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MINUTES OF THE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON WEDNESDAY 14th JUNE 2017 AT 12.30 PM IN THE SENATE ROOM

PRESENT

Dean of Coursework Studies as Chair (Professor Grady Venville) Nominee of the Chair of Academic Board (Professor Robyn Carroll)Nominee of the Dean of Graduate Research School (Dr Sato Juniper)Academic Secretary (Dr Kabilan Krishnasamy)Nominee of the Director, Future Students (Recruitment) (Mr Joel Wittwer)Associate Director, Admissions (Mr Rick Ackerman for Ms Zoe Morrison)Academic Coordinator, Bachelor of Philosophy (Hons) (Dr Kathy Sanders)Nominee of the President of the Postgraduate Students’ Association (Mr Owen Myles for Ms Manpreet Kaur)Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of each faculty or nominee and the nominee of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Education):

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education (Professor Philip Hancock) (Deputy Chair)Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (Professor Michael Johns)Faculty of Science (Associate Professor Peter Hammond) (Associate Chair)

Executive Officer (Ms Kath Williams)

IN ATTENDANCEMs Sally Jackson, Office of the Dean of Coursework Studies

APOLOGIESDr Daniela Ulgiati, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Associate Professor Grant Revell, School of Indigenous Studies Ms Lina El Rakhawy, Nominee of the President of the UWA Student Guild Ms Manpreet Kaur, Nominee of the President of the Postgraduate Students’ AssociationMs Zoe Morrison, Associate Director, Admissions Ms Di Regan-Roots, Senior Manager, Student Services

DECLARATIONS OF POTENTIAL FOR CONFLICT OR PERCEIVED CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

The Chair declared a potential conflict of interest with item 9.

1. MINUTES – REF: F68752

Members noted that minutes were available from the Committee’s web page; and

RESOLVED – 18/17to confirm:

minutes of a meeting of the Curriculum Committee held on 22nd May 2017.

2. RESCISSION OF PRE-2012 UNITS FROM 2018

Code Title

ASIA2214 Japan in Changing Asia

ASIA2217 Shifting Identities in Japan

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Code Title

LAWS3310 Evidence

LAWS3322 Corporations Law

LAWS4030 Commercial Practice

LAWS4404 Legal Theory and Ethics

LAWS5533 Advanced Torts Law

LAWS3302 Environmental Law

LAWS3307 International Commercial Arbitration

LAWS3320 Legislation in Practice

LAWS3327 Advanced Evidence and Proof

LAWS3338 Introduction to Intellectual Property

LAWS3346 Jessup International Moot Competition

LAWS3347 Supervised Research I

LAWS3354 Public International Law

LAWS3356 Law Review Part 1

LAWS3357 Law Review Part 2

LAWS3360 Employment Law

LAWS3362 Income Taxation Law

LAWS3370 Consumer Law

LAWS3371 Mining and Energy Law

LAWS3383 Insurance Law

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Code Title

PHYS3340 Physics Vacation Project I

PHYS3341 Physics Vacation Project II

PHYS5422 Medical Physics Thesis Part 2

PHYS5423 Medical Physics Thesis Part 3

PHYS7400 Dissertation (Physics Honours) Part 1

PHYS7401 Dissertation (Physics Honours) Part 2

PHYS7441 Special Topics in Physics IV

[Executive Officer’s note: The decision to rescind the unit PHYS5524 Medical Physics Thesis Part 4 has been reversed due to the fact that the Faculty has confirmed that this unit is required for 2018.]

RESOLVED – 19/17

to approve that the Pre-2012 units listed above be rescinded from 2018.

