Course code: 1715 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom/AdvDip(Acc) + On-campus + Day classes available + Four years full-time, eight years part-time + Course coordinator: Dr Mindi Nath + Total credit points required: 144
The Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of
Business (Accounting) double-award program is vocationally oriented and aims to
equip graduates for employment in a wide range of occupations in industry and
commerce, small business, professional accounting, insurance, banking and
finance, teaching and in government and semi-government enterprises.
The Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting)
offers students the opportunity to graduate with two separate awards, a
Bachelor of Business and Commerce from Monash University and an Advanced
Diploma of Business (Accounting) from the Central Gippsland Institute of
TAFE.
The Bachelor of Business and Commerce is the link between the overseas
offerings of the faculty and the on-shore 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.
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.
Students will receive the following eight units of advanced standing on the basis of successfully completing the TAFE Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting):
* A core unit in the Bachelor of Business and Commerce.
The Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting) will require students to undertake a mix of Bachelor of Business and Commerce units and Advance Diploma of Business (Accounting) units.
The degree
requirements are:
(a) Completion of six compulsory units:
(b) 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.
(c) Completion of the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE requirements for the
Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting) which provides eight units of
advanced standing (48 credit points).
(d) A minimum of six third-year-level units (36 credit points), of which at
least four (24 credit points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the
campus delivering this program.
(e) A maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 credit points)
(f) An option to include a maximum of six units (36 credit points) in
disciplines taught by other campuses or other Monash faculties
(g) At least four non-compulsory units (24 credit points) must be outside the main field of study.
* The course structure is currently under review and may be subject to change. Contact faculty administration for more information.
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