Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)

Overview

The Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree programme enables each student to develop his or her own interests in business and related subjects. Students are able to create individualised courses using a range of papers offered across teaching departments in the School of Business and University as a whole. Students have the flexibility within the BCom degree to combine two specialisations and graduate with a double major.

Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)

1. Structure of the Programme

   Every degree programme

   1. shall consist of papers worth not less than 360 points,
   2. shall include at least 180 points for papers above 100-level of which at least 72 points shall be for papers above 200-level,
   3. shall satisfy the requirements for at least one of the major subjects listed above. No paper above 200-level may count for more than one Major Subject Requirement,
   4. shall include the following Required Papers*: BSNS 111, BSNS 112, BSNS 113, BSNS 114, BSNS 115
   5. may include one or more optional minor subjects which satisfy the Minor Subject Requirements listed in Commerce Schedule A, or Arts and Music Schedule A, or Science Schedule A, or Applied Science Schedule A, or BHealSc Schedule Part 2. No paper may count for both a Major and a Minor Subject Requirement or for more than one Minor Subject Requirement unless that paper is at 100- or 200-level and is specified as compulsory for both Requirements,
   6. may include papers which are not listed in Commerce Schedule C
      1. up to 90 points; or
      2. as specified in the Commerce Major Subject Requirements and/or the Commerce subjects in the Minor Subject Requirements; or
      3. as specified in the Minor Subject Requirements.

Prerequisites, Corequisites and Restrictions

1. Every programme of study shall satisfy the requirements for prerequisites, corequisites, and restrictions set out in the Prescriptions (published in the Guide to Enrolment).
2. A candidate with outstanding results in a subject prior to entering the University may be permitted by the Head of Department concerned to enrol for a paper at 200-level without having satisfied the normal prerequisites. In such cases the candidate shall not be credited with the prerequisite papers but shall be exempted from including those papers in a major subject requirement. A candidate may not, having passed any such paper at 200-level, enrol subsequently for any prerequisite paper from which the exemption has been given.
3. A candidate will not be permitted to enrol for certain papers in the following circumstances:
   1. A candidate who has previously passed or is currently enrolled for LAWS 203 and either LAWS 307 or LAWS 407 may not enrol for BLAW 211.
   2. A candidate who has previously passed or is currently enrolled for LAWS 202 may not enrol for BLAW 212.

For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this paragraph will affect any credits a candidate may be entitled to pursuant to paragraph 3(b).