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Statute 5.4 - Courses and Subjects
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Council may grant degrees, diplomas and certificates
| 5.4.1 |
- The Council may grant any degree or diploma (including any certificate) specified in the regulation made under this statute in accordance with the Act and these statutes.
- On the recommendation of the Board, the Council must, by regulation, specify the requirements for granting degrees, diplomas and certificates under sub-section (1).
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Completion of courses
| 5.4.2 |
- Unless the appropriate faculty determines
otherwise, every student must complete the courses or subjects
of a Year in one attempt.
- If a student does not complete the requirements
of a Year in one attempt, the appropriate faculty must determine
which courses or subjects, if any, of the next Year of the course
may be undertaken in conjunction with the courses or subjects
not completed.
- Except where otherwise provided in these
statutes or in regulations made by the Council, or with the
express permission of the appropriate faculty, a student is
not to be admitted to assessment in part two or part three of
any subject unless the student has completed the preceding part
or parts.
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Courses at other institutions
| 5.4.3 |
- On the recommendation of the Board, the
Council may agree with any other institution that the institution
is to teach and assess students of the University in a specified
subject.
- A student may, with the approval of the
appropriate faculty, enrol for any subject in respect of which
an agreement has been made under sub-section (1) and receive
credit for any such subject which the student completes at the
other institution.
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Credit for previous courses
| 5.4.4 |
- A student who has completed the whole or any part of the work in a course for a degree, diploma or certificate (‘the first course’) and proceeds to any other course (‘the second course’) having completed that work in the first course within the permitted time frame then set by the appropriate faculty, must receive credit for any subject completed in the first course which is common to both courses where -
- the subject completed in the first
course is a compulsory subject in the second course; or
- the first and second courses together
constitute an approved combined course; or
- the student has elected not to complete
or not to take out the award for the first course but to
proceed instead with the second course; or
- the Board had decided, in its discretion,
that credit should be given for the subject or subjects
in question completed in the first course;
provided that the student must satisfactorily complete an
additional year's work in the second course, or not less
than half of that course, whichever is the lesser in order
to be awarded a degree, diploma or certificate for the second
course.
- Where a student is entitled to receive
credit for a subject in the second course, the appropriate faculty
must define the student's status in the second course and determine
the order in which the student may do the work and complete
the subjects in the second course."
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Credit for work completed prior to alteration
of requirements
| 5.4.5 |
Notwithstanding any other statute, if the requirements for a subject are altered, the appropriate faculty may give credit to a student for any subject which the faculty considers to be the substantial equivalent of the subject completed by the student before the requirements for the subject were altered. |
Hardship arising from alteration of requirements
| 5.4.6 |
If the Board considers that a student has suffered hardship because of alterations to the requirements for the granting of degrees, diplomas or certificates, it may make special provision to alleviate the hardship. |
Hardship arising from incorrect advice
| 5.4.7 |
Notwithstanding any other statute, if the
Board considers that-
- any student has suffered hardship by reason
of acting upon incorrect information or advice provided by any
member of the academic or administrative staff of the University
or appearing in any publication of the University; and
- the student had reasonable grounds for
acting upon such information or advice,
the Board, after consultation with the appropriate
faculty, may make such provision to alleviate the hardship as
it thinks fit. |
Service in the Australian Defence Force
| 5.4.8 |
- A student who has been unable to continue a course for a degree, diploma or certificate by reason of his or her full-time service in the Australian Defence Force may apply to the Board for an adjustment or modification of the curriculum for the course.
- If an application is made under sub-section
(1), the Board may, after a report from the appropriate faculty,
adjust or modify the curriculum to meet the case of the student.
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Disabled students
| 5.4.9 |
If a student is unable to undertake a subject or part of a subject in a course for a degree, diploma or certificate by reason of a physical disability, the Board, after consultation with the appropriate faculty, may vary the requirements of the course for the student and impose any conditions it considers appropriate. |
Leave
| 5.4.10 |
- A student who wishes to interrupt his or
her course must seek and obtain leave from the appropriate faculty.
