The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) at Melbourne equips graduates with the knowledge and technical skills necessary to understand and participate in the modern business world. The course also prepares students for subsequent graduate studies and allows them to achieve the highest level of success in their professional careers.
The Bachelor of Commerce provides a solid foundation in economics, accounting, finance, quantitative methods and organisational behaviour. The structure of the course requires students to study compulsory and elective subjects from the core program. These determine a student's major field of study.
A feature of all the new generation undergraduate degrees is the compulsory breadth component. Students choose a number of subjects from disciplines outside of commerce, exposing them to multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills.
The course allows students to meet accreditation requirements specified by accounting and actuarial professional bodies. Graduate options upon completion of the degree, other than proceeding directly to employment, include an Honours year, or further professional or research-related graduate studies.
The Bachelor of Commerce has the objective of enabling students to move into positions of leadership n Australia or overseas through the acquisition of contemporary business and economics knowledge, technical skills and professional practice.
Graduates of this degree will be knowledgeable across the core requirements of the degree, as demonstrated by the ability to:
- Communicate an understanding of foundational knowledge in the core disciplines of the BCom
- Apply knowledge of major theories, models and modes of analysis in the core disciplines of the BCom to provide insight into complex, practical problems
- Adopt a critical approach to the access, evaluation and use of information from diverse sources.
Graduates of this degree will be knowledgeable of at least one of the majors in the degree, as demonstrated by the ability to:
- Communicate an understanding of foundational knowledge in the major(s)
- Critically review key theories, models and modes of analysis in the major(s)
- Apply learning to suggest solutions to complex, practical problems relating to the disciplinary content of the major(s).
Graduates of this degree will be knowledgeable of domestic and international business and economic environments as demonstrated by the ability to:
- Contribute to debate about domestic and global societal issues using the knowledge and modes of analysis acquired through the core of the BCom and the major(s)
- Analyse business and economic issues in an international context.
Graduates of this degree will be knowledgeable of disciplines outside the faculty as demonstrated by the ability to:
- Communicate an understanding of theories, models and modes of analysis of selected areas of study outside the core disciplines of business and economics.