Which areas can I specialise in?

You can choose from a broad range of study areas within your Bachelor of Education, Graduate Diploma in Education, or Master of Education.

Bachelor of Education

Early childhood

Teach in primary schools as an early childhood specialist (Prep to Year Three).

Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)

Primary

Teach across Years One to Seven.

You can choose to specialise in:

• Languages other than English (LOTE)
• Health and physical education (HPE)
• Engaging learners
• English as a second language (ESL)
• Health and physical activity
• Indigenous education
• Literature and media studies
• Literacy
• Numeracy and mathematics
• Research (for high-achieving students)
• Studies in inclusive education.

Read the course information for the rules about choosing majors and minors.

Bachelor of Education (Primary)

Secondary

Teach all years in secondary schools (Year Eight to 12).

You'll develop in-depth knowledge in two teaching areas which will guide your career. Choose one teaching area from group X and one from group Y.

Read the course information for the rules about choosing teaching areas.

Bachelor of Education (Secondary)

Group X secondary teaching areas

• Accounting/Business Management
• Business Communication and Technologies
• English
• Home Economics
• Mathematics
• Mathematics (Intermediate)
• Physical Education
• Science Studies
• Social Science
• English as a Second Language (ESL)

Group Y secondary teaching areas

• Accounting/Business Management
• Biology
• Business Communication and Technologies
• Chemistry
• Earth Science
• English
• Film and Media Studies
• French
• Geography
• German
• Health Education
• History
• Indonesian
• Japanese
• Legal Studies
• Mathematics
• Mathematics (Intermediate)
• Mandarin
• Physics

Graduate Diploma in Education

Graduate Diploma in Education

Early years

Teach in primary schools as an early childhood specialist (Prep to Year Three).

Primary

Teach all years in primary school (Prep to Year Seven).

Middle years

Teach in primary schools and as a middle years teacher (Year Four to Year Nine).

Use the knowledge from your previous study and choose two teaching areas from:

• Arts (dance, drama, music, visual arts)
• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social science
• Technology
• LOTE (languages other than English)
• Health and physical education.

Read the course information for the rules about choosing teaching areas.

Senior years

Teach in secondary schools (Year Eight to 12).

Use the knowledge from your previous study, with your teaching career guided by two teaching areas that you choose from:

• Business Education (Accounting/Business Management)
• Business Education (Business Communication and Technologies)
• Business Education (Legal Studies)
• Dance Education
• Drama Education
• English Education
• Film and Media Education
• Languages Education
• Mathematics Education
• Music (Secondary) Education
• Science Education (Biology)
• Science Education (Chemistry)
• Science Education (Earth Science)
• Science Education (Physics)
• Science Education (Science Studies)
• Social Education (Geography)
• Social Education (History)
• Social Education (Legal Studies)
• Social Education (Social Science)
• Visual Arts Education

Read the course information for the rules about choosing teaching areas.

Master of Education

Master of Education

Australian and New Zealand students

Choose our generic program, and study a variety of units to further develop your education skills and knowledge, or choose a specific study area from:

• Career development
• Early childhood teaching
• Early years
• Education research: theory and practice
• Information and communication technology (ICT)
• Information-learning connections
• Leadership and management
• School guidance and counselling
• Studies in literacy
• Teacher-Librarianship
• Teaching for diversity: disability and learning difficulties
• Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL)
• Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL).
• Transformational Leadership for Indigenous Education

International students

Choose our generic program, and study a variety of units to further develop your education skills and knowledge, or choose a specific study area from:

• Early years program
• Leadership and management
• Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL)
• Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL).