Last updated 22.08.08

Combined Program in Software Engineering and Commerce
Example: BE SE BCom Actuarial Studies Program

Program code: 3653
Plan: SENGA13653

Handbook Entry

The BE(Software Engineering) BCom combined program requires the following:

• at least 96 units of credit from the courses offered by the Faculty of Commerce and Economics (FCE), including:
  • ACCT1501, ACCT1511, ECON1101, ECON1102; and,
  • completion of a major of at least 48 units of credit in an FCE approved disciplinary stream and a minor of 24 units of credit in INFS courses of which no than 12 units of credit may be Level 1 courses;
• no more that 60 units of credit of level 1 FCE courses;
• 6 units of credit of first year mathematics courses as required for the Software Engineering program and at least 6 units of credit in statistics and mathematics chosen from ECON1203, MATH1041, MATH1141, MATH1081, MATH1241, MATH2859, MATH2801, MATH2901, MATH2841, or alternative statistics and mathematics courses approved by the program advisor.

Students who are enrolled in a combined program are expected to maintain a credit (at least 65%) average across courses taken from each of the composite programs. Students who fail to meet this condition will be counselled about their suitability to remain in the combined program.

Understanding the BE SE BCom Actuarial Studies Program

Programs are usually listed in the handbook as sequence of stages, or years. The BE SE BCom Actuarial Studies program will be listed that way a little later, but it is perhaps easier to understand the requirements for the program in terms of core requirements and elective requirements as shown in the following table.

Actuarial Studies Options

List A

List B

• The minimum requirement for an Actuarial Studies single Major is 48 units of credit.
• To satisfy the minimum requirements for an Actuarial Studies single Major, students must complete the four required courses listed below PLUS at least 3 options from List A AND at most 1 option from List B.
• To obtain maximum professional actuarial course exemptions, ACTL3001, ACTL3002, ACTL3003 and ACTL3004 (all List A) should be completed and ACCT2542, ECON2101/ECON2102 and FINS1613 from List B.

Required Courses:

• ACTL1001 Actuarial Studies and Commerce (6 UOC)
• ACTL2001 Financial Mathematics (6 UOC)
• ACTL2002 Prob & Stat for Actuaries (6 UOC)
• ACTL2003 Stochatic Mod for Actuaria App (6 UOC)

• MATH1141 Higher Mathematics 1A OR
  MATH1151 Maths for Actuarial Studies & Finance 1A
• MATH2141 Higher Mathematics 1B OR
  MATH1251 Maths for Actuarial Studies & Finance 1B

Note:

The above MATH courses are required in place of the standard Year 1 courses ECON1202 and ECON1203.

Staged Program

Possible stages of the combined program are shown below. Courses may be arranged in any suitable order, subject to satisfaction of prerequisites and corequisites. It makes some sense to take the courses shown in stages 1&2 in the first two years. Of course, some arrangements may produce timetable conflicts.

All programs should be approved by the Faculty of Commerce and Economics

Stage 1 Course No Course Name S1 S2 COMP1917 Higher Computing 1 6   MATH1151     MATH1141     Maths for Actuarial Studies & Finance 1A     Higher Mathematics 1A   6 MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics 6 INFS1603 Business Data Management 6 SENG1031 Software Engineering Workshop 1 6   MATH1251     MATH1241     Mathematics for Actuarial Studies and Finance 1B or     Higher Mathematics 1B   6 COMP1927 Higher Data Structures & Algorithms 6 ACCT1501 Accounting and Financial Management 1A 6 Total

Stage 2 Course No Course Name S1 S2 SENG2010 Software Engineering Workshop 2A 3 SENG2020 Software Engineering Workshop 2B 3 COMP2111 System Modelling and Design 6 COMP2911 Engineering Design in Computing 2 6 COMP2121 Microprocessors and Interfacing 6 COMP3711 Project Management 6 INFS2603 System Analysis & Design 6 ACTL2002 Probability and Statistics for Actuaries 6 ACTL1001 Actuarial Studies and Commerce 6 Total

Stage 3 Course No Course Name S1 S2 SENG3010 Software engineering Workshop 3A 3 SENG3020 Software Engineering Workshop 3B 3 COMP3141 Software System Design & Implementation 6   COMP3331     INFS2607     Computer Networks and Applications     Infrastructure and Security   6 ACTL2001 Financial Mathematics 6 ACTL2003 Stochastic Models for Actuarial Applications 6 ECON1101 Microeconomics 1 6 ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1 6 MATH2859 Probability, Statistics and Information 3 SE Electives 3 Total

Stage 4 Course No Course Name S1 S2 ACCT1511 Accounting and Financial Management 1B 6 4 Actuarial Studies Options List A 24 SE electives 18 Total

Stage 5
Course No Course Name S1 S2 Industrial Training SENG4910 Thesis part A 6 SENG4911 Thesis part B 12 SENG4921 Professional Issues and Ethics 6 SE Electives 24 Total

Notes

1. In order to meet the requirement for 96uoc of FCE content, the program must contain 24uoc of INFS courses. This will require some INFS courses to be taken as SE electives.
2. To obtain maximum professional examination exemptions the following courses are required:

   ACTL3001	Actuarial Statistics
   ACTL3002	Life Insurance and Superannuation Models
   ACTL3003	Insurance Risk Models
   ACTL3004	Financial Economics for Insurance and Superannuation
   ACCT2542	Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis
   ECON2101	Microeconomics 2
   FINS1613	Business Finance

   This will require at least 3 courses to be completed as non-award courses.

3. For further information on Professional Qualification from The Institute of Actuaries of Australia, the School of Actuarial Studies should be consulted.

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