Faculty of Education

If you already have a four-year teaching qualification at a sufficiently high standard, you can undertake a Bachelor of Education with Honours.

Course outline

Honours students are usually looking to pursue further studies such as a masters degree or a doctorate. This degree offers the opportunity to develop and demonstrate your research capacity for later entry into a research degree.

The course consists of units to a total value of 48 points:

Bachelor of Education with Honours Core Units (total 42 points)

• EDUC7529 Honours Research Seminar 539 (6 points)
  and
  
• EDUC7559   Honours Dissertation (full-time) Part 1 (18 points)
• EDUC7560   Honours Dissertation (full-time) Part 2 (18 points)
  or
  
• EDUC7561   Honours Dissertation (part-time) Part 1 (9 points)
• EDUC7562   Honours Dissertation (part-time) Part 2 (9 points)
• EDUC7563   Honours Dissertation (part-time) Part 3 (9 points)
• EDUC7564   Honours Dissertation (part-time) Part 4 (9 points)

and one unit from Bachelor of Educational Honours Options (6 points)

• EDUC7502   Education Studies
• EDUC7503   Education Studies
• EDUC7533   Quantitative Inquiry
• EDUC7534   Qualitative Inquiry
• EDUC8404   Educational Linguistics
• EDUC8410   Teaching Literacies
• EDUC8411   Understanding Contemporary Education
• EDUC8415   Educational Leadership and Management
• EDUC8416   Education in Rural Australia
• EDUC8454   Learning Difficulties
• EDUC8492   Behaviour Management
• EDUC8494   Approaches to Student Assessment

Your dissertation is to be submitted by the first day of the University examination period of the semester in which it is to be completed.

For the coursework and seminar units, the most common pattern includes seminar presentation and/or assignments (5,000 - 6,000 words per unit).

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Admission requirements

Domestic students

To be admitted, you will have one of the following with a weighted average mark of at least 80%:

(a) Bachelor of Education of this University completed as part of a combined course; or
(b) Graduate Diploma in Education of this University; or
(c) Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies of this University.

• All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

International students

• All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

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