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Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities Unit Synopses - SEM-2 - SEM-1 AMB031 Mandarin 1 This unit follows on from AMB033. Students further This unit is designed mainly for native speakers of Anti-requisites HHB051 and HUB453 develop their knowledge and skills needed to Chinese who study any discipline at QUT and who understand, speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese are interested in developing their interpreting skills Equivalents AMX031, HHB031 in a wide range of everyday situations and to give applicable to various cross-language and cross- Credit Points 12 presentations on given topics. Resources include culture oral communication situations. Non-native Campus Gardens Point textbook, workbook, CDs, DVDs and online speakers of Chinese who have acquired native or multimedia materials. Students learn about 400 near-native competence in Chinese language can Gardens Point Availabilities Chinese characters and have further exposure to apply to do this unit too and they need to see the unit - SEM-1 various aspects of Chinese society and culture. coordinator for an assessment interview before final This unit introduces students who have little or no approval. The unit teaches basic interpreting theories prior knowledge of Chinese Mandarin to the four and helps students develop practical skills in dialogue macro skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing interpreting, sight interpreting and consecutive through an integrated communicative approach to AMB042 International Summer interpreting through a large amount of varied teaching. Content will include: the Mandarin sound School or Equivalent interpreting practice. The knowledge and skills the and tonal systems; the Pinyin Romanisation system; students acquire through learning this unit will add to Equivalents HHB057 introduction to Chinese character writing, greetings their competitive edge when they apply for work in and introductions; expression of family relations, and Credit Points 12 any field of their own discipline. talking about nationalities, places, objects, locations Campus Gardens Point and directions. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 (Block), SUM (Block) AMB048 Chinese - English Speech Interpreting AMB032 Mandarin 2 Credit Points 12 AMB031 or HHB031 or HUB453 or Pre-requisites HHB051 AMB045 Chinese - English Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Anti-requisites HHB052, HUB454 Translation for Business Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents AMX032, HHB032 Communication This unit is designed mainly for native speakers of Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Chinese who study in any discipline at QUT and who Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point are interested in developing their interpreting skills Gardens Point Gardens Point applicable to various cross-language and cross- Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 culture oral communication situations. Non-native speakers of Chinese who have acquired native- or This subject continues to develop the four macro skills This unit is for students who have a good command of near-native competence in Chinese language can of listening, speaking, reading and writing through an both Chinese language and English and who want to apply to do this unit too and they need to see the unit integrated communicative approach. While there is develop their translation and written communication coordinator for an assessment interview for final further consolidation of the knowledge of the Pinyin skills applicable to business situations. The unit approval. The unit teaches basic interpreting theories Romanisation system, greater attention is devoted to teaches basic translation theories and helps students and help students develop practical skills in dialogue the reading and writing of characters. With acquisition develop their skills through a large amount of varied interpreting, sight interpreting and consecutive of language, students receive further exposure to translation practice. The materials used for translation interpreting through a large amount of varied aspects and characteristics of Chinese culture. practice include general business correspondence interpreting practice. Specifically, students will be and sample texts in areas of advertising and trained through substantial practices to think and shift marketing. The introduction to business Chinese and rapidly between Chinese and English so that they can English and the translation practice also helps conduct various types of interpreting in a wide range AMB033 Mandarin 3 students improve their skills in writing business of situations. Pre-requisites AMB032 or HHB032 documents. Equivalents AMX033, HHB033 Credit Points 12 AMB120 Bridging Cultures Campus Gardens Point AMB046 Chinese - English Completion of 96 credit points or Pre-requisites more of study Gardens Point Translation on Business Topics Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites AMB390 This unit is designed to meet student needs to further Campus Gardens Point Equivalents HHB001 develop their basic knowledge and skills for Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities understanding, speaking, reading and writing - SEM-2 Mandarin Chinese in a wide range of everyday Campus Gardens Point situations. Eligible students are those who have: This unit is for students who have a good command of Gardens Point Availabilities successfully completed introductory Mandarin units both Chinese language and English, who want to - SEM-1, SEM-2 HHB031/AMB031 and HHB032/AMB032 at QUT, and develop their translation and written communication This unit develops students' awareness, those who have successfully completed equivalent skills applicable to business situations. The unit understanding, sensitivity and ability to deal with Mandarin study elsewhere. Graduates from high teaches basic translation theories and helps students individuals and organisations from different cultural schools who have completed Year 12 Mandarin develop their skills through a large amount of varied backgrounds. It takes a practical approach to the should also enrol in this unit. (Students who have translation practice. The materials used for translation issues involved by providing not just a theoretical undergone primary and secondary education in China practice include general business correspondence framework for interpreting differences in cultural and Taiwan are not eligible for this unit. Students who and sample texts in areas of advertising and behaviour, but also skills and strategies which can cannot speak Mandarin Chinese but can read and marketing. The introduction to business Chinese and help in appropriately responding to culturally different write Chinese script are not eligible either. They can English and the translation practice also helps situations. This unit will be of particular value to apply to do Mandarin speaking units cross- students improve their skills in writing business students about to embark on in-country study or institutionally at UQ.) documents. exchanges, to incoming international students, or to anyone with a general interest in intercultural communication. It will be a useful complement to the AMB034 Mandarin 4 AMB047 Chinese - English study of a second language, but does not require or assume prior language study. Pre-requisites AMB033 or HHB033 liaison Interpreting Equivalents AMX034, HHB034 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point
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communication programs and coordinating The entertainment industry is the second largest in AMB200 Consumer Behaviour communication strategies in omnichannels in support the world, worth nearly US$2 Trillion and offers great BSB126 or CTB126 or BSB116 or Pre-requisites of overall brand and product/service marketing opportunities. However the marketing of BSB117 objectives. Specifically, the use of online social media entertainment provides some unique challenges to Anti-requisites MIB204 as an important communication tool is highly the application of marketing tools. Students will examined within this subject. complete a marketing case study that will clearly Equivalents AMX200, CTB200 demonstrate to potential employers that students Credit Points 12 have the necessary skills and abilities to work in an Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point entry-level position/analytical role within a marketing AMB203 Independent Study department in the entertainment or arts field. Caboolture Anti-requisites COB206 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Gardens Point Other Subject to Unit Coordinator - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM requisites Approval AMB208 Events Marketing This unit provides students with the fundamental Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites BSB126 or CTB126 theories and models to develop a sound Campus Gardens Point Anti-requisites MIB319 understanding of consumers, their needs, and Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents AMB354 behaviours. It provides a detailed examination of the - 6TP4, SEM-2, SUM consumer decision process and the internal and Credit Points 12 external influences on this core decision process. The Campus Gardens Point unit also assists students in applying this knowledge Gardens Point to the development, implementation and evaluation of Availabilities marketing activities within an organisation. AMB204 Purchasing and - SEM-1 Procurement Events have become significant strategic marketing Pre-requisites BSB119 or CTB119 tools for positioning products/services, industries, destinations and community interests at the local, Anti-requisites IBB312 AMB201 Marketing and national and global levels. The unit initially explores Audience Research Equivalents AMX204 various types, roles and objectives of events and the BSB126, CTB126, BSB116, or Credit Points 12 profile and motives of event markets and Pre-requisites BSB117 stakeholders. Key topics include: processes of Campus Gardens Point attracting or developing the event experience Anti-requisites MIB305, MGB220, COB334 Gardens Point including bidding processes; partnership creation with Availabilities Equivalents AMX201, CTB201 - SEM-1 sponsors, media and community; venue selection and design relative to market/stakeholder needs; Credit Points 12 This unit examines the nature and importance of ticketing/pricing or access management and imaging Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Procurement in the role of business today. the event from an integrated marketing Procurement has become increasingly important and communication perspective. Local and international Caboolture valued by organisations that are part of global supply - SEM-2 cases are used. Availabilities chains. The management and strategic control of Gardens Point procurement functions in modern businesses adds - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM profit through cost control in businesses and that has This unit provides an introduction to the conduct and gained significance in the drive to maintain profit in AMB209 Tourism Marketing internationally competitive markets. Modern evaluation of marketing and audience research Pre-requisites BSB126 or CTB126 across the disciplines of advertising, marketing and procurement professionals require the use of many public relations. Class members explore how field skills to achieve these outcomes and this unit Equivalents AMB351, AMX209 studies, survey and experimental research are introduces students to the functions of purchasing and Credit Points 12 employed to support advertising, marketing and public procurement in an organisation. Campus Gardens Point relations information needs. The unit provides an Gardens Point overview of research process, research design, Availabilities - SEM-2 methods of data collection and analysis, and the AMB206 Social Marketing development of research proposals to support This unit examines the tourism system and the unique BSB126, CTB126, PUB104, decision-making. Class members also explore issues Pre-requisites characteristics of tourists, segmentation bases for BSB116, XNB151 or BSB117 related to research on media audiences, research tourist markets, the nature of the tourist destination ethics, and the management of client briefings. Credit Points 12 mix and how marketing is applied within elements of Campus Gardens Point that mix. Services marketing concepts and theories of tourist behaviour are utilised in the analysis of the Gardens Point Availabilities tourism experience; processes of destination and AMB202 Integrated Marketing - SEM-2 product development to meet market needs; and, Communication Social marketing is the application of commercial strategy development to accommodate domestic and BSB126 or CTB126 or BSB116 or marketing principles to solve social problems. It is international tourism marketing environments. Macro- Pre-requisites BSB117 increasingly being adopted by governments around environmental issues impacting on tourism, such as the world as they seek effective solutions relating to sustainability of the industry and environment, the Anti-requisites COB207, MIB309 public health and climate change, environmental sociopolitical context in which marketing occurs and Equivalents AMX202 issues. This unit introduces students to the theory and global trends in travel are also explored for their marketing implications. Credit Points 12 application of social marketing, explaining how techniques such as branding, segmentation and the Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point marketing mix can be used to respond to social and Caboolture health issues. Students will learn to analyse real world - SEM-1 problems and develop innovative and creative AMB210 Importing and Availabilities Gardens Point solutions using social marketing frameworks. This is Exporting an elective unit for business and public health - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites BSB119 or CTB119 students In past decades many organisations separated the Equivalents AMX210, IBB210 different forms of marketing communication that convey their corporate and marketing messages. Credit Points 12 They developed separate plans for their advertising, AMB207 Entertainment Campus Gardens Point public relations, direct marketing, personal selling and Gardens Point sales promotion with separate goals, objectives, Marketing Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 strategies and budgets. Today many companies Pre-requisites BSB126 or CTB126 recognise the concept of integrated marketing Trade has become fundamental to the survival and Credit Points 12 communication which integrates these different growth of many businesses in Australia as well as functions along with other aspects of the marketing Campus Gardens Point other economies. International business students mix that communicate with stakeholders and Gardens Point need an understanding of the many challenges Availabilities customers. Integrated marketing communication - SEM-2 entailed in the management of trade. Import and requires a 'total' approach to planning marketing export practice is an applied, technical and evolving
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units area of international business operations that reflects organisation. Products are defined in the broadest the dynamic nature of trans-national trade in the sense as both tangible and intangible and include the AMB301 Independent Project 2 global economy. This unit examines the importance of various categories of consumer and industrial Other Subject to Unit Coordinator importing and exporting for Australia's economic products and services. The course covers product requisites Approval development, provides key information related to market analysis, the product/service development Credit Points 12 importing and exporting, uses industry perspectives process, research and testing, new product financial on issues of current importance in international trade analysis, branding and new product Campus Gardens Point and provides a structured tutorial programme to commercialisation. Gardens Point Availabilities achieve this. - SEM-2, SUM
AMB263 Introduction To Public AMB220 Advertising Theory Relations AMB302 Project and Practice BSB126, CTB126, BSB116, or Other Subject to Unit Coordinator Pre-requisites BSB126, CTB126, BSB116, or BSB117 requisites Approval Pre-requisites BSB117 Equivalents AMB260, AMX263 Credit Points 24 Anti-requisites COB308 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents AMX220 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2, SUM Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities This unit introduces students to the theory and - SEM-1, SEM-2 practice of public relations, the discipline that deals AMB303 International Logistics This unit serves as an introduction to later units in the with the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of (AMB240 or CTB240) or (AMB210 advertising major and gives learners an overview of relationships between organisations and their publics. or IBB210). AMB210 can be studied Pre-requisites the advertising industry and the management of the Topics covered include publicity, events, and public in the same teaching period as advertising function. The unit traverses the opinion. This unit may be taken concurrently with AMB303 AMB264 Public Relations Techniques especially by interrelationship of the institutions of advertising, the Equivalents AMX303, IBB303 advertisers, the advertising agencies and the media. It students undertaking a public relations major. introduces research and details methods of However, it may also be taken by those students Credit Points 12 doing a public relations minor, or as a stand alone unit determining advertising objectives, budgets, Campus Gardens Point establishing target audiences, interpreting audience by those students in a wide variety of study disciplines Gardens Point ratings and circulation figures, and enables learners who wish to understand more about this important Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 to gain a preliminary understanding of the creative area of business. functions of the advertising industry. It also shows the This unit examines international logistics through the ethical and legal side of advertising and its important concepts of international distribution channels and role in society and the economy. AMB264 Public Relations international supply chain management. Strategy in managing international logistical constraints is Techniques emphasised with practical studies of contemporary BSB126, CTB126, BSB116, or international supply chain management in Pre-requisites AMB240 Marketing Planning BSB117 international industries. Traditional costs and financial and Management aspects of supply chain management are considered. Anti-requisites AMB261, AMB262 Contemporary issues are incorporated including: the Pre-requisites BSB126 or CTB126 Equivalents AMX264 impact of e-business on international logistics; the evolution of new technologies for 'smart' packaging, Equivalents AMX240, CTB240 Credit Points 12 warehousing and international stock control; the Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point combination of international services with goods Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Gardens Point products; recent technological developments in Availabilities Caboolture - SEM-1, SEM-2 international transportation and product quality - SEM-2 control. Availabilities AMB264 Public Relations Techniques focuses on Gardens Point writing for audiences - including the media - on behalf - SEM-1, SEM-2 of organisations. It introduces students to public This unit extends the student's knowledge of the relations skills such as research, developing key AMB304 Logistics Operations fundamental marketing concepts and theories messages, writing, and editing. It also helps them Pre-requisites AMB210 introduced in the Faculty Core unit in Marketing, by develop an understanding of how media work. adding further breadth and depth of knowledge of AMB264 has been designed to be undertaken as part Equivalents AMX304 marketing and developing skills in the application of of the public relations major and minor. It may also be Credit Points 12 this knowledge to marketing planning and taken as a stand-alone unit by students in other Campus Gardens Point management within the business environment. disciplines. Note that students who enrol in this unit Emphasis is on the roles within a marketing team at are assumed to have a high level of competency in Gardens Point Availabilities the product management level in undertaking written English. Students are also required to have or - SEM-2 analysis, planning, implementation and control of acquire a basic knowledge of public relations: This unit is designed to provide strategic and practical marketing activities. Specifically this unit uses a role- readings are provided to help students refresh or knowledge of the role of logistics operations within the play simulation called QUTopia to engage students in acquire that knowledge. context of contemporary business. This unit extends real-world learning. QUTopia is unique to QUT and the study of logistics and completes the logistics has awards at both local and national levels as an major offering. exciting way of engaging students. AMB300 Independent Project 1 Other Subject to Unit Coordinator AMB251 Innovation and Brand requisites Approval AMB310 Real World Internships Credit Points 12 Management and Projects Campus Gardens Point Completed 192 credit points or Pre-requisites BSB126, BSB116, or CTB126 Gardens Point more; major in advertising, Availabilities Anti-requisites MIB227 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM international business or logistics, Credit Points 12 Other marketing or public relations; and Please contact the School of AMPR for more requisites GPA of 4.0 or higher. Placements Campus Gardens Point information. must be approved by Unit Gardens Point Coordinator. Placements are Availabilities - SEM-2 minimum of 120 hours This unit covers the dynamics of product and service innovation within the marketing function of an
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Knowledge and skills in major area Gardens Point Availabilities emerged as defining technologies for companies in of study appropriate to an - SEM-1, SEM-2 Assumed the 21st century. This unit focuses on e-marketing undergraduate student in final two Knowledge This unit takes the perspective of the Advertising applications and strategies and the marketer's role in semesters of study is assumed Manager and addresses the use of research in developing solutions that integrate new and old knowledge developing, implementing, managing, and assessing economies. Drawing on their knowledge of marketing Credit Points 12 a successful advertising campaign. In Advertising principles, students will examine the diverse applications of technology in product and service Campus Gardens Point Management, learners use the case method of learning to examine the advertising process from its design; product distribution/service delivery and Gardens Point logistics; promotional strategies and other marketing Availabilities place in the marketing mix to the formulation of - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM objectives, strategy and budget to the development of components. The unit also explores the role of emerging electronic models and the use of e- The unit provides real world learning experiences for creative and media tactics and their ongoing evaluation. In addition, issues that impinge upon the marketing strategies to achieve global competitive undergraduate students majoring in advertising, advantage. international business or logistics, marketing or public advertising campaign management process such as relations. Students complete internships or projects legal and ethical issues, globalisation and the client- with approved industry and community partners, agency relationship are discussed. learning through authentic activities that are planned AMB336 International Marketing and assessed. An internship is a work integrated AMB240, CTB240, AMB210, or learning opportunity, with a student completing a Pre-requisites IBB210 placement in an organisation. A project is a work AMB330 Digital Portfolio integrated learning opportunity, with a student ((AMB318 or AMB221) and Equivalents AMX336, IBB213 completing a service learning, community, industry, or Pre-requisites (AMB319 or AMB222)) or AMB372 Credit Points 12 work-based project, often as a member of a small or AMB240 Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point team of students. Internships and projects are Equivalents AMX330 learning opportunities for students, focused on Caboolture practising, developing and refining knowledge and Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Availabilities skills. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 The aim of this unit is to provide students with a AMB318 Advertising This advanced unit leverages and extends the thorough understanding of the multiplicity of issues that impact on the development of international Copywriting theoretical perspectives and applied skills introduced to students in earlier advertising, marketing and public marketing strategies and plans and their operational Pre-requisites AMB220 or COB308 relations units. It explores the digital environment, implementation. The unit is highly applied and provides students with the following opportunities: to Equivalents AMB221, AMX318 interrogates digital platforms and integrates critical research, planning and an understanding of analytics analyse global international firms, their marketing Credit Points 12 into digital campaign development. This strategies and various international marketing issues Campus Gardens Point understanding is then applied through hands-on in a variety of geographic and industry contexts; to evaluate methodologies and new practices for Gardens Point exercises in areas such as search, analytics or Availabilities content to build a portfolio of digital skills. handling problems and issues typical of global and - SEM-1, SEM-2 international markets and competition; to develop an There are two parts to any copywriting process the operationally sound international marketing plan. thinking and the writing. In the first part, students learn to solve advertising problems through an AMB331 Direct Marketing understanding of the prospect and the product and AMB202, AMB220, AMB240, Pre-requisites AMB339 Advertising the formulation of incisive creative strategy. In the CTB240, or AMB249 second part, creative thinking techniques are applied Campaigns and advertising concepts emerge from the creative Anti-requisites COB315 Pre-requisites AMB320 and AMB330 strategy. Students' thinking and writing skills are Equivalents AMX331 refined in weekly workshops and culminate in a group Equivalents AMB321, AMX339 Credit Points 12 project. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities AMB319 Media Planning - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites AMB220 The discipline of Direct Marketing has grown in importance because of its precise targeting, easy This capstone advertising unit draws from all the Equivalents AMB222, AMX319 accountability, its foundations role in Integrated theoretical, analytical, and applied material developed Credit Points 12 Marketing Communication (IMC), and its increasing throughout the advertising major, and applies it to a share of the marketing communication budget. This client brief. Learners develop advertising solutions Campus Gardens Point unit focuses on the principles of direct marketing and that incorporate all aspects of an advertising Gardens Point campaign, including objectives, budgeting, message Availabilities the role of the database in locating prospects, tracking - SEM-1, SEM-2 customers, and building relationships. It examines the development, message delivery, and measurement. components of direct marketing telemarketing, The key emphasis is on the use of research to This unit introduces the qualitative and quantitative develop sound advertising strategy, which is then factors affecting media selection and use by personal selling, and direct response advertising. As the main communication discipline of direct executed as creative and media ideas and evaluated advertisers. It covers the costing and scheduling of through ongoing benchmarks. media, market targeting, measuring media exposure, marketing, the emphasis is on direct response media comparisons and trends. In-depth analysis of advertising. Students analyse the offer planning, advertising media will allow learners to develop an strategy, creative, media, testing, and evaluation of understanding of the characteristics of each. The direct marketing campaigns. AMB340 Services Marketing application of the concepts of media decision making, AMB240 or CTB240, and AMB201 media strategy and research to the development of a Pre-requisites or CTB201 media plan are emphasised. AMB335 E-marketing Strategies Anti-requisites MIB311 AMB240 or CTB240, and AMB201 Pre-requisites Equivalents AMX340, CTB340 or CTB201 Credit Points 12 AMB320 Advertising Equivalents AMB241, AMX335 Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Management Credit Points 12 Caboolture (AMB318 or AMB221) and Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Pre-requisites - SEM-1 (AMB319 or AMB222) Availabilities Caboolture Gardens Point Equivalents AMX320 - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit explores the special characteristics of Campus Gardens Point services that distinguish the marketing of services E-Business and mobile commerce technologies have from goods. Topics include the distinctive aspects of
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Pre-requisites service quality management and measurement, IBB213 internationalisation of the service sector, and distribution modes for services that reflect the Equivalents AMX369, IBB300 significant impacts of new technologies on service Credit Points 12 AMB375 Public Relations delivery Campus Gardens Point Management Gardens Point Pre-requisites AMB372 and AMB373, or AMB360 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Equivalents AMX375 AMB342 Strategic Procurement This unit focuses on the definition and implementation Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites AMB204 of corporate strategy for worldwide operations. As the Campus Gardens Point Equivalents AMX342 capstone unit in the International Business major, it is designed to build upon the knowledge base of Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities previous units, introducing you to the strategic - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point management of firms, and engage you in the strategic Public Relations Management develops student Gardens Point choices which international managers face in the Availabilities knowledge and skills in the development and - SEM-2 international environment. management of public relations programs in an organisational setting. Key concepts relevant to the This unit is designed to provide knowledge of practice of public relations include corporate strategic procurement practices and practical reputation, internal communication, organisational knowledge of the role of procurement within the AMB372 Public Relations culture and change programs, corporate social contemporary logistics industry. This unit extends the responsibility, and issues and crisis management. study of procurement and its place in a modern firm. Planning ((AMB263 or AMB260) and Pre-requisites AMB264)) or (AMB261 and AMB262) AMB350 Business Development AMB379 Public Relations Equivalents AMX372 Campaigns Management Credit Points 12 AMB374 or AMB370, and AMB201 AMB240 or CTB240 or AMB202 or Pre-requisites Pre-requisites Campus Gardens Point or CTB201 COB207 or MIB217 or AMB249 Gardens Point Equivalents AMB361, AMX379 Anti-requisites MIB230 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMX350 This unit introduces students to the public relations Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 planning process. Students build skills in planning by Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point analysing the components, execution and evaluation Availabilities of contemporary public relations campaigns. The - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities public relations planning process, partnered with - SEM-1, SEM-2 As the capstone unit, Public Relations Campaigns theoretical concepts and ethical considerations, is sees the student bring together the design, strategic The dynamic change in the business development examined across practice contexts and areas. planning and tactical preparation that underpins an management arena forces businesses that want to effective public relations campaign. Students achieve sustainable growth to rethink their approach research, develop and present their plans for a real to sales and client relationship management. AMB350 world client, enhancing their portfolio prior to will build on the students' own experiences to AMB373 Issues, Stakeholders graduation. advance their theoretical knowledge and practical and Reputation skills. This unit will cover a wide range of scenarios (AMB263 or AMB260 and AMB264) (industries/markets). Sales and relationship Pre-requisites or (AMB261 and AMB262) management processes will get examined from the AMB390 Bridging Cultures - management's point of view as well as from the Equivalents AMB360, AMX373 International professional sales person's point of view. Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites AMB120 Campus Gardens Point To enrol students must have Gardens Point Availabilities completed 144cp (or equivalent to AMB359 Strategic Marketing - SEM-1, SEM-2 Other three semesters full-time study), AMB340, and AMB335 or AMB241 Pre-requisites Issues, Stakeholders and Reputation (AMB373) requisites have a course GPA of 4.5, which or AMB330 provides students with the opportunity to build on and must include a minimum of 48cp of Equivalents AMB341, AMX359 apply their understanding of public relations to an in- study in BS08 Credit Points 12 house organisational role to anticipate and respond to Credit Points 12 issues that influence stakeholder relationships and Campus Gardens Point Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point organisational reputations. Corporate communication Gardens Point Caboolture provides foundational skills and knowledge of the Availabilities - SEM-2 issues management process and decision making to - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Gardens Point understand and respond to stakeholder opinion. This unit develops students' awareness, - SEM-1, SEM-2 understanding, sensitivity and ability to deal with Emphasis of the capstone Marketing unit is on the individuals and organisations from different cultural role of marketing manager at the corporate and AMB374 Global Public backgrounds. The unit is designed specifically for strategic business unit/division levels. Students are students enrolled in Bachelor of Business - exposed to a variety of strategic marketing techniques Relations Cases International (BS08). and issues, and learn how to apply these in corporate Pre-requisites AMB372, AMB261, or AMB262 planning and management. Topics include: Equivalents AMB370, AMX374 developing and critiquing strategic marketing planning models; recognising the importance of market focus; Credit Points 12 AMN400 Consumer Behaviour Anti-requisites MIN419 determining what marketing strategy can realistically Campus Gardens Point be accomplished for a business; identifying underlying Equivalents AMX400 Gardens Point factors that must be considered in developing Availabilities marketing strategy for a market-oriented organisation; - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 discussing problems in successful implementation of Global Public Relations Cases applies the theoretical Campus Gardens Point and External marketing strategy; and organising for successful underpinnings of broad public relations practice to strategy implementation. particular practice areas, using case based learning. Analysis and discussion of real-world cases in local, national and international settings and the public
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Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM - 6TP4, SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Availabilities Availabilities External External - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM This unit provides an introduction to the area of The unit provides participants with the opportunity to consumer behaviour and a forum for discussion of make a detailed exploration of the literature on a AMN420 Advertising theory and research in the field. The current state of particular topic or problem in the area of Integrated Management consumer behaviour research will be reviewed and Marketing Communication under the direction of a Anti-requisites CON417 some of the emerging trends in the area are explored supervisor. The readings integrate and consolidate through several avenues of assessment. The unit theory and research related to IMC and from other Equivalents AMX420 provides the environment for students to conduct their studies undertaken in the course. Students undertake Credit Points 12 own research in areas that are relevant, of interest to a formal and systematic review of literature in a them and reflect the interdisciplinary nature of particular problem area of IMC related to their Campus Gardens Point and External consumer behaviour. interests, project or thesis. Students may also explore Gardens Point work covered in other specialisations. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities External AMN401 Integrated Marketing - SEM-1, SEM-2 AMN405 Cases in Integrated This unit empowers students to make effective Communication management decisions within the advertising process. Anti-requisites CON421 Marketing Communication It examines the setting of advertising objectives, and the need for coordination of these with marketing, Equivalents AMX401 Pre-requisites AMN401 communication and organisational objectives. It Equivalents AMX405 Credit Points 12 develops a sound understanding of advertising Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 regulations and ethics, budgeting, research and Campus Gardens Point and External campaign coordination. It further examines Gardens Point management's participation in the creative, media and - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities production processes, and the contribution of External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities advertising management to the cohesion and - SEM-1, SEM-2 External creativity of the agency. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) focuses on the strategic integration of the functions of Public This unit provides students with the opportunity to Relations, advertising, promotion, direct marketing explore a range of topics related to the integration of and personal selling to achieve brand equity and the elements of the promotional mix-advertising, AMN421 Contemporary Issues increase the effectiveness of promotional personal selling, reseller support, publicity, direct in Advertising communications with target audiences. The marketing, and sales promotion. Through the use of Pre-requisites AMN420 fragmentation of mass markets is also addressed, intensive case study analysis and discussion, along with the explosion of new technologies, the students will refine conceptual understanding and Anti-requisites CON412 emergence of global markets and the rapid changes analytical skills to explore such IMC topics as brand Equivalents AMX421 in economic conditions within which organisations equity and IMC, IMC approaches to promotions operate. management, organisational issues related to Credit Points 12 structuring corporate IMC functions, environmental Campus Gardens Point and External analysis and database marketing to inform IMC Gardens Point planning, and IMC strategies and the development of - SEM-1, SEM-2 AMN403 Marketing and Survey corporate advantage. Availabilities External Research - SEM-1, SEM-2 Anti-requisites MIN413 This unit surveys the intellectual foundations of a Equivalents AMX403 AMN406 Project number of contemporary issues emerging within the advertising discipline and provides sophisticated, Credit Points 12 60 credit points of approved prior studies in Advertising, Marketing systematic explanations of their societal implications Pre-requisites Campus Gardens Point and External and Public Relations units (AMN% and consequences. It also explores how these issues Gardens Point units) are addressed by business, government and - SEM-1, SEM-2 organisation. Availabilities Anti-requisites CON405 External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Equivalents AMX406 Credit Points 24 This unit provides a detailed overview of marketing AMN423 Strategies for Creative research to support decision making in the areas of Campus Gardens Point and External Advertising advertising, integrated marketing communication, Gardens Point marketing and public relations. The unit builds an - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Anti-requisites CON419 Availabilities advanced understanding of the use of survey External Equivalents AMX423 research to support the descriptive and predictive - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM information needs of management in such areas as Credit Points 12 consumer opinions and behaviour, and stakeholder In this unit, students examine in detail a theoretical or Campus Gardens Point and External analyses. Students will explore issues related to empirical problem in one of the disciplines of Gardens Point survey research design, questionnaire development advertising, marketing, public relations, or integrated - SEM-2 and administration, sampling, measurement, data marketing communication. The study is based in the Availabilities External analysis including descriptive and multivariate published journal literature of the discipline and may - SEM-2 statistics and presentation of research results. involve primary research and analysis. Students can develop a communication audit of an organisation or This unit explores the substantive body of academic a case study related to an organisation product or research on creative advertising. It follows the issue. Project supervision will be arranged by the Unit creative process, beginning with the development of AMN404 Readings in Integrated Coordinator through consultation with the student and creative strategy and concluding with campaign Marketing Communication available staff members. evaluation. Through cases and presentations, student examine how copywriters think, the illumination of the Pre-requisites AMN401 'big idea' and its execution across the very diverse Anti-requisites CON416 AMN411 Independent Study advertising media. Equivalents AMX404 Other Subject to Unit Coordinator Credit Points 12 requisites Approval Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 AMN425 Digital Strategy Equivalents AMX425 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12
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Campus Gardens Point and External Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-2 External Availabilities External - SEM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit examines the dynamics of innovation and Australia is one of the first countries in the world development within the mix of core marketing where advertising expenditure in the online AMN434 Special Topic in activities of organisations. Once establishing the environment exceeded that of television and all other International Business integral role innovation plays in organisations, the unit traditional media. This necessitates a seismic shift in also reviews the key stages in the process of creating, Equivalents AMX434 the way we need to think about advertising, public developing and implementing new product and relations and marketing. It signals an imperative need Other Subject to Approval of Subject Area service concepts including product, service and to understand how digital campaigns are planned, requisites Coordinator market analysis, design, innovation, evaluation and testing of ideas, branding and packaging, market crated and measured. This introductory digital Credit Points 24 strategy unit fulfils this remit by explaining and testing and investment analysis. practicing fundamental digital skills such as analytics, Campus Gardens Point search, content creation, mobile and social media. It Gardens Point Availabilities introduces the theory behind the practice in order to - SEM-1, SEM-2 inform managerial decision-making and best practice AMN444 Services Marketing in digital strategy. This unit is a research unit for Masters students Pre-requisites AMN442 choosing the International Business major. It consists Anti-requisites MIN424 of a structured proposal, literature review and written research paper. Equivalents AMX444 AMN430 International Logistics Credit Points 12 Management Campus Gardens Point and External Equivalents AMX430, IBN410 AMN435 Communication, Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Negotiation and Leadership Availabilities External Campus Gardens Point Equivalents GSN235 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities This unit introduces a framework for studying services - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and explores both strategic and operational issues This unit introduces international logistics functions Gardens Point including the design and delivery of services; the Availabilities and develops a strategic approach to international - SEM-1 formulation of communication strategies; the business transactions and integration focusing on definition, measurement and implementation of supply chain management. The unit introduces The unit serves as an introduction to effective customer-focused marketing programs in service traditional and contemporary logistics concepts and leadership, communication, and negotiation industries; and the establishment and maintenance of describes international logistics operations including processes as fundamental skills in today’s relationships with customers. global transport systems, inventory management, organisations. In particular, it focuses on the materials handling and information management. increasing importance of such skills for Engineering, Global supply chain management cases and Built Environment , Project management and other strategies are integrated throughout the unit. professionals to bridge cultural boundaries and AMN445 Strategic Marketing enhance organisational performance in an increasingly globalised world. Management Pre-requisites AMN442 AMN431 Marketing Anti-requisites MIN425 Internationally AMN442 Marketing Equivalents AMX445 Anti-requisites MIN421 Management Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMX431, IBN421 Anti-requisites MIN422 Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMX442 Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities Credit Points 12 External Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities External Gardens Point This is a capstone unit which aims to ensure students - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities can manage the complete marketing function at a External senior level within a corporation, and includes In this unit students are exposed to the theoretical - SEM-1, SEM-2 assessing the marketing function's performance with and planning aspects of marketing internationally. appropriate tools to diagnose, assess, track and Through an applied approach, theoretical issues such The study of marketing, marketing systems and marketing management and marketing planning evaluate performance and to modify processes to as segmentation of international markets, life cycle, improve the function. Links between the marketing contingency and network approaches to international within contemporary structure of social, cultural, political, economic, business and organisational function and other functions of a business such as market entry choice, and market development and accounting, operations and human resources are extension are addressed. Planning issues cover the environment. Concepts are applied through the study and construction of a marketing plan, which involves drawn, so that the student would be in a position to strategic marketing processes involved, including move into top management if the opportunity arose. international market research, and their application to market and sales analysis, target market strategies, regions and countries primarily in the Asia/Pacific tactical decision planning, and implementation and region or Europe. Students are trained in the practical control. Marketing management concepts are applied application of these theoretical and planning aspects to virtual and physical markets and attention is given AMN447 Contemporary Issues through the development of an extensive international to a range of skills in finance, human resources, marketing plan. information and other skills needed by marketing in Marketing managers in these markets. Anti-requisites MIN407 Equivalents AMX447 Credit Points 12 AMN432 Independent Study - AMN443 Product and Service Campus Gardens Point and External International Business Innovation Equivalents IBN422 Gardens Point Anti-requisites MIN423 - SEM-2 Subject to Approval of Subject Area Availabilities Equivalents AMX443 External Other Coordinator: Students are required - SEM-2 requisites to complete 96 credit points of Credit Points 12 approved studies This unit offers advanced study of topical issues and Campus Gardens Point and External emerging trends in marketing practice as a result of Credit Points 12 new technologies, current events and their impact on local, national and international enterprises. In depth
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units interaction with business and public policy leaders Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 expands students research, reflection and strategic Gardens Point Campus EXCHANGE and External thinking abilities. - SEM-1, SEM-2 External Availabilities Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 AMN460 Corporate and Investor AMN465 Public Relations Management provides learners with an overview of the theory and research Relations that constitute the foundations of public relations AMX033 Mandarin 3 (Outbound Anti-requisites CON409 practice. The unit provides a detailed inspection of Exchange) Equivalents AMX460 communication processes necessary for the management of organisational relationships with Equivalents AMB033 Credit Points 12 publics. The unit focuses on such topics as issues Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External management, organisational change, public opinion, and mass media effects in order to explore the Gardens Point, EXCHANGE and Gardens Point Campus foundations of contemporary public relations External - SEM-2 Availabilities management. External External Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2, XCH-1, XCH-2 This unit explores aspects of the public relations function in corporate communication contexts, with a AMN467 Public Relations focus on the intersection of theory and professional Campaigns AMX034 Mandarin 4 (Outbound practice. There is consideration of legal, regulatory and governance requirements for organisations, and Equivalents AMX467 Exchange) the influence on public relations strategy, planning Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMB034 and tactics. Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Gardens Point, EXCHANGE and Campus - SEM-2 External Availabilities External AMN461 Corporate Media External - SEM-2 Availabilities Strategy and Tactics - SEM-1, SEM-2, XCH-1, XCH-2 Anti-requisites CON424 Public Relations Campaigns provides a systematic exploration of the planning, management and Equivalents AMX461 evaluation of public relations campaigns and Credit Points 12 programs. The primary goal of the unit is to build a AMX035 Mandarin 5 (Outbound detailed understanding of existing theory and Campus Gardens Point and External research that informs the development and evaluation Exchange) Gardens Point of public relations campaigns. The unit focuses on Equivalents AMB035 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities key problem areas of campaign management Credit Points 12 External including strategy, design and evaluation. Gardens Point, EXCHANGE and - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus External This unit examines theories underpinning mass media External and links these with the practice of public relations Availabilities media tactics. Students analyse techniques and skills AMN468 Issues and Crisis - SEM-1, SEM-2, XCH-1, XCH-2 used in liaison with news media across paid, owned, Management earned and shared platforms. Students will produce a Anti-requisites CON408 media strategy rationale and a digital media portfolio encompassing a range of media kit tools such as Equivalents AMX468 AMX036 Mandarin 6 (Outbound media releases, fact sheets, and photo opportunities. Credit Points 12 Exchange) Campus Gardens Point and External Equivalents AMB036 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 AMN462 Community - SEM-1 Availabilities Gardens Point, EXCHANGE and External Campus Consultation and Engagement - SEM-1 External Equivalents AMX462 External AMN468 examines the strategic management of crisis Availabilities Credit Points 12 communication for organisations. Following a - SEM-1, SEM-2, XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point and External strategic planning approach content covered includes organisation analysis, issues identification, audience Gardens Point prioritisation, strategy formulation, tactical planning - SEM-1 Availabilities and implementation and evaluation. Issues in AMX037 Mandarin 7 (Outbound External management (pre-crisis) will be addressed as well as - SEM-1 Exchange) proactive and defensive communication strategies This unit introduces students to the key public during crisis. The unit will demonstrate the application Equivalents AMB037 relations engagement strategies of information, of general communication tools to a specialised area. Credit Points 12 consultation, and participation, and develops their Campus EXCHANGE and External understanding of the theoretical foundations of these External strategies. It provides students with the skills and Availabilities knowledge to identify the expectations stakeholders AMX031 Mandarin 1 (Outbound - XCH-1, XCH-2 have of organisational engagement; and to develop Exchange) appropriate public relations communication programs based on strategies of information, consultation Equivalents AMB031 and/or participation in response. Ethical practice is a Credit Points 12 AMX038 Mandarin 8 (Outbound key organising framework for this unit. Campus EXCHANGE and External Exchange) External Equivalents AMB038 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 AMN465 Public Relations Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Management External Availabilities Anti-requisites CON415 AMX032 Mandarin 2 (Outbound - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMX465 Exchange) Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMB032
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AMX200 Consumer Behaviour AMX220 Advertising Theory AMX303 International Logistics (Outbound Exchange) and Practice (Outbound (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents AMB200 Exchange) Equivalents AMB303 Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMB220 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External External Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2
AMX201 Marketing and AMX304 Logistics Operations Audience Research (Outbound AMX230 Digital Promotions (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) Pre-requisites AMB210 Equivalents AMB201 Pre-requisites BSB126, CTB126, or BSB112 Equivalents AMB304 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites COB208 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents AMB230 Campus External External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus External External Availabilities - XCH-2 AMX202 Integrated Marketing AMX318 Advertising Communication (Outbound Copywriting (Outbound Exchange) AMX240 Marketing Planning Exchange) Equivalents AMB202 and Management (Outbound Equivalents AMB318 Credit Points 12 Exchange) Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents AMB240 Campus EXCHANGE and External External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 AMX204 Purchasing and AMX319 Media Planning Procurement (Outbound (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) AMX251 Innovation and Brand Equivalents AMB319 Pre-requisites BSB119 or CTB119 Management (Outbound Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites IBB312 Exchange) Campus EXCHANGE and External External Equivalents AMB204 Pre-requisites BSB126 or BSB116 or CTB126 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites MIB227 Campus External Equivalents AMB251 External Credit Points 12 Availabilities AMX320 Advertising - XCH-2 Campus External Management (Outbound External Availabilities - XCH-2 Exchange) AMX209 Tourism Marketing Equivalents AMB320 (Outbound Exchange) Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites BSB126 or CTB126 AMX263 Introduction to Public Campus EXCHANGE and External External Equivalents AMB209, AMB351 Relations (Outbound Exchange) Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMB263 Campus External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities AMX330 Digital Portfolio - XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents AMB330 AMX210 Importing and Credit Points 12 Exporting (Outbound AMX264 Public Relations Campus EXCHANGE and External External Techniques (Outbound Availabilities Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB210 Exchange) Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMB264 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 AMX331 Direct Marketing External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External (Outbound Exchange) Availabilities AMB202, AMB220, AMB240, - XCH-1, XCH-2 Pre-requisites CTB240, or AMB249 Anti-requisites COB315
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Equivalents AMB331 AMX379 Public Relations Credit Points 12 Campaigns (Outbound Campus External AMX359 Strategic Marketing External Exchange) Availabilities (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-2 Equivalents AMB379 Equivalents AMB359 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External AMX335 E-marketing Strategies External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB335 Credit Points 12 AMX400 Consumer Behaviour Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX369 International Business External (Outbound Exchange) Availabilities Strategy (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMN400 Equivalents AMB369 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External AMX336 International Marketing External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB336 Credit Points 12 AMX401 Integrated Marketing Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX372 Public Relations External Communication (Outbound Availabilities Planning (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB372 Exchange) Credit Points 12 Equivalents AMN401 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 AMX339 Advertising External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Campaigns (Outbound Availabilities Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB339 Credit Points 12 AMX373 Corporate AMX403 Marketing and Survey Campus EXCHANGE and External Communication (Outbound External Research (Outbound Exchange) Availabilities Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMN403 Equivalents AMB373 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External AMX340 Services Marketing External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB340 Credit Points 12 AMX404 Readings in Integrated Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX374 Global Public External Marketing Communication Availabilities Relations Cases (Outbound - XCH-1, XCH-2 Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents AMN404 Equivalents AMB374 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 AMX342 Strategic Procurement Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External (Outbound Exchange) External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Pre-requisites AMB204 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB342 Credit Points 12 Campus External AMX375 Public Relations AMX405 Cases in Integrated External Marketing Communication Availabilities Management (Outbound - XCH-2 Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents AMN405 Equivalents AMB375 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 AMX350 Sales and Customer Campus External Campus EXCHANGE and External Relationship Management External External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMB350 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX406 Project (Outbound External Exchange) Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMN406 Credit Points 24
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Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX431 Marketing AMX460 Corporate and Investor External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Internationally (Outbound Relations (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Equivalents AMN460 Equivalents AMN431 Credit Points 12 AMX420 Advertising Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities Management (Outbound - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMN420 Credit Points 12 AMX461 Corporate Media Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX442 Marketing Strategy and Tactics (Outbound External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Management (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Equivalents AMN461 Equivalents AMN442 Credit Points 12 AMX421 Contemporary Issues Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities in Advertising (Outbound - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMN421 Credit Points 12 AMX462 Community Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX443 Product and Service Consultation and Engagement External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Innovation (Outbound (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Equivalents AMN462 Equivalents AMN443 Credit Points 12 AMX422 Media Strategy Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Equivalents AMN422 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX465 Public Relations External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 AMX444 Services Marketing Management (Outbound (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Equivalents AMN444 Equivalents AMN465 AMX423 Strategies for Creative Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Advertising (Outbound Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External External Availabilities Availabilities Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents AMN423 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External AMX445 Strategic Marketing AMX467 Public Relations External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Management (Outbound Campaigns (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Equivalents AMN445 Equivalents AMN467 AMX425 Digital Strategy Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 (Outbound Exchange) Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External External Equivalents AMN425 Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus External External Availabilities - XCH-2 AMX447 Contemporary Issues AMX468 Issues and Crisis in Marketing (Outbound Management (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) AMX430 International Logistics Equivalents AMN447 Equivalents AMN468 Management (Outbound Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Exchange) Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External External Equivalents AMN430 Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2
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requirements for both partnerships and companies; AYB114 Forensic Digital accounting for leases; and the professional role of Analysis accountants. AYB225 Management Anti-requisites BSB212, CTB212 Credit Points 12 Accounting Pre-requisites BSB110 or CTB110 Campus Gardens Point AYB205 Law of Business Equivalents AYX225 Gardens Point Entities Availabilities - SEM-1 Pre-requisites BSB111 or CTB111 Credit Points 12 The rise of the Internet and the rapid development of Anti-requisites AYB223 Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point technological applications is significantly changing the Equivalents AYB305 Caboolture way in which business is being conducted, how fraud - SEM-2 Availabilities is occurring, and, consequently, how forensic Credit Points 12 Gardens Point accountants investigate and analyse digital data. The Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 technologies that impact on business operations and Gardens Point This unit introduces students to accounting systems fraud investigation include Office technologies, Social Availabilities - SEM-2 and techniques that provide management at all levels Media, Mobile applications, Virtual technologies and with information for use in planning, controlling and Cloud Computing. In addition, a significant increase in This unit looks at the various types of business decision making. This can be contrasted with financial the use of mobile devices has implications for entities that exist in Australia today and laws accounting, which provides summary financial businesses and for the way forensic accountants applicable to these entities. The unit will also take into information principally for external users (i.e. investigate fraud related issues. Therefore, although account consideration of a range of issues affecting shareholders, creditors, banks, etc). Emphasis is these tools are enabling businesses to create new these legal entities, such as capital raising and placed on developing a range of accounting systems business process and product/service opportunities finance, taxation, accounting, audit and statutory (in particular product costing) which may be used in that transcend the barriers of distance and time, they requirements under the relevant Acts and legislation. manufacturing firms, although the principles and have also enabled the ways in which fraud can be concepts used to develop such systems can be perpetrated. This unit introduces students to the ways adapted to service organisations. in which a myriad of digital data can be investigated and analysed. In addition, students will be able to AYB219 Taxation Law recognise the new data risks and governance issues Pre-requisites BSB111 or CTB111 facing organisations in the digital age. Studying a AYB227 International variety of these technological developments and Anti-requisites LWB364 software used to analyse data emanating from the Equivalents AYB325, AYX219 Accounting various technologies will provide students with up-to- BSB110 or CTB110, and BSB119 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites date tools and techniques used in forensic or CTB119 investigation. Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Equivalents AYX227 Caboolture - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point AYB115 Governance, Fraud and - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Investigation This unit introduces students to the statutory - SEM-1, SEM-2 Equivalents BSB213 framework of the Australian taxation system. International Accounting is designed to provide Credit Points 12 Elements in the determination of taxable income and the levy of income tax are examined including general students with an insight into, and an appreciation of, Campus Gardens Point and specific categories of assessable income and many of the financial accounting and reporting issues faced in an international business environment. Gardens Point allowable deductions, capital gains tax and Availabilities Issues examined include: comparative international - SEM-1 administration aspects of the tax system. The taxation of fringe benefits is also examined. The unit also accounting systems and practices; cultural influences Governance issues and fraud have an increasingly provides a brief overview of the taxation of on financial accounting and reporting policies and large impact on business. When implementing partnerships, trusts and companies and an overview practices; comparative international analysis of business strategies, professionals in all sectors of the of the goods and services tax. Emphasis is placed on financial statements; international foreign currency economy are confronted by a wide range of developing students' skills in problem solving through transactions and hedging; international corporate governance issues because of the electronic and research and analysis of taxation issues. social responsibility (sustainability) reporting and global nature of their business operations. Fraud is an comparative international auditing and taxation issues ever present problem in a technology driven business in the twenty-first century. The unit also examines the environment and understanding how fraud occurs and impact of international harmonisation of accounting can be prevented and detected is becoming a AYB221 Accounting Systems standards on multinational corporations and the necessity for business operations. Business investment communities worldwide. professionals need to have an understanding of the IT and Technologies governance issues, be familiar with risk management, Pre-requisites BSB110 or CTB110 fraud detection and prevention, gathering evidence Anti-requisites AYN443 and have an understanding of legal issues that arise AYB230 Corporations Law due to business use of technologies. Equivalents AYX221 Pre-requisites BSB111 or CTB111 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites LWB334 Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Equivalents AYX230 AYB200 Financial Accounting Caboolture Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Pre-requisites BSB110 or CTB110 Availabilities Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Equivalents AYB121, AYX200 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit provides an examination of the concepts, Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point processes and issues relevant to computerised The unit is intended to equip students with a basic Caboolture accounting systems including: accounting information understanding and knowledge relevant to the - SEM-2 systems; internal controls; design and development of environment of legal entities, particularly corporations. Availabilities Gardens Point computerised accounting systems including general It also seeks to provide students with sufficient basic - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM ledger and reporting cycle, revenue cycle, understanding of the legal structure of business expenditure cycle and payroll cycle; computer fraud, associations to enable them to recognise the Financial Accounting examines the accounting security and crime; accessing accounting information; appropriate structure for particular commercial concepts and procedures for the preparation of and accounting in an electronic environment. Practical situations. external financial reports relevant to both partnership application of these concepts is enhanced by the use and corporate structures within the context of the of accounting software such as MYOB, spreadsheet Australian accounting profession's conceptual software such as Excel, database software such as framework, the relevant accounting standards, and Access, and interactive resources such as as Corporations Law requirements. Topics include: the CasWorkX on Accounting Information Systems formation, operation, and financial reporting Cycles.