3. RESCISSION OF UNITS IN UWA COURSES FROM 2018

TRIM Code Title Curriculum

F47088 ENRL5580 Delivering Public Value [ANZSOG] None

F47191 ENRL5581 Government in a Market Economy [ANZSOG]

F47092 ENRL5582 Designing Public Policies and Programs [ANZSOG]

F47087 ENRL5583 Decision Making Under Uncertainty [ANZSOG]

F47189 ENRL5584 Governing by the Rules [ANZSOG]

F47245 ENRL5585 Leading Public Sector Change [ANZSOG]

F47485 ENRL5586 Work-based Project [ANZSOG]

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TRIM Code Title Curriculum

F46943 ENRL5587 Accounting (Public Sector) [ANZSOG]

F47460 ENRL8550 The Machinery of Government 500 [308350 Curtin]

F47375 ENRL8551 Public Policy Analysis and Design 500 [308351 Curtin]

F47265 ENRL8552 Markets and Government 500 [308352 Curtin]

F47260 ENRL8553 Managing in the Public Sector 500 [308353 Curtin]

F47377 ENRL8554 Public Sector Communications 500 [310076 Curtin]

F47242 ENRL8555 Law of Government 500 [310077 Curtin]

F47163 ENRL8556 Ethics, Public Values and Policy 500 [308349 Curtin]

F47486 ENRL8557 Work-based Project 500 [310075 Curtin]

F47259 ENRL8558 Managerial Leadership 561 [5248 Curtin]

F47335 ENRL8559 Organisational Behaviour 550 [5698 Curtin]

F46944 ENRL8560 Accounting (Public Sector) 567 [5706 Curtin]

F47244 ENRL8561 Leadership in a Dynamic Global Environment 520 [11390 Curtin]

F47425 ENRL8562 Social Policy 501—Social Policy in Australia [301843 Curtin]

F47426 ENRL8563 Social Policy 505—Theoretical Perspectives on Social Policy [301846 Curtin]

F47427 ENRL8564 Social Policy 507—Economic Foundations of Social Policy [301847 Curtin]

F47428 ENRL8565 Social Policy 602—Social Policy Practice [301848 Curtin]

F47227 ENRL8566 International Health and Primary Health Care 600 [301948 Curtin]

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TRIM Code Title Curriculum

F47150 ENRL8567 Economics (Public Finance) 568 [10978 Curtin]

F43615 LAWS5533 Advanced Torts Law

F43602 LAWS5585 Limitation of Actions

F47214 LAWS8577 Industrial Relations Law

F32034 MUSC3351 Gongs, Punks and Shadow Plays

F32131 MUSC3354 Music, Mind and Medicine

F32291 PHYS1022 Applied Physics B Unattached elective

F61085 PHYS5017 Master's Dissertation—Theoretical Physics Part 7 None

F61086 PHYS5018 Master's Dissertation—Theoretical Physics Part 8

F61093 PHYS5027 Master's Dissertation—Experimental Physics Part 7

F61092 PHYS5028 Master's Dissertation—Experimental Physics Part 8

F61100 PHYS5037 Master's Dissertation—Computational Physics Part 7

F47295 PHYS5411 Medical Physics Thesis Part 1 51630 Master of Medical Physics (thesis and coursework) – currently being taught out.F47296 PHYS5412 Medical Physics Thesis Part 2

F47297 PHYS5413 Medical Physics Thesis Part 3

F47298 PHYS5414 Medical Physics Thesis Part 4

F52194 PHYS5438 Master's Dissertation—Medical Physics Part 8 None

F42694 PHYS5564 Master's Dissertation—Astronomy and Astrophysics Part 7

F42694 PHYS5565 Master's Dissertation—Astronomy and Astrophysics Part 8

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TRIM Code Title Curriculum

Members noted that the units listed above were no longer required in any course.

RESOLVED – 20/17

to approve that the postgraduate units listed above be rescinded from 2018.

4. CHANGES TO UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM FROM 2018

Planned annual changes to undergraduate curriculum might occur at the unit level and/or major level and/or honours level and would need to take place, where relevant, in line with the University Policy on Changes to Units and University Policy on Courses – Undergraduate.

