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La Trobe University
University Handbook 2010

Faculty of Law and Management

Bachelor of Business (RBBM)

Admission requirements

Applicants must have completed VCE Units 1 and 2 General Mathematics or Mathematical Methods; Units 3 and 4 – a study score of at least 25 in English (ESL) or a study score of at least 20 in any other English; NSW HSC – year-11 Maths and year-12 English. Applicants with comparable qualifications will be considered. A limited number of students may also be considered under Special Entry Schemes.

Degree requirements

Students must complete a course of subjects accumulating a minimum total of 360 credit points, at least 255 of which must be subjects offered in the Regional School of Business. The course is designed to be completed within three years of full-time study, although part-time study is possible. Maximum course duration is ten years.

Students should undertake 120 credit points at each year level and must undertake at least 120 credit points at third year level including 90 credit points at third year level from the Regional School of Business. Variations to this structure must be approved in advance by a Regional School of Business course adviser.

The degree requires completion of at least one major in a business discipline offered by the Regional School of Business. A business major will consist of seven prescribed subjects.

Mildura Campus program

Students must pass compulsory and elective subjects listed below. All subjects are worth 15 credit points. The management major is the only major which can be completed on the Mildura campus.

Please see a course adviser as some subjects may be offered in semesters other than indicated.

First year
Teaching period Subject name Subject code
TE-SEM-1 Accounting for Management Decisions ACC1AMD
TE-SEM-1 Foundations of Marketing MKT1FMK
TE-SEM-1 Foundations of Management MGT1FOM
TE-SEM-1 (not offered in 2010) Microeconomics ECO12MI
TE-SEM-2 Microeconomics ECO1IMA
TE-SEM-1 Sustainability in Global Business ECO1SBG
TE-SEM-2 (not offered in 2010) Introductory Statistics for Business ECO1ISB
TE-SEM-2 Management Communications MGT2MCB

Key: *ACC1IFA (Sem 2) recommended for any student applying for transfer to the Bachelor of Commerce in second year.
BUS1MIS (SEM 1) recommended for full time first year students.

Second year
Teaching period Subject name Subject code
TE-SEM-1 Business Law LST2BSL
TE-SEM-1 Organisational Behaviour MGT2OBE
TE-SEM-1 Second year elective subject  
TE-SEM-1 Second year elective subject  
TE-SEM-1 Business Ethics MGT2BET
TE-SEM-2 Human Resource Management MGT2HRM
TE-SEM-2 Second year elective subject
TE-SEM-2 Second year elective subject
Third year
Teaching period Subject name Subject code
TE-SEM-1 Business Project MGT3BP
TE-SEM-1 Business Finance ACC3BF
TE-SEM-1 Third year elective subject
TE-SEM-2 Entrepreneurship MGT3ENC
TE-SEM-2 Strategic Management MGT3SMG
TE-SEM-2 Organisational Change and Development MGT3OCD
TE-SEM-2 Third year Faculty of Law and Management elective subject
TE-SEM-2 Third year elective subject
Management major subjects
Subject name Subject code
Business Project MGT3BP
Entrepreneurship MGT3ENC
Human Resource Management MGT2HRM
Organisational Change and Development MGT3OCD
Strategic Management MGT3SMG
Organisational Behaviour MGT2OBE
Business Ethnics MGT2BET

Electives

Providing prerequisites have been met, students can select electives from any of the degrees offered at or through the Mildura campus.

Honours

Honours in Business is not available at the Mildura campus, however Mildura students may apply to undertake Honours at the Bundoora or Bendigo campus.