COURSE: BCOM IN ECONOMICS

The aim of this programme is to provide students with the knowledge and basic analytical tools to understand and analyse the functioning of the economic system, to predict economic behaviour and to understand and analyse economic policy.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years part time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Introduction to the Economic and Management Environment


• Economics


• Business Management


• Accounting concepts, principles and procedures


• Accounting reporting


• Commercial Law

Second year subjects:

• Microeconomics


• Macroeconomics


• South African economic indicators

Third year subjects:

• Microeconomics


• Macroeconomics


• South African economic indicators

Careers: economist, labour economist, development economist, environmental economist, international trade advisor, public policy economist.

Source: www.unisa.ac.za

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