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process (including professional auditing standards of organisations that provides an understanding of the AYB232 Financial Services and techniques) which leads to the auditor providing information requirements of management to facilitate Regulation and Law an opinion on the financial reports of various types of the strategic planning, decision-making and control Pre-requisites BSB111 or CTB111 entities. Ethics and auditor's liability are also covered. necessary for the achievement of their objectives. Topics include: developing effective performance- Equivalents AYB312 evaluation systems and compensation plans; Credit Points 12 examining how managers can design organisations to AYB311 Financial Accounting motivate individuals to make choices that increase Campus Gardens Point Issues firm value; strategic planning and budgetary systems; Gardens Point pricing and product mix decisions; managing transfer- Availabilities - SEM-1 Pre-requisites AYB340 or AYB220 pricing disputes among divisions; developing an understanding of new management accounting This subject looks at the laws and regulations Equivalents AYX311 practices, including activity-based costing (ABC) and applicable to corporate securities and financial Credit Points 12 the balanced scorecard (BSC); and appreciating the services in Australia, examines disclosure obligations Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point research on the benefits and problems with ABC and in prospectus and financial products, ASX listing the BSC. rules, takeovers, and market misconduct. Caboolture - SEM-1 Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 AYB338 Accountancy Work AYB240 Superannuation This unit examines accounting theories and reporting Regulation and Practice practices adopted in the financial statements of Placement An application, interview and BSB110 or CTB110, and BSB111 reporting entities, focusing on publicly listed Pre-requisites subsequent approval by the unit or CTB111 companies that communicate information to meet the coordinator is required to enrol, in decision making needs of external parties. Emphasis Other Credit Points 12 addition to the completion of is placed on developing an understanding of, and the requisites Campus Gardens Point ability to critically evaluate, how regulatory AYB200 & AYB221& AYB219 OR requirements and incentives affect financial reporting. other units approved by the Subject Gardens Point Availabilities The unit overviews the different governance models Area Coordinator. - SEM-1 of corporations and relates them to their financial Credit Points 12 This unit introduces students to the Australian reporting environment. Touching on accounting superannuation system and the regulatory framework theories and their evolution it seeks to explain Campus Gardens Point under which it operates. The unit aims to develop accounting policies made by managers. This Gardens Point Availabilities students' knowledge and understanding of the framework provides a basis for examining specific - SEM-1, SEM-2 superannuation system to equip graduates seeking accounting issues with an emphasis on both the This unit fosters learning through work related career opportunities in the superannuation industry, or application of specific accounting measurement experience. Students will be given the opportunity to other areas of business dealing with superannuation- models (historic cost versus fair value) or regulatory experience work that is performed by accountants related matters affecting organisations and/or provisions (continuous disclosure requirements). The and will enable them to more effectively learn and individuals. unit concludes by analysing some of the most recurrent issues of debate in the international arena. practice accounting discipline knowledge and graduate capabilities. For additional important information about this unit please refer to the current AYB250 Personal Financial unit outline. AYB320 Advanced Taxation Planning (BSB111 or CTB111) and (BSB110 Law or CTB110) and EFB210. EFB210 Pre-requisites AYB219 or AYB325 AYB339 Accountancy Capstone Pre-requisites can be enrolled in the same Credit Points 12 (AYB220 or AYB340 and AYB311), teaching period. Pre-requisites OR (AYB220 or AYB340 and Campus Gardens Point AYB321) Anti-requisites AYB335, EFB230 Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents AYX339 Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point This unit examines the principles governing the Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Gardens Point taxation treatment of various business entities Availabilities - SEM-2 including partnerships, trusts, companies and Caboolture superannuation funds from a domestic and - SEM-2 This unit introduces students to the fundamental Availabilities international perspective. The unit provides students Gardens Point aspects of the financial planning process, the legal with an understanding of other considerations which - SEM-1, SEM-2 framework governing the financial planning industry affect the choice of an appropriate business structure and the responsibilities of financial planners. The unit Accountancy Capstone co-ordinates several parts of from a taxation perspective, including rollover relief will also expose students to alternative strategies of the accountancy degree that have already been and the CGT small business concessions, the wealth creation while taking into consideration studied by students. At the same time some new importance of legitimate tax planning and the taxation, superannuation and social security issues. concepts are introduced for each topic. The unit distinction between tax avoidance and tax evasion attempts to simulate the real world where the and some of the more simple aspects of international professional advisor/consultant is confronted with taxation between Australia and its major trading unstructured multi-disciplined problems on a day-to- partners. The unit also covers an analysis of the GST AYB301 Audit and Assurance day basis. AYB 339 takes a very practical, hands-on , a review of types of supplies under the Act and the approach with students working together in groups of (AYB221 or INB120) and (AYB340 concept of creditable acquisitions. Specific issues Pre-requisites between four and five discussing and solving or AYB220) such as the GST implications of real property, the simulated real-world client problems. Throughout the Equivalents AYX301 margin scheme, GST planning strategies and the unit, students take on the persona of a professional GST avoidance provisions are also covered. Credit Points 12 advisor/consultant. The teaching staff will take on the Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point role of the client. Based on a problem-based learning (PBL) methodology, students will learn the process of Caboolture how to deal with the real-world accounting problems - SEM-2 AYB321 Strategic Management Availabilities that graduates would typically be expected to Gardens Point Accounting encounter in their first year working within a public - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Pre-requisites AYB225 accounting firm. These problems require students to work together in teams, research issues, gather This unit enables students to comprehend the key Equivalents AYX321 concepts of auditing as a discipline, to demonstrate information and form conclusions. the relationship between auditing and the systems of Credit Points 12 accountability and to demonstrate the differences Campus Gardens Point between manual and EDP audit processes. The unit Gardens Point builds on the knowledge of accounting and Availabilities AYB340 Company Accounting - SEM-1, SEM-2 accounting standards acquired in prior units by Pre-requisites AYB200 or AYB121 enabling students to understand in detail the audit Strategic management accounting develops a theory
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Equivalents AYX340 AYN415 External Reporting This unit introduces students to the concepts and Credit Points 12 theories that underlie financial reporting and Issues disclosure practices. The regulatory environment and Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Pre-requisites AYN417 and AYN418 factors influencing accounting policy choices provide Caboolture a framework for examining the financial effects and In addition to the prerequisite - SEM-2 Other behavioural implications of applying different Availabilities subjects, subject area coordinator Gardens Point requisites accounting methods to specific accounting issues. - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM approval is required. Particular emphasis is placed on both the application Credit Points 12 of specific accounting techniques/rules and the This unit includes: an overview of the statutory conceptual/theoretical issues associated with Campus Gardens Point requirements that dictate the format and content of alternative accounting methods. published financial reports of companies; the Gardens Point Availabilities requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 and - SEM-1, SEM-2 various disclosure orientated accounting standards; accounting for income tax; accounting for the External reporting issues integrates the technical AYN424 International acquisition of assets (including entities); the skills developed in prior finanical accounting units by preparation of consolidated financial statements; considering the issues relating to the application of Accounting accounting for investments in associates; segment accounting techniques, within an economic and Credit Points 12 reporting; the translation of the results of foreign conceptual framework. The aim of this unit is to Campus Gardens Point operations; and liquidation. expose students to a number of contemporary issues in external reporting. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 AYB341 Forensic and Business This unit is designed to provide students with an AYN416 Financial Accounting 1 insight into, and an appreciation of, many of the Intelligence financial accounting, reporting, disclosure and Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites AYB114, BSB124, or BSB114 enforcement issues faced by global corporations in an Campus Gardens Point and External international business environment. The unit Credit Points 12 Gardens Point examines issues including: international, financial Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 accounting systems in the global environment; Availabilities international patterns of accounting diversity including Gardens Point External Availabilities cultural influences on external, financial accounting - SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 and reporting; comparative international accounting This unit focuses on providing skills in forensic and This unit provides an introduction to financial systems and practices across major cultural business intelligence through the use of SAS accounting within the context of the accounting groupings; the pressures for international accounting technologies. The unit assists students to analyse profession's conceptual framework, relevant convergence which is now taking place in 130 large data sources and report their findings to assist accounting standards and the requirements of the countries; international disclosure and enforcement managerial decision making. Forensic and business Corporations Law. Topics include: the accounting trends; international corporate social responsibility intelligence issues and corporate decision making cycle for both service and merchandising entities, the reporting; international financial analysis of foreign processes are emphasised. This unit provides preparation of general purpose financial reports, cash financial statements; and business issues into the students with an important skill base in supporting management and control, non-current assets and twenty-first century such as global corporate corporate decision making and investigation in a statement of cash flows. governance and international taxation including business environment. country-by-country reporting.
AYN417 Financial Accounting 2 AYN411 Audit and Assurance Pre-requisites AYN416 AYN426 International Capital Pre-requisites AYN416 Credit Points 12 Markets Law and Regulation Credit Points 12 AYN410 or AYN456 or (GSN412 Campus Gardens Point and External Pre-requisites and GSN472) Campus Gardens Point and External Gardens Point Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 In addition to the prerequisite Availabilities Other - SEM-1, SEM-2 External subjects, subject area coordinator Availabilities requisites External - SEM-1, SEM-2 approval is required. - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit examines the life cycle of a corporate entity Credit Points 12 Topics in this unit include: the audit environment; and investigates accounting issues relating to the Campus Gardens Point legal liability of auditors; professional ethics; the study registration, funding, expansion and termination of a Gardens Point and evaluation of audit planning and programming, corporate entity. It covers an overview of the statutory Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 evidence, internal control theory and review requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 relating to techniques; audit program applications; audit in CIS the registration of a company; an overview of the This unit focuses on the regulation of global capital environment and evaluation of CIS controls; statutory requirements that dictate the format and markets. The material covered is broad-based and computer-assisted audit techniques; computer fraud; content of published financial reports of companies; includes the history, philosophy and economics of audit sampling techniques; audit reporting. the requirements of the Corporations Act 2001 and capital markets and the regulatory models used by the major disclosure orientated accounting standards; governments. The Global Financial Crisis is reviewed accounting for income tax; accounting for the in depth including a review of some of the firms acquisition of assets (including business entities); seriously affected by the GFC. Applied capital market AYN414 Cost and Management accounting for investments in associates and joint regulation is discussed in the context of margin Accounting venture arrangements; and accounting for business lending, documentary credits and international debt combinations including the preparation of factoring. The Australian Prudential System is AYN416 Can be enrolled in the Pre-requisites consolidated financial statements. The unit also discussed in relation to systems in other economies. same teaching period. examines the statutory requirements that dictate the The Australian Corporations Act is used to provide a Credit Points 12 termination of a company's life and the accounting foundation in corporate law and regulation for procedures necessitated by winding up/liquidation. comparison with other regulatory environments. The Campus Gardens Point and External unit also covers corporate misfeasance; the Gardens Point fundamentals of the Principal-Agent problem; an - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities introduction to the major regulators in the global External AYN418 Financial Accounting 3 environment; and the regulation of financial - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites AYN416 instruments. This unit introduces students to techniques that Credit Points 12 provide management at all levels with information for Campus Gardens Point and External use in inventory valuation, planning, controlling and AYN433 Research Topics in decision-making. The unit's major focus is on product Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 costing systems for manufacturing firms. Availabilities Accounting External Pre-requisites AYN417 and AYN418 - SEM-1, SEM-2
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Credit Points 12 As a result of having to make increasing numbers of AYN505 Financial Analysis and Campus Gardens Point urgent, strategic, high-risk decisions, management need more than just information to assist them. This Business Valuation Gardens Point Availabilities unit focuses on providing skills in forensic and Pre-requisites AYN417 and AYN418 and EFN406 - SEM-1 business intelligence through the use of MS Access, In addition to the prerequisite This unit introduces Honours, Higher Degree MS Excel and SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 to mine and Other subjects, subject area coordinator Research and other Postgraduate students to a broad analyse data sets to assist managerial decision requisites approval is required. range of accounting literature. It is designed to making and aid in fraud detection. Applications for explore various theories and research methodologies financial forensics and business intelligence are Credit Points 12 emphasised. that are applied in accounting research through Campus Gardens Point assigned weekly readings and assigned research Gardens Point tasks. The assigned readings include contemporary Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 research in financial accounting, management AYN454 Forensic Accounting accounting, auditing and corporate governance. This unit is about the analysis of financial information and Investigation arising primarily from the financial reports of entities. Pre-requisites AYN417 and AYN418 Fundamental analysis techniques are examined in detail with particular emphasis on the application of In addition to the prerequisite AYN438 Taxation Law and Other these techniques in equity (share) valuation subjects, subject area coordinator requisites decisions. The unit comprises three related parts. Part Practice approval is required. Pre-requisites AYN410 or AYN456 one outlines the four basic steps in the fundamental Credit Points 12 analysis framework; business analysis, accounting Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point analysis, financial analysis and prospective analysis. Campus Gardens Point and External The next part combines these skills in addressing the Gardens Point question of valuation, while the final section of the unit Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 applies the skills in several different contexts, such as - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities credit analysis, security analysis, mergers and External The unit is designed to provide students with an acquisitions and financial policy decisions. - SEM-1, SEM-2 understanding of the risks of fraud or corporate failure occurring and an appreciation for the subsequent This unit introduces students to the statutory forensic review processes. An understanding of framework of the Australian taxation system. control environments and their adequacies and Elements in the determination of taxable income and inadequacies should also be derived. AYN506 Strategic Management the levying of income tax are examined including Accounting general and specific categories of assessable income Pre-requisites AYN414 and AYN417 and allowable deductions, capital gains tax and administration aspects of the tax system. The taxation In addition to the prerequisite AYN456 Business and Other of fringe benefits is also examined. The unit also subjects, subject area coordinator requisites provides a brief overview of the taxation of Corporations Law approval is required. Anti-requisites AYN410 and AYN412 partnerships, trusts and companies and an overview Credit Points 12 of the goods and services tax. Emphasis is placed on Equivalents AYX456 developing students' skills in problem solving through Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 research and analysis of taxation issues. Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Strategic Management Accounting develops a holistic - SEM-1, SEM-2 AYN443 Electronic Commerce Availabilities view of the organisations, strategy and management External control. The unit prepares students for a world of Cycles - SEM-1, SEM-2 unstructured problem-solving and builds student Pre-requisites AYN416 This unit will introduce students to the Australian legal knowledge of how organisations effectivly formulate Anti-requisites AYB221, AYN402 environment and develop students' knowledge and and implement their strategies through current case understanding of the basic principles of business law studies aimed at developing the skills and abilities of Credit Points 12 and the Australian corporations legislation. Students management accountants as future strategic leaders Campus Gardens Point and External will be encouraged to develop their research and of organisations. Topics include: organisations and making strategy, implementing strategy through the Gardens Point analytical skills relevant to contemporary business management of control systems; forecasting, - SEM-1, SEM-2 and corporate practice. Availabilities internationalisation and new product development. External - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit examines the concepts, processes and AYN460 Accountancy Work AYN507 Governance Issues in issues relevant to computerised accounting systems Placement including: accounting information systems; internal Accounting controls; design and development of computerised An application, interview and Pre-requisites AYN417 and AYN418 accounting systems including general ledger and subsequent approval by the Unit reporting cycle, revenue cycle, expenditure cycle and Other Coordinator is required to enrol in In addition to the prerequisite Other payroll cycle; computer fraud, security and crime; requisites this unit. In addition to completion of subjects, subject area coordinator requisites accessing accounting information; and accounting in the following units: AYN417 & approval is required. AYN418. an electronic environment. Practical application of Credit Points 12 these concepts is enhanced by the use of accounting Credit Points 12 software such as MYOB, spreadsheet software such Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point as Microsoft Excel and database software such as Gardens Point Availabilities Microsoft Access. Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit adopts an accounting perspective to This unit fosters learning through work related examine issues relating to sound corporate AYN453 Financial Forensics experience. Students will be given the opportunity to governance, accountability and transparency. Topics experience the work that is performed by accountants covered include the following: the role of the board of and Business Intelligence which will enable them to more effectively learn and directors and board committees; internal control and Pre-requisites AYN443 practice accounting discipline knowledge and risk management; audit committees, internal and graduate capabilities. Admission to this unit is by In addition to the prerequisite external audit; duties of directors and management; Other application and subsequent approval by the unit subjects, subject area coordinator codes of conduct and ethics; compensation issues; requisites coordinator. For additional important information approval is required. conflict of interest and insider trading. about this unit please refer to the current unit outline. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2
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AYN520 Integrated Issues in AYX227 International AYX339 Accountancy Capstone Professional Practice Accounting (Outbound (Outbound Exchange) AYN417 and AYN438. AYN438 can Exchange) Equivalents AYB339 Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Equivalents AYB227 Credit Points 12 period as AYN520 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 The Accountancy profession has repeatedly stressed the need for accounting university graduates to be AYX340 Company Accounting 'work ready' and able to deal with and solve AYX230 Corporations Law (Outbound Exchange) unstructured, multi-disciplined problems. This unit is a Equivalents AYB340 deliberate attempt to address this concern for (Outbound Exchange) students who enter the accounting profession through Pre-requisites BSB111 or CTB111 Credit Points 12 the Master of Business (Professional Accounting) Equivalents AYB230 Campus EXCHANGE and External course and enables students in the Master of External Business (Accounting) course to further develop their Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 team work, research and problem-solving skills using Campus External problem-based learning (PBL). The unit simulates External issues faced by a professional advisor/consultant by Availabilities presenting students with simulated real world - XCH-2 problems. The 'real world' focus of the unit ties AYX424 International strategically into QUT's charter and provides our students with a potential advantage in seeking Accounting (Outbound employment. AYX250 Personal Financial Exchange) Planning (Outbound Exchange) Credit Points 12 (BSB111 or CTB111) and (BSB110 Campus EXCHANGE and External AYX200 Financial Accounting or CTB110) and EFB210. EFB210 External Pre-requisites Availabilities can be enrolled in the same - XCH-1, XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) teaching period. Equivalents AYB200 Anti-requisites AYB335, EFB230, EFB339 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External AYX456 Business and Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities External Corporations Law (Outbound - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Exchange) Anti-requisites AYN410 and AYN412 Equivalents AYN456 AYX219 Taxation Law AYX301 Audit and Assurance Credit Points 12 (Outbound Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents AYB219 Equivalents AYB301 External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 BEB110 Organising and Managing Project Team Credit Points 12 AYX221 Computerised AYX311 Financial Accounting Campus Gardens Point Accounting Systems Gardens Point Issues (Outbound Exchange) Availabilities - SEM-1 (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents AYB311 Equivalents AYB221 Credit Points 12 The unit focus is on the dynamics of managing and organising project teams involved in delivering built Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External environment, engineering or infrastructure projects. Campus EXCHANGE and External External Recent literature has identified the need for managers Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 and leaders to acquire knowledge in the areas of self Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 management and the management of others to contribute to project effectiveness. You will be introduced to key managerial and human resource AYX321 Strategic Management theories to assist in the development of analytical and AYX225 Management interpretive skills to enable you to proactively and Accounting (Outbound effectively lead project teams. Accounting (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Pre-requisites AYB225 Equivalents AYB225 Equivalents AYB321 BEB111 Managing Project Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Quality Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus Gardens Point Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit is one of four within the BEE minor in Project Collaboration and is designed to provide you with appropriate knowledge and skills needed for your
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Gardens Point involvement in delivering projects in professional Availabilities organisations in the public and private sectors, by BEB802 Project 2 - SEM-2 Equivalents CEB415, EEB782-2, EEB889-2 ensuring that the achieved project quality outcomes Sustainability has become a global agenda that accord with client requirements and satisfy customer Credit Points 12 impacts upon our work and everyday life. The unit will expectations. Campus Gardens Point introduce principles, challenges and skills for dealing with a diversity of trans-disciplinary issues in Gardens Point Availabilities sustainable development. By introducing critical - SEM-1, SEM-2 BEB112 Principle of Project sustainability theory and challenging best practices, This unit is usually taken in the final year of study, and this unit will prepare you for the impending changes Management is only taken by students completing a two unit that are necessary in all built environment and Credit Points 12 project. Students complete an individual project engineering disciplines. involving the application of skills and knowledge Campus Gardens Point attained during the earlier years of their degree Gardens Point program. This unit will be taken as the second of two Availabilities - SEM-2 'project' units related to the same student project. BEN910 Integrated Project Credit Points 12 Project Management is the overall planning, control and coordination of a project, from inception to Campus Gardens Point completion, aimed at meeting a client’s requirements BEB806 Project 1 Gardens Point in order that the project will be completed on time Availabilities CEB411, CEB420, CNB434, - SEM-1, SEM-2 within authorized cost and to the required quality Equivalents standards. The aim of this unit is to provide the key EEB781-1, EEB889-1 Problems that confront professionals are ill-defined concepts and foundation knowledge in project Credit Points 12 and complex. The ability to define a problem, and collect and analyse relevant information using management, and to describe, clarify, and formalise Campus Gardens Point project management process. appropriate research methods is essential to Gardens Point professional practice. From a learning perspective, Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 one of the most effective ways of achieving this is to consolidate and extend previously gained skills This unit is usually taken in the final year of study. through an activity that is relevant to industry and, BEB113 Managing Project Cost Students complete an individual project involving the where possible, is associated with a specific Credit Points 12 application of skills and knowledge attained during the workplace. Campus Gardens Point earlier years of their degree program. For some students, this unit will be taken one of two 'project' Gardens Point Availabilities units related to the same student project; in such - SEM-2 cases this unit may be a pre-requisite or co-requisite BEN920 Integrated Project Cost is a major metric of a successful project to the second unit (or a follow-on from the first unit). Credit Points 12 management. This unit introduces the process of The final ‘deliverable’ for this unit may vary for each managing project cost which includes planning, discipline and details will be provided in Campus Gardens Point estimating, budgeting, and controlling costs so that lectures/tutorials and on the Blackboard website. Gardens Point Availabilities the project can be completed within the approved - SEM-1, SEM-2 budget. Problems that confront professionals are ill-defined BEB807 Project 2 and complex. The ability to define a problem, and Equivalents CEB415, EEB782-2, EEB889-2 collect and analyse relevant information using BEB114 Project Financing appropriate research methods is essential to Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 professional practice. From a learning perspective, Campus Gardens Point one of the most effective ways of achieving this is to Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point consolidate and extend previously gained skills Gardens Point Availabilities through an activity that is relevant to industry and, Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 where possible, is associated with a specific This unit is usually taken in the final year of study, and workplace. Project is growing in complexity and size. Many is only taken by students completing a two unit projects never get off the ground due to insufficient project. Students complete an individual project financing. It is therefore necessary for project involving the application of skills and knowledge managers to know the sources and cost of project attained during the earlier years of their degree BEZ910 Integrated Project funds in order to package a financially viable project program. This unit will be taken as the second of two Credit Points 12 for approval. This unit introduces capital budgeting, 'project' units related to the same student project. project finance, and risk analysis. It covers the capital Campus Gardens Point and External allocation framework, project cash flows, cost of External Availabilities capital, financial risk analysis, and how various types - SEM-1, SEM-2 of projects are financed. BEN610 Project Management Problems that confront professionals are ill-defined Principles and complex. The ability to define a problem, and Anti-requisites PMN501 or PMN502 collect and analyse relevant information using appropriate research methods is essential to BEB801 Project 1 Credit Points 12 CEB411, CEB420, CNB434, professional practice. From a learning perspective, Equivalents EEB781-1, EEB889-1 Campus Gardens Point one of the most effective ways of achieving this is to Gardens Point consolidate and extend previously gained skills Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 through an activity that is relevant to industry and, Campus Gardens Point where possible, is associated with a specific This unit serves as an introduction to project workplace. Gardens Point Availabilities management as a fundamental skill for all - SEM-1, SEM-2 postgraduate coursework students in built This unit is usually taken in the final year of study. environment and engineering. It offers an overview of Students complete an individual project involving the the framework, processes and key knowledge areas BSB009 Service Learning and application of skills and knowledge attained during the of project management. Community Engagement for earlier years of their degree program. For some students, this unit will be taken one of two 'project' Business units related to the same student project; in such Enrolment in this unit requires cases this unit may be a pre-requisite or co-requisite BEN710 Sustainable Practice in Other completion of 96 credit points of to the second unit (or a follow-on from the first unit). Built Environment and requisites approved study including four or The final ‘deliverable’ for this unit may vary for each more of the Business Core Units discipline and details will be provided in Engineering Enrolment in this unit requires lectures/tutorials and on the Blackboard website. Credit Points 12 Assumed completion of 96 credit points of Campus Gardens Point Knowledge approved study including four or more of the Business Core Units.
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Credit Points 12 and banking, and fiscal and monetary policy. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities BSB124 Working in Business - SEM-1 BSB115 Management Anti-requisites BSB114, CTB114, HHB113 The unit is an elective option for students, which Equivalents BSD115, BSX115, CTB115 Equivalents BSD124, BSX124 supports experiential learning experiences linked to Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 service, volunteering and engagement with communities. These experiences can be part of the Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point QUT Community Engaged Learning Lab, which brings Caboolture Caboolture together students from a range of disciplines at QUT - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Availabilities Availabilities in teams to contribute to projects with partner Gardens Point Gardens Point community organisations. With the approval of the - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM-2 unit coordintaor, students can link the unit to other structured volunteering projects or exchange The unit provides an introduction to the theories and This unit will help you to kickstart your study and your programs. practice of management and organisations. Emphasis career in business regardless of your specific is on the conceptual and people skills that are needed discipline. Not only does "Working in Business" give in all areas of management and in all areas of you an understanding of where business has come organisational life. The unit acknowledges that from and where it is headed, but you will also gain BSB110 Accounting organisations exist in an increasingly international insights into yourself and how you can develop as environment where the emphasis will be on Anti-requisites CNB293, UDB342 both a student and professional in the business world. knowledge, the ability to learn, to change and to It covers an overview of business, the important Equivalents BSD110, BSX110, CTB110 innovate. Organisations are viewed from individual, issues for working as a professional in an Credit Points 12 group, corporate and external environmental organisation, and also gives you the opportunity to perspectives. reflect on your own skills, preferences and career Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point options so you can plan a future that suits you. Caboolture - SEM-1 Availabilities Gardens Point BSB119 Global Business - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Anti-requisites BSB116, BSB112 BSB126 Marketing Accounting data is the basis for decision making in Equivalents BSD119, BSX119, CTB119 Anti-requisites BSB116 any organisation. Accordingly, the aim of this unit is to Credit Points 12 Equivalents BSD126, BSX126, CTB126 provide students with a basic level of knowledge of Credit Points 12 modern financial and managerial accounting theory Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point and practice so that they can understand how Caboolture Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point accounting data is used to help make decisions in - SEM-2 Availabilities Caboolture organisations. The unit covers financial procedures Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities and reporting for business entities, analysis and - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Gardens Point interpretation of financial statements and planning, - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM control and business decision making. This unit examines the drivers of globalisation and the diversity of country markets at an introductory level. It BSB126 Marketing is an introductory unit that develops the skills and understanding to identify and examines the role and importance of marketing to the respond to the opportunities, challenges and risks of contemporary organisation. Emphasis is placed on BSB111 Business Law and conducting business across politically, economically understanding the basic principles and practices of and culturally diverse environments. An authentic marketing such as the marketing concept, market Ethics country feasibility study is undertaken to help identify segmentation, customer value and consumer AYB120, LWB136, LWB145, where a firm can find opportunities both in terms of Anti-requisites behaviour. The unit explores the various elements of LWS012, UDB102 actual and potential markets and the location for the marketing mix, with special reference to product, value-adding activities. The unit aims for students to Equivalents BSX111, CTB111 price, distribution, and promotion, including have developed a comprehension of the nature and advertising and public relations. By way of Credit Points 12 role of globalisation and the drivers of international introduction only, key issues relating to services Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point business, a. knowledge of the competitive forces and marketing, e-marketing and strategic marketing are challenges confronting all business as a consequence also canvassed. Caboolture of globalisation processes and an awareness of the - SEM-2 Availabilities additional knowledge and skills required of Gardens Point management to operate business internationally - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM across a diversity of environments. BSB303 Internship (Caboolture) This unit integrates the concepts and principles of Anti-requisites MGB338 business law with the theories and applications of Subject to Unit Coordinator business ethics. The unit makes extensive use of Other approval and 96 credit points of cases in law and ethics to develop knowledge and BSB123 Data Analysis requisites prior studies skills that enable students to analyse, apply and BSB117, BSB122, CTB122, evaluate the legal principles and ethical decision- Anti-requisites EFB101, LQB284, MAB101, Credit Points 12 making processes relevant to modern business MAB141,MAB233 Campus Caboolture practice. Equivalents BSX123, PYB110 Caboolture Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 BSB113 Economics Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point This unit for Caboolture-enrolled students only offers Caboolture a self-directed learning experience with the BSD113, BSX113, CTB113, Equivalents - SEM-1 opportunity to utilise your discipline skills in problem UDB104 Availabilities Gardens Point definition, research and development of strategies for Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM effective implementation. You will be provided with guidance from the unit coordinator in the course of Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point The ability to collect, analyse, manipulate, understand your project or placement, but you will have the main Caboolture and report data is an important skill in any work responsibility for achieving appropriate and relevant - SEM-2 environment. This is particularly true in business outcomes to meet the unit's requirements and the Availabilities Gardens Point where learning to deal with randomness, variation and client's needs. Application of professional standards - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM uncertainty is a vital skill for anyone intending to apply and ethical conduct in the project are to be their knowledge. This unit is designed to ensure that maintained at all times. (Caboolture-enrolled students This unit introduces students to the key economic students gain the basic tools necessary to allow them in other discipline areas who wish to undertake a work concepts and their practical applications. It comprises to develop this skill. Students will also gain an placement should contact their Subject Area twelve topics each focusing on a current economic introduction to many of the quantitative techniques Coordinator directly for more information). issue. Microeconomic topics include demand and which will be used throughout their further studies in supply, elasticity, production and cost theory and their chosen discipline. market structure. Macroeconomic topics include measuring GDP, inflation and unemployment, money
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities BSB304 Project (Caboolture) - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 BSD124 Working in Business Subject to Unit Coordinator Anti-requisites BSB124 Other approval and 96 credit points of All economic questions arise because we want more requisites Credit Points 12 prior studies. than we can get. Wants are infinite and resources to achieve those wants are scarce. Economics is the Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 study of how best to use and distribute scarce Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture resources to meet our needs and wants. Economists Availabilities look at how people make decisions and the - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 Caboolture Availabilities interaction of individuals in markets as a way of Management is a professional practice and a key - SEM-1, SEM-2 distributing those scarce resources. Sometimes aspect of working in business is the ability to draw This unit for Caboolture-enrolled students only markets work and sometimes they do not. Economics upon a range of management skills including self- involves a structured program of study focusing on a examines the role of government in either obstructing awareness, interpersonal effectiveness and select topic or set of topics which you have identified or improving market outcomes and the effect of those communication. The unit provides a platform for the as significant to your professional development in decisions on the well being of society. Economics development of these skills by helping students to your discipline.You will develop an individually tailored also studies the economy as a whole and key topics reflect on their own competencies, preferences and learning contract. The specific program will be include economic growth, inflation, unemployment career options. By offering insight into the meanings developed in conjunction with and approved by the and international trade. In studying these issues of professionalism in the workplace the unit creates a Unit Coordinator. The unit is designed to provide economists can understand how to manage the solid foundation for students who wish to go on and valuable professional portfolio building through economy for the good of its citizens. develop their studies in business or simply wish to advanced level examination of content and the understand more thoroughly areas for personal and development of self-directed learning skills. professional development. The aims of this unit are to (Caboolture-enrolled students in other discipline areas develop an understanding of the skills required to who wish to undertake a project should contact their BSD115 Management work effectively in a professional business Subject Area Coordinator directly for more Anti-requisites BSB115 environment. information). Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove BSD126 Marketing Availabilities BSB305 Deloitte FASTRACK - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 Anti-requisites BSB126 Innovation Challenge An ability to understand the basic functions of Credit Points 12 Places are limited. Students apply management and apply that knowledge to Campus Kelvin Grove Other for a place in response to an contemporary practice is a key aspect of developing Kelvin Grove requisites expression of interest prior to the competent business professionals with the skills Availabilities start of semester necessary to become informed and effective - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 Credit Points 12 managers. The unit provides practical insight into In order for business to operate successfully and current business issues and practices and provides a profitably in today's competitive marketplace, its Campus Gardens Point solid foundation for students who wish to further their practitioners will need to be conversant with various Gardens Point studies in business and management or who simply marketing principles and concepts. More and more Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 wish to understand more thoroughly the role of firms are finding that survival and growth depends organisations within society. The aims of this unit are very much on understanding customer needs, as well This unit provides an interdisciplinary, work integrated to develop a basic and applied understanding of key as the marketing environment in which they learning experience for students as they develop, concepts and theories in management and to develop compete/operate. This unit introduces students to the research and pitch an innovative business idea within practical skills in problem solving and effective key foundation principles of marketing, marketing Deloitte's globally recognised FASTRACK Innovation communication in an intercultural context. strategies and tactics in order to adapt and respond to Challenge program. Working with industry mentors a continuously changing marketplace. To introduce and subject matter experts students will work through students to the basic concepts of the related a program involving idea generation and refinement; disciplines of advertising, marketing and public research to explore the potential of ideas; skills to BSD119 Global Business relations and how they relate to the wants and needs compile convincing evidence to support thinking and Anti-requisites BSD119 of consumers. To develop the communication skills of skills to prepare a compelling pitch for Deloitte students and develop an appreciation of the role of experts. Students will strengthen key graduate Credit Points 12 communication in business. capabilities including critical thinking, communication, Campus Kelvin Grove teamwork and self-reflection and gain real world Kelvin Grove experience to help prepare then for the fast paced Availabilities and challenging world of business. - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 BSN005 Introduction to There is a growing interdependency among people, businesses and institutions in a globalised Academic Research environment. At an introductory level, this unit Subject to Course Coordinator BSD110 Accounting examines what "drives" and motivates a business to Approval: 240 credit points of UG Anti-requisites BSB110 go global and the complexity and diversity of study with a GPA of 5.5>; pre- Other businesses that operate in a globalised environment. approval of Course Coordinator; Credit Points 12 requisites The unit develops the skills and understanding to subject to supervisor availability and Campus Kelvin Grove identify and respond to the opportunities, challenges completion of an agreed learning Kelvin Grove and risks of conducting business in and across contract. Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 politically, economically and culturally diverse country Credit Points 12 environments. An authentic business case study is Accounting data is the basis for decision making in undertaken in order to analyse a firm's market entry Campus Gardens Point any organisation. Accordingly, the aim of this unit is to strategies and processes inherent in conducting Gardens Point provide students with a basic level of knowledge of Availabilities business both in actual and potential markets and - SEM-2 modern financial and managerial accounting theory make some concluding comments. The aims of this and practice so that they can understand how unit are for students to have developed: an accounting data is used to help make decisions in understanding of the nature and role of globalisation organisations. The unit covers financial procedures as a driver of global business: an appreciation of the BSN201 Self Leadership and reporting for business entities, analysis and strategic and operational demands including the interpretation of financial statements and planning, GSN620, GSN621, GSZ620, competitive forces and challenges confronting all Anti-requisites control and business decision making. business as a consequence of globalisation GSZ621, MGN442 processes; an awareness of the additional knowledge Credit Points 6 and skills required of management to operate Campus Online business internationally across culturally diverse BSD113 Economics Online environments. Availabilities Anti-requisites BSB113 or UDB104 - 6TP4 Credit Points 12 Developing a strong capability in the practice of Campus Kelvin Grove positive self-leadership empowers you to build on your self-awareness, optimism, constructive
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units behaviours, effectiveness and drive. Learn to capitalise on your personal strengths with practical BSN412 Qualitative Research BSN501 Dissertation strategies for your behaviours, thoughts, and and Analytical Techniques Credit Points 12 emotions. Set realistic and achievable goals based on Anti-requisites CON500 Campus Gardens Point your personal needs and develop a motivating action Gardens Point plan to implement immediately. With a strong and Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 positive sense of self, you will be able to effectively Campus Gardens Point manage your growth as a leader. This unit is Gardens Point considered a useful starting point on your leadership Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 journey, which can be extended with the QUT Connect Unit BSN202 Contemporary Leadership This unit provides a detailed overview of qualitative BSN501 Dissertation Practice. research to support decision-making in business Credit Points 12 disciplines. The primary purpose of this unit is to Campus Gardens Point develop a detailed understanding of the theoretical Gardens Point contexts in which field studies and qualitative Availabilities BSN202 Contemporary research methods have developed and the - SEM-1, SEM-2 Leadership Practice techniques that define the approach. Students develop the ability to analyse, conduct, and evaluate Anti-requisites GSN409, GSZ409 qualitative research in discipline areas related to Credit Points 6 business. The unit provides a basic preparation for BSN501 Dissertation Campus Online the development of a project, thesis or dissertation Credit Points 12 proposal based on the use of qualitative research. Online Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - 6TP5 Gardens Point Availabilities This unit examines the practice of leadership in an - SEM-1, SEM-2 applied but evidenced-based manner to allow you to BSN414 Quantitative Research develop and enhance your leadership behaviours in a Methods range of contemporary workplace environments such Credit Points 12 as start-ups and virtual teams. This unit is designed to BSN501 Dissertation Campus Gardens Point extend and complement, but sit parallel to the QUT Credit Points 12 Connect Units BSN201 Self-Leadership. Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Quantitative Research Methods is a postgraduate unit - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM BSN404 Project 1 designed to introduce students to a range of quantitative research methods and their application to Anti-requisites MKN101, MKN102, MKN103 different research questions and types of quantitative Equivalents BSX404 data. Throughout the unit, students will be exposed to BSN502 Research Methodology Credit Points 12 a wide range of quantitative research issues including survey and index development, factor analysis, Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point multiple regression, experimental data collection and Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point analysis, ANOVA and MANOVA, structural models, Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM secondary data collection and analysis, and Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 longitudinal data analysis. Each lecture will be This unit is designed to permit the student to conducted in computer laboratories to allow students The purpose of this study is to provide students with a undertake a research project, subject to the approval the opportunity to develop their quantitative research range of ideas and methods that enable them to of the Course Coordinator. skills using SPSS and AMOS with data provided by analyse, evaluate and conduct research in discipline lecturers. areas related to business. It provides an essential and basic preparation for the development of a thesis or BSN405 Project 2 dissertation proposal. Areas of study include research paradigms, analysis and criticism, research design, Anti-requisites MKN101, MKN102, MKN104 BSN420 EY Asian Century data collection and data manipulation, interpretation Credit Points 12 Growth Initiative and presentation. Campus Gardens Point Places are limited. Students apply Gardens Point Other for a place in response to an Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM requisites expression of interest prior to the BSN503 Research Seminar start of semester This unit is designed to permit the student to Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 undertake a research project, subject to the approval Campus Gardens Point of the course coordinator. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 In this unit students prepare detailed literature reviews BSN406 Project 3 This Work Integrated Learning (WIL) unit provides relevant to the thesis or dissertation proposal. Credit Points 24 students with a unique opportunity to gain experience Students are required to prepare and present a in addressing real world issues and problems in Campus Gardens Point detailed seminar paper describing and explaining the consultation with industry mentors from Ernst and results of their review and its relevance to the thesis Gardens Point Availabilities Young and with support from subject matter experts. or dissertation proposal. The unit is in two parts: the - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Students will work in interdisciplinary Project Teams first provides a series of lectures from staff advising This unit is designed to permit the student to to develop, research and pitch a feasible business as to the requirements of a thorough, well-directed undertake a 24 credit point research project, subject growth initiative for success in the Asia-Pacific region. literature search and review; the second consists of a to approval of the course coordinator. This unit helps students to explore the efficacy, series of seminars from students presenting their assumptions and limitations of discipline theory and to findings. extend their knowledge and skills through application to complex situations and environments where BSN409 Research Project problems are often ill-defined, information is often incomplete and stakeholders present diverse issues BSX110 Accounting (Outbound Credit Points 24 to be managed. It is designed to strengthen key Campus Gardens Point graduate capabilities including critical thinking, Exchange) Equivalents BSB110 Gardens Point communication, teamwork and self-reflection and to Availabilities - SEM-2 help prepare students for the fast paced and Credit Points 12 challenging world of business. Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2
