Undergraduate: Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Business

(BBus)

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BACHELOR OF BUSINESS/BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

All students enrolling for the first time in either degree will be given the option at enrolment of undertaking the combined degrees program, subject to their meeting also the cut-off score and entry requirements for the other degree.

Eligible students who decline the offer to take up the combined degrees program at enrolment and wish in a subsequent year to enrol in the combined degrees program will be required to apply to SATAC for admission to the other degree. In some cases these students may have to undertake more than 144 units to complete the requirements of the combined degrees program and they are encouraged to seek advice from the relevant course coordinator before applying.

Students who commence, but subsequently do not wish to complete, the combined degrees program may be eligible to transfer to either the Bachelor of Business or the Bachelor of Information Technology programs and to receive credit for some, or all, of the topics already completed.

Program of study [November, 2007]

To qualify for the combined degrees of Bachelor of Business / Bachelor of Information Technology, a student must complete the following program of study with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic:

• a core Business component of 30 units as detailed below;
• a Business major of 33 units from List A of the Bachelor of Business;
• an Information Technology component of 81 units; and
• sufficient other units of electives to make at least 144 units in total.

Not all topics necessarily are available in a given year.

Core Business Component

First Year Level

BUSN1001	Accounting for Managers	4.5
BUSN1005	Introduction to Management	4.5
BUSN1007	Introductory Microeconomics	4.5
BUSN1009	Quantitative Methods	4.5

Upper Level

BUSN2014	Managerial Economics	6
BUSN3023	Strategic Management	6

Business Major
The Business major must be chosen from List A of the Bachelor of Business. List A currently includes: Business Economics; Entrepreneurship; Human Resource Management; International Business; Marketing. The program details for Business majors are listed under the course rules for the Bachelor of Business.

Information Technology Component

The Information Technology component of 81 units must comprise:

COMP1001	Fundamentals of Computing	4.5
COMP1101	Information Communication Technology 1A	4.5
COMP1102	Computer Programming 1	4.5
COMP1111	Information Technology Applications 1	4.5
STAT1412	Data Analysis Laboratory	4.5
ENGL1001	Professional English*	4.5
COMP2005	Database Systems 1	3
COMP2006	Software Engineering 1	6
COMP2007	Systems Programming	3
COMP2008	Computer Programming 2A	3
COMP2010	Computer Networks	3
COMP2100	Information Technology Applications 2	3
PROF2902	Interpersonal Communication Skills	6
	plus 3 units of Level 2 COMP 3-unit topics	3
COMP3006	Database Systems 2	3
COMP3012	Software Engineering 2	3
COMP3022	Enterprise Security	3
COMP3100	Information Technology Practice	6
COMP3200	Enterprise Management for Information Technology	6
	plus 3 units of Level 3 COMP 3-unit topics	3

* With the permission of the course coordinator students from non-English speaking backgrounds may be permitted to enrol in ESOL1703 English as a Second Language 1

Refer to the Bachelor of Information Technology course rules for further information on the Information Technology component.