Bachelor of Education (In-Service Conversion)

Rules Variation Summary for 2025

Summary of Changes for 2025

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Schedule D: Program of Study:

  • EDEE329 has been removed and replaced with EDEE553

Agriculture Major

  • SOIL222 has been added

The following changes have been made to exit pathways:

  • DARTS: completion of 48cps made up of HASS discipline units at any level, curriculum units and PREX304-6. The 2 core units required by this exit will be waived on the grounds that the required level of study has been demonstrated at admission.
  • DSCIENCE: completion of 48cps made up of S&T and ERS discipline units at any level, curriculum units and PREX304-6.
  • DMUS: completion of 48cps made up of MUSI discipline units at any level, curriculum units and PREX304-6
  • DEDS: completion of 48cps at any level with at least 24cps of Education units, including and not limited to PREX304-6, curriculum units and all ED coded units.

Note unit changes

Note changes to Majors

Note changes to Exit Pathways

Students who were required to complete:

EDSP300 must now complete EDSP412

Students who are yet to complete CHEM110 as part of their Agriculture Teaching Area, can instead completed AGFN100.

Rules Variation Summary for 2024

Summary of Changes for 2024

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

No changes to this course for 2024

NIL

Rules Variation Summary for 2023

Summary of Changes for 2023

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Updates that reflect changes being made as part of re-accreditation of Initial Teacher Education degrees include updates to Discipline units within Teaching Areas and Curriculum Unit combinations.

  • EDEE328 has been deleted and replaced with EDEE351

Note ITE degree changes

Note deleted and/or added units

Rules Variation Summary for 2022

Summary of Changes for 2022

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Schedule A: Program of Study:

Languages Major

Chinese (Mandarin)

  • CHIN330/530 has been deleted
  • CHIN340/540 has been deleted
  • CHIN350/550 has been added
  • CHIN360/560 has been added

Schedule B

Major Discipline Areas:

Agriculture

  • AGRO211 has been deleted and replaced by AGRO200

Fourth Year Upgrade

  • EDLT400 has been deleted and replaced by EDLT500

Note unit changes

Note deleted and/or added units

Note changes to Majors

Rules Variation Summary for 2021

Summary of Changes for 2021

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Schedule A: Program of Study:

Ancient History Major

  • ANCH109 has been added

Modern History Major

  • HIST195 has been removed

Note unit changes

Note deleted and/or added units

Note changes to Majors

Rules Variation Summary for 2020

Summary of Changes for 2020

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Schedule A: Program of Study:

Ancient History Major

Prescribed Units

  • Units offered in Medieval or Modern History has been   changed to any HIST coded unit from Modern History Program of Study   (300-level has been removed)

Listed Units

  • 12cps at 100-level now includes the Prescribed Unit
  • ANCH308 has been added
  • ANCH309 has been added
  • ANCH324 has been deleted
  • ANCH325 has been deleted
  • ANCH327 has been deleted

Drama Major

Listed Units

  • THEA321 has a title change

English Major

Listed Units

  • COMM315 has a title change
  • ENGL302 has been added
  • ENGL372 has a title change

Languages Major

Chinese (Mandarin)

  • CHIN339 has a code change to CHIN330

French

  • FREN205 has been deleted
  • FREN305 has been deleted

German

Prescribed Units:

  • GRMN301 has been deleted
  • GRMN302 has been deleted
  • GRMN307 has been added
  • GRMN308 has been added

Listed Units:

  • GRMN307 has been moved to Prescribed Units
  • GRMN308 has been moved to Prescribed Units
  • GRMN309 has been added
  • GRMN310 has been added
  • GRMN311 has been added

Italian

Listed Units:

  • ITAL307 has been deleted
  • ITAL309 has a title change
  • ITAL311 has a title change

Legal Studies Major

Prescribed Units:

  • Prescribed Units have been added and complete 12cps
  • LAW100 moved from Listed Units and has a new title
  • LAW162 has been added

Listed Units:

