Diploma of Arts
Central Queensland University
About
The aim of the Diploma of Arts is to provide you with an opportunity to explore a humanities or social sciences discipline in some depth.
Successful completion of the course means gaining a recognised qualification.
It also means guaranteed entry into the Bachelor of Arts.
You will explore disciplines that study the way humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values.
This will aid you in developing contemporary understandings both of the human condition and of how society operates.
You will have the opportunity to gain crucial lifelong learning and transferable generic skills, such as critical thinking and problem solving.
You will be able to apply these skills to a range of employment opportunities and life situations.
Structure
Course Structure
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Core Structure
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| Number of units: 8 | Total credit points: 48 |
To satisfy the requirements of the award, students must complete the following:
- 8 undergraduate units (48 units of credit)
- A minimum of 4 units must be chosen from the Arts and/or Elective Majors in the BA
- Prerequisites and co-requisites where relevant must be met for each unit.
Arts majors in the Bachelor of Arts
- Geography & Environmental Studies
- History
- Literary & Cultural Studies
- Social Enquiry
- Writing
Please refer to the Bachelor of Arts Handbook entry for a list of units relevant to Majors offered.
Entry requirements
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Entry Scores
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| Rank Threshold | SR 60 | ATAR 60 |
| Rank Cut-Off | OP 17 | SR 65 | ATAR 59.9 |
Entry Requirements
English Requirements:
If you were not born in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa or United States of America, you are required to meet the English Language Proficiency requirements set by the University.
Applicants are required to provide evidence of completion of:
- a secondary qualification (Year 11 and 12, or equivalent), or
- tertiary diploma level qualification, or
- bachelor level qualification study for a period of at least 2 years fulltime with a minimum overall GPA 4.0
completed within Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa, Ireland, or United States of America, which will meet the English proficiency.
If you do not satisfy any of the above, you will need to undertake an English language proficiency test and achieve the following scores:
- An International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic) overall band score of at least 6.0 overall with a minimum 5.5 in each subset; or
- Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - Requires 550 or better overall and minimum TWE score of 4.5 (Paper Based Test), or 75 or better overall and no score less than 17 (Internet Based Test); or
- Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) - Requires an overall score of 54 with no sub-score less than 46; or
- An Occupational English Test with Grades A or B only in each of the four components; or
- Cambridge Certificate in advanced English (CAE) - Score of 180 or above; or
- Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English - Score of 200 or above; or
- Combined Universities Language Test (CULT) - 70% with no individual component score of less than 15.
English test results remain valid for no more than two years between final examination date and the date of commencement of study, and must appear on a single result certificate.
International students - refer to the international student section
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Assumed Knowledge
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Fees and Charges
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Learning outcomes
Core Learning Outcomes
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- Explain a coherent body of disciplinary knowledge (depending on the plan selected in the BA), in cogent arguments, the way that humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values;
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- Identify discipline relevant problems, analyse and critically and assess the critical debates surrounding them, evaluate possible solutions;
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- Learn and work independently and collaboratively and reflect upon feedback to identify and enact self improvements;
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- Identify and respond to ethical issues;
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- Communicate cogent arguments and/ or research result in appropriate oral and written formats and media.
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| 1. KNOWLEDGE Have technical and theoretical knowledge and concepts, with depth in some areas within a field of work and learning | --> | --> | |||
| 2. SKILLS Have cognitive and communication skills to identify, analyse, synthesise and act on information from a range of sources | --> | --> | |||
| 3. SKILLS Have cognitive, technical and communication skills to analyse, plan, design and evaluate approaches to unpredictable problems and/or management requirements | --> | --> | |||
| 4. SKILLS Have specialist technical and creative skills to express ideas and perspectives | --> | --> | --> | --> | |
| 5. SKILLS Have communication skills to transfer knowledge and specialised skills to others and demonstrate understanding of knowledge | --> | --> | --> | ||
| 6. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Demonstrate application with depth in some areas of specialisation, in known or changing contexts | --> | --> | --> | ||
| 7. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Be able to transfer and apply theoretical concepts and/or technical and/or creative skills in a range of situations | --> | --> | |||
| 8. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Demonstrate personal responsibility and autonomy in performing complex technical operations with responsibility for own outputs in relation to broad parameters for quantity and quality | --> | --> | --> | ||
| 9. APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS Demonstrate initiative and judgement to organise the work of self and others and plan, coordinate and evaluate the work of teams within broad but generally well- defined parameters | --> |
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