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Bachelor of CommerceMajorYear: 2024
Business
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Lusheng Shao
Email: teaching-mgmt-mktg@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
All course planning and enrolment queries must be directed to Stop 1. Major Coordinators cannot assist with these.
Future Students:
Overview
Business skills are essential in all industries, and a multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving is desirable to most employers. The Business major combines subjects from several disciplines, and allows you to develop skills you can use in any industry.
This major is flexible and ensures you can design a course plan that suits your career goals and interest. It allows you to combine three or more disciplines in the Commerce degree from accounting, actuarial studies, finance, marketing, management and economics. What you’ll learn is dependent on the disciplines you study suited to your future career goals.
Note: The Business Major is not primary Major and should not selected by students as a Major choice as it no longer exists in the BCom. This is because the Business major has no core or compulsory subjects and no longer aligns with the BCom and it's other Majors.
Instead, it may only to be used to mitigate risk for students who - for progress reasons - are not able to complete any of the other six main BCom majors. The Faculty is responsible for determining whether students who potentially fall into this risk category should have the Business Major applied and must be contacted if this is raised.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this major, students will be able to:
- Communicate an understanding of foundational knowledge across the disciplines in the subjects which make up the business major
- Apply knowledge of major theories, models and modes of analysis in the relevant business disciplines to provide insight into complex, practical problems
- Adopt a critical approach to the access, evaluation and use of business information from diverse sources
- Critically review key theories, models and modes of analysis in the relevant business disciplines
- Apply learning to suggest solutions to complex, practical problems relating to business
- Analyse business issues in an international context
- Contribute to debate about domestic and global societal issues using the knowledge and modes of analysis acquired through the Business major
- Communicate an understanding of theories, models and modes of analysis of selected areas of study outside the core business disciplines
Last updated: 3 May 2024