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Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business and Commerce

Course code: 1807 + Course abbreviation: BA/BBusCom + On-campus + Day classes available + Four years full-time, eight years part-time + Course coordinator: Dr Paul de Lange + Total credit points required: 204

General course information

The Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business and Commerce course is designed to provide maximum flexibility and to allow depth and breadth in the study of the major business, commerce and humanities 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, electronic business systems, human resource management, international business, management or marketing.
Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the Peninsula campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics. These other studies can form a professional specialisation in one of the following areas: professional accounting, accounting for managers, business law, financial management, human resources, information technology, international management, psychology in business, and language studies.
Students must also complete a major arts sequence.

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):

(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 Arts as follows:
(i) One major sequence of eight units (48 credit points) with at least four units (24 credit points) at third-year level.
(ii) One minor sequence of four units (24 credit points).
(iii) A third first-year sequence (12 credit points) from units offered in the Bachelor of Arts degree.
(iv) A further two units (12 credit points) of your choice from the Faculty of Arts.
(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.

(iii) A minimum of six units (36 credit points) at each of second and third year.

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