1997 QUT Handbook

PRIZES AND AWARDS
The following list of prizes are subject to final
approval by respective donors and may be changed
or withdrawn without notice.
UNIVERSITY MEDALS
The University may award medals known as
Queensland University of Technology Medals to
graduands of certain courses who have achieved an
exceptionally high level of performance in their
studies.
Eligibility to be considered for the award of a
University Medal will be limited to:
graduands of honours degrees where performance
in the related bachelor degree is also taken into
account
graduands of degrees with honours
graduands of bachelor degrees of at least three
years’ normal duration where no honours award
is available.
In completing one of the above degrees, graduands
must have been enrolled at QUT for at least two
years of full-time study or equivalent.
For the award of a medal, a graduand should have
reached a distinguished academic standard based on
a grade point average in all units and in a thesis where
such is required. The standard should be at a higher
level than would normally be expected from an
excellent graduand. The medal should be testimony
that the recipient not only shows exceptional
academic promise at the time of the award, but also
exhibits a distinguished record of achievement
throughout the whole of the degree.
Because the University Medal is awarded only for
outstanding achievement, University Academic
Board has indicated as a guide to faculties that the
proportion of graduands who may receive medals
in any year should normally be not more than one
per 200 bachelor-level graduands (or part thereof)
per faculty. It is possible that in some years faculties
would choose not to recommend a medallist.
The award is a silver medallion, suitably embossed
and inscribed, together with a certificate attesting
the award. The medallion is five centimetres square
with rounded corners. The QUT logo is embossed
one side and the reverse carries an inscription citing
the year of the award and the name of the awardee.
Further details may be placed on the certificate.
Awards are made at April/May graduation
ceremonies.
FACULTY OF ARTS
4MBS QUT Prize
Awarded to the music student who gives the best
performance of a distinctly twentieth-century music
composition at the annual competition in October.
Australian Academy of Music Composition
Prize (Instrumental)
Awarded for the best instrumental composition in a
jazz or popular style, following the annual
competition for music students held in second
semester.
Australian Academy of Music Composition
Prize (Vocal)
Awarded for the best composition in a jazz or popular
style, following the annual competition for music
students held in second semester.
Brisbane Commercial Radio Stations Prize
Awarded in conjunction with the Faculty of Business,
this prize is donated by the Federation of Australian
Radio Broadcasters and awarded to the Bachelor of
Business (Journalism) or Bachelor of Arts
(Journalism) graduand who achieved the best overall
results in radio broadcasting units.
BTQ Channel 7 Scholarship
In conjunction with the Faculty of Business this prize
is awarded to a student specialising in the
communication or media fields – advertising, film
and television production, journalism, media studies,
organisational communication or public relations.
Students must have completed second year full-time
(or its equivalent), be undertaking a major in one of
the communication or media areas and have enrolled
to study third year full-time at QUT.
Country Press Award
In conjunction with the Faculty of Business this
award is donated by the Queensland Country Press
Association and awarded to the student who achieves
the best academic result in the unit MJB224 Feature
Writing.
Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize
Awarded to the most outstanding student enrolled
in the Master of Arts (Visual Arts) in the area of
textiles.
Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters
Prize
In conjunction with the Faculty of Business:
Awarded to the student who achieves the highest
grade in the radio segment of the unit MJB338
Radio and Television Journalism 2.
Awarded to the student who achieves the highest
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