In addition to their arts discipline major and minor and other Arts
requirements, students undertaking the Bachelor of Arts can normally study
another major from a non-arts discipline. The faculties offering disciplines
and units that are of interest to arts students include Art and Design,
Business and Economics, Information Technology, and Science. Students should
refer to individual faculty sections in this handbook to obtain detailed
information on the choices available and consult with the faculty that owns
particular units regarding issues to do with any unit prerequisites or
quotas.
The Faculty of Arts offers double degree programs with most other faculties of
the university. These degrees are of particular interest to students who wish
to pursue disciplines from different faculties.
Arts students can take units from the following faculties without requesting
any special permission from the teaching faculty (note that you must still meet
any stated prerequisites or corequisites). Students wishing to take units from
other faculties must obtain written permission before enrolling.
Arts
students can take units from the Faculty of Business and Economics from the
discipline areas of accounting, business law and taxation, econometrics and
business statistics, economics, finance, management and marketing. Students
wishing to take econometrics or accounting and finance units must have achieved
the ENTER score necessary to gain admission to a Business and Economics degree,
as well as satisfy the stated mathematics prerequisites.
For contact details, see the Faculty of Business and Economics entry in this
handbook.
Arts
students can take first-year information technology units without requesting
special permission from the Faculty of Information Technology. However, the
Faculty of Information Technology does advise that all students seek course
advice from them as to the suitability of certain units of study. For some
computer science units, it is highly recommended that students have studied
Mathematical Methods at Year 12 level.
For contact details, see the Faculty of Information and Technology entry in
this handbook.
The Faculty of Science offers a wide range of units in disciplines of interest to arts students. Disciplines offered by the Faculty of Science that may be taken without special permission include astronomy, atmospheric science, biological sciences, chemistry, earth sciences, mathematics and statistics, and physics.
The
Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers arts students units across a
broad range of theoretical and applied mathematics, including mathematical
statistics. Some units have no prerequisite studies of mathematics at VCE
level. The applied statistics sequence has been developed to meet the needs of
students studying in various areas such as psychology, sociology, geography and
environmental science and others for which skills in quantitative analysis of
data are required. The units emphasise practical applications and incorporate
the use of statistical computing packages, ie SPSS, BMDP, Minitab etc. No
computing knowledge is assumed of students prior to entry into first year.
For contact details, see the Faculty of Science entry in this handbook.
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