Course code: 3161 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom/BBusIT + On-campus + Day classes available + Four years full-time, eight years part-time + Course coordinator: Dr Wan Leong Fee + Total credit points required: 192
The double-degree Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Bachelor of Business and Information Technology permits students to specialise in one or more of the Faculty of Business and Economics areas of study and to undertake integrated studies of computer-based management systems. It enhances and provides niche employment opportunities for graduates of the Business and Economics and Information Technology faculties. It supplies Malaysian industry and government organisations with graduates skilled and knowledgeable in various business areas and in using information technology in a business environment.
Students must complete a major in one of the following
disciplines taught by the faculty: accounting, banking and finance, business
law, econometrics and business statistics, economics, e-business, international
business, management and marketing.
Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the Malaysia
campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics. They can also, in some cases,
form a second major in a business discipline.
Students must also complete the prescribed program of studies from the Faculty
of Information Technology.
The degree requirements are:
(a) Students must complete 18 units (108 credit points) from the Faculty of
Business and Economics as follows:
(i) Completion of 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. (Refer to the Bachelor of
Business and Commerce entry for details of the units required for a major
sequence.)
(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 14 units (84 credit points) from the Faculty of
Information Technology as follows:
(i) Twelve compulsory units (72 credit points) from the department of Business
Systems:
(ii) A further two
units (12 credit points) from the department of Business Systems.
If either AFW2051 or AFW2631 are included in the Business and Commerce
component of the degree, students must replace BUS3030 and BUS1100 with other
Business Systems units approved by the course director.
(c) Students must also satisfy the following degree regulations:
(i) A total of 32 units (192 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.
The Private Higher Educational Institutions Act 1996 of Malaysia requires
students to take three units: Malaysian studies, National language (there is
one unit for Malaysian citizens and another for citizens of other countries),
and either Islamic studies (Muslim students) or Moral studies (other students).
For further details, inquire on campus.
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