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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 12. 1965.

[introduction]

The Faculty of Commerce and Administration has completely reorganised its degree course. The B.Com. degree is to be replaced by Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (B.C.A.). The new proposals have been formulated over several months and the regulations have now been approved.

The change is designed to achieve three objectives. (1) To offer a degree incorporating elements from each of the Faculty's four Departments (Accountancy, Economics, Political Science and Business Administration). (2) To provide a better understanding of the nature and activities of public and private organisations and the problems of decision-making in them. (3) To enable students to study major subjects in greater depth than is possible at present.

The Faculty, as now constituted, is concerned with a group of subjects which are collectively and separately relevant to an understanding of the world of affairs, public and private, commercial and professional.

There exists among these subjects sufficient unity of interest and method to make it sensible to speak of a common base, out of which grows a superstructure of specialisation. This concept is reflected in the degree structure of nine units.