Consistent with University Policy Framework Policy, the CDA Policy itself is a succinct statement of guiding principles. The Policy is accompanied by more extensive mandatory procedures and guideline documents intended to support Schools in interpreting and applying the Policy (principles) in their specific contexts allowing important disciplinary and School/Institute contextual factors to shape and moderate implementation of the Policy.
- Curriculum Structure Procedures (opens in a new window): set out the structure of various curriculum components and our basic program structures. This set of procedures has been designed to cover the overall curriculum structures and credit point values of the University’s courses with reference to information such as unit level descriptors and professional accreditation.
- Curriculum Approval Procedures (opens in a new window): set out the approval and variation pathways and documentation as well as the quality assurance, review and reporting processes. They include suspension, retirement and discontinuation of curriculum and student transition arrangements and align with the workflow and forms proposed for the new SMS systems.
- Curriculum Advice to Students Procedures (opens in a new window): set out the way we communicate with and advise students about curriculum. The procedure itself only covers areas of academic advice that lie within the ambit of Academic Senate approved policies and procedures. However, reference to non-academic advice is available via a linked web page, which holds a Student Advice Cycle and a consolidated list of Student advice and linked services.
Still under development are the following guidelines:
- Honours Guidelines – to replace the Honours in Bachelor Awards Policy: The proposed Honours Guidelines have been developed and are currently progressing through the approvals process. They are expected to be published by 30 June 2022.
- Graduate Attributes Guidelines – to replace the Graduate Attributes Policy: The proposed Graduate Attributes Guidelines have been developed and were reviewed by the Academic Senate Policy Committee in May 2022. They will be placed on the Policy DDS Discussion Board soon.
- Conventions for industry curriculum partner engagement are being developed via Learning Futures and the Transforming Curriculum stream of the 21C Project.
The following new curriculum development templates, workflows and forms are currently being piloted.
