ATTENTION STUDENTS TRANSFERING INTO THE NEW COMBINED PROGRAM IN 2010

THE NEW COMBINED ENGINEERING/ARTS PROGRAM WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM MID-2010. STUDENTS WISHING TO COMPLETE THE NEW PROGRAM WILL BE TRANSFERRED IN TIME FOR SEMESTER 2. STUDENTS SHOULD CONSULT THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES STUDENT CENTRE FOR ADVICE ON COURSE SELECTIONS FOR THE ARTS COMPONENT TO ENSURE THEY MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE NEW PROGRAM.

This combined degree program leads to the award of the Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications, combined with a Bachelor degree in Arts. Students who are in the combined degrees program must maintain a credit average performance (i.e. 65% weighted average mark) in order to stay in the program.

This program qualifies candidates for the award of two degrees in five years of combined full-time study in which the requirements of the degrees have been merged.

All combined degree programs are administered by the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.

Please see http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/rules/

Please refer to the Academic Rules below and check the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications website for information on the Program Structure of this degree.
Website:
http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/progrms/undergraduate_combined_UG.htm

1. Students must complete 60 units of credit in the BA program with no more than 24 units of credit obtained at Level 1 (i.e. courses designed for students in their first year of study). Of these 24 Level 1 units of credit, no more than 12 units of credit may be from any one sequence of study.

2. Students must complete a major sequence (42 units of credit) in one of the following areas:

*Students completing an Environmental Studies major sequence must complete, in addition to the 30 Upper Level units of credit specified, 6 level 1 units of credit in an approved course. Students must also complete a minor sequence of 24 units of credit on one of the other areas listed above.

3. Except for courses completed as part of the Environmental Studies major sequences, no more than 12 units of credit may be obtained from courses in the BA program which are offered by schools outside the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

4. No course included for credit in the BE programs can be included in the 60 units of credit required at Rule 1 for the BA program.

5. Students must complete the full requirements of the program 3643 BE in Telecommunications except that they are exempt from the General Education requirement of the BE program. However, students will not be eligible for graduation for the BE until a minimum of 12 units of credit of the BA have been successfully completed.

6. Students who complete the requirements for the BA program and the first two years of the BE BA program may proceed to graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

7. Students may be awarded Honours in the BA by successful completion of an Honours year. It should be noted that entry into a particular BA Honours program will require completion of courses additional to those specified under rules 1-4.

8. The total units of credit in the combined program is 5 x 48 = 240.

For academic rules relating to the Bachelor of Engineering component of this combined degree, please refer to http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/rules/

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