Overview

Inspire young minds with your artistic ability

This fun and creative four-year double degree in secondary education and arts will see you develop into a knowledgeable and informed classroom-ready teacher, qualified for employment across both state and independent schools. You’ll study a choice of two teaching streams from a range of arts and humanities disciplines, including English languages, history, business studies, the creative arts, geography, religious studies, psychology, media studies, legal studies, and more.

Thanks to a series of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) units, you’ll put your teaching theories to the test in a real-world environment, regularly engaging with secondary school students across the entire range of year levels. At the completion of the course, you’ll be ready to hit the ground running as a newly qualified teacher, confident in helping to enthuse young people aged 12 to 18 about a range of subjects across the arts spectrum.

Study a Bachelor of Secondary Education/Bachelor of Arts at UC and you will:

• demonstrate specialised knowledge and skills in two arts disciplines, across a range of classes and year groups, within a secondary school environment
• learn the theories and principles that are the foundation for educational practice in secondary settings
• demonstrate an understanding of student needs and differences, and develop teaching activities for a range of indigenous, English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) and mainstream settings
• develop and implement effective assessment strategies and carry out evaluation of teaching programs, resources and your own teaching
• apply the required content knowledge for all secondary school curriculum areas to teaching and reporting methods, alternate/enhanced literacy and numeracy strategies, and the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning.

Work Integrated Learning

A teaching degree, by its very nature, is the embodiment of Work Integrated Learning (WIL), with its focus on compulsory professional teaching practice. During this course, you’ll undertake a minimum of 80 days of practical placement across a range of different secondary school levels and settings, including arts-specific positions, culminating in a 30-day teaching placement in your final year.

In addition to this, the course content is developed by secondary education professionals, and kept relevant and up-to-date through consistent monitoring of, and engagement with, the industry. You’ll undertake authentic assessment tasks which are highly relevant to the day-to-day practice of teaching, and will take part in regular professional development activities, field trips to educational sites, lectures hosted by guest speakers from a range of education and teaching backgrounds, and more.

Career opportunities

• Secondary school teacher
• English teacher
• History teacher
• Visual arts teacher
• Drama teacher
• Media studies teacher
• Business studies teacher
• Art and design teacher
• Performing arts teacher
• Legal studies teacher
• Geography teacher
• Psychology teacher
• Religious education teacher
• Head of department
• Principal
• Deputy principal
• Executive teacher
• Head teacher welfare
• Director of curriculum
• Year adviser
• Special needs teacher
• Gifted and talented teacher
• Relief teacher
• Guidance officer
• Careers adviser
• Learning support teacher
• Student adviser
• Education adviser
• Schools policy adviser
• Vocational education and training instructor
• Private tutor
• Schools engagement coordinator

Course-specific information

This course is registered by the ACT Teacher Quality Institute (TQI) and recognised as a teaching qualification throughout Australia.

On graduating, students must register with the appropriate state teaching body in order to teach.

Students must obtain a Working with Vulnerable People Check before their first placement.

Professional accreditation

This course is registered by the ACT Teacher Quality Institute (TQI) and recognised as a teaching qualification throughout Australia.