Load

For trimester 2, the faculty is currently (as at 6 May 2025) 1 EFTSL above budget, and 13 EFTSL below the same time last year. The School of Education is running 10 EFTSL up on last year, and 34 EFTSL up on budget; the School of HASS is 23 EFTSL down on last year, and 34 down on budget. The bright spot for HASS is that commencing load for T2 remains up on last year. Education is roughly breaking even on continuing load, and up on commencing load.

Short Courses

The University has approved a short course/microcredential framework. This provides a framework for the governance and creation of short courses. The creation of short courses is, under the current academic workload model, measured as service. If you have a short course idea, approval is to be sought via the HASSE Concept Brief form identified by the Dean at the last Faculty Forum.

Trimester 3 Unit Commendations

The following unit commendations were awarded for T3 2024  teaching to units with high overall student satisfaction that met the response requirements. The great results are a reflection of the commitment of the Faculty in general to teaching excellence. Congratulations to all!

Education

EDEC308: Plurilingual Pedagogies and Dialogic Reading: Yoo Mi Byun

EDIT426: Introduction to Learning with Technology: Fiona McDonald, Lachlan Hart, Stoo Sepp

EDLT500: Planning for Effective Learning: Jane Boyle

EDME145-0: Primary Mathematics 1 – Numeracy: Theodosia Prodromou

EDSE353: Stem Education in the Middle Years: Peter Fletcher.

HASS

ANCH110: From Solon to Socrates: Clemens Koehn

ARPA100: Great Excavations: Key Discoveries in Archaeology: Mick Morrison

ARPA314: Human Evolution and Archaeology: Martin Gibbs and Damien Huffer

COMM389: Human Rights on Screen: Fincina Hopgood

ENGL101: Engaging with Literature: Natalia Tobin

ENGL306/506: Science Fiction: Natalia Tobin

ENGL542: Perspectives on Shakespeare: Natalia Tobin.

GEPL124: Planning for Land Use and Built Form: Sanaz Alian and Chakshu Bansal.

GEPL306: Water in the Environment: Martin Thoms.

GEPL320/420: Principles of Development Control: Isara Khanjanasthiti.

GEPL508: Environmental Change in Australia: Martin Thoms

HINQ100: What is History?: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Katherine Chambers.

HIST369: The Spanish Empire 1474-1700: Rise and Decline:  Clemens Koehn

HIST508: Crusader Europe 1095-1453: Thomas Fudge

ITAL101: Italian Language 1A: Marina Hogan, Sophie Patrick, Giulia Torello-Hill, Valentina Gosetti.

LING381/581: Writing Systems of the World: Arvind Iyengar

LING553: The English Language: Cindy Schneider

MUSI361: Creative Music Production: Peter Long

RELS184: Magic and the Supernatural in History and Culture: Lesley McLean.

RELS388: the Pagan Religions of Ancient Greece and Rome: Matthew Dillon.