Subjects

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject follows on from Applied Aural Musicianship 3. It develops advanced musical hearing, focusing on atonal and non-triadic materials, and the intersection between acoustic and synthetic sound types. Students determine their own pathways, concentrating on skills most relevant to their in...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject aims to introduce students to the application of programming and computational methods to solve problems in the context of bioengineering research and industry. It introduces students to the fundamentals of software programming and computational methods via the use of programming lan...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Applied Crop Production and Management explores the science and technology of major Australian food crop production systems, to improve both yield and sustainability, with a particular focus on field crops, and annual and perennial horticulture crops. Topics covered will include the factors that ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

AIMS This capstone subject for the Data Science major combines statistical reasoning and practical computing skills to solve challenging problems with big data. INDICATIVE CONTENT Students will learn about communication of quantitative information and insights; presentation skills; report writ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Applied Ecology is the science of understanding and managing ecosystems. The subject describes and evaluates the applications of ecological concepts for the conservation and management of natural and human-altered ecosystems. In particular, it identifies the implications of global and local chang...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject teaches practical skills and applied knowledge for a range of careers in geoscience. It builds on an understanding of fundamental geological processes and systems and explores a range of topics including: resource exploration, responsible extraction of water and mineral resources, or...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Marine environments are critical to the lives and livelihoods of billions of people across the planet. This subject covers our current understanding of key drivers of environmental change in our oceans and the organisms therein (e.g. climate change, pollution, fishing, aquaculture, and other proc...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject demonstrates how the mathematical modelling process naturally gives rise to certain classes of ordinary and partial differential equations in many contexts, including the infectious diseases, the flow of traffic and the dynamics of particles and of fluids. It advances the student’s k...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject examines estimation and testing of microeconometric models based on cross-sectional and panel data and quantitative and limited dependent variables. Illustrative application topics normally will include labour economics, consumer demand and finance. The computer software used is Stata.

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This Capstone subject provides students with a grounding in approaches to political and policy research and translation. It focuses on developing students’ abilities to think clearly with data, to understand and apply different types of quantitative and qualitative reasoning and to better underst...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

Digital infrastructure is critical for human development, for social, economic and political inclusion, resilience, and for a sustainable management of resources. At the core of digital infrastructure is the concept of location.  Climate change can only be observed in relation to locations. Cli...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Research is a vital activity of media professionals and academics. This subject offers a critical introduction to the traditions, approaches and methods used to conduct research into media industries, texts, audiences and platforms. This subject is designed to introduce students to major approach...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject is for students with very little or no knowledge of Arabic. Students will be introduced to the sounds of the Arabic language and to the letters and symbols of its writing system, start building their vocabulary and gain an understanding of, and the ability to use constructively some ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject forms a thorough introduction to spoken and written Arabic language and Arab culture for students with some knowledge of Arabic. Students will gain an understanding of, and the ability to use constructively some important structures of the language. Vocabulary and grammar will be lea...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

Students will be introduced to more complex elements and functions of the language which will enable them to read and engage with authentic texts of moderate complexity ranging from advertisements, personal and formal letters and emails through newspaper articles and informative texts to biograph...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

Students will be introduced to more complex elements and functions of the language which will enable them to read and engage with authentic texts of moderate complexity ranging from advertisements, personal and formal letters and emails through newspaper articles and informative texts to biograph...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Students in this subject start developing in-depth knowledge of the Arab World in general, as well as of individual countries in the region. This will include approaching the Middle East and North Africa from a historic perspective which is crucial to the critical understanding of its civilisatio...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Students in this subject start developing in-depth knowledge of the Arab World in general, as well as of individual countries in the region. This will include approaching the Middle East and North Africa from a historic perspective which is crucial to the critical understanding of its civilisatio...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject offers students the opportunity to learn, internalise and activate more sophisticated aspects of Arabic morphology and syntax and to develop a deeper analytical understanding of the language. This will be achieved through interacting with a variety of written and spoken texts ranging...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject offers students the opportunity to learn, internalise and activate more sophisticated aspects of Arabic morphology and syntax and to develop a deeper analytical understanding of the language. This will be achieved through interacting with a variety of written and spoken texts ranging...