Changes to Undergraduate Programs in 2012 and 2013 and transitional arrangements for continuing students

Change Details Transitional arrangements

UG degrees will have an aligned BUSS code from 2012. The BUSS code will apply to: core units, (former) ECOF units, exchange and internship units.

1. There is no change to content for most core units, apart from those marked with * in list below, mainly just a new BUSS code.

  • ECOF 1003 = BUSS 1001
  • ECOF 1004 = BUSS 1002
  • ACCT 1005 = BUSS 1030
  • ECOF 3001 = BUSS 3500
  • * ECMT 1010 = BUSS 1020 (content changed, new unit - Quantitative Business Analysis)
  • * ECON 1001= BUSS 1040 (content changed, new unit - Economics for Decision Making. Note: Students can complete both ECON1001 and BUSS1040.)
  • ECOF 3001 = BUSS 3500 (Integrated Business Applications)

* Outside of core units (i.e. for ECMT major and CPA) ECMT 1010 and BUSS 1020 are considered equivalent and interchangeable. However, for the core unit, BUSS 1020 must be completed.

2. Along with the new aligned codes for internships, there are several new internship units available now, including two Business Placements, and two Taxation Department internships.

  1. The old core units of ACCT 1001, 1002, CISS 2001 and ECOF 3001 are being phased out. The junior Accounting units will be offered til the end of 2012 with departmental permission. CISS 2001 and ECOF 3001 are no longer available from the end of Semester 2, 2011.
  2. Pre 2012 students who have not completed core units, will complete the new equivalent unit, listed in this section.
  3. Pre 2011 students, who have not completed CISS 2001 will need to complete BUSS 1002.
  4. Pre 2012 students who have not completed ECON 1001, will need to complete BUSS 1040.
  5. Pre 2012 students who have not completed ECOF 3001, will need to complete BUSS 3500.
New core unit for all Business School degrees (2013 commencing students): BUSS1900 Managing Business Communication A

Students commencing from 2013, are required to complete the zero credit point unit, BUSS1900, in their first semester of study (at the same time as BUSS1001).

Students will have the opportunity of receiving a waiver of this requirement if they successfully complete the mandatory waiver test that will be conducted in Orientation Week (O week) before the commencement of the Semester.
To start in 2013 only - 0 credit point unit - no impact on continuing students.
Capstone unit introduced for students commencing study in the Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies) from 2013. Students who commence the BCom (Liberal Studies) must complete BUSS3500 Integrated Business Applications in their final Semester of study This only applies for students commencing from 2013. Students who commenced prior to 2013 may choose to complete BUSS3500 but it is not required.

There is little impact on the CPA/CA accreditation program as CPA/CA will recognise the new BUSS coded units.

The only units affected in relation to CPA/CA and their new equivalents are:

  • ACCT 1005 = BUSS 1030
  • ECMT 1010 = BUSS 1020
  • ECON 1001 and ECON1002 = BUSS 1040

Both sets of units will be recognised by CPA/CA during the transitional period.

Most students will need to complete their core units within their 1st year.

Students completing single degrees, combined Law, and BCom/Medicine & Surgery full time, must complete all junior core units within their 1st year of study. Students who are part time or doing other combined degrees must complete their junior core units within the first two years of their degree.

Students commencing study MUST complete BUSS1001 and BUSS1900 in their first semester of study.

Applies 2012 onwards.

Study in the School of Economics (i.e. Economics or Econometrics)

Students who commencing studying with the Business School before 2013 will ??be able to count Economics and/or Econometrics as Business School credit.

Students commencing from 2013, will have to count any Economics and/or Econometrics units completed as other faculty (non-Business School credit).

This policy has changed in 2013 but only students commencing after the change will be affected.

The move of Econometrics to the School of Economics (Arts and Social Sciences) has prompted changes within the Operations Management and Econometrics (OME) discipline. Certain ECMT units that were formerly part of OME and are staying with the Business School (now called Discipline of Business Analytics) have a new QBUS code, some, a new name, and all come under the renamed major of Quantitative Business Analysis from 2012. Some new QBUS units have also been created.

The former ECMT units that are being retained by the Business School and their new QBUS equivalents are listed below:

Old ECMT unit New QBUS equivalent
ECMT 1010 Bus & Econ Stats A BUSS1020 Quant Bus Anal
ECMT 2620 Mgt Science QBUS 2310 Mgt Science
ECMT 2630 Mgerial Dec Making QBUS 2320 Methods Dec Anal
ECMT 2640 Operations Mgt QBUS 2330 Operations Mgt
ECMT 3640 Proj Plang & Mgt QBUS 2350 Proj Plang & Mgt
ECMT 3610 Mgt Sci Mdls & Mthds QBUS 3310 Adv Mgt Sci
ECMT 3180 Bus Risk Mgt QBUS 3810 Bus Risk Anal

New QBUS units:

  • QBUS 1030 Business Modelling with Spreadsheets (elective only)
  • QBUS 2810 Stat Modelling for Bus - core unit for major
  • QBUS2820 Predictive Analytics (elective for major)
  • QBUS 3320 Supply Chain Management - core unit for major
  • QBUS 3820 Data Mining and Data Analysis (elective for major)

All currently enrolled students (pre-2012 students), completing the Operations Management and Decision Sciences major (OME), will be able to complete that major as part of their degree. The currently listed and offered units within this major (OME), have an equivalent QBUS unit set up for 2012, which continuing students can complete in place of the old ECMT unit. The old ECMT unit and its new QBUS equivalent have prohibitions against each other and it is to be made clear via the handbook and online information that the new QBUS unit is equivalent to and replaces the former ECMT unit. Continuing students who have completed some ECMT units will therefore be able to complete an Operations Management and Decision Sciences major with QBUS units.

Continuing students who are able to fit the new 'Quantitative Business Analysis' major into their degrees ,will be able to do so as long as this does not impinge on completing degree requirements in place at the time they commenced.

Students who have started an Econometrics major and would like to change to a Quantitative Business Analysis major can do so, as long as the degree credit and requirements allow. In??most cases, this will only be possible, where a student has completed minimal econometrics study which can be matched up to new QBUS units and the remainder of the Quantitative Business Analysis major can be completed with QBUS units.

Students commencing in 2012 who choose to major in this field, will follow the new Quantitative Business Analysis major.

The BCom (Liberal Studies) Major I and Major II lists have been tidied up.

For students who commenced study in 2012, the Major I list now only consists of Business School study and Major II is other faculty study (as well as some Business School options). Economics and Econometrics are now in Major II list.
For students commencing study in 2013, the Major I list still consists of only Business School areas of study and the Major II areas have been widened to: any subject area from the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Faculty of Science (subject to other faculty credit point restrictions).

Pre-2013, BCom (Liberal  Studies) students can choose to count the School of Economics units towards the Arts and Social Sciences component (24 credit points) they must complete, but will not then be able to count other School of Economics units as Business School study: must be one or the other.

For students commencing from 2013, all School of Economics units will count as non-Business School units (i.e. will count only towards the Arts and Social Sciences requirements for their degree).

The rule concerning majors lists will be that of the year the student commenced.

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