Course description
Bachelor of Arts (Pass and Honours)
BA
240 cp (Pass)
Minimum duration: 3 years full-time or equivalent part-time.
80 cp (Honours)
Minimum duration: 1 year full-time or equivalent part-time.
Course available at:
Brisbane, Queensland
Melbourne, Victoria
Sydney (Strathfield), NSW
EFTSL value of units: All 10 cp units in this course have an EFTSL value of 0.125. Units with a cp value of a multiple of 10 have corresponding EFTSL values.
1. Definitions
“Major”: 80 cp in prescribed units in one discipline or approved interdisciplinary area, normally including at least 10 cp at introductory level and at least 60 cp at advanced level.
“Minor”: 40 cp in prescribed units in one discipline or approved interdisciplinary area, normally including at least 10 cp at introductory level and at least 20 cp at advanced level.
“Specialisation”: 160 cp in prescribed units in nominated specialist fields of disciplinary focus.
2. Requirements for Completion of the Pass Degree
2.1 To qualify for the Pass degree, a student must complete:
1. 240 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:
1. 160 cp from:
1. 2 Majors; or
2. 1 Major and 2 Minors
2. at least 20 cp from Mission-focussed Units;5
3. not more than 60 cp from Electives;6
and
2. ARTS232 Volunteer Experience.7
2.2 Unless otherwise specified, students must complete a unit or units at an introductory level (100-level) in an approved sequence before undertaking advanced level units (200 or 300-level) in that sequence. Any additional prerequisites for individual units are shown in brackets after the unit in the Schedule of Unit Offering.
2.3 A student may complete a Specialisation in accordance with the requirements set out in the Schedule of Unit Offerings.
3. Requirements for Completion of the Honours Degree
To qualify for the Honours degree a student must, in addition to satisfying the requirements of the Pass degree, complete 80cp from the Schedule of Honours Units, consisting of:
1. 20 cp at fourth year level, appropriate to the discipline of the Honours thesis;
2. 10 cp in Research Methodology/Research Seminar; and
3. 50 cp from the Thesis.
Schedule of Unit Offerings
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Prerequisite (Pre), co-requisite (Co) and incompatible (Inc) units are indicated in parentheses where applicable.
Mission-focussed Units
Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
ARTS324 10 Art and Spirit
BUSN202 10 Professional Ethics (Inc: BUSO203 Business Ethics and INFO206 Ethics and Informatics)
ENGL213 10 Sacred Australia
ENGL226 10 The Book of Books: The Bible and Its Uses in Western Literature
ENVI201 10 The Australian Environment: Values and Ethics
HIST227 10 Human Rights in History
MUSC120/220 10 Music and Liturgy
PHIL100 10 Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry
PHIL101 10 Reason and Argument
PHIL102 10 Theories of Human Nature
PHIL103 10 Origin of Western Philosophy
PHIL104 10 Introduction to Ethics
PHIL105 10 Values and Beliefs
SOCI209 10 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity in Australia (Pre: 10cp of 100 level Sociology or Australian Studies units)
THBS100 10 Introduction to the Bible
THCT100 10 What Christians Believe
THCT101 10 The Church in History
Volunteer Experience
Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
ARTS232 0 Volunteer Experience
Community Based Experience (NSW only)
Unit Code Credit Points Unit Name
HUMA243 10 Community-Based Experience8
Specialisations
Business and Communication Studies (NSW only)
Completion of either
1.
1. a Major in Business Studies;
2. a Minor in Communication; and
3. a Minor in one of Behavioural Science, Computing, Economics or Mathematics;
or
2.
1. a Major in Economics;
2. a Minor in Communication; and
3. a Minor in Business Studies.
Creative Arts and Culture (Queensland and Victoria only)
Completion of either
1. two Majors selected from Drama, Literature, Media*, Music or Visual Arts;
or
2.
1. a Major in one of Drama, Literature, Media*, Music or Visual Arts; and
2. two Minors selected from Communication, Drama, Literature, Media, Music or Visual Arts.
*Victoria only.
Major and Minor sequences by campus
Majors and Minors
Schedule of Honours Units
5 A Mission-focussed Unit may contribute to a major.
6 A student may undertake units, other than those required for the selected Major, listed in the Schedule of Unit Offerings or from other disciplines within the Faculty (subject to campus availability, unit limitations and provided that prerequisite and co-requisite requirements are met).
7 Volunteer Experience is normally to be completed by the end of Year 2.
8 Note: Available in NSW only.