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The design, analysis and interpretation of experiments are critical skills in biology. Biological and environmental systems are often characterised BSX111 Business Law and BSX404 Project 1 (Outbound by high variability and so specific approaches of Ethics (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) observation, experimentation and analysis are required. Experimental Design and Quantitative Equivalents BSB111 Anti-requisites MKN101, MKN102, MKN103 Methods provides you with an introduction to Credit Points 12 Equivalents BSN404 foundational skills that are essential for the effective Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 design, analysis and interpretation of experiments. External Campus External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-2 BVB203 Plant Biology Pre-requisites BVB101 and BVB102 BSX113 Economics (Outbound Credit Points 12 Exchange) BVB101 Foundations of Biology Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Equivalents BSB113 Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point This unit builds on earlier units to develop a deeper Gardens Point Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities understanding of plant biology. Topics covered will - SEM-2 External include an in-depth examination of plant structure and Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Biology is the study of living things. But what is physiology, including anatomy and morphology (e.g. "living"? Cells are considered the basic structural unit cells, tissue and organs; growth, development and of life, existing in diverse forms from simple single- morphogenesis); photosynthesis and productivity (C3, celled microbes to complex multicellular organisms C4, CAM); transport and mineral nutrition; BSX115 Management such as plants and animals. Using collaborative reproduction; plant hormones and responses to approaches in workshops and the laboratory you will stimuli. Practicals will build on these broad areas with (Outbound Exchange) investigate the diverse nature of cells and consider an emphasis on hands-on learning and Equivalents BSB115 how they are built and powered and how they interact experimentation. and reproduce. You will use the concepts developed Credit Points 12 in this unit to discuss more complex questions such Campus EXCHANGE and External as "are viruses alive" and "can we synthesise life"? External BVB204 Ecology Availabilities BVB101 or BVB102 or EVB102 or - XCH-1, XCH-2 Pre-requisites SCB112 BVB102 Evolution Equivalents NQB321 Anti-requisites NQB422 Credit Points 12 BSX119 Global Business Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point (Outbound Exchange) Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Equivalents BSB119 Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Ecology is the study of the factors and interactions Campus EXCHANGE and External This unit introduces you to the concepts of genetics that influence the distribution and abundance of and evolution and how they underpin all biological External organisms. It is a key component of biology and is Availabilities sciences. The unit focuses on how genetic variation - XCH-1, XCH-2 central to managing species and ecosystems. This and evolutionary processes, explain patterns of unit examines the major concepts of ecology and biological diversity. It develops a contextual develops the conceptual foundation for later subjects framework for a broad understanding of Plant in the biology major and minors. (BVB203), Animal Biology (BVB301) and Ecology BSX123 Data Analysis (BVB204). (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents BSB123 BVB212 Drug Action Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 BVB201 Biological Processes Campus Gardens Point Campus EXCHANGE and External Pre-requisites BVB101 or SCB112 Gardens Point External Credit Points 12 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point This unit provides you with an introduction to the Gardens Point Availabilities classification of bioactive compounds according to the - SEM-1 various physiological systems they influence, such as BSX124 Working in Business An understanding of processes which occur at the the cardiovascular system, nervous system and cellular level is fundamental to all aspects of biology. respiratory system. The principles of drug action will (Outbound Exchange) Using a combination of theoretical and laboratory- be discussed, including the concepts of drug Equivalents BSB124 based approaches to enquiry you will explore the specificity, potency and efficacy. These principles will biochemical pathways and processes that facilitate facilitate a basic understanding of toxicology, the Credit Points 12 biological function and the genetic mechanisms that development drug tolerance, addiction and Campus EXCHANGE and External control them. withdrawal. The unit will be taught in the context External human and veterinary medicine, as well as the use of Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 drugs in sport, as poisons, or as food or environmental contaminants. The unit complements BVB202 Experimental Design 'Drug Discovery and Design' offered in the same and Quantitative Methods semester. BSX126 Marketing (Outbound SEB113 or MAB101 or MAB141 or Pre-requisites Exchange) MXB101 Equivalents BSB126 Equivalents NQB421 BVB213 Marine and Freshwater Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Biology Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point External Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - SEM-1
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Gardens Point Availabilities fundamental evolutionary and ecological concepts in microorganisms in the context of the environment, - SEM-1 plant sciences. It aims to provide the basis for a agriculture and research. You will deepen your This unit provides an introduction to the science of conceptual framework and understanding of the understanding of the problems and challenges of marine and freshwater biology by providing an diversity of plants with a particular emphasis on the modern scientific inquiry using a range of overview of the diversity of aquatic species and an Australian flora and the development of plant multidisciplinary perspectives. This unit links to the examination of marine and freshwater ecosystems identification skills. It builds on foundational biology, work previously undertaken in BVB201 Biological and their different forms and extent. The unit chemistry or environmental science studies and Processes. highlights the multidisciplinary nature of aquatic contributes to study within the minor in Wildlife biology and identifies the properties of marine and Biology and other areas of plant science. freshwater systems that are important when considering their conservation and management. BVB311 Conservation Biology BVB301 Animal Biology Pre-requisites BVB204 Equivalents NQB622 Pre-requisites BVB101 Credit Points 12 BVB214 Vertebrate Life Credit Points 12 BVB101 or BVB102 or EVB102 or Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites Campus Gardens Point SCB112 Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents NQB423 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 The theory and practice of conservation biology is This advanced unit builds on Foundations of Biology essential for maintaining viable populations of rare, Campus Gardens Point and Evolution, to develop a deeper understanding of threatened or endangered species and for Gardens Point animal biology. Topics include an in-depth Availabilities maintaining essential ecosystem processes. In this - SEM-1 examination of animal diversity and the evolution of unit, students will synthesise a diverse range of physiological systems across animals (e.g. visual and information including high quality scientific literature, This unit examines the diversity and evolution of sensory systems, respiration, the immune system, vertebrates. There is a focus on field- and lab-based apply field skills in biodiversity monitoring and prepare nutrition and digestion). Tutorials and practicals will written reports that provide an incisive and decisive identification and understanding of Australian build on these broad areas with specialist case- vertebrates, set within the broader context of the analysis of key conservation issues. Specific modules studies in topics such as parasites, socio-biology, will train students to critically analyse the link, or lack global fauna, both extant and extinct. The unit microbial interactions and other topical areas. encompasses various aspects of vertebrate life on of, between theory and application in current planet earth: behaviour, phylogeny, physiology, conservation management approaches. morphology, taxonomy and management. BVB302 Applied Biology Pre-requisites BVB201 and BVB204 BVB312 Pest Management BVB221 Nature's Pharmacy Anti-requisites NQB601 Pre-requisites BVB204 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites NQB502 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Much of our current pharmacopia is derived from Conservation and restoration biology, aquaculture, - SEM-1 natural sources including plants, animals and biosecurity and biotechnology are just some areas Pest organisms can directly affect human health, bacteria. Using a collaborative approach in workshops where biologists put theory into practice. In this unit disrupt agriculture and negatively impact on the and the laboratory, you will investigate the sources, you will learn how theoretical knowledge gained in environment. Managing pest organisms in an uses and production of medicinally-active compounds previous units is applied to evaluate and solve key environmentally sensitive and economically of biological origin. problems in the biological sciences. Topics examined sustainable manner is a core component of the work will be linked to active research programmes. done by applied biologists and needs to be built on sound science. With a focus on food security systems, this unit will cover relevant aspects of theory BVB223 Insect Life and practice for sustainable pest management. BVB101 or BVB102 or EVB102 or BVB304 Integrative Biology Pre-requisites SCB112 Pre-requisites BVB202 and BVB203 and BVB301 Equivalents NQB322 Credit Points 12 BVB313 Population Genetics Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point and Molecular Ecology Availabilities Pre-requisites BVB201 and BVB204 Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-2 This Capstone unit requires you to think critically Equivalents NQB521 Anyone pursuing a career as an ecologist, about an important problem in biological sciences and Credit Points 12 to integrate the knowledge gained through earlier environmental biologist, or teacher must be familiar Campus Gardens Point with insects and have an appreciation of their units to provide an effective solution. You will conduct Gardens Point remarkable diversity, how they function and interact a research project, applying your knowledge of Availabilities - SEM-1 with their environment, and how to identify the major quantitative techniques and experimental design, to groups. The aim of this unit is to provide an overview answer a specific challenge. Through critical analysis Understanding the dispersal and movement of genes of insect life (and some of their closest relatives, e.g. and reflection on your work and that of your peers, in populations is fundamental to the management of the arachnids) as a basis for exploring the role of you will gain a deeper understanding of the scientific invasive species, the management of fisheries and these amazing creatures in both the natural and method and will become confident in applying it. The wild resources and the conservation of rare species. human-modified world. unit will provide a foundation for future Honours This unit will provide the theoretical and practical studies, or higher degree research. training required for practicing ecologists to use genetic techniques in theoretical and applied settings. The skills learnt in this unit will be further developed in BVB224 Plant Diversity BVB305 Microbiology and the later units of both the Genetics and Genomics and BVB101 or BVB102 or EVB102 or Applied Ecology minors. Pre-requisites SCB112 or LQB182 Environment Equivalents NQB323 Pre-requisites BVB201 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 BVB314 Genetics and Genomes Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites BVB102 and BVB201 Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point This unit provides you with an introduction to Microbiology and the Environment will explore fundamental principals in the biology and ecology of
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Gardens Point Equivalents ENB244 Availabilities BVB328 Applications in - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Biotechnology With the completion of genome projects for a number Campus Gardens Point of eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms, biological Pre-requisites BVB101 and BVB201 and BVB317 Gardens Point science is undergoing a major transition in our Credit Points 12 Availabilities understanding of genetics and genomes and how - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point they relate to the development of organisms, disease, This unit introduces you to the components inside a agricultural production and species diversity. This unit Gardens Point computer and how these components work together. Availabilities will introduce information and concepts on gene and - SEM-2 Modern digital electronic systems rely on embedded genome structure-function relationships and how this microcomputers in order to achieve the level of Biotechnology is the area of research and knowledge can be used in diverse areas of biological sophistication present in today's applications. The development using biological and cellular systems to science. This unit also introduces you to the use of design and development of such systems requires produce many kinds of products that are used in analytical tools for database mining, gene discovery knowledge of the hardware and software to program different applications during everyday household and genome exploration and through an integration of the system. This unit identifies these design living, at research institutions/organizations, as well theory and practical work an understanding of how requirements and lets you develop embedded as in different biotechnological companies and genes interact with each other, the environment and microcontroller-based system solutions. In particular, industries. Some specific examples of products and respond to external and internal stimuli. the unit · covers computer instruction sets and the applications in Biotechnology include the use of yeast binary representation of information; · explains the for dough rising (leavening) during bread making, relationship between high-level language programs, using yeast in the fermentation and production of assembly code and the basic structure and operation alcohol, use of filamentous fungi to produce enzymes BVB317 Principles of of digital computers; · describes the processes that that hydrolyse woody biomass to fermentable sugars, implement this relationship; · provides practical Biotechnology use of enzymes in laundry detergents, use of bacteria experience through laboratory exercises which Pre-requisites BVB201 or animal cell cultures to produce proteins/antibodies progressively expose features of a typical for diagnostic kits in disease monitoring and control, Credit Points 12 microprocessor; and · explains how an embedded application of genetic manipulation, recombinant gene computer can interact with its environment (through Campus Gardens Point technology and biochemical pathway engineering to the addition of I/O, sensors, actuators). The gives you obtain better producing/performing microorganisms Gardens Point a valuable foundation for further studies in areas such Availabilities and animal cell cultures, drought/disease resistant - SEM-1 as robotics and networking. and more nutritious plants, and much more. Biotechnology describes the use of biological organisms to make products or to solve problems of importance to society. It is anticipated that biotechnology will provide solutions to emerging BZB210 Biological Sciences CAB203 Discrete Structures Pre-requisites IFB104 challenges facing humanity including food security, Anti-requisites BVB101 pest and disease management, quality of life as well Equivalents INB250 as issues arising from climate change. This unit will Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 provide you with an understanding of the fundamental Campus Gardens Point principles that underpin biotechnology. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 Cells are the basic structural unit of life. They exist in BVB321 Invasion Ecology diverse forms from simple single-celled microbes to This unit introduces you to basic mathematical Pre-requisites BVB202 and BVB204 complex multicellular organisms such as plants and principles which underlie all computing systems, thus giving you a deeper appreciation for the way Credit Points 12 animals. In this unit you will investigate the diverse nature of cells and consider how they are built and computing technology works. All established Campus Gardens Point powered and how they interact and reproduce. You technological disciplines have a sound theoretical Gardens Point will extend these foundation concepts to examine foundation and Information Technology is no different. Availabilities - SEM-2 more complex problems involving molecular biology, Discrete Structures concerns the branches of plant and animal biology, and ecology. mathematics and the formalisms especially relevant Invasive species are globally recognised as a critical to Computer Science. It covers topics such as set challenge to biodiversity and food security. With a theory, relations and functions, formal logic, regular primary focus on invasive plants, animals and languages, finite-state automata and information pathogens, Invasion Ecology will cover a range of CAB201 Programming theory. These formalisms define the principles topics that will provide you with knowledge essential underlying programming language semantics, for the effective understanding and management of Principles relational database operators, secure digital invasive species in natural and human altered IFB104 or MZB126 or ENB246 or Pre-requisites communication, and so on. An understanding of these systems. MXB103 or INB104 or MAB220 topics gives you a deep appreciation for why Equivalents INB270, IND270 computer systems and languages are designed and work the way they do. This unit introduces each of Credit Points 12 these topics in separate modules, thus providing a BVB327 Comparative and Campus Gardens Point broad overview of the field. Evolutionary Genomics Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites BVB314 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit gives you a positive introduction to modern CAB210 People Context and Campus Gardens Point programming concepts and techniques. Although some theoretical aspects of programming are covered Technology Gardens Point Pre-requisites IFB103 or INB103 or INB182 Availabilities in lectures, the overall emphasis of the unit is to learn - SEM-2 programming concepts and related problem-solving Credit Points 12 strategies though an exploratory problem based Biological scientists are currently turning to genomic Campus Gardens Point approaches to improve agricultural practices, develop approach. Through this means, you will be building abstractions with procedures, data and objects, Gardens Point better drugs, understand the genetic basis of disease Availabilities and manage endangered or invasive species. This thereby designing, coding and debugging programs of - SEM-2 increasing complexity. The unit gives you the unit showcases variation in genomic structure and This unit develops a human-centred view of foundation for subsequent programming courses function across life. Students will use data from active technology and information systems. Individuals and within the Computer Science major. research programs to evaluate and analyse genomic groups interact with information, technology, and and phylogenetic datasets and see how this other people in a wide variety of information information can be applied to solve key problems in environments of increasing complexity. You will learn the biological sciences. CAB202 Microprocessors and to explore and model interactions from a variety of perspectives; cognitive, social, emotional, Digital Systems experiential, cultural, contextual and technological. (IFB104 and (IFB102 or INB102)) or You will learn to characterise users of technologies Pre-requisites ENB240 or MZB126 and to evaluate their interactions in order to understand their information, communication and learning behaviours. A variety of design techniques
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units will allow you to investigate and represent human industry. Motivated via a modern agile development Intelligence (AI) ranging from Intelligent Search experience of technologies and information systems process, you will be introduced to principles such as techniques to Machine Learning. It lays the at a variety of scales. unit testing, test driven development (TDD), version foundations for further studies in Games, Robotics, control and build management, using an industrial- Pattern Recognition, Information Retrieval, Data strength programming language and development Mining and Intelligent Web Agents. tools widely used in industry. The unit also introduces CAB230 Web Computing advanced aspects of object oriented programming Pre-requisites IFB104 relevant to large-scale program development and maintenance, and gives you practice in working with CAB330 Data and Web Equivalents INB271 important Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Analytics Credit Points 12 for data access and presentation. Some aspects of Pre-requisites CAB230 Campus Gardens Point large-scale program design are also introduced through concepts such as programming patterns and Equivalents INB342 Gardens Point Availabilities refactoring. - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 The World Wide Web has become our most important Campus Gardens Point computer system. However, designing software for Gardens Point Availabilities the web is rather different from designing for CAB303 Networks - SEM-2 standalone PC applications. The unit starts with the Pre-requisites CAB202 With every organisations housing massive data protocols and architecture of the Internet and World Equivalents INB251 sources, data analytics has become an increasingly Wide Web, including how search engines like Google popular way to turn an organization's data into useful work. After reviewing the latest W3C standards for Credit Points 12 information and knowledge about their customers and HTML5, Javascript and CSS, the unit moves to Campus Gardens Point business processes. Data analytics has direct designing web based user interfaces and to Gardens Point applications in social networks, information retrieval, programming web based applications. Issues covered Availabilities - SEM-2 business processes, search-engines, e-commerce, include client and server-side data validation, digital libraries, bioinformatics, web information authentication, authorization and combating security You will be introduced to the technical underpinnings systems and many other utilities. This unit covers the threats including SQL injection. The unit concentrates of computer networks. Computer networks are concepts of data and web analytics, both of which aim mostly on simple data driven applications, but essential to the activities of modern organisations and to improve decision making by discovering and contrasts these with more complex n-tier, MVC and daily life and are the basis of a wide range of making use of knowledge which might be found in AJAX based architectures. Beyond web applications, application systems, noticeably the Internet and the large databases and on the Web. the unit introduces web services and the move toward World Wide Web. You will be introduced to practical the cloud. and theoretical knowledge on a wide range of modern networking topics to be able to design, implement and maintain network-based applications. You will CAB340 Cryptography participate in practical networking exercises, and CAB240 Information Security design and develop a network device to provide Pre-requisites CAB203 or MXB102 Equivalents INB255 hands-on experience with network-based computing. Anti-requisites INB355 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point CAB310 Interaction and Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Experience Design - SEM-2 Information systems are increasingly used to store, Pre-requisites CAB210 Common information security goals are process and exchange information, with most sectors Credit Points 12 confidentiality, integrity and availability of stored or of the economy dependent on electronic and often transmitted information. Cryptography provides a rich automated information systems. Information systems Campus Gardens Point collection of tools that can be used to guarantee are vital, but also vulnerable. Information security is Gardens Point confidentiality (by encrypting private information), Availabilities about protecting information and the systems that - SEM-1 authentication and integrity of communicated use, store and transmit it. This unit provides an messages (by appending a massage authentication Human centred design is investigated from theoretical introduction to information security, from the code or a MAC). Cryptographic protocols can be used and practical perspectives. This unit extends on the perspective of an IT user, including how to identify to achieve specific security goals in multiuser fundamental human-centred view of technology to fundamental security issues with information systems environments. In this unit, you will learn about explore theories and design approaches for particular ranging from single-user systems to those of large symmetric-key cryptography and the adversarial kinds of interactions, relations and technologies. We multinational organisations. It considers both technical model used in private-key cryptography, You will will explore interactional stances (e.g. embodied and non-technical measures used to provide security study basic tools for cryptanalysis (such as linear and interaction, persuasive technology, game interaction, for information systems, and examines guidelines on differential attacks). You will investigate public-key mobile interaction), emerging human-technology best practice implementation of information security cryptography (PKC) and its basic security notions. relations (e.g. technology in developing countries, measures. You will learn about cryptographic protocols such as interaction with the internet of things, human-robot zero knowledge protocols, multiparty computation and interaction), and holistic service approaches (service secret sharing. design, experience design). Methods that respond to CAB302 Software Development the particular interaction/technology context are explored. Methods and philosophical perspectives on Pre-requisites CAB201 or INB270 engaging participation from stakeholders in design CAB402 Programming Equivalents INB370 are investigated. The co-evolution of interaction and Credit Points 12 technology is explored from a historical perspective to Paradigms inform and examine current and future human- Pre-requisites CAB201 and CAB203 Campus Gardens Point computer interaction approaches. Students will Credit Points 12 Gardens Point develop an innovative interaction/experience design Availabilities - SEM-1 and construct a theory of interaction that they will then Campus Gardens Point test. Gardens Point This unit teaches you how to advance your skills from Availabilities 'programming-in-the-small' to 'programming-in-the- - SEM-1 large' through the application of a sound software This advanced unit exposes you to special-purpose development process and appropriate tools and CAB320 Artificial Intelligence programming languages that operate under different techniques for development and maintenance of INB270 or CAB201 and (MZB151 or paradigms than the conventional "imperative" large-scale, long-lived software. Software Pre-requisites ENB246 or MZB126) languages you have used in the course so far. A Development introduces you to the processes and paradigm is a distinct set of concepts and pattern of practical techniques of professional application Credit Points 12 thinking. The way software developers think and development, providing a foundation for you to work Campus Gardens Point express themselves is profoundly influenced by the productively as part of a professional team in the programming paradigm that they adopt. A variety of Gardens Point workplace. Software Development uses large-scale Availabilities different programming paradigms have been - SEM-1 projects to introduce you to a modern software developed over the years, each with their own development process and the technologies that This unit introduces you to the basics of Artificial strengths and weaknesses. This unit will expose you support its effective and efficient application in
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units to new ways of thinking about and expressing mathematical ideas will be used to provide confidence Anti-requisites CLB005, CRB904 software solutions. It will explore advanced in this discipline. Relevant curriculum documents will Credit Points 12 programming language constructs, principles for the be used to develop knowledge and understanding of sound design of new languages and how they evolve. primary mathematics and mathematics education. Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove We take a look under the covers, and remove the Theories about teaching and learning mathematics Caboolture "magic" by exploring how high level programming will be introduced to assist students' development of - SEM-2 Availabilities languages are practically implemented and ultimately mathematics and ensure proficiency of basic Kelvin Grove executed as machine code on contemporary numeracy. This unit will prepare students to progress - SEM-2 hardware. The unit provides both a deep theoretical into deeper knowledge and understanding about This unit builds your knowledge and skills in teaching foundation for programming languages by abstracting mathematics curriculum and pedagogy in the early literacy and comprehension. The unit focuses them to basic mathematical forms as well as subsequent mathematics curriculum units: Primary on: (1) knowledge of the English language; (2) showcasing practical application of those advanced Mathematics Curriculum Studies 1 & 2. students' English development; and (3) pedagogy for principles for software development in the real world. subject English. It links to the work previously undertaken in EAB510 Early Childhood English CRB002 Science in Primary literacies and language 1 and prepares you for the second English curriculum unit EAB534. CAB403 Systems Programming Education CAB201 and CAB202 and (CAB302 Pre-requisites Credit Points 12 or INB370 or MZB126) Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites INN365 CRB008 Primary Mathematics Caboolture Equivalents INB365, ITB706, ITB745 - SEM-1 Curriculum Studies 1 Availabilities Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites CRB001 Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Anti-requisites CRB933 Gardens Point This introductory primary science unit focuses on Credit Points 12 Availabilities developing your science content knowledge for - SEM-2 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove teaching primary science, particularly in the areas of This unit gives you experience in programming at the biology, chemistry, physics and earth and space Caboolture level of a computer's operating system, as is needed - SEM-1 sciences. Skills and knowledge specific to primary Availabilities for IT system administration or to interface computer science will be developed through a context-based Kelvin Grove processors with peripheral hardware devices. approach. The unit develops a foundation for Primary - SEM-1 Systems programming is one of the many Science Curriculum Studies and introduces you to specialisations of software development and This unit extends from the introductory unit content and pedagogy required for initial practical "Mathematics in Primary Education" to further develop maintenance. It concerns software that works at the teaching experiences. level of the computer's physical architecture. This unit your knowledge, skills and applications that focus on introduces some of the principles and practices the teaching of numbers and measurement. Specific associated with writing programs that operate at such contents include the investigation of teaching a low level of abstraction. It builds on the knowledge CRB003 Humanities and Social methods for (i) concepts and skills for whole number, you have already acquired about general applications common fractions and decimal fractions, (ii) software development and computer architectures. Sciences Curriculum Studies 1: conceptual understanding and procedural methods for each of the four operations and (iii) the teaching of History and Civics measurement (length, mass, capacity, time, and Anti-requisites CLB008, CRB906, EAB013 area), with or without the use of technology. CAB432 Cloud Computing Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites CAB302 Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus Equivalents INB356 External CRB009 Primary Mathematics Credit Points 12 Caboolture Curriculum Studies 2 - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites CRB001 Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents CRB934, MDB003 - SEM-2 External Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Cloud Computing is among the most important Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove developments in the IT industry in recent years, and This unit introduces key concepts, content and skills one which has received enormous, and at times ill- that are the foundation of history education in the Caboolture - SEM-2 informed, media attention. In many respects, Cloud early childhood and primary years. The unit Availabilities may be seen as a natural progression from earlier distinguishes young children as competent, proactive Kelvin Grove trends in service and infrastructure outsourcing and learners who can develop and experience - SEM-2 virtualisation, but it differs in the essential perspectives about the past. Building on this Mathematics Curriculum Studies 2 develops essential characteristic of elasticity: service and infrastructure understanding, early years and primary school mathematical knowledge and skills in the teaching of provisioning is scalable in response to variations in students investigate and explore challenging topics in geometry, statistics, probability, and early algebra in demand, allowing clients to cater for unexpected social and cultural education to enable them to primary school. The unit focuses on the development spikes in load without tying up capital in expensive become critical thinkers and active and informed of conceptual understanding and related skills in and potentially underutilised assets. This unit provides citizens. As such, educators in the early childhood these strands. Approaches for assessment and an advanced-level overview of the most important and primary years engage with children, families and provisions for differentiation related to these content issues in the field, enabling you to understand the communities that help them understand the role of strands are also studied in this unit. environment and the business and technical trade- history, civics and citizenship in society. Such offs at its heart. knowledge develops an informed and critical understanding of the past with a view to better understanding of the present and indeed the future. CRB010 Primary Science This unit will develop your knowledge of concepts, CRB001 Mathematics in content and skills in relevant curriculum documents Curriculum Studies Primary Education and prepare you with the pedagogy to teach history in Pre-requisites CRB002 early childhood and primary school settings. This unit Anti-requisites CRB901, MDB001 Anti-requisites CRB937 to be undertaken in your second year will complement Credit Points 12 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum Studies Credit Points 12 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove 2: Geography and Civics in third year. Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Caboolture Caboolture - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove CRB005 Primary English Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Curriculum Studies 1 Becoming scientifically literate contributes to learners' In this unit students will investigate the role of Pre-requisites CLB004 or EAB510 mathematics in cultural and educational contexts. capabilities with the skills and knowledge to inquire These settings as well as the development of systematically about the environment. This unit builds
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units upon a prerequisite unit (CRB002 Science in Primary Credit Points 12 Education), which involved understanding Campus Kelvin Grove fundamental scientific knowledge for teaching in Kelvin Grove Australian primary schools. In CRB010 Primary CRB040 Learning Science Availabilities science curriculum studies, students have an Through Teaching - SEM-2 opportunity to develop an innovative primary science Credit Points 12 This unit will develop an understanding of matters unit of work with a focus on facilitating primary pertinent to the evolution of nationalism in Europe in students' scientific skills and abilities. Importantly, Campus Kelvin Grove the modern era. This will include the influence of there is an opportunity for students to teach primary Kelvin Grove social movements and cultural and economic issues. Availabilities science to their peers, as a building block experience - SEM-2 towards becoming competent primary teachers. This unit provides an opportunity for students to identify and develop their potential as educators and CRB109 World Regions communicators of science and mathematics. Students Equivalents CLB109 CRB021 Middle Years and will develop insights into the processes that drive Vocational Math Curriculum people's thinking, learning and communication about Credit Points 12 science and mathematics. They will consolidate their Campus Kelvin Grove Studies 2 own understanding of scientific or mathematical concepts through the planning process and build their Kelvin Grove CRB923 or CRB933 or MDB021 or Availabilities Pre-requisites confidence in presenting to others in a variety of - SEM-1 MDB002 or EAB027 formats. The unit can be taken as a single elective or This unit offers an introductory geographical overview Equivalents MDB453 as the initial unit in the Science and Mathematics of global regions. This is an excellent basis from Credit Points 12 Education minor. which to develop an understanding of complex interrelationships between regions and nations. The Campus Kelvin Grove integrated knowledge gained is of current and Kelvin Grove Availabilities practical value to professionals in many fields - SEM-2 CRB103 Interpreting the Past requiring a knowledge of international affairs including Equivalents CLB103, HHB121 This unit assists students to develop a deeper teachers, planners, journalists, business managers understanding of mathematical content applicable to Credit Points 12 travellers and people in general. the middle school and the ways that the content may Campus Kelvin Grove be integrated into other key learning areas. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 CRB110 Environment and For the purposes of this unit, 'history' will be taken to Society CRB031 Excursions in mean a set of practices developed by professional Equivalents CLB110 historians to produce knowledge about the past. The Mathematical Reasoning Credit Points 12 Equivalents MDB349 study of these practices promotes understandings of how historians set about their work, the rules that Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 govern their methods, the reliability of historical Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove knowledge and the value of history socially and - SEM-2 culturally. Kelvin Grove Availabilities People and nature interact to create distinctive and - SEM-1 dynamic places and landscapes. Applied geography, This unit includes the following: the concept of with its integrating perspective and skills-base, helps thinking and intelligence; the nature of mathematical CRB106 China since the Qin us to understand this. The discipline hence addresses thinking during the first half of this century; modern Dynasty some of our most pressing social and environmental ideas on the nature of mathematical thinking; the problems. Geography objectively views human Equivalents CLB106, HHB246 thinking skills movement and programs designed to activities, natural systems and their inter-relationships foster thinking; analysis of children's thinking in Credit Points 12 in terms of consequent spatial patterns and impacts on landscapes, regions and places. solving mathematical problems; analysis of students' Campus Kelvin Grove 'everyday cognition' together with their thinking in Kelvin Grove mathematical situations. Availabilities - SEM-1 CRB111 Environmental Hazards The unit provides students with the knowledge of how Equivalents CLB111 China, formerly a Dynastic Empire, was CRB032 Numeracy in Games of disempowered by Western Imperialism, only to obtain Credit Points 12 Skill and Chance independence through the governmental embrace of Campus Kelvin Grove Communism. The role of powerful individuals in Equivalents MDB388 Kelvin Grove determining China's destiny, and an understanding of Availabilities Credit Points 12 how the country's fortunes changed over time are - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove additional features of the content. This unit takes a geographical perspective to Kelvin Grove investigate the characteristics and distribution of Availabilities - SEM-1 environmental hazards, patterns of risk and vulnerability, and how people perceive, manage and This unit considers the development of probabilistic CRB107 The Classical World adjust to hazardous environments. ideas and concepts through the playing and analysis Equivalents CLB107, HHB257 of games of change and skill. Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove CRB112 Asia in Focus Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLB112 CRB033 Earth and Space Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Equivalents MDB391 The aim of this unit is to endeavour to Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 explain/understand particular societies and their Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove transition in the Classical World, by focusing attention Availabilities on selected periods, aspects and individuals - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities pertaining to ancient Greece and Rome. - SEM-1 Australia's interaction with Asia, including our most populous nearest neighbour, Indonesia, continues to This unit examines scientific concepts in important increase in significance. This unit examines aspects areas of space, time and motion, the origin and of Asian geography, environment, society and culture, history of earth and its environments, and light and CRB108 Nations and in a contemporary framework. optics. Scientific principles and techniques for Nationalism in Modern Europe observing space and earth phenomena are Equivalents CLB108, HHB260 investigated.
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CRB113 Australian Credit Points 12 CRB215 Science Curriculum Campus Kelvin Grove Geographical Studies Studies 1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Equivalents CLB113 - SEM-1 Equivalents CRB930, MDB031 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 This first English curriculum studies unit for secondary Campus Kelvin Grove education offers a specific focus and professional Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove application of studies you have undertaken in your Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 discipline and core education units. This unit - SEM-1 consequently assumes knowledge of English texts Australia faces challenging problems and changes in appropriate for secondary students, and contextual This unit is the introductory curriculum unit in your relation to its changing population, socio-economic issues of education and schooling, adolescent major teaching area of science focussing on teaching development and environmental sustainability. Many learning development, from prior core Education units practices and planning processes in junior science of these problems, relating to land-use and settlement and supports the core unit on creating positive (years 7-10). Skills and knowledge specific to science patterns, migration trends, resource and hazard learning environments for all students. English teaching and learning will be developed. The unit distribution, regional socio-economic structure, Curriculum Studies 1 occurs in the second year of develops a foundation for science curriculum 2 or remoteness and accessibility etc, have a geographical your Education course, because it builds foundational intermediate science curriculum studies and equips basis. The aim is to describe and analyse, Australia's knowledge, understanding and skills gained from you for your first practical teaching experience. natural and social landscapes, their interaction, and discipline units and prepares you for your first Field the changes occurring in them from a geographical Experience. perspective. CRB250 Australian Society and CRB204 Mathematics Culture CRB114 Geography in the Field Equivalents CLB101, HHB106, HHB108 Curriculum Studies 1 Equivalents CLB114 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Australian Society and Culture combines literary and This unit introduces the principles and pedagogies of cultural studies, political analysis and history. It The unit builds upon the geography program to mathematics teaching used in secondary school provides a context through which students can develop advanced understanding of social science mathematics classrooms. The unit explores acquire knowledge about Australian institutions and research approaches and information mathematics curricula typically encountered in traditions, particularly since 1901. capture/analysis. This provides a foundation in Queensland secondary schools. The foundations of research and project design, relevant to a wide range mathematics teaching developed in this unit will be of professions. You will develop skills in the further deepened in the following mathematics preparation of project grant applications and in curriculum studies unit(s). CRB443 Grammar in the presenting a research plan orally. Classroom: Theories and CRB208 History Curriculum Pedagogies CRB115 Medieval Europe and Equivalents CLB446 Studies 1 Credit Points 12 the World Anti-requisites CLB054, CRB924 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Over the past twenty years, linguistic studies have - SEM-1 increasingly informed the development of language This unit traces in broad outline the evolution of curriculum, the assessment of language, and the Europe from the barbarian invasions of the fifth This is the first of two complementary units in History processes of language and literacy learning in century, through the Carolingian period and the Curriculum designed to prepare you for a professional schools. Over the same time the need for teachers to Crusades, to the centuries usually defined as the High role as a teacher of secondary school history. In this have systematic knowledge of language and how it Middle Ages. On a thematic level, the unit selectively first unit, the focus is on curriculum development and works has been recognised. In much of Australia this examines topics concerned with political, religious teaching approaches in history. Key concepts, systematic approach to describing language comes and intellectual developments, along with the cultural content, skills and recent developments that are the principally from the systemic functional school of history of Medieval Europe. The students will develop foundations of history education within the Australian linguistics. This unit provides an organised, an understanding of how events and forces have Curriculum History: 7 -10 are examined. An inquiry contextualised introduction to that linguistic model contributed to societal, political and cultural change in approach is utilised to emphasise the importance of through workshop sessions involving the writing and Europe in Medieval times. engaging with evidence about the past as the basis for the development of historical understanding. reading of a range of print based and multimodal texts. In this unit, students will learn to critically evaluate texts, their purposes and the language CRB116 The Classical World 2 resources employed by writers and text designers. CRB212 Geography Curriculum Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Studies 1 Anti-requisites CLB054, CRB924 Kelvin Grove CRB905 Learning Literacy by Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Design The unit explores the emergence of the civilizations of Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites CRB005 or CLB006 Egypt, the Near East and India, and introduces some Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLB007 Availabilities of the key cultural, social, political, economic and - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 intellectual developments across the first millennia of recorded history in this region. CRB116 is a core This unit introduces the knowledge and skills needed Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove discipline unit in the History major in ED59 Bachelor for teaching geography. The unit focuses on using the geographical inquiry approach to examine the various Caboolture of Education (Secondary). - SEM-1 topics as outlined in the Australian Curriculum: Availabilities Geography. It is the first unit in three relating to Kelvin Grove Humanities and Social Science and specifically - SEM-1 CRB200 English Curriculum prepares teachers for teaching in the lower secondary The aim of this unit is to provide you with knowledge school. and skills for teaching writing and developing units in Studies 1 the learning area of English.You will look at writing Anti-requisites CLB018, CRB909 development and learn how to plan and teach writing and the production of digital texts. You will look at the
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units relation between reading and writing in units. Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 CRB907 Accounting and This unit provides opportunities to develop a theorized This unit provides opportunities to develop an understanding of the Queensland English Syllabus for understanding of teaching and learning in Geography Business Management Years 11 and 12, Senior English Communication and Studies of Society and Environment. Curriculum Studies 2 (SAS) and the Senior English Extension (Literature) Syllabus, and to implement this understanding by Pre-requisites CRB920 or CLB051 analysing and developing senior English programs, Equivalents CLB010 teaching and assessment strategies that are CRB916 History Curriculum Credit Points 12 appropriate for the needs and interests of diverse Studies 2 learners in particular sociocultural contexts. Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites CRB924 or CLB054 Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLB031 Availabilities - SEM-2 CRB912 Film and Media Credit Points 12 This unit is the second in a suite of three Campus Kelvin Grove complementary units which can be undertaken in Curriculum Studies 1 Kelvin Grove Business Education. It has been designed to expand Equivalents CLB024 Availabilities on previous planning and teaching strategies with a - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 major focus on assessment. Students will examine This unit provides opportunities to develop an the QSA Senior Accounting and Business Campus Kelvin Grove understanding of teaching and learning in History and Organisation and Management Syllabi to understand Kelvin Grove Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE). Availabilities mandatory aspects of each syllabus. This unit will - SEM-1 prepare students for their professional role as a teacher of secondary business education subjects, in This unit is designed to develop competencies particular, Accounting and Business Organisation and needed for planning and teaching in junior secondary CRB917 Biology Curriculum Management. Media (Years 8-10). Students will be introduced to the current curricular directions and frameworks for junior Studies 2 media (1-10) and its applications across the Pre-requisites CRB930 or MDB031 curriculum. The unit will build on the understandings Equivalents MDB010 CRB908 Business and skills students developed in the unit Teaching Communication and and Learning Studies I and II and relate also to Field Credit Points 12 Studies I. This should assist in preparing students for Campus Kelvin Grove the further Field Studies components of the course. Technologies Curriculum Kelvin Grove Availabilities Studies 2 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites CRB920 or CLB051 This unit provides an opportunity to develop as an Equivalents CLB013 CRB913 Film and Media learner-centred teacher who can plan to meet the Curriculum Studies 2 needs of individual students in a varied, stimulating Credit Points 12 and safe environment. Pre-requisites CRB912 or CLB024 Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLB025 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 CRB918 Legal Studies This unit is the second in a suite of three Campus Kelvin Grove Curriculum Studies 2 complementary units which can be undertaken in Kelvin Grove Availabilities CRB924 or CRB920 or CLB051 or Business Education. It has been designed to expand - SEM-2 Pre-requisites on previous planning and teaching strategies with a CLB054 This unit allows students to apply theoretical major focus on assessment. Students will examine Equivalents CLB034 the QSA Senior BCT Syllabus to understand knowledge of the curriculum and their Film and Media Credit Points 12 mandatory aspects of the syllabus and will prepare discipline units to senior secondary contexts. The unit students for their professional role as a teacher of offers the opportunity to develop research and Campus Kelvin Grove presentation skills by formally researching and secondary business education subjects, in particular, Kelvin Grove BCT. discussing the teaching implications of a number of Availabilities current topics in film and media education. - SEM-2 The second of three complementary units in Legal Studies Curriculum. Units are designed to help CRB910 English Curriculum prepare students for a professional role as a teacher CRB914 Film and Media Studies 2 of secondary school Senior Legal Studies, and also to Curriculum Studies 3 prepare them to teach in lower secondary subjects Pre-requisites CRB909 or CLB018 which are law-related, particularly the Civics syllabus Pre-requisites CRB913 or CLB025 Equivalents CLB019 of SOSE. Equivalents CLB026 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove CRB919 Chemistry Curriculum Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities Studies 2 - SEM-1 This unit provides an opportunity to develop a Pre-requisites CRB930 or MDB031 This unit introduces you to principles and practices theorized understanding of the Queensland English Equivalents MDB013 Syllabus for Years 1-10 and to implement this related to (i) video and media production from pre to Credit Points 12 understanding by developing lessons and curriculum post production (ii) secondary school media units that are appropriate for the needs and interests production and the challenges students face (iii) Campus Kelvin Grove strategies for successful group collaborative learning of diverse learners in a range of sociocultural Kelvin Grove and project work. Availabilities contexts. - SEM-2 This unit encourages students to develop as a learner-centred teacher who can plan to meet the CRB911 English Curriculum CRB915 Geography Curriculum needs of individual students in a varied, stimulating Studies 2 and safe environment. Students also develop a Studies 3 critically reflective orientation to their teaching Pre-requisites CRB924 or CLB054 Pre-requisites CRB910 or CLB019 experiences. Equivalents CLB020 Equivalents CLB028 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12
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CRB921 Earth Science CRB926 Social Education CRB931 Science Education Curriculum Studies 2 Curriculum Studies 3 Curriculum Studies 3 Pre-requisites CRB930 or MDB031 CRB916 or CRB915 or CRB918 or CRB917 or CRB919 or CRB921 or Pre-requisites CRB938 or CLB031 or CLB028 or CRB928 or CRB929 or MDB010 or Equivalents MDB019 Pre-requisites CLB034 or CLB040 MDB013 or MDB019 or MDB025 or Credit Points 12 Equivalents CLB056 MDB028 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Equivalents MDB033 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove This unit encourages students to develop as a Availabilities - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove learner-centred teacher who can plan to meet the Availabilities - SEM-1 needs of individual students in a varied, stimulating This is the third of three complementary units in and safe environment. Students develop a critically Social Education curriculum. The aim of this unit is to This unit is to provide opportunities for you to develop reflective orientation to their teaching experiences. provide you with opportunities to develop an an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of a understanding of the ways in which new policies and selection of strategies and resources used in the initiatives have impacted on teaching and learning in teaching of science. social sciences and specific discipline studies in the CRB922 Business Education senior school. Curriculum Studies 3 CRB934 Teaching Primary CRB907 or CRB908 or CRB918 or Pre-requisites CLB010 or CLB013 or CLB034 CRB927 Mathematics Mathematics 2 Equivalents CLB053 Curriculum Studies 3 Pre-requisites CRB933 or MDB002 Equivalents MDB003 Credit Points 12 CRB925 or CRB021 or MDB022 or MDB453. (CRB925 or CRB021) can Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Availabilities period as CRB927 - SEM-1 Caboolture Equivalents MDB023 - SEM-2 This unit, the final of three complementary units in the Availabilities Kelvin Grove teaching of Business and ICT Education, will develop Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 further your professional knowledge and skills as a Campus Kelvin Grove learner-focused educator and skilled curriculum This unit investigates new ideas in the teaching and Kelvin Grove developer. The unit explores relevant issues, Availabilities learning of space and shape, chance and data, and - SEM-1 pedagogy and professional requirements essential for pre-algebra. Students study the development of teachers of Business and ICT Education in the This unit extends students' knowledge and conceptual understanding of the above topic areas twenty-first century classroom. understanding of mathematics curriculum with an with a particular emphasis on understanding the 'big' emphasis on catering for the range of students mathematical ideas and principles behind these engaged in secondary education, inclusive practices topics. and diagnosis of mathematical learning difficulties. CRB924 Social Education Curriculum Studies 1 CRB935 Teaching Primary ICT Equivalents CLB054 CRB928 Physics Curriculum Equivalents MDB004 Credit Points 12 Studies 2 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites CRB930 or MDB031 Campus Kelvin Grove and Caboolture Kelvin Grove Availabilities Equivalents MDB025 Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 - 6TP4, SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities This is the first of three complementary units in Social Caboolture Campus Kelvin Grove Education curriculum aimed at preparing you to teach - SEM-1 Social Science subjects in the lower secondary Kelvin Grove Availabilities Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) school. This unit focuses on recent developments - SEM-2 play a significant role in contemporary society and within the curriculum area of social education, with This unit provide an opportunity for students to therefore technological literacy is increasingly being particular reference to the field of Studies of Society develop as a learner-centred teacher who can plan to seen as an essential part of education. This form of and Environment (SOSE) - a national Key Learning meet the needs of individual students in a varied, literacy involves the ability to create, use, manage Area. It explores the theoretical context for these stimulating and safe environment. Student develop a and understand ICT in a range of contexts. In curriculum areas, and places emphasis on the links critically reflective orientation to their teaching addition, new networked technologies have brought between theory and practice. experiences. about the potential for expanding learning opportunities. These necessitate the re-examination of effective learning and teaching principles, the role CRB925 Mathematics of the learner, the role of the teacher, creating CRB929 Science Curriculum worthwhile partnerships and the use of ICT within the Curriculum Studies 2 Studies 2 learning situation. Pre-requisites CRB923 or MDB021 Pre-requisites CRB930 or MDB031 Equivalents MDB022 Equivalents MDB028 CRB936 Teaching Primary Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Design and Technology Equivalents MDB005 Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit develops students' understanding of the This unit encourages students to develop as a Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove school mathematics curriculum and extends their learner-centred teacher who can plan to meet the Caboolture knowledge and understanding of inclusive learner- needs of individual students in a varied, stimulating - SEM-1 focused approaches to mathematics curriculum Availabilities and safe environment. Students develop a critically Kelvin Grove development. reflective orientation to their teaching experiences. - SEM-1 This unit is designed for students to explore content, pedagogical content knowledge and pedagogies important in design and technology education.
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Secondary Business and ICT Education.
