Undergraduate students at ACU participate in ACU Core Curriculum studies that support your learning and growth as a person.

This includes:

• Two coursework units
  Core Curriculum 1 and Core Curriculum 2 on your map
  • Please visit the ACU Core Curriculum site for information about the Core Curriculum, including the unit schedule for 2027
  • Core Curriculum 1 will be chosen from the list of 100-level units.
  • Core Curriculum 2 will be chosen from the list of 200-level units.


• One community engagement unit
  EDES206 Social Justice and Community Engagement for Teachers

The National School of Education endeavours to offer all units in alignment with the published course maps.

Depending on student numbers and needs, units might be offered in different modes (multi-mode, online scheduled or online unscheduled). If you are unsure which mode is the most suitable for you, please go to the 'Get Help?' Tab to seek further information prior to enrolling.

Some units may be offered in different semesters or study periods on different maps. You may be able to enrol in some of these alternative offerings of a unit. Some unit offerings are restricted to specific groups of students and are not available to all students.

Students must follow their course map to ensure timely course progression and completion.

You must enrol for the whole academic year for each year of your course. This means that you should enrol in all units for Semester 1 and 2 for the following year at the time of re-enrolment.

You must not over-enrol in units for the academic year. The standard maximum enrolment is four (4) units in any six-month period. Your total enrolment in the first or second half of the year, including all enrolments in semesters or terms, must not exceed four (4) units the overload is included on your course map.

Students wishing to over-enrol for any reason must seek approval from their Course Advisor.

You can change your enrolment up until the census date for each semester or Study Period. See the Academic Calendar for key dates.

International Students: You must select the multimode unit, whenever available.

Student visa regulations set minimum requirements for in-person attendance. Some units in your course will only be available online and these are monitored to ensure that your in-person attendance requirement will be met.

This means that you must enrol in the multimode offering of each unit in your course, whenever available. You should seek approval from your Course Advisor to enrol in an online unit.

Please note:

Minimum enrolment numbers apply to all units. The University reserves the right to cancel units with low enrolment numbers. Students will be advised of cancellations prior to the start of semester and offered an alternative unit if one is available.

The Bachelor of Education suite of courses is structured to provide you with relevant, up-to-date learning designed to prepare you to teach in your chosen school sector.

This course includes several types of units you will study. Units in these areas are designed to support your development over the course of your studies.

• Education Studies
  Foundational knowledge and skills units that support you to meet professional standards and expectations of teachers.
• Effective Teaching
  Professional practice units that build your skills and experience in teaching and learning in your chosen sector/s.
• Content, Curriculum and Pedagogy
  Developing content knowledge in relevant teaching areas alongside pedagogical knowledge specific to teaching and learning for each relevant teaching area.
• Catholic Tradition
  Engagement in thinking and acting in alignment with ACU’s mission; either through the University Common Core or Religious Education studies.

The unit codes indicate this progression as follows:

• 100-level (100-199) are designed as first year units
• 200-level (200-299) are designed as second year units
• 300-level (100-199) are designed as third/fourth year units
• 400-level (100-199) are designed as fourth year units

Generally, you should study units with a 100 code (100-199) before units with a 200 code (200-299) and so on.

Unit prerequisites are designed to ensure that your learning progresses smoothly.

Some units have prerequisites listed within the unit outline. This is a list of the units or activities that you must complete before you can study that unit.

To meet the prerequisites for a unit, you must have either completed the prerequisites, or be currently enrolled in the prerequisite. This means that you can enrol in a unit in Semester 2 so long as you are enrolled in any prerequisite unit required in Semester 1.

Community Engagement

All ACU undergraduate students engage in a Community Engagement unit as part of the 'Common Core'.

Community engagement is central to ACU’s commitment to developing graduates who recognise the dignity of the human person and can engage critically with societal issues that advance the common good.

Please check your course map for the location of this unit. You may find it in either Semester 1 or Semester 2. You will note that your community engagement unit is not offered in the same semester as a professional experience unit. Students should not enrol in a community engagement and a professional experience unit in the same semester. 

Your allocated Community Engagement unit is EDES206 Social Justice and Community Engagement for Teachers

Your community engagement placement will be managed via InPlace. Information about InPlace is available on the WIL site.

Professional Experience

This course includes an introductory observation unit, followed by a sequence of four Professional Experience Placement (PEP) units.

Professional Experience placements provide you with the opportunity to integrate your learning with real-world experience of the work of teachers. Each of these units include (1) lectures and tutorials, and (2) a placement experience within a school and/or early learning service. These experiences are interrelated and you must complete them both within the same semester offering.  

To support your enrolment planning, the calendar of placement dates is published in October of the year prior. The PEP placement dates are available on the WIL site. You must confirm that you are available to attend placement during the listed dates prior to enrolling in a placement unit.

All guidelines and information related to the Professional Experience Program is available on the WIL site. You should familiarise yourself with all the information in this site prior to your first professional experience placement. 

Your first year observation unit is:

• EDES106 Contemporary Learning Cultures and Contexts

Your four placement units are:

• EDET112 Effective Teaching 1: Early Years Curriculum and Pedagogies (20 days) (formerly EDET100)
• EDET212 Effective Teaching 2: Curriculum Planning and Pedagogy (20 days) (formerly EDET111)
• EDET312 Effective Teaching 3: Positive Environments to Engage Young Learners (20 days B-2) (formerly EDET211)
• EDET461 Effective Teaching 6: Professional Engagement and Reflection (20 days)