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  2. Advanced Latin B [HTL319]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    Consists of a study of selected Latin texts. ...
  3. Advanced Latin A [HTL317]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    This unit consists of a study of selected Latin texts. ...
  4. Ship Chartering [JNB365]

    2024 Launceston, Online Student elective
    This unit involves comprehending, analysing and evaluating the processes and practices which bring shipowners and cargo owners together in a contractual relationship for carrying cargo. This business is usually facilitated by intermediaries called brokers. The aim of this unit is to provide you with a comprehensive sketch of the concepts, principles and practice which underpin the commercial...
  5. Literary Theory [HEN301]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    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 and/or filmic texts. The unit focuses on a range of approaches to reading texts that may include structuralism, Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism,...
  6. Business Placement [BAA321]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast, Online Student elective
    This unit is available in a number of undergraduate degrees offered across the University.   You will undertake a work-based project with a public, private or not-for-profit business. Placements are matched and related to your course with a designated placement mentor from the organisation supporting student learning during the placement period. The unit is an advanced level unit that integrates...
  7. 2024 Online
    The importance of play is recognised as being integral to young childrens learning and development and is therefore, embedded within the Early Years Learning Framework. This unit comprises of three modules, namely: What is play? Play and the curriculum; and Play and the early childhood (EC) practitioner. The concept, assessment and integration of play based learning will be investigated through...
  8. Fisheries Assessment [JFA308]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    Fisheries assessment is a critical component of monitoring and managing fishery harvests. This advanced unit provides students with a detailed understanding of the quantitative techniques employed in the assessment of fished stocks. The unit covers fishery dependent and fishery independent data and its use in fisheries modelling, mortality estimation, biomass and yield modelling,...
  9. Languages Teaching [EPR311]

    2024 Online
    In this unit you will investigate the principles and practicalities of teaching a foreign language within a primary school context The unit will include evaluation and application of Languages teaching and learning theory and contemporary language teaching methodologies. Existing understandings, skills and processes to plan and implement Language teaching and learning experiences into the primary...
  10. 2024 Online Student elective
    This unit extends your understanding of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal, social and environmental dimensions of health and wellness. The content focuses on critical aspects of social and emotional learning (SEL) to ensure you can successfully implement a program of SEL in a school or workplace. SEL encompasses concepts such as resilience, mental health, drug education,...
  11. Applied Taxation [BFA391]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast, Online Student elective
    This unit is a compulsory unit in the Accounting Major and is designed to assist you in gaining an understanding of the theoretical concepts that underpin taxation law in Australia. This knowledge is used to develop your skills in the interpretation of taxation legislation, case law and rulings, and their application to different business entities and individuals. You will be required to...
  12. History in Focus [HTA378]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    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 sources, issues and debates within a field of history. In 2024 the unit’s focus is the late British Empire, 1870s-1960s. ...
  13. Corporate Finance [BEA343]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    This Unit is concerned with Corporate Finance. The central issues in Corporate Finance are how to acquire and employ or invest funds efficiently. Concepts in Corporate Finance are explored as a set of ideas and principles that work together and their application to corporate financial policy decisions including dividend, capital structure and risk management. ...
  14. Global Procurement [JNB357]

