Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Economics

Course code: 0170 + Course abbreviation: BA/BEc + Total credit points required: 192 + 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time + Managing faculty: Arts

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

This double degree course allows students to qualify with both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Economics degrees.

The Bachelor of Arts is a general, flexible degree which allows students to match academic interests with career aspirations to create a personalised course progression. Studying humanities will develop general knowledge and specific intellectual skills relating to human thought and relations, such as the way we communicate or how the past has affected the present. Social science analyses and explains societies and the relationships of individuals within those societies

This double-degree program provides a professional education in the disciplines of economics or econometrics and business statistics, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills. The course enables students to include in their studies a range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Course objectives

This course provides students with a broad understanding of economics combined with the broad teaching and learning objectives of the Bachelor of Arts degree.

Course structure

Areas of study

All units studied must be from the Faculty of Business and Economics at Clayton and the Faculty of Arts.

Economics

Students must complete a major specialisation in either economics or econometrics and business statistics. All units taken as part of the major specialisation are limited to units taught by departments of the Faculty of Business and Economics on the Clayton campus. For details of the units required for a major specialisation, refer to the Bachelor of Commerce entry in the Faculty of Business and Economics section of this handbook.

Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught by the faculty on the Clayton campus.

Arts

Students must also complete a major sequence, a minor sequence, and a third first-year sequence and additional arts studies from the units offered in the Faculty of Arts degree. For information on arts 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 in arts units.

Economics component

(a) Students must complete 16 units (96 points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics (Clayton) as follows:

(i) completion of six compulsory common core units (36 points):

AFC1021/AFC1022 Accounting principles
BTC1110 Business law
ECC1000 Principles of microeconomics
ETC1000 Business and economic statistics
MGC1010 Managing people and organisations
MKC1200 Principles of marketing

(ii) completion of four further compulsory units (24 points):

ECC1100 Principles of macroeconomics
ECC2000 Intermediate microeconomics
ECC2010 Intermediate macroeconomics
ETC1010 Data modelling and computing

First-year students normally may not take a second-year unit until at least four first-year units have been completed successfully.

(iii) either:

two additional second-year-level units (12 points) and three third-year-level units (18 points) drawn from the department of Economics to complete a major specialisation in economics, or
a major specialisation of at least eight units (48 points) from the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics with at least two second-year-level units (12 point) and three third-year-level units (18 points)

(iv) a maximum of eight first-year-level units (48 points)

(v) a minimum of four third-year-level units (24 points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

(b) Students must also satisfy the following degree regulations:

(i) a total of 32 units (192 points)

(ii) overall, a maximum of 14 units (84 points) of first-year-level units.

The degree must be completed in a maximum of 10 years of study.

Professional recognition

Students who wish to obtain professional recognition should refer to 'Professional recognition' under 'Faculty information' in the Faculty of Business and Economics section of this handbook.

Contact details

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

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