Users of this policy need to be aware of the Trade Practices Act which can be found at https://www.legal.murdoch.edu.au/common/tradepractices.html

This policy is designed to assist students applying to transfer between courses (including transfers within Postgraduate courses), majors and campuses as well as the staff facilitating those transfers. It is also designed to assist students seeking transfer from a non-Commonwealth supported place to a Commonwealth supported place. Students are automatically transferred to a non-restricted course on completion of the appropriate documentation.

All students have a right to apply for transfers where their course/major is incomplete. Quotas now apply to individual units while restrictions have been placed on courses and majors, which include one or more units that are restricted by quota.

Decisions on which courses and majors are to be restricted are initiated by Faculties.

Information on restricted courses and majors must be included in the Handbook and in relevant publications.

A course, which due to high cut off score requirements and/or load implications, has a restricted entry for students new to the University. New students will not be allowed to add these courses to their initial enrolment but will be able to transfer at the end of their first academic year.

Campus:

A term used to describe Murdoch University teaching locations. Specifically the South Street, Rockingham and Peel campuses and international locations where units are offered.

Core unit:

A core unit is a compulsory unit in an approved course, major, minor or specialisation.

Course:

A combination of coherent units approved by Academic Council that leads to a particular qualification. The requirements of an undergraduate course comprise the requirements of the qualification plus the requirements of the major.

General elective:

A general elective unit is a unit of a student's free choice.

Major:

In undergraduate level courses, a major is a prescribed, academically coherent grouping of units approved by Academic Council, which prescribes at least 24 Part II points and at most 12 Part I points. A primary major is the major associated with the course.

Minor:

In undergraduate-level courses, a minor is a prescribed, academically coherent grouping of units that requires completion of fewer points than a complete major. A minor can be within or outside the area of a student's major and has the purpose of specialisation or diversification.

A minor has a points value of between 11 and 19 points, including no more than 9 Part I points and at least 8 Part II points. At least 6 Part II points of a minor cannot be counted towards a major or another minor.

Non-Quota:

When no restriction is placed on enrolment in a unit.

Non-restricted course/major:

Enrolment is not restricted into these courses/majors. Students must apply for transfer into these courses and majors and admission is automatic unless the student is academically excluded from another course.

Quota:

A limit placed on the number of enrolments in a unit or a restriction as to the cohort of students eligible to enroll in a unit.

For a unit to be recognized as restricted by quota the Faculty must provide a rationale to Academic Council outlining the reason for restriction and the criteria for assessment of admission to the unit. Cohort restriction may be implemented in two ways:

• Through the prerequisite structure in place for a course. For example first year units require admission to the course and most, or all, subsequent units list a first or sequential year unit as a prerequisite; or

• By stipulating particular Part II units which only students formally enrolled in the course may complete.

Students must be advised of quotas in the unit details in the handbook.

Restricted course/major:

Enrolment is restricted in a course/major which has core units restricted by quota. Students must apply for transfer into these courses and majors. Admission is determined by the Academic Faculties in consultation with the Prospective Students and Admissions Centre (PSAC) and the Office of Policy and Planning as part of the annual admissions exercise.

Specified elective:

A specified elective unit is one from an approved list within an approved course, major, minor, or specialisation where a student is required to select a specific number of units from the list.

Transfer:

The movement of a student from one course to another and/or the addition or deletion of the primary majors.

Unit:

A unit is the basic component of study, normally completed over a period of one teaching period.

To be admitted to Murdoch University students must meet set University entrance requirements as well as the entrance requirements of their particular course.

Once admitted to the University and their nominated course of study students are able to apply to transfer between courses, majors and, campuses so long as any conditions associated with that transfer are met. They can also apply to transfer from a non-Commonwealth supported place to a Commonwealth supported place.

Students must apply to transfer so that load and campus planning can be managed and entry into restricted courses and majors monitored.