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Bachelor of Arts - Psychology with the degree of Bachelor of Education (Primary)

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Faculty:
Faculty of Human Sciences
Award:
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology with the degree of Bachelor of Education (Primary) (BA-PsychBEd(Prim))
Study Mode:
Full-time, Part-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 4 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1 (March), Session 2 (August)
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points for the degree 96
Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above 36
Completion of a designated People unit
Completion of a designated Planet unit
Completion of a designated PACE unit
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. Those units must be taken in two different Faculties. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Education: The Psychological Context (3)
 
EDUC105
Required
3
Education: The Social and Historical Context (3)
 
EDUC106
Required
3
Introduction to Psychology I (3)
 
PSYC104
Required
3
Introduction to Psychology II (3)
 
PSYC105

200 level

Required
3
Curriculum and Teaching in Primary School 1 (3)
 
EDTE251
Required
3
Curriculum and Teaching in Primary School 2 (3)
 
EDTE252
Required
3
Mathematics in Schools (3)
 
EDUC258
Required
3
Language, Literacy and Learning (3)
 
EDUC260
Required
either
or
 
Education: The Learner (3)
 
EDUC262
3
Education: The Policy Context (3)
 
EDUC264
Required
3
Classroom Management and Assessment (3)
 
EDUC267
Required
3
Social and Personality Psychology (3)
 
PSY234
Required
3
Developmental Psychology (3)
 
PSY235
Required
3
Biopsychology and Learning (3)
 
PSY236
Required
3
Cognitive Processes I (3)
 
PSY246
Required
3
Perception I (3)
 
PSY247
Required
3
Design and Statistics II (3)
 
PSY248
Required
3
Key Competencies in Inclusive Education (3)
 
TEP248

300 level

Required
3
Psychological Science: Putting Theory into Practice (3)
C/P
PSY399
Required
3
Professional Experience in the Primary School 1 (3)
 
EDTE301
Required
3
Curriculum and Teaching in Primary School 3 (3)
 
EDTE353
Required
3
Curriculum and Teaching in the Primary School 4 (3)
 
EDTE354
Required
3
Reading Acquisition in the Primary Classroom (3)
 
EDUC371
Required
3
Principles of Psychological Assessment (3)
 
PSYC332
Required
6cp from
 
PSY units at 300 level
6
PSYC units at 300 level

400 level

Required
3
Curriculum and Teaching in Primary School 6 (3)
C
EDTE456
Required
3
Professional Experience in the Primary School 2 (3)
 
EDTE403
Required
3
Professional Experience in the Primary School 3 (3)
 
EDTE404
Required
3
Curriculum and Teaching in the Primary School 5 (3)
 
EDTE455

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
9
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

96
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.
 
Units marked with a P are PACE units.