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Education Studies

Unit of study table (Table A)

This page was first published on 14 November 2024 and was last amended on 4 February 2025.
View details of the changes below.

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*;
* Students in the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) must enrol in EDUF3136 Research with Young Children as their 3000-level Education Studies selective unit.
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level capstone units; and
(vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units.

Minor

A minor in Education Studies requires 36 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; and
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective 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
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
EDUF3028
Mentoring in Educational Contexts
6 P 42 credit points of units
EDUF3032
Curriculum and Assessment
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF units
EDUF3037
Creative Ecologies: Pedagogies and Praxis
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF coded units
EDUF3039
Designing for Social Innovation
6 P 96 credit points
EDUF3046
Empowering Learners Across the Lifespan
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF-coded units
EDUF3135
Aboriginal Community-led Education
6 P 12 credit points of 2000-level EDUF coded units
EDUF3136
Research with Young Children
6 P 12 credit points of EDUF-coded 2000-level units
EDUF3553
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 P 72 credit points
Interdisciplinary Impact in any major

Post-publication amendments

Date
Original publication
Post-publication amendment
01/01/2025

Requirements published as:

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(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units;
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level capstone units; and

[...]

Requirements amended to:

[...]

(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units*;
* Students in the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) must enrol in EDUF3136 Research with Young Children as their 3000-level Education Studies selective unit.

[...]