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  • Acoustics and Perception of SpeechAUDI90050

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject explores the physics of the generation, propagation and measurement of sound. Students will be introduced to psychoacoustics, psychophysical measurement, and acoustic phonetics to audiological practice.

  • Acting for Opera Performance 1MUSI90183

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject explores the holistic performance elements required by professional opera singers. Combining text analysis and movement principles, this subject is designed to build skills of dramatic interpretation and individual expression required for professional opera performance opera perform...

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IACTL90010

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Topics include insurance markets and products; underwriting and risk assessment; policy design; actuarial modelling; actuarial assumptions and feedback; reserving methods.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIACTL90011

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    Topics include assessment of solvency; analysis of experience; analysis of surplus; actuarial techniques in the wider fields; and an introduction to professionalism.

  • Actuarial Practice and Control IIIACTL90009

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Analysis of investment portfolios and asset classes from the perspective of an appointed actuary, with a view to identifying assets that suit the requirements of a variety of general insurance, life insurance, superannuation and other defined benefit liabilities.    

  • Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1ACTL90016

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended), Semester 2 (Extended) Year:2024

    A research essay not exceeding 10,000 words on a topic approved by the Head of Department. The word count includes bibliography, footnotes, appendices and the number of words which would take up space used for tables, formulae and charts.

  • Actuarial Science Research Report Part 2ACTL90017

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Early-Start), Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    Refer to ACTL90016 Actuarial Science Research Report Part 1 for details

  • Actuarial Studies Projects - Part 1ACTL90013

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 (Extended) Year:2024

    This subject provides students with the experience of carrying out research independently on each of three topics chosen by the subject’s lecturers. For each topic, the student is required over eight weeks to conduct and present as an extended essay the results of an independent piece of actuaria...

  • Actuarial Studies Projects - Part 2ACTL90024

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 (Early-Start) Year:2024

    This subject provides students with the experience of carrying out research independently on each of three topics chosen by the subject’s lecturers. For each topic, the student is required, over eight weeks to conduct and present as an extended essay the results of an independent piece of actuari...

  • Adapting to Climate ChangeENST90034

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:April Year:2024

    This subject focuses on climate change adaptation, and in particular its environmental, political, social and policy dimensions. It explores the ways which climate change poses risks to human wellbeing, and the ways these risks can be managed. It draws on examples from Australia and the Asia-Paci...

  • Adaptive LeadershipMGMT90264

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Term 1 Year:2024

    In Adaptive Leadership, students learn and apply core knowledge, skills and tools to recognize and navigate leadership opportunities and challenges in the context of digital transformation and dynamic competitive environments. The subject focuses in particular on how to build individual and colle...

  • Administrative LawLAWS50032

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Administrative law regulates the relationship between the state and its people, in other words, the relationship between the government and the governed. In particular, it regulates the powers and procedures of the executive branch of government and establishes the mechanisms for ensuring legalit...

  • Administrative Law in Tax MattersLAWS90167

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024Quotas apply

    This subject examines contemporary developments in administrative law and how they apply to the Tax Commissioner and the taxpayer. In the last 15 years the High Court has rapidly developed administrative law principles that apply to constrain government officials’ powers and duties, in taxation, ...

  • Adolescent Health Minor ThesisPOPH90268

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Year Long Year:2024

    The purpose of this subject is to develop the critical disciplines of research methodology and to arm students with the necessary knowledge and skills to analyse and interpret research that informs our understanding of young people’s health and well-being. The aim is also to provide students with...

  • Adolescent Health ProjectPOPH90170

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2 Year:2024

    In this subject, participants will draw on ideas from research, along with theoretical frameworks and strategies explored during the course to develop and review a critical inquiry project relevant to their professional practice workplace / setting that influences outcomes for young people. Parti...

  • Adolescent Sexuality and Sexual HealthPOPH90169

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject explores two main themes: 1. The social construction of sexuality - how our understandings of sexuality are developed in socio-cultural contexts; and 2. Sexual health - how it is defined and measured, what factors contribute to it, and practical issues to consider when interacting wi...

  • Adult Neuropsychological DisordersPSYC90032

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Year Long Year:2024

    A year long lecture-based subject focussed on the neuropsychological effects of neurodegeneration, cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, alcohol-related brain damage, psychogenic disorders, multiple sclerosis, brain tumours, and paraneoplastic disorders of the brain. Detailed...

  • Adult PsychopathologyPSYC90031

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2024

    This subject aims to present major approaches to psychological disorders, in which psychopathology is contrasted with "normal" functioning. Reference is made to various theoretical approaches to the aetiologies of disorders/problems, with a focus on recognising the clinical pictures of common psy...

  • Advanced Accounting 1ACCT90044

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Year Long Year:2024

    Advanced Accounting 1 is a year-long subject in the second year of the Master of Commerce (Accounting) program. This subject provides a rigorous review and critical analysis of the theory and methodology underlying economics-based research in a specific area of accounting that was of interest to ...

  • Advanced Accounting 2ACCT90045

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Year Long Year:2024

    Advanced Accounting 2 is a year-long subject in the second year of the Master of Commerce (Accounting) Program. This subject provides a rigorous review and critical analysis of the theory and methodology underlying economics-based research in a specific area of accounting that was of interest to ...