B3701 Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)

This course consists of a combination of coursework and research. In the coursework component you will develop advanced theoretical and/or technical knowledge of your discipline and appropriate research methodologies. In the research component you will plan and execute a research project under the individual guidance of an academic supervisor.

This course comprises 48 credit points as specified below by discipline.

Honours studies may be taken as single honours (a single discipline over one year of full-time study), or in some instances can be taken as combined honours (more than one discipline over one year of full-time study). You need to discuss with the relevant Honours Coordinator if interested in undertaking combined honours.

Accounting

You must complete

a. the following five units (42 credit points):

• ACX4000 Research methods
• ACX4019 Research project 1 (12 credit points)
• ACX4020 Research project 2 (12 credit points)
• ACX4070 Issues in financial accounting and auditing
• ACX4090 Issues in management accounting and systems

b. You must also complete an additional Level 5 Accounting unit (6 credit points), to be chosen in consultation with the Accounting Honours coordinator.

Selection of units not specified above is to be determined in consultation with the Honours Coordinator and approved by the Course Director.

Actuarial studies 

You must complete:

a. The following four units (30 credit points):

• ETC4860 Honours research project (12 credit points)
• ETC4110 Actuarial practice 1
• ETC4120 Actuarial practice 2
• ETC5250 Introduction to machine learning 

b. Three units (18 credit points) from the following:

• ETC4400 Statistical theory and practice
• ETC4420 Microeconometrics
• ETX4460 Advanced financial econometrics
• ETF5500 High dimensional data analysis

Selection of units not specified above must have the prefix ETC or ETF at either level 4 or 5 and will be determined in consultation with the Honours Coordinator and approved by the Course Director.

Business analytics

You must complete:

a. The following three units (24 credit points):

• ETC4860 Honours research project (12 credit points)
• ETC4400 Statistical theory and practice
• ETC4500 Advanced R programming

b. Four units (24 credit points), with at least three (18 credit points) from:

• ETC4541 Bayesian inference and data analysis
• ETC5512 Wild caught data
• ETC5521 Exploratory data analysis
• ETC5580 Advanced statistical modelling
• ETF5500 High dimensional data analysis
• ETC5513 Collaborative and reproducible practices

Selection of units not specified above must have the prefix ETC or ETF at either level 4 or 5 and will be determined in consultation with the Honours Coordinator and approved by the Course Director.

Econometrics

You must complete:

a.  The following unit:

• ETC4860 Honours research project (12 credit points)

b. Three units (18 credit points) from the following:

• ETC4400 Statistical theory and practice
• ETX4410 Macroeconometrics
• ETC4420 Microeconometrics
• ETX4460 Advanced financial econometrics
• ETC4541 Bayesian inference and data analysis

c. Three units (18 credit points) from either section b. above or from the following:

• ETC4110 Actuarial practice 1
• ETC4120 Actuarial practice 2
• ETC5250 Introduction to machine learning
• ETC5512 Wild caught data
• ETC5521 Exploratory data analysis
• ETC5580 Advanced statistical modelling
• ETF5500 High dimensional data analysis

Selection of units not specified above must have the prefix ETC or ETF at either level 4 or 5 and will be determined in consultation with the Honours Coordinator and approved by the Course Director.

Economics

You must complete:

a.  Three units (24 credit points) from the following:

• ECC4650 Microeconomics
• ECC4660 Macroeconomics
• ECC4860 Honours research project (12 credit points)

b. One unit (6 credit points) from the following:

• ECX5479 Empirical strategies for policy evaluation
• ETC3410 Applied econometrics
• ETC3400 Principles of econometrics
• ETX4410 Macroeconometrics
• ETC4420 Microeconometrics

c. Three units (18 credit points) from the following:

• ECC5010 Special topics in advanced economics
• ECC5740 Economics of financial decision making
• ECX5470 Competition, regulation and policy
• ECX5479 Empirical strategies for policy evaluation (if not completed in section b above)
• ECX5484 Industrial organisation
• ECX5690 International trade
• ECX5810 Public economics
• ECX5890 Economic development
• ECF5040 Industry economics
• ECF5200 Game theory and business strategy
• ECF5560 Cost-benefit analysis and economic decision making
• ECF5570 Field experiments for social and public policy
• ECF5580 Macroeconomic theory and policy for developing countries
• ECF5590 Poverty, inequality and opportunity
  
  

Selection of units not specified above is to be determined in consultation with the Honours Coordinator and approved by the Course Director.

Finance

You must complete the following seven units (48 credit points):

• BFX4000 Research methods
• BFX4001 Corporate finance and intermediation theory
• BFX4002 Empirical corporate finance and banking 
• BFX4003 Econometrics for finance
• BFX4004 Asset pricing and investments
• BFX4005 Empirical asset pricing and investments 
• BFX4006 Research in finance (12 credit points)

Management

You must complete the following five units (48 credit points):

• MGX4000 Introductory management research methods
• MGX4100 Perspectives and paradigms in management theory
• MGX4200 Data analysis for organisational research
• MGX4300 Contemporary issues in management
• MGX4400 Honours research thesis (24credit points)

Marketing

You must complete the following units (48 credit points):

• MKF5403 Advanced business research methods
• MKF5461 Contemporary issues in marketing
• MKX4050 Marketing theory
• MKX4070 Qualitative research methods
• MKX4090 Honours thesis research proposal
• MKX4900 Honours research thesis (18 credit points)