  • Credit points have changed to 24cps
  • LAW100 has been moved to Prescribed Units
  • LAW101 has been deleted
  • LAW161 has been deleted
  • LAW164 has been deleted
  • LAW220 has been deleted
  • LAW326 has been deleted
  • LAW201 has been added
  • LAW270 has been added
  • LAW325 has been added
  • LAW391 has been added
  • LSSU261 has been added
  • LSSU262 has been added
  • LSSU394 has been added

Modern History Major

Prescribed Units

  • Units offered in Medieval or Ancient History has been   changed to any HIST coded unit from Ancient History or Medieval History   Program of Study (300-level has been removed)

Listed Units:

  • 12cps at 100-level now includes the Prescribed Unit
  • HIST300 has been added
  • HIST305 has been deleted
  • HIST309 has been deleted
  • HIST313 has a title change
  • HIST317 has been added
  • ISLM363 has been deleted

Society and Culture Major

Listed Units

Asian and Pacific Studies

  • PAIS113 has a title change
  • PAIS313 has added
  • PAIS363 has been deleted

Civics-Government-Politics

  • PAIS113 has a title change
  • PAIS313 has been added
  • PAIS363 has been deleted
  • PAIS375 has a title change

Media Studies

  • COMM315 has a title change

Philosophy

  • PHIL363 has been deleted

Social Communication

  • COMM315 has a title change
  • PAIS375 has a title change

Sociology

  • CRIM302 has a title change
  • CRIM306 has a code change to CRIM206
  • CRIM307 has a code change to CRIM207
  • CRIM344 has a code change to CRIM244
  • CRIM374 has a title change
  • CRIM390 has a code change to CRIM190
  • SOCY120 has been added
  • SOCY308 has been deleted
  • SOCY350 has a title change

Schedule B

Major Discipline Areas:

Agriculture

  • EDSE346 has been deleted
  • EDSE361 has been added

Biology; Chemistry; Earth and Environmental Sciences or Physics

  • EDSE361 has a title change

Physics

Listed Units

  • PHYS211 has been deleted
  • PHYS213 has been added

Schedule E

Core Units:

  • EDSP352 has a title change
  • EDSP354 has a title change

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Note deleted and/or added units

Note changes to Majors

Candidates under pre-2020 rules:

  • may complete under their current rules or   apply to transfer;
  • if completing the Agriculture teaching area   may replace EDSE346 with EDSE361;
  • if completing Physics teaching area may   replace PHYS211 with PHYS213; and
  • may take Listed Units added to the 2020   rules.

Rules Variation Summary for 2019

Summary of Changes for 2019

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Advanced Standing

Agriculture has been added to the Primary Methods or Secondary Methods in Rule (a) and Secondary Methods in Rule (b).

Schedule A

Aboriginal Studies Major – has been deleted

Agricultural Technology Major – renamed Agriculture Major and moved to Schedule B

Computing Technology Information Systems Major renamed Information Processes and Technology Major

Ancient History Major

Program of Study:

  • Prescribed Units have been added to meet NESA Subject Content   Knowledge Requirements for this teaching area: 6 credit points in Medieval or   Modern History by completing any 300-level HIST coded unit
  • Listed Units have been changed from 36cps to 30cps

Listed Units:

  • ANCH320 has been added

English Major

Listed Units:

  • ENGL306, ENGL308, WRIT327 have been added

Geography Major

Prescribed Units:

  • GEPL106 has been added

Listed Units:

  • GEPL321 has been added

Information Processes and Technology Major

Prescribed Units:

  • COSC210 and COSC372 have been added
  • COSC220 and COSC320 have been deleted

Listed Units:

  • COSC210 and COSC220 have been deleted

Languages Major

Program of Study:

  • NESA Subject Content Knowledge Requirements for Languages   specify that units contributing to a Language must be completed at   post-introductory level of study i.e. at 200-level and above. Candidates   requiring introductory level units in a Language (100-level) will complete an   Additional Teaching Area or may choose to reduce their Advanced Standing by   12 credit points to complete the Language as a First Teaching Area.
  • Credit points changed from 36cps to 36-48cps
  • Units changed from Listed to Prescribed

