4.1 Unit Coding Logic
The University policy require unit codes to be three alphabetical characters and four numeric characters e.g. AFC2140.
The Faculty has imbedded the following logic into unit coding:
(a) The first two alphabetical characters of the unit code indicate the departmental ownership of the unit:
AF - Accounting and Finance
BT - Business Law and Taxation
ET - Econometrics and Business Statistics
EC - Economics
MG - Management
MK – Marketing
The exceptions to this rule are:
Undergraduate
BE – units offered that do not have specific departmental ownership
(b) The final alphabetical character provides further context about the unit as follows:
(i) In undergraduate units, the third alphabetical character indicates degree family:
C - Bachelor of Commerce (including the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Accounting degrees)
F - Bachelor of Business
W - Bachelor of Business and Commerce
X – Units offered across more than one degree family
Graduate
MBA - units offered in the MBA programs
GSB - units which are owned by the Graduate School of Business
(ii) In graduate units, the third alphabetical character indicates campus of offering:
B - Berwick
F - Caulfield
C - Clayton
G - Gippsland
P - Peninsula
X - Units offered across more than one campus
For both undergraduate and graduate units
(c) The first numeric character indicates the year level of the unit.
1xxx - First-year undergraduate-level units
2xxx - Second-year undergraduate-level units that normally assume prior knowledge of the discipline or areas of study at the preceding level
3xxx - Third-year undergraduate-level units that normally assume prior knowledge of the discipline or areas of study at the preceding levels
4xxx - Fourth-year-level units offered in honours and postgraduate degrees that assume prior knowledge of the discipline at the preceding levels and that build on knowledge gained in an undergraduate degree in a related discipline and relevant employment experience.
5xxx - Fifth-year-level units offered in those cumulative masters degrees that assume prior knowledge of the discipline at the preceding levels, and units offered in some other masters degrees that build on knowledge gained through previous study in a related discipline and relevant employment experience.
6xxx - Sixth-year level doctoral units that assume prior knowledge of the discipline at the preceding levels.
9xxx - Accelerated learning units offered in graduate degrees that assume no prior knowledge of the discipline at a preceding level but building on knowledge and skills gained through previous study in another discipline area and/or relevant employment experience.
(d) The final three numeric characters contain no specific logic, although departments are free to include internal departmental logic in these three characters if they wish.
4.2 Unit Coding
Where units are identical in content and in the key teaching areas such as unit objectives, learning outcomes, teaching style and assessment, then a single unit code will be used.
Units with the same or similar content may have different unit codes if they are taught to different student cohorts (eg, undergraduate/graduate, across the different undergraduate programs). The differences pertaining to the different cohorts (ie, unit objectives, and/or learning outcomes, and/or teaching style, and/or assessment) must be reflected in the corporate record of the units, including the unit outlines.
4.2.1 Multi-Listing of Units
Unit multi-listing should only occur where course rules prevent a cohort of students from studying a unit they should reasonably be able to study and where amendment to the course rules is not a viable solution.
4.2.2 Cross-Listing of Units
Unit cross-listing should only occur where:
(a) the unit coding disadvantages a cohort of students and where an amendment to the course rules is not a viable solution to this disadvantage; or
(b) it can be demonstrated that the unit content crosses one or more discipline areas and that this requires joint management of the unit content, which can be best managed by cross-listing of the unit.
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