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Minimum 3 years, up to a maximum of 7 years.
Location
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Duration
Minimum 3 years, up to a maximum of 7 years.
Location
Hannah Rogers
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The Bachelor of Arts is the ultimate, flexible university degree, and you can tailor it to explore your interests and discover a wide range of career possibilities. It is an opportunity to pursue what you loved in high school or branch out into areas you've never had the opportunity to explore.
Our students embrace the joy of open enquiry, are curious about life’s big questions, and are on a life-long quest for knowledge and inspiration. You will hone skills like critical-thinking, research, and inter-cultural awareness under the guidance of passionate academics who are leading researchers in their fields.
You can take on cultural, environmental, and humanitarian challenges from multiple perspectives and gain the confidence to make a positive difference. Through our close relationships with government and industry partners, we will prepare you to start your career with the skills employers want.
We've identified six core passions that may resonate with your aspirations for the future:
- Making sense of critical global issues - Chinese, Gender and Diversity, Politics and Policy, Sociology, and Sustainability
- Interpret the world through arts and culture - Ancient languages, Classics, Creative Arts and Health, German, History, and Japanese
- Support and empower people - Criminology, Philosophy, Gender and Diversity, and Psychological Science
- Contribute to a just society - Criminology, Gender and Diversity, International Relations, Philosophy, and Geography and Environment
- Develop intercultural connections - Ancient languages, Chinese, English and Writing, Indonesian, Media and Communication and History
- See the past to shape the future - Creative Arts and Health, Criminology, Gender and Diversity, Philosophy and Sociology
The Bachelor of Arts is one of the most flexible degrees, making it an ideal choice for a double degree. One of the most popular is the Bachelor of Arts with a Master of Teaching or a Bachelor of Arts with a Bachelor of Business. There are many other options; choose what you want to study. Explore your options and find out how you can accelerate your career.
Watch our Bachelor of Arts webinar
October 2026
Explore the Bachelor of Arts and discover how you can tailor this flexible degree around your interests, career goals and the issues that matter to you. During this webinar, we’ll cover majors and study options, double degrees, practical learning and the wide range of career pathways available to Arts graduates. We’ll also discuss applications, fees, scholarships and other key information, with an opportunity to ask questions.
- 1 Synthesise perspectives and critically evaluate discipline knowledge in the Bachelor of Arts to identify and reflect on local, cross-cultural and/or global social, cultural, political, ethical or environmental issues.
- 2 Communicate independently, by written, oral and technology-supported modes, to provide clear, coherent and independent expositions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- 3 Demonstrate judgement in identifying and solving problems with intellectual independence, applying knowledge, analytical and technical skills as a¿basis for decision-making and planning.
- 4 Apply disciplinary knowledge and skills with flexibility and creativity to demonstrate self-management, resilience, accountability and social responsibility whether working independently or in collaboration with others.
Learn beyond the classroom
Studying in Tasmania, our whole Island becomes your campus. Speak with your unit coordinator about how you can gain practical experience by volunteering in research initiatives, becoming an ambassador, or taking part in a work experience program.
Study overseas at one of our partner institutions
Our international exchange program offers opportunities to study at universities around the world, and it counts towards your degree. Exchange can allow you to have an affordable educational and cultural experience in a foreign country for a semester, or a full year. To facilitate this, we offer a range of scholarships and financial assistance. You may also be eligible for OS-HELP Loans or scholarship funding to assist with their airfares, accommodation and other expenses.
Find out more about Student Exchange.
Become a Student Ambassador
Improve your communication, teamwork and leadership skills, meet new people, inspire and help others, and developing lasting friendships and networks as a student ambassador. Our ambassadors proudly represent the University throughout Tasmania in schools, at University and community events, and support a range of recruitment and engagement activities. Through the Student Ambassador Program you will have many opportunities for training and professional development, experience in real-world community engagement and outreach, networking, and public speaking, plus end up with a key point of distinction on your CV.
Work Integrated Learning
Tasmania is a place filled with creativity, industry, nature, and adventure. Because we’re the only university in the state, you get close access to the industry leaders, artists, and deep thinkers who are shaping our island. That means learning alongside the very best so you can hone your job skills for a successful career.
Whatever you’re passionate about, we’ll give you a hands-on education and an unforgettable adventure with our work integrated learning opportunities. https://www.utas.edu.au/study/work-integrated-learning
The following major/specialisation of this course are accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC):
- Psychological Science, plus the following four discipline elective units: PSY112, PSY125, PSY224, PSY223
Students who complete the Bachelor of Arts with the Psychological Science major and discipline electives may be eligible to apply for the Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours).
Note that completing the Bachelor of Psychological Science does not entitle graduates to register or practice as a psychologist. To be eligible to register as a psychologist, graduates must also complete an APAC accredited Honours year [(e.g., Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours)], followed by an APAC accredited postgraduate degree.
If you have any queries about the accreditation process, please contact us for further information.
Career outcomes
Sarah Leary, Arts graduate and Assistant Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Productivity Commission
Modern workplaces are invariably changing; responding to economic, political and social forces, which means employees need the basic intellectual capacities to adapt to change, understand intercultural differences, thoughtfully challenge assumptions, and think objectively.
Employers depend on people who are effective communicators and decision-makers, with demonstrable skills in critical thinking, problem solving, research and investigation. These abilities are fundamental for all Arts graduates, who have gone onto diverse careers including:
- Advocacy and counselling
- Arts and heritage
- Business
- Communications and public relations
- Education
- Linguistics
- Finance
- Foreign relations and diplomacy
- Healthcare and healthcare ethics
- Historian
- Human resources management
- Information technology
- Interpreter or translator
- Journalism and publishing
- Law
- Manager in private and public enterprises
- Marketing and advertising
- Philosopher
- Police and armed forces
- Politics and public policy-making
- Psychology
- Public health and welfare
- Researcher
- Social work
- Trade and foreign exchange
- Tourism and travel operator
- Writer
Postgraduate study
If you successfully complete this course, you may be also be eligible to apply for a range of other postgraduate courses including Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas and Masters by coursework and research. Filter the course list by Postgraduate to view the current courses available.
Course structure
The Bachelor of Arts requires the completion of 300 credit points comprising:
- A 100 credit point major
- 100 credit points of Discipline Electives units, or a second major from the Bachelor of Arts.
- 100 credit points of Elective units or an elective major, such as a major in Sustainability.
A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll choose an area that interests you, and then study a group of units related to that area over the course of your degree. In the Bachelor of Arts, you'll complete a major from the schedule below. Find out more at What is a Major?
You may complete any unit in the majors listed in the schedule below as a Discipline Elective so long as you meet any pre-requisites.
You may complete most units from across the University as an Elective. The elective space gives you flexibility to broaden your studies across multiple areas in the University, such as Sustainability, Business, Science and Creative Arts or specialise your course in areas closely related to your major or discipline electives. There is also an opportunity to complete an entire major in your elective space. It is your choice.
To select a major from another area, such as from the Bachelor of Arts, Business, Fine Arts or Science, you'll need to contact a Student Advisor via U Connect. They'll guide you through adding this to your study plan, and make sure it fits with the rest of your course plan.
For help on how to find and choose your Elective and Discipline Elective units, see What are Elective units?
Course Planner and sample Major study plans
Your course planner gives you a visual representation of your course and will help you plan which units to enrol in and when. For course planners from previous years, refer to the handbook entry for that year.
Most majors also have some sample study plans to help you think about unit selection, particularly elective and discipline elective units which may complement your major. You can follow these study plans or just use them as inspiration to tailor your own Bachelor of Arts to suit your interests or situation.
If you have any questions talk to U Connect today.
When you study Latin and Greek, you will find an exciting new home in the languages that shaped the fundamentals of western thought in the sciences, philosophy, medicine, and literature. Beautiful and fascinating in their own right, these ancient languages provide you with a deeper understanding of modern culture, specialist technical terminologies and many modern languages through their roots in Latin and Greek. Each week you will experience the intense satisfaction of building your brain into a stronger, better, more agile resource. Understanding the precious cultural resources bound up in even 'dead' languages also exposes you to the politics of vulnerable Indigenous languages, such as the returned and reconstructed island language of Tasmania, palawa kani.
This is a unique course recognised as the most dynamic (and best off-campus) ancient languages course in Australasia. Our introductory units begin with Latin and are designed for students with no experience in ancient or modern languages. These units pay attention to fundamental principles of grammar, informing general understanding of language structure, and guide students through skillfully adapted texts allowing direct access to ancient thought. Our intermediate units continue to develop grammatical skills while gradually incorporating original texts. At advanced level you will read ancient texts in their original language, and begin Ancient Greek in accelerated form. The Ancient Languages Major integrates closely with Ancient Civilisations and connects with several majors in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Legal Studies. Learning Ancient Greek and Latin and reading their centuries of literature are among the great intellectual adventures, and employers recognise the analytical and creative skills such training develops.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
This unit is intended for students who have no previous knowledge of Latin. The unit is designed to provide a rapid survey of the language sufficient to enable students to read selected passages of adapted and original Latin. This unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- International students
- Domestic students
The unit will focus on further study of Latin grammar (morphology and syntax), such as the uses of the moods and tenses of the verb, further uses of the cases, and the introduction of the passive voice. We will also…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit consists of a study of selected Latin texts.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit builds on the study of the ancient Latin language undertaken in HTL101 and HTL102. In it, students will complete the JACT Reading Latin textbook, including the passages of unadapted poetry and prose (Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace).…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit consists of a study of selected Latin texts.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Consists of a study of selected Latin texts.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is a study of the role of myth in Greek and Roman culture through literary texts and ancient art, including an exploration of the relationship between mythological narratives and religious ritual. This unit also traces developments in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Nero: misunderstood emperor, malevolent tyrant, or a monster of the middle order? This unit explores the enigmatic and transgressive literature produced during the reign of Nero (AD 54-68): the writings of the philosopher and tragic poet Seneca, the anarchic Satyricon…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
China is one of the world's oldest civilisations. It is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing economies in the world. China has played an increasingly significant role in world economy and politics over the past decades. Learn more about the histories and cultures of China as you immerse yourself in Mandarin. Our program is geared toward practical use of the Chinese language and takes a holistic approach to developing your literacy in Chinese through the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. We cater for complete beginners to advanced speakers and offer many opportunities to enhance your studies by overseas study visits. The major consists of six core language units supplemented by an extensive introduction to the culture of contemporary China. At the University of Tasmania, we teach in an exciting combination of face-to-face and online modes combining the best of personal attention with the best of digital assistance to keep you motivated and constantly refining your language skills wherever you are.
A knowledge of China with Mandarin language skills means a huge variety of diverse careers are open to you. As Australia's relations with China have expanded enormously so has the demand for skills in Chinese language and an appreciation of Chinese cultural forms. Particular industries where this demand is strongest include: diplomacy, tourism, accounting and finance, translators and interpreters, law, technology, business and education.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and Launceston, and online.
This is an introductory unit for students with little or no prior knowledge of Chinese. This introductory unit is for anyone who is interested in the Chinese language and/or has the need to learn Chinese for business or academic purposes.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Building on the foundation skills taught in HMC101, HMC102 further develops competence in beginners spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). The focus is to improve speaking and listening, reading and writing skills. …
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
HMC219 is designed to further develop competence in intermediate spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). The unit builds on students’ study in HMC101 and HMC102. It introduces new grammar and vocabulary as well as examples of real-world language use to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
HMC220 is designed to further develop students’ skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening of Chinese language from the foundation of HMC101/2 Chinese 1A and 1B and following on in sequence from HMC219 Chinese 2A. The focus is to expand…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit develops competence in advanced spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). It is a workshop style, participatory language unit. The unit includes 1) discussions regarding grammar and 2) student and teacher-led exercises in speaking and listening, reading and writing.…
Credit Points: 12.5
HMC320 is the continuation of HMC319. This is a workshop style, participatory language unit. The unit includes 1) discussions regarding grammar and 2) student and teacher-led exercises in speaking and listening, reading and writing. This unit builds on your previous…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is designed to deepen your understanding of contemporary issues related to religion, ethnicity and conflict in Southeast Asia. In the introductory section of the unit, you will familiarise yourself with the history, social and political structure of countries…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HIR312 Religion, Ethnicity and Conflict in Southeast Asia
This unit aims to develop students’ practical skills and techniques of translation between English and Chinese. It is suitable for students who are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese and its dialects. It is also suitable for heritage or non-heritage students…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HMC316 Chinese Translation Skills and Practice
This unit is an introduction to contemporary China. The aim of this unit is to enable students to understand and critically analyse domestic and international current events and core topics related to China, which may include politics, the economy, international…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit aims to introduce students to the basic theories and principles in translation and the fundamental skills required for Chinese to English translation. It is suitable for students who are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese and its dialects. It…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
Are you curious about the depravity of Roman emperors or the vengeful natures of ancient gods? Or why the fall of Rome remains a key point of comparison for modern global politics? When you study Ancient Civilisations you come to understand the everchanging nature of human societies, as well as the deep continuities that bind humanity together. You will explore topics in mythology and religion, drama, history, classical epic, and many more. As such, Ancient Civilisations is dynamic and multidisciplinary: you will gain experience with ancient historiography, literary criticism, material culture, and philosophical enquiry.
We begin with surveys of the Greek and Roman cultures which introduce skills for interpreting ancient primary sources. Our intermediate units introduce you to classical scholarship and continue to deepen skills in critical analysis of primary sources. At the advanced level, you begin to engage critically with secondary scholarship and build intellectual independence by developing your own research projects. Together, the Ancient Civilisations and Ancient Languages majors make up the Classics discipline, and both majors are taught by renowned Classics lecturers.
Our major develops critical thinking, research methods, and intercultural awareness, which prepares you for a range of professional careers that require an understanding of the ethical implications of a project, long-term effects of actions or diverse experiences of policy. Areas where such skills are needed include: Politics and Policy, Education, Human Resources and Non-Government Organisations.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: Online, On-campus Hobart
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
This unit introduces you to the world of ancient Greece through the study of ancient literary texts in translation. We learn how to analyse and interpret the perspectives of ancient writers who wrote across different literary genres and time periods…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit introduces you to the world of ancient Rome through the study of ancient literary texts in translation. We learn how to analyse and interpret the perspectives of ancient writers who wrote across different literary genres and time periods…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
War and the nature of heroism were the central subject of the ancient world's most prestigious literary genre, epic poetry. This unit explores the changing ways in which the experience of war and the character of the epic hero are…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HTC210 War and the Hero: Classical Epic
This unit examines one of the most well documented periods in classical antiquity: the last century of the Roman Republic. We view the social, cultural, and political turmoil of this era through the lenses of ancient literary sources and modern…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit is a study of the role of myth in Greek and Roman culture through literary texts and ancient art, including an exploration of the relationship between mythological narratives and religious ritual. This unit also traces developments in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Nero: misunderstood emperor, malevolent tyrant, or a monster of the middle order? This unit explores the enigmatic and transgressive literature produced during the reign of Nero (AD 54-68): the writings of the philosopher and tragic poet Seneca, the anarchic Satyricon…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit examines tragic and comic dramas of classical antiquity, which established the nature of western drama for later ages, including the works of Sophocles and Aeschylus, and the bawdy and irreverent Greek and Roman comedies. Particular attention will be…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC311 Comedy and Tragedy in the Classical World
Taking 'erotic text' in a broad sense, this unit explores the many functions - but especially the malfunctions - of desire in ancient literature. We will read some of Ovid's Heroides, fictional verse-letters written by heroines of Greek myth to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC339 Desire and Disorder in the Erotic Text
This unit explores the roles of spectacles and the spectacular in ancient Greek and Roman society through the study of literary sources and material culture. Lecture and discussion topics include athletic competitions, gladiatorial games, chariot races, animal hunts, military triumphs,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HTC340 Spectacle and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
Religion permeated all facets of life in ancient Greece and Rome. This unit examines the religious practices of these civilizations through the study of literary sources and material, and culture. Lecture and discussion topics include sacred places and spaces, festivals,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HTC341 Religions of Ancient Greece and Rome
'When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.’ Thus Hans Gruber (Die Hard, 1988) misquotes the ancient author Plutarch, who in turn was crafting an Alexander to suit his own…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC343 Deconstructing Alexander: Propaganda, Perception and Power
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
Engagement with music, visual arts, dance and other creative art forms can change people's lives, bringing joy, restoring self-confidence and improving mental and physical wellbeing. In this major, you can learn about global developments in this emerging interdisciplinary field and develop an understanding of how and why the arts can help to relieve suffering, improve wellbeing, and foster resilience. You will have opportunities to explore your own artistic creativity and challenge yourself to apply your knowledge and skills through finding arts-based solutions to the health and wellbeing challenges of the 21st century.
In your first year you will learn the fundamentals of how interactions with different forms of the creative arts are processed by the brain, evaluate innovative arts-based programs that have been developed to improve function and wellbeing and reflect on your own experience of the creative process. In the second year you will continue to explore your creativity and learn visual and digital skills for arts-based interventions along with a range of strategies to promote emotional wellbeing. During your third year you will develop further contextual knowledge and skills for working with diverse groups of people of all ages and deepen your understanding of how engagement with the arts affects the brain and body. You will also research specific applications of the arts to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, while developing your own proposal for trialing a concept and designing an arts project for a specific group or need.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, degree with a defined pathway into further study in Counselling and Occupational Therapy.
Available: Online
Practical interventions employing arts-based activities, including music, theatre, dance and visual arts, are increasingly being employed nationally and internationally to improve mood and well-being, physical activity and cognitive processing for people with dementia. Arts-based programs have also been shown to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit will provide an introduction to existing evidence-based research on the benefits of engagement with the arts, through the lifespan and strategies employing creativity to support better ageing and mitigate risk factors for dementia. The unit offers opportunities for…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
We know the impact that photographic images can have on us, individually and collectively. When images and words come together to tell a story they can be entertaining, revelatory, breath-taking, and even powerful agents of change. In this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for FXA202 The Photo Essay: Storytelling with image and text
In this online unit you will learn about a range of approaches to managing stress and enhancing well-being which can be applied by individuals in a self-care context. As a foundation, you will learn about stress, coping, well-being and happiness.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for PSY214 Stress, Self-Care and Mindfulness
Ever wonder why that tune gets stuck in your head, or when you listen to your favourite song your foot starts tapping, or why it's easier to remember the words of a song when you sing the tune? How do…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Research is providing increasing evidence for the positive benefits of engagement with the arts for individual and community wellbeing at all stages of life and can provide a non-pharmaceutical adjunct to health interventions. This unit explores case studies of successful…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores historical and current case studies of creative arts practitioners from a range of cultural contexts living with physical or mental illness and the ways this is reflected or subsumed in their work. This engagement with creative work…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for FXA302 Perspectives of the Arts on Health and Wellbeing
Participation in the creative arts has been shown to afford a wide range of benefits to mental health and wellbeing for young and old. This unit explores ways in which the creative arts and play can be used therapeutically to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for FXA303 Creative Arts, Play and Mental Wellbeing
Crime is an issue that governments and communities face every day. To stop crime, we must examine how and why it happens. Criminology is the study of crime, criminality and criminal justice systems; it focuses on criminalisation as a process, the causes of crime, the social context of offending, crime prevention, systems of social control, and the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. In this major you will explore the meaning of justice and the best ways to respond to crime and criminality while debating the role of the media, the contribution of parliaments and what really happens at crime scenes and in court rooms. Our case studies include examples from across the world as well as what happens in our local communities. We look at everything from cybercrime, murder and theft through to corruption and environmental crime. Over the course of this major you will come to understand the main features of criminology as an academic discipline and be able to apply criminological theories, concepts and evidence. You will learn to analyse the causes and responses to crime as well as critically evaluate explanations of crime at local, national and global levels. This major will provide the knowledge and skills to work in criminal justice agencies and develop initiatives and agendas for change. Some specific areas where you may find work include policing, crime prevention, corrections and policy research. Units can be studied both on-campus and online.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and Launceston, and online.
