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Table 1

Preferred packaging of a credit bearing 4-year bachelor degree programme

Content category	Approximate weighting	Minimum credits	Description (for accounting degree)
Unique, programme-specific content	50–60%	250	Strictly accounting module content that defines the programme
Discipline common and shared content	25–30%	120	Relevant and supporting modules picked from other commerce programmes e.g. finance, banking, economics, etc.
Generic knowledge and skills	15–20%	72	Universally relevant modules needed by university students e.g. ICT and computer literacy, research, communication, entrepreneurship, etc.
Other cross-disciplinary content (connective knowledge or enrichment)	5–10%	24	Usually not related to the category of the programme under study but useful for professional purposes e.g. French language, literature, social studies, etc.
	100	480

Content category	Approximate weighting	Minimum credits	Description (for accounting degree)
Unique, programme-specific content	50–60%	250	Strictly accounting module content that defines the programme
Discipline common and shared content	25–30%	120	Relevant and supporting modules picked from other commerce programmes e.g. finance, banking, economics, etc.
Generic knowledge and skills	15–20%	72	Universally relevant modules needed by university students e.g. ICT and computer literacy, research, communication, entrepreneurship, etc.
Other cross-disciplinary content (connective knowledge or enrichment)	5–10%	24	Usually not related to the category of the programme under study but useful for professional purposes e.g. French language, literature, social studies, etc.
	100	480