The Clayton campus of the Faculty of Business and Economics offers nine undergraduate degrees at pass and honours level as well as a variety of double degrees.
The Bachelor of Accounting is a specialist degree, based on a cooperative education scheme with scholarships sponsored by industry. It is available only to school leavers who are citizens or permanent residents of Australia.
The generalist Bachelor of Commerce offers the choice of a wide range of subjects related to commerce and management. It allows specialisations in the areas of accounting, finance, quantitative studies, management studies and economics, as well as some opportunity to include subjects such as computing, a language, mathematics, or psychology, from outside the faculty.
The three specialised Bachelor of Commerce degrees (specialising in accounting and finance, or business statistics, or management) are similar to the generalist Bachelor of Commerce except that they allow greater specialisation in the selected major field of study and have less compulsory first year subjects.
The Bachelor of Economics, restructured in 1992, now allows for greater emphasis on social science and less on business orientation than is possible in the Bachelor of Commerce. Students may pursue a major study in economics, quantitative studies, economic history and accounting and finance. It also has the flexibility to allow students to take up to half of their course from subjects offered by other faculties.
Since all other faculties are based on the Clayton campus a wide range of double degrees are offered with the faculties of Arts, Computing and Information Technology, Engineering, Law, and Science. In addition to this the combined Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Economics degree is designed to allow a substantial number of subjects from any other faculty, or a range of faculties to be included.
The faculty requires entrants to these courses for 1997 to have obtained a C grade in two units of mathematics, chosen from units 3 and 4 of Mathematical Methods, Specialist Mathematics, or an equivalent.
An area of study involves a number of subjects taught in a cumulative fashion with the group of subjects jointly seeking to meet the specific objectives and characteristics of each course. To ensure cohesion, depth and breadth in their program of studies, students must include in their course a major specialisation and supporting studies, chosen from the subjects taught by the departments of Accounting and Finance (AAF prefixes), Economics, Econometrics (ECM prefixes), Marketing (supporting studies only) and Business Management (MGC prefixes). It is possible to undertake the same major sequence of study in more than one of these degrees, however the combination of major subject area and other permitted studies varies considerably between each degree.
The Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Economics degrees, where students may choose a discipline major, provide students with considerable flexibility in their choice of subjects. Subjects often have prerequisites and corequisites and some subject combinations are forbidden. These are specified in the charts at the end of this chapter.
This section has been arranged so that the subject offerings and details of discipline specialisations from particular departments are discussed first. The degree structures themselves are then covered.
Students are advised that, while the faculty will endeavour to give every possible assistance and advice concerning subject choice, the onus is on the student to ensure that the subjects selected meet the course regulations and requirements. This is not the faculty's responsibility and the faculty does not take any responsibility for error in subject selection.
Subjects taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics on the Clayton campus have three alphabetical characters to indicate the department responsible for the subject followed by a four-digit number. The first digit indicates the year level at which the subject is available and the remaining digits the subject number.
AAF - Accounting and Finance
ECM - Econometrics
ECO - Economics
MGC - Business Management (and for 1997 some Marketing subjects)
A complete list of the subjects available in the undergraduate degree programs is set out later.
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