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Programs of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Science Education (STBSSW) – Albury-Wodonga

Only the first year of this degree is available at the Albury-Wodonga campus. Students who successfully complete the first year of the degree transfer to the Melbourne (Bundoora) campus to complete the remaining three years. Students who enrol in the Bachelor of Science/Science Education at the Albury-Wodonga campus can only select Chemistry as their major subjects of study.

This innovative double degree was developed in response to the Federal Government’s ‘Innovation Statement’ and aims to integrate full science degree studies with a complete teaching qualification, with a particular emphasis on mathematics, statistics (taught as part of mathematics in secondary schools), physics, chemistry, and/or information technology. Graduates of this double degree will develop a deep understanding of their teaching specialties and will be equipped to adapt their teaching to engage with the needs of their teaching settings, including their own students and the nature of the areas of knowledge and behaviour that constitute the discipline. In this program, emphasis is placed on the teacher’s ability to adapt teaching to continuously changing circumstances while fostering deep understanding of relevant areas of scientific disciplines.

Please note: students must complete a ‘Working With Children’ check form, available from Australia Post offices. Students must provide a certified copy of their valid ‘Working with Children’ card, prior to undertaking teaching placements in schools.

Scholarships

Some scholarships may be available for this degree. Prospective applicants should contact the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering faculty office.

Course structure

This double degree is of four and a half years full-time or equivalent part-time duration and requires the completion of 540 credit points overall. Students may complete this double degree in four years as part of an accelerated study program.

Students will gain a foundation in science in the first year. Combined studies in science and education will commence in the second year and continue during the third year. Two science disciplines must be studied through to third year: the ‘major’ discipline comprising subjects to the value of 60 credit points in the third year and the ‘minor’ discipline, 30 credit points. One of the ‘major’ or ‘minor’ disciplines must be chosen from mathematics, statistics, physics, and chemistry or computer science. (Note that the first year statistics discipline requirement may be satisfied by enrolling in STA1SS and one of STA1LS or MAT1DM). The other discipline may be chosen from any other science discipline offered by the Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering. The science disciplines are those defined for the Bachelor of Science degree. The final year will consist of full teacher training, including the practicum requirement and will include a maths or science education research project. Normally, students would be expected to have satisfactorily completed all of the requirements for the first three years before progressing to the fourth year.

Notes:

• Your subject choices at first and second year must ensure that one of mathematics, physics, chemistry, statistics or computer science can be taken as a ‘major’ or ‘minor’ at third year level. You cannot have a major/minor combination of mathematics and statistics as double mathematics method is not offered in the fourth year.
• You will be qualified to teach subjects corresponding to your chosen major and minor disciplines but not subjects corresponding to your terminating first year science discipline. If you major or minor in physics or chemistry, you will also be qualified to teach secondary school general science. As general science also covers biology, students not planning on majoring or minoring in biology should consider taking a first year biology subject as a first year level elective, conversely students majoring in biology should consider an extra, non-biology science discipline as their first year level electives.
• The research project must relate to science education or mathematics education.
• All subjects must be chosen in consultation with, and approved by, the course adviser.

First year (120 credit points)