Course code: 0530 + Course abbreviation: BA/BSc + Total credit points required: 192 * 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Science
On-campus (Clayton)
The
course provides students with an opportunity to combine studies within the very
wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and communications
in combination with studies in a number of areas of science.
In the arts component of the course, students are encouraged to grasp the
opportunity to develop their imaginations and gain a broad understanding of the
new ideas and values with which they will be challenged, so that they may
become flexible, well-informed graduates who are sophisticated communicators
and analytical thinkers.
The science component aims to provide a broad, general science education with
an emphasis on generic skills, which include numeracy, data analysis and
presentation skills, and the capacity to work in teams. Graduates will also
have specialist training in at least one science and one arts discipline, in
preparation for honours and postgraduate study or for employment in any of the
traditional careers for arts graduates or scientists.
Students must complete minor and major sequences in both arts and science towards the course, along with a specified number of electives from each faculty and two core units in science. The Faculty of Arts requires arts studies to be chosen from the arts disciplines in the unit listings. For information on majors and minors, refer to the 'Areas of study' section on the Arts faculty website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/study_areas/. The Faculty of Science requires science studies to be chosen from the science units listed in the section `Science areas of study and sequences' in this handbook. Students in the BA/BSc course may not take units from faculties other than the faculties of Arts and Science.
Students
must study at least four level-one sequences - at least two from the Faculty of
Science and at least two from the Faculty of Arts. No more than 36 points of
level-one units may be taken from either faculty. Students must complete at
least 24 points of level-three science units.
Students will then go on to complete at least one major sequence and one minor
sequence in arts and at least one major sequence and one minor sequence in
science. These four sequences must be in different areas of study.
Students are required to complete 96 points of units from each faculty.
Students must satisfy the core requirement for the Bachelor of Science as part
of their science studies by completing SCI2010 and at least one of SCI1020,
MTH1030 and STA1010.
Except with the permission of both faculties, the maximum time for completion
of the course is 10 years, including intermissions.
Students may be eligible to graduate with either a BA or a BSc after three years, depending on the units studied. Students who wish to graduate with a Bachelor of Science, or undertake honours in science, prior to the completion of the full BA/BSc course must have completed at least 144 points of studies including all of the science requirements for the course.
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