Postgraduate - UnitHED5081 - Higher education inquiry

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Clayton First semester (extended) 2015 (Flexible)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Julie Willems

Synopsis

This unit allows teaching of topics which are of specific interest to particular disciplines within higher education, or which are focused upon a particular contemporary perspective in higher education. The unit explores aspects of the particular topic through examining participants' own work practices.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

outline key frameworks, principles or theories relevant to the particular focus of this unit
apply these frameworks, principles or theories in order to enhance practice
describe the impact of studying the particular topic upon their own academic practice.

Assessment

Two assignments (2000 words each, 50% each)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload comprises:
(a.) Overall requirements:
+ students are expected to undertake 120 hours per semester of study and use their study time to attend on-campus lectures and workshops, undertake the unit tasks as set out in the unit guide, which include set readings, and to complete assessment tasks

Chief examiner(s)

Assoc Professor Angela Carbone

Prerequisites

First degree or equivalent

Prohibitions

HED5021