Undergraduate - Course4097 - Bachelor of Arts Scholars program and Bachelor of Commerce Scholars program

This double-degree program provides a professional education in a range of commerce disciplines, with a strong emphasis on developing analytical skills. It enables students to include in their studies a range of social science and humanities disciplines.

The broad-based, flexible and multi-disciplinary Monash commerce degree provides a thorough understanding of the workings of the economy and business. Through professional training in the commerce disciplines, the course develops a capacity for logical analysis and the knowledge and skills required to manage public and private enterprises.

Studying humanities develops 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.

Participants in this program receive a scholarship which is renewable for each year of the course, subject to satisfactory academic performance.

Refer to the two single degree entries at http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/1638.html and http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/4419.html.

Course progression requirements

The performance of deans scholars will be evaluated at the end of each year. Students are expected to continue achieving at the same high level at which they entered the program (normally a distinction grade average). Students who are unable to maintain the required level of performance in each year may forfeit their Deans Scholars Award.

The course structure has four main components:

• a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of commerce
• a major from the Faculty of Business and Economics (all units taken as part of this major must be from the Clayton campus)
• a major from the Faculty of Arts
• a minor from the Faculty of Arts.

Arts majors and minors

For the specific requirements of majors and minors and information on other arts units refer to the 'Areas of study' section in this Handbook at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2013handbooks/aos/index-byfaculty-arts.html.

Commerce majors

• Accounting
• Actuarial studies
• Business law and taxation
• Business modelling
• Econometrics and business statistics
• Economics
• Finance
• Financial and insurance mathematics
• International commerce
• Management Studies
• Marketing
• Sustainability

The degree requires completion of 32 units over a maximum of 10 years as follows:

Arts component

(a.) 16 units (96 points) from the Faculty of Arts as follows:

(i.) an arts major (48 points)

(ii.) an arts minor in a different area of study (24 points)

(iii.) a first-year arts sequence in a third area of study (12 points)

(iv.) a further two units (12 points) from the Faculty of Arts.

Additional Bachelor of Arts degree requirements:

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

Commerce component

(b.) 16 units (96 points) from the Faculty of Business and Economics 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 commerce majors listed under 'Areas of study'
• at least two units (12 points) must be completed at each of second and third-year levels.

* Note: Depending on the major chosen, one or more of the units in the major may have already been studied as part of the group of common core units - where this is the case, students will complete additional unit/s as detailed below.

(iv.) additional units from the faculty in the Bachelor of Commerce at the Clayton campus to reach the required minimum of 16 units.

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, 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.

Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Commerce