Chinese (Mandarin)

  • CHIN325 and CHIN330 have been added

French

  • FREN205, FREN305, FREN306 and FREN307 have been added

German

  • GRMN303 and GRMN304 have been added

Indonesian

  • INDN311, INDN312, INDN315, INDN330, INDN331 have been   added

Italian

  • ITAL203, ITAL304, ITAL307 have been added

Japanese

  • JAPN215, JAPN235, JAPN245 have been added

Spanish

  • SPAN203, SPAN204 have been added

Mathematics Major

Prescribed Units:

  • PMTH333 has been deleted
  • PMTH338 has been added

Modern History Major

Program of Study:

  • Prescribed Units have been added to meet NESA Subject Content   Knowledge Requirements for this teaching area: Complete 6 credit points at   300-level in either Ancient History (ANCH) or Medieval History (HIST).
  • Listed Units have been changed from 36cps to 30cps

Listed Units:

  • HIST113, HIST313, HIST369 have been added
  • HIST165 has been deleted

Society and Culture Major

Archaeology – has been deleted

Media Studies

  • COMM315 has been added

Philosophy

  • PHIL309 has been added
  • PHIL323 has been deleted

Psychology – has been deleted

Social Communication

  • COMM315, WRIT327, WRIT329 have been added

Sociology

  • SOCY302 has been added
  • SOCY313 title changed to Australian and Public Policy
  • SOCY382 title changed to 21st Century Sex:   Gender, Pleasure and Social Change

Studies of Religion Major

Listed Units:

  • ISLM344 has been added

Schedule B

Major Discipline Areas:

Agriculture has been added – 48 credit points

Agriculture Major

Prescribed Units:

  • AGRO100 and RSNR110 have been deleted

The following units have been added:

  • AGRO311
  • AGSY300
  • ANPR340
  • BIOL110
  • BIOL120
  • CHEM110
  • GRNS300
  • PA335
  • PLTY301
  • RSNR120
  • SOIL422
  • WOOL300

Biology Major

Prescribed Units:

  • Credit points changed from 42cps to 36cps

Listed Units:

  • Credit points changed from 6cps to 12cps
  • BTEC360 and PSIO411 have been added

Chemistry Major

Prescribed Units:

  • Credit points changed from 12cps to 48cps
  • MTHS110, MTHS120 have been added

Listed Units have been deleted: BIOL110, BIOL120, GEOL110, GEOL120, PHYS131, PHYS132

Earth and Environmental Science Major

Prescribed Units:

  • Credit points changed from 24cps to 30cps
  • GEOL110, GEOL120 have been added

Listed Units:

  • Credit points changed from 24cps to 6cps, with an   additional 12cps
  • EM311, ENGT352, GEOL313, RSNR301, RSNR302, RSNR303 have   been added

Physics Major

Prescribed Units:

  • Credit points changed from 12-48cps to 24cps (with an   additional 24cps, with at least 12cps at 300-level)
  • MTHS120, MTHS130 have been added
  • PHYS207 has been deleted

Listed Units have been deleted: BIOL110, BIOL120, CHEM110, CHEM120, GEOL110, GEOL120

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Note deleted/added units

Note renamed Majors

Note deleted Major

Continuing students may undertake new Listed Units under their current rules. Students may continue under their current rules or apply to transfer to the 2019 rules.

Rules Variation Summary for 2018

Summary of Changes for 2018

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Admission

A new Schedule to enable students to obtain Music as a secondary teaching area has been added as Schedule C.  Previous Schedule C students now follow Schedule D, and previous Schedule D students follow Schedule E.

