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Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business Information Systems

Course code: 3912 + Course abbreviation: BA/BBIS + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 6 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

The broad teaching and learning objectives of the Monash Bachelor of Arts degree asks of students that they satisfy the requirements of study within the very wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and communications offered by the faculty, and of some disciplines offered by other faculties. The Bachelor of Business Information Systems, a cooperative education program between the Faculty of Information Technology and industry, focuses on the applications of information technology in business and leads to a career in business information technology. The curriculum has been developed in consultation with the industry partners of the faculty and potential employers of graduates of the program. The program offers a broad-based degree, with core units spanning computer programming to business analysis. Two streams are offered - the coursework stream and the industry-based learning (IBL) stream.

Course structure

Areas of study

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

Course requirements

Arts component

(a) An arts discipline major (48 points).

(b) An arts discipline minor (24 points).

(d) A further 12 points of arts units (12 points).

By combining some of the core arts requirements, students can complete a double major in two different arts disciplines: for more details on this option, contact the Faculty of Arts.

Business information systems component

Students must complete 96 points, including the following:

(a) Seven core IT units:

FIT1001 Computer systems
FIT1002 Computer programming
FIT1003 IT in organisations
FIT1004 Database
FIT1005 Networks and data communications
FIT2001 Systems analysis and design
FIT2002 IT project management

(b) The following nine core business information systems units:

FIT1006 Business information analysis
FIT2006 Business process modelling and workflow
FIT2011 Decision support systems fundamentals
FIT2013 eBusiness technologies
FIT2017 Computer models for business decision making
FIT3003 Business intelligence and data warehousing, or
FIT3022 Intelligent decision support systems
FIT3009 eBusiness systems,
or FIT3012 ERP-integrated business systems
Two third-year level BBIS electives

Note that students who take an IBL placement will substitute FIT3045 (Industry-based learning) for two third-year BBIS electives and ONE of FIT3003, FIT3022, FIT3009 or FIT3012.

Note that at the time of publication the units required for the business information systems component were not finalised. Students are advised to contact the Faculty of Information Technology to confirm later-year units.

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 FIT component towards those 144 points for an arts degree or 36 points from the arts component towards 144 points for the BITS degree. Students must also complete at least 36 points at third-year level to meet Bachelor of Arts requirements.

Students have a maximum of 10 years to complete this course.

Contact details

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

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