The Advanced Honours Program – Faculty of Arts

The Advanced Honours Program in the Faculty of Arts aims to provide high achieving undergraduate students a learning environment in which their academic potential and creative excellence is encouraged and nurtured throughout the course of their undergraduate study.

The program runs concurrently alongside a number of degree courses in the Faculty of Arts and comprises seminars, presentations by visiting scholars and artists, forums and workshops during the academic year. Students will also have access to their own academic mentor who will provide individual academic mentoring and advice. To remain in the program students must maintain a distinction average in their study.  Upon successful completion of their undergraduate degree students will gain direct entry into an Honours degree in the Faculty of Arts.

Year 12 students who expect to gain a TER/ITI score of 90 or above can apply for admission to the Advanced Honours Program within a single or combined degree course in the Faculty of Arts. The Advanced Honours program is available in the BA, BFA, BMUS and degrees combined with these courses. To apply for entry to an Advanced Honours Program select the relevant admission code, eg. R3AA Bachelor of Arts (Advanced Honours) or L3DA Bachelor of Arts-Bachelor of Laws (Advanced Honours).  For more information about the program and to access the full range of Arts degrees available within the Advanced Honours Program, go to the Faculty of Arts website at www.utas.edu.au/arts.

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Bachelor of Visual Communication (BVC) applicants

Applicants are normally expected to have satisfied the University's admission requirements. It is a distinct advantage for applicants to have completed a practically orientated pre-tertiary Visual Arts or Design subject or TAFE certificate, or have equivalent experience and/or qualifications.

Applicants who do not meet these requirements should submit a folio consisting of no more than ten photographs, drawings, paintings or electronic images of work and a statement outlining their interest in the course including any relevant experience or qualifications. Unsuccessful applicants to Bachelor degree courses may instead by offered admission to the Associate Degree in Arts, and after successful completion can transfer to the BFA/BVC.

Where applicants have little or no evidence of a previous interest in or study of visual art or design they will be required to undertake a two week preparatory units.

Course counselling will be offered to all successful applicants prior to the start of semester, to discuss choice of studio and potential careers.

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery applicants

Applications for Medicine close at 5pm on Tuesday, 30 September 2008. Late applications for the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M3N, M3NC) will not be considered.

Please note that applicants cannot add Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M3N, M3NC) as a course preference after 30 September 2008. However, if applicants have indicated Medicine as one of their initial preferences in an on-time application, they can change the order of their preferences after this date (e.g. Medicine preference 3 to Medicine preference 1).

All applicants must complete the course prerequisites, TCE pre-tertiary (or equivalent) Chemistry and English, with a successful result prior to 1 February 2009. Provision of evidence of the successful completion is required by 8 February 2009.

Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship (MRB) - To apply for a Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship at this University, download the MRB expression of interest form from the Tasmanian School of Medicine website. Forms are available from http://www.medicine.utas.edu.au/admissions/pdf/mrbsform_09.pdf. Send this completed form to the School of Medicine. The Admissions Office does not manage this process.

Bonded Medical Places (BMP) Scheme - (M3NC) - Applicants selecting this preference need to be aware that there is no financial scholarship attached to these places and should look at the information provided by the Australian Government at this website: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/work-st-bmp. (Applicants who express interest in a BMP do not forfeit their eligibility to be offered a CSP).

Alternative pathways into Medicine and Pharmacy

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

UTAS accepts into Medicine up to 10 Australian applicants (including up to 6 from the Bachelor of Medical Research) each year on the basis of performance in the Bachelor of Medical Research, Bachelor of Biomedical Science, Bachelor of Biotechnology, Bachelor of Health Science, Bachelor of Science or the Bachelor of Environmental Science at UTAS. To be eligible to apply for the available places, applicants must have:

completed a full-time year of study at UTAS in one of the listed degrees in the year prior to the proposed Medicine enrolment; and

• achieved a Distinction average (70%) or above for the two most recent semesters of full-time study; and
• satisfied the year 12 pre-requisites for Medicine - TCE pre-tertiary Chemistry (CHM5C) and Year 12 English (ENC5C or ENW5C or ENS5C) or equivalent; and
• completed the UMAT and have achieved a combined UMAT score at least equal to the lowest UMAT score in the cohort selected in other pathways.

Bachelor of Pharmacy

UTAS will accept into the Bachelor of Pharmacy up to 5 Australian applicants each year on the basis of performance in the Bachelor of Medical Research, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Biotechnology, Bachelor of Biomedical Science, Bachelor of Health Science or the Bachelor of Environmental Science at UTAS. To be eligible to apply for the available places, applicants must have:

• completed a full-time year of study at UTAS in one of the listed degrees in the year prior to the proposed Pharmacy enrolment; and
• achieved a Grade Point Average of at least 6 (a distinction average)
• satisfied the year 12 pre-requisites for Pharmacy - TCE pre-tertiary Chemistry (CHM5C) and Mathematics Methods (MME5C) or equivalent.

Students who complete appropriate units in the course prior to applying for Pharmacy may be granted credit for those units in the Bachelor of Pharmacy. It should be noted that, at this stage, this will not reduce the number of years of study in the Bachelor of Pharmacy, but students granted credit may have reduced workloads in some years of the program. Interested students should seek advice from the School of Pharmacy about units that may attract credit prior to undertaking the alternative entry program.

Australian Maritime College (AMC) applicants

The Australian Maritime College (AMC) integrated with the University of Tasmania (UTAS) on 1st January 2008. You should not use this guide if you wish to apply for a VET/VTE course offered by AMC. To apply for Integrated Rating, Master tickets, Deckhand, Coxswain or MED courses, please visit http://www.amc.edu.au/future/apply/vte or phone 03 6335 4433 or 03 6335 4499.

Conditions of Offer

If you are successful in gaining a place you will be sent a letter of offer. You will need to check your start date carefully as some applicants are required to attend short courses prior to their enrolment.

Seafaring Training Courses

Applicants for Seafarer Training courses with the Australian Maritime College may apply at any time by completing a paper application by selecting ‘apply by post’ at http:// www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au/admissions/forms_files/index.html Seafaring applicants should include proof of AMSA approved sea service and Certificate of Competency with their application if required. Successful applicants should note the equipment requirements on their letter of offer.

Applicants for AMC Seafarer training courses are not required to include a supporting statement unless applying for an entry level Seafarer training course (Pre Sea Training) without an appropriate academic background.

Diploma of Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)

Diploma of Applied Science (Mate/Master <500gt)

Advanced Diploma of Applied Science (Chief Mate/Master)

Diploma of Marine Engineering (Watchkeeper)

All applicants must submit a letter from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) outlining approved sea service with their application for admission. Medical and eye sight tests apply for Australian Maritime Safety Authority Certificate of Competency issuance. It is the student’s responsibility to determine their ability to pass medical and eye sight test. (Medical and eye sight tests are not an admission requirement into the course but are an Australian Maritime Safety Authority requirement for AMSA Certificate of Competency issuance).

Advanced Diploma of Marine Engineering (Chief Engineer)
Diploma of Marine Engineering (Second Engineer)

Pre Sea Engine

Pre Sea Deck

Medical and eye sight tests apply for Australian Maritime Safety Authority Certificate of Competency issuance. It is the student’s responsibility to determine their ability to pass medical and eye sight test. (Medical and eye sight tests are not an admission requirement into the course but are an Australian Maritime Safety Authority requirement for AMSA Certificate of Competency issuance).

Law and Combined Law degree entry requirements

Year 12 (direct entry) applicants

For 2009 entry the Faculty of Law will have a limited number of direct entry places available into the Combined Bachelor of Laws Degrees. To be eligible for entry applicants will need a minimum TER score of 90.

If you wish to apply for one of these places, and you are a Year 12 applicant, please put the relevant Degree with Introduction to Law as your first preference. For example, if you wish to be considered for the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (combined) indicate this by applying for Bachelor of Economics (+ Introduction to Law and Legal Systems). If you then achieve the required entry score, and there are enough places available, you will automatically be placed into the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (combined). Students are still required to complete the first year in another faculty (75%) in addition to the units LAW121 Introduction to Law and LAW122 Legal Systems.

Non year 12 applicants

If you do not have a TER of 90 or are applying as a non year 12, you may still apply for entry. You should apply for a relevant degree with the units ‘Introduction to Law and Legal Systems’ in 2009 and be assessed at the end of the first year of study for transfer to a combined or straight Law degree.

University/Graduate applicants

If you have already completed a degree you are eligible to apply for any of the Faculty of Law courses beginning with an L code in the Guide Insert. Entry into these courses is based on academic performance in prior university studies.