Schedule A

Advanced Standing:

  • Wording amended to include Earth and Environmental   Science, and Music, as exceptions to the Schedule

Curriculum units:

  • Indigenous Studies curriculum area renamed Aboriginal   Studies

Indigenous Studies Major renamed Aboriginal Studies Major

Ancient History Major

Listed Units:

  • ANCH322 has been deleted
  • ANCH327 and ANCH328 have been added

Business Studies Major

Prescribed Units:

  • AFM324, MM105 and [MM221 or MM333] have been withdrawn
  • AFM320, LSSU251 and MM200 have been added

Listed Units:

  • AFM219 has been withdrawn
  • AFM324 and [MM221 or MM333] have been added

Computing Technology Information Systems Major

Prescribed Units:

  • COSC220 title changed to Software Development Studio 2

English Major

Listed Units:

  • COMM301 title changed to Film Techniques and Digital   Effects
  • COMM321, COMM327, and COMM388 have been deleted
  • COMM389 has been added
  • ENCO303 code changed to WRIT303 and title changed to   Research in Writing
  • ENCO306 code changed to WRIT306
  • ENCO310 code changed to ENGL310 and title changed to   Children’s Literature
  • ENCO326 code changed to WRIT326
  • ENGL310 title changed to Reading Fantasy Literature

Geography Major

Listed Units:

  • GEPL306 title changed to Water in the Environment
  • GEPL370 title changed to Place-making for People and the   Environment

Languages Major

Listed Units:

French:

  • FREN203 and FREN204 have been added
  • FREN206 has been withdrawn

German:

  • GRMN203, GRMN303 and GRMN304 have been withdrawn
  • GRMN210, GRMN307 and GRMN308 have been added

Indonesian:

  • INDN315, INDN330 and INDN331 have been withdrawn

Italian:

  • ITAL203 has been withdrawn
  • ITAL308, ITAL309, and ITAL311 have been added

Japanese:

  • JAPN245 has been withdrawn

Legal Studies Major

Listed Units:

  • LAW164 title changed to Law and First Peoples of   Australia
  • LSSU350 has been added

Modern History Major

Listed Units:

  • HIST301 has been added

Society and Culture Major

Listed Units:

  • Requirements changed to:

Complete 36 credit points, with no more than 12 credit points at 100-level, and at least 6 credit points from SOCY coded units, from the units below.

Archaeology:

  • ARPA381 has been deleted

Civics-Government-Politics:

  • PEAC388 and WRIT326 have been added

Media Studies:

  • COMM103 and COMM389 have been added
  • COMM301 title changed to Film Techniques and Digital   Effects
  • COMM321 has been deleted
  • COMM332 title changed to News and Journalism

Philosophy:

  • PHIL150 title changed to Introduction to Philosophy B:   Metaphysics, Knowledge and the Search for Reality
  • PHIL151 title changed to Introduction to Philosophy A:   Ethics, the Self and the Possibilities of Freedom
  • PHIL303 has been withdrawn

Social Communication:

  • ENCO326 code changed to WRIT326

Sociology:

  • CRIM308 title changed to Drugs, Alcohol and Crime in   Australia
  • SOCY300 title changed to The City and Social Change
  • SOCY319 title changed to Global Societal Challenges
  • SOCY332 title changed to Popular Culture and Consumer   Society
  • SOCY360 title changed to Power, Inequality and Social   Mobility

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Major renamed to Teaching English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Major

Schedule B

  • Wording amended to include Earth and Environmental   Science as an optional secondary teaching area for the Schedule.

Chemistry Major

Listed Units:

  • GEOL110 title changed to Our Blue Planet
  • GEOL120 title changed to Dynamic Earth

Physics Major

Listed Unit:

  • GEOL110 title changed to Our Blue Planet
  • GEOL120 title changed to Dynamic Earth
  • PHYS204 and PHYS301 have been added

New – Schedule C (144 cps)

Schedule D (previously Schedule C)

Core Units:

  • EDAE211 has been deleted
  • EDAE303 has been added

Schedule E (previously D)

For students admitted under Rule (d) completing the Fourth Year Upgrade Program.

