Course area information
Course Area fields store course area-specific information about the course area and its operation. They are used primarily in the UTS: Handbook, the Subject Outline PDF and the UAC Guide, but can be drawn into course area websites or other publications as required.
Any auto-generated headings referred to below are used in the handbook. Fields without specified auto-generated headings should include a faculty-determined heading.
Note: Information must be written in the present tense, third person, using full sentences (unless the field does not require full sentences).
Marketing speak, unsubstantiated non-factual claims, and jargon should be avoided.
Fields that do not comply with the format guidelines will not be approved and will therefore either be returned to the faculty for amendment or will be amended by the APO so that they do comply.
| Field name | Description and format | Where to update | Requires APO: CIS approval | Publicly available (e.g. online) |
| Intro text UAC | Free text field where faculties can add information they require in the UAC Guide but which isn't covered by the CIS course fields used in the UAC feed. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Contact details | Used in the UAC Guide. If listing any of the following details, list them using the following format only: For further details call (02) 9514 xxxx, email info@uts.edu.au, website www.[xxx].uts.edu.au, online handbook www.handbook.uts.edu.au/[xxx]/. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Combined text UAC | Used only in the UAC Guide as the condensed text for wordy combined degrees or for combined degrees that you'd like grouped together, e.g. BSc LLB, BMedSc LLB, BBiotech LLB. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Information for students | Auto-generated heading 1: 'Information for students' A general introductory paragraph can appear here, e.g. history or overview of the course area or the faculty where the course area resides. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Location, contacts and inquiries | Auto-generated heading 2: 'Location, contacts and inquiries' Provides key contacts for students, e.g. student liaison units, international student contacts, departments and schools. You can include undergraduate and postgraduate details here, but if you do, you should not duplicate them in the other contacts fields: UG: Contacts and inquiries; PG: Contacts and inquiries; PG coursework: Contacts and inquiries; PG research: Contacts and inquiries. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Faculty structure | Provides a breakdown of, or general paragraph on, the faculty's departments, schools or units. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Faculty policies and procedures | Summarises or references policies and procedures that are specific to the faculty and essential for students to know; cross-reference the faculty's website for full details. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Graduate attributes: faculty | Provide details of the faculty-level graduate attributes. Note: Data in this field should now be stored in CIS using the Graduate Attributes functionality. This field will eventually be replaced. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Graduate Attributes / Edit / Code | The code should be a whole number or a letter. Currently there is no system validation on codes but they should obviously be unique and in a sequence with no gaps. To assist students there is an informal agreement across the university that analytical and research CAGA are code 1; creativity and context CAGA are code 2; communication skills CAGA are code 3; attitudes and values CAGA are code 4; and practical and professional skills CAGA are code 5. | CIS: CI, Course Area, Graduate Attributes tab | No | No |
| Graduate Attributes / Edit / Elaboration | Insert an expanded description for the course area graduate attribute (CAGA). | CIS: CI, Course Area, Graduate Attributes tab | No | No |
| Graduate Attributes / Edit / Attribute | Insert the course area graduate attribute (CAGA). | CIS: CI, Course Area, Graduate Attributes tab | No | No |
| Support and facilities | Information about student support facilities within the faculty/course area, including contact details. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Centres and institutes | A brief paragraph on each of the course area's/faculty's centres and institutes, including contact details; include links to the faculty's website or the centre's website where more detail can be provided. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Professional bodies | Professional bodies that the course area has links to, and the nature of those links. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| International links | Faculty's/course area's links with international universities or other organisations, bodies or programs. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Course area-wide program 1 | General information on programs for students run on a course area-wide basis, e.g. Adult Education, Teacher Education, Women in Engineering, or International studies program; excludes information on industry training and professional practice programs (see 'Industrial training/Professional practice' field below). This is the first of five available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Course area-wide program 2 | General information on programs for students run on a course area-wide basis, e.g. Adult Education, Teacher Education, Women in Engineering, or International studies program; excludes information on industry training and professional practice programs (see 'Industrial training/Professional practice' field below). This is the second of five available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Course area-wide program 3 | General