CRB938 Social Science CRN653 Primary Mathematics Curriculum Studies 2 Curriculum Studies 2 CRP403 Business Education Pre-requisites CRB924 or CLB054 Pre-requisites CRN652 Curriculum Studies 2 (Business Equivalents CLB040 Credit Points 12 Communication and Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Technology) Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities CRP402 or CLP402. CRP402 can Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Availabilities - SEM-2 This unit develops essential mathematical skills and period as CRP403 This unit involves translating the syllabuses into knowledge in the teaching of geometry, statistics, Equivalents CLP403 modules or units of work, as well as placing an probability, and early algebra in primary school. The Credit Points 12 unit focuses on the development of conceptual emphasis on assessment principles in Social Science. Campus External Students will also be involved in the development of understanding and related skills in these strands. Problem solving and posing are employed as the External advanced teaching strategies. Availabilities overarching strategy to connect and integrate these - SEM-1 mathematical strands. The unit also investigates approaches for assessment and provisions for This unit is the second in a suite of three CRN600 Youth, Popular differentiation related to the content strands that are complementary units which can be undertaken in studied. Business Education. It has been designed to expand Culture, and Texts on previous planning and teaching strategies with a Equivalents CLN647 major focus on assessment. Students will examine the QSA Senior BCT Syllabus to understand Credit Points 12 CRP400 Middle Years: mandatory aspects of the syllabus and will prepare Campus External students for their professional role as a teacher of Multiliteracies secondary business education subjects, in particular, External Availabilities Equivalents CLP400 BCT. - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 In the diverse terrain of popular culture, youth find the resources and means for identity formation, social Campus External relations and pleasure, and develop develop a range External CRP404 Business Education Availabilities of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes. Educators - SEM-1 Curriculum Studies 2 need to understand the ways popular cultural texts (literary, mass media, computer-based and digital) This unit provides students with the opportunity to (Accounting and Business form the cultural capital of youth and give meaning to develop concepts of themselves as life-long learners their lived experiences. and to demonstrate capacities as effective Management) communicators across media through engagement CRP402 or CLP402. CRP402 can with critical and socio-cultural principles of language Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching and literacy education. The unit models curriculum period as CRP404 development principles, inclusivity and reflective CRN650 Primary English, Equivalents CLP404 practices that involve problem-based learning. Literacies and Language Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Campus Kelvin Grove External CRP401 Middle Years: Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Transdisciplinary Arts and - SEM-1 This unit is the second in a suite of three This unit provides foundation understandings, skills SOSE complementary units which can be undertaken in and processes for studying English and literacies in Equivalents CLP401 Business Education. It has been designed to expand Primary English Curriculum. The unit focuses on Credit Points 12 on previous planning and teaching strategies with a developing your knowledge, skills and application for major focus on assessment. Students will examine teaching English curriculum and literacy, including the Campus External the QSA Senior Accounting and Business teaching of phonics, spelling, vocabulary, speaking External Organisation and Management Syllabi to understand Availabilities and listening, and reading. It also addresses - SEM-2 mandatory aspects of each syllabus. This unit will strategies for assessing these aspects of literacy. It prepare students for their professional role as a This unit aims to enhance students' understanding of supports the development of understandings that will teacher of secondary business education subjects, in the nature of SOSE and the Arts as curriculum areas be crucial for your future studies of writing, particular, Accounting and Business Organisation and and to highlight the advantages of bringing these handwriting, grammar, and multimodal design in Management. areas of learning together. It also aims to provide the Primary English Curriculum Studies. The unit provides opportunity to engage with the relevant syllabus and a space for you to build informed opinions about curriculum documents by translating goals and important issues and to practice articulating these outcomes into innovative middle-years teaching units. opinions professionally and confidently. CRP405 Legal Studies Education Curriculum Studies CRP402 or CRP410 or CLP402 or CRP402 Business Education CLP414. (CRP402 or CRP410) can CRN652 Primary Mathematics Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Curriculum Studies 1 Curriculum Studies 1 period as CRP405 Equivalents CLP402 Credit Points 12 Equivalents CLP406 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Campus External Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1 External Availabilities - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove This unit focuses on the development of your - SEM-2 Availabilities knowledge, skills and applications that focus on the This is the first of three complementary units in the External teaching of numbers and measurement. Specific teaching of Business Education. The three units have - SEM-1 content includes the investigation of teaching been designed to help prepare you for a professional methods for (i) concepts and skills for whole number, role as a teacher of lower and senior secondary This unit is the second in a suite of three common fractions and decimal fractions, (ii) school Business Education subjects (Accounting complementary units which can be undertaken in conceptual understanding and procedural methods for Business Management, Business Communication either the Business Education or Social Education each of the four operations and (iii) the teaching of Technologies, Economics, Legal Studies, and ICT. In streams. It has been designed to expand on previous measurement (length, mass, capacity, time, and this first unit, the focus will be on curriculum planning and teaching strategies with a major focus area), with or without the use of technology. development and teaching approaches in Lower on assessment. Students will examine the QSA Legal
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Studies Syllabus to understand mandatory aspects of period as CRP409 CRP412 Social Education the syllabus. This unit will prepare students for their Equivalents CLP410 professional role as a teacher of secondary Legal Curriculum Studies 2 (History) Credit Points 12 Studies. CRP410 or CLP414. CRP410 can Campus Kelvin Grove and External Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Kelvin Grove period as CRP412 - SEM-1, SEM-2 CRP406 Business Education Availabilities Equivalents CLP416 External Curriculum Studies 3 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External CRP403 or CRP404 or CRP405 or In this unit, you will develop and implement your CLP403 or CLP404 or CLP406 or understanding of the range of disciplinary approaches Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites MDP455. (CRP403 or CRP404 or (such as Literary and Cultural Studies, Film and - SEM-2 Availabilities CRP405) can be enrolled in the Media Studies, and sociolinguistics) which contribute External same teaching period as CRP406 to senior secondary English curriculum and - SEM-2 pedagogy. The policy context is the Queensland Equivalents CLP407 This is the second of three complementary units in English Syllabus for Years 11 and 12, Senior English Credit Points 12 Social Education curriculum designed to prepare you Communication (SAS), the Senior English Extension for a professional role as a teacher in the learning Campus Kelvin Grove and External (Literature) Syllabus, and school to work transition area of Humanities and Social Sciences in the programs. There will be a gradual transition to the Kelvin Grove secondary school. This unit builds on the focus of Australian Curriculum Senior years as the state - SEM-1 your first curriculum studies unit and extends your Availabilities moves to this framework (post 2018). You will learn to External knowledge and understanding by exploring the nature evaluate and develop English work programs for a - SEM-2 of history, historical inquiry and theories that influence wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse approaches to teaching history. This unit, the final of three complementary units in the students in the post-compulsory years. teaching of Business and ICT Education, will develop further your professional knowledge and skills as a learner-focused educator and skilled curriculum developer. The unit explores relevant issues, CRP410 Social Education CRP413 Social Education pedagogy and professional requirements essential for Curriculum Studies 2 (Senior teachers of Business and ICT Education in the Curriculum Studies 1 twenty-first century classroom. Equivalents CLP414 Social Science) Credit Points 12 CRP410 or CLP414. CRP410 can Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Campus Kelvin Grove and External period as CRP413 CRP407 English Education Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLP417 - SEM-1 Curriculum Studies 1 Availabilities External Credit Points 12 Equivalents CLP408 - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Credit Points 12 This is the first of three complementary units in Social Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External Education curriculum aimed at preparing you to teach - SEM-2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove Social Science subjects in the lower secondary External - SEM-1 school. This unit focuses on recent developments - SEM-2 Availabilities within the curriculum area of social education, with External This is the second in a suite of three complementary particular reference to the subjects in the learning - SEM-1 units which are undertaken in the Social Education area of Humanities and Social Sciences, a key priority Stream. This unit has been designed to prepare you This unit offers an introduction to English teaching in in the Australian Curriculum. It explores the for a professional role as a teacher of secondary secondary schools, providing an indispensable theoretical context for these curriculum areas, and school Senior Social Science subjects. The aim of this foundation for subsequent English Curriculum places emphasis on the links between theory and unit is to provide you with opportunities to develop an Studies. You will develop an understanding of practice. language learners and their diverse needs, and of the understanding of teaching and learning and theories of language and texts which underpin assessment in the social sciences within the senior secondary English curriculum and pedagogy and secondary school. which condition students' learning within English CRP411 Social Education classrooms. Curriculum Studies 2 CRP414 Social Education (Geography) Curriculum Studies 3 CRP408 English Education CRP410 or CLP414. CRP410 can Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching CRP405 or CRP411 or CRP412 or Curriculum Studies 2 period as CRP411 CRP413 or CLP406 or CLP415 or CLP416 or CLP417. (CRP405 or Equivalents CLP409 Equivalents CLP415 Pre-requisites CRP411 or CRP412 or CRP413) Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 can be enrolled in the same Campus Kelvin Grove and External Campus Kelvin Grove and External teaching period as CRP414 Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLP418 - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities Availabilities Credit Points 12 External External Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove This unit aims to provide you with opportunities to This is the second of three complementary units to be - SEM-1, SEM-2 develop a critical understanding of the theories and Availabilities taken in the Social Education stream. This unit has External principles which inform the Australian Curriculum: been designed specifically to prepare you for a - SEM-2 English Framework for Years 7-10 and to implement professional role as a teacher of geography in the this understanding by developing junior secondary years of secondary school. It will build on the planning This is the third of three complementary units in curriculum units and lessons which are appropriate for and teaching strategies developed in your first Social Education curriculum. The aim of this unit is to the needs and interests of diverse learners in a range curriculum studies unit. In this second curriculum unit provide you with opportunities to develop an of sociocultural contexts. you will explore in depth theories that influence understanding of the ways in which new policies and approaches to teaching in geography and ways of initiatives have impacted on teaching and learning in catering for diversity in the classroom. the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Australian Curriculum and in specific discipline studies in the CRP409 English Education senior school. Curriculum Studies 3 CRP408 or CLP409. CRP408 can Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching
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challenges students face, and (iii) strategies for principles and pedagogies of mathematics teaching CRP415 Social Education successful group collaborative learning and project used in secondary school mathematics classrooms. Curriculum - Senior History work. The unit further explores mathematics curricula Equivalents CLP419 typically encountered in Queensland secondary schools, and considers the design and Credit Points 12 implementation of mathematics curriculum at the Campus External CRP421 Middle Years: senior-school level. External Mathematical Understandings Availabilities - SEM-1 Equivalents MDP452 The aim of this elective unit is to provide you with Credit Points 12 CRP425 Mathematics Education opportunities to develop an understanding of teaching Campus External Curriculum Studies 3 and learning in history. You will investigate how External CRP424 or MDP457. CRP424 can learning through historical inquiry develops specific Availabilities historical understandings and skills that are the - SEM-1 Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching period as CRP425 foundations for historical literacy. This unit provides This unit will provide the content knowledge and opportunities for you to critique how recent pedagogical strategies to promote mathematical Equivalents MDP458 developments in historical education are impacting development (both cognitive and social) in the middle Credit Points 12 upon curriculum development and teaching phase of learning. The unit will provide a theoretical Campus Kelvin Grove and External approaches in Senior Ancient and/or Senior Modern framework and the opportunity to participate in History. collaborative problem tasks. There will be a focus on Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 students developing a broader range of thinking and Availabilities reasoning processes as they work with the External CRP416 Film and Media mathematical content. Students will be encouraged to - SEM-2 critically evaluate ideas, reflect on their learning and This unit extends your knowledge and understanding Education Curriculum Studies 1 freely express personal viewpoints. of mathematics curriculum with an emphasis on Equivalents CLP422 promoting the life-related application of mathematics Credit Points 12 and on inclusive practices that cater for the range of students engaged in secondary education. Campus Kelvin Grove CRP422 Middle Years: Kelvin Grove Transdisciplinary Science and Availabilities - SEM-1 Technology CRP426 Science Education The aim of this unit is to provide you with principles Equivalents MDP453 and practices about (i) the nature of Media Arts Curriculum Studies 1 Credit Points 12 Curriculum in specific discipline areas and across the Equivalents MDP459 Campus External curriculum (ii) how lower secondary students learn Credit Points 12 about Media Arts, and the curriculum documents that External Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External are used to support this, and (iii) how to provide - SEM-2 quality planned experiences and supportive Kelvin Grove environments for learning. This unit aims to develop the skills and - SEM-1 Availabilities understandings required to integrate the science and External technology learning areas across the curriculum and - SEM-1 create meaningful learning experiences that cater for CRP417 Film and Media the diverse needs of middle years students. This unit will provide you with opportunities to examine core educational theory in order to Education Curriculum Studies 2 understand the basis for teaching and learning in Pre-requisites CRP416 or CLP422 science including how to establish and manage Equivalents CLP423 CRP423 Mathematics Education effective learning environments. Credit Points 12 Curriculum Studies 1 Equivalents MDP456 Campus Kelvin Grove CRP427 Science Education Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Curriculum Studies 2 New Media literacies are essential for successful Kelvin Grove CRP426 or MDP459. CRP426 can participation in contemporary societies. In this unit - SEM-1 Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Availabilities you will be introduced to principles and practices External period as CRP427 related to (i) the nature of Film and Media Curriculum - SEM-1 Equivalents MDP460 in specific discipline areas (ii) how senior secondary This unit provides an introduction to the learning and Credit Points 12 students learn about Film, Television and New Media, teaching of mathematics and to begin the and the curriculum documents that are used to Campus External development of your understanding of learning support this, and (iii) providing quality planned environments conducive to the effective learning of External experiences and supportive environments for Availabilities mathematics. This unit focusses primarily upon - SEM-2 learning. mathematics education in the junior -secondary This unit is to provide an opportunity for you to school. develop as a learner-centred science teacher in the context of senior schooling, who can plan to meet the CRP418 Film and Media needs of individual students in a varied, stimulating Education Curriculum Studies 3 CRP424 Mathematics Education and safe environment. CRP417 or CLP423. CRP417 can Curriculum Studies 2 Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching CRP423 or MDP456. CRP423 can period as CRP418 CRP428 Science Education Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Equivalents CLP424 period as CRP424 Curriculum Studies 3 Credit Points 12 Equivalents MDP457 CRP427 or MDP460 or CRP429 or MDP462 or CRP430 or MDP463 or Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 CRP431 or MDP464 or CRP432 or Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External Pre-requisites MDP465. (CRP427 or CRP429 or - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove CRP430 or CRP431 or CRP432) The aim of this unit is to provide you with principles - SEM-2 can be enrolled in the same Availabilities and practices related to (i) video and media External teaching period as CRP428 production from pre to post productionand strategies - SEM-2 Equivalents MDP461 for teaching media production in a school context, (ii) This unit deepens students' understanding of the Credit Points 12 secondary school media production and the
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Campus Kelvin Grove and External CRP432 Physics Curriculum Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Studies 2 - SEM-2 Availabilities External CRP426 or MDP459. CRP426 can This unit is the first unit in radiographic positioning of - SEM-2 Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching your course and builds on the foundation knowledge period as CRP432 This unit provides opportunities for you to draw on the from semester 1. The unit focuses on pre-clinical understandings, skills and resources you have Equivalents MDP465 skills development in the on-campus laboratory and developed so far to design effective work programs Credit Points 12 includes a clinical placement in a hospital context. and unit plans for teaching senior science. During the placement you will observe the role of the Campus Kelvin Grove and External radiographer in a range of contexts within a hospital Kelvin Grove setting. - SEM-2 Availabilities CRP429 Biology Curriculum External Studies 2 - SEM-2 CSB023 Treatment Planning 1 CRP426 or MDP459. CRP426 can This unit encourages students to develop as a CSB111 and LSB111 and LSB142 Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching learner-centred Physics teacher who can plan to meet Pre-requisites and PCB272 period as CRP429 the needs of individual students in a varied, Equivalents PCB286 Equivalents MDP462 stimulating and safe environment. Students develop a critically reflective orientation to their teaching Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 experiences. Campus Gardens Point Campus Kelvin Grove and External Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities CSB012 Introduction to Medical External This unit is an introduction to the techniques of - SEM-2 Radiations radiation therapy treatment planning including patient Equivalents PCB178 data acquisition and radiation dosimetry. This unit provides an opportunity to develop as a learner-centred Biology teacher who can plan to meet Credit Points 12 the needs of individual students in a varied, Campus Gardens Point stimulating and safe environment. Gardens Point CSB024 Radiation Therapy 1 Availabilities - SEM-1 (CSB011 or CSB111) and (CSB012 Pre-requisites or LSB111) and (LQB183 or This unit provides an overview of the physical LSB142) CRP430 Chemistry Curriculum principles of the various medical imaging modalities Studies 2 and techniques used in patient imaging. It includes a Equivalents PCB287 CRP426 or MDP459. CRP426 can brief overview of those techniques used in the Credit Points 12 diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Campus Gardens Point period as CRP430 Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents MDP463 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 CSB020 Systematic Imaging This unit is the first in a series of Radiation Therapy Campus Kelvin Grove and External Pathology units and provides an introduction to fundamental Anti-requisites LSB367,LSB475 underpinning concepts essential for Radiation Kelvin Grove Therapy Practice. - SEM-2 Availabilities Equivalents PCB252 External Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point This unit encourages students to develop as a CSB030 Clinical Radiotherapy 1 Gardens Point learner-centred Chemistry teacher who can plan to Availabilities Pre-requisites CSB023 and CSB024 and PCB675 - SEM-1 meet the needs of individual students in a varied, Equivalents PCB351 stimulating and safe environment. Students also - develop a critically reflective orientation to their Credit Points 12 teaching experiences. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities CSB021 General Radiography 1 - SEM-1 CRP431 Earth Science LSB142 and (CSB012 or PCB178) and (CSB022 or PCB277). CSB022 - Pre-requisites Curriculum Studies 2 can be enrolled in the same CRP426 or MDP459. CRP426 can teaching period as CSB021 Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Equivalents PCB276 CSB031 Radiographic period as CRP431 Credit Points 12 Equipment Equivalents MDP464 Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites CSB012 or PCB178 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents PCB355 Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove A full and detailed knowledge of positioning - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Availabilities techniques for skeletal radiography is essential to the External Gardens Point education of medical imaging technologists. This unit Availabilities - SEM-2 is designed to provide students knowledge of skeletal - SEM-1 This unit encourages students to develop as a radiography, and imaging practices. The unit further develops your knowledge of radiation learner-centred science teacher who can plan to meet physics as it applies to the operation of imaging the needs of individual students in a varied, equipment. It links to the introductory information stimulating and safe environment. Students develop a provided in CSB012 and PCB272 and extends it to critically reflective orientation to their teaching CSB022 Radiographic Practice the understanding of the digital image, image experiences. CSB111 and CSB012 and CSB021 processing, image display techniques and storage. and PCB272. CSB021 can be Pre-requisites Quality control and quality assurance of imaging enrolled in the same teaching equipment operation is also provided. period as CSB022 Equivalents PCB277 Credit Points 12
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CSB032 Radiation Therapy 2 processing, image display techniques and storage. Equivalents PCB459 Quality control and quality assurance of imaging Credit Points 12 (CSB023 or PCB286) and (CSB024 Pre-requisites equipment operation is also provided. or PCB287) and PCB675 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Campus Gardens Point CSB040 Applied Medical Gardens Point This unit offers an opportunity to progress from Availabilities Imaging - SEM-1 assistant to supervised performer in routine imaging Pre-requisites LQB389 or LQB390 techniques and procedures. This extended period of - clinical experience at the end of on campus unit Equivalents PCB452 delivery, will enable you to gain experience in the new Credit Points 12 area clinical placement area of computed Campus Gardens Point tomography. This is in addition to consolidating skills CSB033 Clinical Radiography 1 in general radiography, and minor procedures, and (CSB022 or PCB277) and (CSB021 Gardens Point also assisting in the further development of your Pre-requisites Availabilities or PCB276) and LSB142 - SEM-1, SEM-2 professionalism and reflective practice. Co-requisites CSB034 This unit prepares both radiation therapy and medical imaging students for clinical use of patient images. It Equivalents PCB359 builds on the regional and sectional anatomy Credit Points 12 understanding gained in Year 1 to enable CSB045 Treatment Planning 3 Pre-requisites LQB389 and (CSB035 or PCB396) Campus Gardens Point identification of relevant structures in a range of medical images. Equivalents PCB495 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point - CSB041 Specialised Imaging Gardens Point Availabilities Techniques - SEM-2 CSB034 General Radiography 2 (CSB034 or PCB377) and (CSB033 This unit builds on the basisc planning experience or PCB379) and (CSB044 or gained in the previous treatment planning units to (CSB021 or PCB276) and (CSB022 Pre-requisites Pre-requisites PCB479). PCB479 or CSB044 can concentrate more on the application of more in-depth or PCB277) and LSB142 be enrolled in the same teaching knowledge to complex 3D treatment planning Co-requisites CSB033 period as CSB041 practice. This will consolidate understanding of 3D Equivalents PCB377 Equivalents PCB476 treatment planning concepts on specific treatment sites and pave the way for progression to more Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 advanced treatment techniqies such as IMRT. Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 CSB046 Complementary This unit is designed to extend the student's This unit includes specialised techniques of knowledge of skeletal radiography, minor procedures, radiography including the skull, macroradiography, Imaging Techniques and imaging practices. The practical sessions are obstetrics, gynaecology, CNS, paediatrics and Pre-requisites CSB012 or PCB178 designed to develop positioning skills through role geriatrics. Equivalents PCB477 play and taking radiographs of sectional models to Credit Points 12 become familiar with radiographic appearances. Campus Gardens Point CSB042 Clinical Radiotherapy 2 Gardens Point (CSB030 or PCB389) and (CSB035 Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-1 CSB035 Treatment Planning 2 or PCB396) Medical imaging technologists are required to utilise a Pre-requisites CSB023 and CSB024 Equivalents PCB451 number of imaging modalities to assist in the Equivalents PCB396 Credit Points 12 diagnosis of disease. Proper utilisation of equipment Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point requires an understanding of the underlying physical principles. Knowledge of the clinical applications Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities enables an appreciation of the overall medical Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities imaging strategies available in a patient's clinical - SEM-1 This unit is the second of a series of clinical units that management. The aim of this unit is to provide an This unit builds on the fundamental dosimetry provide students with the opportunity to consolidate appreciation of the physical principles and the understanding gained in Treatment Planning 1 and their academic learning in a clinical environment. complementary nature of the clinical applications of enables students to apply this to a range of common ultrasound and nuclear medicine. tumour sites. In order to prepare them for clinical planning, students will have the opportunity to produce clinically acceptable plans for these routine CSB043 Radiation Therapy 3 tumour sites and start to develop essential plan (CSB035 or PCB396) and (CSB032 CSB050 Professional Practice Pre-requisites evaluation skills. and PCB397-2) and LQB389 in Radiation Therapy Equivalents PCB457 Pre-requisites CSB042, CSB043 and CSB045 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 CSB036 Medical Imaging Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Methods Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities Pre-requisites CSB012 and PCB272 - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Equivalents CSB031 This unit is the third in a series of Radiation Therapy - Credit Points 12 units and builds on the knowledge and skills gained in the previous two units. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point CSB051 Advanced Availabilities - SEM-1 CSB044 Clinical Radiography 2 Radiographic Technique 1 (CSB041 or PCB476) and (CSB044 This unit further develops your knowledge of radiation (CSB033 or PCB379) and (CSB041 Pre-requisites or PCB479) physics as it applies to the operation of imaging or PCB476). CSB041 can be Pre-requisites equipment. It links to the introductory information enrolled in the same teaching Credit Points 12 provided in CSB012 and PCB272 and extends it to period as CSB044 the understanding of the digital image, image Campus Gardens Point
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Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 - SEM-1 The unit will provide a theoretical and practical Oncology and technique are an essential component This unit offers an opportunity to observe and assist in understanding on which to build skills in the of radiation therapy skills and application of the performance of advanced imaging techniques and evaluation and interpretation of radiographic images fundamental principles to routine treatment practice is procedures. The extended period of clinical and recognition of common pathological processes. essential. Students will need to gain practical skills in experience in this semester will enable you to gain Practical sessions will extend the practical and order to become a competent radiation therapist and experience in new areas in addition to consolidating interpretative skills involved in image interpretation of this module provides them with the underpinning skills in general radiography and minor procedures, general radiography. theory and practice. Students at this level are and also assist in the further development of your expected to engage with the literature base in order to professionalism and reflective practice. support their work and they will have specific support for this via the presentation. CSB052 Clinical Radiotherapy 3 CSB040 and CSB042 and CSB043 CSB060 Specialised Pre-requisites and CSB045 CSB055 Treatment Planning 4 Radiotherapy Technique Equivalents PCB591-1 (CSB054 or PCB587) and (CSB055 (CSB045 or PCB495) and (CSB040 Pre-requisites Pre-requisites or PCB595) Credit Points 12 or PCB452) and CSB043 Equivalents PCB687 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents PCB595 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Experience in clinical departments is vital to Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities developing clinical competence and this unit is Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 designed to build on the experience gained in This unit includes a study of specialised radiotherapy previous units to further develop students’ clinical and This unit builds on the planning experience gained in techniques including techniques applicable to the interpersonal skills. Continuing commitment to Treatment Planning 3 to concentrate on application child patient and patients with communicable disease, reflective practice will empower students to move and evaluation of complex techniques and total body photon and electron therapy. It also covers towards autonomous learning. After completion of this technology. In order to further prepare them for the principles, strengths and stage of development of Unit students should be able to assist with the full clinical planning, students will have the opportunity to techniques that are integral or complementary to the range of clinical procedures and have clear ideas plan highly complex tumour sites. Students will also modern radiotherapy treatment of cancer. about how to organise their clinical learning in relation gain valuable plan evaluation and critical appraisal to their future personal and professional development. skills. CSB061 Project CSB053 Clinical Radiography 3 CSB056 Computed Pre-requisites CSB061-1 or PCB672-1 Pre-requisites CSB053-1 or PCB581-1 Tomography Imaging Equivalents PCB672-2 Equivalents PCB581-2 Pre-requisites LQB390 Credit Points 6 Credit Points 12 Equivalents PCB681 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 The purpose of this unit is to enable you to carry out Gardens Point Availabilities an independent enquiry within a professionally related This unit offers an opportunity to observe and assist in - SEM-2 area. An introduction to the research process is the performance of advanced imaging techniques and This unit covers both the technological and clinical important preparation for future professional studies. procedures is important to the education of medical aspects of computed tomography(CT). Clinical This full year unit will assist you to develop skills in imaging students. The periods of clinical experience applications described include those for specific research and reporting writing as independent in this full year unit will enable you to gain experience anatomical areas as well as advanced and learners. During semester two you will prepare a in advanced imaging procedures and modalities in interventional applications. The strengths and report and poster on a chosen topic. (12 credit points addition to consolidating skills in general radiography weaknesses of CT in relation to other imaging achieved at completion of PCB672-1 and PCB672-2.) and minor procedures. modalities are discussed.
CSB053 Clinical Radiography 3 CSB061 Project CSB057 Image Interpretation CSB041 or PCB476 or CSB043 or Pre-requisites CSB044 or PCB479 Pre-requisites Pre-requisites CSB041 and CSB044 PCB397-2 Equivalents PCB581-1 Credit Points 12 Equivalents PCB672-1 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities This unit builds on both theoretical knowledge and - SEM-1 This unit offers an opportunity to observe and assist in technical skills achieved in first and second year This is a supervised project involving either the performance of advanced imaging techniques and radiography, anatomy and pathology units and application of existing theoretical practical knowledge procedures is important to the education of medical concentrates on application of this knowledge to or a literature survey of a selected relevant topic. (12 imaging students. The periods of clinical experience practice. The recognition of both normal and credit points achieved at completion of PCB672-1 and in this full year unit will enable you to gain experience abnormal anatomy and the ability to describe the PCB672-2). Introductory lectures in research methods in advanced imaging procedures and modalities in image appearances in respect to both technical and and statistics are provided. addition to consolidating skills in general radiography diagnostic quality is an important role in clinical and minor procedures. practice. CSB062 Advanced CSB054 Radiation Therapy 4 CSB058 Clinical Radiography 3 Radiographic Technique 2 CSB042 and CSB043 and (CSB045 Pre-requisites CSB041 and CSB044 (CSB051 or PCB567) and Pre-requisites Pre-requisites or PCB495) (CSB053-1 or PCB581-1) Co-requisites CSB046 Equivalents PCB587 Equivalents PCB667 Equivalents CSB053-1 and CSB053-2 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 24 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point
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Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2, SUM Campus Kelvin Grove A knowledge of the principles of operation and This unit is the final clinical unit in the course, where Kelvin Grove Availabilities application of advanced techniques and their imaging both academic and clinical learning will be - SEM-1 appearances is a necessary requirement of medical consolidated with the Viva Capstone Assessment. imaging students. This unit will expand and extend This unit is an introduction to ambulance practice and the knowledge acquired in previous units to advanced the role of paramedics within the health care imaging investigations and practical imaging sessions spectrum. It prepares students for the first clinical will allow maintenance of general radiography skills. CSB067 Clinical Radiography 4 practice unit. Topics include the following: the history, Pre-requisites CSB058 evolution, culture and development of ambulance services on a national and international level; the Credit Points 12 structure, function, policies and procedures of the CSB063 Magnetic Resonance Campus Gardens Point Queensland Ambulance Service; the role of the ambulance service in a multidisciplinary and Gardens Point Imaging Availabilities integrated approach to health care; the relationship - SEM-2 Pre-requisites LQB390 between field care and in-hospital definitive care; and Equivalents PCB682 This unit offers an opportunity to observe and assist in basic ambulance care including initial assessment, the performance of advanced imaging techniques and planning and implementing basic procedures, and Credit Points 12 procedures. This second period of clinical experience equipment. The unit includes a structured observer Campus Gardens Point in this year will enable you to gain further experience program. in new areas and contexts. This is in addition to Gardens Point Availabilities enhancing your skills in general radiography and - SEM-2 minor procedures, and also assisting in the further Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a specialised development of your professionalism and reflective CSB331 Paramedic Clinical modality within the field of medical radiations. The practice. Practice 1 applications of magnetic resonance imaging have a (LSB282 or LQB281) and (CSB332 wide impact on differential diagnoses and subsequent Pre-requisites radiographic examinations. This unit will provide you or PUB280) with an introduction to the operation and clinical CSB068 Advanced Imaging Equivalents PUB270 applications of magnetic resonance imaging. Practice 1 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites CSB057 and CSB058 Campus Kelvin Grove Co-requisites CSB067 Kelvin Grove CSB064 Advanced Treatment Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2, SUM Planning Topics Campus Gardens Point This unit is the first in a series of supervised clinical (CSB054 or PCB587) and (CSB055 practice units. Topics include the following: assessing, Pre-requisites Gardens Point or PCB595) Availabilities diagnosing, planning, implementing and evaluating - SEM-2 Equivalents PCB695 patient care in the out of hospital phase; effective This unit will expand and extend the knowledge and scene management including logistics, safe access Credit Points 12 skills acquired from previous units in imaging and egress, and patient extrication techniques; written Campus Gardens Point investigations to advanced imaging applications. The and oral communication including patient interviews, unit integrates the skills and knowledge in clinical radio procedures, writing ambulance report forms and Gardens Point Availabilities reasoning and problem solving previously developed patient handover at hospital. The placement is six - SEM-2 across the curriculum, particularly in regard to weeks and provides a transition from observer to This unit builds on the planning experience gained in advanced scope of practice roles, to prepare you for operational ambulance crew member under the "Treatment Planning 4" to concentrate more on the the capstone units, CSB070 Transition to Professional supervision of a qualified paramedic mentor. application of more in-depth knowledge of complex Practice 1 and CSB080 Transition to Professional [Designated unit] planning practice. This will consolidate understanding Practice 2. Unit content includes application of of 3D treatment planning concepts and introduce advanced knowledge to advanced imaging more advanced treatment techniqies such as IMRT. techniques and roles. CSB332 Foundations of Paramedic Practice 2 CSB065 Advanced Radiation CSB111 Foundations of Clinical Pre-requisites CSB330 or PUB180 Practice Practice Equivalents PUB280 Equivalents PCB600 Equivalents PUB442 Credit Points 12 Prior qualification in medical Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Other research science is required to Kelvin Grove requisites Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Availabilities enrol - SEM-2 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 - Availabilities Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Clinical health professionals work in multi disciplinary CSB333 Foundations of teams within the health care system to provide The specialised and technically specific nature of Paramedic Practice 3 each student's previous program in medical radiations optimal care to individuals and communities. The requires a customised approach. This unit is nature and standards of professional practice are CSB331 or PUB270 or (LSB111 for determined by government and professional Graduate Entry Students). LSB111 necessary to provide an appropriate focussed Pre-requisites theoretical and clinical support program to those organisations, and the scope of clinical practice for can be studied in the same teaching students who have a prior qualification in the clinicians evolves in response to community needs. period as CSB333 There is a community expectation that clinical health profession. Equivalents PUB383 care professionals will be effective communicators who engage in ethical practice that is continually Credit Points 12 improved through ongoing reflection. This unit Campus Kelvin Grove introduces students to these concepts as they apply CSB066 Clinical Radiotherapy 4 Kelvin Grove to professional practice. Availabilities (CSB052 or PCB590-1 or PCB591- - SEM-1 Pre-requisites 1) and (CSB054 or PCB587) and (CSB055 or PCB595) - Equivalents PCB591-2 CSB330 Foundations of Credit Points 12 Paramedic Practice 1 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents PUB180
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CSB335 Paramedic Campus Kelvin Grove CSB343 Paramedic Clinical Kelvin Grove Availabilities Management of Cardiac, - SEM-1 Practice 3 Pre-requisites CSB342 or PUB532 or PUB470 Respiratory and Neuro - Emergencies Equivalents PUB673 Pre-requisites CSB333 or PUB383 or PUB390 Credit Points 12 Equivalents PUB451 CSB340 Major Incident Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Management Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove (CSB335 or PUB451) and (CSB336 Pre-requisites or PUB452) and (CSB337 or As a third year student you have been exposed to Kelvin Grove Availabilities PUB453) core content of the course. You can approach this - SEM-2 Equivalents PUB567 clinical practice unit with a better developed - knowledge, understanding and skill base to evolve Credit Points 12 your clinical practice to the level of beginner Campus Kelvin Grove practitioner. Over a six week period, you will be required to complete approximately 240 hours of Kelvin Grove CSB336 Paramedic Availabilities placement to be conducted externally through the - SEM-1 Queensland Ambulance Service. Designated unit This Management of Medical and - is a designated unit. Designated units include Surgical Emergencies professional experience units, units requiring the Pre-requisites CSB333 or PUB383 or PUB390 development of particular skills, and units requiring the demonstration of certain personal qualities, and Equivalents PUB452 CSB341 Mental Health Issues in are deemed to be critical to progress in your course. Credit Points 12 At the end of each semester, if you fail to achieve a the Out-of-Hospital passing grade in this unit you may be eligible for a Campus Kelvin Grove Environment period of probation or exclusion. Kelvin Grove (CSB331 or PUB270) and (PYB007 Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-2 or PYB111) - Equivalents PUB568 CSB346 Transition to Credit Points 12 Professional Paramedic Campus Kelvin Grove CSB337 Paramedic Practice (Capstone) Kelvin Grove Availabilities CSB343 or PUB673 or PUB570. Management of Trauma and - SEM-1 Pre-requisites CSB343 can be studied in the same Environmental Emergencies - teaching period as CSB346 Pre-requisites CSB333 or PUB383 or PUB390 Anti-requisites CSB344, CSB345 Equivalents PUB453 Equivalents PUB680 Credit Points 12 CSB342 Paramedic Clinical Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Practice 2 Campus Kelvin Grove (CSB331 or PUB270) and (CSB340 Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities or PUB567 or PUB555). CSB340 - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites can be studied in the same teaching - period as CSB342 This is the final unit (capstone) in the series of paramedic units that provide you with the opportunity Equivalents PUB532 to consolidate the knowledge, skills and attributes Credit Points 12 required for safe, competent and professional practice CSB338 Ethics and the Law in in the health workplace as a beginning level graduate Campus Kelvin Grove paramedic. Learning outcomes of this unit build on Health Service Delivery Kelvin Grove previous clinical units and draw upon concepts, Availabilities Equivalents PUB486 - SEM-1, SUM principles and theories that have been developed through your studies in paramedic and related Credit Points 12 Ambulance crews generally work in pairs, so at the sciences. This capstone unit informs your transition scene of the incident the patient can be managed by Campus Kelvin Grove towards the graduate paramedic role. you and your partner, and then en route to hospital Kelvin Grove Availabilities one paramedic drives the ambulance while the other - SEM-2 continues patient care in the back. To be a functional This unit enables students to develop an awareness team member it is vital that you grow as a student CSB420 Introduction to of the ethical and legal issues associated with the paramedic in a two officer crew environment. This unit public sector and health care in the pre-hospital care is the second in a series of five that provide the work Pharmacy Practice setting. This unit covers topics relating to the code of integrated learning experience. During this unit you Pre-requisites PYB007 or CSB111 ethics, the code of conduct and the legislation unique will have the opportunity to apply practical theory and Equivalents SCB208 to the emergency health services. Students are understanding from clinical management units. Over a required to apply content knowledge using the six week period, you will be required to complete Credit Points 12 problem based learning strategy. Topics include approximately 240 hours of placement to be Campus Gardens Point introduction to ethics, morality and ethical theory, conducted externally through the Queensland Gardens Point bioethics, public sector ethics, overview of the Ambulance Service. Designated unit This is a Availabilities Australian legal system, consent to and refusal of designated unit. Designated units include professional - SEM-2 health care, duty of care, confidentiality, and record experience units, units requiring the development of This introductory unit will provide an overview of the keeping. particular skills, and units requiring the demonstration activities of a community pharmacy, including the of certain personal qualities, and are deemed to be processing of prescriptions, complementary medicine critical to progress in your course. At the end of each products and other front of shop merchandise. Topics semester, if you fail to achieve a passing grade in this cover foundation practical knowledge and skills CSB339 Paramedic unit you may be eligible for a period of probation or (needed for professional placements in later units) Management of Lifespan exclusion. together with retailing skills such as merchandising, stock control and computerised point of sales Emergencies systems. Pre-requisites CSB333 or PUB383 or PUB390 Equivalents PUB566 Credit Points 12
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Gardens Point the application of that knowledge in the experiential Availabilities CSB421 Molecular Basis of placement. - SEM-1 Therapeutics This unit is designed to provide knowledge relating to Pre-requisites CZB190 the physical and chemical properties of the Credit Points 12 components of pharmaceutical formulations. The CSB442 Pharmacokinetics formulation of drugs has a large influence on the route Campus Gardens Point Equivalents SCB428 of administration, the onset and duration of action and Gardens Point Credit Points 12 the pharmacokinetic parameters that govern the Availabilities drugs activity in the human body. This course will - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point introduce you to the basic concepts and theories of Molecular Basis of Therapeutics is a first year unit Gardens Point Availabilities pharmaceutical formulation and compounding with a that introduces the biochemistry of medicines, drugs - SEM-2 focus on liquid and semi-solid dosage forms. and other therapeutic goods and their interaction with target biomolecules. Specifically, the unit will establish This unit presents the basic concepts of the interaction between the molecular, chemical and pharmacokinetics with an emphasis on clinical physical properties of drugs and therapeutic agents applications. It provides a rational approach to the CSB453 Pharmacology 3 and how these properties affect their actions and establishment, optimization, and individualization of Pre-requisites CSB443 interactions in living systems. dosage regimens of drugs in patients. Equivalents SCB538 Credit Points 12 CSB430 Pharmacy Practice 1 CSB443 Medicinal Chemistry Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point CSB420 and CSB433. CSB433 can and Pharmacology 2 Availabilities - SEM-1 Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Pre-requisites CSB433 period as CSB430 Equivalents SCB438 A detailed knowledge of the pharmacology of drugs is Equivalents SCB308 essential for pharmacists to understand the Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 therapeutic applications of pharmaceutical Campus Gardens Point compounds and their concomitant adverse effects. Campus Gardens Point This unit provides an extension of this knowledge and Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities covers the drug classes that act on the central Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 nervous system, endocrine system, anticancer drugs, A detailed knowledge of medicinal chemistry and drugs of abuse and pharmacotherapies for withdrawal This unit will further develop your knowledge, skills pharmacology is essential for the understanding of syndromes. and experience in supplying, dispensing and actions of drugs with endogenous molecular targets. counselling in pharmacy practice. This unit will build This unit continues to develop the basic principles on previous knowledge gained in CSB420 and require developed in SCB338 and introduces the concept of the application of that knowledge in the experiential structure activity relationships (SARs) which CSB460 Pharmacy Practice 4 placement. demonstrates the linkage between the chemical CSB450 and CSB463. CSB463 can structure of drugs and their biological activity and Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching selectivity. The medicinal chemistry of a number of period as CSB460 major drug classes are examined in detail, including Equivalents SCB608 CSB433 Pharmaceutical adrenergic, cholinergic, serotonergic and Chemistry and Pharmacology 1 antihypertensive drugs. This unit also provides an Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LQB182 and CVB101 extension of this knowledge in pharmacology and Campus Gardens Point focuses on the drug classes that act on the Equivalents SCB338 Gardens Point cardiovascular, respiratory, eye, renal, gastrointestinal Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 systems. Campus Gardens Point The dispensing of schedule drugs to the community requires expertise in drug knowledge, packaging, Gardens Point Availabilities labelling and health regulations, communication - SEM-1 CSB450 Pharmacy Practice 3 techniques, compounding processes and the ability to Pharmacists require a detailed understanding of the CSB440 and CSB453. CSB453 can understand and validate the diagnosis of clinical physiochemical properties of drugs and an Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching conditions. This unit will provide students with appreciation of the process of Drug Discovery to period as CSB450 expertise to dispense pharmaceutical drugs that are facilitate an understanding of how the current range of Equivalents SCB508 used in the treatment of infectious diseases and the medicines have been developed. This unit will also treatment of tumours and malignancies. Credit Points 12 provide an understanding of the analytical chemistry techniques that are used to quantitate the active Campus Gardens Point compounds in both pharmaceutical formulations and Gardens Point Availabilities CSB461 Pharmacogenomics biological samples, and spectroscopic techniques - SEM-1 used in structural elucidation of biologically active and Drug Metabolism compounds. Additionally, this unit will introduce the This unit will focus on the professional interaction of Pre-requisites CSB453 discipline of pharmacology which examines the pharmacists with patients suffering from endocrine interaction of chemical substances with biological diseases, in particular diabetes, a variety of central Equivalents SCB638 nervous system (CNS) disorders including epilepsy, system which is fundamental to the understanding of Credit Points 12 the molecular actions of pharmaceutical products. insomnia, anxiety and depression, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, addiction and patients Campus Gardens Point experiencing strong and debilitating pain from other Gardens Point Availabilities disease states. Additionally, you will learn how to - SEM-2 CSB440 Pharmacy Practice 2 interact with patients withdrawing from drugs of The effects of drugs in patients are determined in part CSB430 and CSB433. CSB433 can addiction and the quality use of the both by drug metabolizing enzymes. In addition, the ability Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies of an enzyme to metabolize a drug is determined by period as CSB440 available for their treatment. This unit will also provide you with further knowledge and skills in the genetic variability. A detailed understanding of these Equivalents SCB408 preparation of extemporaneous pharmaceutical factors is necessary for pharmacists to understand Credit Points 12 preparations in common demand in today's health drug selection, the biological fate of a drug following care environment. administration, the appropriate route of administration, Campus Gardens Point the occurrence of adverse effects and the final effect Gardens Point of a drug. This unit will describe the biochemistry of Availabilities - SEM-2 drug metabolism and genetic factors CSB452 Pharmaceutics 1 (pharmacogenomics) that affect drug metabolism and This unit will further develop your knowledge, skills Equivalents SCB528 variability of drug effects. The field of and experience in supplying, dispensing and pharmacogenomics, is becoming increasingly counselling in pharmacy practice. This unit will build Credit Points 12 important for understanding the contribution of the on previous knowledge gained in CSB420 and require Campus Gardens Point patient's genetic composition to drug effects.
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Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 CSB462 Pharmaceutics 2 A number of factors must be considered before a The pharmacy practice units in the fourth year of the decision concerning the appropriate drug is Bachelor of Pharmacy course will provide both Pre-requisites CSB452 prescribed and dispensed to patients. This unit will advanced and updated information on the dispensing Equivalents SCB628 provide a pathophysiological approach to the and counselling of drugs using case based clinical Credit Points 12 identification of cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and scenarios. Through a series of case based problems endocrine disorders. Students will be instructed on and scenarios that will involve a diverse range of Campus Gardens Point the factors that determine the correct choice of diseases and disorders and aspects of Gardens Point therapeutic drug and the dosing regimen including pharmaceutical care, the students will gain Availabilities - SEM-2 drug toxicity, pharmacokinetics and experience in the skills required to dispense pharmacodynamic consideration for the individual medication and effectively communicate drug This unit is designed to extend the knowledge of patient, drug-drug interactions and knowledge to patients, and an understanding of the pharmacy students in pharmaceutics which is pharmacoeconomics considerations. provision of primary health care in the Australian essential to their understanding of pharmaceutical Health system. product formulation. This unit will focus on solid dosage form design including tablets and capsules and the theory and practical aspects of controlled CSB475 Pharmacy Management release formulations which are increasingly utilised in CSB483 Pharmacotherapeutics modern pharmaceutical formulations. Additionally, this 1 unit will extend the student's expertise in the science Co-requisites CSB470 and CSB476 3 of compounding of advanced pharmaceutical Equivalents SCB758 Pre-requisites CSB473 formulations. Credit Points 12 Equivalents SCB848 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point CSB463 Pharmacotherapeutics Availabilities - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities 1 - SEM-2 In addition to their role as allied health care providers, Pre-requisites CSB453 pharmacists are often required to assist in the Pharmacotherapeutics 3 is a final year unit which Equivalents SCB648 management of their workplace which consists of builds upon the knowledge of pathophysiology, Credit Points 12 supervision and administration of a diverse staff pharmacology and therapeutics which you have roster, stock inventory and marketing strategies. previously obtained in the unit's Campus Gardens Point Moreover, many pharmacists enter into complex pharmacotherapeutics I and II. This unit will 1). Gardens Point partnerships agreements during the purchase of a introduce you to the pathophysiology of neurological, Availabilities - SEM-2 pharmacy. This unit will provide the basic oncological and renal disorders, 2). examine the management tools in the areas of accounting, therapeutic regimes used to treat these disorders and A detailed knowledge of the pharmacology of drugs is preparation of budgets and business plans, payroll 3). provide you with a mechanistic rationale for the essential for pharmacists to understand the and GST legislation, marketing, partnerships law, way in which these drugs function to alleviate therapeutic applications of pharmaceutical decision making and the use of financial software to symptoms of these disorders. compounds and their concomitant adverse effects. effectively understand the information provided by This unit synthesises this knowledge and covers the support staff to make effective business decisions. drug classes that act in the treatment of infectious diseases. CSB485 Pharmacy Management CSB476 Professional 2 Co-requisites CSB480 and CSB486 CSB470 Pharmacy Practice 5 Placements 1 Equivalents SCB858 CSB460 and CSB473. CSB473 can Co-requisites CSB470 and CSB475 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Equivalents SCB768 period as CSB470 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Co-requisites CSB475 and CSB476 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents SCB708 - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities This unit extends the knowledge of pharmacy Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 students in areas of accounting and finance, Campus Gardens Point The role of a contemporary pharmacist in providing management, HR and health care policy in relation to Gardens Point healthcare products and advice consists of diverse the management of a pharmacy business. Availabilities - SEM-1 range of skills and abilities in the preparation of pharmaceutical preparations, the dispensing of The pharmacy practice units in the 4th year of the B medications, counselling of patients and their families Pharmacy course will provide both advanced and in their correct use and performing medication CSB486 Professional updated information on the dispensing and reviews. To assist students in developing expertise in counselling of drugs using case based clinical Placements 2 these areas, this unit will provide real world scenarios. Additionally, students will be provided with experience through a long-term continuous placement Pre-requisites CSB476 information that will allow them to critically evaluate in a community or hospital environment under the clinical trial design using studies of newly released Co-requisites CSB480 and CSB485 supervision of qualified preceptor. These placements drugs as a reference and the role of regulatory Equivalents SCB868 will consist of a five (5) week block that will authorities during the process of drug approval. commence in the second half of the semester and Credit Points 12 Through a series of case based problems and assessment will consist of the documented scenarios that will involve a diverse range of diseases Campus Gardens Point completion of a assignments and experiential log and disorders, the students will gain experience in the Gardens Point book. Availabilities skills required to dispense medication and effectively - SEM-2 communicate drug knowledge to patients. This unit is designed to extend the students experiential skills in working in either a community or CSB480 Pharmacy Practice 6 hospital pharmacy environment. The design and CSB473 Pharmacotherapeutics CSB470 and CSB483. CSB483 can timetabling of the unit is similar to SCB768 Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Professional Placements 1, but the emphasis will 2 period as CSB480 focus on the dispensing and counselling and QUMs of Pre-requisites CSB463 Co-requisites CSB485 and CSB486 further drug classes and the management skills will Equivalents SCB748 be aligned with SCB858 Pharmacy Management 2. Equivalents SCB808 These placements will consist of a five (5) week block Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 consisting of four working days that will commence in the second half of the semester and assessment will Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point consist of the assignments and submission of a experiential log book.
