In 1997, the Federal Government introduced a student contribution system requiring a student to pay a Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) fee, which varies depending on a discipline banding system. This means that students in the Faculty of Arts may have to pay a higher HECS fee for units studied outside the faculty. Students should check with the appropriate faculty as to the HECS fee band of individual units.
The borders between the arts and sciences are blurring as the dramatic changes to society and the planet that have resulted from the industrial and information revolutions have made the implications of science more obvious. These new inter-faculty and interdisciplinary first-year units explore the creation of scientific knowledge, the nature of science and its meaning for society and for the rest of the natural world, both locally and globally. They present an interdisciplinary perspective, combining scientific approaches with those of the humanities and social sciences.
This unit offers students an insight into current approaches to the evolution of the human species, the concept of 'race' and the impact of science on society.
This
unit explores the concepts of health, illness and disease and how different
interpretations of them affect our understanding of the biological and
psychological manifestations of sexual difference.
STUDENTS CAN COMPLETE BME1111 AND BME1112 AS ONE OF THEIR FIRST-YEAR ARTS
SEQUENCES. THE SCHOOLS OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, AND HISTORY WILL
ACCEPT A FIRST-YEAR SEQUENCE IN BME UNITS AS PART OF A MINOR OR MAJOR SEQUENCE
IN GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, AND HISTORY.
The Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Science offers units for students who intend to specialise in psychology by completing a 60-point major sequence in the discipline, with the option of proceeding to a degree with honours, or into postgraduate programs of study. A 48-point major in psychology is sufficient to satisfy the requirements for a major sequence in any of the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science single or double degrees, but will not permit entry to fourth-year programs in psychology. The undergraduate psychology program of the department is taught at Caulfield, Clayton and Gippsland campuses. The first-year and second-year of the program is offered at the Berwick campus, and third-year study must be undertaken at another campus. Caulfield offers some evening as well as day classes. At Berwick and Gippsland, psychology is offered in flexible learning mode with on-campus tutorial and laboratory classes and lectures taught through study notes and web-based material. Psychology can also be undertaken in off-campus distributed learning mode with the compulsory on-campus attendance requirements being available both at Gippsland and Clayton campuses.
The
Department of Psychology offers a common curriculum across all campuses. In its
curriculum development, the department has endorsed the view of the Australian
Psychological Society (APS) that training in the discipline occurs within the
context of the scientist-practitioner model. A student does not decide to
become either a scientist or a practitioner, rather, professional
practice is embedded within the scientific perspective. This is the philosophy
underlying the core curriculum, with students then being in a position to make
informed choices about psychology-related careers and further training at the
fourth-year and postgraduate level.
Students wishing to take the APS-accredited major sequence in psychology must
complete 10 six-point units: nine core units and one elective unit, from list
below. The core units are available by on-campus, flexible delivery, and
off-campus distributed learning mode. Two of the electives are available by
off-campus distributed learning mode as indicated below.
Students may take an elective unit at second year, and up to four elective units at third year, ie it may be possible for students to study 100 per cent psychology units in third-year depending on the other Arts faculty degree requirements. Some third-year electives may be undertaken at second year, providing prerequisites and corequisites are met.
For further information, contact the Faculty of Science:
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