information on programs for students run on a course area-wide basis, e.g. Adult Education, Teacher Education, Women in Engineering, or International studies program; excludes information on industry training and professional practice programs (see 'Industrial training/Professional practice' field below). This is the third of five available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Course area-wide program 3B | General information on programs for students run on a course area-wide basis, e.g. Adult Education, Teacher Education, Women in Engineering, or International studies program; excludes information on industry training and professional practice programs (see 'Industrial training/Professional practice' field below). This is the fourth of five available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Course area-wide program 4 | General information on programs for students run on a course area-wide basis, e.g. Adult Education, Teacher Education, Women in Engineering, or International studies program; excludes information on industry training and professional practice programs (see 'Industrial training/Professional practice' field below). This is the fifth of five available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Industrial training / Professional practice | General information on industrial training and professional practice programs, e.g. the UTS: Law's Practical Legal Training program. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Subjects | Specific information on the course area's subjects, e.g. details regarding electives, or enrolment in other course area subjects. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Short courses | General information on short courses or continuing professional education programs, including contact details. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Cross-course area course info | Include course area-specific course or subject information that applies to other faculties, e.g. majors or sub-majors offered to students from another course area. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Tables | Contact APO: CIS with updates to existing tables or if you want to add a new table. | Contact APO: CIS | n/a | Yes |
| Undergraduate course information | Auto-generated heading 1: 'Undergraduate course information' General overview of the course area's undergraduate programs can appear here. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| UG: Contacts and inquiries | Auto-generated heading 2: 'Contacts and inquiries' Provides key course area undergraduate contacts for students; do not duplicate information here that already appears in the 'Location, contacts and inquiries' field. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Discipline 1 details | General information on disciplines/areas or strands of study available to undergraduate students Example 1: undergraduate programs in the UTS: DAB are offered in the following four disciplines: Design (Discipline 1 field), Architecture (Discipline 2 field), Building (Discipline 3 field) and Property (Discipline 4 field) Example 2: UTS: Communication offers two strands of study – the Professional strand (Discipline 1 field) and Disciplinary strand (Discipline 2 field). This is the first of four available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Discipline 2 details | General information on disciplines/areas or strands of study available to undergraduate students Example 1: undergraduate programs in the UTS: DAB are offered in the following four disciplines: Design (Discipline 1 field), Architecture (Discipline 2 field), Building (Discipline 3 field) and Property (Discipline 4 field) Example 2: UTS: Communication offers two strands of study – the Professional strand (Discipline 1 field) and Disciplinary strand (Discipline 2 field). This is the second of four available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Discipline 3 details | General information on disciplines/areas or strands of study available to undergraduate students Example 1: undergraduate programs in the UTS: DAB are offered in the following four disciplines: Design (Discipline 1 field), Architecture (Discipline 2 field), Building (Discipline 3 field) and Property (Discipline 4 field) Example 2: UTS: Communication offers two strands of study – the Professional strand (Discipline 1 field) and Disciplinary strand (Discipline 2 field). This is the third of four available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Discipline 4 details | General information on disciplines/areas or strands of study available to undergraduate students Example 1: undergraduate programs in the UTS: DAB are offered in the following four disciplines: Design (Discipline 1 field), Architecture (Discipline 2 field), Building (Discipline 3 field) and Property (Discipline 4 field) Example 2: UTS: Communication offers two strands of study – the Professional strand (Discipline 1 field) and Disciplinary strand (Discipline 2 field). This is the fourth of four available fields for this information. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Faculty rules | Refers to and cross-references (to the online source) faculty rules relating to undergraduate students. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-course details | Additional general information that applies to more than one undergraduate course, but that is not already stored against the individual courses in CIS. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| UG: Majors | Auto-generated heading 2: 'Majors' Additional general information on undergraduate majors that is not already stored against individual majors in CIS; you can include a list of the majors, with codes which will be linked to the MAJ study packages. