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Undergraduate handbook 2004
Information Technology

Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Bachelor of Information Technology

Course code: 3803 + Administered by Faculty of Business and Economics + Course abbreviation: BBusCom/BInfoTech + On-campus and off-campus + Day classes available + Four years full-time, eight years part-time + Course coordinators: Ms Wendy Webber, Dr Mindi Nath and Ms Kim Styles + Total credit points required: 204

This course has been designed to enable graduates to pursue a computing career in areas requiring a strong business and commercial background, or a career in one of the business discipline areas supported by commercially relevant professional computing skills.

Entry requirements

Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)

Units 3 and 4 - a study score of at least 25 in English (any) and a study score of at least 20 in mathematics (any).

Majors and other studies in the degree

Students must complete a major in one of the following disciplines taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics: 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 management, international management, services management, tourism management and international marketing and commerce.
Students must also complete a major sequence from the following disciplines taught by the Faculty of Information Technology; system development, business systems, internet technology.
Note that students are unable to complete either an e-business major or an information technology professional specialisation on the business side of the degree.
All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics and 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:

(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.
(v) At least four non-compulsory units (24 credit points) must be taken from outside the main field of study.

(b) Students must complete 16 units (96 credit points) from the Faculty of Information Technology.
Students in the double degree may not take the following majors or specialisations in the Bachelor of Business and Commerce component of the program:

Information technology sequence
First level
Second level
Third level

* Students may opt to take the 12-point unit GCO3800 (Industry project) in place of the six-point unit GCO3819 (Computing project).

Plus two third-level elective units from:

Business systems sequence
First level
Second level
Third level

* Students may opt to take the 12-point unit GCO3800 (Industry project) in place of the six-point unit GCO3819 (Computing project).

Plus two third-level elective units from:

Network technology sequence
First level
Second level
Third level

* Students may opt to take the 12-point unit GCO3800 (Industry project) in place of the six-point unit GCO3819 (Computing project).

Plus two third-level electives from:

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