Levels of units
Unit categories
Four categories of units have been approved, outlined below:
- Units at level 5 only, “Foundational”
- Units at levels 5 and 7, “Foundational”. Level 5 versions are undertaken within undergraduate courses. Level 7 versions are taken within the context of postgraduate courses, giving graduates of another discipline an introduction to a new field of study, but at a higher level.
- Units at levels 6, 7 and 8, “Developing”
- Units at levels 7, 8 and 9, “Advanced”. These units are designed to be the advanced and specialised, and usually represent the highest level of coursework units taken in a course (level 9 units in masters degrees, level 7 within bachelor degrees). The Academic Board approved that level 7 versions of level 8/9 units be created to allow bachelor students to have the opportunity to undertake units at Level 7 which would otherwise be unavailable to them. The creation of these units is designed as a “level nine-first, stretching down to seven” approach, rather than a “level seven first, stretching upwards to level nine” approach, to ensure that units approved at level 9 are genuinely at the level expected by students at the end of a masters degree.
Multi-streaming and classroom / cohort rules
- Units with the same unique content identifier may be delivered to a multi-streamed cohort of up to three adjacent levels (such as levels 5 to 7, 6 to 8, 7 to 9, whereas levels 5 and 8 or 6 and 9 cannot be co-delivered). The Academic Board has granted the ACT Registrar permission to grant exemptions to this rule if deemed appropriate.
- Subject to the above requirement regarding multi-streaming limits, units may be delivered within one cohort / classroom if the units have the same unique content identifier (first five characters of a unit code), or otherwise as approved by the ACT Registrar, for instances including but not limited to New Testament set text books in the English and the original Greek text being co-delivered.
Levels of units completed prior to 2020
- Units completed at 200 or 300 level in 2019 and prior are deemed equivalent to units achieving AQF Level 5 outcomes
- Units completed at 400 level in 2019 and prior are deemed equivalent to units achieving AQF Level 7 outcomes
- Units completed at 500 level in 2019 and prior are deemed equivalent to units achieving AQF Level 7 outcomes
- Units completed at 600 level in 2019 and prior (other than projects and capstone units) are deemed equivalent to units achieving AQF Level 8 outcomes
- Projects at 600 level of 8cps, and capstone units at 600 level completed in 2019 and prior are deemed equivalent to units achieving AQF Level 9 outcomes
- Units completed at 700 level in 2019 and prior (other than projects and capstone units) are deemed equivalent to units achieving AQF Level 8 outcomes
- Projects at 700 level and capstone units at 700 level completed in 2019 and prior are deemed equivalent to units achieving AQF Level 9 outcomes
LA units
The existing Biblical Language (LA) units have been approved at the following levels:
LA001 Introduction to Biblical Hebrew: Level 5, as LA001-512
LA002 Introduction to New Testament Greek: Level 5, as LA002-512
LA003A Biblical Hebrew A: Level 6, as LA003-612
LA003B Biblical Hebrew B: Level 6, as LA004-612
LA004A New Testament Greek A: Level 6, as LA005-612
LA004B New Testament Greek B: Level 6, as LA006-612
LA010 Intermediate Greek: Level 8, as LA007-812
LA011 Intermediate Hebrew: Level 8, as LA008-812