In this unit you will focus on sociological approaches to crime and the criminal justice system with the objective of understanding research and debates about: (i) the criminal justice system (police, courts, corrections); (ii) patterns of crime (measuring crime victims…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This is a foundational unit in Criminology. You will focus on criminological approaches to understanding crime and criminalisation. The unit will introduce various categories of crime (e.g. property crime and violent crime) and debates about what counts as crime and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Forensic science has long captured the public imagination as evidenced in crime dramas, documentaries, and podcasts. However, the representations do not always reflect reality. This unit introduces the emerging field of forensic studies, contrasting the fiction with the facts, exploring…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is offered to provide students an introduction to a specialised sub-field of criminology, and the ability to investigate a set of topical issues in society and the criminal justice system more broadly. The topics selected change bi-annually depending…
Credit Points: 12.5
The unit offers a broad overview of the major theories in the study of crime and deviance. It surveys diverse and competing explanations and interpretations of criminal and deviant acts and the proposed approaches put forward to address them. Each…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit introduces students to the world of social research. It answers questions about how to understand, interpret, and collect data, and explores the research methods used to investigate and solve social problems. The unit covers a wide range of social…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit is designed to introduce students to the issues and processes associated with working with offenders, particularly those in prisons or under the supervision of community corrections. The unit explores issues pertaining directly to how best to work with…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Winter | | | | |
| Online | Winter | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit engages students in a multi-disciplinary Community of Practice focused on understanding how children and young people become involved with statutory service systems, what their experiences of these systems are, and current directions for system reform and service improvement. …
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Cradle Coast | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HGA337 Children, Protection and Justice
This unit explores a set of enduring justice issues that are experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The role and legacy of settler colonialism frames the examination of justice issues, as well as contextualises the possible…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Provides a sociological perspective on the relationship between law and society through a critical analysis of the basic processes of law, issues of social power and legal institutions, and law reform and social change. The unit focuses on understanding legal…
Credit Points: 12.5
Forensic science is an integral component of the criminal justice system with applications in investigations, intelligence, courts, and disaster victim identification. However, it has been the subject of international critiques and a factor in high-profile cases of wrongful conviction. This…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Explores the nature of environmental crime and its social regulation. The unit has three main topical concerns: First, to investigate the nature of environmental crime from the point of view of legal, ecological and justice perspectives, with an emphasis on…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HGA344 Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
In a globalised and technologically connected world, transnational crime is a growing phenomenon. Crimes perpetrated across national borders and cannot be solved by one agency or jurisdiction alone; they require a unified regional or global response to combat them. This…
Credit Points: 12.5
The Community and Public Sector Internship Program is a research-based unit that offers you the opportunity to undertake an unpaid, part-time placement in a public sector agency in the Tasmanian State Service, or a community-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), or a Local…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Semester 2 | | | | ||
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HSS305 Community and Public Sector Internship Program
When you study language and culture through the best and most compelling books and stories of the ages you will learn to read the world around you actively and critically. You will come to understand how texts work as well as the key elements of poetry, narrative, theatre and filmmaking. Reading texts from the medieval period to the present, from fiction and poetry to theatre, film, television and the Internet, you will discover how to analyse texts and genres in their cultural, historical and contemporary contexts. Through reading, viewing and writing you will discover how to reflect, imagine and create while learning to develop your own voice as a writer. Through mastering different styles you will establish an understanding of how to write in different disciplines and for different purposes.
A major in English and Writing prepares students for any field in which careful reading, clear thinking, and persuasive writing are valued. Our emphases on textual analysis and writing skills make English a traditionally strong undergraduate major for any professions requiring advanced communication skills
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart, and online.
This unit introduces you to methods of close reading, formal analysis, and creative writing.¿We work on developing strategies to analyse literary texts and screen texts in detail, to break them down into their component parts, and explain how they work…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN106 English: Creative and Critical Reading
Why are certain texts regarded as classics within the English literary canon and how do we encounter them today? This unit considers the importance of tradition to the ways we value, understand and circulate popular and literary texts. Students who…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
English Writing introduces students to, and consolidates their knowledge of, the conventions of English grammar and composition. The unit focuses on fashioning the skills required of an academic writer in a contemporary context in which AI is rapidly evolving. The…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN105 English Writing: Grammar and Composition
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
How much of a tale is in the telling? This unit introduces concepts, terms and skills used in the construction and analysis of narrative. It draws on texts from a range of genres, periods and nations. This unit invites critical…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit considers the 19th-century fascination with narratives of scandal, transgression, criminality, and irrationality, referred to as narratives of “sensation”. The unit may cover genres like the gothic, colonial adventure fiction, detective fiction, and the “sensation novel”, and the appearance…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HEN203 Nineteenth-Century Sensation and Spectacle
To produce successful fiction, a writer needs not only to have great ideas but also to have the skill to bring those ideas alive on the page. In this unit, students are encouraged to work on their capacity for imagination…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN204 Creative Writing: Concept and Craft
Are you an aspiring teacher, librarian, writer or publishing professional? Or are you just fascinated by writing for young people? This unit explores the diverse and challenging world of writing for children and young adults. Through a variety of genres—such…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit will consider major authors and texts, developments and trends in Australian Literature. It examines Australian literature as a regional, national, and international literature with a set of distinct and vibrant cultures. Students will consider the histories, preoccupations, and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit examines the development of literary theory from the middle of the twentieth century to the present. It aims to provide students with the skills to read theory critically and to develop informed arguments in response to critical, literary…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores how different worlds are imagined in speculative fiction, film, and critical theory. Taking an historical approach, the unit traces the trajectory of utopian/dystopian texts and theories through the last five hundred years, concentrating on the dystopian visions…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit provides opportunity to study a selection of Shakespearean plays and their stage and screen performance afterlives. Starting from a close consideration of Shakespeare's dramatic language, the unit will consider the multiple possibilites the plays offer for realization in…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HEN310 Shakespeare: Page, Stage and Screen
This advanced elective in English explores the history of modernism. Students will examine exemplary texts that are representative of key movements in the literature and culture of the modernist era. The writers and texts explored in this unit set the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit prepares student writers to submit works of creative writing for publication. Students draft, redraft and polish a major creative work while at the same time developing their knowledge of the contemporary publishing industry. Unit content focuses on understanding…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN318 Creative Writing: Professional Practice
Literature is a global phenomenon around which cluster creative, historical, analytical and material¿cultures. This unit considers an advanced topic in¿literary studies and¿cultures¿in an area of staff research specialisation. It engages with key, contemporary debates in¿literary studies in relation to a…
Credit Points: 12.5
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
This major is not available for students commencing in 2026. This information is for current students only.
This is an introductory unit for students with little or no prior knowledge of French. The unit places its main stress on the development of a sound basic knowledge of the structure of the language and on practice in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
Places its main stress on the development of a sound basic knowledge of the structure of the language and on practice in the four basic language skills bringing students to a degree of linguistic competence equivalent to level A2 of…
Credit Points: 12.5
Is an advanced post-TCE course which places its main emphasis on the development of a sound command of the four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Is an advanced post-TCE course which places its main emphasis on the development of a sound command of the four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Builds on the competency achieved by students in HEF216, providing further training in selected topics in French grammar and in translation.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Builds on the competency achieved by students in HEF315, providing further training in selected topics in French grammar and in translation.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Pick up the story in 1000 when the Vikings have given a kick-start to Europe's economy and the warrior mentality of the early Middle Ages is giving way to the rising aristocrats. From this starting-point, the unit will examine the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The late eighteenth century saw the beginning of revolutionary political, economic and cultural change that marked the emergence of modern nation states and cultures. France was site of the first modern political and social revolution, and came to dominate Europe…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTA367 Age of Revolution and Empire: Britain and France
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
When you study Gender & Diversity you will be immersed in an interdisciplinary exploration of the meaning and impact of gender, race, and sexuality on all our lives. Assumptions about sex, gender and race have influenced everything from our most fundamental understandings of what it is to be human to ancient poetry to contemporary fashion. You will become familiar with a variety of theoretical approaches to the subject and will be given a range of methodological tools to help you understand those cultural assumptions and practices which have shaped our lived experiences as gendered, racialised beings.
The core units in Gender & Diversity examine questions of identity, power and change, including how understandings of human bodies and sexuality have changed over time. You will analyse the various ways that masculinities and femininities are enacted in the world, and develop a critical awareness of the gendered and racial dynamics which influence these masculinities and femininities. All human beings live within a particular gender order and racial system: to study gender & diversity is to become more aware of the possibilities and constraints of these structures and their effect on your life and the world's people and processes.
Knowledge gained in this major will prepare you for work in all kinds of settings where an appreciation of diversity matters. This includes the community sector, equity and diversity units in businesses and institutions, discrimination law and human resources.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
How do assumptions about gender influence our understanding of what it means to be a human being? In this unit we explore a variety of different ways that human beings have been imagined and thought about across time in western…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Gender & World explores the shape(s) and impact(s) of gendered assumptions on human interactions in diverse areas of the world and in different historical periods. This unit focuses on how people have acted and do act on the basis of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
What does masculinity mean, and why does it exist in so many different forms? In this unit we explore the meaning and manifestations of a variety of different masculinities. We query the cultural expectations regarding masculinity that accompany boyhood, adolescence,…
Credit Points: 12.5
Feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology and queer theory have raised stimulating questions about the body. This unit examines how the body is theorised, how it interacts with questions of culture and class, and explores the implications of our understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The unit offers a broad overview of the major theories in the study of crime and deviance. It surveys diverse and competing explanations and interpretations of criminal and deviant acts and the proposed approaches put forward to address them. Each…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
How have successive generations made and remade communities, nation, relationships, homes, values, identities and environments across Australia’s history? This unit explores Australian history from deep time to the present, introducing and analysing key events and developments, including peopling the continent,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit aims to deconstruct the monolithic perception of Japanese culture and to understand Japan in terms of its relationship to its near and more distant neighbours through Asia and the Pacific. Incorporating the approach of queer studies which places…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HMJ310 Queering Japan: Popular Culture, Identity, and Nation
Taking 'erotic text' in a broad sense, this unit explores the many functions - but especially the malfunctions - of desire in ancient literature. We will read some of Ovid's Heroides, fictional verse-letters written by heroines of Greek myth to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC339 Desire and Disorder in the Erotic Text
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
This unit examines the development of literary theory from the middle of the twentieth century to the present. It aims to provide students with the skills to read theory critically and to develop informed arguments in response to critical, literary…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores how different worlds are imagined in speculative fiction, film, and critical theory. Taking an historical approach, the unit traces the trajectory of utopian/dystopian texts and theories through the last five hundred years, concentrating on the dystopian visions…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit applies a sociological lens to the terrain of racial, religious and ethnic relations in Australia. Through a focus on inter-related themes of inequality and difference, it introduces theories of race, ethnicity, indigeneity and whiteness and applies these to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HGA324 Ethnicity, Religion and Race: Understanding Social Diversity
How do we learn to 'do' gender? Is gender 'natural'? In this unit, you will develop a critical lens through which to understand the social forces and structures of power that shape us as gendered individuals and construct the world…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is a study of the role of myth in Greek and Roman culture through literary texts and ancient art, including an exploration of the relationship between mythological narratives and religious ritual. This unit also traces developments in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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For 2022 this unit is set in early twentieth century New York, and tilted "Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labour, and the New Woman".In this unit you will transform your classroom into a moment of historical controversy and intellectual ferment. Using…
Credit Points: 12.5
The Geography and Environment major gives you the skills to address the greatest challenges of our time, including climate change, sustainable development, economic inequality, resource conflict, social and environmental justice, decolonisation, and community well-being. Tasmania offers you exciting opportunities to experience first-hand this island's diverse and unique cultures, places, peoples, landscapes and environments. Real-world and hands-on learning experiences equip you with geographical techniques essential for complex problem-solving and devising place-based solutions at different scales.
You will develop skills for 21st century jobs that require flexibility, innovative thinking and lifelong learning. You will learn to: critically assess, research and integrate arguments and information; work ethically, independently and in teams; and engage in ongoing professional development. You will expand your knowledge of environments and peoples, and the ways they interact from the local to the global. You will graduate with expertise relevant to government policy, social and economic planning, political advocacy, environmental management, natural and cultural conservation, and community development.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On-campus Hobart
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
KGA171 Global Geographies of Change introduces you to how geography helps us understand today’s world. The unit explores key issues such as climate change, natural hazards, vulnerability, sustainability, population, development, and territory. You will learn how people and environments interact,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This introductory unit develops your knowledge of how people depend on nature, and how increasingly the conservation of nature depends on people. We will explore these relationships through a values lens: how nature is important for its own sake, how natural…
Credit Points: 12.5
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All aspects of human life are geographical. Our lives take place in space. Spatial practices and ideas are central to individuals and societies: they help determine who and what belongs where, who controls and owns which resources, and who has…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA205 Geographies of Economy, Politics and Culture
Society needs professional environmental managers who have the knowledge and skills to effectively tackle problems of sustainable resource use, climate change and biodiversity conservation. Environmental managers also play an important role in helping communities identify and move towards sustainable and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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In a globalised economy and changing climate, ecological health, individual well-being, social cohesion are in decline. More people and more places are experiencing hardship, with those in the Global South (the majority world) and in disadvantaged parts of the Global…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA308 Geographies of Collapse and Resilience
This unit develops your ability to integrate theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches, and practical skills for undertaking research and practise in human geography and other social science fields. With a focus on researching island places and peoples, you will develop an…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA318 Researching Geographies of Island Places
The most complex and important challenges facing societies today bring together concerns about environmental, political, economic, and cultural sustainability. Guided by an interdisciplinary teaching team, this unit enables you to investigate how you and others can act as agents of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA301 Change Agents for Sustainability
This unit will equip students with an interdisciplinary understanding of energy systems. Its focus is on how science and policy are interacting to shape Australia’s energy futures. The Australian energy sector is experiencing a period of change, prompted by the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA319 Science and Policy for Energy Futures
Human activity has altered fifty percent of the Earth's surface, leading to various consequences, both positive and negative, on our landscapes. However, the opportunities to explore, conserve, and appreciate pristine and exposed landscapes are growing, giving rise to the fields…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit introduces legal, administrative, social and scientific aspects of environmental impact assessment using case studies. The unit emphasises the practical aspects of environmental impact assessment in Tasmanian contexts, but environmental impact assessment processes and legislation are similar in many…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The German major is not available for students commencing in 2026. This information is for current students only.
German is the language of some of the world's best-known innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs, philosophers, musicians and artists. It is spoken by approximately 100 million people in major European countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Germany has the largest population in the European Union and German remains the language with the most native speakers in Europe. It is also a major community language in Australia; migration from German-speaking countries has been a part of Australia from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Germany is a modern and culturally diverse country. The largest economy in the European Union and the fourth-largest economy in the world, its emphasis on progress and innovation has manifested itself in Australia through well-known companies like Bayer and Volkswagen. The German labour market is opening up for graduates and welcomes specialists from abroad. German language skills are an asset in many careers across international relations, business, engineering and medicine, teaching, science and music.
Against this context, the German major at UTAS comprises the study of both German language and culture, including literature, history and society. You can commence at beginner level or a higher level if you are a background speaker. All levels of study are aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR: A1 to C2). This guarantees the international comparability and transferability of your acquired language skills. There will also be various opportunities to participate in exchanges and apply for scholarships to complete units of study in a German-speaking country, or engage in cross-institutional study in Australia. Generous scholarships are provided by German institutions such as the DAAD.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart, Launceston and Online.
If you are just starting out with the German language or you’re picking it back up as a refresher, then this is the right unit for you. Our goal is to not only learn how to communicate in German, but…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is the continuation of HEG101 German 1A. It is an intensive beginners' unit, which in conjunction with HEG101 aims to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the main structures of the German language. During the four contact hours…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German, the continuation of HEG102 Introduction to German 1B. This second-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German, the continuation of HEG207 German 2A. This second-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided in reading…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an advanced intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German. This third-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided in reading and aural comprehension, speaking and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an upper intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German, the continuation of HEG315 Advanced German 3A. This third-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit examines the development of literary theory from the middle of the twentieth century to the present. It aims to provide students with the skills to read theory critically and to develop informed arguments in response to critical, literary…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
This unit focuses on late-20th /early 21st Europe, analysing the degree to which pre-modern ideas of Europe continue to permeate its modern, institutional existence. Through introducing students to the rationale behind the establishment of the EU, the euro etc, this…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HIR300 The New Europe: A Political History
European Philosophy encompasses various philosophical movements, primary among which are German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and more recently critical phenomenology and enactivism. They all focus on questions concerning lived experience, consciousness, intersubjectivity, the relationship between selves and worlds. These traditions…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HPH312 Self and World: Debates in European Philosophy
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
The past is an extraordinary place. When you study history you will come to understand the whole world by understanding the long-term changes and continuities that shaped today. Historical knowledge is a vital component of cultural literacy, broadens your mind, fosters the capacity for empathy and equips you to be a global citizen. Historians are like very open-minded detectives: questioning, analysing and interpreting evidence from the past. When someone cries 'fake news', you will have the skills to find evidence from a range of sources to reconsider the claims of the present. You will also have the inexplicable joy of encountering the unexpected and the unknown. It has never been more urgent to understand the past so that we have the ability to make new futures.
