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La Trobe University
University Handbook 2012

Bachelor of Business (Marketing)

Course code/s: LBBMK Melbourne

This specialist degree seeks to equip undergraduates with the skills and knowledge required for a career as a marketing manager or related marketing positions. It is designed to provide competencies and skills that are internationally transferable.

A special feature is the program's experiential content, including a marketing practicum aimed at developing work-integrated learning, and an International marketing study tour which introduces students to the practical experience of marketing in an international context.

Admission requirements

Admission requirements are completion of VCE and units 3 & 4 with study score of at least 25 for English (ESL) and 20 for any other English. Applicants with comparable qualifications will be considered. A limited number of students may also be considered under Special Entry Schemes.

Degree requirements

Students complete 24 subjects: eight subjects in first year including Marketing: Defined, Planned and Delivered, six Marketing subjects and two general electives in second year, and six Marketing subjects and two general electives in third year.

The course is designed to be completed in three years of full-time study, although part-time study is possible.

Students must pass the compulsory and elective subjects listed below.

First year
 
Teaching
period
Subject title Subject code
TE-SEM-1 or
TE-SEM-2
Microeconomics ECO1IMI
TE-SEM-1 or
TE-SEM-2
Marketing: Defined, Planned and Delivered MKT1MDP
TE-SEM-1 or
TE-SEM-2
Management Information Systems BUS1MIS
TE-SEM-1 or
TE-SEM-2
Introductory Statistics for Business ECO1ISB
TE-SEM-1 or
TE-SEM-2
Foundations of Management MGT1FOM
TE-SEM-1 or
TE-SEM-2
Accounting for Management Decisions ACC1AMD
TE-SEM-1 or
TE-SEM-2
Introduction to Business Law LST2BSL
TE-SEM-2 Future of Work MGT1FOW
Second year
 
Teaching
period
Subject title Subject code
TE-SEM-1 Services Marketing MKT2SMA
TE-SEM-1 Consumer Behaviour MKT2CBE
TE-SEM-1 Elective from list of marketing electives below  
TE-SEM-1 Elective from list of marketing electives below  
TE-SEM-2 Marketing Communication and Public Relations MKT2MPR
TE-SEM-2 Brands and Brand Management MKT2BBM
TE-SEM-2 Year 2 elective subject, MGT2BET Business Ethics recommended  
TE-SEM-2 Year 2 elective subject  
Third year

Six marketing subjects and two general electives

 
Teaching
period
Subject title Subject code
TE-SEM-1 Advertising and Sales Promotion MKT3ADV
TE-SEM-1 Marketing for Sustainability MKT3SUS
TE-SEM-1 Marketing Research MKT3MRE
TE-SEM-1 Year three elective subject  
TE-SEM-2 Strategic Marketing MKT3SMK
TE-SEM-2 International Marketing MKT3IMK
Two of    
TE-SEM-2 Marketing Practicum MKT3MPR
TE-SEM-2 International Marketing Study Tour MKT3MST
TE-SEM-2 Elective from list of marketing electives below*  
*Final year must include 6 third year subjects
Year three marketing elective options
 
Subject title Subject code
Marketing Law LST3MAL
Social Marketing MKT3SEM
Social Media and Relationship Marketing MKT3SRM