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Bachelor of Education (Primary)

Unit of study table (Table A)

Education (Primary)

Candidates must complete 192 credit points of units of study comprising:
(i) 132 credit points of core units;
(ii) a 48 credit point major in Education Studies; and
(iii) either 12 credit points of 4000-level Table A electives; or
(iv) 12 credit points from an optional Table A Primary Teaching specialisation.
Students complete 36 credit points in core units and 12 credit points from the Education Studies major in each year of the degree.

Core units

Students complete 132 credit points in the following sequence:
(i) 36 credit points of 1000-level core units;
(ii) 36 credit points of 2000-level core units;
(iii) 36 credit points of 3000-level core units; and
(iv) 24 credit points of 4000-level core units.
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000 level units

EDUP1011
Foundations of English Education
6  
EDUP1012
Science and Technology K-6 A
6 N EDUP1005
EDUP1013
Health and Physical Education 1
6  
EDUP1014
Ways of Knowing in HSIE K-6
6  
EDUP1015
Teaching Primary Mathematics 1
6  
EDUP1016
Education and the Arts 1
6  

2000 level units

EDUP2030
Professional Knowledge and Practice 1
6 P 36 credit points of 1000-level EDUP units
C EDUP2033
EDUP2033
Supporting Behaviour and Well-being
6 P 36 credit points of 1000-level EDUP units
EDUP2036
Education and the Arts 2
6 P 36 credit points of 1000-level EDUP units
EDUP2031
Building English Education
6 P 36 credit points of 1000-level EDUP units
EDUP2032
Science and Technology K-6 B
6 P 36 credit points of 1000-level EDUP units
EDUP2035
Teaching Primary Mathematics 2
6 P 36 credit points of 1000-level EDUP units
EDLN2000
LANTITE Undergraduate
0  
Please note, candidates must enrol in EDLN2000 LANTITE Undergraduate in Semester 2 and successfully pass the tests in order for a grade of "satisfied requirements" (SR) to be awarded.

3000 level units

EDUP3041
TESOL in Practice
6 P 36 credit points of 2000-level EDUP-coded units
EDUP3042
Science and Technology K-6 C
6 P 36 credit points of 2000-level EDUP-coded units
EDUP3043
Health and Physical Education 2
6 P 36 credit points of 2000-level EDUP-coded units
EDUP3044
Creative Pedagogies for HSIE K-6
6 P 36 credit points of 2000-level EDUP-coded units
EDUP3045
Teaching Primary Mathematics 3
6 P 36 credit points of 2000-level EDUP-coded units
EDUP3040
Professional Knowledge and Practice 2
6 P EDUF2021 and 36 credit points of 2000-level EDUP-coded units

4000 level core units

EDUP4091
Expanding English Horizons
6 P 36 credit points of 3000-level EDUP-coded units
N EDUP4076
EDUP4092
Personalising Literacies
6 P 36 credit points of 3000-level EDUP-coded units
EDUP4093
Digitally Enhanced Learning
6 P 36 credit points of 3000-level EDUP-coded units
EDUP4090
Professional Engagement Final Practice
6 P EDUP4091 and EDUP4092
C EDUP4093 and EDUF3050

Optional Primary Teaching specialisation

Mathematics
A Primary teaching specialisation in Mathematics requires:
(i) 12 credit points of 4000-level core units.
EDUP4101 Mathematics Learning A
EDUP4102 Mathematics Learning B
Science and Technology specialisation
A Primary teaching specialisation in Science and Technology requires:
(i) 12 credit points of core units:
EDUP4103 Advanced Science and Technology K-6 A
EDUP4104 Advanced Science and Technology K-6 B
Primary Languages
A Primary teaching specialisation in Primary Languages requires:
(i) 12 credit points of core units:
EDUP4105 Primary Languages Specialisation A
EDUP4106 Primary Languages Specialisation B
Elective units of study
Where a Primary teaching specialisation is not undertaken, students complete:
(i) 12 credit points of 4000-level elective units:
EDUP4107 Special Education A
EDUP4108 Creativity: Pedagogy and Practice
EDUP4109 Special Education B
EDUP4110 Supporting Aboriginal Students K-6
EDUP4111 Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms

Education Studies major

A major in education studies requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units;
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level core units;
(iii) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units;
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units;
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level capstone units; and
(vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units.
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000 level units of study

EDUF1020
Rethinking Education
6 N EDUF1018
EDUF1021
Sociological Perspectives in Education
6 N EDUF2007

2000 level units of study

EDUF2021
Aboriginal Education in Context
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Education Studies
EDUF2022
Special and Inclusive Education
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Education Studies

3000 level units of study

Core
EDUF3040
Psychological Perspectives in Education

6

P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Education Studies
N EDUF2006

Capstone
EDUF3050
Education Capstone

6 P EDUF3040
Selectives
EDUF3041
Dynamics of Child Development and Educational Neuroscience
6 This unit of study is being developed, subject to change.
EDUF3042
Motivation, Engagement and Learning
6 This unit of study is being developed, subject to change.
EDUF3043
Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Education
6 This unit of study is being developed, subject to change.
EDUF3044
Advanced Educational Foundations
6 This unit of study is being developed, subject to change.
EDUF3045
Transforming Education: Pedagogy, Leadership and Change
6 This unit of study is being developed, subject to change.
EDUF3046
Empowering Learners Across the Lifespan
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF-coded units
EDUF3047
De/colonising Indigenous Education
6 This unit of study is being developed, subject to change.
EDUF3039
Designing for Social Innovation
6 P 96 credit points
EDUF3032
Curriculum and Assessment
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF units
EDUF3135
Aboriginal Community-led Education
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF coded units
EDUF3028
Mentoring in Educational Contexts
6 P 42 credit points of units
EDUF3037
Creative Ecologies: Pedagogies and Praxis
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF coded units
EDUF3026
Global Perspectives, Poverty and Education
6 P 42 credit points of units of study
EDUF3027
International Perspectives on Education
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF coded units
EDUF3038
International Experience
6 P 96 credit points of units
EDUF3136
Research with Young Children
6 P 12 credit points of EDUF-coded 2000-level units
EDUF3553
Education Exchange
6  
EDUF3558
Education Exchange
6  
Interdisciplinary project
If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6 P Completion of at least 90 credit points
FASS3333
Industry and Community Project
6 C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
P 72 credit points