Core Units:

  • EDCX400 code changed to EDCX313
  • EDEE300 title changed to Literacies and Numeracies in   Context
  • EDUC303 title changed to Teaching for Cultural   Diversity-EAL/D Students

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Note renamed Majors

Schedule A:

Students undertaking the Business Studies Major who have not yet completed a unit of Finance or Accounting are required to complete AFM320 Accounting and Finance for Business as a Listed Unit.

Schedule D (previously C):

Students who have not completed EDAE211 must complete EDAE303

Continuing students may undertake new Listed Units under their current rules.  Students may continue under their current rules or apply to transfer to the 2018 rules.

Rules Variation Summary for 2017

Summary of Changes for 2017

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Schedule A

Curriculum Units - English Curriculum Area:

  • EDEE331 title changed to Secondary English: Language, Literature and Literacy

Business Studies Major

Prescribed Units:

  • MM105 title changed to Personal Skills for the Workplace

Listed Units:

  • MM202 code changed to BUS202
  • MM110 title changed to Fundamentals of Marketing
  • MM322 title changed to Business Ethics
  • MM324 title changed to Organisational Leadership

Drama Major

Prescribed Units:

  • THEA110/210 title changed to Ideas of Theatre I
  • THEA111 title changed to Ideas of Theatre II

Economics Major

Listed Units:

  • ECON311 title changed to Contemporary Macroeconomic   Issues
  • ECON317 International Trade and Finance

English Major

Listed Units:

  • ENCO310 title changed to Reading and Writing Children’s   Literature
  • ENGL304 title changed to Critical and Creative Writing:   Fantasy Literature

Indigenous Studies Major

Listed Units:

  • IDIG101, IDIG110, IDIG300, IDIG303 and IDIG312 have been deleted
  • IDIG102, IDIG103 and IDIG305 have been added
  • IDIG301 title changed to Analysing Change in Indigenous   Societies: Politics and Public Policy

Languages Major

Listed Units:

Japanese:

  • JAPN325 code changed to JAPN245

Spanish – New:

  • SPAN101, SPAN102, SPAN201, SPAN202, SPAN301, SPAN302,   SPAN303, SPAN304, SPAN305 and SPAN306 have been added

Modern History Major

Listed Units:

  • HIST357 title changed to War, Nations and Empires: Modern   Europe, 1789-1914

Society and Culture Major

Listed Units:

Archaeology:

  • ARPA107, ARPA301 and ARPA309 have been added
  • ARPA384 title changed to Stone Tools: Analysis and   Interpretation

Civics-Government-Politics:

  • IDIG300, PAIS102 and PAIS381 have been withdrawn
  • PAIS302 has been added

Philosophy:

  • PHIL306, PHIL307 and PHIL308 have been added
  • PHIL320 and PHIL322 have been withdrawn
  • PHIL150 title changed to Introduction to Metaphysics: In   Search of Reality

Sociology:

  • CRIM306 title changed to Equity and Justice? Crime   ‘Problems’ and the Search for Solutions
  • CRIM344 title changed to Criminological Perspectives
  • CRIM374 title changed to Criminal Profiling

Schedule C

Core Units:

  • EDEE328 title changed to Primary English 1: Language,   Literature, Literacy
  • EDEE329 title changed to Primary English 2: Language,   Literature, Literacy

New – Schedule D (144 cps)

Advanced Standing (90 cps):

  • Block advanced standing granted for those candidates   admitted under rule (c) completing the Fourth Year Upgrade Program.

Core Units (54 cps):

  • EDCX400 or HSCS261, EDEE300, EDIT426, EDLT426, EDLT400,   EDSP300, EDSP352, EDSP354, EDUC303, PREX304-6.
  • Students may substitute up to 12 credit points of   alternative units at 300/400 level in areas of interest, with permission from   the Course Coordinator.

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course. Where listed units have been deleted from majors students may substitute new units offered at the same level e.g. for the deleted IDIG101 and IDIG110 may substitute IDIG102 and IDIG103.

Current students may complete under their current course rules or apply to transfer to 2017 rules.

