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Bachelor of Business and Commerce

Course code: 2224 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom + Total credit points required: 144 + 3 years full-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (South Africa - F/T only)

Course description

The Bachelor of Business and Commerce provides an international degree in business and commerce. It is designed to provide maximum flexibility and to allow depth and breadth in the study of the major business and commerce discipline areas. Its structure provides the capacity to tailor applications and focus in different contexts and different environments while ensuring knowledge of the theory, principles and core elements in the relevant discipline areas.

Course structure

Areas of study

Students must complete a major in one of the following disciplines taught by the faculty: accounting, management or marketing. All units taken as part of the major are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the South Africa campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics. They can also, in some cases, form a second major in a business discipline.

Up to six open electives may also be taken from other campuses or other Monash faculties.

Course requirements

The degree requirements are:

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

• AFW1001 Introductory accounting A
• BTW1201 South African business law 1
• ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics
• ETW1102 Business statistics
• MGW1010 Managing people and organisations
• MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice

(b) completion of a major of at least eight units (48 points) in a discipline from the faculty with at least two units (12 points) at each of second and third-year-levels.

(c) a total of 24 units (144 points) over a maximum of 10 years of study.

(d) a maximum of 10 first-year-level units (60 points).

(e) a minimum of six units (36 points) at third-year level, of which at least four (24 points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

(f) an option to include a maximum of six units (36 points) in disciplines taught by other faculties or from units offered on campuses other than the campus delivering this program.

(g) at least four non-compulsory units (24 points) must be outside the main field of study.

Units required for specified majors

Accounting

• AFW1002 Introductory accounting B
• AFW2020 Cost information for decision making
• AFW2710 Financial accounting A
• AFW2720 Financial accounting B
• AFW2780 Corporate finance A
• AFW3730 Financial accounting C
• AFW3750 Advanced accounting for management information
• AFW3790 Corporate finance B

Economics (new in 2007)

• ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics
• ECW1102 Introductory macroeconomics
• Further details of the units required for this major will be available in the 2008 Handbook

Management

• MGW1010 Managing people and organisations (core)
• MGW1100 Managerial communication
• MGW2230 Organisational behaviour
• MGW2430 Human resource management
• MGW2351 International business
• MGW3130 Organisational change and development
• MGW3401 Strategic management
• MGW3681 International management

Marketing

• MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice (core)
• MKW2402 Consumer behaviour
• MKW2420 Marketing research methods
• MKW2460 Integrated marketing communication
• MKW3121 Marketing planning and implementation
• MKW3440 Marketing strategy
• MKW3444 International marketing

and one additional unit chosen from the elective units offered by the Department of Marketing from the following:

• MKW2431 Business marketing
• MKW3881 Electronic marketing

Recommended sequences

• Optional sequences of four units (24 points) have been developed to provide students with guidance towards vocational professional outcomes. Sequences are available in the following areas: business law and taxation, business systems. Contact the faculty office for further details.

Contact details

Telephone + 27 11 950 4009, fax + 27 11 950 4004 or email inquiries@monash.ac.za.

Course coordinator

Professor Brian Brooks

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