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Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Computing

Given the increasing impact of technological change on organisations, their structures and their operations, more business graduates need vocational level knowledge and skills in information systems and computing and equally, more computing graduates need the ability to apply their skills and knowledge over a greater range of business and commercial applications. This course provides business students with the opportunity to develop an in-depth knowledge of computing skills in either System Development, Business Systems or Multimedia Technology which are currently not available in the Bachelor of Business degree. It also enables computing students to develop skills and expertise in two or more of the following Bachelor of Business Degree areas: Accounting, Economics, Marketing and Management.

A combined Business/Computing qualification enables graduates to work at a professional level in a computing/information technology environment, in which modern business techniques are required, or in a commercial environment in which a background in information systems and information technology is highly desirable.

Course Structure

Full-time students complete the course over eight semesters, or the equivalent of four years of study.

The course incorporates units required to provide core business and computing skills as well as specialist studies in each area. It is taught both on-campus and by off-campus distributed learning. 

On-campus students are required to attend combinations of lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops and microlab sessions. In the final two years of their program students have the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge they have gained in a practical setting by undertaking a significant industrial project. Students can also choose from a range of more advanced studies in selected business areas such as accounting, economics, marketing and management and computing areas such as data communications and networks, systems programming, artificial intelligence, and information systems management.

For the Bachelor of Business/Bachelor of Computing degree students complete a total of thirty two units (192 credit points) in the following two sequences of units:

a sixteen unit (96 points) Business sequence a sixteen unit (96 points) Computing sequence selected from either the Systems Development major, the Business Systems major or the Multimedia Technology major.

Business Sequence

a) The completion of Faculty of Business and Economics units with a total credit value of 108 points are to be completed, meeting the following requirements:

i) Completion of six compulsory introductory six-point units, one in each of the following Business disciplines:

  • Accounting
  • Business Mathematics and Statistics
  • Business Law
  • Economics
  • Management
  • Marketing

ii) completion of a business major sequences of at least 48 points (eight units), including at least 12 points at each of second and third levels. (one core unit from part (a) may form part of the 48 points requirement.)

iii) Completion of at least 48 points of Business units beyond first level, including at least 24 points at third level (the business major sequence meets part of this requirment.

b) Completion of 96 points from the Faculty of Information Technology, from the sequences avaliable in the following computing majors:

  • Multimedia Technology
  • System Development
  • Business Systems

Multimedia Technology Sequence

First Level

Second Level

  • GCO2812 Computer Organisation
  • GCO2813 Information Systems 2
  • GCO2815 Database Management Systems
  • GCO2816 Object-oriented Analysis and Design
  • GCO2822 Multimedia Signals and Systems
  • GCO2823 Multimedia Development

Third Level

  • GCO3826 Advanced Multimedia Technology
  • GCO3819 Computing Project (students may opt to take the 12 points unit GCO3700 in place of GCO3819)

Plus two elective units to be chosen from:

  • GCO3601 Infrastructure and electronic commerce
  • GCO3803 Inventory Management Systems
  • GCO3806 General Operations Management
  • GCO3811 Software Engineering
  • GCO3812 Data Communication and Networks 1
  • GCO3813 UNIX Systems Programming
  • GCO3814 Human-computing Interaction
  • GCO3816 Information Systems Management
  • GCO3817 Computer Graphics
  • GCO3818 Software Environments
  • GCO3822 Multimedia Concepts and Applications
  • GCO3823 Client-server and www Database Applications
  • GCO3824 Data Communications and Networks 1

System Development Sequence

First Level

Second Level

Third Level

  • GCO3811 Software Engineering
  • GCO3818 Software Environments
  • GCO3819 Computing Project (students may opt to take the 12 point unit GCO3800 in place of GCO3819)

Plus two elective units to be chosen from:

  • GCO3812 Data Communications & Networks 1
  • GCO3813 Systems Programming
  • GCO3814 Human Computer Interaction
  • GCO3816 Information Systems Management
  • GCO3817 Computer Graphics
  • GCO3818 Software Environments
  • GCO3821 Object-oriented Programming
  • GCO3822 Multimedia Concepts and Applications
  • GCO3823 Client-Server & WWW database Applications
  • GCO3824 Data Communications & Networks 2

Business systems sequence

First level

Second level

Third level

  • GCO3807 Project Management
  • GCO3816 Information systems management
  • GCO3900 Computing Project (12 points)

Plus two elective units to be chosen from:

  • GCO3601 Infrastructure for electronic commerce
  • GCO3803 Inventory management systems
  • GCO3806 General operations management
  • GCO3811 Software engineering
  • GCO3812 Data communications and networks 1
  • GCO3814 Human Computer Interaction
  • GCO3822 Multimedia concepts and applications
  • GCO3823 Client server and WWW database applications
  • GCO3824 Data communications and networks 2

Electives

Students select additional business or information technology units to complete the required 198 points minimum. Units can also be selected from other faculties.

Admission Requirements

Normal Monash entry requirements of VCE or equivalent apply with a grade average of at least C in English, and at least a D in an area of Mathematics. International students are accepted on a full-fee paying basis, at an annual rate of $16,280 per year for a full-time load (subject to determination by the Vice-Chancellor).

Further Enquiries

Details relating to course structure, course regulations, and individual units are available in the Monash University Handbook.

For enquiries concerning enrolment, credits or exemptions for prior studies, and course structure please contact:

Faculty of Business and Economics
Monash University
Gippsland Campus
Churchill, Victoria, Australia, 3842

Phone (03) 990 26380 or (051) 22 6380
FAX (03) 9902 6524 or (051) 22 6524
World Wide Web Home Page: http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au

School of Business and Electronic Commerce
Monash University
Gippsland Campus
Churchill, Victoria, Australia, 3842

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