Distinguished Professor Iain Hay (e: iain.hay[at]flinders.edu.au ; p: +61882012386)

A group led by Drs Liam Phelan and Bonnie McBain (Newcastle) and including ASSH Discipline Scholar, Iain Hay, has received $220,000 from OLT (2014) to develop a Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability. This project is being conducted on behalf of The Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (ACEDD).

Standards set in 2010. Peer reviewed paper on Geography standards published as: Hay, I. 2012 (in press) ‘Over the threshold – setting minimum learning outcomes (benchmarks) for undergraduate geography majors in Australian universities’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Standards set in 2010. Peer-reviewed paper on History Standards published as: Brawley, S. et al. 2011, ‘Applying standards to tertiary level history: policy, challenges and the After Standards project, History Australia, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 177-194.
Available http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/issue/view/37/showToc
Work on implementation is being conducted as the ‘After Standards: Engaging and Embedding History’s Standards using International Best Practice to Inform Curriculum Renewal’ project being led by Dr Sean Brawley (UNSW). Details at http://afterstandards.omeka.net/

Standards developed during 2010; approved by Australian Political Science Association Executive in April 2011; and subsequently by APSA members and Heads.
A copy of the statement is available here.

Standards were approved by The Australian Sociological Association in late 2012. Full details are available at: http://www.tasa.org.au/what-is-sociology/threashold-learning-outcomes-for-sociology/

Theologians have been working on their threshold learning outcomes since 2010. Most recent details are available at: http://www.anzats.edu.au/threshold_outcomes.html

ASSH web materials