1541 - Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education - Primary

This double degree course allows students to qualify with both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education - primary degrees. When students take the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education double degree, they are able to complete both courses in four years of full-time study at a normal course load for each year.

Students must complete teaching practice which consists of a minimum of 80 days of satisfactory supervised school experience. Those students who are employed in schools must complete a minimum of 50% of supervised placement in a setting other than the school in which they are employed. Students must be available to undertake school placements on a full-time basis and attend their placement for full days at times determined by the faculty.

This double-degree course provides students with an arts major and minor field of study as well as a sequence of studies in education leading to registration in Victoria as a primary school teacher.

To receive the awards of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education, a student must successfully complete units totalling 192 points, consisting of:

(a.) studies in arts (96 points) including:

• arts discipline major (48 points)
• arts discipline minor (24 points)
• an additional arts discipline first-year sequence (12 points)
• a further 12 points in arts units.

For full details on the majors and minors offered, refer to the 'Areas of study' at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/undergrad/arts-ug-areas-of-study.html.

(b.) studies in education (96 points) including a series of units relating to the theory and practice of education, teaching and curriculum. Fieldwork placements are also included.

First year

Gippsland: all units undertaken at Gippsland

Peninsula/Clayton: All first year education units undertaken at Clayton

• EDF1303 Learning and educational inquiry 1 (five days professional placement)
• EDF1304 Learning and educational inquiry 2 (five days professional placement)
• 36 points of arts studies

Second year

Gippsland: all units undertaken at Gippsland

Peninsula/Clayton: All second year education units undertaken at Peninsula

• EDF1307 Early literacy and numeracy 1 (10 days professional placement)
• EDF2302 Re-imagining children's learning (five days professional placement)
• 36 points of arts studies (all arts units undertaken at Clayton)

Third year

Gippsland: all units undertaken at Gippsland

Peninsula/Clayton: All third year education units undertaken at Peninsula

• EDF2301 Multiliteracies: mediating the world
• EDF2304 Early literacy and numeracy 2
• EDF3301 Numeracy
• EDF3311 Understanding place and space (15 days professional placement)
• 24 points of arts studies (all arts units undertaken at Clayton)

Fourth year

Gippsland: all units undertaken at Gippsland

Peninsula/Clayton: All fourth year education units undertaken at Peninsula

• EDF2303 Movement, environment and community
• EDF3303 Integrating the curriculum 1: creative exchanges
• EDF3304 Integrating the curriculum 2: different places
• EDF3306 Literacy
• EDF4311 Professional contexts 1 (20 days professional placement)
• EDF4312 Professional contexts 2 (20 days professional placement), or (for Peninsula students only) a LOTE unit
• EDF4314 Entering the profession 2
• education elective

On completion of the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (primary) program of studies, graduates will be eligible for registration and employment as primary school teachers in Victoria. For interstate and overseas positions, applicants are advised to check registration and employment requirements with local authorities.

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Education

* Where more than one award is listed, or in the case of double degrees, where more than one award is listed for one or both components of the double degree, the actual award/s conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved (eg in the case of 'with honours' programs), or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.