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| UG: Sub-majors | Auto-generated heading 2: 'Sub-majors' Additional general information on undergraduate sub-majors that is not already stored against individual sub-majors in CIS; you can include a list of the sub-majors, with codes which will be linked to the SMJ study packages. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Combined course info | Additional general information on combined courses that is not already stored against individual courses in CIS. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Postgraduate course information | Auto-generated heading 1: 'Postgraduate course information' General overview of the course area's postgraduate courses can appear here. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| PG: Contacts and inquiries | Auto-generated heading 2: 'Contacts and inquiries' Provides key postgraduate contacts for students; do not duplicate information here that already appears in the 'Location, contacts and inquiries' field. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Postgraduate coursework | Auto-generated heading 2: 'Postgraduate coursework' General overview of the course area's postgraduate coursework courses can appear here. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| PG coursework: Contacts and inquiries | Auto-generated heading 3: 'Contacts and inquiries' Provides key postgraduate coursework contacts for students; do not duplicate information here that already appears in the 'Location, contacts and inquiries' or 'PG: Contacts and inquiries' fields. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| PG: Majors | Auto-generated heading 3: 'Majors' Additional general information on postgraduate majors that is not already stored against individual majors in CIS; you can include a list of the majors, with codes which will be linked to the MAJ study packages. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| PG: Sub-majors | Auto-generated heading 3: 'Sub-majors' Additional general information on postgraduate sub-majors that is not already stored against individual sub-majors in CIS; you can include a list of the sub-majors, with codes which will be linked to the SMJ study packages. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Master's (Coursework) | Additional general information on Master's (Coursework) courses that is not already stored against the individual courses in CIS. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Graduate Diplomas | Additional general information on Graduate Diploma courses that is not already stored against the individual courses in CIS. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Graduate Certificates | Additional general information on Graduate Certificate courses that is not already stored against the individual courses in CIS. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Postgraduate research | Auto-generated heading 2: 'Postgraduate research' General overview of the course area's postgraduate research courses can appear here. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| PG research: Contacts and inquiries | Auto-generated heading 3: 'Contacts and inquiries' Provides key postgraduate research contacts for students; do not duplicate information here that already appears in the 'Location, contacts and inquiries' or 'PG: Contacts and inquiries' fields. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Research profile | Outline of the course area's/faculty's research focus or key areas of research; include links to the faculty's website where more detail can be provided. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Research centres | Outline of each of the course area's/faculty's research centres, including contact details; include links to the faculty's website or the centre's website where more detail can be provided. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Doctorates | Additional general information on Doctorates that is not already stored against the individual courses in CIS. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Master's (Research) | Additional general information on Master's (Research) courses that is not already stored against the individual courses in CIS. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Statement on graduate attributes | Explain the faculty's approach to the development of graduate attributes. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Assessment: faculty procedures and advice | Details of faculty/course-specific late submission penalties, policy on late submission/extension availability, special consideration, how and to whom students submit their assessment items, feedback processes, processes for collection and return of assessment items and the estimated date of return, referencing requirements. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Academic integrity (faculty specific) | Details of faculty-specific academic integrity and plagiarism statements. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Academic liaison officer contact details | Provide details in the following format, as required; each component optional. [Title][first name][surname] [Position] UTS: [xxxx] [Building ID location details] telephone (02) 9514 [xxxx] fax (02) 9514 [xxxx] email [xxxx]@uts.edu.au [Descriptive sentence about preferred means of contact.] For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Support | Provide details of support available to students, such as UTS Library Liaison staff, learning skills programs (BELL, STAR, etc.), support staff, university services, student support centres, computer logins, passwords, etc. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Statement about assessment procedures and advice | Standard University statement(s) on assessment to be inserted in all subject outlines as determined by the T+L committee. Includes a reference to the UTS Coursework Assessment Policy and Procedures Manual. