Rules
1. To gain entry into the with Honours strand students must maintain a high Credit average in graded courses and successfully complete all Professional Experience requirements across the first three years of the program, and achieve a Credit in EDUC 1012 Research with Young Children.
2. To receive the degree with Honours, selected students must achieve a Credit in EDUC 4203 Education Honours A and EDUC 4204 Education Honours B and maintain a Credit average in graded courses in the fourth year of the award.
3. Students who study EDUC 4203 Education Honours A and EDUC 4204 Education Honours B courses will be exempt from EDUC 1039 Early Childhood Practitioner Research, EDUC 4160 Ethics, Education and Critical Inquiry and two early childhood elective courses.
4. Students who have successfully completed a TAFE Diploma of Children's Services (Childcare) are eligible for 36 units of credit. Credit is also available for two courses in Child Development successfully completed through Open Universities Australia. This credit arrangement may be extended as other relevant courses become available. Credit applications must be made in writing on the appropriate form to the program director.
Notes
1. The award is available at both ordinary and 'with honours' levels in accordance with University policy. Students who wish to graduate 'with honours' are required to maintain an overall credit standard in graded courses in their first three years and, specifically, in the course EDUC 1012 Research with Young Children. For honours students, EDUC 4203 Education Honours A and EDUC 4204 Education Honours B will take the place of two 4.5 unit elective courses: EDUC 4160 Ethics, Education and Critical Inquiry and EDUC 1039 Early Childhood Practitioner Research. The latter course is intended for students who are not in the Honours strand.
2. Some courses have prerequisites and assumed knowledge requirements. These can be met by recognition of prior knowledge (from school or elsewhere) or by taking an appropriate Elective Study course. Students will be required to check details of assumed knowledge requirements and prerequisites prior to enrolment in courses in their first year. Students should note that Elective Study courses are available in the first two years to assist students who do not meet these requirements in science and mathematics however the music assumed knowledge requirement of "the ability to meet the following objectives: read musical notation in the treble clef; and reproduce simple tunes from musical notation using a melodic instrument' may need to be met outside the program.
3. The importance of study in depth is recognised by the provision of a sequential 40.5 units of study in curriculum and 27 units in child development.
4. Two sequential research courses are offered: EDUC 1012 Research with Young Children and EDUC 1039 Early Childhood Practitioner Research, with initial foundation provided in EDUC 1065 Changing Concepts of Children and Childhood.
5. Prior to EDUC 1044 Professional Experience 1 (Birth to 3 years), students will need to have obtained a current First Aid certificate. The approved certificate is 'Basic Emergency Life Support'.
6. Five x 4.5 units of Electives must be studied during the program including one compulsory 4.5 unit Indigenous Study Elective selected from the listed courses offered by The Unaipon School plus 2 x 4.5 unit courses chosen from the four early childhood electives offered in the final year of the program (see Note 8). The other two 4.5 unit electives may be given to the Assumed Knowledge courses described in Note 7.
7. If students meet the assumed knowledge requirements for the program they may select two Electives from other Schools and campuses and/or other universities. Students should check in the Majors and Minors section on UniSAnet. Examples of the subject areas available at Magill campus are listed below:
Children's Literature; Drama; French Studies; Gender Studies; Italian Studies; Japanese Studies; Interactive Multimedia; Music Media; Physical Education; Sport and Play Studies. Students may also chose from courses at other campuses if they can develop a workable timetable.
If a student does not meet the assumed knowledge requirements for the Maths and Science curriculum areas they should enrol in either one of the following courses as their elective: EDUC 1032 The Context of Mathematical Competency or EDUC 1011 Background for General Science.
There is also an assumed knowledge requirement in music which is 'the ability to meet the following objectives: read musical notation in the treble clef; and reproduce simple tunes from musical notation using a melodic instrument'. Students may need to meet this requirement outside the University, for example, at a WEA course or equivalent on how to play a musical instrument and read basic musical notation."
8. The two Early Childhood electives in the final year may be selected from those listed or students may compete one Early Childhood Elective plus an additional Indigenous Study Elective.
9. This program is available in external mode to the following students only: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in university study centres; and students who have completed the TAFE Diploma of Children's Services or equivalent.
10. All students complete at least one Free Elective as part of their undergraduate program of study, see undergraduate elective courses.