To this end, the Committee were asked to consider the following change proposals:

TRIM Curriculum item Change summary

F29706F17/1479 F17/1477F17/1476F17/1478

MJD-MTHST Mathematics and Statistics

MATH3002 Network Science

MATH3024 Complex Systems

MATH3033 Geometry

STAT3063 Spatial Statistics and Modeling

Change to unit sequence

Four new units

RESOLVED – 21/17

to approve:

the proposed changes to MJD-MTHST Mathematics and Statistics and the associated new units (MATH3002, MATH3024, MATH3033 & STAT3063), as set out in the agenda attachments, for offering from 2018; and

the status of Broadening Category A for MATH3002, MATH3024, MATH3033 & STAT3063.

5. CHANGES TO POSTGRADUATE CURRICULUM FROM 2018

Planned annual changes to postgraduate curriculum might occur at the unit level and/or postgraduate course level and would need to take place, where relevant, in line with the University Policy on Changes to Units and Courses – Postgraduate Coursework.

To this end, the Committee were asked to consider the following change proposals:

TRIM Curriculum item Change summary

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F4117053560 Master of Physics (coursework and dissertation) Change to rules

F7901662530 Master of Data Science (coursework or coursework and dissertation)

Change to rules Change to course structure

RESOLVED – 22/17

to approve the proposed changes to:

53560 Master of Physics (coursework and dissertation), as set out in the attachments, for offering from 2018; and

62530 Master of Data Science (coursework or coursework and dissertation), as set out in the attachments, for offering from 2018.

6. NEW UNDERGRADUATE UNATTACHED ELECTIVE UNITS FROM 2017

TRIM Curriculum item Degree

F17/1815 CHEM3391 Chemistry Research Part 1 BSc

F17/1760 SVLG1005 McCusker Centre for Citizenship Internship (0 credit points) None

Members discussed the new unit proposal SVLG1005 McCusker Centre for Citizenship Internship (0 credit points) noting that:

under current arrangements this had been managed via the creation of special units; there currently were service learning units pitched at level one; although zero point units do not attract any fees, they can be taken as part of an award course; this allowed for the internship to be acknowledged on the student’s academic record; this allowed students to undertake an internship where they may have exhausted the number of

level one units that can be taken or where they may not have room in the course; a consistent approach to the creation and approval of zero point units was required; and a review of Work Integrated Learning units was currently been undertaken, which would incorporate

principles for the creation of zero point units.

RESOLVED – 23/17

to approve CHEM3391 Chemistry Research Part 1 & SVLG1005 McCusker Centre for Citizenship Internship (0 credit points) as unattached electives from 2017.

7. NEW UNDERGRADUATE UNATTACHED ELECTIVE UNITS FROM 2018

TRIM Curriculum item Degree

F17/1818 CHEM3392 Chemistry Research Part 2 BSc

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RESOLVED – 24/17

to approve CHEM3392 Chemistry Research Part 2 as an unattached elective from 2018.

8. NEW POSTGRADUATE UNIT FROM 2018

TRIM Curriculum item

F17/1761 SVLG5900 McCusker Centre for Citizenship Internship (0 credit points)

RESOLVED – 25/17

to approve SVLG5900 McCusker Centre for Citizenship Internship as an unattached postgraduate unit for offering from 2018.

9. NEW PROGRESSION FROM HONOURS TO A MASTER OF RESEARCH – REF: F17/1835

Members noted that similar to how students can progress from Honours to a master's degree coursework course; the Graduate Research School (GRS) were in the process of developing a new Master of Research course whereby students would be able to progress into this course from an end-on Honours course.

During the discussion the following points were made:

It was the intention that students would not take out the end-on Honours award; Initially this would be trialled in the Schools of Earth Sciences and Social Sciences; this may result in a split funding model whereby the end-on Honours course would be covered by a

commonwealth supported place (CSP) and the research component covered by the Research Training Program (RTP);

the work undertaken in the dissertation of the end-on Honours course may be classed as preparation for the Thesis; but this was noted to be under consideration by the Board of the Graduate Research School;

the administrative process for managing student transfers from end-on Honours was noted to be under deliberation;

communicating this progression pathway to students may be challenging; the proposal was strongly supported by the PSA, subject to clarifying the requirements for admission to the

Master of Research and other administrative details.

