double majors??? (1 Viewer)

[fornstar]

hey at the risk of sounding stupid, is it possible 2 do a double major. eg - if i did B Bus Admin, could i major in accounting and hrm or would u have 2 do a combined degree, like B Bus Admin/ B Com-Accounting???

sorry if this has already been posted, thanks

 

[Skittled]

business admin has an accounting major, but I'd say it depends where you want to go with the degree. if you did an accounting degree, you'd end up an accountant (generally, of course). Business Admin has a more managerial slant, it'd seem.

Basically; You can't do a double degree (to the best of my knowledge) in BBA + BComm-Accounting, but you could Major in accounting in your BBA course.

...that's probably entierly confusing. take a look on handbook.mq.edu.au and look up the pattern of study for BBA and BCom-Accounting. You'll see, for example, BComm might have more law units relating to the accounting side, wheras BBA gives you more of an overview of accounting practises... along with finance and business law and economics and and and and....

still confused?

 

[fornstar]

a tad! lol

so ur doin BBA+BA-Psych, thats wat i want 2 do. wat r u majoring in, and do u major in sumthn for the BBA and BA or just one

 

[Skittled]

The BBA and BA-Psych are two separate degrees. What happens is, you do the BA-P degree, where you'd usually have a whole heap of electives (see the handbook...). But, instead of picking and choosing which electives you want, you do all business units.

Because I'm doing BA-Psych, I'm majoring in Psych. If you did a BA-Media, you're majoring in media. Yeah?

BUT, in BBA, you've got a choice of 'modules'. This is where you choose a general area you want to study. In your case you might choose Accounting (I chose finance, and want to do biz law too, but we'll see how that goes). Regardless of what you choose, there are certain 'core' units which you HAVE to do, and they span across all the domains of business... so you'll have to do finance units, have to do economics, have to do acounting, etc.

That's really all the choice you've got in this degree - which BBA module you do. Later on, in like 3rd year you get to choose 2 psych units, but that's not a major or anything special in the eyes of the uni, just two units you decided to do.

Click here and you'll get an excerpt out of the MQ handbook. Find the BBA+BA-Psych (page 8) and this might all make some more sense... Note the level 1 modules you can choose from(and then continue with level 2 modules of the same topic), note the "8 cp [credit points/2 units] from PSY"....

You'll have to excuse me I've been talking to customers all of today. I hope I make more sense at work!

 

[Sweet_Lemon]

but......there's a double degree for BBA and ACC~~~ LOL~~~ BBA i heard the lecture said that u learn every bit of the business....like acct, fin, eco, marketing, etc....

 

[jlh]

in business admin you don't exactly have a major..
you have an area of specialisation, which is less than a major because you do less units in the field.....

 

[GoodToGo]

Okay in short a BBA is core units and 2 modules. If you are combining it with other degrees (say psych or accg) you HAVE to do one of the modules. This module in effect is already covered by your other degree. You also do 1 module of your choice. Though sometimes you get a limited choice. If you do a BBA with Law u get no modules.

So in short, u get no majors for BBA, just modules. Doing an ACCG module does not qualify you professionally like the ACCG degree would (well after the CA or CPA). This might be important if you think you might want to do some accounting work down the track.

 

[fornstar]

so wats good bout doin BBA??

 

[Sweet_Lemon]

u get to know every function within the business or something.....LOL~~~

 

[GoodToGo]

so wats good bout doin BBA??

sweet_lemon's right. You get to learn about everything. HR, Communications, Marketing, accounting and finance, etc. It's a good generalist degree for those who want to work in some business/corporate sphere but don't necessarily wanna crunch numbers all day.

 

[Sweet_Lemon]

u kinda get to tell them wat to do....LOL~~tat's wat my aunt is doing now....hahaha~~~