This short summary provides further guidance to faculties as they prepare their Phase One proposals for majors within the Future Framework.

UWA’s new course structure – hailed as the biggest  academic change in the hundred year history of the University – will come into effect from 2012.

The implementation phase of the course restructure began after the decision of the Senate in December 2008 to approve the recommendations of the Review of Course Structures report: Education for Tomorrow’s World.

The University of Western Australia is calling for expressions of interest from any group of staff members for offering majors in any of the new three-year undergraduate courses.

The courses are Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Design or Bachelor of Science.

"I would like to confirm to all staff that the implementation of the new course structure at The University of Western Australia will commence in 2012."

The University of Western Australia will be replacing the current complex structure of multiple, different degree choices with a streamlined structure of just a small number of three-year undergraduate courses. A fourth (Honours) year will still be available to suitably qualified students.  All fields of study that UWA currently covers will continue to be offered under the new structure, though in different forms.