Part-time study conditions

Full-time and part-time study

The Bachelor of Applied Science (Health Information Management) is structured as a full-time degree course offered over four years. However, the School recognises that some students cannot attend full-time and wish to complete their degrees over a longer time frame. The University offers an enrolment distinction between full-time and part-time students. Students enrolling part-time are those enrolled in a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 17 credit points per semester. Part-time students in Health Information Management are expected to meet 'satisfactory progress' requirements. These include:

• Enrolment in the equivalent of at least 8 full units of study per academic year, except when a student has fewer than 8 units remaining to complete requirements for graduation.
• Passing the equivalent of 12 units of study over any 2 academic year periods.

Only a limited number of places are available for part-time enrolment and students must seek approval to enrol part-time from the Head of School prior to enrolment at the beginning of the academic year. Any variation in approved enrolment status is not automatically granted and must be applied for. Students requesting to enrol part-time should note that daytime attendance at lectures and practical placements is required for completion of the BAppSc(HIM) course. At this time, the option of part-time enrolment is available to only a few Year 1 commencing students.

Students enrolling part-time should also note the following:

• Part-time students must adjust their load so that they can complete the course within the maximum time. No extensions of maximum time will be granted.
  Minimum time: 6 years from the initial academic year of enrolment.
  Maximum time: 10 years from the initial academic year of enrolment.
• Because the course is structured as a full-time course, students must be cognisant of the possibility of clashes in timetables for units offered in different years of the course, that is units usually identified by different 1st numerical digits in their codes - eg, HIMT1045 and HIMT2031 and plan sufficiently well so they do not exceed the maximum time for course completion or they fail to meet 'satisfactory progress' requirements, as set out above.

• Students must meet prerequisite and corequisite requirements as specified for enrolment in specific units of study. Where a unit of study has a specified prerequisite, the prerequisite unit must be passed prior to enrolment in that unit of study.

• Part-time students are completing their degree over a longer period of time and it is possible, and in fact likely, that there will be curriculum changes while they are undertaking their degree. Part-time students have the responsibility of monitoring changes in curriculum which may affect their progression and for discussing these with the Course Coordinator.