Through the History major at the University of Tasmania you will gain a sophisticated sense of your location in time and place, and will become skilled in historical research, critical analysis and communication of ideas. You will develop skills in researching a variety of historical evidence that is becoming increasingly accessible in digital forms. You will learn to analyse sources and issues, and fluently express your ideas in discussions, essays and other forms of communication. History is very present in Tasmania, with its many sites and markers of a deep and complex past linking the island to Australia and the world. Our units are all available in both on-campus and online modes.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Spanning over four centuries, from the Italian Renaissance in the late Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789, this unit explores the history of Early Modern Europe, a crucial period in shaping both Europe and the world we live…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA101 European History: Renaissance to Revolutions
This unit explores the first wave of globalisation that occurred in the long nineteenth century, between the Age of Revolution and the First World War. We explore how the world was transformed by the spread of industrialisation, nationalism, capitalism, imperialism,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA102 World History: The First Globalisation
How have successive generations made and remade communities, nation, relationships, homes, values, identities and environments across Australia’s history? This unit explores Australian history from deep time to the present, introducing and analysing key events and developments, including peopling the continent,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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From the trenches of the First World War to the end of the Second World War, this unit explores global history through the lens of an ‘Age of Catastrophe’. The first half of the twentieth century was an age convulsed…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA232 The Age of Catastrophe 1914-1945
This unit examines the creation of the United States of America by focusing on two significant conflicts. We begin by studying the origins and outcomes of the eighteenth century American War of Independence - an event that was both a…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA270 Making Modern America: Revolution and Civil War
In this unit we witness the birth of the Middle Ages, paying attention to the interactions between Barbarian warrior culture, Roman culture, and Christian culture. We examine the Franks, Anglo-Saxons, Huns, Vandals, Goths, Vikings, and other medieval peoples. Barbarians moved…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTA277 The Dark Ages? Medieval Europe AD 300-1000
History is a vast and endlessly fascinating subject of study that has many areas of specialisation. This unit will focus on a particular period, place, and/or historical theme. In doing so you will develop a deep critical engagement with key…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit will challenge your perceptions of how heritage is manufactured. You will explore, analyse, and debate local and national issues within a global frame. Through critically reflecting on how heritage is ‘made’ by historians, archaeologists, Indigenous peoples, museums, politicians,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Pick up the story in 1000 when the Vikings have given a kick-start to Europe's economy and the warrior mentality of the early Middle Ages is giving way to the rising aristocrats. From this starting-point, the unit will examine the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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In the modern era humanity has transformed landscapes, cleared forests, driven species to extinction, and spread poisons across the whole Earth. The practices and ideas underpinning this degradation and pollution is the subject of an area of study called environmental…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The late eighteenth century saw the beginning of revolutionary political, economic and cultural change that marked the emergence of modern nation states and cultures. France was site of the first modern political and social revolution, and came to dominate Europe…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTA367 Age of Revolution and Empire: Britain and France
Families in History draws on examples from diverse places and times to explore changing ideals, attitudes, and experiences of the family in the past. We consider the family’s relationship with social, cultural, economic and political forces, as well as the…
Credit Points: 12.5
For 2022 this unit is set in early twentieth century New York, and tilted "Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labour, and the New Woman".In this unit you will transform your classroom into a moment of historical controversy and intellectual ferment. Using…
Credit Points: 12.5
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
You may know about Bali and Komodo dragons but after studying Indonesian you will also know that our closest neighbour has an extraordinary literary history and that knowing Indonesian is an intellectual passport to one of the most exciting and diverse cultures in South-East Asia. A better understanding of Indonesia and fluency in the language are assets for Australians. Many of Australia's key national interests, from security and borders to agriculture and trade, are heavily dependent on Indonesia. As we strengthen our strategic relations with Indonesia, the importance of your knowledge will also grow.
Being non-scriptic and non-tonal, Indonesian is a relatively easy language to learn. It is also very accessible since it is spoken by more than 250 million people in Indonesia, and understood by the Malay-speaking population in other parts of Southeast Asia. You can study Indonesian beginner or more advanced levels. Our approachable teaching staff, with the help of high-quality interactive teaching materials, will support you to attain high fluency in the language and at the same time gain insights into various aspects of Indonesian society. You can also gain credit towards your degree by having an unforgettable experience in the in-country programs that we manage in collaboration with Australian and Indonesian institutions.
Careers and institutions that use Indonesian speakers in Australia include NGOs, Foreign Affairs, Creative Industries, community groups and public policy.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: Online and On-Campus Hobart
This is an introductory unit for students with no prior knowledge of Indonesian. This unit will provide students with the skills to communicate and interact with Indonesian people on a range of topics, to find their way around in Indonesia,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This introductory unit builds on HMN101. It is suitable for students who have some prior Indonesian language learning. The main aim is to provide you with the vocabulary, sentence shells and cultural skills that will enable you to ask and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This is an intermediate Indonesian unit and is suitable for students who have some significant prior Indonesian language learning. The main aim is to provide you with the vocabulary, sentence shells and cultural skills that will enable you to communicate…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This is an intermediate Indonesian unit builds on HMN207. It is suitable for students who have some significant prior Indonesian language learning. Through more advanced reading, you will be introduced to more complex content. You will be provided with skills…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This is an advanced Indonesian unit. It is suitable for students who have significant prior Indonesian language learning and/or background speakers. This unit enables students to read, understand, and produce more technical and formal Indonesian. The unit covers content such…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an advanced Indonesian unit that builds on HMN313. It is suitable for students who have significant prior Indonesian language learning and/or background speakers. This unit enables students to read, understand, and produce more technical and formal Indonesian. The…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
Every day you may consume and hear things about Japanese popular cultures, but do you really know Japan? The third-largest economy in the world, Japan is a world leader in popular culture fields such as anime, manga and gaming. What does the popularity of the filmmaking of Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) tell us about the world today? What are the differences and similarities between Sailor Moon and Disney's princesses? Has the world of Pok\00E9mon Go changed people's understanding of reality and digital space? The Japanese major is a gateway to Japanese popular cultures and global literacy. Gaining critical insights through this lens can impact your understanding of your own culture in surprising ways.
The Japanese program at the UTAS offers, concurrently with the pathways to master the Japanese language, the opportunity to enhance your critical thinking skills in global contexts. Our staff support and work closely with a vibrant student community, in which students are regularly encouraged to actively participate to enhance their study and deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture. With a wide range of overseas study and internship options supported by generous scholarships, the program produces graduates going on to a variety of careers in fields spanning diplomacy, media, education, public service, trade, and the arts.
We welcome from absolute beginners to more advanced students, and encourage a diversity of expression, subjects and ideas. Come and join us and grow as an effective global citizen equipped with a better understanding of the fundamental changes taking place in our dynamic region of the world and beyond.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
This is an introductory unit for students with little or no prior knowledge of Japanese. This unit has an emphasis on the interactive use of the Japanese language. It develops competence in basic spoken and written Japanese. The unit also…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Develops competence in basic spoken and written Japanese. This unit builds on the work you learned in HMJ101. This unit, the second half of introductory Japanese, develops competence in basic spoken and written skills with an emphasis on the interactive…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
Building on from HMJ102, the unit further develops basic grammatical knowledge and oral/aural skills. Students will learn to communicate orally in Japanese on a series of everyday life topics including foods, studying, working, shopping, travel, and housing. Attention is also…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
Building on from HMJ204, the unit further develops basic grammatical knowledge and oral/aural skills. Students will learn to converse in Japanese on a series of everyday life topics including: transport, health, life and careers, communication and the media. Upon completion…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
This unit builds on Japanese 2A and 2B to consolidate the grammar, vocabulary and kanji foundation built during students' study at the beginner-intermediate level. In addition to focusing on developing students' ability to read Japanese texts (through kanji reading and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
Building on previous Japanese language study, this unit aims to develop students' oral skills and production skills both in spoken and written formats. Students will develop conversation skills beyond everyday life situations through group work with unit classmates as well…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit aims to deconstruct the monolithic perception of Japanese culture and to understand Japan in terms of its relationship to its near and more distant neighbours through Asia and the Pacific. Incorporating the approach of queer studies which places…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HMJ310 Queering Japan: Popular Culture, Identity, and Nation
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- On-campus
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
From our 24-hour news cycle and endless streaming services to social media posts building brands and inspiring social change, media and communication connect every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Media and communication graduates are sought by many industries looking for people whose understanding of media goes beyond their own favourite shows and social media accounts. An understanding of media and communication opens doors to a wide range of exciting careers.
Our island campus of Tasmania is the start of your journey. The Media School is uniquely co-located with leading media organisations in Hobart. You will bump shoulders and share facilities with practitioners from the news, communication and the screen industries. Outside, you're a short walk from Parliament House, the courts, museums, galleries and performance spaces, and Hobart's docks, which are the world's scientific gateway to Antarctica.
This major is tailored for students curious about media from a cultural and sociological perspective. Who are the content makers and who are the audiences? Who are the influencers and how are do we understand their influence? Students will learn skills in media analysis and develop their skills in research and professional writing.
Available: On-Campus Hobart
Note: Students completing the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Media and Communication as a double degree cannot complete this major in their Bachelor of Arts component.
It is vital for emerging media practitioners to understand the complex ways that contemporary industries operate on local, regional, national and global scales, and how these industries intersect with audiences, cultures and communities. With a focus on ethical issues including equity,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Digital technologies such as platforms and apps have an influence on contemporary life, culture, how we form communities, and professional and interpersonal communication. This unit will introduce you to perspectives on cloud-based technologies, digital imaging, gaming and virtual reality platforms.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
We know the impact that photographic images can have on us, individually and collectively. When images and words come together to tell a story they can be entertaining, revelatory, breath-taking, and even powerful agents of change. In this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
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View all details for FXA202 The Photo Essay: Storytelling with image and text
Risk and crisis are defining features of contemporary life, and organisations and communities are increasingly planning for climate crises, including strategies for communicating risk and change. Crisis communications and management are relevant to all media content creators. You will learn…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
How do screen and audio texts communicate powerful and meaningful stories for their audiences? This unit introduces you to the fundamentals of dynamic storytelling for both the screen and audio industries. With a special focus on scriptwriting for film and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
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- Domestic students
View all details for HEJ246 Storytelling for Screen and Sound
How do emerging technologies and communication practices integrate into society? This unit invites you to consider the speculative environment for emerging and new media. We consider how new media technologies and their uses encounter legal and ethical issues, and the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
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- International students
- Domestic students
This unit delves into digital and social media marketing, addressing the growing need for businesses to adapt to a real-time digital landscape. It provides students with a thorough understanding of the evolution and roles of traditional versus digital advertising. Students…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Melbourne Study Centre | Semester 1 | | | ||
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for BMA343 Digital and Social Media Marketing
What does it mean to act in a global media landscape? In this unit, you will examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology, exploring how performance can offer new ways to understand, critique, and engage with global media networks…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit prepares student writers to submit works of creative writing for publication. Students draft, redraft and polish a major creative work while at the same time developing their knowledge of the contemporary publishing industry. Unit content focuses on understanding…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN318 Creative Writing: Professional Practice
This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
How do we learn to 'do' gender? Is gender 'natural'? In this unit, you will develop a critical lens through which to understand the social forces and structures of power that shape us as gendered individuals and construct the world…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit aims to deconstruct the monolithic perception of Japanese culture and to understand Japan in terms of its relationship to its near and more distant neighbours through Asia and the Pacific. Incorporating the approach of queer studies which places…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HMJ310 Queering Japan: Popular Culture, Identity, and Nation
The public policy arena presents a complex framework of actors, politics, instruments, and practices. This unit examines the broad range of theories, models, influences, and players that shape the development of Australian public policy. It aims to equip students with…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit will challenge your perceptions of how heritage is manufactured. You will explore, analyse, and debate local and national issues within a global frame. Through critically reflecting on how heritage is ‘made’ by historians, archaeologists, Indigenous peoples, museums, politicians,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit will equip students with an interdisciplinary understanding of energy systems. Its focus is on how science and policy are interacting to shape Australia’s energy futures. The Australian energy sector is experiencing a period of change, prompted by the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for KGA319 Science and Policy for Energy Futures
Studying Philosophy allows you to ask (and occasionally answer) the very biggest of questions. What makes for a meaningful life? What can we know? What is the nature of the world, or of ourselves in it? What kind of societies are just? Philosophy explores fundamental questions about the human condition, relevant for people at all times and in all places, but equally arising out of the specifics of each life - whether in Tasmania or anywhere else. It considers problems and concerns arising from art, literature, science, law, religion, and many other human endeavors, along with the basic matter of an ethical engagement with the world. Philosophy also gives you skills in analysis, reasoning, and clear and cogent communication - highly valued attributes across all study areas in the Bachelor of Arts as well as contemporary professions.
In this major you will encounter philosophical issues from different perspectives across both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. In the first year, you will study some of the central branches of philosophy - ethics and political philosophy, metaphysics, and epistemology. In the second year you will explore the history of philosophical thinking, in ancient Greece, the Buddhist tradition and the early modern world in Europe. By third year you will be investigating current issues: reading major modern philosophical texts, examining the connections between philosophy and other fields of inquiry, and bringing philosophical work to bear on contemporary problems.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart, Launceston and online
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Life is filled with philosophical questions, but we rarely get the chance to slow down and think them through. This unit gives you that opportunity. In this introductory unit you will take a philosophical lens to examine contemporary issues in…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HPH110 Reason in Action: Politics, Science, and Society
Today’s burning questions often have deep philosophical roots. In this unit, you’ll explore those roots by examining some of the most enduring and provocative questions in philosophy. Here are some questions you may explore: What is morality? Do animals have…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HPH120 Doing Philosophy: Ethics, Knowledge, and Reality
Feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology and queer theory have raised stimulating questions about the body. This unit examines how the body is theorised, how it interacts with questions of culture and class, and explores the implications of our understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit surveys the main Western philosophical traditions from the Renaissance up to the 19th century. At the centre stand the metaphysical and epistemological systems of the Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) and the Empiricists (Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume),…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HPH202 Foundations of Modern Philosophy
Logic is the theory of good reasoning. This unit introduces students to some of the types of reasoning that are regularly used in everyday life, in philosophy and in many other fields. Students will be introduced to a variety of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
We are all constantly faced with moral questions and questions about human values more generally, but what is morality and what are the foundations of human values? On what grounds do we and should we, base our decisions about morality…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Philosophers regularly collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, mathematicians and physicists, ecologists and biologists, artists and filmmakers, as well as medical practitioners and researchers. These collaborations are often fruitful and offer new, unexpected insights. Most disciplines involve philosophical questions or benefit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
In this unit, we analyse Buddhist philosophy of mind (study about the nature of mind and consciousness), Buddhist epistemology (study about knowledge and how we can know), and Buddhist psychology (study of emotions, how we think, behave and feel), phenomenology…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an introduction to political philosophy. Political philosophy is the branch of philosophy concerned with political values, such as freedom, equality, community, rights, duties, and democracy. Political philosophy is as old as philosophy itself. However, this unit will focus…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Science is our most successful attempt to understand the world around us, and it plays an extremely important role in contemporary society. As such, we should not ignore the possibility that science may have something to contribute to traditional philosophical…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
European Philosophy encompasses various philosophical movements, primary among which are German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and more recently critical phenomenology and enactivism. They all focus on questions concerning lived experience, consciousness, intersubjectivity, the relationship between selves and worlds. These traditions…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HPH312 Self and World: Debates in European Philosophy
The Politics, Policy and International Relations (PIR) Major at the University of Tasmania offers students a structured pathway to gain knowledge, gather evidence and evaluate solutions to the major local, national, and international issues of our time. The PIR major develops three core skills students need to be effective agents of change in today's turbulent world: theoretically informed and evidence-based thinking; multi-methods research capacity; and policy analysis skills transferable across different disciplinary, spatial, and temporal contexts. In their final year, students apply these skills in undertaking independent research, project activities, and internships in areas of professional and personal interest. Graduates of the PIR major position themselves for roles in policy analysis, program evaluation, and research leading to leadership roles in the public service, and private and civil society sectors.
The PIR major offers units on foundational and contemporary political and international issues, concepts, theory and ideologies coupled with applied, real-world, case studies. Students grapple with the major political forces shaping their lives including war and peace, democracy and authoritarianism, genocide and justice. The PIR major empowers students to understand the deep divisions societies encounter in an era of political polarisation fanned by GenAI and social media, enabling the sober evaluation of policy solutions that generate more just, equitable, and sustainable communities into the future.
Completion of the major requires a 100 credit points comprising:
- 25 credit points at Introductory (100) level units
- 25 credit points at Intermediate (200) level
- 50 credit points at Advanced (300) level
HIR101 provides students with an overview of the theory and practice of international relations. The unit is divided into two modules. In module one, you will learn about theoretical approaches to the study of IR including introductions to realist, liberal,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HIR101 Introduction to International Relations
This unit provides a foundation for the study of politics, public policy, and international relations. Students are introduced to key concepts, theories and debates that shape political life, including power, the state, democracy, governance, and ideology. Students examine how political…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HPP101 Introduction to Politics and Policy
This unit explores broad ranging and contemporary aspects of Australian politics and policy, including democratic principles and Australian institutions, values and Australian culture, the Australian electoral system and campaigns, forms of political representation and the role of lobby groups, the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- International students
- Domestic students
This unit introduces students to the study of political ideas focusing on some of the major ideological frameworks that have and continue to guide political action in the modern era. In the unit, students will consider liberal, conservative, Marxist, fascist,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
International cooperation has undoubtly a positive ring to it. Recent decades have seen an impressive increase in inter-governmental and transnational cooperation, which often have been hailed for creating policies of peace and prosperity. Examples include the European Union, the Arms…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- International students
- Domestic students
Students of politics, policy and international relations confront a turbulent domestic and international context replete with injustices demanding action. To inform such action, knowledge must be gathered, analysed, synthesised, and communicated. Guided by Politics and International Relations academic staff, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores a set of enduring justice issues that are experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The role and legacy of settler colonialism frames the examination of justice issues, as well as contextualises the possible…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit is concerned with the question of the changing/evolving nature of violence in the international realm. Part one of the unit will trace the emergence of modern thought about violence through theoretical 'traditions' and the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- International students
- Domestic students
Political violence appears in many different forms across the world. While in the 2010s the focus has been, in Western democracies, on extremist religious violence, notably so called Islamist terrorism, there has been a rise in right-wing extremist violence in…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HIR306 Political Violence, Surveillance and Democracy
The public policy arena presents a complex framework of actors, politics, instruments, and practices. This unit examines the broad range of theories, models, influences, and players that shape the development of Australian public policy. It aims to equip students with…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit has two central goals. First, it aims to provide students with an introduction to comparative politics. Second, it seeks to provide students with advanced knowledge of politics in contrasting parts of the world. The unit consists of three…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HPP304 Parties, Leaders, Elections and Campaigns
The Community and Public Sector Internship Program is a research-based unit that offers you the opportunity to undertake an unpaid, part-time placement in a public sector agency in the Tasmanian State Service, or a community-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), or a Local…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- Domestic students
View all details for HSS305 Community and Public Sector Internship Program
A Parliamentary Internship is available at the Parliament of Tasmania. It involves a part-time placement with a Member of Parliament or a Parliamentary Committee and involves the intern undertaking a practical, research-oriented report. The internship aims to give students experience…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Why do we behave the way we do? Why do we think, react and interact as we do? When you study psychology, you will begin to understand the science behind human behaviour - and how this science can be used to solve practical problems in all sorts of situations. Psychological science covers everything from how the brain functions, to how social and environmental factors shape our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
Students who graduate with a major in psychology have a wide range of career options beyond working as a counsellor or psychologist. UTAS psychology graduates have gone on to work in fields such as human resources, defence forces, health and legal agencies, and many other settings. And our research is just as varied - from working with expeditioners in the Antarctic, to communities in remote Australia; from learning how children develop language, to understanding how gaming influences behaviour. We work with organisations such as the department of health and police force, and with individuals, for example, people experiencing the effects of brain injury, substance addiction, or mental illness. Studying psychology at UTAS provides students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge to address issues relevant to regional, rural, and metropolitan societies at the local, national, and global level.
Students considering becoming a psychologist need to complete an accredited undergraduate sequence of study in Psychology (12 units) in an accredited Bachelor's degree to progress to Honours and postgraduate study in Psychology. The requirement for the accredited undergraduate sequence is completion of the Psychological Science major (8 core units)) and 4 additional prescribed elective Psychology units. The Psychological Science sequence offered through Bachelor of Psychological Science (53F), Bachelor of Arts (A3A), Bachelor of Science (P3O), and Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws (63Y) are fully accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC).
