Unit codes - Faculty of Business and Economics

Units are listed in alphabetical and then numerical order. The first two alphabetical characters of the unit code usually indicate the departmental ownership of the unit:

AF - Accounting and Finance
BT - Business Law and Taxation
ET - Econometrics and Business Statistics
EC - Economics
MG - Management
MK - Marketing

The third alphabetical character indicates campus:

B - Berwick
F - Caulfield
C - Clayton
G - Gippsland
P - Peninsula
X - Multi-campus or multi-family

The exceptions to this rule are:

MBA - units offered in the MBA programs
GSB - units which are offered through the Graduate School of Business

The first digit indicates the year level at which the unit is available and the remaining digits indicate the unit number:

4xxx - Fourth-year-level units offered in honours and postgraduate degrees that assume prior knowledge of the discipline at the preceding levels and that build on knowledge gained in an undergraduate degree in a related discipline and relevant employment experience.

5xxx - Fifth-year-level units offered in those cumulative masters degrees that assume prior knowledge of the discipline at the preceding levels, and units offered in some other masters degrees that build on knowledge gained through previous study in a related discipline and relevant employment experience.

6xxx - Sixth-year level doctoral units that assume prior knowledge of the discipline at the preceding levels.

9xxx - Accelerated learning units offered in graduate courses that assume no prior knowledge of the discipline at a preceding level but building on knowledge and skills gained through previous study in another discipline area and/or relevant employment experience.