Undergraduate - CourseBachelor of Business

This course is designed to provide graduates with high-level skills in a range of key business disciplines. It blends a conceptual theoretical framework with practical applications and covers basic discipline material through to more specialised requirements in the selected discipline. Graduates will be well equipped to seek employment in both private and public-sector enterprises. The Peninsula campus offering of the Bachelor of Business will be delivered on a problem-based learning (PBL) basis and students enrolled at Peninsula will be cohort-managed for their PBL units.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 7, the Bologna Cycle 1 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 7, the Bologna Cycle 1 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that graduates will:

(a.) be critical and creative scholars who:

• produce innovative solutions to problems
• apply research skills to business challenges
• communicate effectively and perceptively

(b.) be responsible and effective global citizens who:

• engage in an internationalised world
• exhibit cross cultural competence
• demonstrate ethical values

(c.) have comprehensive understanding of their discipline and be able to provide discipline based solutions relevant to the business, professional and public policy communities that we serve

(d.) have a well-developed understanding of multi-disciplinary decision making in organisations

Refer to the faculty's Professional recognition of coursesProfessional recognition of courses (http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/professional-recognition/) page in this Handbook.

The course has three main components:

• a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of business study
• an eight unit major (this primary major must be selected from majors available on the student's campus of enrolment and all units taken as part of this major must be from the student's campus of enrolment)
• eight free electives.

All students

All single and double degree students must complete the following:

(A.) 16 units (96 points) as indicated for their campus of enrolment from the faculty in the Bachelor of Business as follows:

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

Note: Units that have an 'F' or 'X' as the third character are offered at the Caulfield campus or Melbourne city location; units that have a 'P' as the third character are offered at the Peninsula campus.

• ACF1000/ACP1000 Principles of accounting and finance
• BTF1010/BTP1010 Commercial law
• ECF1100/ECP1100 Microeconomics
• ETX1100/ETP1100 Business statistics
• MGF1010/MGP1010 Introduction to management
• MKF1120/MKP1120 Marketing theory and practice

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

• the major must come from the approved list of majors** offered on the student's campus of enrolment, as detailed in the '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 an additional unit/s as detailed below.

**Note: The psychology major requires students to do 10 units and can only be completed as a second major at the Clayton campus. Tourism at the Peninsula campus is only available as a four unit minor.

(3.) additional units taken in the Bachelor of Business, at the student's campus of enrolment to reach the required minimum of 16 units (96 points).

Single degree students only

(B.) eight free electives (48 points):

• may be taken from any Faculty of Business and Economics programs and campuses**
• may be taken from disciplines offered by another faculty
• may be chosen to form minors or a major.

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.

Majors and minors can be identified from the areas of study indexesareas of study indexes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index.html) in the Handbook.

Students may select free elective units from any campus, but should be aware of the teaching location as this may require travel to another campus and have timetabling implications. Students may also select units offered in off-campus mode (Note: The number of off-campus units permitted for international students is limited).

**Note: Enrolment in units at another campus is subject to there being capacity after students from that campus have enrolled.

Additional requirements

Students on all campuses must also meet the following 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 student's home 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.

Caulfield

• Accounting
• Banking and finance
• Business law
• Econometrics
• Economics
• Human resource management
• International business
• Management
• Marketing
• Psychology*
• Taxation

Peninsula

• Business strategy
• Marketing and communication
• Sports management
• Tourism**

*Psychology can only be done as a second major, and is not available to students completing the Bachelor of Business in a double degree.

**Tourism can only be completed as a four unit minor.

Bachelor of Business