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Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Business and Commerce

Course code: 2224 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom + On-campus and off-campus + Day classes available + Three years full-time, six years part-time + Course coordinator: Dr Mindi Nath + Total credit points required: 144

General course information

The Bachelor of Business and Commerce is the link between the overseas offerings of the faculty and the onshore program taught across the Berwick, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses. The course is designed to provide maximum flexibility and to allow depth and breadth in the study of the major business and commerce discipline areas. Its structure provides the capacity to tailor applications and focus in different contexts and different environments while ensuring knowledge of the theory, principles and core elements in the relevant discipline areas.

Majors and other studies in the degree

Students must complete a major in one of the following disciplines taught by the faculty: accounting, business law (by off-campus learning only), economics, electronic business, human resource management, international business (by off-campus learning only), management and marketing.
Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the Gippsland campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics. These other studies can form a professional specialisation in one of the following areas: professional accounting, finance, information technology, human resource, international management, services management, tourism management and international marketing and commerce. They can also, in some cases, form a second major in a business discipline.

Course structure

The degree requirements are:

  1. Completion of six compulsory units (36 credit points):

  2. Completion of a major of at least eight units (48 credit points) in a discipline from the faculty with at least two units (12 credit points) at each of second and third-year levels. All units taken as part of the major are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

  3. A total of 24 units (144 credit points) over a maximum of 10 years of study

  4. A maximum of 10 first-year-level units (60 credit points)

  5. A minimum of six units (36 credit points) at third-year level, of which at least four (24 credit points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

  6. An option to include a maximum of six units (36 credit points) in disciplines taught by other faculties or from units offered on campuses other than the campus delivering this program

  7. At least four non-compulsory units (24 credit points) must be outside the main field of study.

Units required for specified majors

Accounting

Students can also choose a professional accounting sequence in addition to the accounting major. Students who complete the major and the professional stream will be eligible for membership of the professional accounting bodies. For further details, refer to the `Professional accreditation' entry at the beginning of the Gippsland section.

Business law (by off-campus learning only)

Plus seven of the following:

Economics

Plus five of the following:

e-Business

Plus three of the following:

Note that students undertaking this major may only study up to three more units from outside the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Human resource management

Plus six of the following:

Note that units may not all be offered on this campus.

International business
Management

Plus at least two of the following units:

Marketing

Plus any two from the following units:

Units required for a professional specialisation

Optional specialisation sequences have been developed to provide students with guidance towards vocational professional outcomes. Professional specialisations include:

Professional accounting specialisation

Students who complete the accounting major and the professional stream will be eligible for membership of the professional accounting bodies.

Finance specialisation
Human resources

Students are required to select four units from:

Human resource management*

* This sequence is currently under review, and the combination of units may change in 2004.

Information technology
International management
International marketing and commerce*

*This sequence is currently under review and the combination of units may change in 2004.
** Subject to final faculty approval.

Services management
Tourism management

Professional recognition

This degree is recognised as meeting the academic requirements of the following professional bodies:

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

Application procedure

By off-campus learning

Applicants for admission to the Bachelor of Business and Commerce by off-campus learning are required to meet the normal entry requirements given above and must also detail in their application those factors that would enable them to study successfully by off-campus learning.
Application forms are available from the Course Inquiries Centre by telephoning 1800 671 845.

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