Undergraduate - Course4426 - Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Business

This course provides entry-level preparation for a professional career in journalism, business and related fields, in the context of a critical appreciation of the role of the media and the business sector in contemporary Australian and international society.

Refer to the outcomes for the single degrees 4042 Bachelor of Journalism and 3806 Bachelor of Business.

Refer to the Faculty of Business and Economics Professional recognition of coursesProfessional recognition of courses (http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/professional-recognition/) page in this Handbook.

The course has four 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. This major must be selected from majors available on Caulfield campus and all units taken as part of this major must be from Caulfield campus
• a journalism major
• a journalism studies specialisation.

• Accounting
• Banking and finance
• Business law
• Econometrics
• Economics
• Human resource management
• Journalism
• Journalism studies
• Management
• Marketing
• Psychology

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):

• 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 (18 points)

Elective units can be identified using the browse units toolbrowse units tool (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search) in the current edition of the handbook. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; undergraduate units are those that commence with the numbers 1-3.

* Refer to 'Areas of study'.

Business component

(a.) 16 units (96 points) taken from the Bachelor of Business as follows:

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

• ACF1000 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 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: One or more of the units in the major may have already been studied as part of the group of common core units - students must complete and additional unit as detailed below.

(iii.) additional units selected from the faculty in the Bachelor of Business at the Caulfield campus, to reach the required minimum of 16 units (96 points).

Elective units can be identified using the browse units toolbrowse units tool (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search) in the current edition of the handbook. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; undergraduate units are those that commence with the numbers 1-3.

Additional Bachelor of Business degree requirements

• a maximum of eight first year level units (48 points)
• a minimum of four third year level units (24 points)
• 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 Business
Bachelor of Journalism