2010.
(ii) A major sequence in a science discipline or area of study. A science major
is defined as a three-year sequence constituting at least 48 credit points
following one of the two patterns:
(iii) At least one minor
sequence in a different science area of study, consisting of 12 credit points
at level 1 and at least 12 credit points at levels 2/3.
(iv) Additional elective science units to ensure that at least 96 points of
science units are taken overall.
(c) Students must complete a further two units (12 credit points) from further science studies, or units offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics, or any other faculties.
The following unit is excluded from the double degree: STA1010 (Statistical methods for science).
The course may be completed in four-and-a-half years of
full-time study at a normal course load, or in four years of full-time study by
overloading 6 points in each year. The maximum time for completion is 10
years.
Students should have the commerce program of study approved by the commerce
and economics course director (or the course director's nominee) and the science
program of study approved by the science course coordinator (or the course coordinator's
nominee) prior to commencement of the relevant year.
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