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14. Bachelor of Agriculture/Bachelor of Commerce
    14.1. Course objectives
    14.2. Career opportunities
    14.3. Course outline

14. Bachelor of Agriculture/Bachelor of Commerce

This combined course is taught at the Parkville campus of the University. The course takes five years of full-time study.

This course has been developed in response to the demand for agriculture to be combined with a more specialist training in economics and commerce than is possible in the BAg degree. Students can choose a combination of economics, business information systems, econometrics, accounting, finance and management subjects in order to design a course which fits an intended career path.

14.1. Course objectives

Students who complete this course will have acquired:

• an understanding of the components of the agricultural sector of the Australian economy and the importance of that sector to the economy;

• an understanding of Australian economic institutions and policy, including industry and trade policy;

• an appreciation of the recent changes in the Australian economy, especially in relation to developments in the Asia-Pacific region;

• mastery of the necessary theoretical concepts and tools, from economics, agricultural sciences, business management and marketing, for analysing and solving problems in agribusiness activities in normal resource use or agricultural policy, and skill in communicating the results;

• an appreciation of the implications for agricultural business operations of the biological nature of agricultural production processes;

• awareness of the institutional and regulatory environment within which agricultural businesses function;

• an understanding of the behaviour of international markets for the products of the agricultural sector;

• practical experience in some part of the agricultural sector.

14.2. Career opportunities

The combined degree offers careers for people wanting to work in any of the agricultural fields, combined with specialist training in economics and commerce, rural finance, international trade, extension work, marketing, journalism, and resource management.

14.3. Course outline

To be eligible to graduate students must obtain 500 credit points. Of these, 225 must be from the Bachelor of Agriculture and 200 from the Bachelor of Commerce and 75 are electives that students can choose from either faculties, or another faculty. Students may be awarded honours in agriculture at the end of fifth year. Honours in commerce requires an additional sixth year of study.

Agriculture points must include:

• nine institute core subjects including 202-401 Industry Research Project (207-101 Economics of Resource Use, and 202-202 Experimental Design/Statistical Methods are not required)

• six additional agricultural degree subjects (See BAg for a full listing)

• 202-001 Industry Placement

Commerce points must include:

• at least 50 points from 100-level subjects

• at least 50 points from 300-level subjects

• compulsory subjects: 316-101 Introductory Macroeconomics, 316-102 Introductory Microeconomics, 316-130 Quantitative Methods 1 and 316-205 Introductory Econometrics or 316-206 Quantitative Methods 2.

A typical combined degree structure is as follows:

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