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Program Description
Program Objectives
Program Structure
General Education Requirements
Honours
Academic Rules
Fees
Area(s) of Specialisation

Program Summary

 
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
Contact: http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Typical Duration: 5 Years
 
 
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
 
 
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
 
 
Max UOC Per Semester: 27
 
 
Min UOC For Award: 240
 
 

Program Description

The Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences offer a combined degree program which qualifies students for two degrees after the equivalent of five years of successful full-time study: the Bachelor of Engineering (with the possibility of Honours) and the Bachelor of Arts. (Honours in the Bachelor of Arts is only possible with an additional year of study).

Requirements for the Bachelor of Engineering and the Bachelor of Arts combined degree

To obtain the Bachelor of Engineering and the Bachelor of Arts a student must successfully complete courses that total at least 240 units of credit and include:

(a) in the Faculty of Engineering, courses making up at least 168 units of credit described in the degree requirements for the BE specialisation for which the student is enrolled, and complete 60 days of Industrial Training

(b) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, only courses offered by the Faculty making up at least 72 units of credit of which 54 units of credit must be in a BA internal major sequence selected by the student.

Program Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Please see Rules

Program Structure

The BE BA combined degree is offered in the following Engineering disciplines:
The BE BA combined degree is offered in the following Arts internal major sequences (the Arts external major sequences Economics, Geography, Human Resource Management, International Business, and Psychology are not available to students in this program):
  • Asian Studies
  • Chinese Studies
  • Criminology
  • Development Studies
  • English
  • Environmental Studies
  • European Studies
  • Film Studies
  • French Studies
  • German Studies
  • Hispanic Studies
  • History
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • International Relations
  • Japanese Studies
  • Korean Studies
  • Linguistics
  • Media, Culture and Technology
  • Music
  • Philosophy
  • Politics
  • Sociology and Anthropology
  • Theatre and Performance Studies

General Education Requirements

Not applicable

Honours

Honours in the BE component will be awarded for meritorious performance over the program duration according to the Faculty of Engineering Honours policy.

Students wishing to gain a degree at Honours level in Arts as part of their combined degree must meet all the relevant requirements of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, including two additional sessions of study. Students may enrol for the Honours year only on the recommendation of the Head of their School in the Faculty of Engineering and with the approval of the Head of the appropriate School in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Academic Rules

  1. No course taken under the 168 uoc of the BE requirements can supply credit towards the BA requirements. The rules for the Faculty of Engineering can be found at Please see ENG rules.
  2. No course taken under the 72 uoc of the BA requirements can supply credit towards the BE requirements. The rules for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences can be found at FASS rules

Fees

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


Area(s) of Specialisation

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