Undergraduate handbook 2004
Business and Economics

Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Bachelor of Network Computing

Course code: 3200 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom/BNetComp + On-campus + Day classes available + 4.25 years full-time, 8.5 years part-time + Course coordinator: Dr Paul de Lange + Total credit points required: 204

General course information

This double-degree course is designed to provide students with both the technical and organisational competencies to build and implement distributed application systems within a business environment. This requires that students understand the applications of network computing in business and the organisational issues involved in establishing and managing the various types of business.

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 studying the Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Bachelor of Network Computing double degree are not permitted to study the Electronic business major.
Students must also complete the prescribed program of studies from the Faculty of Information Technology.

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

(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 Information Technology as follows:
(i) Fifteen compulsory units (90 credit points):

• CPE1001 Object-oriented programming in Java
• CPE1002 Computer equipment and operating systems
• CPE1003 Web page development
• CPE1004 Object-oriented design and programming
• CPE1005 System modelling and simulation techniques
• CPE1006 Distributed information systems
• CPE2001 Concurrent programming techniques
• CPE2002 Data communications and networks
• CPE2003 Analysis and design of distributed systems
• CPE2004 Engineering distributed software applications
• CPE2005 Database systems in networked environments
• CPE2006 Managing distributed system development
• CPE3001 Information and network security
• CPE3100 Industrial project (12 points)

(ii) One further third-year-level unit (six credit points) from the Faculty of Information Technology.
(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.

* This structure is currently under review and may change for 2004.

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