Undergraduate - Course3832 - Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts

This double degree course provides foundation knowledge in a wide range of business and visual arts disciplines and a broad perspective on business.

Refer to the two single degree entries at http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/2224.html and http://monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/courses/2479.html.

For further details visit http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/esg/asu/publications/professional-recognition.html

The course structure has four main components:

• a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of business study
• a set of core units which provide an introduction to the key areas of visual arts
• a major from the Faculty of Business and Economics (this 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)
• a major from the Faculty of Art and Design.

The degree requires completion of 32 units (192 points) over a maximum of 10 years as follows:

Business and Commerce component

(a.) 16 units (96 points) taken from the Bachelor of Business and Commerce at the student's campus of enrolment as follows:

All unit codes displaying a 'G' as the third character are offered by Off-campus Learning.

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

• AFW1000/AFG1000 Principles of accounting and finance
• BTW1200/BTG1200 Business law
• ECW1101/ECG1101 Introductory microeconomics
• ETW1102/ETG1102 Business statistics
• MGW1010/MGG1010 Introduction to management
• MKW1120/MKG1120 Marketing theory and practice

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

• the major must come from the approved list of majors listed under '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 as detailed below.

(iii.) additional units selected from the faculty in the Bachelor of Business and Commerce at the student's campus of enrolment, to reach the required 16 units

Additional Bachelor of Business and Commerce degree requirements

• a maximum of 14 units (84 points) of first-year level units
• a minimum of eight units (48 points) of third-year level units
• 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.

Visual and Media Arts component

(b.) 16 units (96 points) from the Faculty of Art and Design as follows:

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

• DWG1201 Drawing 1B
• DWG1202 Drawing 2B
• TAD1101 Introduction to visual language
• TAD1102 Modernism and the avant-gardes
• VIS1111 Visual arts studio 1
• VIS1112 Visual arts studio 2

(ii.) a compulsory occupational health and safety unit (0 points):

• OHS1000 Introduction to art and design health and safety

(iii.) completion of a Visual arts studio major (36 points):

• VIS2113 Visual arts studio 3A
• VIS2114 Visual arts studio 4A
• VIS3105 Visual arts studio 5
• VIS3106 Visual arts studio 6

(iv.) completion of two units of theory with the prefix of TAD (12 points) at either second or third-year level

(v.) completion of two units (12 points) of complementary study chosen from either theory or studio disciplines.

Business and Commerce majors

• Accounting (BBusCom)
• Economics (BBusCom)
• Finance and macroeconomics
• Human resource management (BBusCom)
• Management (BBusCom)
• Marketing (BBusCom)

Bachelor of Visual Arts
Bachelor of Business and Commerce
Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts