Blurred Boundaries: Negotiating a Common Core Subject in a Multi-Faculty Bachelor of Environments

Autor/inn/en	Onsman, Andrys; Newton, Clare
Titel	Blurred Boundaries: Negotiating a Common Core Subject in a Multi-Faculty Bachelor of Environments
Quelle	In: Australian Universities' Review, 57 (2015) 2, S.37-45 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0818-8068
Schlagwörter	College Programs; Environment; Curriculum Evaluation; Curriculum Research; Interdisciplinary Approach; Educational Change; Educational Practices; Bachelors Degrees; Expertise; Models; Context Effect; Review (Reexamination); Institutional Characteristics; Organizational Change; Curriculum Development; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienprogramm; Umwelt; Curriculum; Evaluation; Curriculumevaluation; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Evaluierung; Research; Curriculumreform; Forschung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Bildungsreform; Bildungspraxis; 'Bachelor''s degrees'; Bachelor-Studiengang; Expert appraisal; Analogiemodell; Wiederholungsprüfung; Organisationswandel; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Entwicklung; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	In 2008, the University of Melbourne rolled out its restructured undergraduate degree program offerings. Rather than offering a multitude of faculty-specific degrees, the University started to offer a limited number of generalist degrees that serve as developmental pathways to specialist masters programs as well as stand-alone employment preparation. While the other "Melbourne Model" degrees in arts, science, commerce and biomedicine primarily aligned with their cognate faculty, one degree, the Bachelor of Environments, was taught across four faculties. Three reviews of this unusual undergraduate degree have been undertaken since 2009 with each recommending that the degree reduce the number of common core first year subjects to one. However, the decision to reduce to one core subject proved difficult within the blurred boundaries of cross-faculty management structures. This paper analyses the strategies being used to reach consensus following the most recent review. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01