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Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities CSB520 Disease Processes The evidence provided by gait analysis technology is - SEM-1 quantitative and facilitates sound clinical decision Anti-requisites LSB321, LSB361, LSB367 Many of the patients treated by podiatrists present making. In order to select appropriate interventions it with co-morbidity which affects their foot health. This Equivalents LSB475 is necessary to evaluate gait and determine the unit is designed to give practitioners insight into Credit Points 12 musculoskeletal and neurological factors which medical conditions, their effects on both general and influence lower limb disorders. The process of data Campus Gardens Point foot health, and an understanding of how appropriate collection, data selection and case evaluation in gait foot care may be delivered with these factors in mind. Gardens Point analysis is therefore fundamental and underpins the Availabilities - SEM-1 greater part of podiatry practice. It is important that these skills are acquired early in the course. Clinical health professionals work in multi disciplinary teams within the health care system to provide CSB533 Podiatric Medicine 3 CSB522 or CSB525 or PUB439 or optimal care to individuals and communities. The Pre-requisites nature and standards of professional practice are CSB525 Podiatric Medicine and PUB442 determined by government and professional Equivalents PUB539 organisations, and the scope of clinical practice for Clinical Practice clinicians evolves in response to community needs. Equivalents PUB442 Credit Points 12 There is a community expectation that clinical health Credit Points 24 Campus Kelvin Grove care professionals will be effective communicators Kelvin Grove who engage in ethical practice that is continually Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 improved through ongoing reflection. This unit Kelvin Grove Availabilities introduces students to these concepts as they apply - SEM-2 The key elements of the National Podiatry to professional practice. Competency Standards which focus on the physical This unit has been specifically designed for students examination and diagnosis of foot pathology of a who are entering the graduate entry podiatry course biomechanical nature will be the guiding principles who have completed a prior degree in a health-related underpinning this unit. The unit allows you to further CSB521 Podiatric Medicine 1 field e.g. nursing, biomedical science. The unit develop clinical practice skills by integrating content Pre-requisites LSB235 and LSB250 introduces the knowledge and clinical skills required from other units such as Pharmacotherapeutics for for podiatry students who are commencing patient Podiatrists, Disease Processes, Medicine, and Equivalents PUB339 management at the QUT Podiatry clinic. Podiatric Radiology. Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove CSB530 Pharmacotherapeutics Availabilities CSB534 Podiatric Medicine 4 - SEM-1 for Podiatrists Pre-requisites CSB533 Professional practice as a podiatrist requires the Pre-requisites LSB384 or PUB437 Equivalents PUB639 integration of a wide range of knowledge, skills and personal attributes in the clinical setting. This unit Equivalents LSB584 Credit Points 12 introduces you to the clinical, theoretical and Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove professional domains of podiatric practice. Students in Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove this unit begin the transition to the unique and Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 challenging role of clinician, as well as continuing Availabilities academic learning. The application of prior knowledge - SEM-1 Podiatrists are required to exercise high level clinical e.g. anatomy, physiology and the acquisition of new There is a national movement toward podiatrists judgement in diverse settings. This unit is designed to knowledge, are encouraged through a case-based seeking and obtaining endorsement for the use of equip students with these skills while participating in a approach. Principles of evidence -based practice are scheduled medicines in the treatment of patients with range of specialty clinics with a significant focus on introduced in a podiatric context. foot problems. This unit provides a theoretical paediatric knowledge, diabetes management and background for practitioners who wish to use of these therapeutic intervention. medicines as part of their clinical practice. CSB522 Podiatric Medicine 2 (CSB521 or PUB339) and (CSB520 CSB536 Clinical Therapeutics Pre-requisites or LSB475) CSB531 Radiographic Image for Podiatrists Equivalents PUB439 Interpretation Pre-requisites CSB532 and (CSB530 or LSB584) Credit Points 12 CSB521 or CSB522 or CSB525 or Co-requisites CSB534 PUB439 or PUB442. CSB521 or Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Equivalents PUB662 CSB525 can be studied in the same Kelvin Grove Availabilities teaching period as CSB531 Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Equivalents PUB537 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit builds on the foundational knowledge and Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities clinical skills acquired in Podiatric Medicine 1 enabling - SEM-2 you to consolidate these skills and begin to effectively Campus Kelvin Grove Podiatrists make clinical decisions which are complex treat patients under staff supervision. The unit Kelvin Grove Availabilities and require the practitioner to consider legal, ethical, introduces you to concepts in clinical biomechanics, - SEM-2 orthoses manufacture, the assessment and pharmacological, medical and patient factors as they prescription of footwear, management of common foot Diagnostic imaging is an integral part of contemporary determine the most efficacious therapeutic conditions, the study of material medica and health podiatry practice. As a registered podiatry practitioner approaches to treatment. This unit provides a basis to issues in ageing and diabetes. The content is you are legally entitled to authorise the taking of x- acquire the practical skills to complete this task. developed to enable you to integrate information from rays for diagnostic purposes. The knowledge and other units (Disease Processes, and Microbiology). skills covered in this unit are applied in various clinical settings on a regular basis. CSB538 Sports Medicine and CSB523 Podiatric Clinical Gait Rehabilitation CSB532 Medicine (CSB522 and CSB531) or Analysis Pre-requisites CSB522 or CSB525 or PUB439 or (CSB525) Pre-requisites Pre-requisites LSB235 PUB442 Credit Points 12 Equivalents PUB362 Co-requisites CSB530 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Equivalents PUB438 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Podiatrists encounter patients with a wide range of
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units musculoskeletal problems. This unit provides you with management in the public and private health sectors. a theoretical and practical background in the As pre-professionals, students combine administrative CSB600 Evidence-Based diagnosis and management of orthopaedic and sports and organisational skills to ensure the delivery of Clinical Practice related injuries. The unit also concentrates on the safe, effective, efficient, high quality health services in Pre-requisites CSB111 principals of injury management using the correct compliance with relevant laws, policies and rehabilitative and physical therapy methods. guidelines. Essential knowledge in accounting, Equivalents CSB334, PUB384 marketing, human resources, project management Credit Points 12 and professional management is applied to 'real Campus Kelvin Grove world' tasks to prepare the student for transition to the CSB539 Podiatric management responsibilities of professional practice. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Anaesthesiology and Surgery - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites CSB530 and CSB532 and CSB533 - Credit Points 12 CSB545 Podiatric Medicine 5 (CSB537 or PUB638) and (CSB534 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites or PUB639) Kelvin Grove CSN021 Cardiac Ultrasound 1 Availabilities - SEM-2 Anti-requisites PUB739 Equivalents PCN155 Equivalents PUB740 Podiatrists routinely perform surgery under local Credit Points 12 anaesthetics in a range of clinical settings. This unit is Credit Points 24 Campus External designed to give students the knowledge and skills Campus Kelvin Grove External associated with the safe administration of local Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 anaesthetics and performance of minor surgical Availabilities techniques. - SEM-1 This is the first in a series of four cardiac specific - thoery units that will assist you to develop knowledge, skills and attributes required for safe, competent practice in the health workplace as a beginning level CSB541 Professional cardiac sonograpaher. This unit focuses on the CSB546 Podiatric Medicine 6 foundation theoretical concepts which other units will Placement 1 build on throughout the course. CSB545 or PUB739. CSB545 can Pre-requisites CSB545 Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Anti-requisites PUB839 period as CSB541 Equivalents PUB840 Equivalents PUB738 CSN022 Cardiac Ultrasound 2 Credit Points 24 (CSN021 or PCN155) and CSN031. Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites CSN031 can be studied in the same Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove teaching period as CSN022 Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities Equivalents PCN259 - SEM-1 In this final semester unit, students demonstrate Credit Points 12 - proficiency in integrating knowledge and skills Campus External obtained throughout the course, applying them in a External supervised university podiatry clinic setting. Clinical Availabilities decisions are informed by relevant physical and - SEM-2 CSB542 Professional diagnostic examinations, conducted within the The field of medical ultrasound is scientifically based, Placement 2 framework of technological, ethical, financial and legal in an environment that is rapidly changing and considerations and an evidence-based context. Pre-requisites CSB541 undergoing considerable technological advancement. National and international medical, orthopaedic, Cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) is a highly Equivalents PUB838 pharmacological and podiatric perspectives guide the specialised technique for the assessment of the design, implementation and evaluation of complex Credit Points 12 human heart. This unit extends and builds on the patient management plans. At this point in the course, content of CSN021 by introducing the principles and Campus Kelvin Grove students will be expected to demonstrate clinical clinical applications of Doppler Echocardiography in Kelvin Grove competencies at a level commensurate with national the assessment of the adult heart as well as basic Availabilities - SEM-2 podiatry competency standards, professional haemodynamic principles and calculations. In guidelines and codes of conduct. addition, this unit also covers the applications of Workplace Integrated Learning (WIL) is integral to cardiac ultrasound in the assessment of diastolic QUT's approach to learning and teaching. function of the left heart and other cardiac pathologies Professional competency requires an appreciation of such as hypertensive heart disease, diseases of the foot health needs in the community, understanding of CSB547 Current Theory of aorta, ischaemic heart disease and cardiomyopathies the role of podiatrists within the broader health care in the adult patient. system, and capacity for team work and collaboration Podiatric Medicine with a range of health professionals in an Pre-requisites CSB534 interdisciplinary environment. This unit will develop Co-requisites CSB545 students' capacity for reflection and form the basis for CSN023 Cardiac Ultrasound 3 lifelong learning in professional practice. Professional Credit Points 12 (CSN022 or PCN259) and (CSN031 Placement 2 will build upon workplace integrated Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites learning experiences in Professional Placement 1. or PCN497-2) Kelvin Grove This final semester unit is designed to prepare Availabilities Equivalents PCN359 - SEM-1 students for entry into the workplace upon graduation Credit Points 12 as registered health professionals. This final year unit integrates a broad scope of podiatric medicine knowledge, including management Campus External of the high risk foot, advanced diagnostic methods, External Availabilities paediatrics, gerontology and other relevant topics in - SEM-1 CSB544 Transition to the medicine and orthopaedics. There is an emphasis on Clinical Profession application of principles of evidence based medicine Cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) is a highly in podiatry practice. Theory covered in this unit specialised technique for the assessment of the Pre-requisites CSB545 supports the companion clinical units, Podiatric human heart. This unit extends and builds on the Equivalents PUB862 Medicine 5 and Professional Placement 1, which are content of PCN155 and PCN259 by introducing comprised largely of Work Integrated Learning concepts and techniques of the more complex Credit Points 12 experiences. haemodynamic calculations and by discussing the Campus Kelvin Grove applications of these techniques to cardiac valvular disease, diseases of the aorta and hypertensive heart Kelvin Grove Availabilities disease in the adult patient. - SEM-2 The unit identifies the legal, ethical, financial and professional frameworks that guide practice
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CSN024 Advanced Cardiac Equivalents PCN356 skills, and units requiring the demonstration of certain Credit Points 12 personal qualities, and are deemed to be critical to Ultrasound progress in your course. Failure to successfully Campus Gardens Point (CSN023 or PCN359) and (CSN031 complete the requirements of this unit may lead to a Pre-requisites Gardens Point period of probation or exclusion from this course. or PCN497-2) Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents PCN459 This unit includes the ultrasound techniques used to Credit Points 12 examine the head, neck and peripheral organs and CSN032 Cardiac Ultrasound Campus External the ultrasonic appearance of normal and abnormal External anatomy and pathology. It also includes ultrasound Clinical Practice 2 Availabilities - SEM-2 techniques in advanced obstetrics and gynaecology (CSN023 or PCN359) and CSN024. and in the abdomen. Pre-requisites CSN024 can be studied in the same Cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) is a highly teaching period as CSN032 specialised technique for the assessment of the human heart and is a technique that is continues to Equivalents PCN597-1, PCN597-2 undergo considerable technological advancements. CSN028 Vascular Ultrasound Credit Points 12 This unit extends and builds on the content of units (CSN033 or PCN159) and (CSN027 Pre-requisites Campus External CSN022 and CSN024 by introducing more advanced or PCN356) External applications of echocardiography. In particular, this Availabilities unit covers the role of echocardiography in the Equivalents PCN355 - SEM-2 assessment of more complex cardiac diseases such Credit Points 12 This is the second in a series of two clinical practice as diastolic dysfunction, pericardial disease, cardiac Campus Gardens Point units that will assist you to develop knowledge, skills masses, systemic diseases with cardiac involvement and attributes required for safe, competent practice in Gardens Point and congenital heart defects. In addition, this unit also Availabilities the health workplace as a beginning level cardiac - SEM-1 covers new and evolving echocardiographic sonograpaher. Learning outcomes of this unit build on modalities as well as the role of other diagnostic This unit includes the principles and equipment your past clinical experiences and inform your future imaging tests in cardiac assessment. requirements of ultrasound applications in the development and progression though the course. This cardiovascular system. It also includes the clinical unit focuses on the clinical application of the techniques and diagnostic criteria of such theoretical concepts learned in other units to date applications, in particular those of the peripheral throughout the course. In this unit, basic skills are CSN025 Principles of Medical arterial and venous systems. refined and expanded, and advanced Ultrasound echocardiographic skills are developed through Equivalents PCN162 employment and training in a QUT approved clinical department. This is a designated unit. Designated Credit Points 12 CSN029 Advanced Ultrasound units include professional experience units, units Campus Gardens Point and External Topics requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring the demonstration of certain personal Gardens Point (CSN033 or PCN197-2) and qualities, and are deemed to be critical to progress in - SEM-1 Pre-requisites Availabilities (CSN027 or PCN356) your course. Failure to successfully complete the External Equivalents PCN357 requirements of this unit may lead to a period of - SEM-1 probation or exclusion from this course. Credit Points 12 This unit is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the physical processes Campus Gardens Point involved in producing an ultrasound image, the Gardens Point Availabilities features of ultrasound equipment and the role and - SEM-1 CSN033 Medical Ultrasound responsibilities of the sonographer in producing a Clinical Practice 1 diagnostic examination. Topics include general The aim of the unit is to provide you with a detailed scanning principles and considerations, care of understanding of the techniques involved in Pre-requisites CSN025 and CSN026 equipment, physics of ultrasound, ultrasound conducting an ultrasound examination in advanced Equivalents PCN197-1,PCN197-2 obstetric applications. You will also be introduced to equipment features, image production and Credit Points 12 processing, artefacts, image recording methods, the applications of ultrasound techniques in quality control, biological hazards and safety issues, paediatrics. New and evolving applications of Campus External ultrasound will be introduced. principles of Doppler ultrasound, care of the patient External Availabilities and communication issues. - SEM-2 Medical ultrasound is a highly specialised technique CSN031 Cardiac Ultrasound for the assessment of many areas of the human body CSN026 Ultrasonic Examination Clinical Practice 1 and the developing fetus. This clinical practice unit is an essential component of the course as it allows the 1 (CSN021 or PCN155) and CSN022. student to be involved in extensive clinical experience Co-requisites CSN025 Pre-requisites CSN022 can be studied in the same that is complementary to other units in the course. teaching period as CSN031 Equivalents PCN159 Equivalents PCN497-1, PCN497-2 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point CSN034 Medical Ultrasound Campus External Gardens Point Clinical Practice 2 Availabilities External - SEM-1 Availabilities (CSN028 or PCN355) and (CSN029 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites The unit addresses the normal and abnormal or PCN357) anatomy and functions related to gynaecology and This is the first in a series of two clinical practice units Equivalents PCN297-1,PCN297-2 that will assist you to develop knowledge, skills and obstetrics, the ultrasonic techniques used and the Credit Points 12 appearance of related images. It includes a study of attributes required for safe, competent practice in the the technique used in the ultrasonic examination of health workplace as a beginning level cardiac Campus External sonograpaher. Learning outcomes of this unit build on the abdomen including the appearance on the External your past clinical experiences and inform your future Availabilities ultrasound image of normal abdominal anatomy and - SEM-2 its alteration by pathological processes. development and progression though the course. This unit focuses on the clinical application of the This unit builds on the skills, knowledge and abilities theoretical concepts learned in other units to date gained in the unit CSN033. Medical ultrasound is a throughout the course (CSN021, CSN022 and highly specialised technique for the assessment of CSN027 Ultrasonic Examination CSN025). In this unit, basic skills are refined and many areas of the human body and the developing expanded, and advanced echocardiographic skills are fetus. This unit is an essential component of the 2 developed through employment and training in a QUT course as it allows the student to be involved in Pre-requisites CSN026 and CSN025 approved clinical department. This is a designated extensive clinical experience that is complementary to Co-requisites CSN033 unit. Designated units include professional experience all other units in the course. units, units requiring the development of particular
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Credit Points 12 CVB204 Organic Structure and Campus Gardens Point Mechanisms Gardens Point CSN500 Podiatric Therapeutics Availabilities - SEM-1 (CVB101 or SCB111) and (SCB121 1 Pre-requisites or CVB102) and (SCB131 or Anti-requisites LSB584, PUB662 This unit provides detailed coverage of the chemistry CVB102) of inorganic compounds with particular emphasis on Anti-requisites PQB401 Credit Points 24 the bonding in complexes of transition metals, Campus Kelvin Grove including valence bond theory and orbital Credit Points 12 hybridisation, coordination theory and crystal field Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point Availabilities theory. Aspects of molecular geometry and symmetry - SEM-2 Gardens Point are also developed. The chemistry of inorganic Availabilities - compounds and transition metal complexes is - SEM-2 introduced and explored deeply. The unit builds on This unit builds on the organic chemistry knowledge the fundamental concepts introduced in the first year and laboratory skills gained in CVB101 and CVB 102. units "General Chemistry" and "Chemical Structure The deeper understanding of reaction mechanisms, CSN501 Podiatric Therapeutics and Reactivity" and prepares you for the final instrumental characterisation and stereochemistry are 2 semester units "Coordination Chemistry" and the important in facets of all subsequent chemistry units. major capstone project "Chemical Research". Perhaps most importantly, this unit will be used as the Pre-requisites CSN500 foundation for advanced studies in organic chemistry Credit Points 24 such as CVB 301Organic Chemistry: Strategy for Campus Kelvin Grove Synthesis and potentially your capstone research CVB202 Analytical Chemistry project in CVB304 Chemistry Research Project. Kelvin Grove Availabilities (CVB101 or SCB111) and (SCB121 - SEM-1 Pre-requisites or CVB102) and (SCB131 or - CVB102) Equivalents PQB312 CVB210 Chemical Measurement Credit Points 12 Science CVB101 General Chemistry Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites CZB190 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Gardens Point Equivalents SCB111 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit is an introduction to modern chemical analysis, including some common instrumental This unit introduces students to the underlying Campus Gardens Point techniques, which are firmly linked to the theory and concepts of quality in testing and calibration for Gardens Point Availabilities practice of the discipline in a modern, working chemical instrumental or wet-chemical laboratory - SEM-1, SEM-2 laboratory. You will gain essential analytical and measurements. It introduces the student to the deductive skills for chemical science as well as Chemistry deals with the fundamental building blocks internationally-recognised quality framework of laboratory-based experience in sampling, treatment of of our universe. An understanding of chemistry is ISO/IEC 17025-2005 for testing and calibration in the samples, principles and practice of making high- essential to understanding our world and to context of a practical laboratory program which makes quality chemical measurements with chromatographic addressing big challenges faced by our society. The the connection between the theory and practice in a and spectroscopic instrumentation. This unit further knowledge and skills you will learn in this unit, relevant manner. The understanding and skills in develops your knowledge and technical laboratory complemented by CVB102 Chemical Structure and quality measurement are complemented by further skills in chemical instrumentation and analysis. It links Reactivity, provide the broad foundation to progress related studies in introductory chemometrics, process to the work previously undertaken in CVB101 General to more specialised topics in analytical, inorganic, and analytical chemistry and laboratory automation, Chemistry and prepares you for the final semester physical chemistry. together with a practical/workshop program in these major capstone unit CVB304 Chemistry Research areas. The practicals and workshops give the student Project. the opportunity to develop technical skills, analytical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills. CVB102 Chemical Structure For instance, practicals and workshops will demonstrate how near-infrared chemical and Reactivity CVB203 Physical Chemistry measurements can be used to determine the octane Anti-requisites CZB190, LQB180 (CVB101 or SCB111) and (SCB121 number of fuels using chemometric-calibration techniques and, importantly, to define the quality of Equivalents SCB121 Pre-requisites or CVB102) and (SCB131 or CVB102) those measurements. Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites PCB354, PCB405 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents PQB401 Gardens Point Availabilities CVB211 Industrial Chemistry - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Equivalents PQB623 Campus Gardens Point Chemistry relates to all aspects of our lives. An Credit Points 12 Gardens Point understanding of chemistry is needed to make sense Availabilities of our world and to address big challenges faced by - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point our society. Together with its companion unit General Gardens Point Chemistry is ultimately the study of change. Changes Availabilities Chemistry, this unit provides you with a foundation in of state, the mixing of substances, chemical reactions - SEM-2 the science of Chemistry. It builds on the fundamental and spectroscopic transitions are manifestations of This unit focuses on technologies central to the scientific concepts and skills introduced in first change on an atomic and molecular level. This unit semester. For Chemistry majors, it provides modern chemical industry such as catalysis and provides the tools to quantitatively analyse changes zeolites. Catalysts are used in the manufacture of 90 grounding in the sub-discipline of organic chemistry accompanying a wide variety of chemical and that you will encounter in second and third year. For % of all chemicals produced in the world today. As physical transformations. The fundamental factors such, students will be introduced to the basic theories students majoring in Biology, it provides the chemical that govern the extents (equilibria) and rates (kinetics) framework necessary for the understanding of the of catalysis and surface science. These theories will of chemical reactions can be understood in these then be expanded into industrial practice by behaviour of organic molecules in complex biological terms. The aim of this unit is to demonstrate how systems. discussion of real world industries such as methanol, reactions and chemical processes can be described, ammonia, formaldehyde and nitric acid synthesis. The quantified and understood using macroscopic drive towards the implementation of green chemistry concepts and through understanding of molecular will also be shown and the translation of "old CVB201 Inorganic Chemistry systems at the microscopic level. chemistry" into modern sustainable processes illustrated. (CVB101 and CVB102) or (SCB111 Pre-requisites and (SCB121 or CVB102)) Anti-requisites PCB334 Equivalents PQB331
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been broadened from a more traditional chemistry calibration, in the context of a practical laboratory CVB212 Industrial Analytical focus to include modern and special types of analysis program. Chemistry of importance to forensic science. (CVB101 or SCB111) and (SCB121 Pre-requisites or CVB102) and (SCB131 or CVB225 Forensic Biology and CVB102) CVB218 Drug Discovery and Equivalents PQB313 Analytical Toxicology Design Anti-requisites LQB680, PQB680 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Modern chemical industry requires comprehensive This unit provides a brief introduction to the history analytical measurement relating to the raw materials, The extensive use of biological evidence to identify and evolution of drug discovery, including the role of process streams and outputs in order to control victims and offenders as well as indicate attempts to the pharmaceutical industry, to current-day methods quality and to confer error prevention. This unit control victims prior to abuse or attack has had a including rational computer-aided drug design, drug develops your knowledge and application of the significant bearing, in recent years, on the course of targets and screening libraries. Case studies may fundamental principles of Analytical Chemistry upon law enforcement investigations, criminal court include synthetic hormones, narcotics, which modern industrial analysis techniques are proceedings, and victim service provider issues. DNA chemotherapeutic agents and performance- based. This unit is complementary to the more evidence arguably has become the most well known enhancing compounds. You will be introduced to the empirical approach adopted in "CVB202 Analytical type of forensic evidence, probably because it can be concepts of chemical structure and structure-activity Chemistry", providing you with grounding in the theory uniquely identifying and because it is the genetic relationships. The unit complements 'Drug Action' and practice of qualitative, quantitative gravimetric blueprint of the human body. In addition, analytical offered in the same semester. and wet chemical analysis; together with toxicology has become an essential tool to identify spectrometric and electrochemical methods of some the conditions under which a crime was analysis for a wide range of industrial applications attempted. For these reasons, DNA, Osteology and including foods and beverages, mining, metals, waste CVB220 Process Principles Toxicology evidence have become a highly influential waters and related areas. This unit develops your piece of the crime puzzle. In this unit the students will theoretical and applied knowledge of chemical Credit Points 12 be introduced to the concepts of DNA profiling and analysis and further develops your technical and Campus Gardens Point analytical toxicology and their applications in forensic laboratory skills in sample treatment, gravimetric and case work. The students will develop the necessary Gardens Point wet chemical methods of analysis. It links to work Availabilities skills for analysing and interpreting the DNA and - SEM-2 undertaken in CVB101 General Chemistry, prepares toxicology evidences. The students will also be you for the 3rd year unit CVB320 Instrumental - introduced to the basic concepts of forensic Analysis and the final semester major capstone unit anthropology. This will be through the study of the CVB304 Chemistry Research Project, as well as a theory, hands-on practices relevant to real life career in a chemically-based industry or industry- scenarios as well as training on the forensic related research. CVB221 Unit Operations interpretation of the evidence. Equivalents PQB525 Credit Points 12 CVB215 Criminalistic and Campus Gardens Point CVB301 Organic Chemistry: Gardens Point Physical Evidence Availabilities Strategies for Synthesis - SEM-1 Equivalents SCB384 Pre-requisites CVB101 and CVB102 and CVB204 Credit Points 12 This unit fosters a deeper understanding of the unit Equivalents PQB531 operations which are the main components in process Campus Gardens Point flow diagrams. The students will be introduced to Credit Points 12 Gardens Point among other concepts in the water and wastewater Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 treatment industry disinfection, filtration, ion Gardens Point Availabilities exchange, adsorption and desalination. - SEM-1 Criminalistics is the definitive source for forensic Complementary theory regarding mass and heat science because it makes the technology of the transfer operations will also be used to ultimately This advanced unit complements and further modern crime laboratory clear to the non-scientist. provide a comprehensive overview of water treatment develops the concepts introduced in CVB102 This unit will introduce the students to the realm of and chemical processes. This unit aims to bridge the "Chemical Structure and Reactivity" and CVB204 forensics and its role in criminal investigations. The gap between academic learning and industrial "Organic Structure and Reaction Mechanisms". The student will be introduced physical evidence practice. Examples relating to key industries such as main focus of this unit is on the strategies chemists collection, preservation and analysis techniques. The the coal seam gas, mining, manufacturing and employ in the synthesis of complex molecules. This unit will bring to the students comprehensive hands- wastewater sectors will be provided and cutting edge will provide the necessary practical and theoretical on experience in questioned documents examination, problems discussed. Students will learn the key skills skills for those of you wanting to continue your fingerprinting, crime scene investigations and facial which industry expects graduates to possess in order exploration of organic chemistry as a capstone project recognition. to rapidly integrate into project teams. in CVB304 Chemistry Research Project.
CVB216 Forensic Chemistry CVB222 Forensic Analysis of CVB302 Applied Physical Anti-requisites PQB684 Bio-active Compounds Chemistry Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites CVB203 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Equivalents PQB502 Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Forensic Chemistry is a special field of chemistry This unit provides you with an introduction to the dedicated to the analysis of matter and substances Gardens Point basics of analytical testing, detection and Availabilities that may have been used in unlawful activities, - SEM-1 identification of synthetic and natural bio-active abused or caused harm to individuals or the public. A substances that are frequently encountered in Physical chemistry is a discipline of chemistry in forensic chemist is a professional chemist who pharmaceutical, forensic and environmental which the physical factors which govern chemical analyzes evidence that is brought in from crime industries. You will also be introduced to biomedical reactions are described, quantified and explored. scenes and reaches a conclusion based on tests run informatics as applied to the discovery of new After an introduction to thermochemistry and the on that piece of evidence. In the Forensic Chemistry diagnostic techniques. The unit will introduce modern principles that govern the macroscopic behaviour of unit, students will gain expertise in all the major instrumental analytical platforms such as solids, liquids and gases, the fundamental physical branches of chemistry (organic, inorganic, physical spectroscopy, chromatography and immunoassay. properties which determine the extent of reaction of and especially analytical) as related to forensic The unit will also outline the internationally-recognised pure substances are illustrated. These investigations. The analytical aspect of the course has quality framework of ISO/IEC 17025 for testing and thermodynamic principles are extended to mixtures
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units substances and the properties of solutions. allow students to develop technical skills such as: sample collection and treatment; using modern instruments, including atomic spectrometric and IC instruments for inorganic elemental analysis, GC, GC- DAB110 Architectural Design 1 CVB303 Coordination MS and HPLC instruments for organic components. DAB103 can be studied in the same Pre-requisites Chemistry teaching period as DAB110 Pre-requisites CVB201 Equivalents ADB001 Equivalents PQB631 CVB320 Instrumental Analysis Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites CVB202 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents PQB513 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point This unit offers a broad introduction to the field of design as applied to architecture. It uses Gardens Point This unit provides detailed coverage of the chemistry Availabilities developmental exercises to enhance student of coordination compounds. Topics include - SEM-1 perceptions of the built environment in a problem organometallic chemistry, including metal-carbon Modern instrumental methods are capable of based learning environment. Analysis of the bonding, main group and transition metal producing large quantities of data and it is becoming constructed environment leads to a number of design organometallics and applications of organometallic common practice to use data driven chemometic and projects that engage with issues of context, tectonics, compounds in synthetic chemistry; bioinorganic cheminformatics techniques as an adjunct to planning, form, and spatial quality. Orthogonal chemistry; structure and applications of coordination instrumental analysis. These techniques are drawing exercises, freehand sketching, presentation polymers (also known as metal-organic-frameworks); introduced through a project-based investigation of graphics and model making all form part of the unit physical methods of structure determination, such as bio-analytically related datasets where you develop content. Teaching and learning activities are spread single crystal X- ray diffraction; and electronic understanding of applications of instrumental analysis across lectures, tutorials, and studio based activities. spectroscopy and spectroscopic terms. The unit and further develop your analytical thinking, problem- builds on the concepts developed in CVB201 solving, communication and deductive skills using Inorganic Chemistry and complements final year units real-world examples. This unit builds upon the in the chemistry major. theoretical and practical framework for chemical DAB203 Architectural analysis in the unit CVB202 Analytical Chemistry to Visualisation 2 develop advanced instrumental and analysis Pre-requisites DAB103 techniques for modern laboratory practice. CVB304 Chemistry Research Equivalents DEB203 Project Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites CVB202 and CVB301 and CVB302 CZB190 Chemistry for Health Campus Gardens Point Co-requisites CVB303 Gardens Point Sciences Availabilities Equivalents PQB642 - SEM-2 Anti-requisites CVB101, CVB102 Credit Points 12 The unit DAB103 introduced you to the skills and Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point techniques needed to support design visualisation Campus Gardens Point with a focus on analogue media and drawing skills. Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point This unit continues that process of skills development, - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 and integrates digital techniques (computer aided In this unit you will be engaged on a chemistry project design) with analogue approaches; further developing that is selected from a range of topics in exciting new The study of chemistry forms an important foundation your ability to imagine and test architectural designs areas of relevance to modern chemistry and chemical for all students of the health sciences. The through visual mean. technology. Examples may include, but are not organisation of the human body begins with necessarily limited to nanotechnology, drug design, chemicals (atoms and molecules) making up its free-radical chemistry and trace metal speciation in simplest or smallest scale level of organisation. environmental and biological systems. The unit will Chemistry allows us to understand how cells, tissues DAB210 Architectural Design 2 involve a self-directed project in which you synthesize and organs are formed, how these substances react DAB203. DAB203 can be studied in the knowledge, skills and techniques developed with each other and their environment, and how these Pre-requisites the same teaching period as during your chemistry major. In the process, you will substances behave. This unit will develop the DAB210 essential concepts of chemistry necessary for be expected to critically review relevant literature Equivalents ADB002 sources, demonstrate understanding and depth of students studying health and biological science with knowledge and provide a clear, coherent topics introduced and applied in a contextualised Credit Points 12 manner relevant to their disciplines. As part of your communication of the chemical project outcomes. The Campus Gardens Point project will provide you with the opportunity to early biomedical science training, you need to explore the chemical composition of the human body and Gardens Point articulate societal and ethical implications of the Availabilities - SEM-2 profession of chemistry as part of the written project have an understanding of chemical processes relevant to biology. This unit will form an essential report. This unit offers a focused introduction to the field of foundation to further study in the areas of health design through engagement with the explicit process sciences. of design as applied to architecture. It uses developmental exercises to enhance student CVB313 Environmental perceptions of the built environment in a problem Analytical Chemistry DAB103 Architectural based learning environment. Architectural design as a manageable process in explored through a number of Pre-requisites CVB202 Visualisation 1 exercises and design projects. Discrete steps in the Credit Points 12 Equivalents DEB103 process of architectural design are made explicit Campus Gardens Point through staged activities that build to a complete Credit Points 12 design project. Orthogonal drawing exercises, Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point freehand sketching, presentation graphics, and model - SEM-2 making all form part of the unit content. Teaching and Gardens Point Availabilities learning activities are spread across lectures, Analytical chemistry of the environmental provides the - SEM-1 tools and techniques necessary to make quantitative tutorials, and studio based activities. measurements of the extent of environmental Architects work in three dimensions and thus employ alteration by natural or man-made means. Principal a variety of tools to think about and communicate areas of study include the analytical and instrumental three-dimensional ideas. This unit introduces you to methods used in measuring: air pollution; water the basic skills and techniques you'll need to support DAB220 Architecture, Culture pollution; soil and sediment contamination; and this design visualisation with a focus on analogue media, simple model making, and fundamental and Place pesticide residue contamination in agriculture. Equivalents DAB420 Students will become familiar with the methods of drawing skills; both technical and analysis through the lectures as well as a expressive/exploratory. Credit Points 12 complementary laboratory practical program. This will Campus Gardens Point
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Gardens Point Availabilities in a problem based learning environment. A particular - SEM-2 DAB403 Architectural emphasis is placed on the introduction of knowledge The concept of place is highly significant to Visualisation 3 and skills to design a technologically enhanced architectural thought and production. This introductory Pre-requisites DAB203 architectural space with the aid of digitally mediated tools and methods while design theory, sustainability, unit surveys the concept of place in the discourse and Credit Points 12 practice of architecture and explores how place is in sociology, history and critique, as they all apply to understood, interpreted and made in a range of Campus Gardens Point architectural design, all form part of the unit content. Design projects require synthesis of a range of cultural, historical and physical contexts. Gardens Point Availabilities abstract issues to achieve focused architectural - SEM-2 proposals. Teaching and learning activities are spread Architects recognise that visualisation or across lectures, tutorials, and studio based activities. DAB310 Architectural Design 3 communication of process, decisions and outcomes is crucial. To date, you have learnt how to effectively Pre-requisites DAB110 communicate your architectural intentions using both Equivalents ADB003 analogue and digital means. However, the skills you DAB611 Architectural Design 6 Credit Points 12 have acquired have been primarily intended for the Pre-requisites DAB410 communication of design. For architects, the ability to Equivalents ADB006, DAB610, DAH610 Campus Gardens Point communicate technical intentions is equally important. Gardens Point As such, this unit will equip you with technical Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 communication and documentation skills using Campus Gardens Point Building Information Modelling (BIM). This intermediate level unit in architectural design Gardens Point Availabilities uses developmental exercises to enhance student - SEM-2 perceptions of the built environment in a problem based learning environment. Design problems of DAB410 Architectural Design 4 This unit will develop greater complexity in increased complexity are tackled through a process of architectural design skills in an urban context with a Pre-requisites DAB210 abstraction, experimentation, representation, focus on ethical and sustainable design solutions and imagination, and testing. Advanced orthogonal Equivalents ADB004 practice. This requires the synthesis of issues, ideas, knowledge and techniques of architectural design as drawing, freehand sketching, presentation graphics, Credit Points 12 documentation techniques, and model making all form a holistic practice. part of the unit content. Teaching and learning Campus Gardens Point activities are spread across lectures, tutorials, Gardens Point Availabilities workshops and studio based activities. - SEM-2 DAB810 Architectural Design 8 This unit offers an intermediate level investigation into Equivalents ADB008 the field of design as applied to architecture. It uses Credit Points 12 DAB325 Architecture in the developmental exercises to enhance student perceptions of the built environment in a problem Campus Gardens Point 20th Century based learning environment. Complex design Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents ADB011 problems deal with issues of social context, ethics, - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 values, as well as the physical constraints of site, materials, climate, and technology. Design projects This unit offers an advanced level investigation into Campus Gardens Point require the management of conflicting constraints to the field of design as applied to architecture, with particular building type or architectural topic. The unit Gardens Point achieve optimal design proposals. Precedence, Availabilities draws on the breadth of knowledge students have - SEM-1 typologies, research and analysis, and representation techniques all form part of the unit content. Teaching attained through the process of their architectural Designers in any discipline should possess the ability and learning activities are spread across lectures, education. On completion of this unit you will be able to appreciate the history of art, design and tutorials, and studio based activities. to: Demonstrate your understanding of the design architecture. In addition, they should be able to process. Demonstrate your development of a range of analyse developments in design history from multiple critical, analytical and speculative research skills perspectives. This unit is a survey course of the applicable to architectural design projects. Establish a history and theory of architecture from the beginning DAB435 Architectural defensible position in relation to an architectural of the 20th century to the present. Teaching and problem and to speculate, design and argue from that learning takes place through three forms of structured Technology 1 position. Demonstrate your development of activity: lectures, tutorials, and online. Credit Points 12 judgement that enables the identification of Campus Gardens Point opportunities that inform architectural design decisions. Gardens Point Availabilities DAB330 Integrated - SEM-2 Technologies 1 The unit will explore various forms of domestic DAH525 Architecture and the Credit Points 12 construction with particular reference to general properties of building materials, common construction City Campus Gardens Point practices used in dwellings, single storey and class 10 Equivalents ADB013, DAB525 Gardens Point buildings. Comparison of building systems and their Availabilities - SEM-1 effect on domestic building design will be explored in Credit Points 12 detail. Students will be introduced to the construction Campus Gardens Point This is the first discipline-based unit in the Technology aspects of the BCA including its housing provisions Gardens Point and Science design stream, through the introduction and associated codes for all types of buildings to Availabilities and application of the architectural principles for assist to achieve the requirements for building - SEM-1 Environmental Design (including sustainability, approvals. This unit aims to give a comprehensive overview of lighting, and acoustics), Construction, and Structures. issues and techniques relevant to architectural design It introduces students to the basic technologies and at an urban scale. Teaching and learning activities are sciences associated with architectural practice and in spread across lectures, tutorials, and studio based particular technical skills required for simple design DAB511 Architectural Design 5 activities. projects. Thermal characteristics of building materials, Pre-requisites DAB310 bioclimatic chart analysis, climate and climatic elements as environmental factors influencing Equivalents ADB005, DAB510, DAH510 architectural design, basic climatic regions and Credit Points 12 DAH530 Integrated climate responsive building design, solar heating and cooling of buildings, thermal performance analysis, Campus Gardens Point Technologies 2 environmentally sustainable building materials, colour, Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites DAB435 natural and artificial lighting, ventilation, and - SEM-1 Equivalents ADB024, DAB530 condensation will be forming the Environmental This unit offers a focused intermediate level Design topics. Credit Points 12 investigation into the field of design as applied to architecture. It uses developmental exercises to Campus Gardens Point enhance student perceptions of the built environment
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Gardens Point Availabilities advanced techniques for the design of proficiency. It uses developmental exercises to - SEM-1 environmentally friendly, sustainable, and healthy enhance and extend student perceptions of the built The aim of the structure segment of the unit is to buildings. This unit provides the opportunity to environment in a problem-based learning familiarize students with the qualitative influences of demonstrate attainment of all of the course learning environment. Design projects require synthesis of a structural systems on the design development of outcomes. range of abstract issues to achieve focused buildings. In particular the possibilities and limits of architectural proposals, explored and developed to a building structure are explored in relation to professional standard. architectural intention through the use of exemplar. The aim of the construction segment is to familiarize DAN101 Master Studio A students with various construction systems used in Credit Points 24 DAN235 Project Management medium-rise commercial buildings. Here the Campus Gardens Point emphasis is on the criteria to be used for the selection Credit Points 12 Gardens Point of appropriate systems and their associated materials. Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point This unit offers a focused high level investigation into Availabilities - SEM-2 the field of design as applied to architecture through DAH635 Architectural the investigation of a complex design problem. It uses This unit introduces and consolidates key issues in Technology 2 developmental exercises to enhance student understanding an architect's management of perceptions of the built environment in a problem architectural projects. The unit examines various Pre-requisites DAB530 or DAH530 based learning environment. Design theory, phases of the project management process including Equivalents ADB025, DAB635 sustainability, sociology, history and critique, as they inception, schematic design, design development, all apply to architectural design, all form part of the documentation, contract administration and Credit Points 12 unit content. Design projects require synthesis of a completion and special emphasis is given to the types Campus Gardens Point range of abstract issues to achieve focused of specialist professional writing required at each of Gardens Point architectural proposals. these stages. For example, you will investigate: why Availabilities - SEM-2 and how architects conduct feasibility studies for prospective projects, project programing, how It is a fundamental task of architectural design to architects conduct post occupancy evaluations of achieve the comfort requirements of the users. This DAN125 Contemporary constructed projects, journalistic writing, professional unit aims to promote students' understanding and Architectural Culture correspondence and the importance of this practice awareness of the control of indoor conditions through for continuing professional development. the effective design and integration of building Equivalents ADN014, ADB014 services. Students will participate in a simulated office Credit Points 12 practice, producing Building Code of Australia compliant construction documentation for low-rise Campus Gardens Point DAN245 Contract buildings. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Administration Equivalents ADN033, ADB033 This unit provides the opportunity for the students to DAH710 Architectural Design 7 become aware of and to debate the innovative and Credit Points 12 advanced projects and critical thinking in the Pre-requisites DAB510 or DAB511 or DAH510 Campus Gardens Point international field of architecture of the contemporary Gardens Point Equivalents ADB007, DAB710 time. It provides the framework in which the student Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 can locate individual research and design activities. It prepares the student to make informed and creative This unit reinforces, builds upon and consolidates Campus Gardens Point decisions in professional life. Teaching and learning prior learning concerning the documentation and Gardens Point takes place through three forms of structured activity: contract administration of architectural building Availabilities - SEM-1 lectures, tutorials, and online. projects. The unit is delivered in two key modules. Module 1 provides a detailed understanding of the This unit offers an advanced level investigation into organisation, structure and management of setting up the field of design as applied to architecture, with an architectural office. Module 2 examines various particular focus on Urban Design issues that come to DAN145 Architectural forms of contracts, emerging codes and standards bear in the design of a building. On completion of this Professional Practice that must be adhered to in Australia, the contract unit you should be able to; demonstrate, through your administration phase of projects, and includes a project work, your understanding of cities and an Credit Points 12 review of the laws and statutory regulations that awareness of the forces shaping their development. Campus Gardens Point control the practice of architecture. Demonstrate that you have developed critical, Gardens Point analytical and speculative research skills applicable to Availabilities urban situations. Adopt a reasoned position in relation - SEM-1 to an architectural problem and to argue, speculate This unit introduces and consolidates key issues in DEB100 Design and and design from that position. Demonstrate discourses about the professional practice and judgement that enables the identification of design Sustainability business of architecture. The unit is delivered in two opportunities at an urban scale that inform key modules. Module 1 investigates how to become BEB100, DEB200, DED100, architectural design decisions. Equivalents and what it means to be a professional registered ENB100, UDB100 architect, specifically examining the organisation and Credit Points 12 roles of the bodies that govern the profession of Campus Gardens Point DAH811 Architectural Design 8 architecture in Australia and the necessity for an ethical orientation in professional life. Module 2 Gardens Point (DAB635 or DAH635) and (DAB610 Availabilities Pre-requisites expands on this knowledge, by providing a detailed - SEM-1 or DAB611 or DAH610) understanding in the processes of professional This unit, with its special focus on the role and impact Equivalents DAN135, DAN230 relations, with a specific focus on leadership skills, of designers to shift society toward a more collaboration, communication, discrimination, and Credit Points 36 environmentally sustainable way of living, introduces health and wellness issues. you to essential academic and professional skills and Campus Gardens Point practices for learning to become a designer. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 DAN201 Master Studio B This unit is the final 'design studio' of the course, and Credit Points 24 DEB101 Introducing Design as such offers an advanced level investigation into the field of architectural design. This 36 credit point unit Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 allows for the in-depth development of an Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point architectural design, and its technological resolution. Availabilities - SEM-2 Gardens Point The unit draws upon all preceding units in the course, Availabilities - SEM-1 and requires detailed design development, and This unit offers a focused high level investigation into construction documentation, of a complex building. the field of design as applied to architecture through This unit offers a uniquely broad introduction to the The unit aims to promote student understanding of the investigation of a complex design problem as a field of design as applied across the design final project to demonstrate high level design
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units disciplines. It uses exercises to enhance student perceptions of the natural and human made DEB210 Advanced DED202 Introducing Design environments in a problem based learning context. Collaboration History The unit is block taught over several weeks during the Pre-requisites DEB110 or BEB210 Equivalents DEB102, DEB202 semester and will include students from a range of design disciplines participating in a four day field trip Equivalents BEB212 Credit Points 12 (students unable to attend participate in an alternative Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove program). Students work individually and in cross- Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove disciplinary teams in a stimulating and immersive Availabilities - 13TP2 environment. This unit covers content of problem Gardens Point Availabilities solving, team work, visualisation and communication, - SEM-2 This unit encompasses a broad survey of the history and environmental awareness. New digital technologies are transforming practice for of design from the civilizations of antiquity to the all building and construction professionals through the opening of the 20th century - including architecture, use of data rich integrated models that can be used industrial design, interior design and landscape architecture. It is a first year foundation unit and DEB110 Introduction to over the whole building life-cycle. This unit uses a range of Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools to serves as preparation for more detailed and Collaboration demonstrate this transformation through advanced specialized studies in history and theory in digital collaboration. subsequent years. Key designs, ideas and artefacts Equivalents BEB210 and the aesthetic, environmental, technological, Credit Points 12 socio-cultural and political factors that related to their Campus Gardens Point production will be analysed. Gardens Point DEB211 Sustainable Design Availabilities - SEM-1 Systems This unit introduces students to the foundational Equivalents BEB213 DEH701 Research Methods aspects of collaboration within the design and Credit Points 12 DAB511 or DAB510 or DAH510 or documentation of artefacts, using Building Information DNB503 or DNB501 or DTB501 or Campus Gardens Point Modelling (BIM) approach. Focusing on Pre-requisites DFH501 or KFB405 or KFB301 or multidisciplinary collaboration during the complete life Gardens Point DXB501 or KIB314 or KIB311 or Availabilities cycle of a built environment facility. This unit is an - SEM-2 DLB510 or DLB500 approach to the theory and practice of BIM software, This subject familiarises students with concepts Equivalents DEB701 exploring the translation from Computer Aided Design concerning building performance and how they inform (CAD) to BIM. This unit is also the foundation for Credit Points 12 design considerations during conceptual exploration. DEB210 Advanced Collaboration. Campus Gardens Point Software and tools that allow different aspects of Gardens Point sustainability to be analysed in the early design Availabilities stages will be introduced to demonstrate how - SEM-1 performance considerations can influence form- DEB111 Parametric Design This unit is a core unit common to architectural finding. This will contribute to the development of studies, landscape architecture, industrial design and more holistic approaches to design that result in more Systems interior design. The unit is project based and sustainable building outcomes. Equivalents BEB211 introduces students to research methods and Credit Points 12 methodologies that have relevance in design practice. It also provides a foundation for higher degree Campus Gardens Point DEB801 Professional Practice research. The content covered in this unit includes: • Gardens Point philosophical context of research in, of and through Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 design • qualitative research incorporating methodologies and methods of relevance to design • This subject introduces students to the use of Campus Gardens Point research rigour and ethics • developing a research parametric geometry systems that are used in early Gardens Point Availabilities plan • literature searching and review • data gathering stages of design. These systems allow the creation - SEM-2 and analysis • research dissemination and reporting and manipulation of complex geometry and form This unit introduces and consolidates key issues in through the definition of parameters and modelling of discourses about the design professions: the associative relationships, to provide users with differences between discipline and professional greater control over their designs. They are used by knowledge, the organisation and roles of the DEN510 Urban Design Studio A major design firms such as Zaha Hadid and Frank regulatory and professional bodies that govern the Gehry (architecture), SOM (architecture/engineering) Equivalents PSP452 professions, the cultural context for contemporary and Arup (engineering). Credit Points 12 design practice, and the values and attitudes which govern professional practice. Teaching and learning Campus Gardens Point takes place through a variety of structured activities: Gardens Point Availabilities DEB202 Introducing Design lectures, tutorials, seminars, workshops and online. - SEM-1 History This unit lays a theoretical foundation for Equivalents DEB102, DED202 postgraduate coursework and practice in urban DED100 Design and design and other professions involved in producing Credit Points 12 the built environment. It provides a critical view of the Campus Gardens Point Sustainability theory and practice for urban design as a basis for the BEB100, DEB100, DEB200, development of specialist knowledge in this field, both Gardens Point Equivalents Availabilities ENB100, UDB100 within this unit and other units within this urban design - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 program. This unit encompasses a broad survey of the history of design from the civilizations of antiquity to the Campus Kelvin Grove opening of the 20th century - including architecture, Kelvin Grove Availabilities industrial design, interior design and landscape - 13TP1, 13TP3 DEN511 Theory Research architecture. It is a first year foundation unit and This unit, with its special focus on the role and impact Project A serves as preparation for more detailed and of designers to shift society toward a more specialized studies in history and theory in Equivalents PSN211 environmentally sustainable way of living, introduces subsequent years. Key designs, ideas and artefacts Credit Points 12 you to essential academic and professional skills and and the aesthetic, environmental, technological, practices for learning to become a designer. Campus Gardens Point socio-cultural and political factors that related to their Gardens Point production will be analysed. Availabilities - SEM-1 Students will research urban design theory, drawing on literature and case studies from around the world to develop their knowledge in this area and contribute to the School of Design's research data base. This
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Kelvin Grove unit links to learnings developed in DEN510. Availabilities - SEM-2 DFB303 Unspeakable Beauty: A This unit is the second in a series of eight Fashion History of Fashion Design Studio units in the Bachelor of Design KFB105, KFB109, KFB206, Equivalents DEN520 Urban Design Studio B (Honours) Fashion program and provides further KFB408 Credit Points 12 introductory knowledge and skills for the theory and Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point practice of fashion design. Campus Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit comprises an urban design studio focussed DFB202 Introduction to Fashion on exploring issues relating to our greater region, i.e. Studio Practice This unit introduces you to the history of Western South East Asia and the Pacific Rim. The studio, fashion from the 14th century to the 21st century. The allows for the synthesis of knowledge and skills from Pre-requisites DFB101 unit will guide you to understanding key aesthetic other units in the course. It offers a problem-based Credit Points 12 changes in the history of fashion, the role of fashion in learning experience that engages with advanced defining social and cultural identity, and how fashion Campus Kelvin Grove urban design issues. The unit focuses on the design is a significant form of visual culture linked to Kelvin Grove historical, cultural and social contexts. This unit will management of the transformation and incremental Availabilities development of existing urban/suburban/town/fringe - SEM-2 introduce you to concepts that are essential to the study of history and theory of fashion. areas. This area of urban design activity has to Introduction to Fashion Studio Practice DFB202 mediate between existing development patterns, provides introductory technical skills and knowledge ownership patterns, development trends, diverse of fashion design studio practice (garment community aspirations, and professional and construction and pattern making) for the Bachelor of institutional practices. DFB304 Fashion and Costume Design (Honours) Fashion program. in Film Equivalents KFB210 DEN521 Theory Research DFB203 Sustainability: The Credit Points 12 Project B Materiality of Fashion Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Equivalents DBP501 Equivalents KFB104, KFB104-2, KFB407-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 This unit studies the relationship between fashion and Campus Gardens Point Campus Kelvin Grove its dissemination through visual culture. Magazines, Gardens Point Kelvin Grove film, photography, television and new media have Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 been fundamental to the dissemination of fashion Through this unit you will develop your research information, the construction of stardom and This unit provides an introduction to the femininity, and to the development of the fashion knowledge and capabilities in the context of Urban environmental, ethical and social issues connected to design. Knowledge from this unit will be developed in industry. This unit examines two creative media, film the production and consumption of fashion, and is and the internet. It examines how historically the parallel with DEN520 and demonstrated through intended to provide a base for students who wish to application within the design studio. cross-pollination between the Hollywood Studios, the pursue further studies in fashion. cosmetic and the clothing industries first, and, more recently, contemporary blogs and internet images have contributed to the formation of discourses of DFB101 Fashion Design Studio consumer fashion and feminine aesthetic. By DFB301 Fashion Design Studio examining internet blogs and images, the unit also 1 3 studies how fashion media have expanded Equivalents KFB101, KFB401 Pre-requisites DFB201 or KFB102 or KFB402 exponentially, with the advent of the stylist, the pr and the dissemination of fashion images as new global Credit Points 12 Equivalents KFB200, KFB201, KFB403 phenomena. Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove DFB306 Fashioning Futures Availabilities This unit is the first in a series of eight Fashion Design - SEM-1 Equivalents KFB303, KFB412 Studio units in the Bachelor of Design (Honours) Fashion program and provides introductory This unit is the third in a series of eight Fashion Credit Points 12 knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of Design Studio units in the Bachelor of Design Campus Kelvin Grove fashion design. (Honours) Fashion program and provides expanded Kelvin Grove knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of Availabilities fashion design, for industry/ professional contexts. - SEM-1 This unit aims to provide you with an opportunity to DFB102 Introduction to Fashion identify relevant issues relating to your planned career Equivalents KFB103 and to position yourselves effectively for entry to DFB302 Fashion Visualisation industry, community-based projects or postgraduate Credit Points 12 KFB107, KVB107, KVB107-2, Equivalents study. Campus Kelvin Grove KVB757-2 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove DFB401 Fashion Design Studio This unit provides an introduction to some of the Caboolture 4 complexities of the fashion system and is intended to - SEM-2 provide a base for students who wish to pursue Availabilities DFB301 or KFB200 or KFB201 or Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites further studies in fashion. - SEM-1 KFB403 Equivalents KFB202, KFB404 This unit provides introductory skills and knowledge to effectively communicate visual fashion ideas Credit Points 12 DFB201 Fashion Design Studio (including technical drawings), using both hand Campus Kelvin Grove techniques and graphic software. 2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites DFB101 or KFB101 or KFB401 - SEM-2 Equivalents KFB102, KFB402 This unit is the fourth in a series of eight Fashion Design Studio units in the Bachelor of Design Credit Points 12 (Honours) Fashion program and provides expanded Campus Kelvin Grove knowledge and skills for the theory and practice of fashion design, for societal contexts.
