Subjects

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

AIMS This subject provides an advanced focus on the heat and mass transport processes that are part of the core knowledge and problem solving skills basis for chemical engineering unit operations. In addition, an advanced understanding of these transport processes will help enable students in th...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

In the first half of the subject, students will evaluate a range of theoretical perspectives on work and employment. The emphasis will be on comparing different conceptual perspectives on the employment relationship. Theories will be drawn from economics, sociology, critical management studies, c...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:June Year:2017

Course content includes: Physical Hydrogeology, Chemical Hydrogeology, Field Study/Methods and Management and Assessment.

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

AIMS To introduce students to advanced and esoteric imaging technologies and the methods for extracting quantitative information from multi-source imagery. This subject builds on the knowledge of subjects such as imaging the environment, by considering multi-source images of the target to provid...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

The rise of multinational enterprises and cross-border transactions represent an exciting challenge to orthodox management theories, as these phenomena raise questions about the universality of concepts typically formulated to explain domestic (or Western) behaviour. International business schola...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017Quotas apply

In PATH30004 Advanced Investigation of Human Disease students will extend their understanding of human disease in the context of library or laboratory based research projects. This subject will give students the opportunity to work within a research group investigating diseases of significance to...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

At a theoretical level, the subject teaches principles of strategic and tactical asset allocation, and their potential impact on market-wide phenomena such as asset prices and trading volume (“asset pricing theory”). At the practical level, the subject provides students with opportunities to atte...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2017

Advanced skill development in laboratory-based phonetics or in syntactic theory will be provided for those students who require these specialised skills for their thesis work. Advanced Linguistic Analysis A and B will be taken consecutively over one semester. These subjects are designed to ensure...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2017

Advanced skill development in laboratory-based phonetics or in syntactic theory will be provided for those students who require these specialised skills for their thesis work. Advanced Linguistic Analysis A and B will be taken consecutively over one semester. These subjects are designed to ensure...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject presents recent developments in macroeconomics. There will be a mix of theory and applications. The main theories to be covered may include overlapping generations models, dynamic optimisation, real business cycle theory, intertemporal open economy models and the theory of economic g...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject provides an overview of the process of editing and publishing magazines, with special emphasis on the skills and knowledge needed to edit magazines today. We examine how a magazine gets from concept to newsstand, including launch proposal, project planning, scheduling, budgeting and ...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Year Long Year:2017

This subject extends students’ understanding of research in management accounting. The subject focuses on several key areas of empirical research in management accounting and provides an in-depth examination of the individual and contextual factors influencing the design and use of management acc...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject critically and systematically examines a range of important theories in the management field. The basic elements of these theories will be discussed. Ways in which these theories are invoked and operationalised in empirical and conceptual studies will also be discussed. Some of the t...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

The subject provides students with an advanced understanding of some fundamental and influential theories in marketing strategy and marketing management. Theories include market social exchange, transaction costs, social network, relationship marketing, resource based view, dynamic capabilities, ...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

AIMS This subject focuses on advanced materials and their engineering applications. Selected metallic, ceramic and polymer materials and their composites are analysed in the context of applications. When relevant, the topics will be reinforced by introducing the latest development in research.Th...

Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2017

The primary aim of the Bachelor of Medical Science is to provide an experiential introduction to the process of biomedical research. The AMS program allows students to: practice the concepts of project design, ethical consideration and application of research methods;develop skills in the assemb...

Undergraduate subject Offered:January Year:2017

The primary aim of the Bachelor of Medical Science is to provide an experiential introduction to the process of biomedical research. The AMS program allows students to: practice the concepts of project design, ethical consideration and application of research methods;develop skills in the assemb...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2017

This subject extends the knowledge and skills developed in the prerequisite Mental Health and Ageing course. Management of mental health in older persons is explored from a range of biomedical and social perspectives. Topics include optimising mental health during ageing, preventing and managing ...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2017

This subject aims to build the methodological literacy of doctoral students to a level that is adequate to the doctoral level of study. It addresses both more general methodological questions and concerns in the field of educational research as well as addressing specific issues connected with th...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject develops the mathematical methods of applied mathematics and mathematical physics with an emphasis on ordinary differential equations. Both analytical and approximate techniques are used to determine solutions of ordinary differential equations. Exact solutions by localised series ex...