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Combined Arts/Social Sciences - 8224

Program Summary

   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Typical Duration: 2 Years
 
 
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
 
 
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
 
 
Max UOC Per Semester: 24
 
 
Min UOC For Award: 96
 
  

Program Description

This program provides postgraduate students with the opportunity to combine two synergistic programs offered in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to create a combined Masters program in professional and interdisciplinary areas.

Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The Combined Masters degree program offers students an interdisciplinary combination of programs that will substantially extend and deepen their existing skills, knowledge and understanding in selected professionally relevant areas of study, provide synergistic learning in cognate fields and teach advanced skills in analytical thinking and research.

Program Structure

Students need to complete 96 units of credit to satisfy requirements for the award of the degree. They must enrol in at least one course per semester.

The combined degree may be constituted by a combination of any two of the following postgraduate programs offered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences with the exception of the combination of those listed in the exclusion list.

Exclusions
The following combinations are excluded:
  • MA in Applied Linguistics / MA in TESOL
  • Master of Education in Applied Linguistic / MA in Applied Linguistics
  • Master of Education / Master of Educational Leadership
  • Master of Social Development / MA in Development Studies
  • Master of Social Development in Community Development / Master of Social Development in International Social Development / Master of Social Development in Refugee and Forced Migration

Academic Rules

Fees

For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

Admission Requirements

1. The minimum requirement is the completion of an undergraduate degree and any further entrance requirements relevant to the plan being undertaken.

2. A maximum of 18UOC (three courses) for each plan may be credited from previous postgraduate study.

Articulation

This program is part of an articulated suite of programs. A student may exit from the program to take out a combined graduate certificate if 48uoc (24 in each of the constituent programs) have been satisfactorily completed and with a combined Graduate Diploma if 72 uoc (36 uoc from each of the constituent degree programs) have been satisfactorily completed. A student may exit the program with only one of the constituent degrees if the requirements for that program have been met but may not then take out the combined degree at a later date.
 

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