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 DFB602 Critical Fashion DFB402 Fashion Design: 1950 While many would see the role of the designer as an Studies integral part of any fashion brand, many of the largest Completion of 48cp of Fashion to Now fashion businesses in the industry are built on a Pre-requisites discipline units (DFB% or KFB% Equivalents KFB207 process of product development instead of traditional units) ideas of design. Rather than working from a blank Credit Points 12 Equivalents KFB305 canvas, the product developer creatively evolves Campus Kelvin Grove unique and commercial garments from existing ideas Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove and samples to create ranges that are both profitable Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities and easy to outsource for manufacture. Product - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove development requires diverse skills and knowledge in Availabilities - SEM-2 This unit provides an understanding of key theories trend analysis, range building, textile selection and and approaches to fashion design in the 20th and sourcing, garment finishing, specification sheets, This unit provides you with an understanding of 21st centuries. It builds on knowledge gained in global operations, marketing, and business to ensure current critical approaches in the analysis of fashion. DFB102 Introduction to Fashion and DFB303 successful project outcomes. By developing a It also introduces you to emerging areas of research Unspeakable Beauty: A History of Fashion and foundation of knowledge in product development this and fashion scholarship. It builds on knowledge prepares you for further studies in Fashion including unit aims to prepare students for work in commercial developed in DFB303 Unspeakable Beauty: A History DFB602 Critical Fashion Studies. fashion or to assist them with the skills for creating of Fashion and DFB402 Fashion Design: 1950 to their own product developed fashion brand. Now. This critical understanding of the fashion system prepares students for work in the industry, postgraduate research or deepening their fashion DFB403 Advanced Fashion practice. Studio Practice DFB502 Ragtrade: The DFB301 or KFB200 or KFB201 or Business of Fashion Pre-requisites KFB403 Pre-requisites DFB102 or KFB103 DFH501 Fashion Design Studio Credit Points 12 Equivalents KFB209 5 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites DFB401 or KFB202 or KFB404 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KFB301, KFB405 - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 This unit provides advanced/specialist technical skills - SEM-1 and knowledge of fashion design studio practice Campus Kelvin Grove This unit addresses the logistics of the fashion supply (garment construction and pattern making) for the Kelvin Grove chain, the timing of the fashion cycle and the new Availabilities Bachelor of Design (Honours) Fashion program. - SEM-1 ways of producing and selling fashion in a global marketplace. The fashion industry will be studied as a This unit is the fifth in a series of eight Fashion Design system that is determined by economic, political, Studio units in the Bachelor of Design (Honours) DFB404 Fashion and Style social, cultural and consumer trends and will analyse Fashion program and provides advanced knowledge the contribution it makes to the global business and skills for the theory and practice of fashion Journalism environment. Opportunities will also be identified for design, in niche/unique contexts. DFB102 or KFB103 or KJB224. career and entrepreneurial endeavours. Pre-requisites KJB224 can be enrolled in the same teaching period as DFB404 DLB100 Landscape Design 1 Equivalents KFB205, KJB339 DFB503 Textiles 2 Equivalents DLB130 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites DFB405 or XNB194 or PUB321 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents XNB196, PUB361 Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 This unit maps the scope and practice of fashion and Kelvin Grove style journalism in Australia and internationally. It will Availabilities This unit is your first landscape design studio, - SEM-1 allow you to develop the skills necessary to introducing you to foundational landscape design conceptualise and produce fashion and style editorial This unit further develops your textile knowledge and knowledge, skills, and applications. You will acquire content in a variety of styles and contexts. skills as gained in Textile Studies, and adds to your these in stages, covering a range of design principles, understanding of the role, development and impacts theories and processes which you will apply to real or of textiles in society. The unit focuses on applying simulated design scenarios. The first stage is an your skills in group and individual work in a design immersion in, and familiarisation with, landscape's DFB405 Textile Studies studio environment. structural and compositional relationships and ways to interpret and express these. Next you will learn to Equivalents XNB194, PUB321 apply basic design problem solving processes to Credit Points 12 articulate landscape design propositions in response Campus Kelvin Grove DFB601 Design Studio 6 to your interpretations. You will learn and experiment with design and discipline-specific language including Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites DFH501 or KFB301 or KFB405 Availabilities application of the representational techniques you will - SEM-2 Equivalents KFB302, KFB406 learn in the co-requisite unit DLB103 Visualisation 1. In this unit scientific understandings, production Credit Points 24 This studio prepares you for the ongoing series of techniques and design skills related to textiles are landscape design studio units. Campus Kelvin Grove explored. These are applied to written and practical Kelvin Grove individual textile projects. Availabilities - SEM-2 DLB103 Landscape This unit is the capstone Design Studio experience DFB406 Product Design and and aims to provide students with the opportunity to Visualisation 1 synthesise prior learning, within university and the Equivalents DEB103 workplace, through the production of a final year Development in the Fashion Credit Points 12 project. Within this unit students develop confidence Industry and the ability to work with minimal supervision in Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites DFB102 or KFB103 preparation for graduation. Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents KFB211 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This unit introduces you to foundational manual (non- Campus Kelvin Grove digital) landscape visualisation skills and applications. Visualisation is the ability to imagine and give form to
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units design ideas. Landscape designers work in four and the technical manipulation of existing or This introductory level unit builds on the foundational dimensions and thus employ a variety of tools to think constructed landforms. These principles and skills are knowledge of design history you learnt in DEB202. In about and communicate three- and four-dimensional fundamental underpinnings of design in landscape it, you will explore theories of environment and ideas. This unit introduces you to the skills and architecture due to landform's influence on: spatiality, behaviour, place-making and environmental techniques you'll need to support this design use and experience, soil and water interaction, and psychology, including how people perceive and visualisation with a focus on analogue (non-digital) construction. From this foundation, many of the respond to landscapes both individually and media, manual drawing skills and simple model subsequent technical, social and environmental collectively. You will learn about a wide range of making. You will learn and experiment with design elements of landscape design can be understood. foundational concepts developed from the 1960s to and discipline-specific language including application DLB240 continues your DLB100 design learning at a the present, regarding human interactions and of these representational techniques in the co- finer scale of detail and precision including site relationships with the environment, essential to the requisite unit DLB100. This pairing of units prepares regrading, surface water management and site formulation of sustainable landscape design you for the ongoing series of landscape design studio preparation for planting. This unit will extend the propositions. You will explore and apply this units. technical graphics and communication skills knowledge in stages, including a site-specific project developed in DLB103. The unit also prepares you for to develop your critical thinking and research skills. your second year, intermediate level unit in landscape This unit extends the communication techniques you construction, DLB440. learnt in DEB100 to a wider range of written and DLB200 Landscape Design 2 visual methods of investigation and communication. It Equivalents DLB210 prepares you for further expansion of your intermediate level design understanding and skills in Credit Points 12 DLB300 Landscape Design 3 DLB400 and independent interpretation of the effects Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites DLB100 of past and present landscape designs in your third Gardens Point year unit DLB525. Availabilities Equivalents DLB310 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit is your second introductory level landscape Campus Gardens Point design studio, building on the foundational DLB400 Landscape Design 4 Gardens Point knowledge, skills and applications you learnt in Availabilities Pre-requisites DLB200 DLB100 and DLB103. In it you will explore landscape - SEM-1 Equivalents DLB410 as an experiential, spatial and temporal expression of This intermediate level landscape design studio unit cultural meaning. You will experiment with the builds on the foundational knowledge, skills and Credit Points 12 interpretation and design of landscape using your own applications you learnt in first year, and in DLB325. In Campus Gardens Point body to 'read' local landscapes, and how they are it you will explore theories of environment and Gardens Point culturally designated. You will experiment with design behaviour, place-making and environmental Availabilities - SEM-2 development processes and the language of psychology, including how people perceive and landscape design to articulate new perceptions of respond to landscapes both individually and This intermediate level landscape design studio unit landscape experiences, places, times and scales, and collectively, building on your understanding of consolidates the introductory knowledge, skills and design propositions to transform the landscape. You landscape as a cultural expression developed in applications learnt in your course so far. In will experiment with application of the representational DLB200. You will engage in the application of these conjunction with DLB420, you will explore design techniques you will learn in DLB203 Visualisation 2. theories for systematic landscape appraisal and theories and processes related to urban ecology This studio prepares you for your second year, design development to articulate sustainable site- including human processes in landscape formation. intermediate level design studios, beginning with based design propositions. You will further develop You will apply these in the appraisal and design of DLB300. your application of the representational techniques site-based landscape propositions, including their learnt in DLB103 and DLB203, consolidating the sustainable integration into wider landscape systems details of landscape design communication such as the movement and exchange of people, conventions as well as experimentation. This studio capital, services, water and energy. This unit will build DLB203 Landscape prepares you for the consolidation of your on the understanding of the complexities of landscape Visualisation 2 intermediate level design skills in DLB400. you have developed through your learning to date, Equivalents DEB203 and consolidate your landscape design development and communication skills, preparing you for further Credit Points 12 expansion of your intermediate level design skills in Campus Gardens Point DLB320 Landscape Horticulture DLB500. Gardens Point Equivalents DLB230 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit introduces you to foundational digital Campus Gardens Point DLB420 Landscape Systems landscape visualisation skills and applications, and Gardens Point DLB400 (can be enrolled in the Availabilities Pre-requisites their integration with the manual skills and analogue - SEM-1 same teaching period) media you worked with in DLB103. It draws on digital Equivalents DLB330 visualisation's realist and abstract properties to This introductory level unit builds on the foundational efficiently explore and express complex landscape knowledge of environmental sustainability you learnt Credit Points 12 in DEB100, and the knowledge, skills and applications ideas. The range of software available offers you a Campus Gardens Point selection of methods to capture and rapidly explore you learnt in your first year core landscape Gardens Point the complex three-dimensional forms and ephemeral architecture units. This unit introduces you to Availabilities temporal processes (the fourth dimension) that scientific, horticultural and planting design principles - SEM-2 characterise landscapes. You will learn and and the basic plant sciences (botany, ecology and This introductory level unit builds on the foundational experiment with design and discipline-specific horticulture) including: botanical nomenclature, knowledge of environmental sustainability you learnt language including application of these morphology, plant forms, assemblages and systems, in DEB100 and DLB320. In conjunction with the unit representational techniques in the co-requisite unit and plant cultivation requirements. You will apply this DLB400, you will explore theories of landscape DLB200 Landscape Design 2. This pairing of units knowledge to develop and articulate sustainable site- ecology and regional ecosystems theory, with prepares you for your second year, intermediate level based planting design propositions, and extend the geomorphologic and human processes in landscape design studios, beginning with DLB300. communication techniques you learnt in DLB103 and formation. Landscape architects need to understand DLB203 to learn the specific conventions of planting the systems that create and are created by the design communication. This unit prepares you for landscape, and so this unit will develop your ability to your first intermediate level landscape design studio comprehend the interconnectedness of landscape DLB240 Landscape Technology DLB400 and further studies in environmental science structures, systems, processes and developments, Pre-requisites DLB103 in DLB420. essential to the formulation of sustainable landscape Equivalents DLB430 design propositions. You will apply this knowledge in a semester long landscape study project, extending Credit Points 12 DLB325 People and Place the communication techniques you learnt in DEB100 Campus Gardens Point to learn the specific conventions of scientific reporting. Credit Points 12 This unit expands your understanding of landscape Gardens Point Availabilities from a small site to a broad and holistic level, - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point preparing you for expanding your intermediate level Gardens Point This unit introduces foundational landscape Availabilities design skills in DLB500 and learning landscape - SEM-1 technologies, focusing on the principles of landform planning theory and application in DLB700.
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etc.), and the consequences for designed landscapes. documents commensurate with those produced by You will review landscape design and criticism across the profession for landscape construction contractors. world history through the lens of historiography This unit shifts your learning toward greater technical DLB440 Landscape (critical examination of history). This unit consolidates design specificity and independent application. It Construction the communication techniques you learnt in DEB100 provides a solid foundation for the critical and creative and DLB325, and prepares you for critical complexity and independence required in your final Pre-requisites DLB240 explorations of design history and theory to support year landscape design studios beginning with Equivalents DLB530 your advanced level landscape design units. DLH700. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point DLB630 Landscape DLH700 Landscape Design 7 Availabilities - SEM-2 Construction 3 Pre-requisites DLB500 This intermediate level unit builds on the foundational Pre-requisites DLB530 Equivalents DLB700, DLB710, DLB810 knowledge, skills and applications you learnt in Credit Points 12 Credit Points 24 DLB240, continuing your development towards a finer scale of detail and precision to resolve the processes Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point of landscape design construction. It introduces Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities theories of basic applied geology, physics and - SEM-2 - SEM-1 chemistry to help you analyse technical briefs and the properties of landscape elements, and to critically This unit will build on the work of previous design This advanced level 24 credit point landscape design evaluate and select appropriate materials, landform resolution units to take the student into the realm of studio unit builds on the knowledge, skills and control and construction techniques to creatively construction of larger scale landscape elements. applications developed in your landscape architecture formulate sustainable landscape design propositions Topics include: the principles and practice of water core units to date. In it you will explore advanced and implementation strategies. This unit also sensitive urban design; design and construction of theory in landscape planning to help you introduces you to basic Contract Law and how it golf courses, swimming pools; and artificial lakes and conceptualise the complex social and environmental relates to landscape architectural consultancy and earth dams; scope of contract documents; defining issues and policy frameworks that inform land landscape construction. You will extend the technical extent of works; set-out of works – horizontal and development, and the related design and planning graphic design development and communication skills vertical; site clearing, demolition and environmental theories and processes such as those emerging you developed in DLB240 into the specialised area of protection and noise control. The unit will also through landscape urbanism. In a sustained, construction documentation. This unit prepares you advance the principles and practice of contract semester-long project you will engage with a large for your third year, advanced level unit in landscape documentation including writing contract and scale site and associated complex problems of design, technology and construction, DLB600. construction specifications. planning, design and management, and independently formulate innovative and sustainable landscape planning and design propositions and implementation strategies. This unit shifts your DLB500 Landscape Design 5 DLB830 Landscape Design 8 learning toward greater complexity and independent application of advanced skills in the generation of Pre-requisites DLB300 Pre-requisites DLB730 detailed communication and presentation techniques Equivalents DLB510 Credit Points 12 commensurate with professional-level landscape Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point architectural investigation and practice. The following semester unit DLH800 will build on these skills in your Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities capstone landscape project. - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 This 12 credit point capstone landscape design unit invites you to explore and demonstrate an advanced This final intermediate level landscape design studio individual expression of the knowledge, skills and DLH800 Landscape Design 8 unit builds on the knowledge, skills and applications applications developed in your landscape architecture Pre-requisites DLH600 consolidated in DLB400. In conjunction with DLB525, core units to date. You will undertake a sustained, Equivalents DLB730, DLB830 you will explore design theories and processes semester-long project at an advanced conceptual and related to interactions between society (including schematic landscape design level, based on Credit Points 24 culture, economy and technology) and the independent research and rigorous design Campus Gardens Point environment, placing an emphasis on developing development. Understanding landscape architecture landscape speculations which address sustainability Gardens Point as a contextual and relational discipline, you will Availabilities in cultural and biophysical landscape contexts. Your formulate innovative and sustainable landscape - SEM-2 learning will involve the rigorous testing of design planning and design propositions and implementation This 24 credit point capstone landscape design unit ideas against the constraints of selected landscapes strategies to balance competing social, cultural, and briefs. You will develop and test a philosophical invites you to explore and demonstrate an advanced economic, and ecological constraints and individual expression of the knowledge, skills and basis for design exploration, engaging with opportunities. This unit substantiates your experimental design processes and self-directed applications developed in your landscape architecture independent skills in professional-level landscape core units to date. You will undertake a sustained, research. This unit shifts your learning toward greater architectural investigation and practice enabling you design complexity and independent application and semester-long thesis-style project at an advanced to engage with the wide range of projects you will conceptual and schematic landscape design level, development of your communication skills. It prepares encounter in your professional life. you to engage with advanced level landscape design based on substantial independent research and in DLB600. rigorous design development. Understanding landscape architecture as a contextual and relational discipline, you will formulate innovative and DLH600 Landscape Design 6 sustainable landscape planning and design DLB525 History and Criticism Pre-requisites DLB400 propositions and implementation strategies to balance Equivalents DEB601, DLB630 competing social, cultural, economic, and ecological of Landscape Design constraints and opportunities. This unit substantiates Credit Points 12 Credit Points 24 your independent skills in professional-level landscape architectural investigation and practice Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point enabling you to engage with the wide range of Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities projects you will encounter in your professional life. - SEM-1 - SEM-2 This intermediate level unit builds on the broad This is your first advanced level landscape design studio unit, and your first 24 credit point unit in the 4- foundational knowledge of design history in DEB202 DLH845 Professional Practice and theoretical knowledge and critical thinking and year landscape architecture course. As such, it unites research skills learnt in DLB325. Learning from the two of landscape architecture's core study areas - in Landscape Architecture Landscape Design up to DLB500, and Landscape past enriches and informs our current and future Equivalents DEB801 landscape design practice, and in conjunction with Technology / Construction in DLB240 and DLB440. DLB500, you will explore the ways history and DLH600 unites and builds on the knowledge, skills Credit Points 12 and applications of these units in a program wherein criticism inform us about interactions between society Campus Gardens Point (including culture, economy and technology) and the you will learn and explore advanced levels of design environment (materials, climate, landform, ecology, resolution through the development of technical
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Gardens Point Availabilities to gain a broader perspective of culture, and - SEM-2 understand how issues of culture influence product This capstone unit builds on understandings of legal DNB202 Product Usability design and the designer's interaction with society and and regulatory environment in which landscape diverse cultures. The content covered includes: Pre-requisites DNB101 architects operate. Design practice requires the theoretical perspectives of culture; psychological understanding and adherence to a range of ethical, Equivalents ADB212 implications of everyday human-artefact interactivity; environmental and cultural perception; changing cultural, business and legal concerns and Credit Points 12 requirements. This unit provides you with the socio-cultural landscapes; ageing population; knowledge to understand and participate in Campus Gardens Point sustainability and globalisation; potential for design to advance social changes and quality of life; and professional design practice by introducing key issues Gardens Point Availabilities psychological implications and attitudes embedded in in the design professions, including: the organisation - SEM-2 and roles of the regulatory and professional bodies product semantics and symbolics. governing the professions; the cultural and legal This unit provides you with the foundational context for contemporary design practice; essential knowledge of human-centred design approach that is skills in consultancy and construction contracts; and built upon an understanding of people and their the ethical values and attitudes which govern capabilities. The main content covered in this unit DNB401 Industrial Design 4 professional practice. An emphasis on integrated includes: anthropometrics; introductory principles of Pre-requisites DNB201 physical and cognitive ergonomic requirements; scholarship and collaborative links with other Equivalents ADB204 professions will build your capacity and resilience as usability principles; and usability evaluation methods Credit Points 12 you transition from life as a university student to life and techniques. as a beginning professional. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities DNB203 Product Visualisation 2 - SEM-2 DNB101 Industrial Design 1 Pre-requisites DNB103 This unit advances the knowledge you gained in DNB103 can be studied in the same Equivalents DEB203 DNB301 Industrial Design 3. The unit examines how Pre-requisites teaching period as DNB101 various design approaches contribute to the design of Credit Points 12 complex product or systems. Through a collaborative Equivalents ADB201 Campus Gardens Point project you will be exposed to: introduction to design Credit Points 12 research and innovation; communication skills; and Gardens Point Availabilities manufacturing technologies. Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities This unit continues developing your analogue media - SEM-1 and drawing skills gained in DNB101 Industrial Industrial design revolves around the creation of Design 1 and introduces digital and analogue DNB404 Product Technology 2 products that satisfy human needs constrained by approaches and visualisation techniques to support Pre-requisites DNB304 your industrial design projects. industrial production. This involves the manipulation Equivalents DNB303 of form with an understanding of structure, function, Credit Points 12 and aesthetics. Through projects you will be exposed to: basic design elements and principles; design DNB301 Industrial Design 3 Campus Gardens Point sketching and marker rendering; introduction to Gardens Point Pre-requisites DNB101 Availabilities research through design, design process and concept - SEM-2 development; basic model making techniques; and Equivalents ADB203 design presentation. This unit builds on the knowledge and skills you Credit Points 12 gained in DNB304 Product Technology 1 by Campus Gardens Point introducing you to advanced materials and the potentials of their application. This forms an essential Gardens Point Availabilities part of the skills and knowledge base required of you DNB103 Product Visualisation 1 - SEM-1 Equivalents DEB103 as an Industrial Design practitioner. This unit introduces you to design investigation and Credit Points 12 application of design methods to support sustainable Campus Gardens Point practices in constructed and natural environments. It covers introduction to products and systems DNB405 History, Theory and Gardens Point Availabilities differences; intermediate design methods and design - SEM-1 Criticism management. Industrial designers employ a variety of tools to think Equivalents DNB502 about and communicate three-dimensional product Credit Points 12 concepts. This unit introduces you to the skills and Campus Gardens Point techniques needed to support design visualisation, DNB304 Product Technology 1 Gardens Point focussing on analogue media, drawing skills and Equivalents DNB302, DNB303 Availabilities simple model making. - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit guides you to become aware of theoretical Campus Gardens Point and historical discourse in industrial design and to Gardens Point debate innovative and advanced ideas and critical DNB201 Industrial Design 2 Availabilities - SEM-1 thinking in the field internationally. It provides a DNB101 and DNB203. DNB203 can framework in which can locate individual design This unit builds your knowledge of the technological Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching activities. The content covered in this unit includes: aspects relevant to Industrial Design. It focuses on period as DNB201. contemporary history of industrial design; relationship providing experience and skills in the use and between social and technological change and Equivalents ADB202 application of technology as part of the design, which industrial design; contemporary design theory and Credit Points 12 is essential for your Industrial Design practice. discourse; criticism methodology; writing about Campus Gardens Point design; and learning to critique design. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 DNB305 Culture and Design This unit continues with the development of your Equivalents DNB402 DNB503 Industrial Design 5 visual and creative thinking within the context of Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites DNB401 and DNB404 industrial design with special emphasis on the Campus Gardens Point development of product symbolism. Through projects Equivalents DNB501 you will be exposed to: symbolic aspects of products; Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 24 design process methods and concept development; - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point model making and documentation skills; consideration An understanding of people and their cognitive and of materials, manufacturing, technology and Gardens Point emotive relationship with the world is essential for Availabilities sustainability; and design presentation. - SEM-1 designing responsive products and environments. This unit encourages a diversity of knowledge for you This unit introduces you to design methods and
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Gardens Point strategies to explore people's behaviours and the Availabilities context of use of everyday products. The design DNH803 Applied Design - SEM-2 approach focuses on the user experience and on Research 2 This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and developing product designs that are suitable for Pre-requisites DNH703 or DNB703 application for interior design at a foundational level. It manufacturing. Equivalents DNB701,DNB801,DNB802 links with work previously undertaken in DTB101 and DTB103 and prepares you for subsequent interior Credit Points 24 design units. DNH603 Industrial Design 6 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Pre-requisites DNB503 Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents DNB601 DTB202 Interior Technology 1 This unit requires you to apply the research proposal Credit Points 24 Equivalents ADB122 you developed in DNH703 Applied Design Research Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point 1 to the design of a product or system at a Gardens Point professional level. This is an independent project Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 reinforcing your skills of leadership and project Gardens Point Availabilities management. - SEM-2 This unit introduces you to interdisciplinary design concepts and strategies that are relevant to the As part of your foundational year studies this unit will design of future products and systems. As more introduce you to the knowledge and skills necessary products are an integration of digital and physical DNH804 Professional Practice for communicating technical information to a project interfaces, people's experiential responses must be team. The application of these skills is a fundamental addressed. To achieve this DNH603 Industrial Design in Industrial Design requirement for the practice of interior design and will 6 extends the design methods and techniques you Pre-requisites Completion of 240cp in course prepare you for visual communication practices acquired in DNB503 Industrial Design 5 by Equivalents DEB801 throughout your course. transferring them across disciplines. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point DTB203 Interior Visualisation 2 Gardens Point DNH703 Applied Design Availabilities - SEM-2 Pre-requisites DTB103 Research 1 Equivalents DEB203 This unit will focus on the introduction of the role of Pre-requisites DNH603 professional practice management and its Credit Points 12 Equivalents DNB702, DNB703 significance to industrial design. It is included in Campus Gardens Point semester 8 to compliment student design activities Credit Points 12 Gardens Point and their involvement in live projects. The major Availabilities Campus Gardens Point topics covered in this unit include: the role of - SEM-2 Gardens Point professional practice and management, management This unit advances the knowledge that you learnt in Availabilities - SEM-1 of design projects, type of contracts, the role of design DTB103 Interior Visualisation 1, focussing on administration, liability, design law; intellectual integrating digital and analogue media to visualise This unit incorporates studies of the dynamic property, designer-client relationships. and communicate design ideas and proposals. relationships between people, products/artefacts and systems, and their contextual environment. The unit will introduce you to the ways research about people can contribute to product innovation, an essential DTB101 Interior Design 1 DTB301 Interior Design 3 aspect of industrial design. It will introduce how to DTB103 can be studied in the same Pre-requisites Pre-requisites DTB201 integrate the applied research skills and knowledge teaching period as DTB101 that support the development of an innovative product Equivalents ADB103 Equivalents ADB101 or system proposal. It also provides you with the Credit Points 12 foundation for higher research degrees. The major Credit Points 12 topics covered in this unit include: human-centred Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point innovation framework application of qualitative Gardens Point research methods to industrial design; situating Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 product/ systems within the socio-cultural context; and - SEM-1 communication of research outcome. This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and This unit introduces you to knowledge, skills and application in regards to the person-environment application of design concepts and processes relationship and the implications for spatial design, as relevant to interior design at a foundational level. well as extending your knowledge of design process. DNH704 New Product In DTB301 you will investigate the fundamental aspects of transition, interiority, building character, Development site context, and materiality in relation to interior Pre-requisites DNH603 DTB103 Interior Visualisation 1 design practice and associated fields through the Equivalents DEB103 refurbishment of an existing one-storey building. It Equivalents ADB235, DNB602, DNB704 Credit Points 12 links to the work previously undertaken in DTB101, Credit Points 12 DTB201, and DTB203, and prepares you to Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point undertake more complex interior design projects and Gardens Point collaborative design process in DTB401. Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 This unit introduces you to foundational visualisation This unit will focus on the introduction of new products and two-dimensional/three dimensional into the market. It will provide you with an overview of DTB302 Colour Studies communication skills including drawing and rendering, the relationship between product design and Equivalents ADB152 technical drawing and model making relevant for commercialisation. It will introduce you to strategy (interior) design development and presentation. Credit Points 12 development where the aim is to meet consumer expectations whilst achieving corporate objectives. Campus Gardens Point The major topics covered in this unit include: new Gardens Point Availabilities product development process; idea generation; DTB201 Interior Design 2 - SEM-1 strategic planning; introduction to marketing; product screening and evaluation; and commercialisation and DTB101 and DTB203. DTB203 can This unit develops advanced knowledge in the theory post-launch review. Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching and application of colour, and its interdependence period as DTB201. with light. It focuses on experimental research and Equivalents ADB102 design application of colour, relevant to design and design practice. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point
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DTB303 Interior Technology 2 design learning. requirements. Pre-requisites DTB202 Equivalents ADB123 DTB501 Interior Design 5 DTH601 Interior Design 6 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites DTB401 Pre-requisites DTB501 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents ADB105 Equivalents ADB106, DTB601 Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point This unit will provide opportunities to develop your Gardens Point Gardens Point knowledge and skills of the components required to Availabilities Availabilities assemble a set of construction documents for a - SEM-1 - SEM-2 commercial interior design scenario. It links to and This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and builds on the concepts explored in DTB202 by application for interior design through project based application for interior design through more complex introducing you to the commercial sector, in particular real world issues and contexts. It links to the work project based real world issues and contexts. It links exploring 2D digital drafting conventions, building previously undertaken in DTB 401. to the work previously undertaken in DTB501 and codes, standards and basic services integration. DTB502 prepares you for the final year of the course.
