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no64 Bachelor of Business (Honours)
Introduction
The Bachelor of Business (Honours) program provides
students with an opportunity to enhance their research
ability and permits further studies and specialisation in their
discipline. The Bachelor of Business (Honours) program is
offered by the Departments of Accounting, Business Lwv,
Business Modelling, Economics, Information Systems,
Marketing and Organisation Behaviour.
It is a program that offers students the opportunity to add
considerable depth to their understanding of concepts within
their chosen discipline and encourages students to pursue
excellence in their studies at a higher level.
The program encourages a multidisciplinary approach by
permitting students to undertake, where appropriate,
subjects offered by other departments, faculties or
institutions.
Program duration
The Bachelor of Business (Honours) program may be undertaken
over one year full-time or over two consecutive years
part-time.
Admission requirements
A student may be admitted into the Bachelor of Business
(Honours) program if they have satisfied the requirements for
a Swinburne Bachelor of Business degree and have achieved
an average level of attainment of a credit (C) or better in an
appropriate discipline or range of disciplines considered by
the Faculty of Business Honours Committee to be acceptable
for entry to the Bachelor of Business (Honours) program.
Program timetable
The honours program consists of a 25% research methodology
component, a 25% discipline specific component and
a 50% research project component.
Resea~h methodology component
The research methodology unit (84405) aims to equip
students with the necessary research skills to conduct studies
for higher degrees. It is designed to facilitate the
development of independent learning skills. Students will be
presented with various research methodologies appropriate
to their chosen discipline as well as those used in other
disciplines. Two thirds of the unit will be presented as a
common core, with one third of the syllabus being discipline
specific. Assessment will be based on assignments, case
studies and presentations and teaching methods will include
formal lectures and tutorial discussion groups and will make
extensive use of library resources.
This unit is compulsory for all Bachelor of Business (Honours)
students and no prerequisite is necessary. Subject to approval
from the Faculty of Business Honours Committee, a pass in
an equivalent subject at a graduate level may entitle the
student to an exemption from this unit.
Discipline specific and resea~h
components
Students should seek advice from the Honours Convener in
the appropriate department when formulating their
discipline-specific course of study and their research project
proposal.
Students may, subject to approval, undertake selected
honours level coursework units from other departments,
faculties, or institutions provided that they show the
relevance of these coursework units to their proposed area
of research. Such arrangements are subject to the student
having any necessary prerequisite studies and may be subject
to any quotas imposed on these units by the offering
department.
Students must submit a proposal to their Honours Convener
for approval prior to the commencement of their honours
program. Approval for a student's discipline specific course
of study and research project proposal shall be subject to
the availability of any necessary resources and the availability
of appropriate staff supervision. Research projects may be
individually supervised or supervised within a group seminar
setting.
As part of the Bachelor of Business (Honours) program,
students may be required to make class presentations at
progressive stages in their program and to attend and
participate fully in a series of seminars conducted by staff.
At the end of their research component students will be
required to submit a written dissertation of approximately
15,000 words in length.
Bachelor of BusinesslBachelor of
Arts - double degree
The Bachelor of BusinessIBachelor of Arts double degree is
of four years duration (thirty-two units) and is designed to
enable students to complete the compulsory requirements
for any business major and minor together with the full
range of available Japanese, Korean, Italian or Vietnamese
units in order to complete the requirements of two degrees.
Entrance requirements
See section under Bachelor of Business above.
Degree structure
Students must complete the core units of the business
degree (seven units) and a major and minor in the Faculty of
Business, a minimum of seventeen units; plus eleven
mandatory units in the Faculty of Arts; and elective units
which may be selected from subjects offered by either
faculty. Students should note that a maximum of twelve
stage one units can be credited towards the Bachelor of
Business/Bachelor of Arts.
Bachelor of
Business units
(1 7 units)
Bachebr d Arts
Language
(ll untts)
Electives
(4 units)