Undergraduate - Course3830 - Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Business Information Systems

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

Refer to the two single degree entries at http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/0179.html and http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/3333.html.

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

The course structure has three main components:

• a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of business
• a major from the Faculty of Business and Economics (all units taken as part of this major must be from the student's campus of enrolment)
• a major from the Faculty of Information Technology.

The degree requires completion of 32 units (192 points) over a maximum of 10 years.

Commerce component:

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

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

• AFC1000 Principles of accounting and finance
• BTC1110 Business law
• ECC1000 Principles of microeconomics
• ETC1000 Business and economic statistics
• MGC1010 Introduction to management
• MKC1200 Principles of marketing

(ii.) a major of eight units (48 points):*

• the major must come from the approved list of majors listed under 'Areas of study'
• 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 Commerce at the Clayton campus to reach the required minimum of 16 units (96 points)

Additional Bachelor of Commerce 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 Clayton 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.

Business Information Systems component

(b.) 16 units (96 points) from the Faculty of Information Technology as follows:

(i.) six core information technology units (36 points) as follows:

• FIT1002 Computer programming
• FIT1004 Data management
• FIT1031 Computers and networks
• FIT2001 Systems development
• FIT2002 Project management
• FIT2003 IT professional practice

(ii.) seven core business information systems units (42 points):

• FIT1013 IT for business
• FIT1030 Introduction to business information systems
• FIT2006 Business process modelling and workflow
• FIT2013 e-Business software technologies
• FIT2017 Computer models for business decision-making
• FIT3003 Business intelligence and data warehousing
• FIT3009 e-Business systems, or FIT3138 Real-time enterprise systems

(ii.) two industrial experience project units (12 points):

• FIT3047 Industrial experience project part 1
• FIT3048 Industrial experience project part 2

(iii.) one third-year level Bachelor of Business Information Systems elective unit (6 points) chosen from a schedule published by the Faculty of Information Technology at http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/bbis.

Note: Double-degree students accepted into the Industry-Based Learning (IBL) placement program will complete FIT3045 Industry-based learning (18 points) in place of the industrial experience project (12 points) and the third-year-level BBIS electives (6 points).

Commerce majors

• Accounting (BCom)
• Actuarial studies
• Business law and taxation
• Business modelling
• Econometrics and business statistics (BCom)
• Economics (BCom)
• Finance (BCom)
• Financial and insurance mathematics
• International commerce
• Management (BCom)
• Human Resource Management (BCom)
• Marketing (BCom)
• Sustainability

Business Information Systems majors

Details of Information Technology majors are available at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2012handbooks/aos/index-byfaculty-it.html.

Bachelor of Commerce
Bachelor of Business Information Systems