    2024 Launceston, Online Student elective
    The aim of this unit is to examine the processes, functions and strategies required by organisations to acquire goods, services and equipment from other organisations. The unit covers three broad dimensions of the procurement function within organisations. Firstly, the unit familiarises you with the procurement processes employed by organisations in both the public and private sectors. Secondly,...
  15. 2024 Online
    This placement is undertaken in in accordance with the Professional Experience Calendar. All students must be aware of the scheduled Professional Experience dates and be prepared to undertake a placement during the scheduled time. The dates of Professional Experience may only be changed in exceptional, unplanned circumstances. Date variations are assessed on a case-by-case basis by the...
  16. Clinical Psychology [PSY305]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast, Online Student elective
    This unit aims to introduce students 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 in the treatment of various mental health conditions. Students will participate in both face-to-face and self-directed...
  17. Literary Cultures [HEN319]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    From bookshops to classrooms, book clubs to libraries, literary festivals and the literary media, pulp fiction, pop fiction, lit fiction, online and offline: How do we engage with literary texts today? How does literature become a brand? How are the values ascribed to literature formed, circulated, and modified? This unit considers key aspects of contemporary literary culture that shape the way...
  18. Geospatial Project [KGG355]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    This geospatial project unit allows you to undertake a significant investigative project in a chosen field within the broad discipline of geospatial science. This will be achieved via guidance of the unit coordinator and unit materials. Through this project, you will gain insight into project management skills including project design, methods development, data collection, data management and...
  19. 2024 Online Student elective
    This unit investigates the role and practice of Human Resource Management in organisations with an applied industry component. Through engagement with industry partners, the unit provides students with the opportunity to apply HRM practices, concepts, theories and skills to critical aspects of business operation. Thus, students will explore a broad view of the complex and contested HR issues that...
  20. Public Policy [HPP302]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    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 the knowledge of both the theoretical underpinnings and real-world challenges of the field. The unit examines the economics of...
  21. 2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    International finance refers to a branch of financial economics that deals with monetary systems and economics that surpass national borders. This field focuses on global capital markets through monitoring and examining trade practices across borders, global investment flows and movements in foreign exchange rates. This unit provides you with the skills necessary to understand and address some of...
  22. Forensic Psychology [PSY312]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    This unit will provide an introduction to psychology and law. The progression of lecture topics in this unit will roughly follow the course of an investigation and trial of a criminal case, covering issues such as eyewitness memory; false memories; police interviewing techniques; deception detection; and juror decisions. Throughout the unit, the focus will be on how psychological science can (a)...
  23. Farming Systems [KLA312]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    In this interdisciplinary unit, students will be introduced to systems thinking and practice in a farming context. Systems approaches will be used to explore how broader social, cultural, political, economic and ecological factors influence farming. Using local and international case studies, students will apply different systems approaches to analyse complex problems in agriculture and explore...
  24. Families in History [HTA384]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    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 lives of individual family members, such as mothers and children. The unit offers you the opportunity to conduct original archival research,...
  25. 2024 Online Student elective
    Dementia friendly societies are designed to support people to live well with dementia through a range of integrated social, environmental and physical strategies. This advanced level unit explores the challenges of building dementia friendly societies with, and for people living with dementia. The unit will enable students to critically explore contemporary issues and concepts related to dementia...
  26. Sociology of Youth [HGA377]

    2024 Online Student elective
    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 youth subcultures. The aims of the unit are: (1) to provide an overview of the ways in which key social structures shape the...
  27. Political Philosophy [HPH304]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    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 on contemporary debates. These cover a wide range of issues linked by fundamental disagreements about what makes one...
  28. Foodborne Pathogens [KLA304]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    Food safety comprises a broad range of scientific endeavours that are important in human society. Maintenance of food security and public health requires vigilance in the food supply, including safety, traceability, epidemiology and the ecology of food-borne pathogens. The science also involves the application of knowledge related to food fermentation, processing techniques, manufacturing, and...
  29. American Politics [HPP315]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    This unit provides a comprehensive introduction to American politics. The unit begins with an overview of United States political history, culture and institutions before focusing on the nature and impact of recent presidencies. It examines key issues which dominate contemporary US politics and provides insights into the ideas and actors which influence these debates. The unit concludes by...
  30. 2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    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 is also suitable for heritage or non-heritage students whose Chinese is native-like ...
  31. Advanced HPE [EPR340]

