Undergraduate - Course4425 - Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Commerce

The course provides a professional education in a range of commerce disciplines combined with preparation for the professional practice of high quality journalism. There is a strong emphasis on constructing conceptual frameworks and using these to analyse complex issues in the corporate sector, government and the professions.

Refer to the two single degree entries at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2013handbooks/courses/0179.html and http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2013handbooks/courses/4042.html.

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

The course has four main components:

• a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of commerce
• a commerce major with all units taken as part of the major must be from Clayton campus
• a journalism major
• a journalism studies specialisation

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

Students must complete 32 units over a maximum of 10 years as follows:

Journalism component

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

(i.) a journalism major* (48 points)

(ii.) a journalism studies specialisation (36 points) including:

• ATS1901 News media and society
• ATS1902 News media and social theory
• ATS2784 News and power
• ATS2785 Journalism and the law
• ATS3802 Journalism: Practice and discourse
• one other journalism studies unit

(iii.) two elective units (12 points)

* Refer to 'Areas of study'.

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 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 units/s as detailed below.

(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 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 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.

Bachelor of Commerce
Bachelor of Journalism