Course overview

Translate your passion for the study of sciences into a career that inspires others, with a Bachelor of Science/Master of Teaching at BIOP. Create unique course combinations with science specialisations and graduate as a qualified secondary school educator.

This industry-led combined degree allows you to fast-track your studies and graduate with two degrees in just four years. You will explore a broad range of science disciplines before focusing on a specialisation.

At the same time, develop the attributes, discipline-specific knowledge and professional behaviours required to practise as a secondary school teacher. Learn by doing and build practical experience through hands-on lab work, professional placements, work-integrated learning and international study experiences.

 

Course structure

To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Science/Master of Teaching (Secondary), students must complete a total of 36 credit points of units comprising of:

Bachelor of Science studies

Students must complete:

1. 7 credit points of core science units (noting that students undertaking D304 are not required to undertake SLE209 Science and Society – core unit in the single degree S320 Bachelor of Science.)

2. 2 credit points of units as follows:

Students who have not completed Year 12 Chemistry or equivalent take SLE133 and SLE155
Students who completed Year 12 Chemistry or equivalent take SLE155 and 1 credit point elective (must be Science course grouped)
3. 1 credit point Mathematics unit as follows, one of;

SIT190 Introduction to Functions, Relations and Graphs or;

SIT191 Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis.

4. One approved Bachelor of Science major sequence of at least 6 credit points selected from:

One of Animal Biology, Cell Biology and Genomics, Human Biology or Plant Biology
Chemistry
Environmental Science
Mathematical Modelling
5. 5 credit points of Science course grouped elective units chosen from a second Bachelor of Science major listed above*

6. Level 3 - at least 6 credit points

7. Students must complete all three compulsory 0-point units:

Academic Integrity AAI018
Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in order to graduate from their course.
SLE010 Laboratory and Fieldwork Safety Induction Program (0 credit point compulsory unit) and;

STP010 Career Tools for Employability (0 credit point unit)

8. 4 credit points selected from:

EDU201 Educational Psychology
EDU202 Educators and Learners
EDU203 Literacy, Numeracy and Education
EDU303 Education, Communication and Technology
EDU301 Culture, Diversity and Participation in Education
EDU302 Education and Humanitarian Development