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Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Computer Science

Course code: 2672 + Course abbreviation: BA/BCompSc + Total credit points required: 204 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Arts

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

Students graduating from this double-degree program will have the talents of a computer technologist along with highly developed verbal, communication and visual skills. This degree will therefore give graduates an edge in a wide range of employment opportunities related to the areas of information technology and the arts, humanities or social sciences.

Course structure

Students must complete 96 points in the Bachelor of Arts component and 108 points in the Bachelor of Computer Science component.

Areas of study

For information on arts majors and minors offered, refer to the ‘Areas of study’ section on the Arts faculty website at www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/study-areas/.

Course requirements

Arts component

(a) An arts major (48 points).

(b) An arts minor (24 points).

(c) Another first-year sequence (12 points).

(d) Further arts (12 points).

or

(a) An arts major (48 points).

(b) A second arts major (48 points).

In the 96 points, students must undertake one of the following units which will substitute for the discipline context unit FIT1003 IT in organizations in the computer science core:

  • CHB1010 Ethics, Biotechnology and Genetics: Current issues in bioethics
  • PHL2001 Ethics at Work: Ethical Issues in Professional Life
  • PHL2210 Thinking About Science
  • PSY2112 Organisational psychology
  • ENH1260 Professional Writing
  • EIL1020 English as an International Language: Form and Structure
  • LIN2490/LIN3490 Literacies and Communication: Education, Media and Cyberspace

Computer science component

(a) 36 points of FIT common core units:

and

(b) 42 points of Computer Science core units:

  • FIT1008 Computer science
  • FIT2004 Algorithms and data structures
  • FIT2014 Theory of computation
  • FIT2022 Computer systems II
  • FIT3014 Analysis and design of algorithms
  • FIT3077 Software engineering: architecture and design

and one of

  • FIT3036 Computer Science project
  • FIT3038 Software Engineering project

(c) Two core mathematics units:

  • MAT1841 Mathematics for Computer Science 1
  • MAT1830 Mathematics for Computer Science 2

which are core to the Bachelor of Computer Science

(d) 18 points of Bachelor of Computer Science electives comprising no more than 6 points of second-year-level electives and no less than 12 points of third-year-level electives.

Students cannot graduate from either degree until they have satisfied the above requirements and successfully completed studies to the value of 144 points. Students undertaking the above double-degree program are permitted to count up to 48 points of the other faculty’s component towards those 144 points. Students must also complete at least 36 points at third-year level to meet Bachelor of Arts requirements.

Note that students have a maximum of 10 years to complete this course.

Approved course variations of the BA/BCompSc course structure:

(a) Students transferring from other Faculty programs and students entering with advanced standing will be permitted the following course variation:

  • FIT1004 Database may be substituted for FIT2010 Database
  • FIT1005 Networks and data communications may be substituted for FIT2008 Networks and data communications

(b) FIT2002 IT Project Management may be substituted for FIT 3086 IT Project Management, in which case all three computer science elective units must be taken at level 3.

Contact details

Website: www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/contact_us/

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