Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Economics

Course code: 1319 + Course abbreviation: BCom/BEc + Total credit points required: 192 + 4 years full-time, 8 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

Course description

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

This double degree provides professional education in a range of commerce disciplines, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills. It allows the student increased breadth and depth in the major discipline areas, plus considerable opportunity for studies from other faculties.

Course structure

Areas of study

Students must complete a major specialisation in one of economics or econometrics and business statistics, and a second major specialisation in either the other field of study, or in accounting, Asian development and transition, business law and taxation, competition regulation and public policy, finance, international commerce, information strategy and decision making, labour and employment, and human resource management, management and marketing. All units taken as part of a major specialisation are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the Clayton campus. For details of the units required for major specialisations, refer to the Bachelor of Commerce course entry in the ‘Outline of undergraduate studies – Clayton’ section of this handbook.

Other studies may be drawn from the disciplines taught on the Clayton campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics, or from other campuses or other Monash faculties. In some cases, these other studies can form a major specialisation in a third discipline area.

Course requirements

The degree requirements are:

(a) 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

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

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

AFC1030 Introduction to financial accounting
AFC2100 Introduction to finance
MGC1020 Organisations: contexts and strategies

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

(d) completion of a major specialisation of at least eight units (48 points) in either economics, or econometrics and business statistics with at least two units (12 points) at each of second and third-year level.

(e) completion of a major specialisation of at least eight units (48 points) in a discipline or field of study of the faculty, including the discipline not selected in (b), with at least two units (12 points) at each of second and third-year level.

(f) a maximum of 13 first-year-level units (78 points).

(g) a minimum of eight third-year-level units (48 points), of which at least five (30 points) must be from those offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics on the campus delivering this program.

(h) at least two non-compulsory units (12 points) must be taken outside the main fields of study.

(i) an option to include a maximum of eight units (48 points) from disciplines taught by other faculties or from an approved list of faculty units offered on campuses other than Clayton.

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’ earlier in this section of the handbook.

Contact details

Telephone +61 3 9905 2327, fax +61 3 9905 5499, email enquiries.clayton@buseco.monash.edu.au or visit www.buseco.monash.edu.au.

Course director

Dr Ross Booth

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