Additional enrolment information for Bachelor students:
- PSY112, PSY125, PSY223 and PSY224 must be completed in addition to the Psychological Science major as Electives for students to be eligible to apply for Psychology Honours. Students in a Double Degree may have these units count towards their Bachelor of Arts Discipline Electives.
Available: On campus in Cradle Coast, Hobart and Launceston, and Online.
In today’s information-rich world it is essential to be able to interpret and critically evaluate empirical and popular reports of psychological research, as well as research findings more broadly. We need to be able to recognise the characteristics of valid…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY111 Transferable Skills in Psychology
Human behaviour is universal, but its expression, nature, and intent vary across cultures and contexts. Why do individuals behave the way they do? Lecture content will introduce and explore theoretical descriptions of individual differences such as personality and intelligence that…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY124 Mental Health and Individual Differences
The lectures examine aspects of overt social behaviour, such as two-person encounters, behaviour in small and large groups and inter-group relations. Research in social cognition, which studies people’s perceptions and interpretations of the social world, will also be presented. Unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The field of psychology has an aim that, on the surface, appears straightforward: to understand human behaviour. However, human behaviour is varied and complex, and achieving this goal presents a considerable challenge. Researchers must be familiar with and adhere to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit provides coverage of human development over the lifespan (infancy to old age) including cognitive and social-emotional domains of development. The major periods of development are examined, including infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood, emphasising predominant developmental aspects for different…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY302 Lifespan Developmental Psychology
This unit aims to introduce you to a range of psychiatric disorders including psychological symptoms, theoretical models, assessment and evidence-based treatments. Consideration is given to a range of cognitive-behavioural strategies employed by clinical psychologists and other mental health professionals in…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Psychology, the study of human behaviour, is wondrous in its complexity. Individual behaviour is affected and influenced by many factors, including biological, neurological, psychological and cultural. Psychologists can and do measure all of these factors and understand that the relationships…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY311 Advanced Research Skills in Psychology
This unit offers a systematic approach to understanding psychological assessment and measurement. Consideration is given to a range of psychological assessment strategies and how these can be applied across a range of contexts . This unit is designed to provide…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY324 Psychological Assessment and Measurement
When you study sociology, you will come to appreciate how the world around you influences the way you think, feel and act while acquiring a better understanding of yourself and your role in this world. This is what sociology does. It makes sense of the many challenges that human societies face in the modern world and the ways in which people and societies confront those challenges. Studying Sociology will provide you with the knowledge to understand how these challenges have emerged, the skills to analyse the complexities of how those challenges effect different social groups, and the capacity to evaluate options for creating more sustainable and socially just societies.
Sociology questions the established, taken-for-granted views of reality, to provide clearer and more complex understandings of social life. This major offers an exciting range of social topics to engage with including how globalisation and global issues influence everyday life, the significance of cities and urbanisation in the early 21st century, the role of social divisions, inequality and power in shaping our life chances, and the diverse ways in which gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race contribute to the construction of our identity. You will start with an introduction to sociological theory and foundational issues before advancing into the intermediate core units on diverse social theory and social research methods. By the third year, you will be able to utilise your sociological theory and social research approaches to engage with critical issues facing us right now.
Sociology equips you with the skills to think critically about the world around you and the ability to apply different perspectives in your decision-making and planning. This is an essential requirement in any career needing cultural awareness and research expertise.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and online
Sociology inspires you to think differently about the world. We discover how a ‘sociological imagination’ enables us to better understand our lives, the groups we belong to and how societies are changing. From growing up with social media to changing…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA101 Sociology: Understanding the Social World
This unit considers how we can use sociology to make sense of our everyday experiences and to explain broader transformations in society that may alter and reshape our sense of self, identity, place, and community. The unit explores central sociological…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA102 Sociology: Experiencing Social Life
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Perspectives on the Social World provides students with an understanding of the concepts and approaches developed by sociologists to explain major social changes in Western democracies from the end of the 18th century to the present. The unit is divided…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA202 Perspectives on the Social World
This unit introduces students to the world of social research. It answers questions about how to understand, interpret, and collect data, and explores the research methods used to investigate and solve social problems. The unit covers a wide range of social…
Credit Points: 12.5
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City Lives brings together practical skills in urban analysis and observation to promote critical consideration of the pressing urban issues of our times. In particular, this unit tackles contemporary issues of urban inclusion, exclusion, diversity, and creativity. It interrogates who…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
This unit will enable students to understand how tourism and cultural industries have dramatically changed our lives. Cultural industries have grown significantly, with examples such as museums, regional festivals and wilderness adventures. At the same time there is an increasing…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit applies a sociological lens to the terrain of racial, religious and ethnic relations in Australia. Through a focus on inter-related themes of inequality and difference, it introduces theories of race, ethnicity, indigeneity and whiteness and applies these to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HGA324 Ethnicity, Religion and Race: Understanding Social Diversity
This unit provides a critical introduction to issues and debates relating to crime in the context of sport. From doping to corruption in the world game, sport and crime are inextricably linked. Sharing a number of themes and issues such…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit applies a critical sociological perspective to health, illness and medicine. Each year the unit will use topical examples to explore expert and public knowledges about health and illness, the social distribution and patterning of health and illness, inequalities…
Credit Points: 12.5
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How do we learn to 'do' gender? Is gender 'natural'? In this unit, you will develop a critical lens through which to understand the social forces and structures of power that shape us as gendered individuals and construct the world…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit examines the position and experiences of young people in contemporary society, and challenges some of the negative discourses that surround 'youth'. It provides an analysis of the social construction of 'youth' and highlights diversity through an examination of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The Community and Public Sector Internship Program is a research-based unit that offers you the opportunity to undertake an unpaid, part-time placement in a public sector agency in the Tasmanian State Service, or a community-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), or a Local…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HSS305 Community and Public Sector Internship Program
In the Theatre and Performance major you will develop skills through practice-led learning, to become creative, critical and resilient practitioners. At the same time you will explore the history and theory of theatre and performance, delving into the history of theatre, and the future of performance practice, enriching your capacity to create innovative work that responds to the twenty-first century world.
Through critical and reflective engagement you will learn how to manage creative projects, lead collaborative processes and develop communication and problem-solving skills. You will develop practical and technical skills for performance within wider artistic, social, political and environmental contexts while exploring the best of contemporary theatre practice. Through our Creative Curriculum units, you will have the opportunity to extend your skills through work-integrated learning placements in acclaimed Tasmanian festivals like Dark MOFO, Mona Foma, Ten Days on the Island, The Unconformity or Junction Arts Festival.
You will be studying at the Annexe in Launceston or at the Hunter Street Campus in Hobart, which have dedicated working theatres and studios. Through the unique blend of practice-based and theoretical offerings in this major, you will learn how to pursue a sustainable practice, and gain highly transferable skills which are valuable in a range of career pathways within the creative industries and beyond.
Students completing the Theatre and Performance major in a Bachelor's degree may also complete the following Creative Curriculum units as Electives where the course allows for Elective choices. If you are interested in enrolling in any of these units, please contact UConnect for enrolment assistance.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
This major is available: On campus Hobart and Launceston.
This unit is a practical exploration of contemporary performance methods, with a focus on developing physical and vocal skills, interpreting a text for performance, and the development of your rehearsal practice. You will learn safe working practices for vocal and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The Theatre Machine is a device to make sense of the world, generating meaningful experiences for audiences. It is a complex system balancing diverse artistic forms, media and technologies. This unit explores the theatre machine from the perspective of design…
Credit Points: 12.5
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How can you play around with a play? This unit explores the evolution and interpretation of dramatic texts, using the concept of play to explore the range of interpretive practices that move the text from page to stage. Working with…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit develops practical and creative skills in the craft of writing for performance. Through practical workshops, discussions, and readings, you will explore a range of styles, genres, and methodologies for writing for performance. Approaches to character development, script structure,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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In this unit you will undertake small exploratory performance-based projects through a laboratory-style experience. You will investigate various skills and strategies essential to realise identified projects collaboratively or individually fora public audience. You will critically reflect on your experience. Experimental…
Credit Points: 12.5
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What does it mean to act in a global media landscape? In this unit, you will examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology, exploring how performance can offer new ways to understand, critique, and engage with global media networks…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Directed Theatre Project is dedicated to the development, rehearsal and presentation of a complete theatre production and builds on the skills and knowledge learnt in FPB316 Experimental Production 1 and FPB317 Global Media and Cybertheatres. Classes are conducted as rehearsals…
Credit Points: 25
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Your electives can be used to add breadth to your degree, by exploring a variety of different subject areas from across the University in areas such as Health, Business, Science, Creative Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences. Alternatively, you can deepen your engagement with specific subject areas, for example, by completing additional units in the same discipline as your major or related fields. You can also use this space to complete an optional 2nd major which may be from your current course or a major from another course*. Please contact U.Connect@utas.edu.au if you need more information or if you want to add a 2nd major to your study plan. *Some exclusions apply. Not all majors can be taken by students in different courses.
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Developing sustainable societies is a major challenge of the Anthropocene. This Major allows students to explore the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills that underpin the development of sustainable societies and solutions. Informed by international and local research, practice and theory, this program allows students to develop specialist expertise across the physical and social sciences and humanities. With an emphasis on student-led and problem-based learning, this Major provides the frameworks for developing sustainability solutions in a range of fields and careers.
This Major is for students interested in developing sustainable societies. Informed by international and local research, practice and theory, the Major allows students to develop specialist expertise across physical and social sciences and humanities.
Major Co-ordinator: Aidan Davison
Sustainability is a central concept for communities pursuing social and economic goals within ecological limits. Yet the different ways sustainability is defined, communicated and enacted reflects the wide range of underlying values, perspectives and priorities at stake. In this unit,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Contemporary media is saturated with images of extreme weather events, hunger, poverty, conflict, pollution, austerity, and financial crisis. Mounting evidence suggests the 21st century will be defined by unprecedented challenges related to environmental instability, economic inequality and risks to social…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Earth is a lively and dynamic planet that is undergoing rapid changes wrought by the activities of humans. In what ways are these changes impacting on us and other species? Are we precipitating another mass extinction; the 6th major mass…
Credit Points: 12.5
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KGA171 Global Geographies of Change introduces you to how geography helps us understand today’s world. The unit explores key issues such as climate change, natural hazards, vulnerability, sustainability, population, development, and territory. You will learn how people and environments interact,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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In this unit, you will be introduced to the concept of sustainability starting with the transformations necessary for achieving the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a way that organises them into 6 logical groups. You will examine…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This capstone unit will give you the opportunity to bring together your learnings and apply sustainability knowledge and literacy to aspects of your own life, and to identify how it can contribute to sustainable outcomes within your wider community and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA107 Local Lives for a Sustainable Planet
This unit takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding complex adaptive systems and developing practical skills in systems thinking. It is structured into five inter-related modules, beginning and ending with philosophical reflection on the human capacity to think about systems. Students…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Practical, public policy-orientated lectures and tutorials in this unit explore the practical issues of resource management using international, Australian and Tasmanian case studies. There will be specific focus on the sustainable yield of fisheries and the management of forests for…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit introduces students to the study of political ideas focusing on some of the major ideological frameworks that have and continue to guide political action in the modern era. In the unit, students will consider liberal, conservative, Marxist, fascist,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Society needs professional environmental managers who have the knowledge and skills to effectively tackle problems of sustainable resource use, climate change and biodiversity conservation. Environmental managers also play an important role in helping communities identify and move towards sustainable and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The most complex and important challenges facing societies today bring together concerns about environmental, political, economic, and cultural sustainability. Guided by an interdisciplinary teaching team, this unit enables you to investigate how you and others can act as agents of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA301 Change Agents for Sustainability
This unit investigates the components of a healthy and sustainable food system (production to consumption) from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the domains of health, environment, economy and society. Students will critically analyse the concept of the ‘Sustainable Diet’ and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
In this unit you will undertake a funded 4-week immersive trip to an Indo-Pacific nation, engaging with leaders from public, private and civil society, to explore the impact of global environmental issues at the local level. Working individually, and in…
Credit Points: 25
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In a globalised economy and changing climate, ecological health, individual well-being, social cohesion are in decline. More people and more places are experiencing hardship, with those in the Global South (the majority world) and in disadvantaged parts of the Global…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA308 Geographies of Collapse and Resilience
This unit will equip students with an interdisciplinary understanding of energy systems. Its focus is on how science and policy are interacting to shape Australia’s energy futures. The Australian energy sector is experiencing a period of change, prompted by the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA319 Science and Policy for Energy Futures
Immerse yourself in real-world sustainability by engaging in a sustainability-based placement experience. You will be presented with dynamic sustainability opportunities where you will apply your skills, knowledge and University studies to engage with industry and community led projects and participate in…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for SPE301 Sustainability Placement Experience
The Bachelor of Arts component of a Double Degree requires the completion of 200 credit points comprising:
- A 100 credit point Major and;
- 100 credit points of Discipline Electives
When you study Latin and Greek, you will find an exciting new home in the languages that shaped the fundamentals of western thought in the sciences, philosophy, medicine, and literature. Beautiful and fascinating in their own right, these ancient languages provide you with a deeper understanding of modern culture, specialist technical terminologies and many modern languages through their roots in Latin and Greek. Each week you will experience the intense satisfaction of building your brain into a stronger, better, more agile resource. Understanding the precious cultural resources bound up in even 'dead' languages also exposes you to the politics of vulnerable Indigenous languages, such as the returned and reconstructed island language of Tasmania, palawa kani.
This is a unique course recognised as the most dynamic (and best off-campus) ancient languages course in Australasia. Our introductory units begin with Latin and are designed for students with no experience in ancient or modern languages. These units pay attention to fundamental principles of grammar, informing general understanding of language structure, and guide students through skillfully adapted texts allowing direct access to ancient thought. Our intermediate units continue to develop grammatical skills while gradually incorporating original texts. At advanced level you will read ancient texts in their original language, and begin Ancient Greek in accelerated form. The Ancient Languages Major integrates closely with Ancient Civilisations and connects with several majors in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Legal Studies. Learning Ancient Greek and Latin and reading their centuries of literature are among the great intellectual adventures, and employers recognise the analytical and creative skills such training develops.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
This unit is intended for students who have no previous knowledge of Latin. The unit is designed to provide a rapid survey of the language sufficient to enable students to read selected passages of adapted and original Latin. This unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The unit will focus on further study of Latin grammar (morphology and syntax), such as the uses of the moods and tenses of the verb, further uses of the cases, and the introduction of the passive voice. We will also…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit consists of a study of selected Latin texts.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit builds on the study of the ancient Latin language undertaken in HTL101 and HTL102. In it, students will complete the JACT Reading Latin textbook, including the passages of unadapted poetry and prose (Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace).…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit consists of a study of selected Latin texts.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Consists of a study of selected Latin texts.…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is a study of the role of myth in Greek and Roman culture through literary texts and ancient art, including an exploration of the relationship between mythological narratives and religious ritual. This unit also traces developments in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Nero: misunderstood emperor, malevolent tyrant, or a monster of the middle order? This unit explores the enigmatic and transgressive literature produced during the reign of Nero (AD 54-68): the writings of the philosopher and tragic poet Seneca, the anarchic Satyricon…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
China is one of the world's oldest civilisations. It is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing economies in the world. China has played an increasingly significant role in world economy and politics over the past decades. Learn more about the histories and cultures of China as you immerse yourself in Mandarin. Our program is geared toward practical use of the Chinese language and takes a holistic approach to developing your literacy in Chinese through the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. We cater for complete beginners to advanced speakers and offer many opportunities to enhance your studies by overseas study visits. The major consists of six core language units supplemented by an extensive introduction to the culture of contemporary China. At the University of Tasmania, we teach in an exciting combination of face-to-face and online modes combining the best of personal attention with the best of digital assistance to keep you motivated and constantly refining your language skills wherever you are.
A knowledge of China with Mandarin language skills means a huge variety of diverse careers are open to you. As Australia's relations with China have expanded enormously so has the demand for skills in Chinese language and an appreciation of Chinese cultural forms. Particular industries where this demand is strongest include: diplomacy, tourism, accounting and finance, translators and interpreters, law, technology, business and education.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and Launceston, and online.
This is an introductory unit for students with little or no prior knowledge of Chinese. This introductory unit is for anyone who is interested in the Chinese language and/or has the need to learn Chinese for business or academic purposes.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- Domestic students
Building on the foundation skills taught in HMC101, HMC102 further develops competence in beginners spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). The focus is to improve speaking and listening, reading and writing skills. …
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- Domestic students
HMC219 is designed to further develop competence in intermediate spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). The unit builds on students’ study in HMC101 and HMC102. It introduces new grammar and vocabulary as well as examples of real-world language use to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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HMC220 is designed to further develop students’ skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening of Chinese language from the foundation of HMC101/2 Chinese 1A and 1B and following on in sequence from HMC219 Chinese 2A. The focus is to expand…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- Domestic students
This unit develops competence in advanced spoken and written Chinese (simplified characters). It is a workshop style, participatory language unit. The unit includes 1) discussions regarding grammar and 2) student and teacher-led exercises in speaking and listening, reading and writing.…
Credit Points: 12.5
HMC320 is the continuation of HMC319. This is a workshop style, participatory language unit. The unit includes 1) discussions regarding grammar and 2) student and teacher-led exercises in speaking and listening, reading and writing. This unit builds on your previous…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is designed to deepen your understanding of contemporary issues related to religion, ethnicity and conflict in Southeast Asia. In the introductory section of the unit, you will familiarise yourself with the history, social and political structure of countries…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HIR312 Religion, Ethnicity and Conflict in Southeast Asia
This unit aims to develop students’ practical skills and techniques of translation between English and Chinese. It is suitable for students who are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese and its dialects. It is also suitable for heritage or non-heritage students…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HMC316 Chinese Translation Skills and Practice
This unit is an introduction to contemporary China. The aim of this unit is to enable students to understand and critically analyse domestic and international current events and core topics related to China, which may include politics, the economy, international…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit aims to introduce students to the basic theories and principles in translation and the fundamental skills required for Chinese to English translation. It is suitable for students who are native speakers of Mandarin Chinese and its dialects. It…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
Are you curious about the depravity of Roman emperors or the vengeful natures of ancient gods? Or why the fall of Rome remains a key point of comparison for modern global politics? When you study Ancient Civilisations you come to understand the everchanging nature of human societies, as well as the deep continuities that bind humanity together. You will explore topics in mythology and religion, drama, history, classical epic, and many more. As such, Ancient Civilisations is dynamic and multidisciplinary: you will gain experience with ancient historiography, literary criticism, material culture, and philosophical enquiry.
We begin with surveys of the Greek and Roman cultures which introduce skills for interpreting ancient primary sources. Our intermediate units introduce you to classical scholarship and continue to deepen skills in critical analysis of primary sources. At the advanced level, you begin to engage critically with secondary scholarship and build intellectual independence by developing your own research projects. Together, the Ancient Civilisations and Ancient Languages majors make up the Classics discipline, and both majors are taught by renowned Classics lecturers.