Note new Schedule D – for students admitted under rule (c) who complete Fourth Year Upgrade Program.

Rules Variation Summary for 2016

Summary of Changes for 2016

Implications for current Bachelor of Education (In-service Conversion) students

Schedule A

Curriculum Units:

  • Note added against unit EDSS311 (all curriculum areas):
    • *Students who have completed EDSS311 and are planning to undertake a second teaching area in HSIE must complete EDSS312 and the relevant curriculum unit.
  • Society and Culture curriculum area:
    • EDSS312 has been withdrawn and replaced with EDSS325

Ancient History Major

  • ANCH307 and ARPA100 have been added
  • ANCH310, ANCH340 and ARPA101 have been withdrawn
  • ARPA104 title changed to Archaeology: Principles and Practices
  • EVOL102 title changed to Evolution in the Fossil Record

Computing Technology Information Systems Major

Prescribed Units:

  • Credit points changed to 30 cps
  • COMP131 has been withdrawn and replaced with COSC110 Introduction to Programming and the UNIX Environment
  • COMP132 has been withdrawn and replaced with COSC120 Object Orientated Programming
  • COSC220, COSC310 and COSC320 have been added

Listed Units:

  • Complete 12 cps changed to complete 6 cps from the following units
  • COMP280 code changed to COSC240 Operating Systems
  • COMP389 has been withdrawn and replaced with COSC210 Database Management Systems
  • COMP290 has been withdrawn and replaced with COSC260 Web Programming
  • COMP286, 303, and 320 have been withdrawn

Economics Major

Listed Units:

  • ECON320 title changed to International Political Economy

English Major

Listed Units:

  • ENGL381 title changed to The Contemporary Novel
  • ENGL384 Reading Crime has been added

Indigenous Studies Major

Listed Units:

  • ARPA351 has been withdrawn

Languages Major

Listed Units:

Japanese:

  • JAPN325 title changed to Introduction to Japanese Popular Culture

Legal Studies Major

Listed Units:

  • LAW335 code changed to LAW326

Mathematics Major

Prescribed Units:

  • MATH101 has been withdrawn and replaced with MTHS120 Calculus and Linear Algebra 1
  • MATH102 has been withdrawn and replaced with MTHS130 Calculus and Linear Algebra 2

Modern History Major

Listed Units:

  • HIST308 title changed to Crusader Europe, 1905-1453
  • HIST357 title changed to War, Nations and Empires, 1789-1914
  • HIST318, 342, 393 and 394 have been withdrawn

Society and Culture Major

Listed Units:

Archaeology:

  • ARPA104 title changed to Archaeology: Principles and Practices
  • ARPA343 title changed to Archaeology in the Field
  • ARPA100, 300, 306 and 307 have been added
  • ARPA101 and 351 have been withdrawn

Sociology:

  • SOCY336 title changed to The Family and Children in Society
  • SOCY345, 350 and 393 have been added
  • CRIM384, SOCY309, 333 and 350 have been withdrawn

Studies in Religion Major

Prescribed Units:

  • 12 cps changed to Complete 12 cps from the following 18 cps
  • RELS180 and 184 have been added
  • RELS181 has been withdrawn

Schedule B

Biology Major

Listed Units:

  • BCHM330 has been withdrawn

New – Earth and Environmental Science Major has been added

Prescribed Units:

  • Complete the following units: BIOL110, BIOL120, CHEM110 and CHEM120

Listed Units:

  • Complete 24 credit points from the following units: ECOL202, ECOL203, EVOL211, GEOL202 and GEPL341

Physics Majors

Listed Units:

  • ASTY221 title changed to Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Note EDSS311*: Students who have completed EDSS311 and are planning to undertake a second teaching area in HSIE must complete EDSS312 and the relevant curriculum unit.

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course.

Current students may complete under their current course rules or apply to transfer to 2016 rules.

Those students who have not completed:

  • COMP131 must complete COSC110
  • COMP132 must complete COSC120

Note new Majors