Subjects

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject explores health and social issues for young people experiencing vulnerability. Specific groups of young people to be studied will be chosen from the areas: disability, indigeneity, homelessness, justice-system involvement, ethnic diversity, and sexual and gender diversity. The subjec...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2024

This subject introduces and critiques the concepts ‘adolescence’ and ‘health’, and examines various frameworks for understanding the phenomenon of adolescent development. The diversity of adolescent experience is explored, and the impact of various socio-environmental contexts of adolescence on y...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

This subject explores how children and young people construct and reconstruct their sense of selves against the backdrop of pervasive contemporary popular cultures. It examines contrasting approaches to identity (e.g. developmental, sociological, feminist, post-structuralist) and contemporary deb...

Undergraduate subject Offered:June Year:2024

How does your identity shape the art and media you consume and create, and the cultures and subcultures you’re a part of? This subject will explore how young people engage with the arts (including visual arts, music and drama), and how this helps to form their cultural and social identities and d...

Undergraduate subject Offered:July Year:2024

This subject explores young people as change-makers and problem-solvers against a backdrop of social transformation in Australia and globally. It provides students with thinking tools for addressing local and global problems in everyday life and skills for leadership. The subject focuses particul...

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

This subject introduces students in the third year of the Master of Youth Mental Health to the essential elements of the research process. The subject commences with learning content on the principles of practice-based research, as well as the ethical and legal issues of working with young people...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2024

Students will complete a research project related to the youth mental health field. With the ongoing support and guidance of a supervisor, students will build on the literature review and research proposal they completed in PSYT90120 Youth Mental Health Research Methods by conducting a research p...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:July Year:2024

This subject examines the principles underlying youth mental health care, the critical components of youth mental health services, and how they respond to the needs of users, carers and the broader communities in which they operate. Subject content includes: Principles of youth mental health ca...

Graduate coursework subject Offered:Summer Term Year:2024

This subject is an intensive 5-day workshop that encompasses a series of lectures on zero energy mass custom home (ZEMCH) design and function analysis techniques, as well as hands-on trainings of energy and environmental design simulation tools for implementation during the workshop.The ZEMCH Sus...