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  • Ultrasound for ParamedicsMEDI90127

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

    After completion of this subject, students will have the knowledge for how to use ultrasound to improve diagnosis and procedures for patients in the pre-hospital setting. Students will have the knowledge to perform a clinical ultrasound to help determine the common causes of shock and cardiac arr...

  • Ultrasound For Paramedics - PracticalMEDI90144

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

    Students will learn how to use ultrasound to improve clinical assessment and procedures for patients in the pre-hospital setting. After completion of this subject, students will have the knowledge and skill  to perform and interpret focused clinical ultrasound to identify the cause of shock and c...

  • Ultrasound Guided ProceduresMEDI90054

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

    This subject will outline the technique of using ultrasound to guide percutaneous procedures. Procedures will include vessel access, nerve blocks, and trauma related procedures. There will be an elective of either "Nerve Blocks" or "Critical Care Procedures". Topics include: Ultrasound Guided V...

  • Under Camera AnimationFINA20036

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Summer Term, February, Winter Term, July Year:2024Quotas apply

    In this subject each student will make a film using the “under camera animation” technique. This animation technique involves the creation of an animation through frame-by-frame imagery, photographing each frame with a tablet and then combining these photographs into an animated film. The potenti...

  • Understanding Australian MediaMECM20006

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject examines Australian media with an emphasis on its political nature and issues of media convergence, citizenship, policy, regulation, ownership, governance and local content. Students are encouraged to actively, and critically, examine their own media use. Drawing on this, and a range...

  • Understanding Big Data for Public PolicyPPMN90055

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

    Policy makers need to under what big data is, how it is used, and what ethical and practical issues using big data to make decisions will raise in the 21st Century. They do not need to be programmers. They need to understand, at a high level, the issues involved in using big data for public polic...

  • Understanding Education in ContextEDUC90929

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

    This subject examines education policy and practice in social and historical context. The subject will provide students with an opportunity to examine key national and international debates in education policy and practice in relation to shifting social, political, economic and political relation...

  • Understanding Education PolicyEDUC90951

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

    This subject examines education policy in an international context. Students will examine the nature and role of education policy, the intersection with other social and economic policies, and the key conceptual ideas underpinning contemporary policy. Through this subject, students will analyse t...

  • Understanding Global MediaMECM20010

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    While new communication technologies, satellite broadcasting, and the Internet have contributed to an increasing connectedness between different regions, a deeper understanding of the organizational structure of this ‘connectedness’, the national and transnational regulation and the ways in which...

  • Understanding Islam and Muslim SocietiesISLM10003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Today, approximately 24% of the world’s population is Muslim. What is Islam, and how does it shape our world: historically, culturally, economically, and politically? What binds nearly 2 billion Muslims together: how are Muslims ‘Muslim’, but differently? This subject introduces students to the r...

  • Understanding Knowing and LearningEDUC10050

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject will lead students to increase their understanding of various perspectives on knowing and learning while developing practical approaches to learning and its enhancement. This will be achieved through the exploration of a range of theoretical perspectives combined with practical appli...

  • Understanding Media & CommunicationsMECM90039

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

    This subject provides students with foundational case studies and conceptual frameworks for understanding the history of media technologies, institutions, practices, and products. Students will develop a critical understanding of the issues and debates surrounding the complex transformation of me...

  • Understanding SchoolsEDUC90751

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2024

    The structure, organisation and culture of schools are critically explored through the conceptual tool of framing. Several frames are used to understand the typical forms schools take, and how people are organized in these forms. Re-framing, organizational behaviour, and successful school leaders...

  • Understanding SocietySOCI10001

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject explores our contemporary society through sociological perspectives. Students will be encouraged to develop what C Wright-Mills describes as a 'sociological imagination', which seeks to understand the ways in which our identities are formed by social structures and historical pattern...

  • Understanding the Built EnvironmentABPL10005

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject provides a broad introduction to the processes and skills associated with the construction of buildings and introduces some of the techniques used in managing the construction process. The characteristics and nature of the construction industry are presented as well as an overview of...

  • Understanding The Life CourseSOCI40003

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject introduces a life course approach to social issues. Life course research is a relatively new and innovative approach in the social sciences which has developed in recent decades. It brings back in a time dimension into social research and systematically links social changes on the ma...

  • Understanding the Student as LearnerEDUC91029

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

    This subject focuses on the theoretical frameworks and evidence bases that educators use in understanding the development of their learners and in planning suitable instructional sequences that are responsive to the inherent variability of learners. It covers foundational concepts related to lear...

  • Underworld and AfterlifeANCW30011

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    The journey to the underworld, the existence of an afterlife, the survival of the bereaved, the mummification of the dead, human sacrifice, communicating with ghosts - the ancient world blossomed with myths and rituals associated with all these things. This subject focuses on these topics in the ...

  • Unilateral ConductLAWS90066

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:January Year:2024

    One of the means by which firms may behave anti-competitively is by engaging in unilateral conduct that damages the competitive process and consumer welfare. Such conduct may be described in various ways in different jurisdictions, including as monopolisation, abuse of dominance or misuse of mark...

  • UN Law and PracticeLAWS90249

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:March Year:2024Quotas apply

    The United Nations (UN) is probably the boldest experiment in international relations in the modern era. It is a body of critical importance in the international political and legal arena, particularly with respect to its primary purposes of maintaining international peace and security; maintaini...