Faculty of Education

This is an articulated diploma which will provide you with full credit towards a master's degree by coursework within the Faculty.

It is particularly relevant if you want to obtain a postgraduate diploma with one semester of full-time study and use this as full credit towards a master's degree by coursework at a later date.

Course outline

The course provides an award equivalent to half a master's degree by coursework for students who wish to exit at that point.

If you want to proceed to one of the specialist master's degrees by coursework, you should note the course and unit requirements for those degrees and select units accordingly.

If you plan to apply to articulate the diploma with the Master of Education or Master of Educational Management, or to seek partial credit towards another of the Faculty's master's degrees, you will need to take account of the requirements for the relevant master's degree when choosing your units.

The course consists of units to a total value of 24 points comprising;

• EDUC8678 Curriculum Context, Development and Innovation
• EDUC8612 Educational Leadership
• EDUC8658 Education Policy Trends: Global to Local
  

and then select one from:

• EDUC8608 E-learning
• EDUC8610 Human Resource Development in Education
• EDUC8616 International and Comparative Education
• EDUC8618 Teaching and Learning with New Technologies
  
• EDUC8631 Approaches to Research
• EDUC8633 Quantitative Inquiry
• EDUC8634 Qualitative Inquiry
• EDUC8636 Assessment and Measurement
• EDUC8637 Measurement and Evaluation
• EDUC8638 Introduction to Rasch Measurement of Modern Test Theory
• EDUC8639 Developmental Aspects of Exceptionality
• EDUC8644 Global English
• EDUC8660 Education Studies
• EDUC8661 Education Studies
• EDUC8662 Action Research and Curriculum Innovation

Note: Students who wish to apply for entry to a relevant master's course of the Faculty by way of thesis and coursework must take EDUC8631 Approaches to Research and achieve a minimum mark of 65% for the unit and an average of at least 65% for the coursework units.

Admission requirements

A relevant bachelor's degree requiring at least three years of full time study and either two years professional experience in the field of education or demonstrated research capacity acceptable to the Faculty.

Domestic students

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

International students

All UWA coursework programs: English Language Competence

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