Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Science

The Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Science double degree is designed to prepare secondary school teachers (Year 8 to Year 12) to teach the key learning areas in high schools.Students will be provided with the background and skills necessary to enter the teaching profession with confidence and competence. Students will gain knowledge of curriculum studies and education studies and undertake professional experience which brings together theory and practice in school settings. On successful completion of this degree students will be able to teach junior secondary and secondary school subjects such as mathematics, information technology, chemistry, biology, earth sciences and physics; as well as a Humanities or Social Sciences subject up to year 10 in a school.Upon successful completion students will be eligible to apply for registration with the Teachers Registration Board of South Australia. This double degree also prepares students to be a scientist in a particular field of endeavour and furthermore enables them to adapt the scientific skills to a broad range of careers in addition to the teaching profession.