Our major develops critical thinking, research methods, and intercultural awareness, which prepares you for a range of professional careers that require an understanding of the ethical implications of a project, long-term effects of actions or diverse experiences of policy. Areas where such skills are needed include: Politics and Policy, Education, Human Resources and Non-Government Organisations.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: Online, On-campus Hobart
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
This unit introduces you to the world of ancient Greece through the study of ancient literary texts in translation. We learn how to analyse and interpret the perspectives of ancient writers who wrote across different literary genres and time periods…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit introduces you to the world of ancient Rome through the study of ancient literary texts in translation. We learn how to analyse and interpret the perspectives of ancient writers who wrote across different literary genres and time periods…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
War and the nature of heroism were the central subject of the ancient world's most prestigious literary genre, epic poetry. This unit explores the changing ways in which the experience of war and the character of the epic hero are…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTC210 War and the Hero: Classical Epic
This unit examines one of the most well documented periods in classical antiquity: the last century of the Roman Republic. We view the social, cultural, and political turmoil of this era through the lenses of ancient literary sources and modern…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit is a study of the role of myth in Greek and Roman culture through literary texts and ancient art, including an exploration of the relationship between mythological narratives and religious ritual. This unit also traces developments in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Nero: misunderstood emperor, malevolent tyrant, or a monster of the middle order? This unit explores the enigmatic and transgressive literature produced during the reign of Nero (AD 54-68): the writings of the philosopher and tragic poet Seneca, the anarchic Satyricon…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit examines tragic and comic dramas of classical antiquity, which established the nature of western drama for later ages, including the works of Sophocles and Aeschylus, and the bawdy and irreverent Greek and Roman comedies. Particular attention will be…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC311 Comedy and Tragedy in the Classical World
Taking 'erotic text' in a broad sense, this unit explores the many functions - but especially the malfunctions - of desire in ancient literature. We will read some of Ovid's Heroides, fictional verse-letters written by heroines of Greek myth to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC339 Desire and Disorder in the Erotic Text
This unit explores the roles of spectacles and the spectacular in ancient Greek and Roman society through the study of literary sources and material culture. Lecture and discussion topics include athletic competitions, gladiatorial games, chariot races, animal hunts, military triumphs,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTC340 Spectacle and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome
Religion permeated all facets of life in ancient Greece and Rome. This unit examines the religious practices of these civilizations through the study of literary sources and material, and culture. Lecture and discussion topics include sacred places and spaces, festivals,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTC341 Religions of Ancient Greece and Rome
'When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.’ Thus Hans Gruber (Die Hard, 1988) misquotes the ancient author Plutarch, who in turn was crafting an Alexander to suit his own…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC343 Deconstructing Alexander: Propaganda, Perception and Power
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
Engagement with music, visual arts, dance and other creative art forms can change people's lives, bringing joy, restoring self-confidence and improving mental and physical wellbeing. In this major, you can learn about global developments in this emerging interdisciplinary field and develop an understanding of how and why the arts can help to relieve suffering, improve wellbeing, and foster resilience. You will have opportunities to explore your own artistic creativity and challenge yourself to apply your knowledge and skills through finding arts-based solutions to the health and wellbeing challenges of the 21st century.
In your first year you will learn the fundamentals of how interactions with different forms of the creative arts are processed by the brain, evaluate innovative arts-based programs that have been developed to improve function and wellbeing and reflect on your own experience of the creative process. In the second year you will continue to explore your creativity and learn visual and digital skills for arts-based interventions along with a range of strategies to promote emotional wellbeing. During your third year you will develop further contextual knowledge and skills for working with diverse groups of people of all ages and deepen your understanding of how engagement with the arts affects the brain and body. You will also research specific applications of the arts to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, while developing your own proposal for trialing a concept and designing an arts project for a specific group or need.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, degree with a defined pathway into further study in Counselling and Occupational Therapy.
Available: Online
Practical interventions employing arts-based activities, including music, theatre, dance and visual arts, are increasingly being employed nationally and internationally to improve mood and well-being, physical activity and cognitive processing for people with dementia. Arts-based programs have also been shown to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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This unit will provide an introduction to existing evidence-based research on the benefits of engagement with the arts, through the lifespan and strategies employing creativity to support better ageing and mitigate risk factors for dementia. The unit offers opportunities for…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- International students
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In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
We know the impact that photographic images can have on us, individually and collectively. When images and words come together to tell a story they can be entertaining, revelatory, breath-taking, and even powerful agents of change. In this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for FXA202 The Photo Essay: Storytelling with image and text
In this online unit you will learn about a range of approaches to managing stress and enhancing well-being which can be applied by individuals in a self-care context. As a foundation, you will learn about stress, coping, well-being and happiness.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY214 Stress, Self-Care and Mindfulness
Ever wonder why that tune gets stuck in your head, or when you listen to your favourite song your foot starts tapping, or why it's easier to remember the words of a song when you sing the tune? How do…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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Research is providing increasing evidence for the positive benefits of engagement with the arts for individual and community wellbeing at all stages of life and can provide a non-pharmaceutical adjunct to health interventions. This unit explores case studies of successful…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit explores historical and current case studies of creative arts practitioners from a range of cultural contexts living with physical or mental illness and the ways this is reflected or subsumed in their work. This engagement with creative work…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for FXA302 Perspectives of the Arts on Health and Wellbeing
Participation in the creative arts has been shown to afford a wide range of benefits to mental health and wellbeing for young and old. This unit explores ways in which the creative arts and play can be used therapeutically to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for FXA303 Creative Arts, Play and Mental Wellbeing
Crime is an issue that governments and communities face every day. To stop crime, we must examine how and why it happens. Criminology is the study of crime, criminality and criminal justice systems; it focuses on criminalisation as a process, the causes of crime, the social context of offending, crime prevention, systems of social control, and the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. In this major you will explore the meaning of justice and the best ways to respond to crime and criminality while debating the role of the media, the contribution of parliaments and what really happens at crime scenes and in court rooms. Our case studies include examples from across the world as well as what happens in our local communities. We look at everything from cybercrime, murder and theft through to corruption and environmental crime. Over the course of this major you will come to understand the main features of criminology as an academic discipline and be able to apply criminological theories, concepts and evidence. You will learn to analyse the causes and responses to crime as well as critically evaluate explanations of crime at local, national and global levels. This major will provide the knowledge and skills to work in criminal justice agencies and develop initiatives and agendas for change. Some specific areas where you may find work include policing, crime prevention, corrections and policy research. Units can be studied both on-campus and online.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and Launceston, and online.
In this unit you will focus on sociological approaches to crime and the criminal justice system with the objective of understanding research and debates about: (i) the criminal justice system (police, courts, corrections); (ii) patterns of crime (measuring crime victims…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This is a foundational unit in Criminology. You will focus on criminological approaches to understanding crime and criminalisation. The unit will introduce various categories of crime (e.g. property crime and violent crime) and debates about what counts as crime and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Forensic science has long captured the public imagination as evidenced in crime dramas, documentaries, and podcasts. However, the representations do not always reflect reality. This unit introduces the emerging field of forensic studies, contrasting the fiction with the facts, exploring…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is offered to provide students an introduction to a specialised sub-field of criminology, and the ability to investigate a set of topical issues in society and the criminal justice system more broadly. The topics selected change bi-annually depending…
Credit Points: 12.5
The unit offers a broad overview of the major theories in the study of crime and deviance. It surveys diverse and competing explanations and interpretations of criminal and deviant acts and the proposed approaches put forward to address them. Each…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit introduces students to the world of social research. It answers questions about how to understand, interpret, and collect data, and explores the research methods used to investigate and solve social problems. The unit covers a wide range of social…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit is designed to introduce students to the issues and processes associated with working with offenders, particularly those in prisons or under the supervision of community corrections. The unit explores issues pertaining directly to how best to work with…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Winter | | | | |
| Online | Winter | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit engages students in a multi-disciplinary Community of Practice focused on understanding how children and young people become involved with statutory service systems, what their experiences of these systems are, and current directions for system reform and service improvement. …
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Cradle Coast | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HGA337 Children, Protection and Justice
This unit explores a set of enduring justice issues that are experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The role and legacy of settler colonialism frames the examination of justice issues, as well as contextualises the possible…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Provides a sociological perspective on the relationship between law and society through a critical analysis of the basic processes of law, issues of social power and legal institutions, and law reform and social change. The unit focuses on understanding legal…
Credit Points: 12.5
Forensic science is an integral component of the criminal justice system with applications in investigations, intelligence, courts, and disaster victim identification. However, it has been the subject of international critiques and a factor in high-profile cases of wrongful conviction. This…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Explores the nature of environmental crime and its social regulation. The unit has three main topical concerns: First, to investigate the nature of environmental crime from the point of view of legal, ecological and justice perspectives, with an emphasis on…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HGA344 Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
In a globalised and technologically connected world, transnational crime is a growing phenomenon. Crimes perpetrated across national borders and cannot be solved by one agency or jurisdiction alone; they require a unified regional or global response to combat them. This…
Credit Points: 12.5
The Community and Public Sector Internship Program is a research-based unit that offers you the opportunity to undertake an unpaid, part-time placement in a public sector agency in the Tasmanian State Service, or a community-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), or a Local…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Semester 2 | | | | ||
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HSS305 Community and Public Sector Internship Program
When you study language and culture through the best and most compelling books and stories of the ages you will learn to read the world around you actively and critically. You will come to understand how texts work as well as the key elements of poetry, narrative, theatre and filmmaking. Reading texts from the medieval period to the present, from fiction and poetry to theatre, film, television and the Internet, you will discover how to analyse texts and genres in their cultural, historical and contemporary contexts. Through reading, viewing and writing you will discover how to reflect, imagine and create while learning to develop your own voice as a writer. Through mastering different styles you will establish an understanding of how to write in different disciplines and for different purposes.
A major in English and Writing prepares students for any field in which careful reading, clear thinking, and persuasive writing are valued. Our emphases on textual analysis and writing skills make English a traditionally strong undergraduate major for any professions requiring advanced communication skills
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart, and online.
This unit introduces you to methods of close reading, formal analysis, and creative writing.¿We work on developing strategies to analyse literary texts and screen texts in detail, to break them down into their component parts, and explain how they work…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN106 English: Creative and Critical Reading
Why are certain texts regarded as classics within the English literary canon and how do we encounter them today? This unit considers the importance of tradition to the ways we value, understand and circulate popular and literary texts. Students who…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
English Writing introduces students to, and consolidates their knowledge of, the conventions of English grammar and composition. The unit focuses on fashioning the skills required of an academic writer in a contemporary context in which AI is rapidly evolving. The…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN105 English Writing: Grammar and Composition
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
How much of a tale is in the telling? This unit introduces concepts, terms and skills used in the construction and analysis of narrative. It draws on texts from a range of genres, periods and nations. This unit invites critical…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit considers the 19th-century fascination with narratives of scandal, transgression, criminality, and irrationality, referred to as narratives of “sensation”. The unit may cover genres like the gothic, colonial adventure fiction, detective fiction, and the “sensation novel”, and the appearance…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HEN203 Nineteenth-Century Sensation and Spectacle
To produce successful fiction, a writer needs not only to have great ideas but also to have the skill to bring those ideas alive on the page. In this unit, students are encouraged to work on their capacity for imagination…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN204 Creative Writing: Concept and Craft
Are you an aspiring teacher, librarian, writer or publishing professional? Or are you just fascinated by writing for young people? This unit explores the diverse and challenging world of writing for children and young adults. Through a variety of genres—such…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit will consider major authors and texts, developments and trends in Australian Literature. It examines Australian literature as a regional, national, and international literature with a set of distinct and vibrant cultures. Students will consider the histories, preoccupations, and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit examines the development of literary theory from the middle of the twentieth century to the present. It aims to provide students with the skills to read theory critically and to develop informed arguments in response to critical, literary…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores how different worlds are imagined in speculative fiction, film, and critical theory. Taking an historical approach, the unit traces the trajectory of utopian/dystopian texts and theories through the last five hundred years, concentrating on the dystopian visions…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit provides opportunity to study a selection of Shakespearean plays and their stage and screen performance afterlives. Starting from a close consideration of Shakespeare's dramatic language, the unit will consider the multiple possibilites the plays offer for realization in…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HEN310 Shakespeare: Page, Stage and Screen
This advanced elective in English explores the history of modernism. Students will examine exemplary texts that are representative of key movements in the literature and culture of the modernist era. The writers and texts explored in this unit set the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit prepares student writers to submit works of creative writing for publication. Students draft, redraft and polish a major creative work while at the same time developing their knowledge of the contemporary publishing industry. Unit content focuses on understanding…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HEN318 Creative Writing: Professional Practice
Literature is a global phenomenon around which cluster creative, historical, analytical and material¿cultures. This unit considers an advanced topic in¿literary studies and¿cultures¿in an area of staff research specialisation. It engages with key, contemporary debates in¿literary studies in relation to a…
Credit Points: 12.5
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
This major is not available for students commencing in 2026. This information is for current students only.
This is an introductory unit for students with little or no prior knowledge of French. The unit places its main stress on the development of a sound basic knowledge of the structure of the language and on practice in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
Places its main stress on the development of a sound basic knowledge of the structure of the language and on practice in the four basic language skills bringing students to a degree of linguistic competence equivalent to level A2 of…
Credit Points: 12.5
Is an advanced post-TCE course which places its main emphasis on the development of a sound command of the four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Is an advanced post-TCE course which places its main emphasis on the development of a sound command of the four language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Builds on the competency achieved by students in HEF216, providing further training in selected topics in French grammar and in translation.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Builds on the competency achieved by students in HEF315, providing further training in selected topics in French grammar and in translation.…
Credit Points: 12.5
Pick up the story in 1000 when the Vikings have given a kick-start to Europe's economy and the warrior mentality of the early Middle Ages is giving way to the rising aristocrats. From this starting-point, the unit will examine the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The late eighteenth century saw the beginning of revolutionary political, economic and cultural change that marked the emergence of modern nation states and cultures. France was site of the first modern political and social revolution, and came to dominate Europe…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTA367 Age of Revolution and Empire: Britain and France
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
When you study Gender & Diversity you will be immersed in an interdisciplinary exploration of the meaning and impact of gender, race, and sexuality on all our lives. Assumptions about sex, gender and race have influenced everything from our most fundamental understandings of what it is to be human to ancient poetry to contemporary fashion. You will become familiar with a variety of theoretical approaches to the subject and will be given a range of methodological tools to help you understand those cultural assumptions and practices which have shaped our lived experiences as gendered, racialised beings.
The core units in Gender & Diversity examine questions of identity, power and change, including how understandings of human bodies and sexuality have changed over time. You will analyse the various ways that masculinities and femininities are enacted in the world, and develop a critical awareness of the gendered and racial dynamics which influence these masculinities and femininities. All human beings live within a particular gender order and racial system: to study gender & diversity is to become more aware of the possibilities and constraints of these structures and their effect on your life and the world's people and processes.
Knowledge gained in this major will prepare you for work in all kinds of settings where an appreciation of diversity matters. This includes the community sector, equity and diversity units in businesses and institutions, discrimination law and human resources.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
How do assumptions about gender influence our understanding of what it means to be a human being? In this unit we explore a variety of different ways that human beings have been imagined and thought about across time in western…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Gender & World explores the shape(s) and impact(s) of gendered assumptions on human interactions in diverse areas of the world and in different historical periods. This unit focuses on how people have acted and do act on the basis of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
What does masculinity mean, and why does it exist in so many different forms? In this unit we explore the meaning and manifestations of a variety of different masculinities. We query the cultural expectations regarding masculinity that accompany boyhood, adolescence,…
Credit Points: 12.5
Feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology and queer theory have raised stimulating questions about the body. This unit examines how the body is theorised, how it interacts with questions of culture and class, and explores the implications of our understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The unit offers a broad overview of the major theories in the study of crime and deviance. It surveys diverse and competing explanations and interpretations of criminal and deviant acts and the proposed approaches put forward to address them. Each…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
How have successive generations made and remade communities, nation, relationships, homes, values, identities and environments across Australia’s history? This unit explores Australian history from deep time to the present, introducing and analysing key events and developments, including peopling the continent,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit aims to deconstruct the monolithic perception of Japanese culture and to understand Japan in terms of its relationship to its near and more distant neighbours through Asia and the Pacific. Incorporating the approach of queer studies which places…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HMJ310 Queering Japan: Popular Culture, Identity, and Nation
Taking 'erotic text' in a broad sense, this unit explores the many functions - but especially the malfunctions - of desire in ancient literature. We will read some of Ovid's Heroides, fictional verse-letters written by heroines of Greek myth to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTC339 Desire and Disorder in the Erotic Text
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
This unit examines the development of literary theory from the middle of the twentieth century to the present. It aims to provide students with the skills to read theory critically and to develop informed arguments in response to critical, literary…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores how different worlds are imagined in speculative fiction, film, and critical theory. Taking an historical approach, the unit traces the trajectory of utopian/dystopian texts and theories through the last five hundred years, concentrating on the dystopian visions…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit applies a sociological lens to the terrain of racial, religious and ethnic relations in Australia. Through a focus on inter-related themes of inequality and difference, it introduces theories of race, ethnicity, indigeneity and whiteness and applies these to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HGA324 Ethnicity, Religion and Race: Understanding Social Diversity
How do we learn to 'do' gender? Is gender 'natural'? In this unit, you will develop a critical lens through which to understand the social forces and structures of power that shape us as gendered individuals and construct the world…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is a study of the role of myth in Greek and Roman culture through literary texts and ancient art, including an exploration of the relationship between mythological narratives and religious ritual. This unit also traces developments in the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
For 2022 this unit is set in early twentieth century New York, and tilted "Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labour, and the New Woman".In this unit you will transform your classroom into a moment of historical controversy and intellectual ferment. Using…
Credit Points: 12.5
The Geography and Environment major gives you the skills to address the greatest challenges of our time, including climate change, sustainable development, economic inequality, resource conflict, social and environmental justice, decolonisation, and community well-being. Tasmania offers you exciting opportunities to experience first-hand this island's diverse and unique cultures, places, peoples, landscapes and environments. Real-world and hands-on learning experiences equip you with geographical techniques essential for complex problem-solving and devising place-based solutions at different scales.
