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Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems

NOTE: This course has been updated - please refer to the undergraduate handbook change register for details.

Course code: 3829 ~ Course abbreviation: BBus/BITS ~ Total points required: 204 ~ 4.5 years full-time, 9 years part-time ~ Managing faculty: Business and Economics

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

This double-degree program offers professional education in a range of business and information technology disciplines and provides students with the foundation on which further advanced business and information technology studies can be undertaken.

Course objectives

Refer to the Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems single degree entries.

Course structure

The course structure has four main components:

  • a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of business study;
  • a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of information technology;
  • a major from the Faculty of Business and Economics. All units taken as part of this major must be from your campus of enrolment;
  • a major from the Faculty of Information Technology.

Course requirements

The degree requires completion of 34 units (204 points) over a maximum of 10 years as follows:

(a) 16 units (96 points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics in the Bachelor of Business at the Caulfield campus as follows:

(i) six compulsory common core units (36 points)

(ii) a major of eight units (48 points)

  • the major must come from the approved list of majors below
  • at least two units (12 points) must be completed at each of second and third-year levels

(iii) additional units from the faculty in the Bachelor of Business at the Caulfield campus to reach the required minimum of 16 units

Additional Bachelor of Business degree requirements:

  • a maximum of eight first-year level units (48 points)
  • a minimum of four third-year level units (24 points) from those offered by the faculty 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

(b) 18 units (108 points) from the Faculty of Information Technology as follows:

(i) seven common core units (42 points):

(ii) a major of 9 units (54 points)

  • the major must come from the approved list of majors below

(iii) two third-year level FIT elective units (12 points)

Additional Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems degree requirements:

  • a maximum of six first-year level units (36 points)
  • a minimum of six third-year level units (36 points)

Units required for specified majors

Majors offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics
Accounting

(a) the following six units:

  • AFF1110 Accounting for financial decision making
  • AFF1121 Accounting systems and procedures
  • AFF2391 Cost information for decision making
  • AFF2491 Company reporting
  • AFF3431 Performance measurement and control
  • AFF3491 Advanced financial accounting theory and practice

(b) two units from the following list:

  • AFF2631 Financial management
  • AFF2851 Accounting information systems and financial modelling
  • AFF3511 Strategic management accounting
  • AFF3631 Auditing and assurance
  • AFF3791 Comparative international accounting
  • AFF3851 Advanced accounting information systems and financial modelling
  • AFX3551 International studies program in accounting
  • BTF2220 Corporations law and trusts
  • BTF3931 Taxation law
  • ECF1200 Macroeconomics
  • ETX2121 Data analysis in business
Banking and finance

(a) the following six units:

  • AFF1300 Money and capital markets
  • AFF2401 Commercial banking and finance
  • AFF2631 Financial management
  • AFF3121 Investments and portfolio management
  • AFF3841 Lending decisions
  • MGX3100 Management ethics and corporate governance

(b) two units from the following list:

  • AFF2701 Equity markets
  • AFF2851 Accounting information systems and financial modelling
  • AFF3111 Personal financial planning
  • AFF3301 Money market operations
  • AFF3331 International banking and finance, or AFX3871 International study program in banking and finance
  • AFF3351 Investment banking
  • AFF3651 Treasury management
  • AFF3751 Futures and options markets
  • AFX3355 Property investment
  • BTF2601 Banking law
  • ECF1200 Macroeconomics
  • ECF2331 Monetary theory and policy
  • ETF3300 Quantitative methods for financial markets
  • ETX2121 Data analysis in business
Business law

(a) the following two units:

(b) six units from the following list:

Economics

(a) the following six units:

(b) two units from the following list:

Econometrics

(a) the following five units:

  • ETF2700 Mathematics for business
  • ETF3200 Quantitative business analysis
  • ETF3600 Quantitative models for business research
  • ETX1100 Business statistics
  • ETX3231 Business forecasting

(b) one unit from the following list:

(c) two units from the following list:

Human resource management

(a) the following six units:

  • MGF1010 Introduction to management
  • MGF2341 Managing employee relations
  • MGF2661 Human resource management
  • MGF3430 International human resource management
  • MGF3881 Current issues in human resource management
  • MGX3441 Human resource strategy

(b) two units from the following list:

Management

(a) the following six units:

(b) two units from the following list:

  • MGF2341 Managing employee relations
  • MGF2511 Managing quality, innovation and knowledge
  • MGF2661 Human resource management
  • MGF3361 Performance management
  • MGF3381 Managing information systems
  • MGF3681 International management
  • MGX3771 Operations management
  • MGX3991 Leadership principles and practices
Marketing

(a) the following six units:

(b) two units from the following list:

Majors offered by the Faculty of Information Systems:
Systems Development

(a) the following seven units:

  • FIT1007 Computer programming 2
  • FIT2024 Software engineering practice
  • FIT2027 Systems design and implementation
  • FIT2028 Web systems 2
  • FIT2065 Operating systems and the Unix environment
  • FIT3047 Industrial experience project 1
  • FIT3048 Industrial experience project 2

(b) two third-year level FIT elective units from the Technical majors elective list (12 points) published at http://www.infotech.monash.edu/bits.

Professional recognition

This degree with relevant units is recognised by the following legal entities:

  • Australian Computer Society
  • Australian Institute of Management
  • Australian Marketing Institute
  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission
  • Banking, Finance and Securities Industries
  • CPA Australia
  • Financial Product Adviser
  • Tax Agents' Board
  • The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Professional recognition may be dependent upon the correct choice of units.

Contact details

Telephone +61 3 9902 6011, fax +61 3 9903 2955 Email: enquiries.caulfield@buseco.monash.edu.au

Course coordinator

Mr David Watson