Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)

Course code: 0553 + Course abbreviation: BA/BBus(Bkg&Fin) + Total credit points required: 204 + 4.25 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Arts

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

This double degree course allows students to qualify with both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) 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.

The Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) component of this double degree is designed for those seeking a career in the banking and finance industry, especially in commercial and investment banking, corporate finance, stock markets, capital markets and derivative markets.

Course objectives

This course provides specialist study in a number of key functional areas of relevance to financial institutions and markets and the core business foundation units combined with the broad teaching and learning objectives of the Bachelor of Arts degree.

Course structure

Students must complete 96 points in the Bachelor of Arts component and 108 points in the Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) component.

Areas of study

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.

Business component

(a) Inner core – completion of six compulsory units (36 points):

AFF1110 Accounting for financial decision making
BTF1010 Commercial law
ECF1100 Microeconomics
ETX1100 Business statistics
MGF1010 Managing people and organisations
MKF1120 Marketing theory and practices

(b) Outer core – completion of six outer core units (36 points), including the two compulsory units (12 points) listed below and a further four units (24 points) from the remaining units listed:

AFF2631 Financial management (compulsory)
AFF2851 Accounting and information systems and financial modelling (compulsory)
BTF2601 Banking law
BTF3931 Taxation law
ECF1200 Macroeconomics
ETX2121 Data analysis in business
MGF2351 International business
MGF3401 Strategic management
MKF2111 Buyer behaviour
MKX1500 Retail management principles

(c) Strand – the following six units (36 points) are compulsory and complete a major specialisation in banking and finance:

AFF1300 Money and capital markets
AFF2401 Commercial banking and finance
AFF3121 Investment and portfolio management
AFF3331 International banking and finance
AFF3651 Treasury management
AFF3841 Lending decisions

(d) a maximum of 10 first-year-level units

(e) a minimum of four third-year-level units.

The degree requires the equivalent of four-and-a-quarter years of full-time study, but can be completed in four years by accelerating with an overload of 12 points.

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

Professional recognition

The degree satisfies the education requirements for senior associate membership of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance. Holders of the degree who have not completed the two years of employment in the banking and finance industry required for senior associate membership are eligible for associate membership in the interim.

Contact details

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

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