Monash University Handbook 2010 Undergraduate - Course

The Bachelor of Arts is a general, flexible degree which allows students to match academic interests with career aspirations to create a personalised course progression. Studying humanities will develop general knowledge and specific intellectual skills relating to human thought and relations, such as the way we communicate or how the past has affected the present. Social science analyses and explains societies and the relationships of individuals within those societies.

The Bachelor of Business (Management) component of this double degree offers a basic grounding in a broad range of business disciplines, with a focus on management.

This course offers graduates a business degree with a strong emphasis on management studies in the diverse fields of management including managerial communication, organisational behaviour, international management, human resources and strategic management*, combined with the broad teaching and learning objectives of the Bachelor of Arts degree.

* For details of the objectives of the Bachelor of Business (Management) refer to the single degree course entry at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/0316.html.

This degree is recognised as meeting academic requirements for membership by the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) and the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI).

For further details visit http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/asg/cds/publications/professional-recognition.html.

This course consists of 96 points in the arts component and 96 points in the business (management) component.

Areas of study

For information on arts majors and minors, refer to the 'Areas of study' section in this Handbook at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index-ug-byfaculty-arts.html.

Arts component

Students complete:

(a.) an arts discipline major (48 points)

(b.) an arts discipline minor (24 points)

(c.) an additional arts discipline first-year sequence (12 points)

(d.) a further 12 points in arts units

Management component

Students complete:

(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 management:*

• 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 MGF1010 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.) one additional unit from the faculty in the Bachelor of Business at Caulfield campus to reach the required minimum of 16 units

Additional business (management) 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.

Major in management

Students complete:

• MGF1010 Introduction to management
• MGF1100 Managerial communication
• MGF2111 Organisational behaviour
• MGF2351 International business
• MGF3401 Strategic management
• MGF3621 Organisational change

plus four units from the following:

• 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

Students cannot graduate from either degree until they have satisfied the above requirements and successfully completed studies to the value of 144 points.

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Business (Management)