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Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Pharmacy/Bachelor of Commerce

Course code: 2630 + Course abbreviation: BPharm/BCom + On-campus (Parkville and Clayton) + Day classes only + Six years full-time,11 years part-time + Course director: Associate Professor Marg Lindorff + Total credit points required: 294

Entry requirements

Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)

Units 3 and 4 - a study score of at least 30 in English (any), Chemistry and Mathematical Methods.

General course information

The Bachelor of Pharmacy/Bachelor of Commerce double-degree program recognises that pharmacy has a business as well as a professional component. The course is especially relevant for those graduates who are considering managing or owning a pharmacy or those who find themselves in a management role in a hospital pharmacy or the pharmaceutical industry.

Majors and other studies in the degree

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 the degree in pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy.
All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics (Clayton) and the Faculty of Pharmacy.

Course structure

The degree requirements are:
(a) Students must complete 32 units (192 credit points) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, and must satisfy the requirements for the Bachelor of Pharmacy.
(b) Students must complete 17 units (102 credit points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics as follows:
(i) Nine compulsory units (54 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.

Professional accreditation

This degree is recognised as meeting academic requirements for membership by:

For all professional bodies, membership is dependent upon the correct choice of units by students. Details are provided at the beginning of the Clayton courses entry in this section of the handbook.

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