You will develop skills for 21st century jobs that require flexibility, innovative thinking and lifelong learning. You will learn to: critically assess, research and integrate arguments and information; work ethically, independently and in teams; and engage in ongoing professional development. You will expand your knowledge of environments and peoples, and the ways they interact from the local to the global. You will graduate with expertise relevant to government policy, social and economic planning, political advocacy, environmental management, natural and cultural conservation, and community development.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On-campus Hobart
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
KGA171 Global Geographies of Change introduces you to how geography helps us understand today’s world. The unit explores key issues such as climate change, natural hazards, vulnerability, sustainability, population, development, and territory. You will learn how people and environments interact,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This introductory unit develops your knowledge of how people depend on nature, and how increasingly the conservation of nature depends on people. We will explore these relationships through a values lens: how nature is important for its own sake, how natural…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
All aspects of human life are geographical. Our lives take place in space. Spatial practices and ideas are central to individuals and societies: they help determine who and what belongs where, who controls and owns which resources, and who has…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for KGA205 Geographies of Economy, Politics and Culture
Society needs professional environmental managers who have the knowledge and skills to effectively tackle problems of sustainable resource use, climate change and biodiversity conservation. Environmental managers also play an important role in helping communities identify and move towards sustainable and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Shanghai Ocean University | Shanghai Semester 1 | | | ||
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In a globalised economy and changing climate, ecological health, individual well-being, social cohesion are in decline. More people and more places are experiencing hardship, with those in the Global South (the majority world) and in disadvantaged parts of the Global…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for KGA308 Geographies of Collapse and Resilience
This unit develops your ability to integrate theoretical knowledge, methodological approaches, and practical skills for undertaking research and practise in human geography and other social science fields. With a focus on researching island places and peoples, you will develop an…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Trimester | | | | |
| Online | Trimester | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for KGA318 Researching Geographies of Island Places
The most complex and important challenges facing societies today bring together concerns about environmental, political, economic, and cultural sustainability. Guided by an interdisciplinary teaching team, this unit enables you to investigate how you and others can act as agents of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA301 Change Agents for Sustainability
This unit will equip students with an interdisciplinary understanding of energy systems. Its focus is on how science and policy are interacting to shape Australia’s energy futures. The Australian energy sector is experiencing a period of change, prompted by the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA319 Science and Policy for Energy Futures
Human activity has altered fifty percent of the Earth's surface, leading to various consequences, both positive and negative, on our landscapes. However, the opportunities to explore, conserve, and appreciate pristine and exposed landscapes are growing, giving rise to the fields…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit introduces legal, administrative, social and scientific aspects of environmental impact assessment using case studies. The unit emphasises the practical aspects of environmental impact assessment in Tasmanian contexts, but environmental impact assessment processes and legislation are similar in many…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The German major is not available for students commencing in 2026. This information is for current students only.
German is the language of some of the world's best-known innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs, philosophers, musicians and artists. It is spoken by approximately 100 million people in major European countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Germany has the largest population in the European Union and German remains the language with the most native speakers in Europe. It is also a major community language in Australia; migration from German-speaking countries has been a part of Australia from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Germany is a modern and culturally diverse country. The largest economy in the European Union and the fourth-largest economy in the world, its emphasis on progress and innovation has manifested itself in Australia through well-known companies like Bayer and Volkswagen. The German labour market is opening up for graduates and welcomes specialists from abroad. German language skills are an asset in many careers across international relations, business, engineering and medicine, teaching, science and music.
Against this context, the German major at UTAS comprises the study of both German language and culture, including literature, history and society. You can commence at beginner level or a higher level if you are a background speaker. All levels of study are aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR: A1 to C2). This guarantees the international comparability and transferability of your acquired language skills. There will also be various opportunities to participate in exchanges and apply for scholarships to complete units of study in a German-speaking country, or engage in cross-institutional study in Australia. Generous scholarships are provided by German institutions such as the DAAD.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart, Launceston and Online.
If you are just starting out with the German language or you’re picking it back up as a refresher, then this is the right unit for you. Our goal is to not only learn how to communicate in German, but…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is the continuation of HEG101 German 1A. It is an intensive beginners' unit, which in conjunction with HEG101 aims to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the main structures of the German language. During the four contact hours…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German, the continuation of HEG102 Introduction to German 1B. This second-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German, the continuation of HEG207 German 2A. This second-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided in reading…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an advanced intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German. This third-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided in reading and aural comprehension, speaking and…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an upper intermediate unit for students with prior knowledge of German, the continuation of HEG315 Advanced German 3A. This third-year language unit broadens students' German language competency. The four language skills are stressed and further training is provided…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit examines the development of literary theory from the middle of the twentieth century to the present. It aims to provide students with the skills to read theory critically and to develop informed arguments in response to critical, literary…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
This unit focuses on late-20th /early 21st Europe, analysing the degree to which pre-modern ideas of Europe continue to permeate its modern, institutional existence. Through introducing students to the rationale behind the establishment of the EU, the euro etc, this…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HIR300 The New Europe: A Political History
European Philosophy encompasses various philosophical movements, primary among which are German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and more recently critical phenomenology and enactivism. They all focus on questions concerning lived experience, consciousness, intersubjectivity, the relationship between selves and worlds. These traditions…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HPH312 Self and World: Debates in European Philosophy
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
The past is an extraordinary place. When you study history you will come to understand the whole world by understanding the long-term changes and continuities that shaped today. Historical knowledge is a vital component of cultural literacy, broadens your mind, fosters the capacity for empathy and equips you to be a global citizen. Historians are like very open-minded detectives: questioning, analysing and interpreting evidence from the past. When someone cries 'fake news', you will have the skills to find evidence from a range of sources to reconsider the claims of the present. You will also have the inexplicable joy of encountering the unexpected and the unknown. It has never been more urgent to understand the past so that we have the ability to make new futures.
Through the History major at the University of Tasmania you will gain a sophisticated sense of your location in time and place, and will become skilled in historical research, critical analysis and communication of ideas. You will develop skills in researching a variety of historical evidence that is becoming increasingly accessible in digital forms. You will learn to analyse sources and issues, and fluently express your ideas in discussions, essays and other forms of communication. History is very present in Tasmania, with its many sites and markers of a deep and complex past linking the island to Australia and the world. Our units are all available in both on-campus and online modes.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Spanning over four centuries, from the Italian Renaissance in the late Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789, this unit explores the history of Early Modern Europe, a crucial period in shaping both Europe and the world we live…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA101 European History: Renaissance to Revolutions
This unit explores the first wave of globalisation that occurred in the long nineteenth century, between the Age of Revolution and the First World War. We explore how the world was transformed by the spread of industrialisation, nationalism, capitalism, imperialism,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA102 World History: The First Globalisation
How have successive generations made and remade communities, nation, relationships, homes, values, identities and environments across Australia’s history? This unit explores Australian history from deep time to the present, introducing and analysing key events and developments, including peopling the continent,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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From the trenches of the First World War to the end of the Second World War, this unit explores global history through the lens of an ‘Age of Catastrophe’. The first half of the twentieth century was an age convulsed…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA232 The Age of Catastrophe 1914-1945
This unit examines the creation of the United States of America by focusing on two significant conflicts. We begin by studying the origins and outcomes of the eighteenth century American War of Independence - an event that was both a…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HTA270 Making Modern America: Revolution and Civil War
In this unit we witness the birth of the Middle Ages, paying attention to the interactions between Barbarian warrior culture, Roman culture, and Christian culture. We examine the Franks, Anglo-Saxons, Huns, Vandals, Goths, Vikings, and other medieval peoples. Barbarians moved…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTA277 The Dark Ages? Medieval Europe AD 300-1000
History is a vast and endlessly fascinating subject of study that has many areas of specialisation. This unit will focus on a particular period, place, and/or historical theme. In doing so you will develop a deep critical engagement with key…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit will challenge your perceptions of how heritage is manufactured. You will explore, analyse, and debate local and national issues within a global frame. Through critically reflecting on how heritage is ‘made’ by historians, archaeologists, Indigenous peoples, museums, politicians,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Pick up the story in 1000 when the Vikings have given a kick-start to Europe's economy and the warrior mentality of the early Middle Ages is giving way to the rising aristocrats. From this starting-point, the unit will examine the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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In the modern era humanity has transformed landscapes, cleared forests, driven species to extinction, and spread poisons across the whole Earth. The practices and ideas underpinning this degradation and pollution is the subject of an area of study called environmental…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The late eighteenth century saw the beginning of revolutionary political, economic and cultural change that marked the emergence of modern nation states and cultures. France was site of the first modern political and social revolution, and came to dominate Europe…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HTA367 Age of Revolution and Empire: Britain and France
Families in History draws on examples from diverse places and times to explore changing ideals, attitudes, and experiences of the family in the past. We consider the family’s relationship with social, cultural, economic and political forces, as well as the…
Credit Points: 12.5
For 2022 this unit is set in early twentieth century New York, and tilted "Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labour, and the New Woman".In this unit you will transform your classroom into a moment of historical controversy and intellectual ferment. Using…
Credit Points: 12.5
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
You may know about Bali and Komodo dragons but after studying Indonesian you will also know that our closest neighbour has an extraordinary literary history and that knowing Indonesian is an intellectual passport to one of the most exciting and diverse cultures in South-East Asia. A better understanding of Indonesia and fluency in the language are assets for Australians. Many of Australia's key national interests, from security and borders to agriculture and trade, are heavily dependent on Indonesia. As we strengthen our strategic relations with Indonesia, the importance of your knowledge will also grow.
Being non-scriptic and non-tonal, Indonesian is a relatively easy language to learn. It is also very accessible since it is spoken by more than 250 million people in Indonesia, and understood by the Malay-speaking population in other parts of Southeast Asia. You can study Indonesian beginner or more advanced levels. Our approachable teaching staff, with the help of high-quality interactive teaching materials, will support you to attain high fluency in the language and at the same time gain insights into various aspects of Indonesian society. You can also gain credit towards your degree by having an unforgettable experience in the in-country programs that we manage in collaboration with Australian and Indonesian institutions.
Careers and institutions that use Indonesian speakers in Australia include NGOs, Foreign Affairs, Creative Industries, community groups and public policy.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: Online and On-Campus Hobart
This is an introductory unit for students with no prior knowledge of Indonesian. This unit will provide students with the skills to communicate and interact with Indonesian people on a range of topics, to find their way around in Indonesia,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This introductory unit builds on HMN101. It is suitable for students who have some prior Indonesian language learning. The main aim is to provide you with the vocabulary, sentence shells and cultural skills that will enable you to ask and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This is an intermediate Indonesian unit and is suitable for students who have some significant prior Indonesian language learning. The main aim is to provide you with the vocabulary, sentence shells and cultural skills that will enable you to communicate…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This is an intermediate Indonesian unit builds on HMN207. It is suitable for students who have some significant prior Indonesian language learning. Through more advanced reading, you will be introduced to more complex content. You will be provided with skills…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This is an advanced Indonesian unit. It is suitable for students who have significant prior Indonesian language learning and/or background speakers. This unit enables students to read, understand, and produce more technical and formal Indonesian. The unit covers content such…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an advanced Indonesian unit that builds on HMN313. It is suitable for students who have significant prior Indonesian language learning and/or background speakers. This unit enables students to read, understand, and produce more technical and formal Indonesian. The…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
Every day you may consume and hear things about Japanese popular cultures, but do you really know Japan? The third-largest economy in the world, Japan is a world leader in popular culture fields such as anime, manga and gaming. What does the popularity of the filmmaking of Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) tell us about the world today? What are the differences and similarities between Sailor Moon and Disney's princesses? Has the world of Pok\00E9mon Go changed people's understanding of reality and digital space? The Japanese major is a gateway to Japanese popular cultures and global literacy. Gaining critical insights through this lens can impact your understanding of your own culture in surprising ways.
The Japanese program at the UTAS offers, concurrently with the pathways to master the Japanese language, the opportunity to enhance your critical thinking skills in global contexts. Our staff support and work closely with a vibrant student community, in which students are regularly encouraged to actively participate to enhance their study and deepen their understanding of Japanese language and culture. With a wide range of overseas study and internship options supported by generous scholarships, the program produces graduates going on to a variety of careers in fields spanning diplomacy, media, education, public service, trade, and the arts.
We welcome from absolute beginners to more advanced students, and encourage a diversity of expression, subjects and ideas. Come and join us and grow as an effective global citizen equipped with a better understanding of the fundamental changes taking place in our dynamic region of the world and beyond.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and online.
This is an introductory unit for students with little or no prior knowledge of Japanese. This unit has an emphasis on the interactive use of the Japanese language. It develops competence in basic spoken and written Japanese. The unit also…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Develops competence in basic spoken and written Japanese. This unit builds on the work you learned in HMJ101. This unit, the second half of introductory Japanese, develops competence in basic spoken and written skills with an emphasis on the interactive…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Building on from HMJ102, the unit further develops basic grammatical knowledge and oral/aural skills. Students will learn to communicate orally in Japanese on a series of everyday life topics including foods, studying, working, shopping, travel, and housing. Attention is also…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Building on from HMJ204, the unit further develops basic grammatical knowledge and oral/aural skills. Students will learn to converse in Japanese on a series of everyday life topics including: transport, health, life and careers, communication and the media. Upon completion…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit builds on Japanese 2A and 2B to consolidate the grammar, vocabulary and kanji foundation built during students' study at the beginner-intermediate level. In addition to focusing on developing students' ability to read Japanese texts (through kanji reading and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Building on previous Japanese language study, this unit aims to develop students' oral skills and production skills both in spoken and written formats. Students will develop conversation skills beyond everyday life situations through group work with unit classmates as well…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit aims to deconstruct the monolithic perception of Japanese culture and to understand Japan in terms of its relationship to its near and more distant neighbours through Asia and the Pacific. Incorporating the approach of queer studies which places…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HMJ310 Queering Japan: Popular Culture, Identity, and Nation
This is a unit suitable for anyone curious about the challenges of communication in the 21st Century. Frequently, in our globalised society, we need to communicate with others across certain boundaries: space, different electronic mediums, time, culture and language. Even…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM310 Mixed Messages? The Everyday Art of Translation
In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
From our 24-hour news cycle and endless streaming services to social media posts building brands and inspiring social change, media and communication connect every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Media and communication graduates are sought by many industries looking for people whose understanding of media goes beyond their own favourite shows and social media accounts. An understanding of media and communication opens doors to a wide range of exciting careers.
Our island campus of Tasmania is the start of your journey. The Media School is uniquely co-located with leading media organisations in Hobart. You will bump shoulders and share facilities with practitioners from the news, communication and the screen industries. Outside, you're a short walk from Parliament House, the courts, museums, galleries and performance spaces, and Hobart's docks, which are the world's scientific gateway to Antarctica.
This major is tailored for students curious about media from a cultural and sociological perspective. Who are the content makers and who are the audiences? Who are the influencers and how are do we understand their influence? Students will learn skills in media analysis and develop their skills in research and professional writing.
Available: On-Campus Hobart
Note: Students completing the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Media and Communication as a double degree cannot complete this major in their Bachelor of Arts component.
It is vital for emerging media practitioners to understand the complex ways that contemporary industries operate on local, regional, national and global scales, and how these industries intersect with audiences, cultures and communities. With a focus on ethical issues including equity,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Digital technologies such as platforms and apps have an influence on contemporary life, culture, how we form communities, and professional and interpersonal communication. This unit will introduce you to perspectives on cloud-based technologies, digital imaging, gaming and virtual reality platforms.…
Credit Points: 12.5
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In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
We know the impact that photographic images can have on us, individually and collectively. When images and words come together to tell a story they can be entertaining, revelatory, breath-taking, and even powerful agents of change. In this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for FXA202 The Photo Essay: Storytelling with image and text
Risk and crisis are defining features of contemporary life, and organisations and communities are increasingly planning for climate crises, including strategies for communicating risk and change. Crisis communications and management are relevant to all media content creators. You will learn…
Credit Points: 12.5
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How do screen and audio texts communicate powerful and meaningful stories for their audiences? This unit introduces you to the fundamentals of dynamic storytelling for both the screen and audio industries. With a special focus on scriptwriting for film and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HEJ246 Storytelling for Screen and Sound
How do emerging technologies and communication practices integrate into society? This unit invites you to consider the speculative environment for emerging and new media. We consider how new media technologies and their uses encounter legal and ethical issues, and the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit delves into digital and social media marketing, addressing the growing need for businesses to adapt to a real-time digital landscape. It provides students with a thorough understanding of the evolution and roles of traditional versus digital advertising. Students…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for BMA343 Digital and Social Media Marketing
What does it mean to act in a global media landscape? In this unit, you will examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology, exploring how performance can offer new ways to understand, critique, and engage with global media networks…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit prepares student writers to submit works of creative writing for publication. Students draft, redraft and polish a major creative work while at the same time developing their knowledge of the contemporary publishing industry. Unit content focuses on understanding…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HEN318 Creative Writing: Professional Practice
This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
How do we learn to 'do' gender? Is gender 'natural'? In this unit, you will develop a critical lens through which to understand the social forces and structures of power that shape us as gendered individuals and construct the world…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit aims to deconstruct the monolithic perception of Japanese culture and to understand Japan in terms of its relationship to its near and more distant neighbours through Asia and the Pacific. Incorporating the approach of queer studies which places…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HMJ310 Queering Japan: Popular Culture, Identity, and Nation
The public policy arena presents a complex framework of actors, politics, instruments, and practices. This unit examines the broad range of theories, models, influences, and players that shape the development of Australian public policy. It aims to equip students with…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit will challenge your perceptions of how heritage is manufactured. You will explore, analyse, and debate local and national issues within a global frame. Through critically reflecting on how heritage is ‘made’ by historians, archaeologists, Indigenous peoples, museums, politicians,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit will equip students with an interdisciplinary understanding of energy systems. Its focus is on how science and policy are interacting to shape Australia’s energy futures. The Australian energy sector is experiencing a period of change, prompted by the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for KGA319 Science and Policy for Energy Futures
Studying Philosophy allows you to ask (and occasionally answer) the very biggest of questions. What makes for a meaningful life? What can we know? What is the nature of the world, or of ourselves in it? What kind of societies are just? Philosophy explores fundamental questions about the human condition, relevant for people at all times and in all places, but equally arising out of the specifics of each life - whether in Tasmania or anywhere else. It considers problems and concerns arising from art, literature, science, law, religion, and many other human endeavors, along with the basic matter of an ethical engagement with the world. Philosophy also gives you skills in analysis, reasoning, and clear and cogent communication - highly valued attributes across all study areas in the Bachelor of Arts as well as contemporary professions.
In this major you will encounter philosophical issues from different perspectives across both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. In the first year, you will study some of the central branches of philosophy - ethics and political philosophy, metaphysics, and epistemology. In the second year you will explore the history of philosophical thinking, in ancient Greece, the Buddhist tradition and the early modern world in Europe. By third year you will be investigating current issues: reading major modern philosophical texts, examining the connections between philosophy and other fields of inquiry, and bringing philosophical work to bear on contemporary problems.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart, Launceston and online
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Life is filled with philosophical questions, but we rarely get the chance to slow down and think them through. This unit gives you that opportunity. In this introductory unit you will take a philosophical lens to examine contemporary issues in…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HPH110 Reason in Action: Politics, Science, and Society
Today’s burning questions often have deep philosophical roots. In this unit, you’ll explore those roots by examining some of the most enduring and provocative questions in philosophy. Here are some questions you may explore: What is morality? Do animals have…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HPH120 Doing Philosophy: Ethics, Knowledge, and Reality
Feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology and queer theory have raised stimulating questions about the body. This unit examines how the body is theorised, how it interacts with questions of culture and class, and explores the implications of our understanding of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit surveys the main Western philosophical traditions from the Renaissance up to the 19th century. At the centre stand the metaphysical and epistemological systems of the Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) and the Empiricists (Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume),…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HPH202 Foundations of Modern Philosophy
Logic is the theory of good reasoning. This unit introduces students to some of the types of reasoning that are regularly used in everyday life, in philosophy and in many other fields. Students will be introduced to a variety of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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We are all constantly faced with moral questions and questions about human values more generally, but what is morality and what are the foundations of human values? On what grounds do we and should we, base our decisions about morality…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Philosophers regularly collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, mathematicians and physicists, ecologists and biologists, artists and filmmakers, as well as medical practitioners and researchers. These collaborations are often fruitful and offer new, unexpected insights. Most disciplines involve philosophical questions or benefit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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In this unit, students will undertake an independent project requiring an investigation of an approved Humanities topic. Students will learn and demonstrate research skills in a multi-disciplinary cohort, but will also select and refine an individual research topic of their…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HUM311 Humanities Independent Research Project
In this unit, we analyse Buddhist philosophy of mind (study about the nature of mind and consciousness), Buddhist epistemology (study about knowledge and how we can know), and Buddhist psychology (study of emotions, how we think, behave and feel), phenomenology…
Credit Points: 12.5
This is an introduction to political philosophy. Political philosophy is the branch of philosophy concerned with political values, such as freedom, equality, community, rights, duties, and democracy. Political philosophy is as old as philosophy itself. However, this unit will focus…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Science is our most successful attempt to understand the world around us, and it plays an extremely important role in contemporary society. As such, we should not ignore the possibility that science may have something to contribute to traditional philosophical…
Credit Points: 12.5
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European Philosophy encompasses various philosophical movements, primary among which are German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, post-structuralism and more recently critical phenomenology and enactivism. They all focus on questions concerning lived experience, consciousness, intersubjectivity, the relationship between selves and worlds. These traditions…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HPH312 Self and World: Debates in European Philosophy
The Politics, Policy and International Relations (PIR) Major at the University of Tasmania offers students a structured pathway to gain knowledge, gather evidence and evaluate solutions to the major local, national, and international issues of our time. The PIR major develops three core skills students need to be effective agents of change in today's turbulent world: theoretically informed and evidence-based thinking; multi-methods research capacity; and policy analysis skills transferable across different disciplinary, spatial, and temporal contexts. In their final year, students apply these skills in undertaking independent research, project activities, and internships in areas of professional and personal interest. Graduates of the PIR major position themselves for roles in policy analysis, program evaluation, and research leading to leadership roles in the public service, and private and civil society sectors.