DTB504 Design in Society DTB401 Interior Design 4 Credit Points 12 DTH603 Furniture Studies Pre-requisites DTB301 Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites DTB201 and DTB303 Equivalents ADB104 Gardens Point Equivalents DTB503 Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point This unit provides theoretical and analytical resources Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point to enable you to identify the way the designed world Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 intersects with social life. These insights are crucial to - SEM-2 the capacity of design to respond to the way the This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and designed world is lived and experienced. This unit will This unit develops at an intermediate course level application in regards to the person-environment 1) review theories and case studies to illuminate the your knowledge, skills and their application regarding relationship, and the implications for dual-function, relationships between design and everyday practice furniture and joinery in the interior and exterior context sensory spatial design, as well as building on across cultures and time, and 2) provide an with a specific focus on experimental design and foundational design processes. In DTB401 you will opportunity to apply these insights in an analysis of a prototype construction. It builds upon the technical investigate the fundamental aspects of immersion contemporary designed environment. Located in the issues introduced in the units DTB202 and DTB303. (Space/time 4th dimension, Reverie, Presence and 3rd year of your course, Design in Society provides Phenomenology) and Interaction (Participation, valuable resources for design practice in other units Experience, Responsibility, Inclusivity and Activism) in as it develops concepts and processes suited to the relation to interior design practice and associated emphasis in the latter years of the course - not just on DTH702 Interior Design Practice fields through the experimentation of model making problem solving - but on problem framing and and the refurbishment of an existing two-storey Studio 1 conceptualisation. With its emphasis on socio-cultural building with vertical circulation. It links to the work Pre-requisites DTH601 or DTB601 aspects of design, Design in Society complements the previously undertaken in DTB101, DTB201, DTB301 more psychological emphasis of the unit, DTB403 Credit Points 24 and DTB203, and prepares you to undertake more Design Psychology. complex interior design projects in DTB501. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 DTB402 Interior Technology 3 DTB701 Interior Design 7 The final year design program is aimed at adequately Pre-requisites DTB601 Pre-requisites DTB303 preparing you for the professional challenges ahead. Equivalents ADP107 This unit further develops and consolidates the Equivalents ADB153 knowledge, skills, and application abilities gained Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 during the foundation and intermediate years of the Campus Gardens Point course in order to prepare you for the final semester Campus Gardens Point Capstone project. It is project-based with the major Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities focus being on a course of self-directed learning in an Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 area of personal and professional relevance, enacted This unit provides students with the opportunity to through high level engagement in the design studio. It This unit will introduce you to a greater complexity in pursue a topic of professional relevance. The project is intended to guide you through the "transitional" commercial interior construction and services at this stage in the course will be highly complex phase of what is an on-going educational journey to integration while also developing your technical requiring attention to a diverse/conflicting range of becoming a fully qualified professional and beyond. drawing communication skills. This unit links directly macro and micro issues at an advanced, in-depth and to your previous studies in units DTB202 and DTB303 sophisticated level. Topics covered in this unit will be and provides the necessary knowledge, skills and project directed. application required to communicate your designs DTH802 Interior Design Practice through all of your core units. Studio 2 DTB801 Interior Design 8 Pre-requisites DTH702 DTB403 Design Psychology Pre-requisites DTB701 Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 Equivalents ADP108 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 Gardens Point The final year capstone interior design unit Availabilities encompasses a self-directed journey of "design Drawing on environmental psychology relevant to - SEM-2 through creative exploration". Students are required to spatial design, this unit provides the theoretical and Everyday practice provides a context for research and articulate their own area of design interest, defining analytical resources to enable you to identify the ways opportunities to contribute in an explicit way to further the focus of the year's work through research, in which the individual and the built environment practice and research. Learning in this unit is analysis, experimentation, project development and interact, influencing behaviour and experience. facilitated by a semester-long project that involves the refinement, communication, and presentation. It Located in the second year of the course, the unit application of a research-through-practice builds upon, consolidates, and advances the work complements the socio-cultural aspects of design methodology. The core content of this unit will be the undertaken in the previous foundational and addressed in the third year unit DTB502 Design in substantive and procedural aspects of a project intermediate years of the course. Society providing core theoretical and technical developed by the student in response to their knowledge to support intermediate and advanced interests, continuing education and professional
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Interactive and Visual Design deals with visual provides the knowledge and skills in interface design communication and the creation of meaning through that will be required to design effective interactive images. This unit will introduce you to the principles, media, which you will apply in future studies in DTH803 Professional Studies in production and presentation of visual design and Interactive and Visual Design. Interior Design communication. Pre-requisites Completion of 240cp in course Credit Points 12 DXB302 Typographic Design Campus Gardens Point DXB201 Visual Interactions Pre-requisites DXB202 or KIB120 or KVB204 Pre-requisites DXB102 or KIB101 or KIB801 Gardens Point Equivalents KIB231, KIB335 Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents KIB102, KIB802 Credit Points 12 This unit gives emphasis to your responsibilities and Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove obligations as a professional interior designer. In this Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove unit you will have the opportunity to further develop Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 your knowledge of the interior design discipline and Availabilities - SEM-2 profession and to actively engage with issues Typography surrounds us. The way in which type is highlighting responsibilities of life-long learning, social This unit further develops visual interface design skills used is essential to the transmission and responsibility and ethical interior design practice. for communications technologies including iterative understanding of messages. This unit deals directly design process, interaction and design development, with the understanding of, use and manipulation of narrative-based visual systems, refinement of type in order to communicate messages more concepts and ideation, project brief analysis and effectively and originally. It combines theory and DUB501 Mapping Cities visual problem solving through a range of practice, history and experimentation in a vibrant Credit Points 12 presentation modes. studio environment. You will deal with interdisciplinary briefs and use type as the main element of visual Campus Gardens Point expression in your work. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 DXB202 Image Production This unit develops the knowledge, skills and Pre-requisites DXB102 or KIB101 or KIB801 DXB303 Programming for application of urban design mapping techniques. The Equivalents KIB120, KVB204 unit explores a number of different approaches to Credit Points 12 Visual Designers urban design mapping in an urban context and the Equivalents KIB205, KIB210 application of these techniques and approaches in Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 practice. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove This introductory unit provides you with foundation Availabilities DUB502 Urban Design Studio X skills and knowledge of image creation and - SEM-1 Pre-requisites DUB501 production. It offers opportunities for you to start As part of a contemporary art and design production, developing your own personal style, and to build, practitioners often need to understand aspects of Credit Points 12 practice and improve your abilities to create new computer programming. This unit provides artists and Campus Gardens Point images to suit specific design briefs across media. designers with an introduction to computer This unit deals with issues of originality, creativity and Gardens Point programming. It demonstrates how artists and Availabilities suitability of images used in the interactive and visual - SEM-2 designers use programming within their practices and design context. introduces the principles of programming that will This unit develops your knowledge, skills and allow you to use computing as a tool for art and application of urban design theory and practice design innovation. The unit is presented in a manner through problem-based learning in the studio. that is suited to the learning styles of visual designers DXB203 Introduction to Web and artists, and requires no previous computer Design programming experience. These skills will be applied to the creation of art and design outcomes in a studio Equivalents KIB103, KIB007, KIB807 DXB101 Design and Creative setting. Thinking Credit Points 12 Equivalents KIB100 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities DXB304 Concept Development - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point for Game Design and This unit provides an introduction to theories and Gardens Point Availabilities skills underpinning the application of multimedia Interactive Media - SEM-1 technology with the Creative Industries, providing a Equivalents KIB201 foundation of conceptual and practical skills related to Design processes and creative thinking are at the Credit Points 12 core of interactive and visual design disciplines. This contemporary modes of electronic hypermedia unit is an introduction to conceptual and practical production, communication and publishing. Campus Gardens Point methods of idea generation and development with an Gardens Point Availabilities emphasis on creating innovative interactive and visual - SEM-1 design for a variety of contexts. Through the combination of lectures, studios, and design DXB301 Interface Design This unit addresses theoretical issues associated with charrettes, you will learn theoretical underpinnings of (DXB203 or KIB103) and (DXB201 non-linear story structures and interactive narratives Pre-requisites creative thinking and design processes; and cultivate or KIB102) through the analysis of game structures, the creation fluency and flexibility in applying the theories into of original game ideas and the application of Equivalents KIB204, KIB230, KIB211 practice to produce original design solutions both techniques of information design to the structuring of individually and collaboratively. Credit Points 12 non-narrative content. Addressing the creative and analytical roles of writers, conceptual designers and Campus Kelvin Grove information designers in the context of interactive Kelvin Grove digital media and the Creative Industries. Availabilities DXB102 Visual Communication - SEM-1 Equivalents KIB101, KIB801 Visual Interface design is an essential part of Credit Points 12 contemporary communication media. It is required to DXB401 Advanced Web Design produce digital media forms for the web, mobile DXB301 or KIB204 or KIB211 or Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove devices, or large touch screens. Visual interface Pre-requisites KIB230 Caboolture design requires an in-depth understanding of how - SEM-1, SEM-2 visual design and communication principles apply to Equivalents KIB216 Availabilities the creation of visual interfaces. Through this unit you Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 will learn how to design visual interfaces, and the related principles of interaction design. This unit
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Campus Kelvin Grove of tangible media are complemented by practical Kelvin Grove classes and support the development of embodied Availabilities - SEM-2 DXB501 Tangible Media media outcomes within design studios. Web Design has extended significantly from the DXB303 or KIB205 or DXB401 or Pre-requisites concept of information delivery into social networking KIB216 or INB385 or IFB104 and other expanded modes of engagement. Web Equivalents KIB314, KIB311 DXH702 Contemporary Issues applications now appear in a range of delivery platforms from the desktop to personal and mobile Credit Points 12 in IVD (DXB402 or KIB207) and technologies, such as media players and mobile Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites phones. This unit will extend upon the knowledge and completion of 180cp of study Gardens Point skills acquired in Introduction to Web Design, Availabilities Equivalents KIB315, KIB813 Interaction Design and Interface Design. It will - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 introduce you to dynamic Web publishing employing The design and production of computational and contemporary open source content management interactive media forms requires theoretical Campus Kelvin Grove systems. Theoretical understandings gained in knowledge and an understanding of the processes Kelvin Grove lectures will be complemented by technical skills and Availabilities that underpin the tangible as well as the embodied - SEM-1 applied to the development of authentic projects ways in which people interact with such systems. within design studios. Therefore, it is important for you to build upon The ubiquitous uptake of new technologies in previous studies in embodied interfaces and extend communication, social interaction, and expression has these studies into the field of tangible media. changed the way that we conceptualize interaction and visual design. Designing within a contemporary DXB402 Theories of Visual context requires a sophisticated understanding of new Communication design practices, methods, and theoretical models as DXB502 Visual Information well as an understanding of issues that arise when we Pre-requisites DXB202 or KIB120 or KVB204 explore digital technologies. This theory unit is Equivalents KIB207 Design designed to create an awareness of contemporary Pre-requisites DXB302 or KIB231 or KIB335 design practices, theories, methodologies and Credit Points 12 Equivalents KIB340, KIB211 philosophical contexts; and to develop the critical, Campus Gardens Point creative and analytical thinking that is required for Credit Points 12 Gardens Point design innovation. The unit will be taught through a Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove combination of lectures, seminars readings and presentations. Kelvin Grove This unit aims to build on your understanding of the Availabilities principles of visual communication and its role on - SEM-1 determining the values of our contemporary cultures Information is an essential aspect of everyday life. In and societies. Through theory and discussions you contemporary society the generation of data is much DXH803 Professional Practice will critique and analyse images and visual designs greater than the ability to digest and visualise this as for Designers applied to multiple contexts. meaningful information. Through this unit you will expand your visual design and communication Pre-requisites DXH702 knowledge to include principles for effective Equivalents KIB322, KIB806 information design. DXB403 Design for Interactive Credit Points 12 Media Campus Gardens Point ((DXB201 or KIB102) and (DXB203 Gardens Point Pre-requisites DXH601 Integrated Experience Availabilities or KIB103)) or KIB201 or DXB304 - SEM-2 Equivalents KIB109, KIB210, KIB214 Design This unit will enable you to outline a strategy for your Pre-requisites DXB502 or KIB340 or KIB211 future as a designer and present yourself as a design Credit Points 12 Equivalents KIB338 professional in public contexts. It is based on Campus Kelvin Grove professional workshops and presentations that will Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove cover collaborative and inclusive work practices. It is Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point a capstone unit in the Interactive and Visual Design program. Gardens Point Designing for contemporary media requires a Availabilities sophisticated understanding of how we effectively - SEM-2 interact with new technologies, software applications, Design does not operate in isolation. All our decisions displays and environments. This unit focuses on the as designers affect not only the produced outcome, DXP401 IVD Practices and field of interaction design and user experience design. but the society and environment in which it is inserted. Techniques It develops an understanding of the theories, This unit provides you with the knowledge and skills methods, and processes employed by Interaction to work on integrated design projects from conception Credit Points 12 Designers through a series of lectures and tutorials. to production that are focused on creating meaningful Campus Kelvin Grove These principles are then applied to authentic design and transformative experiences for the users. Kelvin Grove briefs within design studios. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit will provide you with the knowledge of the DXH602 Embodied Interactions tools, techniques and practices required to support DXB404 Enabling Immersion Pre-requisites DXB501 or KIB314 or KIB311 future studies and projects. This includes the skills Pre-requisites DXB304 or KIB201 and knowledge required to design for contemporary Equivalents KIB309 Equivalents KIB202, KIB814 interactive media technologies, such as mobile Credit Points 12 applications, web based media, and domains such as Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point large touch surfaces. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Interaction with technology has advanced beyond the DXP402 Critical Practices in As creative practitioners within a highly networked desktop paradigm of mouse and keyboard to Visual Design technological society, it is important to develop a embodied interfaces that incorporate video tracking, Equivalents KIP401 critical understanding of how the application of audio input, and gestural interaction techniques. technology influences modes of communication, Applications range from wearable technology to Credit Points 12 production processes and creative practices, tangible media installations. This unit introduces an Campus Kelvin Grove particularly within the Creative Industries. This unit experimental field of interactive media design through Kelvin Grove provides an introductory overview of the philosophies the practical application of the processes and Availabilities underlying applications of technology, and critically techniques of tangible media applications. Lectures, - SEM-1, SEM-2 examines current applications in order to explore which provide the theoretical grounding of the study Communication Design deals with visual creative visions of future technology. area, methodologies and examples of the application communication and the creation of meaning through
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units images. This unit will introduce you to the principles, production and presentation of visual design and EAB016 Research in Early communication. EAB006 Leadership and Childhood Education Credit Points 12 Management in Early Childhood Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove DXP403 Designing Interactions Services Caboolture Equivalents KIP402 Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Availabilities Credit Points 12 Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Kelvin Grove Campus External - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove Caboolture This unit aims to foster critical understanding of Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 research with young children. The unit will provide - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove opportunities for students to become lifelong learners Availabilities This unit further develops interface design skills for - SEM-1 and effective communicators. communications technologies including design External priorities, visual systems, refinement of concepts, - SEM-1, SEM-2 project analysis and problem solving through Early childhood settings, including primary schools, presentation models. EAB017 The Early Childhood operate by using site-based management practices that rely heavily on participation by teachers, staff Professional from all levels of the organisation, and parents. Early Credit Points 12 DXP404 User Experience childhood teachers need excellent leadership and Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus management strategies to participate effectively in External Design group decision-making for the development of high Equivalents KIP403 quality programs and services. They also need an Caboolture understanding of how management structures impact - 6TP4 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove on programs and service provision. This Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove understanding, together with a high level of personal - 6TP4 External Kelvin Grove power, helps individual teachers influence and lead Availabilities - 6TP4, SEM-1 - SEM-1 decisions about what happens in early childhood settings. This unit involves students in drawing together and This unit provides an introduction to theories and analysing information from a variety of disciplines and skills underpinning the application of multimedia historical perspectives with a view to developing an technology with the Creative Industries, providing a understanding and knowledge that will provide them foundation of conceptual and practical skills related to EAB010 Early Childhood with a basis for creating and evaluating an integrated contemporary modes of electronic hypermedia curriculum in early childhood settings. production, communication and publishing. Language, Literacies and Communication 3 Pre-requisites EAB009 EAB026 Early Childhood DXP412 Advanced Practice in Equivalents EAB535 Interactive and Visual Design Credit Points 12 Community Arts Project Pre-requisites EAB012 Admission into KK86MJR-INVISDN Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus Pre-requisites - Interactive and Visual Design External Credit Points 12 Major Caboolture Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Equivalents KIP412 - SEM-2 Caboolture Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove External - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit has a focus on pedagogies, planning and This unit focuses on enabling students to build assessment within the curriculum organisers of the This unit builds on up to dated knowledge and competencies in planning classroom discourses and New Basics, the Preschool Curriculum Guidelines and techniques through experimental and innovative learning programs that will enable young children to the key learning areas. It aims to increase knowledge production activities with practical and realistic establish confident use of a repertoire of language, and understanding of how curriculum organisers and approaches. Through the exploration of current literacy and communications understandings and outcomes can be used to plan intellectually interactive, animation and visual design issues, you practices as a basis for ongoing learning and cultural challenging curricula for young children. will develop design discourse and visual design participation. principles to enhance your interactive, animation, visual design and communication capacities. EAB028 Early Childhood EAB012 Early Childhood Mathematics Education 2: Four Curriculum: Arts 2 EAB005 Inclusion in Early Pre-requisites EAB011 to 8 Years Pre-requisites EAB027 Childhood Settings Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Campus External Caboolture Caboolture External - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Children's successful participation in mathematical - SEM-1 Relevant theories, principles and philosophies are contexts is mediated by the effectiveness of a This unit aims to promote an understanding and presented and analysed as a basis for developing teacher's pedagogical practice, understandings of valuing of inclusive educational programs and appropriate teaching strategies for a quality arts how learners learn, and knowledge and practices for working with young children with special program in the early years. Desired outcomes will be understanding of mathematics. This unit aims to needs in diverse early childhood settings. Students achieved through descriptive, interpretive, analytic develop an understanding of the pedagogical are expected to develop knowledge of behavioural and expressive processes and shared knowledge practices which inform the teaching and learning of and developmental characteristics presented by between students and staff. mathematics in early childhood contexts, in particular, young children with specific needs, as well as a sound understanding of the knowledge, skills and understand principles and practices related to processes required to support learners in the early assessment, planning and implementation of years of schooling. educational programs for these children.
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countries. Linking past to present, you will examine practices in early childhood programs. EAB130 Negotiating Curriculum the evolution of key philosophies, theories and with Young Children approaches in early childhood education and care Credit Points 12 (ECEC), and consider their influence on contemporary policy, curriculum and practice. The EAB530 Arts Curriculum Campus External unit encourages you to reflect critically on ways of Studies 1: Visual and Media External thinking about children, childhood, development and Availabilities - SEM-1 learning and ECEC and to begin to formulate a Arts personal philosophy of ECEC. Anti-requisites EAB011, KKB201 This unit provides a sound understanding of the key concepts which underpin early childhood education, in Credit Points 12 relation to childcare, preschool, prep and lower Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove primary settings. Students begin to learn along with a EAB512 Child Health, Safety, community of learners, and make links between Caboolture - SEM-1 research, theory and practice, each informing the Wellbeing and Movement Availabilities other. Kelvin Grove Education - SEM-1 Equivalents EAB021 This unit is a foundational Arts unit examining the Credit Points 12 basic elements and concepts relevant to the Visual EAB361 Storytelling In Early Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove and Media arts in particular. The unit provides opportunities for practical exploration of these art Childhood Caboolture forms, and introduces relevant arts pedagogies that Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Availabilities emphasise the role of the arts in society and in the Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove care and education of children from birth to 12. - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 This unit provides foundation understandings, skills and processes for understanding Child Health, A major consideration for the teacher of early Wellbeing, Safety and movement as they impact upon EAB531 Early Childhood childhood is to provide children with rich experiences working with children, and as they relate to the Science Education of 'storying'. This unit introduces students to the learning area Health and Physical Education. The unit following: the value of storytelling with young children; focuses on food, nutrition and wellness principles and Anti-requisites EAB015 the selection of appropriate children's literature policies for early childhood education settings; Credit Points 12 suitable for storytelling; various storytelling strategies management of health and wellness components Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and in terms of their impact on a young audience; the use within early childhood settings; and planning early Campus External of appropriate props for storytelling; ways of childhood health and wellness education. integrating storytelling across the curriculum. Caboolture - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities EAB513 Partnerships with - SEM-1 EAB510 Early Childhood External families and communities - SEM-1 English, Literacies and Equivalents EAB002 Language 1 This unit develops your understanding of early Credit Points 12 childhood science education for children from birth to Anti-requisites CLB004 Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and eight years of age. It develops knowledge, skills and Campus Equivalents EAB008 External dispositions that will enable you to apply these understandings to effective inquiry-based science Credit Points 12 Caboolture teaching and learning in early childhood centres and - SEM-2 Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and the early years of school. Campus Kelvin Grove External Availabilities - SEM-2 Caboolture External - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove EAB532 Early Childhood Availabilities - SEM-1 This is a foundation unit in which you explore theory, Mathematics Education 1 External research, policy and practice in relation to Anti-requisites EAB027 - SEM-1 contemporary children, their families and communities in Australia. This unit encourages you to reflect Credit Points 12 This unit provides foundation understandings, skills critically on ways of thinking about children, families Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and and processes for studying English and literacies in and communities, and to consider ways to promote Campus External either Primary English Curriculum Studies 1 and 2 respectful, collaborative partnerships with children, (Primary students) or Early Childhood English, families and communities in diverse socio-cultural Caboolture literacies and language 2 and 3 (Early Childhood contexts. - SEM-1 students). The unit focuses on (i) theories of literacies Kelvin Grove Availabilities for current times; (ii) children's literature; (iii) language - SEM-1 acquisition; (iv) diversity, social justice and how External language and texts work; and (v) English and literacy EAB514 Inclusive Education - SEM-1 policy in EC and primary education contexts. and Early Intervention in Early In this unit, you will develop an understanding of the contemporary context of Early Childhood Childhood Mathematics Education (ECME) and be introduced to EAB511 Early childhood Pre-requisites EDB121 mathematical content knowledge and the pedagogical Equivalents EAB005 practices associated with Number and Algebra. contemporary and comparative Through your participation in this unit and the perspectives Credit Points 12 proceeding Early Childhood Mathematics Education 2 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove unit, you will develop conceptual and pedagogical Anti-requisites EAB001 knowledge of early years mathematics teaching and Caboolture Credit Points 12 learning. - SEM-2 Availabilities Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Caboolture - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Availabilities The unit promotes an understanding and valuing of EAB533 Early Childhood Kelvin Grove inclusive educational programs and practices for - SEM-1 working with young children with a diverse range of Mathematics Education 2 Anti-requisites EAB028 This is a foundation unit in which you will explore a abilities and backgrounds in early childhood settings. range of contemporary and comparative perspectives You will relate your knowledge of children's Credit Points 12 on the care and education of young children in behavioural and developmental characteristics to differing socio-cultural contexts, in Australia and other early intervention and inclusive principles and
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Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus External EAB536 Early Childhood Arts Caboolture Curriculum Studies 2: EAN615 Mathematics in Early - 6TP4, SEM-2 Performing Arts Kelvin Grove Childhood Availabilities Pre-requisites EAB530 - 6TP4, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 External Equivalents EAB012 - SEM-2 Campus External Credit Points 12 External In this unit, you will engage in learning about Availabilities Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 foundational concepts in mathematics; exploring ways in which early childhood educators can develop Caboolture This unit aims to develop a sound understanding of - SEM-2 appropriate learning opportunities to encourage and Availabilities the theories which inform early childhood foster children's mathematical development. The Kelvin Grove mathematics and the teaching and learning of Early Childhood Mathematics Education (ECME) - SEM-2 mathematics. Students develop a broad knowledge of content specific to this unit is Measurement and This unit examines the basic elements and concepts mathematical content specifically for early childhood Geometry and Statistics and Probability. This unit relevant to the art forms of dance, drama, media and contexts. builds on concepts and understandings developed in music; provides opportunities for practical exploration Early Childhood Mathematics Education 1. of these art forms; builds a repertoire of relevant arts pedagogies and extends on the foundational knowledge acquired in EAB530 Arts Curriculum EAN616 Language, Literacies Studies 1: Visual and Media Arts, with further analysis and Communication in Early EAB534 Early Childhood of the importance of the arts in the care and education English, Literacies and of young children. Childhood Language 2 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Pre-requisites EAB510 Kelvin Grove Equivalents EAB009 EAN601 Investigating - SEM-2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 Curriculum and Pedagogy in External Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Early Childhood - SEM-2 Campus External Credit Points 12 The focus of this unit is to help students to understand Caboolture Campus Kelvin Grove and External recent research-based practices for literacy learning - SEM-1 and teaching in the years before compulsory Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove schooling and the early years of schooling. Emphasis Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 Availabilities is placed on a definition of literacy as critical social External External practice, and a balanced approach to literacy teaching - SEM-1 - SEM-2 and learning is fore grounded. The unit highlights the The aims for this unit are to assist students in importance of all children becoming active This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and developing a critically-informed and research-based participants in society and of knowing and engaging in application for teaching English curriculum and understanding of the current issues that are under a range of literacy practices. The unit will provide literacy to young children. The unit focuses on the scrutiny in the field of Early Childhood Education. opportunities for students to consider the importance teaching of reading and writing in the early years of Recognition and appreciation of gender, culture and of providing 'high quality' literacy instruction to all school, and develops understandings about effective customs are essential to the consideration of the students as a basic foundation of a socially just or literacy teaching in prior to school settings. It links to issues, and students will make active contributions to 'high equity' education system. the work previously undertaken in Early Childhood promoting codes of practice relevant to the specific English, Literacies and Language 1 and supports the professional area of education/learning. development of understandings that will be crucial for your future studies in Early Childhood English, EAN650 Mathematics Education Literacies and Language 3. Credit Points 12 EAN603 Child Development in Campus External Context External Availabilities EAB535 Early Childhood Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 English, Literacies and Campus Kelvin Grove and External In this unit, you will explore ways in which early Language 3 Kelvin Grove childhood educators can develop appropriate learning - SEM-2 opportunities to encourage and foster children's Pre-requisites EAB510 and EAB534 Availabilities External mathematical development in Number and Algebra. Equivalents EAB010 - SEM-2 You will develop expertise in content knowledge and Credit Points 12 pedagogical practices associated with Number and The aim of the unit is to foster critical understanding Algebra. Through engagement in this and the Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove of current developmental theory, the conduct of proceeding unit you will build knowledge of theory and Caboolture developmental research and the application of practice whilst developing your research proficiencies - SEM-2 research findings to practice in early childhood that will support mathematics teaching. Availabilities Kelvin Grove education and other fields in which professionals work - SEM-2 with children and families. This unit builds on the content of earlier units Early EAN651 English, Literacies and Childhood English, Literacies and Language 1 & 2. The unit focuses on broadening the knowledge and EAN614 Arts and Sciences in Language understandings of students about the current context Early Childhood Credit Points 12 of education in relation to literacy and English in prior Campus External to school and primary school settings. The unit Credit Points 12 External provides a space for students to build informed Campus External Availabilities opinions about important issues and to practice - SEM-1 External articulating these opinions professionally and Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit provides understandings of the theoretical confidently. foundations of literacy, English and language, with a The unit challenges students, as leaders in early particular focus on the early years. The unit prepares childhood teaching and learning, to interrogate a students for further studies in Teaching English and broad range of ideas, principles and guidelines to Literacy in the early years, and for their future assist them in making decisions about curriculum in teaching of young children. The unit focuses on 1) the arts and sciences. It challenges students to theories of literacies for current times; 2) children's engage with trans-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary literature; 3) the place of digital and multimodal texts knowledge and innovation. in young children's lives 4) language acquisition; and 5) diversity and its implications for teaching and
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units learning literacy. The unit provides a space for students to build informed opinions about important issues and to practice articulating these opinions professionally and confidently. EAN655 Early Childhood EDB003 Teaching and Learning Science Curriculum Studies Studies 3: Practising Education Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 EAN652 Contemporary and Campus External Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus External External Comparative Perspectives in Availabilities - SEM-2 Caboolture Early Childhood - SEM-2 This unit develops understanding of early childhood Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove science education for children from birth to eight Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus External years of age. It develops knowledge, skills and External External dispositions particularly in the areas of biology, Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 chemistry, physics and earth and space sciences. This subject will enable you to apply these Education is a social and cultural activity. This unit This unit explores contemporary and comparative understandings to effective inquiry-based science provides a sociological and cultural studies framework perspectives of early childhood education and care teaching and learning in early childhood centres and that provides an insightful explanation of how (ECEC) and their influences on young children in the early years of school. This unit develops your education in its various sites is constructed and differing socio-cultural contexts, in Australia and other understanding of science education and introduces organised. The unit includes a socio-cultural analysis countries. This unit will encourage you to reflect you to content, curriculum and pedagogy required for of an educational site which will be undertaken in critically on the theories and beliefs that you hold initial practical teaching experiences. It is to be conjunction with the Field Studies unit. about early childhood education and their origins. undertaken in your first year and will complement your Considering that early childhood professionals do not studies in other key learning areas such as Early work in a vacuum, this unit will ask you to investigate Years Humanities Curriculum Studies, EAN658. and analyse contemporary policy, curriculum and EDB004 Teaching and Learning practice within varied contexts of teaching and learning and the implications of these. The unit Studies 4: Inclusive Education encourages you to develop complex ways of thinking EAP401 Early Years: Credit Points 12 about children, childhood, development and learning Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Mathematical Understandings Campus and ECEC. External Credit Points 12 Caboolture Campus External - SEM-1 External Kelvin Grove EAN653 Primary and Early Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 Childhood Arts Curriculum External This unit aims to develop concepts that are Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 foundational to understandings in early childhood Campus Kelvin Grove and External Mathematics, and to generally enhance your This unit aims to develop students' understanding and Kelvin Grove understandings, attitudes, values, and skills in relation appreciation of the contributions that diversity, - SEM-2 to early childhood Mathematics. You will investigate belonging and trust make towards a quality learning Availabilities External teaching approaches, and key sequences for environment for all learners. Students will learn to - SEM-2 developing concepts and skills for various aspects of engage in teaching a broad range of students in Mathematics education. diverse and inclusive ways utilising pedagogies and This unit examines the basic elements and concepts curriculum practices that enhance learning for all relevant to all strands of the Arts, including Visual students and generate inclusive cultures within the Arts, Dance, Drama, Media Arts and Music. The unit school and classroom settings. Desired outcomes are provides opportunities for practical exploration of each EAP402 Early Years: Arts and achieved through descriptive, interpretative, analytic of these art forms through problem-finding, problem- Humanities and expressive processes to share learning with solving and inquiry-based approaches to learning. fellow students and staff. This unit challenges students to interrogate a broad Credit Points 12 range of ideas, principles and guidelines to assist Campus External them in making decisions about curriculum in the Arts. External Students are introduced to relevant Arts pedagogies Availabilities EDB005 Teaching and Learning - SEM-2 for each strand and across all developmental phases, Studies 5: Professional Work of emphasising the role of the Arts in society and in the This unit aims to develop students' capacities as care and education of children from birth to 12. scholars, educators and researchers, through Teachers adopting a problem-finding, problem-solving and Pre-requisites EDB033, EDB023, or EDB013 inquiry-based approach to learning. Through engaging in their own inquiry-based investigation of a Credit Points 12 EAN654 Well Being, Child social/ environmental issue, students learn how the Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus Health and Safety, HPE arts can be used as a learning and teaching tool. External Students will investigate Indigenous studies and Caboolture Curriculum Studies in Early SOSE through descriptive, interpretive, analytic and - 6TP4 expressive processes, to share and create knowledge Childhood and Primary Kelvin Grove with students and staff. Availabilities Credit Points 12 - 6TP4 External Campus Kelvin Grove and External - 6TP4 Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 EAP403 Early Years: Science Students will share the responsibility for shaping their Availabilities External and Technology Education beginning career learnings through a process of - SEM-2 professional induction with a number of key significant Credit Points 12 stakeholders. The process will be proactive, This unit will equip you with knowledge, skills and Campus External collaborative and self determined and students will dispositions for understanding child health, wellbeing need to become professionally responsible for External and safety and teaching health and physical Availabilities developing a professional development program that - SEM-2 education (HPE) curriculum studies. In addition you best accommodates their needs at the close of the will engage with and apply health-related principles This unit aims to extend your prior understanding of teacher education program. from the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and science and technology education, and to enhance the Australian Curriculum Health and Physical their understandings, dispositions and skills in relation Education: Foundation to Year 10. The unit promotes to early childhood science and technology education. an evidence-based and multidisciplinary approach It also aims to augment students' understandings of with a special focus on ways of managing children's teaching strategies, planning and evaluation for behaviour. diverse groups of young children in a variety of school and centre settings.
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Designated Unit. This unit focuses on students' EDB007 Culture Studies: EDB013 Early Childhood Field professional development as an educator, and Indigenous Education Studies 3: Diversity and reinforces the twin themes of teacher as researcher, Credit Points 12 and teacher as reflective practitioner. It provides the Inclusivity first set of teaching experiences, in a graduated Campus External Credit Points 12 sequence over the course of the BEd. Students External develop the ability to plan, implement and evaluate Availabilities Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove - 6TP4 effective teaching/learning programs. This requires an Caboolture understanding of learner needs, curriculum Numerous government reports and recent - SEM-1 Availabilities knowledge, procedures for creating supportive discussions about reconciliation have called for an Kelvin Grove classroom environments, and sensitivity to socio- increased commitment to Indigenous education in - SEM-1 cultural contexts. Australia. Teachers are increasingly being asked to Designated Unit The aim in this unit is to develop improve their skill, knowledge and understanding to professional support relationships that early childhood teach Indigenous students, and to teach curricula practitioners must provide for all children and their which incorporates Indigenous viewpoints on social, families, and an awareness of the need for the EDB022 Primary Field Studies cultural and historical matters. This unit begins with teacher to work as a member of the community and an analysis of the students' own cultural place in the 2: Practising Education in the as a partner with parents and other colleagues. Not Australian context and afterwards moves towards an available to visiting students. Field understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander EDB021and (CLB006 or CRB005) perspectives on history and contemporary issues, and Pre-requisites and (MDB002 or CRB933) an understanding of why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students have been so disadvantaged by the EDB014 Early Childhood Field Credit Points 12 Australian education system. Studies 4: Professional Work of Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Caboolture Teachers - Induction into the - SEM-2 Availabilities EDB011 Early Childhood Field Field Kelvin Grove - SEM-2, SUM-2 Studies 1: Development and Pre-requisites EDB011, EDB012 and EDB013 Designated Unit Through critical examination of the Credit Points 12 Learning in the Field socio-cultural dimensions of these sites, this unit aims Credit Points 12 Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus to utilise aspects of social enquiry to analyse the External Campus External practice of teaching as a social and cultural activity. At Caboolture the same time, the unit aims to develop students' External Availabilities - SEM-2 pedagogical and curriculum skills as a teacher. Not - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove availabile to Visiting students. Availabilities Designated Unit. This unit focuses on students' - SEM-1, SEM-2 professional development as an educator, and External reinforces the twin themes of teacher as researcher, - SEM-1, SEM-2 and teacher as reflective practitioner. It provides the EDB023 Primary Field Studies Designated Unit This final early childhood practice first set of teaching experiences, in a graduated unit is designed to provide a means of transition from 3: Inclusive Educational sequence over the course of the BEd. Students the role of the tertiary student to that of a professional develop the ability to plan, implement and evaluate Practices early childhood practitioner who is able to work across effective teaching/learning programs in a wide range Pre-requisites EDB022 diverse settings. Students are encouraged to engage of settings for children aged from birth to eight years. in reflection about their professional development and Credit Points 12 In this unit of the professional practices strand, their future career paths and options. Not available to students will have opportunities to undertake activities Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Visiting students. Campus designed to help them refine an increasing number of External strategies for teaching and working collaboratively Caboolture with children and their parents, and with other - SEM-1 professional colleagues. Kelvin Grove EDB015 Internship (Early Availabilities - SEM-1 Childhood) External EDB014 (Can be enrolled in same - SEM-2 Pre-requisites EDB012 Early Childhood Field teaching period) Designated Unit. As a final year teacher education Studies 2: Practising Education Credit Points 12 student you will actively engage with the challenges in the Field Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and and practices of inclusive education in the classroom Campus and the broader educational setting. This field Credit Points 12 External experience is designed for students to engage in Campus External Caboolture teaching, learning and assessment practices in their - SEM-2 External field, interacting with individual students, small groups Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Availabilities of students and whole class situations. Students will - SEM-1, SEM-2 be required to design, implement and evaluate Designated Unit This unit focuses on students' External differentiated teaching strategies, programs and professional development as an educator, and - SEM-1, SEM-2 assessment tasks in inclusive and critically reflective reinforces the twin themes of teacher as researcher, Designated Unit This unit aims to induct students into ways and in a manner that is responsive to the and teacher as reflective practitioner. It provides the the professional work of teachers. The aim is for diverse nature of the students in classes. Not second set of teaching experiences, in a graduated students to apply the knowledge, skills and available to Visiting students. sequence over the course of the BEd. In this second understandings of teaching and learning that they unit of the professional practices strand, students will have acquired throughout the course in an extended focus upon program planning and implementation in time in the workplace. Not available to Visiting settings for children in lower primary. Students will students. EDB024 Primary Field Studies focus upon teaching in lower primary school classrooms, with an emphasis upon the development 4: Professional Work of of knowledge of relevant policies and resources in Teachers - Induction into the curriculum provision. An emphasis will be maintained EDB021 Primary Field Studies on understanding Early Childhood approaches to Field curriculum. Not available to Visiting students. 1: Development and Learning in Pre-requisites EDB023 and EDB004 the Field Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus Campus Kelvin Grove External Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1
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Caboolture throughout the course in an extended time in the - SEM-2 EDB032 Secondary Field workplace. Not available to Visiting students. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Studies 2 - 5TP2, SEM-2 EDB031 and a Curriculum Studies External 2 unit. The CS2 unit can be enrolled - 5TP2, SEM-2 Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as EDB112 ICT in Early Childhood Designated Unit. Learners remain central to the work EDB032 and Primary Education of teams and must be recognised as culturally and Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 socially diverse as well as intellectually diverse. Within these constructs the graduating teachers are Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove required to provide a range of educational Kelvin Grove Caboolture Availabilities opportunities that facilitate high quality and - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1 Availabilities meaningful learning engagement for all students Kelvin Grove across differing educational contexts and sectors. Designated Unit Through critical examination of the - SEM-1 This unit is designed to fully immerse the pre-service socio-cultural dimensions of these sites, this unit aims teacher into the field with a view to scaffolding their to utilise aspects of social enquiry to analyse the This unit is at the introductory stage of your course repositioning as autonomous, critically reflective, practice of teaching as a social and cultural activity. At and provides the foundations for the application of inclusive professional teachers on completion. Not the same time, the unit aims to develop students' information and communication technologies (ICT) in available to Visiting students. pedagogical and curriculum skills as a teachers. Not curriculum and pedagogy. It addresses the knowledge available to Visiting students. and application of ICT in both early childhood and primary education contexts. It further shows how children can benefit from opportunities to explore their EDB025 Internship (Primary) world using technologies to develop confidence in EDB033 Secondary Field using digital media. EDB024 (Can be enrolled in same Pre-requisites teaching period) Studies 3 Credit Points 12 EDB032 and Curriculum Studies 3 unit. The CS3 unit can be enrolled Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Pre-requisites EDB120 Early Childhood Campus in the same teaching period as External EDB033 Learning and Development 1 Caboolture Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External Availabilities Caboolture - 5TP3, SEM-2 Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 External - SEM-1 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove - 5TP3, SEM-2 External - SEM-2 Designated Unit. This unit aims to induct you into the - SEM-1, SEM-2 This introductory unit examines the major theories, professional work of teachers. The aim of this unit is Designated Unit. Students will be required to design, features and processes of early development. The for you to apply the knowledge, skills and implement and evaluate differentiated teaching pace and direction of development are shaped by understandings of teaching and learning that you strategies, programs and assessment tasks in biological predispositions and personal attributes, as have acquired throughout the course in an extended inclusive and critically reflective ways and in a manner well as by the interactions and experiences afforded time in the workplace. Not available to Visiting that is responsive to the diverse nature of the to the child. Knowledge of contexts, their impact on students. students in your classes. Students will be required to individual development, and an awareness of the argue that their orientations to curriculum, teaching interrelationships between each area of development and assessment reflect practices that offer all is necessary in order to develop an understanding of students access to quality learning experiences. Not how children think and learn. Early childhood teachers EDB031 Secondary Field available to Visiting students. also require a range of skills for observing and Studies 1 analysing behaviour in order to plan and organise HMB231 or XNB291 or HMB292 or appropriate educational opportunities in early CLB018 or CRB909 or CLB036 or EDB034 Secondary Field childhood settings. This unit incorporates a 10 day LCB903 or CLB021 or LCB339 or field placement in a kindergarten setting. CLB051 or CRB920 or CLB054 or Studies 4 Pre-requisites CRB924 or MDB015 or MDB021 or Pre-requisites EDB033 CRB923 or MDB031 or CRB930 or PUB343 or XNB191. Pre-req can Credit Points 12 EDB121 Early Childhood be enrolled in the same TP as Campus Kelvin Grove and External EDB031 Learning and Development 2 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites EDB120 Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove External - 5TP2, SEM-2 Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Kelvin Grove Campus Availabilities External - SEM-1 Designated Unit. This unit is designed to fully immerse the pre-service teacher into the field with a Caboolture Designated Unit. This unit focuses on the students' view to scaffolding their repositioning as an - SEM-1 professional development as an educator, and autonomous, critically reflective, inclusive professional Kelvin Grove Availabilities reinforces the twin themes of teacher as researcher, teacher on completion. Not available to Visiting - SEM-1 and teacher as reflective practitioner. It provides the students External first set of teaching experiences, in a graduated - SEM-1 sequence over the course of the BEd. Students develop the ability to plan, implement and evaluate To facilitate learning during early childhood, teachers effective teaching/learning programs. This requires an EDB035 Internship (Secondary) must have a sound knowledge of the major theories, features and processes of development. The units in understanding of learner needs, curriculum EDB034 (Can be enrolled in same Pre-requisites the developmental strand are underpinned by socio- knowledge, procedures for creating supportive teaching period) classroom environments, and sensitivity to socio- cultural theory, which takes into account both the cultural contexts. Please note in Semester 2 this unit Credit Points 12 psychological and the social mechanisms of is ONLY available to students who have previously Campus Kelvin Grove and External development and learning. This unit incorporates a 15 failed the unit and have received approval from the day block field placement in a child care setting with Kelvin Grove faculty to be enrolled in the alternate offering. This children aged 0-2 years, and 2 days (equiv) lead up at - SEM-2 unit is not available to Visiting or Cross-Institutional Availabilities the same site. For students on the Advanced External students. Standing pathway incorporating acknowledgement of - 5TP3, SEM-2 approved work experience (RPL), the field experience Designated Unit. This unit aims to induct students into placement will be a 10 day block in a kindergarten the professional work of teachers. The aim of this unit setting with two days (equiv) lead in. is to apply the knowledge, skills and understandings of teaching and learning that students have acquired
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Caboolture may result in exclusion from the course. This is your EDB140 Teaching Strategies - SEM-2 fifth formal supervised field experience, and your first Kelvin Grove and Planning Availabilities 4 week block of field experience. The unit builds on - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 your professional experience previously undertaken in External EDB172 Education and Society 2. The unit content Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 links to your curriculum units to further develop your Caboolture This unit focuses on the impact of culture and cultural knowledge, understanding and skills in supporting - SEM-2 student learning through summative and diagnostic Availabilities identity and its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Kelvin Grove Islander education. It involves theoretical assessment. The unit prepares you for the final - SEM-2 understandings around cultural standpoint as well as semester Capstone unit, EDB174 Stepping Out/ Making Connections. This unit focuses on developing foundational core planning for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait skills in lesson planning and in designing and knowledge in an educational context. The unit implementing teaching strategies for inclusive develops your professional knowledge, skills and educational contexts. The unit develops your practice, and includes field experience. Field EDB200 Insights into Early professional knowledge, skills and practice, and experience is crucial to your preparation for the includes site visits as well as 10 days of field professional, and all units that contain a field Childhood Development experience in a primary school setting. Field experience are designated units, that is, students who Credit Points 12 do not achieve a passing grade for the unit will have experience is central to your preparation for the Campus External profession, and all units that contain a field their progress in the course reviewed. Failure to pass a designated unit may result in exclusion from the External experience component are designated units, that is, Availabilities students who do not achieve a passing grade for the course. - SEM-1 unit will have their progress in the course reviewed. The unit aims to develop knowledge and Failure to pass a designated unit may result in understanding of early childhood development with a exclusion from the course. This is your first formal EDB172 Education and Society focus on children's thinking and communicating in a supervised field experience. The unit provides a social context. foundation for further professional experience to be 2 undertaken in EDB170 Creating Positive Learning Pre-requisites EDB171 or EDB150 Environments. The unit content links to your curriculum units to further develop your knowledge, Credit Points 12 EDB410 Introduction To understanding and skills in supporting student Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and Campus learning. External Research Methods Entry to the Research Pathway is Caboolture by invitation from the Research - SEM-1 Other Pathway Coordinator. Students are Kelvin Grove requisites EDB170 Creating Positive Availabilities required to have a GPA of 5.5 or - SEM-1 above. Learning Environments External Pre-requisites LCB002 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 This unit focuses on the links between education, Campus Kelvin Grove culture and society. This unit uses socio-cultural Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Availabilities theory previously introduced in Education and Society - SEM-1 Caboolture 1 to better understand and engage with students from - SEM-1 This unit provides a foundation for understanding Availabilities diverse backgrounds and has a practical and Kelvin Grove professional emphasis in that it links Field Experience research design and methods in education. It focuses - SEM-1 to recent educational policy initiatives. Such initiatives on reading, understanding and evaluating educational research both within and across different paradigms This unit develops your awareness, knowledge, and include the importance of teachers understanding their legal and ethical responsibilities in terms of Child and on enabling students to develop their own plan skills of a variety of behaviour support and classroom for a small-scale research project. It includes the management skills and includes field experience. It Protection and the Rights of the Child. Field experience is crucial to your preparation for the development of skills in understanding, appreciating, aims to help you to develop collaborative, positive and using the processes and techniques of research. inclusive learning environments across a range of profession, and all units that contain a field experience are designated units, that is, students who Students are made aware of the variety of research educational settings. This unit links to the work cultures and theoretical perspectives, to become previously undertaken in LCB002 Child and do not achieve a passing grade for the unit will have their progress in the course reviewed. Failure to pass informed consumers of the research findings of Adolescent Development and Learning and helps others. prepare you for LCB005 Inclusive Education. This unit a designated unit may result in exclusion from the also develops your professional knowledge, skills and course. practice, and includes site visits as well as a 10 day block field experience. Field Experience is designed EDB411 Dissertation (Stage 1) in a graduated sequence, culminating in an internship EDB410 (can be enrolled in the in your final year. Future subjects throughout your EDB173 Early Childhood and Pre-requisites same teaching period) course and specifically your future field experience Primary Assessment 1: placements will build on the skills developed in this Entry to the Research Pathway is Summative and Diagnostic by invitation from the Research unit culminating in an internship. Field experience is Other Pathway Coordinator. Students are crucial to your preparation for the profession, and all Assessment requisites units that contain a field experience are designated required to have a GPA of 5.5 or Pre-requisites EDB172 units, that is, students who do not achieve a passing above. grade for the unit will have their progress in the Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 course reviewed. Failure to pass a designated unit Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove may result in exclusion from the course. Campus Kelvin Grove Caboolture Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove EDB171 Culture Studies 1: - SEM-2 This unit provides you with opportunities to develop research skills that are increasingly important for Indigenous Education This unit focuses on planning summative and teachers in an era when schools, professional diagnostic assessment, and the implications for Pre-requisites EDB120 or EDB170 associations and other educational settings are teaching and learning in inclusive educational becoming important sites of knowledge production. Credit Points 12 contexts. The unit develops your professional Caboolture, Kelvin Grove and knowledge, skills and practice, and includes site visits Campus External as well as a 4 week block field experience in a primary school setting. Field experience is central to EDB411 Dissertation (Stage 3) your preparation for the profession, and all units that Entry to the Research Pathway is contain a field experience component are designated by invitation from the Research Other units, that is, students who do not achieve a passing Pathway Coordinator. Students are requisites grade for the unit will have their progress in the required to have a GPA of 5.5 or course reviewed. Failure to pass a designated unit above.
