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  • Weather and Climate ExtremesATOC90016

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

    Extreme weather and climate events have large impacts on people and the environment. It is vital that these events are well predicted on weather forecasting timescales to limit the damages they cause. It is also important that the characteristics of these events in a changing climate are well und...

  • Web SecurityCOMP90074

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    AIMS The Internet pervades nearly every aspect of our lives, from banking through to dating, and onto our interactions with government. As more of our lives move online we face ever greater risks to our data and way of life from internet vulnerabilities and attacks. Web Security will examine the...

  • Wellbeing CoachingEDUC91193

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:August Year:2024

    Wellbeing Coaching examines the relationship between coaching psychology, wellbeing science and the philosophies that underpin these. In the context of a growing desire for wellbeing cultures to be developed, there is also a need to identify and apply clear processes to navigate and organize chan...

  • Wellbeing Design, Delivery & EvaluationEDUC91046

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:March, July Year:2024

    This subject examines the design, delivery, and evaluation of positive interventions and approaches to fostering wellbeing and other positive outcomes across a range of contexts, such as at home, in the workplace, and in the local community. Nuances of delivery format in each delivery setting wil...

  • Wellbeing, Health and Physical EducationEDUC91090

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

    This subject prepares the Teacher Candidates to use evidence-informed approaches to understanding and advancing the factors that contribute to student health, wellbeing and engagement. This includes teaching Health and Physical Education, promoting social and emotional learning, enhancing healt...

  • Well-being in PracticePSYC90111

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    The Well-being in Practice subject will provide its students with integrated well-being and clinical practice related knowledge, understanding and associated experiential learning resources and activities. This will help students develop an integrated theoretical and practical understanding of we...

  • Wellbeing LeadershipEDUC91194

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2024

    Wellbeing Leadership examines why creating wellbeing cultures in diverse contexts such as in organisations, communities and sporting groups has become essential. The role of leaders to navigate and organise change with wellbeing in mind and to implement clear and intentional processes, will be cr...

  • Well-Being: Learning from South AsiaUNIB20025

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    How has wellness and ‘well-being’ been understood and represented through history and across the world? What might an engagement with Asia tell us about well-being? And what might exploring these questions reveal about how we should pursue our own wellness and that of others in the context of con...

  • Wellbeing, Motivation and PerformanceEDUC10057

    Undergraduate subject Offered:January, Semester 1 Year:2024

    This subject explores the science of what enables individuals to operate at the peak of their potential, including the conditions that are thought to give rise to optimal motivation, emotional agility, resilience, and other factors that support wellbeing and performance. The subject will explore...

  • Wellbeing Through Drama EducationEDUC20086

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    This subject explores the connection between drama/theatre activities and the promotion of wellbeing and prevention of illbeing in young people (in the early years through to post-secondary education).  A series of practical workshops will demonstrate ways in which drama-in-education techniques a...

  • White Collar CrimeLAWS70385

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:January Year:2024Quotas apply

    White-collar crimes differ from the popular conception of 'crime’ as involving the most unambiguously blameworthy sorts of conduct in which citizens can engage. This subject will examine how these crimes are dealt with under Australian rules on criminal responsibility, procedure, proof and punish...

  • Why Tax Systems Differ Between CountriesLAWS90163

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

    In this subject, students will analyse and compare taxation systems in different countries. The subject looks at what tax systems have in common, how they differ and seeks to explain both the similarities and the differences. It will consider the range of taxes that might be implemented to achiev...

  • Wildlife, Aquaculture, Exotics and PigsVETS90150

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

    This subject focuses on identification of disease and impacts of disease in wildlife, farmed and ornamental fish, small companion animals (such as rabbits, rodents and reptiles), and pigs. Content will include a focus on husbandry, statutory regulations, and development of diagnostic reasoning sk...

  • Wildlife ManagementANSC90001

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

    Wildlife Management has varied goals, addressing issues as diverse as conservation and biodiversity, human-animal conflict, pest animal control, overabundance and potential for disease spill over. This subject will expose students to real-life examples of wildlife management in Australia, and pr...

  • Wines of the WorldEURO30008

    Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024Quotas apply

    The practice of drinking wine, often with matching food, is an important component of social and business interaction in most European cultures and many, but not all, modern societies. It is a practice that raises conflicting issues relating to its social, economic and health impacts on society. ...

  • Wines of the WorldEURO20009

    Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024Quotas apply

    The practice of drinking wine, often with matching food, is an important component of social and business interaction in most European cultures and many, but not all, modern societies. It is a practice that raises conflicting issues relating to its social, economic and health impacts on society. ...

  • Wine & Spirits:An Australian PerspectiveAGRI20045

    Undergraduate subject Offered:July, September Year:2024Quotas apply

    Wine denotes a cultured, not just cultural, identity. Australia’s wine industry has an international reputation for quality and value. Our wines are served in many of the world’s leading restaurants, while the popular premium wines are sold in wine shops and supermarkets throughout the world. The...

  • Wireless Communication SystemsELEN90007

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

    AIMS This subject covers the fundamental design and performance issues associated with the physical and media access control of wireless networks.INDICATIVE CONTENT Topics include: Wireless RF link basics (antenna characterisation, polarisation, EIRP, propagation loss);Principles of cellular m...

  • Witch-Hunting in European SocietiesHIST20080

    Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2024 Year:2024

    Why were c. 50,000 people executed for witchcraft in late medieval and early modern Europe? In this subject we will test different historical models for explaining the shocking rise and ultimate decline of witchcraft as a crime with dramatic social repercussions. Along the way we will encounter a...

  • Women and Global HealthPOPH90066

    Graduate coursework subject Offered:September Year:2024

    Developing and newly-industrialised countries experience wide variation in terms of history, politics, demographic transition, development and epidemiology. This subject situates women and their health in a dynamic context of development, globalisation and change. It examines key health issues, p...