Bachelor of Applied Science/Bachelor of Business

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Course requirements

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Gippsland campus or distance education

Course code: ABABDG

This double degree course has been designed to prepare students to work at a professional level in a scientifically oriented environment in which application of modern business techniques is required, or in a commercial environment in which a background in science, technology or information technology is desirable.

The course is primarily directed towards intending full-time students whose career goals are in line with the above objectives and who combine ability with high motivation.

In addition, some well-motivated mature-age students who are currently working as technical managers, scientific officers, technical sales people, computer software developers and marketers, accounting paraprofessionals, and so on, will be enrolled on a part-time or distance education basis.

The course involves four years of full-time study or the equivalent in part-time or distance education study.

Course requirements

Subjects with a total credit value of at least 192 points are to be completed, meeting the following requirements.
(a) Completion of the following business core subjects with a total credit value of forty-two points: GAS1751, GBU1001, GBU1101, GBU1201, GBU1302, GBU1401 and GCO1851.
(b) Completion of three subjects covering information transfer and problem solving in science and interdisciplinary perspectives on science and technology: GAS1030, GAS1062 andGAS2062.

(c) Either (i) completion of two business major sequences, each of thirty-six points of credit (but including one core subject from (a) above) selected from accounting, economics, management and marketing or (ii) completion of one business major sequence of thirty-six points drawn from strands in (c)(i) above, combined with two submajor sequences each of twenty-four points of credit drawn from accounting, economics, management, marketing, business computing and business law.

(d) Completion of two major sequences, each of at least thirty-six points of credit, selected from the schedule of Bachelor of Applied Science major sequences, which include biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, applied chemistry, physical science, applied physics, psychology, pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, operations research, computing, information systems.

Note that no more than forty-two points of subjects offered by the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology may be credited to the BAppSc/BBus double degree.

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