Faculty editor resources

Using standard layouts for course structure/requirements

Course structures/requirements are presented in the handbooks in a number of ways, including, but not confined to the following:

a statement such as “Students must complete any two level five units offered by the faculty…”
simple list of the required units (this may also include a statement such as “or any other unit offered in/by the faculty”)
list of required units delineated by various combinations of year, semester, core units and electives
series of statements of rules and restrictions, with or without specified units
statement of a sequence of units to be studied.

Furthermore, any of the above may be duplicated under campus/discipline/stream etc subheadings within the Course structure/Course requirements entry.

Be unambiguous and consistent:

Course structure and requirements statements must be unambiguous as this is the core of the university’s legal ‘contract’ with the student.
Whichever layouts for course structures/requirements are used by a faculty, they must be applied consistently to all courses with similar structure.

Standards for listing requirements

List specific units in alpha-numeric order before ‘option’ statements (eg 6 points of arts units) and in order of increase, eg “6 points of arts units; 12 points of science electives”. An example is outlined below:

Year 1

ABC1234 Title of unit
ABC2345 Title of unit
BCD1234 Title of unit
BCD2345 Title of unit
6 points of arts units
6 points of law units
12 points of science electives

Courses with multiple campus/discipline/stream etc variations

Examples from the 2007 handbook of different layouts for courses with multiple divisions within the course structure/requirments fields include the following: