Bachelor of Health and Physical Education
2023 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2023 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Health and Physical Education |
| Course Map | This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2023. Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Online | No |
| Duration | 4 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| CRICOS course code | 089295M Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Deakin course code | E377 |
| Approval status | This course is approved by the University under the Higher Education Standards Framework. |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 7. |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Professional recognition
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Mandatory student checks
- Fees and charges
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
Course overview
Develop the skills and knowledge and understanding to become a qualified secondary school health and physical education teacher with Deakin’s Bachelor of Health and Physical Education. Discover how to create safe, inclusive and engaging learning environments and provide experiences that support lifelong health and physical activity. Explore areas including applied sports science, biomechanics, and motor learning and development and discover the science and art of movement education and performance skills.
Gain access to industry-standard resources and state-of-the-art facilities, including our Elite Sports Precinct and specialised teaching labs. This, combined with highly engaging and practical placements through our Professional Experience Program, means you will graduate motivated, well prepared and ready to embrace a meaningful career in education.
Our growing population requires qualified professionals who can teach and advise on the benefits of health and physical education. Ready to make a difference?
Deakin works closely with school partners and relevant organisations to deliver you customised learning experiences tailored to this degree. You will be learning about the biggest health issues facing our population – and the most effective ways to educate and build the capacity of young people in relation to them.
As part of your core studies, you will experience and practice using a variety of engaging teaching approaches in health, physical education and your chosen third discipline. You will learn foundation knowledge about the human body, including anatomical and physiological terminology. Through mediums such as sport, gymnastics and dance, you will explore the science and art of movement and performance. Gain an understanding of how the body reacts to movement and the repercussions this has on various body systems (cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal and nervous systems).
Choose a third discipline to pair with your core studies and advance your cross-disciplinary knowledge while gaining a competitive advantage for employment. You can choose disciplines including:
- biology
- chemistry
- dance (Burwood only)
- drama (Burwood only)
- English
- history
- home economics (Burwood only)
- mathematics.
The Professional Experience Program is a key part of every Deakin teaching student’s course experience. Working with more than 1400 schools across Australia, we will arrange at least 80 days of placements for you in schools where you will learn from experienced teachers. You will also have access to specialised teaching spaces on campus to prepare for teaching.
Give your studies a different perspective and take part in our Global Education Program*. You’ll get to experience remote communities in Australia and abroad, while gaining credit towards your degree. Learn about Aboriginal culture while teaching in remote communities in the Northern Territory, or head to countries including Vietnam and Switzerland and learn about intercultural education.
Before beginning your studies, prospective teaching students need to successfully complete the Casper test – an online, video scenario-based test that lets you demonstrate your suitability for a teaching career.
* Overseas study programs to be confirmed in 2022 and beyond, subject to government travel restrictions.
Professional recognition
Our education courses are accredited by the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT), meaning you’ll graduate as a qualified educator. Students are eligible to apply for registration with VIT upon successful completion of this degree.
Career opportunities
Graduate ready to take your career into teaching within the private, independent or public education sectors or advisory roles. You can even work closely with sporting organisations.
As well as working as an educator, you may find yourself working in fields including:
- community programs
- government agencies
- human resource management
- private academies/agencies
- professional coaching
- sport management.
For more information go to DeakinTALENT
Participation requirements
Placement can occur at any time, including during the standard holiday breaks listed here: https://www.deakin.edu.au/courses/key-dates.
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. More information available at Disability support services.
Mandatory student checks
Teacher Education Graduation requirements
Students undertaking an initial teacher education course must pass an approved literacy and numeracy test in order to be eligible to graduate and apply for teacher registration. Learn more about the literacy and numeracy test.
Working with Children Check
Applicants will be required to hold a valid Working with Children (WWC) Check prior to undertaking professional placements as part of this course. Learn more about Working with Children Checks.
Police record check
Applicants will be required to hold a valid National Police Record Check for professional placements as part of this course. Learn more about the National Police Record Check.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on your course, the type of fee place you hold, your commencement year, the units you choose and your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
Use the Fee estimator to see course and unit fees applicable to your course and type of place. Further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods is available on our Current students fees website.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
| Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities | Apply coherent discipline-specific theoretical knowledge and capabilities in health, physical education and one other teaching area to contemporary curriculum design, pedagogy and assessment for teaching and learning in ways that align with the Australian Professional Standards for Graduate Teachers. |
| Communication | Use a range of communication skills and technologies to plan and teach for learning (including knowledge and skills) in the classroom and the broader school community. |
| Digital literacy | Employ a range of technologies to collect, analyse, synthesise and evaluate information for the purposes of teaching and learning in a rapidly-changing global environment. |
| Critical thinking | Use critical and analytical skills to determine solutions to unpredictable and sometimes complex problems in teaching, learning and assessment practices and to adapt these solutions to diverse contexts. |
| Problem solving | Demonstrate the capacity to know students and how they learn (including identifying their prior knowledge, learning strengths and weaknesses) to develop a creative solution to teaching and learning using a range of effective strategies. |
| Self-management | Engage in reflective practice to plan and deliver coherent teaching and learning experiences for students in Health, Physical Education and one other teaching area. Make well-developed responsible judgements in professional practice in Health and Physical Education teaching contexts. |
| Teamwork | Work and learn collaboratively with colleagues and other professionals and members of the wider community in ways that align with the codes of conduct and ethics of the profession. |
| Global citizenship | Understand multicultural and inclusive pedagogies to sustain ethical approaches to teaching and learning. |
| Approved by Faculty Board April 2020 | |
Course rules
To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Health and Physical Education, students must complete 32 credit points of units comprising:
- 26 core units
- HSE010 Exercise and Sport Laboratory Safety (0 credit point compulsory unit; this safety training must be completed before classes commence)
- 4 credit points of discipline study units in a third teaching method area
- 2 credit points of curriculum study units in the third teaching method area
- AAI018 Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
- A maximum of 10 credit points at level 1
- A minimum of 10 credit points at level 3 or above
Students must additionally complete an Emergency First Aid Certificate (Level 2) and AUSTSWIM qualifications prior to graduation.