RESOLVED – 26/17

to endorse in principle, and recommend to the Academic Council that the proposal for students to be able to progress from end-on Honours to a Master of Research, as set out in the agenda attachment, be approved effective from 2018.

10. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO SCHEDULE A OF THE UNIVERSITY POLICY ON ADMISSION: COURSEWORK – REF: F79902

Following on from the May meeting of the Curriculum Committee, whereby members had endorsed a change to the University Policy on Admission: Coursework (UP16/5), members considered an additional change to Schedule A (Part 4) which would further strengthen UWA’s English requirements.

Members noted that the countries identified in Schedule A differed depending on whether students had completed one or two years of full-time equivalent degree studies and that this was intentional. It was also noted that some countries had been excluded such as Nigeria.

RESOLVED – 27/17

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to recommend to the Education Committee that the proposed changes to Schedule A (Part 4) of the University Policy on Admission: Coursework (UP16/5), as set out in the agenda attachment, be approved effective immediately.

11. 2016 REVIEW OF COURSES (PHASE 2): DIPLOMAS, END-ON-HONOURS, BACHELOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HONOURS) AND UNDERGRADUATE PRE-2012 COURSES – REF F71207

Members noted that as part of its strategic planning and quality assurance, the University initiated in 2014 a systematic review of its courses over a three year period (2015 – 2017). Phase 1 review of courses, which focused on the University’s four undergraduate degrees (AQF Level 7 qualifications), was undertaken and completed at the end of 2015.

Phase 2 of the review of courses undertaken in 2016 focused on a review of the remaining Cycle 1 courses namely, diplomas, end-on-honours, the Bachelor of Philosophy (Hons) and undergraduate pre-2012 courses.

The review was led by the Dean of Coursework Studies (Professor Grady Venville) and was undertaken by two key working groups. Members had before them a report detailing the findings of the Phase 2 Review including 9 recommendations, 7 commendations and 4 affirmations upon which they were requested to provide feedback.

During the discussion the following feedback was provided:

a suggestion was made to reverse the ordering of recommendations 2 and 3 in order to better demonstrate the academic pathway. Alternately it was suggested that the recommendation for the two Advanced Diploma courses be listed separately as these were not necessarily linked;

it was suggested that the proposed Master of Research be included in the section on pathways to Masters; however it was clarified that the focus of the review was Cycle 1 courses;

there was some discussion regarding the perceived dissatisfaction of some BPhil students with the requirement to undertake a language as part of the BPhil program. It was noted that over time, as the program became more established and prospective students had become more familiar with the requirements this had become less of an issue;

it was noted that there was no recommendation in relation to BPhil student’s lack of access to scholarships for study abroad. The Chair confirmed that this was a deliberate and considered omission. The amount of the Scholarship had been reduced by the previous Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education). It was suggested that a note to this effect might be usefully included in the executive summary;

It was clarified that consideration had been given to the Australian Quality Framework (AQF) level for undergraduate diplomas (AQF Level 5). It was noted that the AQF level was determined on the learning outcomes that a student achieved rather than the admission requirements of the course.

The Chair thanked the working groups involved with the Stage 2 Review, noting that next year’s review would focus on Cycle 2 courses.

It was noted that the feedback on the report would be transmitted, via the Academic Secretary, to the Chair of Academic Board and the University Executive.

12. NEXT MEETING

The next meeting of the Curriculum Committee will be held on Wednesday 12th July at 2pm in the Senate Room. The cut-off date for submission of items for the committee’s agenda is Wednesday 28 th June. Please refer any issues for discussion to the Executive Officer, Ms Kath Williams (eo-deancswk@uwa.edu.au).

Signed:

CHAIR21 / 6/ 2017

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