A project has been established to standardise undergraduate course structures for the University of Tasmania by 2010.
Why standardise our course structures?
Common course structures across the University will enable:
- students and staff to develop course learning plans, identify course credit and manage students' enrolment, academic progression and graduation status more easily
- greater breadth of learning to be included in a degree by allowing greater opportunity to study across discipline areas
- easier portability of units across different degrees and faculties
- consistency in course terminology, structures and assessment practices across the University
This process will overhaul UTAS degree structures, which have evolved over time without overarching consistency.
For more information on the new course structures and sample three, four and five year course plans and specifications, click on the New Course Structures link on the left.
Status
The current focus of the project is on undergraduate degree structures, with Honours and postgraduate coursework structures to follow. The new course specifications are in draft on each page, with a final version of the single degree specifications to be submitted for approval in May 2008.
Benefits to UTAS of standard course structures
Some of the benefits from the implementation of standard undergraduate course structures are:
- Consistency of good practice within and across faculties in the design of courses and units, the design of assessment, the identification of learning outcomes and their assessment
- Improved capacity to support students in their enrolment choices through to completion
- Flexibility in allowing students a choice of interdisciplinary units
- Efficiency through rationalisation of unit offerings to meet the requirements of the structure
- Enhances capacity to support students' self-management of enrolment and academic progression through the SLIMS project
- Facilitation of the automation of common rule based transactions through the SLIMS project – e.g. enrolment approvals, academic progress, and graduand identification
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