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Statement on scholarly etiquette | Provides reference to the University's statement on scholarly etiquette. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Statement on copyright | Provides reference to the University's statement on copyright, if required. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Statement on plagiarism | Provides reference to the University's statement on plagiarism. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Statement on intellectual property | Provides reference to the University's statement on intellectual property, if required. For use as a standard section in each subject outline. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Retention of student work | Faculties need to be able to retain student work for professional accreditation processes and for demonstrating actual outcomes as part of UTSGAP. As such, this field was created and a standard statement has been added to it (currently only in FEIT but to be added university wide once approval provided at next ADeans meeting), i.e. 'The University reserves the right to retain the original or one copy of any work executed and/or submitted by a student as part of the course including, but not limited to, drawings, models, designs, plans and specifications, essays, programs, reports and theses, for any of the purposes designated in Rule 3.9.2 (www.gsu.uts.edu.au/rules/student/section-3.html#r3.9). Such retention is not to affect any copyright or other intellectual property right that may exist in such student work. Copies of student work may be retained for a period of up to five years for course accreditation purposes. Students are advised to contact their subject coordinator if they do not consent to the University retaining a copy of their work.' This statement is now drawn into all generated FEIT subject outlines. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Statement on UTS email account | At the Council meeting on 13 June 2012, Council approved changes to rule 2.3 Communication. Enrolled students are now required to use only their UTS email account to contact the University. As such, this field was created and a standard statement has been added to it, i.e. 'Email from the University to a student will only be sent to the student's UTS email address. Email sent from a student to the University must be sent from the student's UTS email address. University staff will not respond to email from any other email accounts for currently enrolled students.' This statement is now drawn into all generated subject outlines. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| Disclaimer (subject outline PDF) | Provides the course area-specific disclaimer used as a standard section in each subject outline, under the heading 'Disclaimer'. Can include information on the currency of the outline (e.g. 'This outline was generated on the date indicated in the footer. Minor changes may have been made subsequent to this date.') or details about the availability of other subject information (e.g. 'This outline serves as a supplement to the Faculty's Student Guide. On all matters not specifically covered in this outline, the requirements specified in the Student Guide apply.') Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | No |
| CILO lead-in sentence (for display in handbook: courses) | Displayed as a lead-in sentence to the list of course intended learning outcomes (CILOs) for every course within the course area, in the UTS: Handbook. Data in this field takes the form, e.g.: 'This course contributes to the following course intended learning outcomes:' If left blank, the CILOs will still be listed under the 'Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)' heading, but without a lead-in sentence. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| CILO lead-in sentence (for display in SO PDF) | Displayed as a lead-in sentence to the list of course intended learning outcomes (CILOs) in every subject outline PDF within the course area. It appears under the 'Subject objectives' heading and after the list of SLOs. Data in this field takes the form, e.g.: 'This subject contributes to the following course intended learning outcomes:' If left blank, the CILOs will NOT appear under the 'Subject objectives' heading in the PDF. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| SLO lead-in sentence | Displayed as a lead-in sentence to the list of subject learning objectives (SLOs) in every subject outline PDF within the course area. SLOs appear under the 'Subject objectives' heading. Data in this field takes the form, e.g.: 'Upon successful completion of the subject students should be able to:' If left blank, the SLOs are displayed in the PDF, but without a lead-in sentence. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Assessment task CILO lead-in sentence | Displayed as a lead-in sentence above any course intended learning outcome (CILO) codes linked to in the criteria linkages table. The sentence is common across all subject outline PDFs within the course area, e.g. 'This assessment task addresses the following course intended learning outcomes:' If left blank, the CILO codes are NOT displayed. Note(s) • Changes must go through the APO:CIS approval process before they can be published. | CIS: CI, Course Area | Yes | Yes |
| Assessment task SLO lead-in sentence | Displayed as a lead-in sentence above any subject learning objective (SLO) codes linked to in the criteria linkages table. The sentence is common across all subject outline PDFs within the course area, e.g. 'This assessment task addresses the following subject learning objectives:' If left blank, the SLO codes are displayed without a lead-in sentence. Note(s) • Subject coordinators can request changes via the 'Change Request' tab in SO. | CIS: CI, Course Area | n/a | Yes |