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People units

People and Planet units are a unique feature of Macquarie's undergraduate curriculum. They enable students to achieve the breadth of understanding required by today's graduates by requiring them to study outside their primary discipline. People and Planet units enable students to understand the challenges and issues facing the world at present and develop the capacity to be engaged and ethical local and global citizens. In essence, People units are designed to give students an understanding of what it means to live in the social world, and to develop cultural or social literacy. Planet units enable students to develop scientific literacy and to understand what it means to live in the physical world.

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People units by code

B

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F

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H

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Criteria for selection of people units and planet units

  1. To satisfy the requirements a Program of Study must include:
    1. (i) one unit taken from the Schedule of People Units and one unit taken from the Schedule of Planet Units, and
    2. (ii) those units must be taken in two different Faculties.
  2. Where any additional criteria for selection of People units and/or Planet units are stipulated in the Schedule of Programs of Study Currently Open For New Admissions, these criteria supersede the criteria in this Schedule of People units and Planet units in relation to the Programs of Study in which they appear, and only do so to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Schedule of People units and Planet units.
  3. The following units may not be credited to satisfy the People unit or Planet unit requirements of an award:
    1. (i) units listed as part of the specific minimum requirements or foundation units for that award in the Schedule of Programs of Study Currently Open For New Admissions, and
    2. (ii) units listed as part of the student's qualifying major for the award in the Schedule of Majors.
  4. A student may apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) with regard to satisfying the requirements for a People unit or Planet unit.
  5. Unless it contravenes criterion (2) in this Schedule, the Academic Senate may deem a unit to be substantially the same in content to a specific People unit or Planet unit, and in that case that unit may be credited towards the People unit or Planet unit requirement, as appropriate, in the Program of Study which the student is admitted to.

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