Connect your passions with transformative ideas about how humans learn, think, and create.
Whatever you’re interested in – be it music, sport, psychology, sign language, First Nations knowledges, climate change, or something else entirely – it has a link to education and learning. Maybe you’re even considering becoming a teacher in the future. With education breadth, you’ll be able to delve into what you already love or explore something new, all while developing insights and capacities that will enhance your entire learning journey as an undergraduate student. You’ll learn skills that are directly transferable to your professional, personal, and creative life.
Taught by leading educators, our breadth subjects feature a wide variety of innovative, collaborative, place-based, experiential, and embodied learning approaches.
Start your education breadth studies with a single subject of interest or go deeper by undertaking a breadth track, which is a sequence of three or more related subjects.
I gained a new interest in education and learning, as I discovered there are many different forms of learning that are effective.
Aby Benny, Bachelor of Science and education breadth student
Education breadth tracks
A breadth track is a sequence of three or more subjects that progressively develops knowledge and skills related to a specific area. Taking a breadth track allows you to build up a ‘mini- specialisation’ in a certain topic. Education offers a range of impactful and practical breadth tracks that can expand your skillset. Select your a breadth track to explore the subjects available.
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Explore drama, theatre, music, and the visual arts from the perspectives of artists, young people and the community.
Subjects include:
- EDUC10054 Drawing, Painting and Sensory Knowing
- EDUC10058 Playing in a Band: Music & Young People
- EDUC10053 Drama, Improvisation and Connection
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Discover artistic play, expression and performance in the growth and creative development of children and young people through active and experimental learning.
Subjects include:
- EDUC10048 Creativity, Play and the Arts
- EDUC10049 Creative Projects - Digital Technologies
- EDUC20084 Dramatic Texts & Empowering Youth
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Focus on communication and explore issues related to deafness, including: Auslan (Australian sign language), perspectives of deafness, causes of hearing loss, and technologies such as cochlear implants and hearing aids.
You'll study the following subjects:
- EDUC20069 Deafness and Communication
- EDUC20076 Auslan and Visual Communication
- MECM20012 Analysing Professional Communication
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Explore the nature of knowledge and how we learn.
Subjects include:
- EDUC10056 Learning and the Digital Generations
- EDUC10050 Understanding Knowing and Learning
- EDUC20065 Knowledge, Learning and Culture
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Examine the educational significance of sport and physical activity, and gain the knowledge and skills required to lead physical activity in your community.
Subjects include:
- EDUC10051 Sports Coaching: Theory and Practice
- EDUC20068 Sport, Education and the Media
- EDUC20070 Learning via Sport and Outdoor Education
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Learn about the emerging field of positive psychology, with a focus on the relationship between wellbeing, pro-social behaviour and peak performance at individual, group and community levels.
Subjects include:
- EDUC10057 Wellbeing, Motivation and Performance
- EDUC20074 Positive Communities and Organisations
- EDUC30072 Crafting your Leadership and Career
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Investigate the issues of youth, citizenship and identity in education.
Subjects include:
- EDUC20064 Concepts of Childhood
- EDUC20075 Youth Leading Change
- EDUC30065 Ethics, Gender and the Family
Interdisciplinary education breadth options
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Investigate big ideas that connect learning and education to complex social issues and challenges.
UNIB10007 Introduction to Climate Change
UNIB10019 Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems
MULT10020 The Art and Science of Meditation
MULT20011 Science Communication and Employability
EDUC20073 Links Between Health and Learning
EDUC20087 Learning with Place: Sustainable Futures
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Examine the place and significance of Australian Indigenous peoples in the educational landscape.
I believe that everything I learn is connected in some way. Breadth subjects are supportive of a holistic learning experience, and they are usually cutting edge.
Natasha Bui, Bachelor of Commerce and education breadth student
Meet our education breadth students
Get to know some of our Master of Teaching students who took education breadth subjects in their undergraduate studies.