Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws

Course code: 0091 + Course abbreviation: BEc/LLB + On-campus + Day classes only + Five years full-time (minimum), 10 years part-time + Course director: Associate Professor Marg Lindorff + Total credit points required: 252

Entry requirements

Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)

Units 3 and 4 - a study score of at least 30 in English (any) and a study score of 25 in one of Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics.

General course information

In addition to preparing the graduate for traditional legal practice, the Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws double degree provides a professional education in the disciplines of economics or econometrics and business statistics, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills.

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 the prescribed sequence in Law.
All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Law.

Course structure

Students must complete 16 units (96 credit points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics.
The degree requirements are:
(a) Completion of nine compulsory units (54 credit points):

• AFC1021/AFC1022 Accounting principles
• 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 156 credit points from the Faculty of Law as follows:
(i) In the first three years, students should include from the Faculty of Law the units LAW1100 (Legal process), LAW3300 (Criminal law), LAW2100 (Contract), LAW3400 (Property), LAW1003 (Skills, ethics and research A) and LAW2003 (Skills, ethics and research B).
(ii) LAW4171 (Corporations law).
(iii) The final two years of the program must include the compulsory units LAW3201 (Constitutional law), LAW3101 (Administrative law), LAW2200 (Torts), LAW3003 (Skills, ethics and research C) and LAW4003 (Skills, ethics and research D).

(iv) Further units from the Faculty of Law to bring the total of Law units to 156 credit points
The course may be completed in five years of full-time study with an overload of 12 points. The maximum time for completion is 10 years.
Students should have the economics program of study approved by the commerce and economics course director (or the course director's nominee) and the law program of study approved by the law course coordinator (or the course coordinator's nominee) prior to commencement of the relevant year.

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