Bachelor of Psychology and Management/Marketing

Course code: 2601 ~ Course abbreviation: BPsychMgt/Mkt ~ Total points required: 144 ~ 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time ~ Managing faculty: Business and Economics

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

This course aims to produce highly trained and proficient graduates who are well qualified to apply their psychological training to work in a business environment. The content of the program will provide students with excellent training for further postgraduate study in psychology or business.

Course objectives

The learning goals of this course are to: take a structured approach to organisational data analysis, problem solving and decision making; apply relevant theory, tools and techniques to solving problems in a dynamic organisational environment; carry out organisation specific projects and recommend responses to issues and opportunities that may impact on an organisation's performance; operate effectively in a multidisciplinary organisational environment while providing specialist advice from a management/marketing perspective; approach organisational issues in a professional and socially responsible manner.

Course structure

The course structure has three main components:

a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of business study:
a major in psychology
studies in management or marketing, which may form a major in either discipline. The units taken as part of these studies must be from your campus of enrolment.

Course requirements

The degree requires completion of 24 units (144 points) over a maximum of 10 years as follows:

(a) 13 units (78 points) from the faculty in the Bachelor of Business at the Caulfield campus as follows:

(i) six compulsory units (36 points)

MGF1010 Introduction to management
MKF1120 Marketing theory and practice
MKF2111 Buyer behaviour
PMM1010 Introductory business law and accounting for non-business students
PMM2020 Economic and statistical decision making
PMM3020 Psychology, management and marketing

(ii) seven units (42 points) of studies in either management or marketing as follows:

one management unit (6 points)
two second-year-level management or marketing units (12 points)
a further four management or marketing units (24 points), of which at least two must be third-year units.

(b) a major of 10 units (60 points) in psychology:

the requirements of the major are listed below

may be taken from disciplines offered by another faculty
may be taken from any Faculty of Business and Economics programs and campuses.

Additional degree requirements:

a maximum of 10 first-year level units (60 points)
a minimum of seven third-year level units (42 points), of which at least three units (18 points) must be from those offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Caulfield campus.
in addition to specific unit prerequisites, third-year level units require the successful completion of two second-year level units and second-year level units require the successful completion of four first-year level units

Units required for psychology major

The following 10 units:

PSY1011 Psychology 1A
PSY1022 Psychology 1B
PSY2031 Developmental and biological psychology
PSY2042 Cognitive and social psychology
PSY2051 Research design and analysis
PSY2112 Organisational psychology
PSY3032 Abnormal psychology
PSY3041 Psychological testing, theories of ability and ethics
PSY3051 Perception and personality
PSY3062 Research methods and theory

Professional recognition

This degree is recognised by the following legal entities:

Australian Psychological Society (APS)
Australian Marketing Institute
Australian Institute of Management (AIM).
Professional recognition may be dependent upon work experience requirements and the correct choice of units.

Contact details

Telephone +61 3 9902 6011; Email: enquiries.caulfield@buseco.monash.edu.au

Course coordinator

Mr David Watson