BEd(Secondary:Humanities and Social Sciences)/BA

Please note: This course is available full time only, and mid-year intake is not available.

What's on this page?

• Overview
• Why study at Sydney University?
• Course structure
• Professional experience
• Graduate outcomes
• Contacts

Overview

Course duration: 5 years full-time
Assumed knowledge: Depends on subjects chosen

2009 UAI: 83.10
UAC code: 511605

This combined degree offers students a secondary school teaching qualification in the following areas of humanities and social sciences:

• English
• Drama
• History
• Languages (may be done as a double-teaching method: Arabic, Chinese, Classical Hebrew, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek)
• Classical Hebrew and Judaism
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• Visual Arts
• Geography*
• Commerce/Economics*
• Mathematics*

*Students may major in these subjects but will need another Arts major in humanities to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts.

The two degrees are completed in five years. However it is possible to exit the course at the end of Year 3 with a Bachelor of Arts only. Students electing to exit early with a Bachelor of Arts must provide notification in writing at the end of Year 2 and submit this notification separately to the Faculty of Arts, and the Faculty of Education and Social Work.

Why Study at the University of Sydney?

• Provides students with a practical and theoretical preparation for teaching secondary school students.
• Includes special education, international education, education and ICT, and the professional knowledge of teaching.
• Fifth year option to allow students to undertake a third teaching method in TESOL, Teaching English Internationally or Cultural Diversity.

Course structure

This program is strongly supported by the use of technology with extensive use of the Internet for close collaboration with schools in Australia and overseas.

Year 1

• Two junior units in education
• Six junior units from the Faculty of Arts (four units must be teaching subjects, for example, English or history)

Year 2

• Three senior units in theories and practices of teaching.
• One teaching-and-learning unit of study.
• Four senior Faculty of Arts units of study (continuation of first-year teaching units).

Year 3

• Four curriculum-methods units of study.
• Teaching-and-learning units of study (including 20 days' practice teaching).
• Two senior Faculty of Arts units of study (continuation of major teaching subject).

Year 4

• Continuation of curriculum methods.
• Teaching-and-learning units of study (including 25 days' practice teaching).
• Two senior Faculty of Arts units of study (finalisation of major teaching subject).

Year 5

• Option of undertaking a third teaching method in TESOL, Teaching English Internationally, or Cultural Diversity.
• Teaching Internship.
• Units to complete requirements for the Bachelor of Arts.

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Professional experience

Year 3: 20 days' professional experience

Year 4: 25 days' professional experience

Year 5: 30 days' professional experience

Graduate outcomes

• Teaching in secondary schools in NSW, Australia and overseas.
• Careers in corporate training/HR settings.
• Work in policy development for schools.
• Become leaders in secondary schools.

Teacher salaries

Contacts