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Undergraduate Certificate of Spatial Science Fundamentals (UCCS) - UCertSpatScFun

You are currently viewing the 2023 Handbook. For study in 2024, please refer to the .

 Online
Start:Trimester 1 (January)
Trimester 2 (May)
Trimester 3 (September)
Fees:Commonwealth supported place
Standard duration:0.5 year full-time 
Program articulation:

To: ; Diploma of 精东传媒app Studies; Associate Degree of Surveying ; Bachelor of Surveying Technology; Bachelor of Surveying (Honours)

Notes

In 2023 the program follows the Semester calendar. The Academic Calendar and Important Dates webpage will allow you to view and download a copy of the important dates for the Semester calendar.

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Contact us

Future Australian and New Zealand students  Current students 

Freecall (within Australia): 1800 269 500
Phone (from outside Australia): +61 7 4631 5315
Email: study@usq.edu.au  

Freecall (within Australia): 1800 007 252
Phone (from outside Australia): +61 7 4631 2285
Email usq.support@usq.edu.au 

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Program aims

This program is designed for people interested in pursuing a career as a surveyor or geospatial scientist. Students will build foundational knowledge across the broader discipline skills of surveying, digital mapping, satellite positioning, problem solving and mathematics.

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Program objectives

On successful completion of this program graduates should be able to:

  • utilise foundation knowledge, skills and competencies in engineering

  • reflect on the nature of award-level study

  • use effective communication and interpersonal skills


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Australian Qualifications Framework

The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is a single national, comprehensive system of qualifications offered by higher education institutions (including universities), vocational education and training institutions and secondary schools. Each AQF qualification has a set of descriptors which define the type and complexity of knowledge, skills and application of knowledge and skills that a graduate who has been awarded that qualification has attained, and the typical volume of learning associated with that qualification type.

This program is at AQF Qualification Level 05. Graduates at this level will have specialised knowledge and skills for skilled/paraprofessional work and/or further learning.

The full set of levels criteria and qualification type descriptors can be found by visiting .

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Program Information Set

View UniSQ鈥檚 admission criteria, student profiles and a summary of all offers made under via the QTAC website.

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Admission requirements

To be eligible for admission, applicants must satisfy the following requirements:

  • Admission into this short program is available to eligible Commonwealth Supported applicants, who are aged 17 years or over. UniSQ assumes your knowledge is equivalent to senior high school English (Units 3 & 4, C).


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Program fees

Commonwealth supported place

A Commonwealth supported place is where the Australian Government makes a contribution towards the cost of a students' higher education and students pay a , which varies depending on the courses undertaken. Students are able to calculate the fees for a particular course via the .

Commonwealth Supported students may be eligible to defer their fees through a Government loan called .

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Program structure

Students must successfully complete four compulsory core courses before they are able to graduate with the Undergraduate Certificate of Spatial Science Fundamentals.

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Required time limits

Students have a maximum of 1 year to complete this program.

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Core courses

There are four compulsory courses:


In Semester 3, 2023 this course will be delivered as a Transition (9 week) semester, commencing on 13 November 2023 and concluding on 12 January 2024
#Enrolment involves the completion of an online diagnostic test to determine the appropriate mathematics course

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IT requirements

For information technology requirements, please refer to the .

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Articulation

Successful completion of this program will enable four courses of credit towards the Diploma of 精东传媒app Studies . It will also provide entry to, and up to four courses credit towards the Associate Degree of Surveying and enable students to progress to the Bachelor of Surveying Technology or Bachelor of Surveying (Honours).

Recommended enrolment pattern

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Recommended enrolment pattern


CourseYear of program and semester in which course is normally studiedEnrolment requirements
On-campus
(ONC)
External
(EXT)
Online
(ONL)
YearSemYearSemYearSem
ENG1002 Introduction to Engineering and Built Environment Applications11,2

Choose one of the following two courses:

     GIS1402 Geographic Information Systems 11,3
     GIS1401 Geographic Data Presentation12

Choose one of the following two courses:

     SVY1102 Surveying A 11
     SVY1110 Introduction to Global Positioning System12

Choose one of the following two courses:

     DIP1003 Essential Mathematics# 11,2,3
     ENM1500 Introductory Engineering Mathematics# 11,2,3Enrolment is not permitted in ENM1500 if MAT1100 or MAT1102 or ENM1600 or ENG1500 has been previously completed

Footnotes
In Semester 3, 2023 this course will be delivered as a Transition (9 week) semester, commencing on 13 November 2023 and concluding on 12 January 2024
#Enrolment involves the completion of an online diagnostic test to determine the appropriate mathematics course
Unavailable online in S3 2023