A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 80 credit points (cp) as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless indicated.
COURSE STRUCTURE - Early Childhood Education and Care
Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Common Units (2 units) | 20cp | Common units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.
CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability (replaced by IAS201 from 2024) CUC100 Academic Literacies Through Exploring Sustainability (replaced by LAL100 from 2024)
Select Common Units to find out more about individual units and advanced standing options. |
Core Units (3 units) | 30cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 30 credit points as detailed below.
ELA100 English Language for Literacy (new title 2023) EMA100 Mathematics Education 1: Content Knowledge for Teaching EST203 First Nations Contexts in Learning and Teaching Practice (title changed 2023) |
Specialist Elective (3 units) | 30cp | Specialist Elective units totalling 30 credit points as detailed below.
3 x units selected from the Bachelor of Education Early Childhood (Birth-12 Years) (WEDEC1) including specialist elective units |
| 80cp | Total Credit Points |
COURSE STRUCTURE - Primary Education
Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Common Units (2 units) | 20cp | Common units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.
CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability CUC100 Academic Literacies Through Exploring Sustainability
Select Common Units to find out more about individual units and advanced standing options. |
Core Units (4 units) | 40cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 40 credit points as detailed below.
ELA100 English Language for Literacy (new title 2023) EMA100 Mathematics Education 1: Content Knowledge for Teaching EST200 Child and Adolescent Development EST203 Teaching Indigenous Learners |
Specialist Elective (2 units) | 20cp | Specialist Elective units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.
2 x units selected from the Bachelor of Education Primary (WEDP01) including specialist elective units |
| 80cp | Total Credit Points |
COURSE STRUCTURE - Secondary Education
Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Common Units (2 units) | 20cp | Common units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.
CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability CUC100 Academic Literacies Through Exploring Sustainability
Select Common Units to find out more about individual units and advanced standing options. |
Core Units (2 units) | 20cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below.
EST200 Child and Adolescent Development EST203 Teaching Indigenous Learners |
Specialist Elective (4 units) | 40cp | Specialist Elective units totalling 40 credit points as detailed below.
4 x units selected from the Bachelor of Education Secondary (WEDS01) including specialist elective units |
| 80cp | Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the course structures above)
2024 Course Changes
Students who have completed CUC107 Cultural Intelligence and Capability should not complete IAS201 Cultural Capabilities.
Students who have completed CUC100 Academic Literacies Through Exploring Sustainability should not complete LAL100 Language, Literacy and Sustainability.
Students who have completed EMA100 Mathematics Education 1: Content Knowledge for Teaching in the Primary Education stream should not complete EMA241 Mathematics Education 1.
For further questions or advice please contact the Faculty of Arts and Society Quality team at fasquality@cdu.edu.au.
2023 Course Changes
Title changed for ELA100 from English Language and Literacy in Education 1 to English Language for Literacy.