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

Course code: 0816 * Course abbreviation: BBus(B&F)/LLB * Total credit points required: 258 * 5 years full-time, 10 years part-time * Managing faculty: Law

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton and Caulfield)

Course description

This double-degree program allows students to complete the requirements for the individual Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) and Bachelor of Laws programs in a minimum of five years of study.

The Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) component of this course is principally designed for students seeking a career in the banking and finance industry. In addition to a core of business foundation units, the course provides specialist study in a number of key functional areas of relevance to financial institutions and markets.

Course structure

The business (banking and finance) component requires that students complete 102 points of study at the Caulfield campus including seven compulsory units in wider business studies and six compulsory units in the banking and finance sequence. Students may graduate with the Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) degree after three years of study, provided they have completed a minimum of 144 points of study including the 102 points of banking and finance units.

The law component requires that students complete 156 points of study including 12 compulsory units and a further 84 points of elective law units.

Course requirements

First year - 48 points

AFF1110 Accounting for financial decision making
AFF1300 Money and capital markets
ETX1100 Business statistics
LAW1101 Introduction to legal reasoning
LAW1102 Law in society
LAW3301 Criminal law and procedure A
LAW3302 Criminal law B
MGF1010 Managing people and organisations

Second year - 54 points

AFF2851 Accounting information systems and financial modelling
AFF2401 Commercial banking and finance
AFF2631 Financial management
ECF1100 Microeconomics
LAW2101 Contract A
LAW2102 Contract B
MKF1120 Marketing theory and practice

Two units selected from the following:

BTF2601 Banking law
BTF2931/3931 Taxation law
ETX2121 Data analysis in business
MGF2351 International business
MGF3401 Strategic management
MKF2111 Buyer behaviour
MKX1500 Retail management principles

Third year - 54 points

AFF3121 Investments and portfolio management
AFF3331 International banking and finance
AFF3651 Treasury management
AFF3841 Lending decisions
LAW3401 Property law A
LAW3402 Property law B
6 points of elective law units

Two units (not previously completed) selected from the following:

BTF2601 Banking law
BTF2931/3931 Taxation law
ETX2121 Data analysis in business
MGF2351 International business
MGF3401 Strategic management
MKF2111 Buyer behaviour
MKX1500 Retail management principles

Fourth year - 48points

LAW2201 Torts A
LAW2202 Torts B
LAW3201 Constitutional law
LAW4169 Equity
LAW4170 Trusts
LAW4171 Corporation law
12 points of elective law units

Fifth year - 54 points

LAW3101 Administrative law
LAW5104 Civil procedure
LAW5125 Lawyers, ethics and society
LAW5159 Evidence
30 points of elective law units

Students have a maximum time limit of 10 years to complete the course from the date of commencement.

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