UTS course code: C04200
Testamur title: Master of Education
Abbreviation: MEd
Course fee: HECS/$200 per cp (local); $6,900 per semester (international)
Total credit points: 48

Overview
Course aims
Admission requirements
Advanced standing
Attendance
Course duration
Course structure
Assessment
Articulation and progression
Other information

Overview

The Master of Education is designed to meet the specific educational development needs of a broad range of practitioners whose work includes helping others learn. Graduates are well positioned to be at the cutting edge of learning and change in school, community and organisational settings. Graduates take on educational and training leadership roles in various capacities – planning, curriculum development and management in teaching and learning organisations, policy making, research and consulting.

Given the Faculty's equal strengths in adult and school education, the UTS Master of Education offers distinct opportunities to study learning and education across all education sectors. Faculty members have taken a leading role in some of the most significant educational developments of the past decade, including productive pedagogies, education for women and girls, work-based learning, learning in social action, informal learning, problem-based learning, flexible and e-Learning, competency-based education and social and critical approaches to language and literacy policy and practice. The Faculty has a strong commitment to social justice in education.

The open structure of the course allows flexible patterns of study enabling you to choose a pathway through the subjects on offer which fits your particular interest and career needs.

Course aims

The aims of the course are for you to:

• develop expertise in understanding and managing learning
• acquire new and more advanced knowledge in designing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs
• use education to contribute to the development of a democratic and socially just society
• expand and evaluate the personal capacity to be self directed in learning
• develop an analysis of the social, political and economic context of education
• develop and apply techniques of critical inquiry to your education practice
• conceptualise and criticise epistemological frameworks underlying theory and practice in education
• exhibit scholarly rigour in research, critique, evaluation, design and implementation of learning
• be a force for innovation in education, and
• acknowledge the multiple perspectives that individuals bring to any learning situation as a result of their gender, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality and/or physical abilities.

Admission requirements

Admission to the course is based on one or more of the following:

1. a Bachelor of Education
2. a Bachelor's degree with an education major or a recognised qualification in education (e.g. Diploma of Education)
3. a Bachelor's degree without an education major but with evidence of appropriate involvement and experience in education in a professional or voluntary capacity

Applicants admitted under point three may be required to undertake designated education subjects.

Advanced standing

Advanced standing is granted to students who have previous postgraduate qualifications (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master's degrees) in related fields. These fields include education, human resource development, IT and the social sciences. The Faculty also considers granting advanced standing to students who have extensive and impressive scholarly, work and other achievements that are judged to be the equivalent of postgraduate study.

To seek advanced standing you should complete an application form for subject exemptions. This form can be obtained from the Faculty Student Services Office, or directly from the Faculty website:

www.education.uts.edu.au
or
email education@uts.edu.au

You are required to attach documentation to the application form. If you are seeking exemptions for previous credentialled learning it is a fairly straightforward process. There is no need to write a covering letter. If you are seeking exemption for uncredentialled learning you should first liaise with the Program Director before proceeding.

Attendance

Three main delivery modes are used: (a) weekly on campus, (b) intensive weekend block with distance study, and (c) full distance study. A non-refundable administration fee applies to all subjects where students choose distance mode (to apply from 2004). This fee is $50 per distance subject (pending final UTS approval).

Course duration

Most students take one or two subjects per semester. There are eight subjects to be completed. Students who take two subjects per semester complete the degree in four semesters, i.e. two years. Students who take one subject per semester complete the degree in eight semesters, i.e. four years. There is, however, freedom to vary the pace of study. Students might take one subject in the first semester, two subjects in the second semester, and three subjects in the following semester, and so on. The course can also be completed full time over two semesters.

Course structure

The Master of Education requires completion of eight subjects. There are no compulsory subjects but students are advised to complete 013348 Research Perspectives and 013349 Research Design if they anticipate moving on to a research degree.

Potential subject areas are:

• adult learning and program development
• adult communication and management
• vocational and workplace learning
• leadership in educational organisations
• experience-based learning
• popular education, and
• health education and health promotion.

Electives may also be selected from postgraduate programs in the following areas offered by the Faculty of Education:

• e-Learning
• language, literacy and numeracy, and
• education in the creative arts.

Assessment

Most subjects are assessed on a Pass/Fail basis, others are graded according to the range of grades adopted by the university.

Articulation and progression

Progression to Master of Education (Honours) thesis or doctoral degree study depends on obtaining assessment feedback that satisfies the requirements of the higher degree selection committee.

Other information

For further information about this course, contact:

telephone (02) 9514 3900
email education@uts.edu.au