B2026 Bachelor of Business and Commerce

This is a comprehensive course, structured in three equal parts:

Part A. Business and commerce specified study

This will provide you with a broad foundation for your study of business and commerce and expose you to several business disciplines. It will contribute breadth to your knowledge of business and commerce and develop your understanding of multi-disciplinary decision making in organisations. It will also give you the opportunity to learn more about each discipline before finalising your choice of major.

Part B. Business listed major

This will provide you with a focused program of study that will develop your expertise in one discipline area. You will develop, apply and communicate an advanced level of understanding of the concepts and theoretical frameworks that constitute the knowledge base of your major area of study.

Part C. Free elective study

This will enable you to further develop your knowledge of your chosen major, or business and commerce more broadly, or study a second business major. Alternatively, you can select units from across the University in which you are eligible to enrol.

Course progression map

The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

You must complete units as specified in Parts A, B and C (144 points): including 96 points of study in Parts A and B, and 48 points of free electives in Part C.

In choosing their units, you must ensure that you complete no more than 10 units (60 points) at level 1 and at least six units (36 points) at level 3, including four units (24 points) at level 3 offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Units are 6 points unless otherwise specified.

Part A. Business and commerce specified study (48 points)

a. You must complete the following six units (36 points):

• ACW1020 Accounting for business or ACW1120 Financial accounting 1
• BTW1042 Malaysian business law
• ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics
• ETW1000 Business and economic statistics or ETW1100 Introduction to business analytics
• MGW1010 Introduction to management
• MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice

b. One capstone experience unit (6 points) from the following list*:

• BEW3100 Work placement program
• BEW3102 Experiential learning project
• BEW3110 Work experience program
• BEW3555 Integrative business practices
• BTM3001 Ethics and sustainability in a business environment

*If you are completing a major in Accountancy you do not complete a capstone experience unit. The following units meet this requirement: ACW3120 Financial accounting 3 and ACW3220 Management accounting 2.

c. You must select from any unit listed under the Bachelor of Business and Commerce, at least one, and as many other units as required to take the total number of credit points completed in Parts A and B to 96 points.

Part B. Business listed major (48 points)

You must complete at least one major from the list below. A major requires eight units with no more than two units (12 points) at level 1 and at least three units (18 points) at level 3. 

Depending on the major chosen, you may have already studied one of the required units as part of your business specified study. If so, you must complete an additional business unit to bring the combined business study to at least 96 points from the Faculty of Business and Economics.

If you are intending to undertake an honours year, you should ensure you complete the specific units required for honours in your chosen major area of study.

Majors and minors

Refer also to the table of [[http://monash.edu/pubs/handbooks/undergrad/bus-minor-major-extended-major-specialisation.html][majors and minors]].

Part C. Free elective study (48 points)

Electives can be chosen from within the Bachelor of Business and Commerce, including units to complete a second major of minor(s). Enrolment in Faculty of Business and Economics units at campuses other than the campus of enrolment is subject to there being capacity after students from that campus have enrolled.

Electives can also be chosen from across the University, including to complete a major or minor from another course if you have met the required prerequisites and there are no restrictions on enrolling in the units. You should also be aware of travel and timetabling limitations.

No more than two units can contribute towards two majors, or a major and a minor, in the same course (including a double degree course). The same unit is not credited towards two minors.

Electives can be identified using the [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search][browse units]] tool and [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/][indexes of units]] in the current edition of the Handbook. [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index-bydomain_type-major.html][Majors]] and [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index-bydomain_type-minor.html][minors]] can also be identified using the Handbook indexes. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; undergraduate units are those that commence with the numbers 1-3. 

For students in a double degree course, some units required for the other degree are credited as electives towards this Business and Commerce degree.