This course includes 80-days of supervised professional experience, and students must successfully complete the Deakin Teaching Performance Assessment (DTPA)*. This must be complete in the final year of study. Successful completion of this course indicates that a student has met the expected standard of performance for each of the Graduate Teacher Standards.
Students are also required to complete below two zero (0) credit point units ELN010 and ELN011 as part of the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) in order to graduate from their course.
Students are required to meet academic progress and conduct requirements.
* Students who do not pass the DTPA must seek advice from the course director.
Course structure
Core Units
Year 1
| ELN010 | Australian Literacy Test (zero (0) credit points) |
| ELN011 | Australian Numeracy Test (zero (0) credit points) |
| HSE010 | Exercise and Sport Laboratory Safety (zero (0) credit points) |
| EEH101 | Health and Physical Education Studies |
| EEH102 | The Art and Science of Movement |
| EEH103 | Foundations of Sport and Exercise Pedagogy and Practice |
| EPP101 | Teacher-Learner Identity |
| EPP102 | Learning-Teaching Communities |
| HSE102 | Functional Human Anatomy |
2 credit points of discipline study units in third teaching method area
Year 2
| EEH202 | Youth Health and Student Wellbeing |
| EPP203 | Professional Experience in Health and Physical Education: Curriculum Study A |
| EPP204 | Understanding Learning, Learners and Classroom Relationships |
| HSE201 | Exercise Physiology |
| HSE202 | Biomechanics |
| HSE204 | Motor Learning and Development |
2 credit points of discipline study units in third teaching method area
Year 3
| EEH301 | Nutrition, Growth and Development for Health Educators |
| EEH304 | Senior Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education |
| EEH315 | Teaching Sexuality and Relationship Education |
| EPP303 | Health and Physical Education: Curriculum Study B |
| HBS107 | Understanding Health * |
| HSE311 | Applied Sports Science 1 |
2 credit points of curriculum study units in third teaching method area
* HBS107 replaces HSE111 from 2023
Year 4
| EEH401 | Professional Issues in Health and Physical Education |
| EEH403 | Inclusivity and Diversity in HPE Movement Contexts |
| EEH404 | Health: a Family and Community Focus |
| EEH455 | Approaches to Teaching Health and Physical Education |
| EPP401 | Curriculum Assessment and Policy in Contemporary Schooling |
| EPP405 | Professional Identity and Curriculum Work |
| HSE301 | Exercise Prescription for Fitness and Health |
| IND202 | Australian Indigenous Education: Recognition, Relationships and Reconciliation |
Discipline Study Units
Students must complete 4 credit points of discipline study units in a third teaching method area from the following:
| Teaching method area | Discipline studies units |
| Dance* | Complete four credit points from: |
| Drama* | Complete four credit points from: |
| English English - Children’s Literature* Or | Select four credit points from: ALL153, ALL154, ALL228, ALL230, ALL326, ALL255, ALL256, ALL375, ALW352, ALL376 Or ALL101, ALL102, ALL202, ALL260, ALL255, ALL256, ALW242, ALL381, ALL375, ALL376 |
| History | Select four credit points from: AIH107, AIH108, AIH238, AIH240, AST250, AST256, AIH264, AIH276, AIH288, AIH305, AIH350, AIH383 |
| Home Economics | Complete five units from: |
| Complete one credit point from: Plus three credit points from: | |
| Science (Senior Secondary) in specialist science area Biology | Complete two units from: SLE010, (0 credit point unit) SLE111 Plus three credit points from: |
| Science (Senior Secondary) in specialist science area Chemistry | Complete three units from: SLE010, (0 credit point unit) SLE133, SLE155 Plus two credit points from: |
*Refer to E377 discipline studies units for available options. A maximum of two credit points at level one may be taken under any listed method.
Curriculum Study Units
Students must complete 2 credit points of curriculum study units in a third teaching method area from the following:
| Teaching method area | Curriculum studies units |
| Dance (Burwood only) | |
| Drama (Burwood only) | |
| English | |
| History | |
| Home Economics | |
| Mathematics | |
| Science (Senior Secondary) in specialist science area Biology | |
| Science (Senior Secondary) in specialist science area Chemistry |
*Units no longer available for enrolment.
Professional Experience Placement
Any unit which contains work-integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, working with children check or other check. Refer to the relevant unit guide.
Students are required to apply for a Working with Children Check. Apply online as a volunteer at https://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/.
For further information contact the School of Education, Professional Experience office.
Course duration - additional information
Delays in completing the placement could mean that the course will take longer to complete than the stated duration.
International students are required to study full-time to complete their course within the duration registered on CRICOS.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central