- If a student interrupts his or her course without leave from the appropriate faculty, the Board may, on the recommendation of the faculty, terminate the student’s enrolment or suspend the student from the course.
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Attendance at lectures
| 5.4.11 |
- The Council may, by regulation, require
students enrolled in any subject to attend the lectures given
in that subject.
- Subject to sub-section (3), if a student
is required to attend a course of lectures, the student is not
to be taken to have satisfied the requirement unless he or she
attends at least three-quarters of the lectures given.
- In special circumstances, the Board or
the appropriate faculty may declare, with or without conditions,
that a student who has not attended at least three-quarters
of the lectures given is to be taken to have met the attendance
requirement.
- For the purposes of this section, the Board
may, in special circumstances, accept the attendance by a student
at lectures at times other than as prescribed by the statutes
or by regulation of the Council, if the Board is satisfied that
the student's attendance at such lectures is equivalent to attendance
at the prescribed lectures.
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Annual review of subjects
| 5.4.12 |
- The appropriate faculty must conduct an annual review of the requirements of subjects pertaining to that appropriate faculty and subjects which have been assigned for administrative purposes to that faculty and must submit its recommendations to the Board before the Board's meeting in the month of September each year.
- A review under this section must include-
- consideration of details of subjects for lectures and assessments pertaining to the appropriate faculty; and
- consideration of the relative weights to be given in assessment for any prize, exhibition or scholarship to the subjects of any Year in any course pertaining to the appropriate faculty.
- If a course for a degree or diploma pertaining to one appropriate faculty involves a requirement for a student to pass a subject or complete a course in another appropriate faculty, the details of the subject or course must be determined by that other appropriate faculty.
- Notwithstanding sub-section (3) the requirements
for the subjects of Physiology are in all cases to be determined
by the faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
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Board to prescribe subjects
| 5.4.13 |
- On the recommendations of the faculties,
the Board must annually prescribe all details of subjects for
lectures and assessment in the University.
- If a subject pertains to more than one
faculty and the faculties concerned make different recommendations
in respect of the subject, the Board must consult with the faculties
before prescribing details of the subject.
- If a subject pertains to only one faculty,
the Board must adopt the faculty's recommendation if, after
consultation, the faculty declines to alter it.
- The Board must provide to the Council a
copy of all resolutions made under this section.
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Suspension of subjects
| 5.4.14 |
On the recommendation of the Board,
the Council may suspend lectures and assessment in a subject for
a period not exceeding three years. |
Academic registrar to publish details of subjects
| 5.4.15 |
- The academic registrar must publish the
details of subjects prescribed by the Board under section 5.4.13
on or before 31 October each year, or as soon as practicable
after that date.
- The details of subjects are not to be
altered or added to without the consent of the Council after
they have been approved for publication by the Board.
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Academic registrar to publish book lists
| 5.4.16 |
- On the recommendation of the faculties,
the academic registrar must publish on or before 31 October
each year, or as soon as practicable after that date, lists
of books prescribed for each subject.
- The lists published under this section
may not be altered or added to without the consent of the Board.
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Dealing with hardship
| 5.4.17 |
Where the Board is to deal with hardship under either section 5.4.6 or section 5.4.7 it must establish a committee of five members to make recommendations to it. |
Vice-chancellor may also make regulations under this statute
| 5.4.18 |
In addition to any powers of Council, the vice-chancellor may also make regulations for the purposes of 5.4.1(1) specifying degrees, diplomas and certificates |
[s. 17 en. 21/5/96, s. 4 subst. 7/4/03 s5.4.1(1) & (2), s5.4.6, s5.4.8(1), s5.4.9, s5.4.12(3), S5.4.17 am & S5.4.18 inserted 6-9-07, am approved by Minister 13/3/08.]
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