The PIR major offers units on foundational and contemporary political and international issues, concepts, theory and ideologies coupled with applied, real-world, case studies. Students grapple with the major political forces shaping their lives including war and peace, democracy and authoritarianism, genocide and justice. The PIR major empowers students to understand the deep divisions societies encounter in an era of political polarisation fanned by GenAI and social media, enabling the sober evaluation of policy solutions that generate more just, equitable, and sustainable communities into the future.
Completion of the major requires a 100 credit points comprising:
- 25 credit points at Introductory (100) level units
- 25 credit points at Intermediate (200) level
- 50 credit points at Advanced (300) level
HIR101 provides students with an overview of the theory and practice of international relations. The unit is divided into two modules. In module one, you will learn about theoretical approaches to the study of IR including introductions to realist, liberal,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HIR101 Introduction to International Relations
This unit provides a foundation for the study of politics, public policy, and international relations. Students are introduced to key concepts, theories and debates that shape political life, including power, the state, democracy, governance, and ideology. Students examine how political…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HPP101 Introduction to Politics and Policy
This unit explores broad ranging and contemporary aspects of Australian politics and policy, including democratic principles and Australian institutions, values and Australian culture, the Australian electoral system and campaigns, forms of political representation and the role of lobby groups, the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit introduces students to the study of political ideas focusing on some of the major ideological frameworks that have and continue to guide political action in the modern era. In the unit, students will consider liberal, conservative, Marxist, fascist,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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International cooperation has undoubtly a positive ring to it. Recent decades have seen an impressive increase in inter-governmental and transnational cooperation, which often have been hailed for creating policies of peace and prosperity. Examples include the European Union, the Arms…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Students of politics, policy and international relations confront a turbulent domestic and international context replete with injustices demanding action. To inform such action, knowledge must be gathered, analysed, synthesised, and communicated. Guided by Politics and International Relations academic staff, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit explores a set of enduring justice issues that are experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The role and legacy of settler colonialism frames the examination of justice issues, as well as contextualises the possible…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit is concerned with the question of the changing/evolving nature of violence in the international realm. Part one of the unit will trace the emergence of modern thought about violence through theoretical 'traditions' and the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Political violence appears in many different forms across the world. While in the 2010s the focus has been, in Western democracies, on extremist religious violence, notably so called Islamist terrorism, there has been a rise in right-wing extremist violence in…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HIR306 Political Violence, Surveillance and Democracy
The public policy arena presents a complex framework of actors, politics, instruments, and practices. This unit examines the broad range of theories, models, influences, and players that shape the development of Australian public policy. It aims to equip students with…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit has two central goals. First, it aims to provide students with an introduction to comparative politics. Second, it seeks to provide students with advanced knowledge of politics in contrasting parts of the world. The unit consists of three…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HPP304 Parties, Leaders, Elections and Campaigns
The Community and Public Sector Internship Program is a research-based unit that offers you the opportunity to undertake an unpaid, part-time placement in a public sector agency in the Tasmanian State Service, or a community-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), or a Local…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for HSS305 Community and Public Sector Internship Program
A Parliamentary Internship is available at the Parliament of Tasmania. It involves a part-time placement with a Member of Parliament or a Parliamentary Committee and involves the intern undertaking a practical, research-oriented report. The internship aims to give students experience…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Why do we behave the way we do? Why do we think, react and interact as we do? When you study psychology, you will begin to understand the science behind human behaviour - and how this science can be used to solve practical problems in all sorts of situations. Psychological science covers everything from how the brain functions, to how social and environmental factors shape our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.
Students who graduate with a major in psychology have a wide range of career options beyond working as a counsellor or psychologist. UTAS psychology graduates have gone on to work in fields such as human resources, defence forces, health and legal agencies, and many other settings. And our research is just as varied - from working with expeditioners in the Antarctic, to communities in remote Australia; from learning how children develop language, to understanding how gaming influences behaviour. We work with organisations such as the department of health and police force, and with individuals, for example, people experiencing the effects of brain injury, substance addiction, or mental illness. Studying psychology at UTAS provides students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge to address issues relevant to regional, rural, and metropolitan societies at the local, national, and global level.
Students considering becoming a psychologist need to complete an accredited undergraduate sequence of study in Psychology (12 units) in an accredited Bachelor's degree to progress to Honours and postgraduate study in Psychology. The requirement for the accredited undergraduate sequence is completion of the Psychological Science major (8 core units)) and 4 additional prescribed elective Psychology units. The Psychological Science sequence offered through Bachelor of Psychological Science (53F), Bachelor of Arts (A3A), Bachelor of Science (P3O), and Bachelor of Psychological Science and Bachelor of Laws (63Y) are fully accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC).
Additional enrolment information for Bachelor students:
- PSY112, PSY125, PSY223 and PSY224 must be completed in addition to the Psychological Science major as Electives for students to be eligible to apply for Psychology Honours. Students in a Double Degree may have these units count towards their Bachelor of Arts Discipline Electives.
Available: On campus in Cradle Coast, Hobart and Launceston, and Online.
In today’s information-rich world it is essential to be able to interpret and critically evaluate empirical and popular reports of psychological research, as well as research findings more broadly. We need to be able to recognise the characteristics of valid…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY111 Transferable Skills in Psychology
Human behaviour is universal, but its expression, nature, and intent vary across cultures and contexts. Why do individuals behave the way they do? Lecture content will introduce and explore theoretical descriptions of individual differences such as personality and intelligence that…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY124 Mental Health and Individual Differences
The lectures examine aspects of overt social behaviour, such as two-person encounters, behaviour in small and large groups and inter-group relations. Research in social cognition, which studies people’s perceptions and interpretations of the social world, will also be presented. Unit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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The field of psychology has an aim that, on the surface, appears straightforward: to understand human behaviour. However, human behaviour is varied and complex, and achieving this goal presents a considerable challenge. Researchers must be familiar with and adhere to…
Credit Points: 12.5
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This unit provides coverage of human development over the lifespan (infancy to old age) including cognitive and social-emotional domains of development. The major periods of development are examined, including infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood, emphasising predominant developmental aspects for different…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY302 Lifespan Developmental Psychology
This unit aims to introduce you to a range of psychiatric disorders including psychological symptoms, theoretical models, assessment and evidence-based treatments. Consideration is given to a range of cognitive-behavioural strategies employed by clinical psychologists and other mental health professionals in…
Credit Points: 12.5
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Psychology, the study of human behaviour, is wondrous in its complexity. Individual behaviour is affected and influenced by many factors, including biological, neurological, psychological and cultural. Psychologists can and do measure all of these factors and understand that the relationships…
Credit Points: 12.5
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View all details for PSY311 Advanced Research Skills in Psychology
This unit offers a systematic approach to understanding psychological assessment and measurement. Consideration is given to a range of psychological assessment strategies and how these can be applied across a range of contexts . This unit is designed to provide…
Credit Points: 12.5
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- Domestic students
View all details for PSY324 Psychological Assessment and Measurement
When you study sociology, you will come to appreciate how the world around you influences the way you think, feel and act while acquiring a better understanding of yourself and your role in this world. This is what sociology does. It makes sense of the many challenges that human societies face in the modern world and the ways in which people and societies confront those challenges. Studying Sociology will provide you with the knowledge to understand how these challenges have emerged, the skills to analyse the complexities of how those challenges effect different social groups, and the capacity to evaluate options for creating more sustainable and socially just societies.
Sociology questions the established, taken-for-granted views of reality, to provide clearer and more complex understandings of social life. This major offers an exciting range of social topics to engage with including how globalisation and global issues influence everyday life, the significance of cities and urbanisation in the early 21st century, the role of social divisions, inequality and power in shaping our life chances, and the diverse ways in which gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race contribute to the construction of our identity. You will start with an introduction to sociological theory and foundational issues before advancing into the intermediate core units on diverse social theory and social research methods. By the third year, you will be able to utilise your sociological theory and social research approaches to engage with critical issues facing us right now.
Sociology equips you with the skills to think critically about the world around you and the ability to apply different perspectives in your decision-making and planning. This is an essential requirement in any career needing cultural awareness and research expertise.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
Available: On campus Hobart and online
Sociology inspires you to think differently about the world. We discover how a ‘sociological imagination’ enables us to better understand our lives, the groups we belong to and how societies are changing. From growing up with social media to changing…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Cradle Coast | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HGA101 Sociology: Understanding the Social World
This unit considers how we can use sociology to make sense of our everyday experiences and to explain broader transformations in society that may alter and reshape our sense of self, identity, place, and community. The unit explores central sociological…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Cradle Coast | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HGA102 Sociology: Experiencing Social Life
In this unit, you are invited to engage with Indigenous realities through an Indigenous lens. Using the key concept of Lifeworld, you will journey into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing, with a particular focus on the perspectives and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HOS113 Introducing Indigenous Lifeworlds
Perspectives on the Social World provides students with an understanding of the concepts and approaches developed by sociologists to explain major social changes in Western democracies from the end of the 18th century to the present. The unit is divided…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HGA202 Perspectives on the Social World
This unit introduces students to the world of social research. It answers questions about how to understand, interpret, and collect data, and explores the research methods used to investigate and solve social problems. The unit covers a wide range of social…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
City Lives brings together practical skills in urban analysis and observation to promote critical consideration of the pressing urban issues of our times. In particular, this unit tackles contemporary issues of urban inclusion, exclusion, diversity, and creativity. It interrogates who…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HGA343 Globalisation and Society: Power, Inequality and Conflict
This unit will enable students to understand how tourism and cultural industries have dramatically changed our lives. Cultural industries have grown significantly, with examples such as museums, regional festivals and wilderness adventures. At the same time there is an increasing…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit applies a sociological lens to the terrain of racial, religious and ethnic relations in Australia. Through a focus on inter-related themes of inequality and difference, it introduces theories of race, ethnicity, indigeneity and whiteness and applies these to…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for HGA324 Ethnicity, Religion and Race: Understanding Social Diversity
This unit provides a critical introduction to issues and debates relating to crime in the context of sport. From doping to corruption in the world game, sport and crime are inextricably linked. Sharing a number of themes and issues such…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit applies a critical sociological perspective to health, illness and medicine. Each year the unit will use topical examples to explore expert and public knowledges about health and illness, the social distribution and patterning of health and illness, inequalities…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
How do we learn to 'do' gender? Is gender 'natural'? In this unit, you will develop a critical lens through which to understand the social forces and structures of power that shape us as gendered individuals and construct the world…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit examines the position and experiences of young people in contemporary society, and challenges some of the negative discourses that surround 'youth'. It provides an analysis of the social construction of 'youth' and highlights diversity through an examination of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The Community and Public Sector Internship Program is a research-based unit that offers you the opportunity to undertake an unpaid, part-time placement in a public sector agency in the Tasmanian State Service, or a community-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), or a Local…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Semester 2 | | | | ||
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- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for HSS305 Community and Public Sector Internship Program
In the Theatre and Performance major you will develop skills through practice-led learning, to become creative, critical and resilient practitioners. At the same time you will explore the history and theory of theatre and performance, delving into the history of theatre, and the future of performance practice, enriching your capacity to create innovative work that responds to the twenty-first century world.
Through critical and reflective engagement you will learn how to manage creative projects, lead collaborative processes and develop communication and problem-solving skills. You will develop practical and technical skills for performance within wider artistic, social, political and environmental contexts while exploring the best of contemporary theatre practice. Through our Creative Curriculum units, you will have the opportunity to extend your skills through work-integrated learning placements in acclaimed Tasmanian festivals like Dark MOFO, Mona Foma, Ten Days on the Island, The Unconformity or Junction Arts Festival.
You will be studying at the Annexe in Launceston or at the Hunter Street Campus in Hobart, which have dedicated working theatres and studios. Through the unique blend of practice-based and theoretical offerings in this major, you will learn how to pursue a sustainable practice, and gain highly transferable skills which are valuable in a range of career pathways within the creative industries and beyond.
Students completing the Theatre and Performance major in a Bachelor's degree may also complete the following Creative Curriculum units as Electives where the course allows for Elective choices. If you are interested in enrolling in any of these units, please contact UConnect for enrolment assistance.
Example Study Plans: To help you get started with planning your degree around this major, take a look at our example Study Plans which offer some examples and inspiration for building professional, industry-focused, or personal-passion skillsets in your degree.
This major is available: On campus Hobart and Launceston.
This unit is a practical exploration of contemporary performance methods, with a focus on developing physical and vocal skills, interpreting a text for performance, and the development of your rehearsal practice. You will learn safe working practices for vocal and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
The Theatre Machine is a device to make sense of the world, generating meaningful experiences for audiences. It is a complex system balancing diverse artistic forms, media and technologies. This unit explores the theatre machine from the perspective of design…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
How can you play around with a play? This unit explores the evolution and interpretation of dramatic texts, using the concept of play to explore the range of interpretive practices that move the text from page to stage. Working with…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit develops practical and creative skills in the craft of writing for performance. Through practical workshops, discussions, and readings, you will explore a range of styles, genres, and methodologies for writing for performance. Approaches to character development, script structure,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit you will undertake small exploratory performance-based projects through a laboratory-style experience. You will investigate various skills and strategies essential to realise identified projects collaboratively or individually fora public audience. You will critically reflect on your experience. Experimental…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
What does it mean to act in a global media landscape? In this unit, you will examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology, exploring how performance can offer new ways to understand, critique, and engage with global media networks…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Directed Theatre Project is dedicated to the development, rehearsal and presentation of a complete theatre production and builds on the skills and knowledge learnt in FPB316 Experimental Production 1 and FPB317 Global Media and Cybertheatres. Classes are conducted as rehearsals…
Credit Points: 25
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Launceston | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
As a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Teaching student, you'll need to do some planning early in your degree to ensure you qualify for your intended teaching areas. If at any time you're unsure of what to choose book an appointment with a Student Adviser.
First Year Enrolment
In your first year, you will complete units from the Bachelor of Arts only. You will need to choose a major and discipline electives that align to the teaching area(s) you wish to pursue in the Master of Teaching. Use the table below to determine which major and discipline electives you'll need to study to qualify for each teaching area.
As a full-time student your first year will consist of:
- 25 credit points (2 units) from your major, aligned to your first teaching specialisation (Secondary) or Proficiency (Primary). Normally, this will be one unit in each semester.
- 75 credit points (6 units) of Discipline Electives. If you are planning to be a secondary school teacher, 25 credit points should be aligned to your second teaching specialisation. If you're planning to be a primary school teacher, you can choose any units from the Discipline Electives list. Normally, this will be three units in each semester.
As a part-time student, you should complete 25 credit points from your major, and 25 credit points of Discipline Electives.
Refer to the Course Planner for a guide to your enrolment pattern across the whole course.
Majors and Teaching Specialisations
| Major / Discipline Elective | Teaching Specialisation / Proficiency |
| English and Writing | English |
| Ancient Languages, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese | Languages |
| Theatre and Performance | Arts (Drama) |
| Classics, Criminology, Gender and Diversity, Geography and Environment, History, Philosophy, Politics, Policy and International Relations, Psychological Science, Sociology | Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) |
| Creative Arts and Health, Media and Communication | May be used for a specialisation in Arts with supplementary practice-based units. If you are interested in completing an Arts specialisation please contact us via UniConnect |
Progression to Master of Teaching
To progress into the Master of Teaching units in the double degree you will need to attain a Grade Point Average of 5 in your first year of Bachelor-level study. If you do not meet this GPA, you will be able to continue completion of the standard Bachelor's degree.
In the Master of Teaching (Primary) you will complete
- 200 credit points of core units and;
- 60 days of Professional Experience placement.
Progression to Master of Teaching
To progress into the Master of Teaching units in the double degree you will need to attain a Grade Point Average of 5 in your first year of Bachelor-level study. If you do not meet this GPA, you will be able to continue completion of the standard Bachelor's degree.
On completion of the first three years of your Bachelor's degree (including 100 credit points of Master of Teaching units) your progress will be assessed and, if approved, you will be admitted to E7G Master of Teaching to complete your final year.
LANTITE
All Master of Teaching students must attempt the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) in their first year of study in Master of Teaching units and must pass both tests prior to enrolling in their final semester of study. Please refer to the LANTITE page for more information.
