3154 - Bachelor of Business (Law)

This course recognises the fundamental importance of business law and taxation in a rapidly changing commercial world, and seeks to provide graduates with extended skills in these areas. Graduates will gain skills in handling the wide range of complex legal and taxation issues that are commonly faced in many areas of business management and government agencies.

The Bachelor of Business (Law) does not provide the basis for admission to practice as a barrister or solicitor.

The learning goals of this course are to:

• take a structured approach to business data analysis, problem solving and decision making
• apply relevant theory, tools and techniques to solving problems in a dynamic business environment
• carry out an organisation's specific projects and recommend responses to issues and opportunities that may impact on an organisation's performance
• operate effectively in a multidisciplinary business environment while providing specialist advice from a law perspective
• approach business issues in a professional and socially responsible manner.

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 business law (all units taken as part of this major must be from the student's campus of enrolment)
• eight open electives which may be taken from any Faculty of Business and Economics programs and campuses, or from disciplines offered by another faculty. These open electives can, in some cases, form a second major.

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

(a.) 16 units (96 points) from the faculty in the Bachelor of Business at the Caulfield campus as follows:

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

• AFF1000 Principles of accounting and finance
• BTF1010 Commercial law
• ECF1100 Microeconomics
• ETX1100 Business statistics
• MGF1010 Introduction to management
• MKF1120 Marketing theory and practice

(ii.) a major of 10 units (60 points) in business law:*

• the requirements of the major are listed below
• at least two units (12 points) must be completed at each of second and third-year levels

* The unit BTF1010 is one of the units in this major and will have already been studied as part of the group of common core units - students will therefore complete an additional unit as detailed below.

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

(b.) eight open electives (48 points)

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

** NOTE: Enrolment in units at another campus is subject to there being spare capacity after students from that campus have enrolled.

Additional degree requirements:

• a maximum of 10 first-year level units (60 points)
• a minimum of six third-year level units (36 points), of which at least four units (24 points) must be from those offered by the faculty at the Caulfield campus
• in addition to specific unit prerequisites, second-year level units require the successful completion of three first-year level units and third-year level units require the successful completion of two second-year level units.

Units required for business law major

(a.) the following two units:

• BTF1010 Commercial law
• BTF2220 Corporations law and trusts

(b.) six units from the following list:

• BTF2223 Corporate crime
• BTF2601 Banking law
• BTF2991 Employment law
• BTF3091 Stock exchange and derivatives law
• BTF3100 Environmental law for business
• BTF3181 Marketing law
• BTF3201 International trade law
• BTF3900 Research project in business law and taxation
• BTF3931 Taxation law
• BTF3951 Business taxation and GST

(c.) two units from the following list:

• AFF1121 Introduction to financial accounting
• AFF1300 Money and capital markets
• AFF2391 Cost information for decision making
• AFF2631 Financial management
• ECF1200 Macroeconomics
• ECF3731 Managerial economics
• ETX2111 Business data modelling
• ETX3231 Business forecasting
• MGF2351 International business
• MGF3401 Strategic management
• MKF2111 Buyer behaviour
• MKF3141 Issues in competitive advantage