Breadth Unit Expression of Interest Template
Please refer to the Breadth Unit Funding Guidelines when completing this application. The application must be
completed, printed and signed by the appropriate staff before being scanned and submitted as a PDF document to
DVC.Secretariat@utas.edu.au To complete this document, please place your cursor in the grey block text areas
and type a response.
If you have any questions, please contact the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students & Education)
on 6226 1926.
SECTION 1: PROPOSAL DETAILS
Proposed Breadth Unit Title
List the Faculties, Institutes and/or Divisions involved in unit delivery (Add in/delete rows as needed).
Lead Applicant
Given Name
Surname
Academic Level
School/Section &
Faculty/Institute/
Division:
Telephone:
Other Participants (Add in/delete rows as needed).
Given Name
Surname
Email
Academic Level:
School/Section &
Faculty/Institute/
Division:
Telephone:
Given Name
Email:
Surname
Academic Level:
School/Section &
Faculty/Institute/
Division:
Telephone:
Email:
SECTION 2: PROPOSAL DESCRIPTION
Category of Breadth Unit Proposal
Development of a new breadth unit
Conversion of existing unit to a breadth unit
Proposed Semester/s of Offering
Please
Select
☐
☐
Semester 1
Please
Select
☐
Semester 2
☐
Other (specify)
☐
Breadth Unit Level
Lower: 1st and 2nd year students
Please
Select
☐
Higher: 3rd year through to honours students
☐
Proposed Year and Semester of
Introduction
A Breadth Unit can be defined as:
1. Targets the University’s overarching graduate quality statement rather than specific subjector-discipline-based learning outcomes, must not be bound (i.e. led, designed or delivered) by a
single faculty and must have a global relevance; or is commissioned to target the University’s
overarching graduate quality statement and addresses a specified skill that is applicable across
disciplines and with a global relevance.
2. Can be delivered consistent with the University’s Blended Learning model, either fully on-line
or both fully online and face to face.
3. Can be readily adaptable to Open Educational Practice to build on the University’s ambition
to be recognised as a premier University for Open Educational Resources (OER)
Unit Details
Unit Description (Including intended learning outcomes)
Graduate Quality Statement (Provide a description of how this unit will address the Graduate Quality
Statement and the assessment modes that will be used to measure attainment).
Mode of Delivery (All Breadth Units are to be offered fully online or in a mixed mode of delivery. Please
specify how you plan to include high quality resources, synchronous and asynchronous interaction and high
impact learning experiences).
Infrastructure (Please comment on the technological requirements for the breadth unit and their current
accessibility. These might include decisions you have made in relation to learning spaces, library and personal
technologies for students.)
Unit Coordination (Provide a description of the intended processes for breadth unit delivery and coordination
across participating organisational units)
Evaluation and Improvement (Provide a description of the proposed mechanisms for monitoring and
evaluation of the breadth unit. Your description should address curriculum/learning design, delivery and the
student experience).
Open Educational Practices (How will your Breadth Unit address OEP, this statement may include resources that
you will source and those you intend to create).
Development Timeline (Confirm alignment with standard development timeline or advise of reasons for deviation
and alternative timeline). Please provide the key elements of your development timeline, this should include initial
scope proposal, engaging with an educational developer, learning design timeline, creating and sourcing content,
online development and peer review.
Development Funding Distribution (Provide details of the agreed split of the initial $25,000 in development
and incentivisation funding across participating Faculties, Institutes and/or Divisions)
Learning Design (Detail the framework that will be used to inform new unit design)
Marketing Plan (Include marketing strategies and student demographic target group)
Summary of proposed Funding Allocations (refer Breadth Unit Budget Template)
Faculty/Institute/Division Allocation - Unit Development
(used to allocate Central Funding)
Faculty/Institute/Division Allocation - Teaching
(used for ongoing Unit splitting - EFTSL and Income)
SECTION 3: PROJECTIONS
Anticipated Enrolment Numbers
Semester
Year 1
Year 2
Other (specify)
Minimum Semester Enrolment Quota
Maximum Semester Enrolment Quota
Proposed Field of Education
Please complete the budget template attached with support from your Finance Business Partner. The
budget template includes modelling based on projected income and expenditure across the first two years of delivery.
The allocation of income and incentivisation funding will be based on distribution of relative total expenditure across
participating Faculties, Institutes or Divisions.
SECTION 4: PROPOSAL CERTIFICATION
Certification of Proposal
Certification by Lead Applicant
I certify that all details in this application are correct and complete and I agree to fulfil the obligations of recipients as
described in the Breadth Unit Funding Guidelines. I certify that all persons listed have participated in the
development of this proposal and agreed on the final contents.
Signed:
Date:
Endorsed by Faculty Deans and Directors of Institutes/Divisions participating in the teaching of the
Breadth Unit (remove or add rows as required)
(Name)
(Signature)
(Faculty/Institute/Division)
(Date)
(Name)
(Signature)
(Faculty/Institute/Division)
(Date)
(Name)
(Signature)
(Faculty/Institute/Division)
(Date)