    2024 Launceston, Online
    This is the second of two Health and Physical Education (HPE) units. The unit aims to promote awareness of the importance of Health and Physical Education in the curriculum from a generalist teachers perspective and provide confidence in teaching its concepts at a primary school level. It seeks to prepare pre-service teachers to teach health education and health promotion to children, parents,...
  32. Applied Philosophy [HPH302]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    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 from philosophical skills of analysis and critical...
  33. Accounting Futures [BFA392]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast, Online Student elective
    Organisations expect graduate accountants to be able to consolidate their technical knowledge and apply it to a range of business contexts which are often ambiguous and changing. Accountants and finance professionals are increasingly involved in cross disciplinary teams which requires a high level of business acumen to relate accounting and financial information to the whole business and...
  34. 2024 Online Student elective
    Did the First Australians invent bread? Was Captain Cook eaten in Hawaii? Did Atlantis really exist? Were the Vikings traders or raiders? Did the Anzacs land at the wrong place? Was Ned Kelly a hero or a villain? Who killed JFK? This unit will deepen your knowledge of history, from Deep Time, through ancient and medieval times, to key social and political events of the 20th century. Historical...
  35. Japanese Language 3B [HMJ316]

    2024 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    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 as with native Japanese speakers where possible. Students will work across a range of language genre (polite to humble) and a...
  36. Indonesian 3B [HMN314]

    2024 Online Student elective
    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 unit covers content such as articles from newspapers, excerpts from novels, short stories, popular and academic journals, and...
  37. 2024 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    Language is what makes us human. It influences our thoughts and affects our lives in even more ways that we might expect. In this advanced unit, students are introduced to the most important and strongly debated issues in the psychology of language. Lecture topics include the distinctive features of human language as a system of communication, language structure, acquisition and development, the...
  38. City Lives [HGA341]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    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 and what is given ‘place’ in the city and the norms which shape urban governance, encounter, interaction, and...
  39. 2024 Online Student elective
    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 depiction of the gods and heroes as a mirror of social and political change, and addresses the reception of classical myth in later ages. ...
  40. 2024 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    This unit is built around a close examination of key philosophical texts. Students will acquire a specialist understanding of debates and positions within a select field of philosophy, and will identify and engage with philosophical issues in detail. The unit prepares students for further study in philosophy at honours level. ...
  41. 2024 Online
    The third Professional Experience placement (PE3) for the Bachelor of Education (Applied Learning). ...
  42. 2024 Hobart, Launceston, Online Student elective
    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 functions of literature within Australian culture, and topics studied may include: the literary response to...
  43. 2024 Online
    This unit provides a range of strategies to cater for students with diverse needs in learning mathematics. The learning needs may include: difficulties directly related to the learning of mathematics, such as dyscalculia; difficulties that are not directly related to mathematics, such as literacy obstacles; or other learning differences, such as those which stem from cultural differences or...
  44. 2024 Online
    The fourth Professional Experience placement (P43) for the Bachelor of Education (Applied Learning). ...
  45. 2024 Online Student elective
    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 of Petronius, and the brooding Civil War of Lucan. It also examines the representations of Nero himself in the biography of...
  46. 2024 Online Student elective
    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 creative arts projects in community settings and discusses appropriate evaluation frameworks for health and wellbeing outcomes....
  47. Transnational Crime [HGA345]

    2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    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 unit will explore a broad range of criminal activities including people trafficking, trafficking of illicit goods (i.e., drugs,...
  48. 2024 Online
    This unit builds on paramedic clinical practice to develop your knowledge in the areas of coronary care, electrophysiology, pharmacology, and the management of a range of acute and chronic conditions, for both adult and paediatric patients. Scope of paramedic practice and clinical currency themes will also be explored and integrated throughout the unit. ...
  49. 2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    This unit introduces students to the dynamics that shape contemporary environmental politics, policy and justice with broad appeal to students of social sciences, governance, justice studies, environmental studies and science. The roles of governments and non-state actors in contributing to environmental policy and governance arrangements are considered with reference to a number of contemporary...
  50. Indonesian 3A [HMN313]

    2024 Online Student elective
    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 as articles from newspapers, excerpts from novels, short stories, popular and academic journals, and videos that have been...
  51. 2024 Hobart, Online Student elective
    This interdisciplinary unit engages students in a detailed study of Indigenous experience of social and legal systems from invasion/colonisation to the present day. Beginning with the global historical context, the unit traces the ongoing struggle for Indigenous justice from the violent colonial frontier to the era of social media. The unit explores issues including Land Rights and Native Title,...
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