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Undergraduate handbook 2005 - Business and Economics

Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Bachelor of Information Technology

Course code: 3803 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom/BInfoTech + Total credit points required: 204 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Business and Economics

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Gippsland)
Off-campus (Gippsland)

Course description

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.

Course structure

Majors and other studies

Students must complete a major in one of the following disciplines taught by the faculty: accounting, business law, economics, e-business, human resource management, international business , management and marketing. All units taken as part of the major are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the campus delivering this program.
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 professional accounting or a sub-major in one of the following areas: finance, information technology, human resource, 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, network technology.
Note that students are unable to complete either an e-business major or an information technology sub-major 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 requirements

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 common core 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.
(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 one of the Faculty of Information Technology sequences as follows:

Systems development sequence

(i) The compulsory units GCO1063, GCO1811, GCO1812, GCO1813, GCO1815, GCO1821, GCO2811, GCO2812, GCO2813, GCO2814, GCO2815, GCO2817, GCO3811, GCO3819*.

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

(ii) Two third-year-level units from GCO3807, GCO3812, GCO3813, GCO3814, GCO3816, GCO3817, GCO3822, GCO3823, GCO3824.

Business systems sequence

(i) The compulsory units GCO1063, GCO1810, GCO1813, GCO1815, GCO1821, GCO2802, GCO2803, GCO2811, GCO2812, GCO2813, GCO2815, GCO3807, GCO3816, GCO3819*.

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

(ii) Two third-year-level elective units from GCO3601, GCO3811, GCO3812, GCO3822, GCO3824.

Network technology sequence

(i) The compulsory units GCO1063, GCO1811, GCO1812, GCO1813, GCO1815, GCO1821, GCO2811, GCO2812, GCO2815, GCO2833, GCO3812, GCO3824, GCO3826, GCO3819*.

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

(ii) Two third-year-level units from GCO3807, GCO3811, GCO3813, GCO3814, GCO3817, GCO3822, GCO3823.

Contact details

Inquiries: telephone +61 3 9902 6380, email enquiries.gippsland@buseco.monash.edu.au or visit http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au.

Course coordinator

Dr Mindi Nath

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