UTS course code: C09037
Testamur title: Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Adult Education
Abbreviation: BEd(Hons)
Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Barbara Poston-Anderson
Course fee: HECS (local); $6,900 per semester (international)
Total credit points: 48

Overview
Course aims
Admission requirements
Attendance
Course duration
Course program
Assessment

Overview

This course allows you to work at a higher level of academic study. Many of the students who complete the Honours program may like to proceed to a Doctoral program or to the Master of Education (Honours).

Course aims

The course aims to provide, through coursework and supervision, the basic research competency skills and knowledge as well as critical feedback and collegiate support necessary to enable the development and completion of an Honours thesis. It also allows study in a particular relevant area of student interest.

Admission requirements

To apply for this course, you must have completed a Bachelor's degree in Education or equivalent.

• Subjects in the Bachelor of Education in Adult Education are not graded. For this reason if you are applying from within the Faculty you are assessed on your performance in designated subject(s) in the latter part of your Bachelor's degree using criteria specifically developed for Honours selection.
• If you are applying from outside the Faculty where Bachelor's degree subjects have been graded, you should submit details of all subject grades achieved.
• If you are an external applicant and your course was not graded, you should submit a portfolio of examiner comments on work completed during the last year of your Bachelor's course (especially for research subjects).

Attendance

This course is offered in block mode, where you are required to attend five blocks of classes per semester.

Course duration

This course can be completed on a one-year, full-time, or two-year, part-time basis.

Course program

Typical full-time program

Typical part-time program

Spring semester
015582 Thesis in 3 Sem A 10cp
xxxxxx Elective 6cp

Spring semester
015584 Thesis in 3 Sem C 10cp

The elective subject may be taken from the Master of Education in Adult Education (excepting Independent Study Projects), Master of Arts in Language and Literacy or other Honours equivalent subjects elsewhere within the University.

Assessment

Each thesis is read by two internal examiners, judged to be experts in the field under examination, one of which may be your supervisor. Coursework subjects are assessed either Pass or Fail.

The thesis

The topic of the proposed thesis is negotiated between you, the coordinator and the preferred supervisor, and approved by the Honours Committee. The selection of an Honours supervisor involves consultations between yourself, the coordinator and relevant available academic staff.

15,000–20,000 words (approximately)

• Definition of research problem
• Critical review of the literature
• Data or information selection and analysis
• Cogency of argument
• Interpretation and assessment of findings
• Quality of presentation

The grading of the Honours award shall be:

• First Class
• Second Class, Division 1
• Second Class, Division 2
• Third Class.

If you apply for this course, and are in the final year of the Bachelor of Education in Adult Education, you may still take out the Bachelor of Education in Adult Education Pass degree.