Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Business and Commerce

Course code: 3511 + Course abbreviation: BSc/BBusCom + On-campus and off-campus + Day classes available + Four years full-time, eight years part-time + Course coordinators: Associate Professor Philip Raymond and Dr Mindi Nath + Total credit points required: 204

General course information

The course has been designed to prepare students to work at a professional level in a scientifically oriented environment in which application of modern business techniques is required, or in a commercial environment in which a background in science or technology is desirable.

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 resources, international management, services management, tourism management and international marketing and commerce.
Students must also complete a major sequence in one of the following disciplines taught by the Faculty of Science: applied biology, applied statistics, applied chemistry, mathematics and modelling, human physiology, psychology, and resource and environmental management.
All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Science.

Course structure

The degree requirements are:
(a) Students must complete 18 units (108 credit points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics as follows:
(i) Six compulsory units (36 credit points):

• AFW1001 Introductory accounting A
• BTW1200 Business law
• ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics
• ETW1102 Business statistics*
• MGW1010 Managing people and organisations
• MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice

* Upon completion of the science unit STA1010 (section (d)(i) below), students will be given advanced standing for ETW1102.

(ii) 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.
(iii) A maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 credit points).
(iv) A minimum of four units (24 credit points) at third-year level from those offered by the campus delivering this program.
(b) Students must complete 16 units (96 credit points) from the Faculty of Science as follows:
(i) Two science core units (12 credit points):

• MTH2210/STA1010 Statistical methods for science at first level
• SCI2010 How science works at second level

(ii) A nine unit (54 credit point) science discipline sequence (excluding computing) consisting of:

• 12 credit points at level 1, 18 credit points at level 2, 24 credit points at level 3 = 54 credit points
• 12 credit points at level 1, 24 credit points at level 2, 18 credit points at level 3 = 54 credit points

(iii) Four units (24 credit points) in a second discipline area, including at least two units (12 credit points) from levels 2 and 3.
(iv) One first-year-level science unit (six credit points) from a discipline other than those studied under parts (ii) and (iii).
(c) Students must also satisfy the following degree regulations:
(i) A total of 34 units (204 credit points).

(ii) Overall, a maximum of 14 units (84 credit points) of first-year-level units.

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