This unit is a shell unit used to record your satisfactory completion of the literacy component of the mandatory LANTITE requirement for your initial teacher education qualification. There is nothing for you to do in respect of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 0
View all details for EPE101 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
This unit is a shell unit used to record your satisfactory completion of the numeracy component of the mandatory LANTITE requirement for your initial teacher education qualification. There is nothing for you to do in respect of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 0
View all details for EPE102 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
In this introductory unit you will develop understanding of what it means to be a professional, ethical, scholarly teacher in Tasmania, Australia and global educational contexts. Learning in this unit includes 6 days in a school setting. Through scholarly engagement with…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT503 The Professional Context of Teaching
This unit explores the relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians, examining First Nations diversity, including language, culture, and the varied impacts of colonisation. It also considers broader cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD), including the relationship between…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit has a focus on contemporary, evidenced based approaches to the teaching of early reading. It includes close attention to explicit teaching of phonemic awareness, phonics, word knowledge, and vocabulary instruction and reading comprehension of a wide range of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT506 Foundations of Primary English and Literacy
In this unit you will develop a sound understanding of the principles and content of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics for primary years learning, as well as an understanding of Numeracy as it is described in the curriculum. You will learn…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT509 Primary Mathematics Curriculum and Pedagogy
Effective teaching practice is informed by an understanding of students’ physical, intellectual and social development and how learning occurs. In this unit you will explore the science behind cognitive processing and be introduced to cultural, Indigenous and social theories of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT516 How Children and Young People Learn
In this unit you will learn how to critically evaluate educational research, integrate assessment and achievement data into your teaching practice, and evaluate the impact of your teaching on student learning. You will consider the purposes and principles of assessment…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT519 Evidence-Informed Teaching Practice
This unit builds on the theoretical foundations of EMT506 (Foundations of Primary English and Literacy) and will extend your understanding of literacy instruction with a more detailed theory of language context model which supports reading comprehension and writing production. Further…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT526 Extending Understanding of Primary English and Literacy
In this unit you will examine the HASS, Technologies, the Arts, Languages, and Health and PE curricula. You will examine what and how children learn about HASS, Technology, the Arts, Languages, and Health and PE. You will study the concepts,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
This unit prepares you to lead classrooms that are both trauma-transformative and inclusive, supporting the wellbeing, safety, and engagement of all learners. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, this unit provides a structure to apply and refine your…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT604 Leading Inclusive and Trauma-Transformative Classrooms A
This unit is designed to prepare you with advanced skills in creating inclusive learning environments that celebrate and support student diversity. You will develop a comprehensive understanding of inclusive education principles and practices, preparing you to meet the diverse needs…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT605 Leading Inclusive and Trauma-Transformative Classrooms B
In this unit you will develop your understanding of the Australian Curriculum descriptions of learning in science and sustainability, and the associated pedagogies. Activities will require you to apply your understanding to decision making in your teaching context. You will…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT612 Teaching Science and Sustainability in the Primary School Context
This unit supports and extends your development as a teacher of English and literacy. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, the unit contextualises and expands your knowledge in relation to school-based English literacy teaching and learning as you…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT616 Teaching English and Literacy in the Primary School Context
This unit supports your development as a teacher of Mathematics and Numeracy in the primary classroom. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, the unit contextualises and expands your knowledge in relation to school-based mathematics and numeracy teaching and…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT619 Teaching Mathematics in the Primary School Context
In this unit you will develop pedagogical content knowledge in the Australian Curriculum learning areas of The Arts, HASS, Health and PE, Languages, and Technologies from Prep to Year 6. By the end of this unit, you will have practical…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT621 Teaching the Primary Curriculum A
In this unit you will extend and deepen your pedagogical content knowledge and evidence graduate teaching proficiencies across the Australian Curriculum learning areas of The Arts, HASS, Health and PE, Languages, and Technologies. By the end of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT622 Teaching the Primary Curriculum B
In this capstone unit you will revisit the complex context of teaching as you take your final steps to graduating and joining the profession. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, you will learn about the organisations and groups…
Credit Points: 12.5
In the Master of Teaching (Secondary) you will complete:
- 150 credit points of core units;
- Two teaching area specialisation units (EMT531-538) OR one teaching area specialisation unit (EMT531-538) and EMT539 (if you have qualified for single teaching area specialisation);
- Either EMT636 (for single teaching area specialisation) OR EMT637 (for two teaching area specialisations);
- A 12.5 credit point Content Enhancement unit;
- 60 days of Professional Experience placement.
Both streams can be completed full-time over two years, or in four years when studied as part of a vertical double, or part time over three years (two years part time, with final year full time).
Enrolment in the course is for a maximum of five years.
Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE)
All students must attempt the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) in their first year of study in Master of Teaching units and must pass both tests prior to enrolling in their final semester of study. Please refer to the LANTITE page for more information.
Teaching Areas Specialisations
Your teaching specialisation(s) are based on your bachelor level study.
Refer to the Entry Requirements of E7G Master of Teaching for further information about which specialisations you may qualify for. If you only qualify for one teaching area you will complete the unit EMT539 Teaching Across the Curriculum instead of a second teaching area.
Progression to Master of Teaching
To progress into the Master of Teaching units you will need to attain a Grade Point Average of 5 in your first year of study. If you do not meet this GPA, you will be able to continue completion of the standard Bachelor's degree. On completion of the first three years of your Bachelor's degree (including 100 credit points of Master of Teaching units) your progress will be assessed and, if approved, you will be admitted to E7G Master of Teaching to complete your final year.
This unit is a shell unit used to record your satisfactory completion of the literacy component of the mandatory LANTITE requirement for your initial teacher education qualification. There is nothing for you to do in respect of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 0
View all details for EPE101 Literacy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
This unit is a shell unit used to record your satisfactory completion of the numeracy component of the mandatory LANTITE requirement for your initial teacher education qualification. There is nothing for you to do in respect of this unit, you…
Credit Points: 0
View all details for EPE102 Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students
In this introductory unit you will develop understanding of what it means to be a professional, ethical, scholarly teacher in Tasmania, Australia and global educational contexts. Learning in this unit includes 6 days in a school setting. Through scholarly engagement with…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT503 The Professional Context of Teaching
This unit explores the relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians, examining First Nations diversity, including language, culture, and the varied impacts of colonisation. It also considers broader cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD), including the relationship between…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Effective teaching practice is informed by an understanding of students’ physical, intellectual and social development and how learning occurs. In this unit you will explore the science behind cognitive processing and be introduced to cultural, Indigenous and social theories of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT516 How Children and Young People Learn
In this unit you will learn how to critically evaluate educational research, integrate assessment and achievement data into your teaching practice, and evaluate the impact of your teaching on student learning. You will consider the purposes and principles of assessment…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT519 Evidence-Informed Teaching Practice
Literacy for Curriculum Learning equips pre-service teachers with the knowledge and skills required to explicitly teach disciplinary literacy in secondary classrooms. Grounded in the research that shows explicit reading and writing instruction improves students’ academic understanding, this unit highlights the integral…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT524 Literacy for Curriculum Learning
This unit prepares you to lead classrooms that are both trauma-transformative and inclusive, supporting the wellbeing, safety, and engagement of all learners. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, this unit provides a structure to apply and refine your…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT604 Leading Inclusive and Trauma-Transformative Classrooms A
This unit is designed to prepare you with advanced skills in creating inclusive learning environments that celebrate and support student diversity. You will develop a comprehensive understanding of inclusive education principles and practices, preparing you to meet the diverse needs…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT605 Leading Inclusive and Trauma-Transformative Classrooms B
In this unit you will explore the role of research in the cultivation of evidence-informed teaching practice. You will conduct a guided inquiry that will inform your practice. This unit extends your learning about evidence-based practice as you design and…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT632 The Scholarship of Teaching (Secondary)
In this unit you will explore how young people learn the general capabilities of critical and creative thinking, digital literacy, ethical understanding, intercultural understanding, numeracy, and personal and social capability. You will learn about each of the general capabilities and…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT633 General Capabilities in the Secondary Curriculum
In this unit, you will extend and apply your first specialist learning area knowledge to the practice of teaching. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, you will develop practical skills in how to integrate your content knowledge with…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT634 Teaching the Secondary Curriculum A
In this unit, you will extend your knowledge and skills in your specialist teaching area(s) to support your competence and confidence in meeting the professional standards required of a graduate teacher. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, and building on…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT635 Teaching the Secondary Curriculum B
In this capstone unit you will revisit the complex context of teaching as you take your final steps to graduating and joining the profession. Designed to be undertaken alongside professional experience placement, you will learn about the organisations and groups…
Credit Points: 12.5
In this unit, you will study the Australian Curriculum: English (Years 7–10) and the Tasmanian senior secondary English courses (Years 11–12), developing an understanding of how these documents shape the teaching of English. With a particular focus on contemporary approaches,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT532 English Studies in Secondary Education
This unit introduces you to the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) for secondary students (Years 7-10) and the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards, and Certification (TASC) HASS-related curricula for senior secondary years (Years 11-12). You will design learning goals and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT533 Humanities and Social Sciences in Secondary Education
This unit will introduce you to the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to effectively teach languages in secondary schools. You will explore contemporary approaches to language teaching, including the integration of intercultural understanding and the use of technology…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT534 Languages in Secondary Education
This unit introduces you to key pedagogical approaches to teaching the secondary mathematics curriculum. You will focus on the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics, with an emphasis on the content strands of number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics, and probability for Years 7…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT535 Mathematics in Secondary Education
In this unit you are introduced to the theory, pedagogical approaches, and practices of teaching Outdoor and Environmental Education (OEE) in secondary school (Years 7–10) through the Australian Curriculum (AC) and through the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards, and Certification (TASC) for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT536 Outdoor and Environmental Education in Secondary Education
In this unit you are introduced to the theory, pedagogical approaches, and practices of teaching Science in secondary school (Years 7–10) through the Australian Curriculum and the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards, and Certification (TASC) for senior secondary years (Years 11-12). You…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Technologies enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally. They can play an important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining societies and natural, managed and constructed environments. In this unit you will examine the technologies learning area…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT538 Technologies in Secondary Education
This unit introduces you to The Arts learning area of the Australian Curriculum (Years 7-10), as well as relevant senior secondary curriculum frameworks (Years 11-12), with specific attention to your own specialist teaching area(s) of dance, drama, music, media arts…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you will extend and apply your second specialist learning area knowledge to the practice of teaching. You will develop practical skills in how to integrate your content knowledge with curriculum requirements, pedagogical approaches, and understandings about your…
Credit Points: 12.5
View all details for EMT637 Teaching the Secondary Curriculum C
In this unit, you will study the Australian Curriculum: English (Years 7–10) and the Tasmanian senior secondary English courses (Years 11–12), developing an understanding of how these documents shape the teaching of English. With a particular focus on contemporary approaches,…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT532 English Studies in Secondary Education
This unit introduces you to the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) for secondary students (Years 7-10) and the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards, and Certification (TASC) HASS-related curricula for senior secondary years (Years 11-12). You will design learning goals and…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT533 Humanities and Social Sciences in Secondary Education
This unit will introduce you to the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed to effectively teach languages in secondary schools. You will explore contemporary approaches to language teaching, including the integration of intercultural understanding and the use of technology…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT534 Languages in Secondary Education
This unit introduces you to key pedagogical approaches to teaching the secondary mathematics curriculum. You will focus on the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics, with an emphasis on the content strands of number, algebra, measurement, space, statistics, and probability for Years 7…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT535 Mathematics in Secondary Education
In this unit you are introduced to the theory, pedagogical approaches, and practices of teaching Outdoor and Environmental Education (OEE) in secondary school (Years 7–10) through the Australian Curriculum (AC) and through the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards, and Certification (TASC) for…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT536 Outdoor and Environmental Education in Secondary Education
In this unit you are introduced to the theory, pedagogical approaches, and practices of teaching Science in secondary school (Years 7–10) through the Australian Curriculum and the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards, and Certification (TASC) for senior secondary years (Years 11-12). You…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
Technologies enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally. They can play an important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining societies and natural, managed and constructed environments. In this unit you will examine the technologies learning area…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT538 Technologies in Secondary Education
This unit introduces you to The Arts learning area of the Australian Curriculum (Years 7-10), as well as relevant senior secondary curriculum frameworks (Years 11-12), with specific attention to your own specialist teaching area(s) of dance, drama, music, media arts…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit, you will develop and learn how to adapt pedagogical practices for teaching across the curriculum in secondary school contexts. You will critically examine the Australian Curriculum and relevant TASC-accredited senior secondary courses, making comparisons and connections between…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 1 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 1 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
In this unit you will explore how sustainability can be meaningfully integrated into teaching and learning programs across curriculum areas. Grounded in principles of reciprocity and interconnectedness, you will examine pedagogical approaches that foster deep engagement with sustainability and the…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobart | Semester 2 | | | | |
| Online | Semester 2 | | | | |
- Key:
- On-campus
- Off-Campus
- International students
- Domestic students
View all details for EMT636 Education for Sustainability in Secondary Schooling
Entry requirements
We encourage you to apply for the courses you most want to study. If you’re not eligible to enter your chosen course right now, the admissions team will work with you to find the best pathway option.
Enquire online for advice on the application process and the available pathways to study.
Schools Recommendation Program
Australian year 12 students can apply for this course via our Schools Recommendation Program. Rather than an ATAR, your application is based on a recommendation by your school teachers. This can factor in your year 11 results, an assessment of your capabilities, and other considerations.
Through the program, you can receive and accept an offer prior to completing year 12. You will still need to finish your year 12 studies – including any exams – to commence your studies.
If you don’t receive an early offer for this course through the Schools Recommendation Program, you will be re-assessed for a higher preference offer once your ATAR is released.
Domestic Applicants who have recently completed secondary education
Applicants are ranked by ATAR and offers made based on the number of places available. In 2026, the lowest ATAR to receive an offer into this course was 50.25. The lowest ATAR to receive an offer may change from year to year based on the number of applications we receive.
Applicants who have recently completed senior secondary studies but have not received an ATAR may still be eligible for admission. We will consider your individual subject results on a case-by-case basis when we assess your application.
Applicants for the Theatre and Performance major who have not met the ATAR requirement may be asked to undertake an audition or interview in order to be admitted to the course.
For all other majors, please refer to Alternative entry pathways below.
Domestic applicants with higher education study
To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have:
- Partially completed an undergraduate course at Diploma level or higher (or equivalent). Applicants must have completed at least two units of study (equivalent to 25 UTAS credit points at 100-level or above). If an applicant has failed any units the application may be subject to further review before an offer is made; or
- Completed the University of Tasmania University Preparation Program (or an equivalent qualification offered by an Australian University).
Domestic applicants with VET / TAFE study
To be eligible for an offer, applicants must have completed a Certificate IV (or equivalent) in any discipline.
Domestic applicants with work and life experience
Applicants without senior secondary, tertiary or VET / TAFE study can complete a personal competency statement.
Applicants may be eligible for an offer if they have relevant work and / or life experiences which demonstrate a capacity to succeed in this course.
Special consideration
If your ability to access or participate in education has been affected by circumstances beyond your control, you can apply for special consideration as part of your application. We will consider a range of factors, including economic hardship, serious medical condition or disability.
We can only approve applications for special consideration where we are confident that you have the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in your studies. If your application is not approved, the UTAS admissions team will work with you to find the best alternative pathway to your chosen course. Special consideration is not available for international applicants.
All international students will need to meet the minimum English Language Requirements, University General Entry Requirements and any course specific requirements such as pre-requisite subjects, if applicable.
English Language Requirements
This degree requires an IELTS (Academic) of 6.0, with no individual band less than 5.5, or a PTE Academic score of 50, with no score lower than 42 or equivalent.
For students who do not meet the English Language Requirement through citizenship or prior studies in English in an approved country, evidence of an approved English language test completed within the last 2 years must be provided. See the English Language Requirements page for more information.
General Entry Requirements
Admission to undergraduate courses at the University of Tasmania requires the completion of qualifications equivalent to a 12th year of education in Australia.
Please review the equivalent undergraduate entry requirements to see the minimum requirement relevant to your country. The ATAR information for this course is located in the “For Domestic Students” section of the entry requirements on this page.
You can also meet the General Entry Requirement for this course with the following qualifications or prior studies:
- Completion of an equivalent AQF Certificate IV or above
- Complete or incomplete (minimum 25 credit points) of previous tertiary study at Bachelor level or higher
If you do not meet the minimum requirements, we offer the Foundation Studies Program.
Course Specific Requirements
This course does not have any course specific requirements.
Bachelor of Arts and Master of Teaching (Double Degree)
General entry requirements are the same as for the Bachelor of Arts, with the following additional requirements:
Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teaching Education.
Master of Teaching students must attempt the LANTITE in their first year of study and are required to successfully complete the LANTITE prior to undertaking their final Professional Experience Placement.
Progression to Master of Teaching
To progress into the Master of Teaching component of the course you must attain a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5 or above (Credit average) in the first 100 credit points of undergraduate study in the Bachelor of Arts.
If you do not meet this GPA requirement you will be able to remain in the Bachelor of Arts and complete the single degree. On completion of the Bachelor of Arts you may apply to return and complete the Master of Teaching.
Bachelor of Arts and Master of Teaching (Double Degree)
General entry requirements are the same as for the Bachelor of Arts, with the following additional requirements:
Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teaching Education.
Master of Teaching students must attempt the LANTITE in their first year of study and are required to successfully complete the LANTITE prior to undertaking their final Professional Experience Placement.
Progression to Master of Teaching
To progress into the Master of Teaching component of the course you must attain a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5 or above (Credit average) in the first 100 credit points of undergraduate study in the Bachelor of Arts.
If you do not meet this GPA requirement you will be able to remain in the Bachelor of Arts and complete the single degree. On completion of the Bachelor of Arts you may apply to return and complete the Master of Teaching.
You may be eligible for advanced standing (i.e. credit points) in this degree if you:
- Have successfully completed relevant units through the through the University Connections Program;
- Have completed an award such as a Diploma or Advanced Diploma at the University, from TAFE or another institution;
- Are currently studying another Bachelor degree at the University or at another institution;
- Have completed a Bachelor degree at the University or an equivalent award from another institution.
Applications for credit can be made in your course application. Find out more information about how to apply for a credit transfer/advanced standing at Recognition of Prior Learning.
Talk to us on 1300 363 864 or enquire online about your credit transfer.
Students who have completed any of the following courses at the University of Tasmania may articulate to the Bachelor of Arts with full credit:
- Diploma of Arts
- Diploma of Music
- Diploma of Languages
- Diploma of Creative Arts and Health
- Associate Degree in Arts
High achieving students may consider applying for the Bachelor of Arts with Honours. Students in the Honours program will undertake supervised researched and develop a body of knowledge in a specific context as further preparation to undertake professional work and/or as a pathway for Masters degree or Doctorate.
Further postgraduate studyIf you successfully complete the Bachelor of Arts (Hons), you may be eligible to apply for a range of other postgraduate courses including Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas and Masters by coursework and research.
If you do not meet the General Entrance Requirements or course-specific requirements, there are alternate entry pathways to the Bachelor of Arts:
Detailed admissions information and advice for all undergraduate courses, including comprehensive, course-level student profiles, is available from UTAS Admissions.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Commonwealth supported places (CSP) are available for this course. For eligible domestic students, this means your fees will be subsidised by the Australian Government. You’ll only need to pay the student contribution amount for each unit you study within the course.
Commonwealth Supported Place indicative annual fee: $12,999
How is this calculated?
This is an estimate. The calculation is based on the average full-time enrolment for this course in 2026. All figures are indicative only for 2027. Actual tuition fees will depend on specific unit enrolment, and are subject to annual increases each year. You can find the complete fee details for each unit of study on the individual unit pages. The units for this course are found in the course structure section of this page.
These figures do not include other costs such as the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). For further information, please visit Scholarships, fees and costs.
HECS-HELP loans
You may be able to defer payment of the student contribution amount by accessing a HECS-HELP loan from the Government. If eligible, you’ll only have to pay your tuition fees once you start earning above a specific amount.
Further information on student loans and a CSP eligibility checker can be found at Australian Government Study Assist.
International students
2027 annual international student tuition fee: $37,250 AUD
The standard year of study for this course is 100 credit points.
Indicative total tuition fee for international students: $ 117,431 AUD.
This total tuition fee is indicative only. Please visit fees and costs for further information on how this is calculated.
International students are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the annual rate. International students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Domestic scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
International scholarships
The University of Tasmania offers a range of scholarships for international students, designed to recognise academic merit and support access to university study.
For many of our international scholarships, you will be automatically assessed when you submit your International Student Application, so no separate scholarship application is required. Some scholarships may require additional application steps. Explore our International Scholarships to learn more about available opportunities and application requirements.
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