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Credit Points 12 EDN604 Facilitated Study Unit research in educational and other learning contexts Campus Kelvin Grove that is innovative in both its focus and its approach. Credit Points 12 The unit engages students in a comprehensive Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External examination of relevant research theory and practical - SEM-2 application. Kelvin Grove This unit provides you with opportunities to develop - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities research skills that are increasingly important for External teachers in an era when schools, professional - SEM-1, SEM-2 associations and other educational settings are EDN631 Supervised Practicum becoming important sites of knowledge production. The unit aims to enhance capacities for flexibility and 1 innovation in educational practice as a result of an in- (PYN601 or LCN625 or SPN640) depth investigation of a problem of professional and (LCN626 or SPN641). These relevance. The unit engages students in a Pre-requisites units can be studied in the same EDB411 Dissertation (Stage 2) comprehensive examination of relevant theory, teaching period as EDN631 EDB410 (can be enrolled in the research, policy, and/or practice in the area of Pre-requisites same teaching period) investigation. Credit Points 12 Entry to the Research Pathway is Campus Kelvin Grove by invitation from the Research Other Kelvin Grove Pathway Coordinator. Students are Availabilities requisites EDN604 Facilitated Study Unit - SEM-1 required to have a GPA of 5.5 or Credit Points 12 above. The aim is to provide students with a basic level of Campus Kelvin Grove and External professional knowledge and skills in the practice of Credit Points 12 Educational and Development psychology and an Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove awareness of ethical guidelines. Students will also - SEM-1, SEM-2 develop a high standard of professional conduct Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities External through supervised practice. - SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit provides you with opportunities to develop See EDN604-1. research skills that are increasingly important for teachers in an era when schools, professional EDN632 Supervised Practicum associations and other educational settings are 2 becoming important sites of knowledge production. EDN610 Professional Dialogues EDN631 and (LCN625 or SPN640) in Education and (LCN626 or SPN641) and (LCN627 or SPN642) and PYN601. Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LCN627 and PYN601 can be EDB440 Independent Study Campus Kelvin Grove and External studied in the same teaching period Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove as EDN632 Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove External Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2, SUM - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities External Kelvin Grove This unit aims to develop understanding of what it Availabilities - SUM means to be an innovator and a leader in a - SEM-2 This unit involves self-initiated and self-directed contemporary professional context. The unit is This units aims to provide students with supervised academic study in an area of educational underpinned by the notion that innovation means experience in applying diagnostic, assessment and management interest that allows study either to a being more critical, being open, being able to engage intervention skills in clinic and educational settings. depth not possible in electives, or in an area not with greater uncertainty and complexity, and being This unit will also develop students' written and oral covered by the course. able to learn from the past and from a broad range of communication skills and provide them with practice contemporary ideas in order to manage the future. in using these skills to communicate results of assessments and recommendations for interventions to school staff, parents and other stakeholders. EDN602 Advanced Seminars EDN611 Conducting and Credit Points 12 Evaluating Educational Campus Kelvin Grove and External EDN633 Supervised Practicum Research Kelvin Grove 3 - SUM, SUM (Block) Credit Points 12 Availabilities External Pre-requisites EDN632 Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SUM Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove This unit provides for the special needs and interests - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities of students. Small groups of students interact at an External Kelvin Grove Availabilities advanced level with specialists or visiting scholars in - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 seminars, conferences and research projects. Enrolment is with Course Coordinator approval only. The unit focuses on developing expertise to to seek The unit provides students with supervised research knowledge that addresses specific problems experience in applying their diagnostic, assessment or issues in your practice. It assists you to search and intervention skills within non-educational settings. databases and other sources to locate published It will further develop their written and oral EDN603 Facilitated Study Unit research reports in your field and evaluate them communication skills, and provide them with practice Credit Points 12 critically. in using these skills to communicate results of assessments and intervention strategies within teams Campus Kelvin Grove and External from non-educational settings. Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 EDN612 Shaping an Availabilities External Educational Research Project - SEM-1, SEM-2 EDN634 Supervised Practicum Pre-requisites EDN611 The unit aims to enhance capacities for flexibility and 4 Credit Points 12 innovation in educational practice as a result of an in- Pre-requisites EDN633 depth investigation of a problem of professional Campus Kelvin Grove and External Credit Points 12 relevance. Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities External Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 The unit aims to enhance capacities for undertaking This unit aims to provide students with support in
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units ensuring that they have attained the level of how children think and learn. Early childhood teachers students completing this unit will develop an knowledge and skill required to meet the also require a range of skills for observing and understanding of the processes of learning, and the competencies of the Psychologists Board of analysing behaviour in order to plan and organise influence of both individual differences and socio- Queensland. appropriate educational opportunities in early cultural contexts in personal, social and professional childhood settings. The unit also promotes an development. understanding and valuing of inclusive educational programs and practices, including diagnostic EDN635 Field Studies in Early assessment, for working with young children with a Childhood diverse range of abilities and backgrounds in early EDP416 The Professional childhood settings. You will relate your knowledge of Practice of Educators Pre-requisites EAN601 children's behavioural and developmental Credit Points 12 characteristics to early intervention and inclusive Credit Points 12 principles and practices in early childhood programs. Campus Kelvin Grove and External Campus Kelvin Grove and External This unit incorporates a 20 day field placement in a Kelvin Grove External preparatory setting. Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities External In this unit, students are required to draw on - SEM-1, SEM-2 professional knowledge and experience in making EDN670 Creating Positive child observations and in planning, implementing and This Education Studies unit builds your professional evaluating learning experiences for children. Learning Environments and ethical capacity as a Senior Phase Educator by developing a social science framework for Credit Points 12 understanding and analysing the professional practice Campus Kelvin Grove of educators in local and global contexts. The unit will develop your knowledge of the social, cultural, and EDN641 Field Studies in Early Kelvin Grove Availabilities political 'strategies' shaping professional practice and - SEM-1 Childhood: Birth To 5 Years education today. It will also develop your Pre-requisites EAN601 This unit develops your awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the 'identities' produced by these skills of a variety of child and adolescent development strategies and of the ways in which they might be Credit Points 12 theories, behaviour support and classroom ethically and equitably managed in all phases of Campus Kelvin Grove and External management skills. These are aimed at developing learning. External responsive, collaborative, positive inclusive learning Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 environments across a range of educational settings. This unit requires you to participate in Work The aim of this unit is enable you to draw upon your Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences through a 10 EDP421 Early Years Field professional knowledge and experience in making day Field Experience. Field Experience allows you to Studies 1: Engaging Diverse child observations and in planning, implementing and use the skills and knowledge developed in this unit in evaluating learning experiences for children. a practical and immediate way. Field experience is Learners crucial to your preparation for the profession, and all EAP400. EAP400 can be studied in units that contain a field experience are designated Pre-requisites the same teaching period as units, that is, students who do not achieve a passing EDP421 EDN660 Understanding grade for the unit will have their progress in the Learners and Learning course reviewed. Failure to pass a designated unit Credit Points 12 may result in exclusion from the course. Campus External EAN651. EAN651 can be studied in Pre-requisites the same teaching period as External Availabilities EDN660 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 EDN671 Inclusive Teaching Designated Unit. Inclusive philosophies and Campus External Strategies and Planning for pedagogies are fundamental for schools and educators who seek to provide rich educational External Availabilities Diversity experiences for all learners in the early years of - SEM-1 (CRN650 and CRN652 and schooling. Teachers must be able to identify and This unit examines the major theories, features and EDN670) or (EDN670 and 2 of reduce barriers to learning and maximize educational processes of early development. Knowledge of Pre-requisites CRN665, CRN667. CRN669, outcomes in response to the needs and interests of all contexts, their impact on individual development, and CRN671, CRN673, CRN675, students. This unit provides students with the an awareness of the interrelationships between each CRN677, CRN679, CRN683) opportunity to investigate and develop their ability to area of development is necessary in order to develop identify a range of social, cultural and political issues Credit Points 12 an understanding of how children think and learn. which may create barriers to learning. It also engages Early childhood teachers also require a range of skills Campus Kelvin Grove students with various pedagogical responses that may provide inclusive educational experiences for for behaviour management and approaches to Kelvin Grove Availabilities students in the early years.(22 days Field Studies). assessment, in order to plan and organise appropriate - SEM-2 educational opportunities in early childhood setting. This unit incorporates a 20 day field placement in a This unit will develop your knowledge, skills and kindergarten setting. application of inclusive teaching strategies and planning for diversity. It focuses on curriculum EDP422 Early Years Field planning for a wide range of learners in classrooms. Studies 2: The Professional The learning in this unit will contribute to your EDN661 Early Years: preparation for Field Experience. Practice of Educators Development, Diversity and Pre-requisites EDP421 Inclusion Credit Points 12 EDP415 Engaging Diverse Campus Kelvin Grove and External Pre-requisites EAN650 and EDN660 External Credit Points 12 Learners Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus External Campus Kelvin Grove and External Designated Unit. This unit prepares you for your work External as a beginning teacher, on completion of this course. Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 It provides you with the opportunity to identify and - SEM-1 Availabilities discuss professional issues for beginning teachers in This unit examines the major theories, features and External the early years. It aims to develop strong links processes of early development. The pace and - SEM-1, SEM-2 direction of development are shaped by biological between research, theory and practice by predispositions and personal attributes, as well as by Increasingly rich and complex opportunities are emphasising inquiry- and evidence-based approaches the interactions and experiences afforded to the child. offered to today's learners to engage in personal, to teaching and learning in early childhood settings Knowledge of contexts, their impact on individual contextual and technological approaches to and professional development for teachers. (33 days development, and an awareness of the knowledge construction. To participate effectively in Field Studies). interrelationships between each area of development modern learning environments, and to be able, in the is necessary in order to develop an understanding of future, to support the learning of diverse learners,
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Gardens Point Availabilities EDP431 Middle Years Field - SEM-1, SEM-2 Studies 1: Engaging Diverse EDP442 Senior Years Field This unit introduces students to the institutional Learners structure of global financial markets, and thereby Studies 2: The Professional complements the understanding of theoretical finance MDP452 or CRP421. CRP421 can gained in either BSB122 or EFB210. Topics covered Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Practice of Educators include the functions of financial markets, the banking period. EDP441 and Curriculum Studies 3 and payments system, financial system deregulation, unit. The CS3 unit can be enrolled Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites non-bank financial institutions, stock exchange in the same teaching period as Campus External operations, debt markets, foreign exchange markets EDP442 and markets for financial derivatives. External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Designated Unit. This unit integrates and applies the current perspectives, issues and theoretical Kelvin Grove EFB210 Finance 1 - SEM-1, SEM-2 BSB113 or MAB126 or MXB105 or frameworks of inclusion and diversity. It enhances the Availabilities Pre-requisites student's ability to identify and address social, External UDB104 or MZB126 - SEM-1, SEM-2 cultural, political and legislative issues to provide Equivalents EFX210 quality inclusive educational experiences for all Designated Unit. This Field Studies Unit is designed Credit Points 12 learners. Students will actively engage with the to alert you to the professional issues of ethical and challenges and practices of inclusive education in the equitable practice, to legal responsibilities that face Campus Gardens Point classroom and the broader educational setting. To do any educator, and to the need to stay informed of new Gardens Point this effectively students will need to identify barriers to Availabilities developments shaping professional practice. In the - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM student learning and develop strategies to maximize field study placement you will move towards educational outcomes for all students. (22 days Field becoming a beginning teacher, managing learning This unit covers the following topics: an introduction to Studies) environments that are educationally productive, alert the financial institutional framework; an introduction to to student diversity and the legislative context, as well debt and equity instruments; financial mathematics as mindful of the need for ongoing career enrichment applied to the pricing of debt and equity securities; a and planning. (33 days Field Studies). Not available to firm's investment decision including Net Present EDP432 Middle Years Field Visiting students. Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR); introduction to risk and uncertainty using the Capital Studies 2: The Professional Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and Weighted Average Practice of Educators Cost of Capital (WACC) concept and risk EDP431 and (CRP400 or CLP400). EDR703 Interdisciplinary in management. Pre-requisites CRP400 can be enrolled in the Education Studies (Advanced same teaching period. Seminars) Credit Points 12 EFB222 Quantitative Methods Credit Points 24 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Campus Kelvin Grove for Economics and Finance External BSB122 or BSB123 or MAB101 or Availabilities Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities MAB233 or MXB107 - SEM-1 (Block) Designated Unit. This unit identifies, discusses and Anti-requisites EFB101 applies the professional issues and responsibilities This unit is a reading and seminar program that aims Equivalents EFX222 the beginning teacher needs to be aware of. The to broaden and deepen the student's initial students' ability to identify the crucial professional perspective to include elements derived from Credit Points 12 theoretical perspectives drawn from a number of issues for them personally will be enhanced. Students Campus Gardens Point will not only engage with the challenges of addressing disciplines. The unit seeks to provide a context of Gardens Point social, cultural, political and legislative issues to learning for educators who seek the personal and Availabilities provide quality inclusive educational experiences for professional benefits that the broadening and - SEM-2 deepening of their professional knowledge affords. all learners but also identify a professional This unit will provide students with the necessary development program that best accommodates their background for advanced study in economics, needs as a beginning teacher. (33 days Field econometrics and finance. It should also enable them Studies). Not available to Visiting students. EFB106 Cost-Benefit Analysis to use basic mathematical and statistical techniques for economic and financial analysis and enable the for Project Appraisal confident and independent use of these skills. Credit Points 12 Students will be helped to understand the use of EDP441 Senior Years Field these techniques with reference to real world Studies 1: Engaging Diverse Campus Gardens Point applications drawn from the fields of economics and Gardens Point finance. Availabilities Learners - SEM-2 Curriculum Studies 1 unit. This unit Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is a key technique used Pre-requisites can be studied in the same teaching to assess the relative desirability of competing period as EDP441 EFB223 Economics 2 alternative uses of limited resources. CBA has a well- Pre-requisites BSB113 or CTB113 or UDB104 Credit Points 12 established theoretical foundation and is a commonly Campus Kelvin Grove and External used method of economic evaluation. CBA is used to Equivalents EFB102, EFX223 appraise investment projects, socio-economic Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove programmes and policies with the results from CBA - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Availabilities providing decision makers with useful information to External make informed decisions. This unit provides students Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities with opportunities to understand, analyse and apply - SEM-1, SEM-2 Designated Unit. This field studies unit integrates and the analytical framework of CBA across a range of Consumer behaviour, the role of the government in applies the current perspectives, issues and industries in the public and private sector. market intervention, allocative efficiency and market theoretical frameworks of inclusion and diversity. It structure are some of the fundamental issues in enhances the student's ability to identify and address microeconomics addressed in this unit. Business social, cultural, political and legislative issues to cycles and the related issue of macroeconomic provide quality inclusive educational experiences for EFB201 Financial Markets stabilisation policy are analysed and explained within all learners. Students will actively engage with the Pre-requisites BSB113 or CTB113 the Australian context. The significance of the challenges and practices of inclusive education in the Equivalents EFX201 international economy is described through a classroom and the broader educational setting. To do discussion of foreign exchange markets, the this effectively students will need to identify barriers to Credit Points 12 Australian dollar and the terms of trade. student learning and develop strategies to maximize Campus Gardens Point educational outcomes for all students. (22 days Field Studies). Not available to Visiting students.
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Gardens Point Availabilities EFB225 Economics for the Real - SEM-2 EFB326 Applied Portfolio World This unit includes the following topics: a study of Management Pre-requisites BSB113 or CTB113 contemporary finance research; CAPM; beta Pre-requisites EFB210 Equivalents EFX225 estimation; valuation theory; market efficiency; value Equivalents EFX326 at risk; use of finance research tools; anomalies and Credit Points 12 extension of finance theories. Students are required Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point to complete a research project combining theory and Campus Gardens Point practice.This unit covers many topical areas in Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities contemporary finance research. These include, but Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 are not limited to: asset pricing; beta estimation; In this unit economic concepts and theories at the market efficiency; value at risk; mutual fund This unit introduces the student to the treasury introductory level will be used to forensically and performance; volatility modelling; and the term environment in which financial institutions operate. critically investigate current social and public issues of structure of interest rates. Students are required to The key to the unit is the raising of funds and the interest. These issues relate to consumer choice, complete a research project combining theory and management of interest rate risk. This unique hands- business procing strategies, education, inequality, practice. on unit allows students to develop these skills by unemployment and poverty, population policy, tax trading in a simulated environment of international reform, economic growth, the environment and economic uncertainty. Students have trading globalisation. parameters within which they should operate. EFB309 Financial Derivatives Students must make decisions concerning source of Pre-requisites EFB344 funds, term and duration, interest rate re-set, and risk management with derivatives. Trading will be Credit Points 12 EFB226 Environmental conducted over a simulated four quarter year. Economics and Policy Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Pre-requisites BSB113 Availabilities - SEM-1 Equivalents EFB334,EFX334,EFX226 EFB330 Intermediate This unit explores a range of pricing models and Credit Points 12 develops students' knowledge and skills in the Macroeconomics Campus Gardens Point application of these for derivative pricing. Students Pre-requisites EFB223 or EFB102 will construct and generate a variety of derivative Gardens Point Equivalents EFB202, EFX330 Availabilities prices and draw on discipline knowledge, technical - SEM-1 skills and critical thinking skills to adapt these models Credit Points 12 The unit introduces students to some of the current to solve problems. Campus Gardens Point environmental and natural resource issues Gardens Point confronting society and how planners and decision- Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 makers could better understand and address these problems using economics. This unit demonstrates EFB311 Financial Institutions - This unit develops an analytical framework which can that economics has a major role to play in helping us Lending be used to understand and evaluate the to understand and solve some of the environmental macroeconomic performance of the Australian problems facing societies. It will be demonstrated that Pre-requisites EFB201 economy. It also provides extensive discussion of the economics can often be used to help protect the Credit Points 12 monetary and fiscal policy approaches that are taken environment rather than harm it. The unit would to maintain a sustainable economy with low inflation Campus Gardens Point benefit those who wish to work either in the public or and low unemployment. Key issues addressed Gardens Point the private sector. Availabilities include unemployment, inflation, economic growth, - SEM-1 saving and the balance of payments. This unit examines the fundamental motivations for EFB240 Finance for lending by financial institutions, and the ways in which these are reflected in loan market practice. Specific EFB331 Intermediate International Business topics cover the theoretical basis of lending as (BSB119 or CTB119 or BSB116) financial intermediation, the purpose and utilization of Microeconomics Pre-requisites and (BSB113 or CTB113) loans by borrowers, the major costs of lending for Pre-requisites EFB223 or EFB102 financial intermediaries (including a strong focus on Anti-requisites EFB312, MIB202 credit costs), lenders' compensation, lending Equivalents EFB211, EFX331 Equivalents EFX240, IBB202 relationships, the structural features of loan Credit Points 12 agreements, loan security and enforcement, and Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point special topics on syndicated lending and project Campus Gardens Point finance. Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM This unit is concerned with the economic analysis of In this unit students analyse the ways that EFB312 International Finance the decisions and actions of consumers, firms, and governments in modern economies. It focuses on the international operations and performance of Pre-requisites EFB201 and EFB210 businesses can be put at risk by changing financial interplay between government, private firms, and and regulatory conditions across borders and Anti-requisites EFB240, IBB202 consumers and on developing the student's ability to apply microeconomic concepts to a range of determine how best to manage the exposure to this Equivalents EFX312 risk. This unit examines the following: the evolution of economic issues and problems. The theoretical and Credit Points 12 the international financial system; the foreign empirical content of this unit provides the basis for exchange market; the types of foreign exchange rate Campus Gardens Point understanding the decisions and actions of consumers, firms and governments in modern exposures; managing exchange; translation and Gardens Point Availabilities economies with a focus on applying theories to real consolidation risks; assessing foreign direct - SEM-1, SEM-2 investment targets; comparing the performance of world problems. foreign affiliates; operations exposure to regulatory This unit examines the theory and practice of risk of tax; investment evaluation and policy changes; international finance, including the mechanics and country risk assessment and managing country risk uses of the spot, forward, swap, futures and options exposure. markets in foreign exchange; the relationship between EFB332 Applied Behavioural domestic and international capital markets; interest Economics rate and exchange rate determination; risk Pre-requisites EFB222 or EFB331 or EFB337 management of foreign exchange; international trade EFB308 Empirical Finance finance; evaluation of offshore investment. Equivalents EFX332 Pre-requisites (EFB307 or EFB343) and EFB335 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2
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This unit is designed to expose students to current understanding of the prospects and challenges facing and practical applications of behavioural economics firms, organisations, institutions and governments that can be used to improve the understanding of active in the international economy and of the wider important topics in the area of sports, arts and issues of global progress and stagnation. EFB341 Economics and entertainment. It uses an economic approach to Finance Special Topic - C explore topics such as superstardom, fakes, fads and Subject to Unit Coordinator herding behaviour, favouritism, awards and creativity, Approval. Students are required to pressure, pay and performance, positional concerns EFB337 Game Theory and complete a minimum of 192 credit or outcome uncertainty. The theories and Other Applications points of study and must seek methodological tools learned in this unit can also be requisites approval from a potential supervisor applied to other economic areas and industries. Pre-requisites EFB223 and unit coordinator prior to Equivalents EFX337 enrolment. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point EFB333 Introductory Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Econometrics Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities Pre-requisites EFB222 or EFB101 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Anti-requisites EFB200 This unit presents the basic concepts of game theory and its application to economic phenomena, Equivalents EFX333 focussing on how individuals and firms deal with Credit Points 12 uncertainty and situations involving strategic EFB342 Workplace Experience interactions. The theoretical concepts are illustrated Campus Gardens Point with applications from both the private and public in Economics and Finance Gardens Point sectors. Contents include the economics of (EFB343 or EFB307) or (EFB330 Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-1 uncertainty and information, asymmetric information, and EFB331) This unit develops and applies econometric methods auctions, bargaining, strategy and voting and Subject to Unit Coordinator introduced in earlier units. As a final year unit the evolutionary game theory. Other approval of an appropriate focus is primarily on applied skills using common requisites placement within industry; and methods that business, economics and finance GPA: 4.5 or above graduates will encounter in practice. Students will Credit Points 12 develop technical and critical thinking skills and gain EFB338 Contemporary an appreciation of many of the theoretical results Application of Economic Campus Gardens Point underpinning econometric models to assist in their Gardens Point Availabilities application. The knowledge and skills gained in this Theory - SEM-1, SEM-2 unit will enable students to address problems (EFB330 or EFB202) and (EFB331 encountered across the areas of microeconomics, Pre-requisites or EFB211) and (Completion of 168 This unit aims to expose students to an organisational macroeconomics and finance. These skills are credit points) setting in the fields of economics and finance where theoretical knowledge is applied to solving real world essential for research in economics and finance and Equivalents EFB329, EFX338 for use in future employment. problems. In the process of application, students' Credit Points 12 understanding of their learned knowledge will be Campus Gardens Point enhanced. The unit will also help students appreciate the provisional nature of knowledge and the Gardens Point EFB335 Investments Availabilities importance of dealing with incomplete information and - SEM-2 the ambibuity/complexity of information in these fields. Pre-requisites EFB201 and EFB210 EFB338 is a unit designed to summarize your studies Anti-requisites EFB318 in economics. The unit comprises usually of three or Equivalents EFX335 more topics of current research in economics. The EFB343 Corporate Finance Credit Points 12 topics cover micro and macro economics, trends in current theoretical, empirical and economic policy Pre-requisites EFB210 Campus Gardens Point research. The unit is designed to develop your ability Anti-requisites EFB307 Gardens Point to summarise, evaluate and criticise research findings Availabilities Equivalents EFX343 - SEM-1, SEM-2 as well as to introduce you to how research in economics evolves to allow you to keep up with the Credit Points 12 This unit advances the students’ understanding of progress made in economics after your degree. how investment decisions are made, what securities Campus Gardens Point to invest in, how they fit in a portfolio, what is the Gardens Point Availabilities impact of transaction costs, the risks associated with - SEM-1, SEM-2 investing and performance evaluation of the EFB339 Financial Planning and investment process. This unit aims to provide This unit develops the advanced knowledge and skills students with an intermediate to advanced level of Investments fundamental to the financial management of an investment decision making skills which are essential Pre-requisites EFB210 organisation introduced in EFB210 Finance 1. Topics for finance students in their personal and professional examined include: working capital management, Anti-requisites AYB250 lives. capital investment decisions (including: estimation of Equivalents EFB230 required rates of return, sensitivity and scenario analysis, and the valuation of real options), issuance Credit Points 12 of corporate securities and capital structure, payout EFB336 International Campus Gardens Point policy, mergers and acquisitions, and financial Gardens Point restructuring. Economics Availabilities - SEM-2 Pre-requisites EFB223 or EFB240 or EFB201 This unit builds on the introduction to finance Anti-requisites EFB314 concepts, theories and skills that students gain in EFB344 Risk Management and Equivalents EFX336 EFB210 and earlier Finance units. Building on prior Derivatives Credit Points 12 knowledge and skills this unit focuses on financial planning and financial decision making including the Pre-requisites EFB201 and EFB210 Campus Gardens Point regulatory framework underpinning the decision Equivalents EFX344 Gardens Point making process. It also looks at the key instruments Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 and methods used for financial planning and decision making in industry. Drawing on financial planning Campus Gardens Point International economics advances student theory, students will gain analytical, evaluative, Gardens Point understanding of global markets and positions Availabilities technical and advisory skills to address individual - SEM-1, SEM-2 through theories and analyses of trade, intervention, investor client needs including solving financial currencies, current transactions, capital positions and planning problems and designing financial plans with This unit develops knowledge and skills required to obligations in an interdependent world. Through reference to superannuation, managed investments identify, measure and hedge the risks associated with considerations of international positions and and deposit products. an exposure to financial securities. It also develops competitiveness the unit develops a framework for knowledge of a variety of derivative contracts with a
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units specific focus on how these securities are priced and practice-based knowledge and skills, including how they are used to manage and hedge risk. Topics EFN408 Special Topic - research, analysis and technical skills required for in risk management include: understanding risk, Economics, Banking and project valuation. measuring risk, managing risk and exploring the value of risk management. Subsequent topics on Finance A derivatives include: the pricing and use of forwards, Credit Points 12 futures, swaps and options contracts. Campus Gardens Point EFN416 Treasury and Portfolio Gardens Point Management Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Pre-requisites EFN406 EFB360 Finance Capstone Equivalents EFX416 Pre-requisites EFB335 and (EFB307 or EFB343) Credit Points 12 Equivalents EFX360 EFN412 Advanced Managerial Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Finance Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites EFN406 Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents EFX412 This unit introduces the student to the treasury - SEM-1, SEM-2 environment in which financial institutions operate. Credit Points 12 The key to the unit is the raising of funds and the This unit is designed to encompass the theory and management of interest rate risk. This unique hands- knowledge gained in the entire Finance Major. The Campus Gardens Point on unit allows students to develop these skills by topics included in this unit are project evaluation, Gardens Point Availabilities trading in a simulated environment of international investment analysis, corporate valuation and - SEM-1, SEM-2 economic uncertainty. Students have trading advanced financial decision making. This unit aims to parameters within which they should operate and provide students with the forum to practice their This unit expands on material introduced and decisions must be made concerning source of funds, finance skills in an applied setting which acts as a developed in EFN406 Managerial Finance. Its term and duration, interest rate re-set, and risk bridge between university studies and real-world objective is to examine the key decisions made by management with derivatives. Trading will be employment in the financial services industry. corporate financial managers (that is the investment, financing and dividend decisions). Topics include: the conducted over a simulated four quarter year. financing decision & capital structure, debt versus equity, lease versus debt, term structure versus EFN405 Applied Economics default structure of interest rates; the dividend decision & dividends versus capital gains, franked EFN420 Introduction To GSN203, GSN411, GSN414, Anti-requisites versus unfranked income; firm valuation, free cash GSN491, GSN492, GSZ491 Financial Management flow model; evaluation of takeovers; Risk and Return Equivalents EFX405 & diversification, the CAPM model, its practical Equivalents EFX420 Credit Points 12 application and its relationship to efficient market Credit Points 12 hypothesis; forwards, futures, options, warrants, Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point convertibles and risk management using financial Gardens Point derivatives. Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 This introductory unit provides students with a broad This unit introduces students to key knowledge and understanding of the economic forces that impact EFN414 International Finance skills necessary, not only in a commercial sense, but consumers, business and government. It develops also from the perspective of individuals functioning in Pre-requisites EFN406 skills that they will continue to apply in later units an increasingly complex and demanding financial where more complex situations and issues are Anti-requisites EFN417 environment. Subsequent units will build on and extend the knowledge and skills gained in this unit. covered. Consumer behaviour, the efficiency of Equivalents EFX414 markets, and market structures are some of the microeconomic topics addressed in this unit. The Credit Points 12 macroeconomic topics include the cost of living, Campus Gardens Point economic growth, the financial system, and fiscal and EFN421 Financial Planning and Gardens Point monetary policy. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Strategies Credit Points 12 This unit extends the knowleldge and skills students have gained in prior units by exploring the influences, Campus Gardens Point EFN406 Managerial Finance issues and challenges of the international Gardens Point Availabilities Anti-requisites GSN413, GSN423, GSZ413 environment. Students will investigate financial - SEM-1, SEM-2 management issues arising in international settings Equivalents EFX406 and develop problem solving and decision making This unit aims to give students a solid grounding in Credit Points 12 skills essential for financial practice. This unit the world of Financial Planning and Superannuation. This will involve gaining knowledge of financial Campus Gardens Point and External introduces the theory and practice of international finance, the relationship between domestic and markets and instruments as well as the appropriate Gardens Point international financial markets, international parity regulatory framework. - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Availabilities conditions and arbitrage, foreign exchange risk External management, country and political risk management, - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM international trade finance, international portfolio EFN422 Economics and Data This unit gives students an essential grounding in investment, multinational cost of capital and capital applied finance, addressing fundamental issues of structure, international capital budgeting and foreign Analysis how we can use finance in a commercial sense and direct investment. EFN405,EFN419,GSN403,GSN411 Anti-requisites how this impacts critical organisational and ,GSN414,GSN491 managerial decisions in an increasingly complex and demanding financial environment. This unit introduces Credit Points 12 students to key themes in finance including Financial EFN415 Security Analysis and Campus Gardens Point and External Markets and Instruments, Market Efficiency, Risk and Portfolio Management Gardens Point Return and Cost of Capital. It also addresses key - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites EFN412 and EFN426 Availabilities financial decisions of the firm including investment, External Equivalents EFX415 dividend and financing decisions. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 The aim of the unit is firstly to provide a basic Campus Gardens Point understanding of how market conditions are Gardens Point determined and, in particular, it investigates market Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 forces that drive production and prices in both individual markets and the national economy. This unit focuses on the theories and techniques Secondly, the aim is to help students to develop a found in security analysis and investment statistical way of thinking to assist with decision- management. It develops essential theoretical and
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units making in the absence of complete information in real EFN426 Applied Research in Equivalents EFX505 word situations. Credit Points 12 Finance Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites EFN406 and EFN420 Gardens Point Availabilities EFN423 Health Economics: Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Applications and Policy The unit covers the main areas of modern risk Gardens Point management. The focus is on measuring risks in Anti-requisites PUN211 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 financial institutions. Particular attention is paid to Credit Points 12 developing understanding of the analytical techniques This introductory unit provides students with skills for Campus Kelvin Grove and External prescribed by the BIS Accord II. Topics covered approaching a research problem from an econometric include market risk, credit risk and operational risk. Kelvin Grove approach. Students will gain basic skills in the use of - SEM-1 Availabilities regression methods and learn to make determinations External as to when and where these methods can - SEM-1 appropriately be applied. With reference to a variety EFN507 Advanced Capital This unit provides a strategic overview of economics of research projects, students will learn how to set up as applied to the health sector. The unit develops a the research problem in terms of the modelling Budgeting set of skills with applications to health and financial framework, to undertake a range of statistical Pre-requisites EFN406 analysis, carry out estimation and inference and make management decision-making principles and Equivalents EFX507 processes. After developing an understanding of informed conclusions. The knowledge and skills basic economic concepts you will learn to apply this gained in this unit will enable students to work Credit Points 12 knowledge to financial management in Australian and effectively with the variety of data and business Campus Gardens Point international health care settings. This will include a problems and will have further application in Gardens Point discussion and analysis of health evaluation. addressing problems that they encounter in the Availabilities - SEM-2 Economics aids in making better informed and subsequent units of this course. logically coherent decisions. The unit will equip Topics in this unit include: capital investment analysis, emerging health managers with skills and theory to the NPV rule, adjusted present value, replacement enable them to effectively manage resources and the decisions, retirement decisions, unequal lives, optimal associated financial implications for their area or EFN500 Contemporary life, cost of capital, estimating beta, capital rationing, department Macroeconomic Theory valuation of new issues, mergers and takeovers, Unit Coordinator Approval and analysis of financial and leverage leases, the impact Other undergraduate degree with a major of recent taxation changes on the financing, dividend requisites in Economics or Finance required to and investment decisions of the firm, capital EFN424 Equity Trading Floor enrol budgeting in an international context, access or Pre-requisites EFN405 and EFN406 infrastructure pricing, and real options. The course Credit Points 12 includes a series of case studies, problems and Equivalents EFX424 Campus Gardens Point exercises, which require the student to apply the Credit Points 12 theory they have learned, to practical situations not Gardens Point Availabilities covered in normal undergraduate courses. A basic Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 understanding of spreadsheets is assumed. Gardens Point Availabilities This unit introduces students to contemporary - SEM-1 theoretical approaches in the field of macroeconomics The aim of the unit is to develop students' critical and applies these approaches to a range of thinking skills and to help them see issues from a macroeconomic issues. It places these theories in EFN508 Econometric Methods range of viewpoints and perspectives. Additionally, their historical and philosophical contexts. This will Anti-requisites BSN506 the unit aims to develop students' research, reflection provide students with a deeper appreciation of Unit Coordinator Approval and and technical skills through the delivery of a large macroeconomic policy debates as well as a more Other undergraduate degree with a major scale academic style portfolio that reflects their complete insight into the macroeconomic problems of requisites in Economics or Finance required to transition from theory to strategy and trading and inflation, unemployment, inequality, enrol reflection. The unit is NOT designed to be taken as a underdevelopment and economic fluctuations. traditional book learned class. Reading and Credit Points 12 knowledge is gained from many sources including Campus Gardens Point case studies, books, jounals and newspapers. Gardens Point EFN502 Developments in Availabilities - SEM-1 Microeconomic Theories This unit provides a comprehensive grounding in the Unit Coordinator Approval and EFN425 Financial Markets and econometric methods necessary for conducting Other undergraduate degree with a major research using such methods. Recent contributions to Institutions requisites in Economics or Finance required to the econometric literature are studied. Credit Points 12 enrol Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities EFN509 Policy Economics and - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Evaluation This unit introduces students to a range of key - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 concepts and ideas in finance, giving students This unit involves the discussion and analysis of grounding in how financial markets operate and also contemporary developments in microeconomic Campus Gardens Point the ability to critically apply knowledge and skills to theory, such as game theory and its applications, Gardens Point address real world problems and issues arising in Availabilities consumer behaviour, problems of collective action, - SEM-1 financial markets. The unit considers key evolutionary economics, the economics of voting, developments in the rapidly changing financial externalities, public goods, and the market This Economics Honours unit lays emphasis on environment and the role of financial theories and mechanism. It explores refinements in microeconomic economic policy and evaluation. The primary purpose models in this context. Students are introduced to theory which have been contemporaneously used in of this unit is to focus on the application of theories, institutions and instruments to better the development of government policies in areas such microeconomic and macroeconomic principles to understand how financial markets operate, to as the environment, energy, public enterprises and informing contemporary commercial, economic and consider the stresses on these markets and to industrial development. social policy in Australia, and the global economy. address problems and issues that arise. Students will This unit has a strong focus and will illustrate in a develop and practice critical thinking skills through the practical manner how economic tools can be used to practical application of finance knowledge and skills to assess policy issues and to evaluate potential analyse and address real world financial market EFN505 Financial Risk solutions. The unit will complement theory with events in addition to considering ethical perspectives appropriate tools of analysis (inclusive of both and behaviours in financial markets. Management analytical methods and model-based arguments). Pre-requisites EFN412 and EFN426
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Gardens Point Availabilities EFN511 Finance Theory - SEM-1, SEM-2 EFX225 Economics for the Real Equivalents EFN504 This unit introduces students to the modelling World (Outbound Exchange) Credit Points 12 techniques which are frequently used in business and Pre-requisites BSB113 Campus Gardens Point financial environments. Modelling is used as an aid to Equivalents EFB225 decision-making, as a means of forecasting important Gardens Point Availabilities variables and as a planning and analysis tool. Various Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 modelling exercises are used to illustrate the use of Campus EXCHANGE and External This unit provides an advanced coverage of the these modelling techniques in an economic and External theory of finance, building on work done in the financial context. Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 undergraduate course. Topics include: basic utility theory and risk aversion, investment decision, market equilibrium, the capital asset pricing model, arbitrage EFN555 Advanced Applications pricing theory, and multiperiod investment decisions. EFX226 Environmental The unit provides a theoretical basis for further in Finance specialisation in this area. Pre-requisites EFN415 and EFN505 Economics and Policy Credit Points 12 (Outbound Exchange) Pre-requisites BSB113 EFN512 Asset Pricing Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Equivalents EFB226,EFB334,EFX334 Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point This capstone unit aims to consolidate students Campus EXCHANGE and External Gardens Point Availabilities analytical, problem solving and decision making skills External - SEM-1 Availabilities to effectively respond to complex and contemporary - XCH-1, XCH-2 This unit provides an advanced coverage of the finance problems and issues in the areas of empirical asset pricing literature, building on work investments, risk management and corporate finance. done in Finance Theory and Econometric Methods. Real world case studies are used to connect student The unit will provide a broad coverage of key learning across the Applied Finance program and to EFX240 Finance for empirical work in a broad range of asset pricing and extend students' critical thinking through application in risk management, with topics including: addition to facilitating employment-focused teamwork International Business understanding the distribution of financial returns, to support their transition into work and further study. testing asset pricing models, stochastic discount (Outbound Exchange) factors, momentum, and aspects of financial risk Equivalents EFB240 management. EFX201 Financial Markets Credit Points 12 (Outbound Exchange) Campus EXCHANGE and External External Equivalents EFB201 Availabilities EFN513 Corporate Finance - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus EXCHANGE and External Gardens Point External Availabilities Availabilities EFX307 Finance 2 (Outbound - SEM-1 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Exchange) This is an advanced unit in Corporate Finance. The primary purpose of this unit is to expose and Equivalents EFB307 familiarise students to the major literature and recent EFX210 Finance 1 (Outbound Credit Points 12 developments in the theory of corporate finance. This Campus External unit has a strong focus on research and covers a Exchange) External number of major subject areas in corporate finance, Equivalents EFB210 Availabilities including capital raising, capital structure, payout - XCH-1 policy, and corporate governance. Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities EFX308 Empirical Finance EFN514 Behavioural Finance - XCH-1, XCH-2 Pre-requisites EFN412 and EFN415 (Outbound Exchange) Pre-requisites EFB307 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point EFX222 Quantitative Methods Campus EXCHANGE and External Gardens Point for Economics and Finance Availabilities External - SEM-2 Availabilities (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Behavioural Finance has revolutionised our views Equivalents EFB222 about how investment and finance decisions are made and about market price efficiency and market Credit Points 12 dynamics. Using insights from psychology and Campus EXCHANGE and External EFX312 International Finance economic theories of decision, this unit looks at the External decision making processes of investors and financial Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) firm managers and also the dynamics of financial Equivalents EFB312 markets. Credit Points 12 EFX223 Economics 2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External EFN515 Economic and Availabilities (Outbound Exchange) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Financial Modelling Equivalents EFB223 Pre-requisites EFN415 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites AYN419, EFN503 Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents EFN410, EFX410 External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point
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EFX326 Applied Portfolio EFX335 Investments (Outbound EFX360 Finance Capstone Management (Outbound Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Equivalents EFB335 EFB355 and EFB343. EFX335 can Pre-requisites be enrolled in the same teaching Pre-requisites EFB201 Credit Points 12 period as EFX360 Equivalents EFB326 Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents EFB360 External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus External External Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - XCH-2 EFX336 International Economics (Outbound EFX330 Intermediate Exchange) EFX405 Managerial Economics Macroeconomics (Outbound Equivalents EFB336 (Outbound Exchange) Credit Points 12 Exchange) Equivalents EFN405 Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents EFB330 Credit Points 12 External Credit Points 12 Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 EFX337 Game Theory and Applications (Outbound EFX406 Managerial Finance EFX331 Intermediate Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) Microeconomics (Outbound Equivalents EFB337 Equivalents EFN406 Exchange) Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Equivalents EFB331 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus EXCHANGE and External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 EFX338 Contemporary EFX410 Economic and Application of Economic Financial Modelling (Outbound EFX332 Applied Behavioural Theory (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Economics (Outbound Equivalents EFB338 Pre-requisites EFN412 Exchange) Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites AYN419,EFN503 Equivalents EFB332 Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents EFN410 External Credit Points 12 Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus External External External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-2 EFX343 Corporate Finance (Outbound Exchange) EFX333 Introductory Pre-requisites EFB210 EFX412 Advanced Managerial Econometrics (Outbound Anti-requisites EFB307 Finance (Outbound Exchange) Exchange) Equivalents EFB343 Pre-requisites EFN406 Equivalents EFB333 Credit Points 12 Equivalents EFN412 Credit Points 12 Campus External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities Campus External - XCH-2 External External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-2 EFX344 Risk Management and EFX334 Environmental Derivatives (Outbound EFX414 International Finance Economics and Policy Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) (Outbound Exchange) Pre-requisites EFB201 and EFB210 Equivalents EFN414 Equivalents EFB334 Equivalents EFB344 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus External External Campus External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-2 - XCH-2
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concepts and data, Newton's first and second laws EFX415 Security Analysis and are used in the description of system motion and the Portfolio Management concepts of force and energy, conservation of EFX507 Advanced Capital momentum and conservation of energy are (Outbound Exchange) Budgeting (Outbound introduced and described. Thermodynamic Pre-requisites EFN412 and EFN426 processes, certain thermo-physical parameters and Equivalents EFN415 Exchange) the first and second law of thermodynamics are Pre-requisites EFN406 and EFN412 introduced and used to describe simple engineering Credit Points 12 systems. This is then expanded to include the Equivalents EFN507 Campus External generation and transport of energy through these Credit Points 12 systems. External Availabilities - XCH-2 Campus External External Availabilities - XCH-2 EGB120 Foundations of EFX416 Treasury and Portfolio Electrical Engineering Management (Outbound Pre-requisites EGB113 or PVB101 EGB100 Engineering Equivalents ENB120 Exchange) Sustainability and Professional Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites EFN406 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents EFN416 Practice Equivalents ENB100 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus External Campus Gardens Point This unit introduces you to basic electrical circuit External concepts. It requires you to perform circuit analysis, Availabilities Gardens Point - XCH-2 Availabilities circuit synthesis, and the measurement and testing of - SEM-1, SEM-2 relevant quantities within circuits. This is an introductory unit for all engineering disciplines. It provides you with a wide appreciation of EFX420 Introduction to the engineering profession, its achievements and EGB121 Engineering Financial Management current and future challenges. It will introduce you to the concept of sustainability and how sustainability Mechanics impacts current and future engineering ventures. It (Outbound Exchange) EGB111. EGB111 can be enrolled will also develop your professional skills that will be Equivalents EFN420 Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as essential to your functioning as an effective EGB121 Credit Points 12 professional engineer both individually and as part of Campus EXCHANGE and External a team. Equivalents ENB101 External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point EGB111 Foundation of Gardens Point Availabilities Engineering Design - SEM-2 EGB100 (can be enrolled in the This is a foundation engineering unit that will develop EFX424 Equity Trading Floor Pre-requisites same teaching period) the necessary skills in analysing mechanical and civil (Outbound Exchange) engineering systems (cranes, buildings, bridges and Equivalents ENB150 Equivalents EFN424 mechanical equipment) to maintain equilibrium Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 leading to the determination of direct, bending and Campus Gardens Point shear stresses. This unit forms the foundation for the Campus EXCHANGE and External units in Stress Analysis and Structural Analysis. Gardens Point External Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Analysis, designing, building, testing and maintaining are the core elements of engineering; Foundations of EGB123 Civil Engineering Engineering Design provides you with fundamental Systems knowledge and skills to design, build and test simple EFX501 Corporate and Credit Points 12 engineering systems through a number of exploratory, Commercial Lending hands-on activities, leading to the design and build of Campus Gardens Point (Outbound Exchange) a practical engineering system. This unit is the first of Gardens Point a series of engineering design units which form the Availabilities Pre-requisites EFN412 - SEM-2 backbone of the engineering program. Equivalents EFN501 This is a foundation civil engineering unit that will introduce you to civil engineering systems and Credit Points 12 thinking through local urban site investigations and Campus External EGB113 Energy in Engineering large industry project contexts. You will integrate External systems thinking and information science with skills in Availabilities Systems - XCH-2 investigation, analysis and synthesis, and written and Anti-requisites PVB101 visual literacy including use of CAD that underpins Equivalents ENB130 civil engineering practice. You will develop both independent and collaborative strategies for Credit Points 12 managing and completing tasks on time in real world EFX505 Financial Risk Campus Gardens Point contexts taking into account social, economic, environmental and political issues with guidance from Management (Outbound Gardens Point Availabilities industry project leaders. This unit provides the - SEM-1 Exchange) foundation for most of your second year units in a Pre-requisites EFN415 Engineers work with numerous kinds of systems major civil engineering study area. It also exposes Equivalents EFN505 where consideration must be given to the energy you to areas of future work and study choice (e.g. within the system. This unit introduces the student to Study Area B options). Credit Points 12 the concepts of energy in the context of real Campus External engineering systems. The inter-relationships of between forces, motion and energy (in systems External Availabilities composed of liquids, solids or gases) is described as - XCH-2 related to the flow of energy within these engineering systems. After an introduction to engineering units,
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mathematical concepts of function, matrix and vector EGD113 Energy in Engineering algebra, together with the operations of differentiation Systems and integration. Through the exploration and solution ENB110 Engineering Statics Anti-requisites PVB101 of contextualised problems you will develop an understanding of these mathematical concepts as and Materials Equivalents ENB130 EGB113 well as competency in appropriate solution methods. Anti-requisites EGB121 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove EGD126 Engineering Availabilities Gardens Point - 13TP3 Availabilities Computation - SEM-1 Engineers work with numerous kinds of systems Equivalents MZB126 where consideration must be given to the energy This unit introduces you to forces and moments within the system. This unit introduces the student to Credit Points 12 between rigid bodies and to the properties of steel. the concepts of energy in the context of real Campus Kelvin Grove This knowledge will help you to understand how major infrastructure systems (e.g. bridges, skyscrapers, engineering systems. The inter-relationships of Kelvin Grove Availabilities roads, factories), mechanical systems (e.g. engines, between forces, motion and energy (in systems - 13TP3 composed of liquids, solids or gases) is described as turbines, pumps, vehicles), and electrical systems related to the flow of energy within these engineering The rational solution of real-world engineering (e.g. power stations, transmission lines, motors) are systems. After an introduction to engineering units, problems often requires the combination of multiple designed and built. This unit is one of four first year concepts and data, Newton's first and second laws skill sets across multiple disciplines. In this unit you units covering fundamental engineering principles that are used in the description of system motion and the will develop key skills in mathematics, statistics, you will need in your profession. concepts of force and energy, conservation of modelling and programming that will equip you with a momentum and conservation of energy are set of fundamental tools for problem solving in the introduced and described. Thermodynamic engineering context. processes, certain thermo-physical parameters and ENB121 Aerodynamics the first and second law of thermodynamics are Equivalents MMB251 introduced and used to describe simple engineering Credit Points 12 systems. This is then expanded to include the EGD270 Civil Engineering generation and transport of energy through these Materials Campus Gardens Point systems. Gardens Point Equivalents ENB273 EGB270 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit includes the following: introductory concepts EGD120 Foundations of Campus Kelvin Grove of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics; conservation Kelvin Grove of mass, energy and momentum, state properties of Availabilities Electrical Engineering - 13TP3 fluids, the standard atmosphere; dimensional Pre-requisites EGB113 analysis; experimental aerodynamics and This module starts with an overview of the world of aerodynamic coefficients; Reynolds number and Equivalents ENB120 EGB120 materials and materials selection, followed by an Mach number effects; estimation aerodynamic forces Credit Points 12 analysis of why and how concrete is used in and moments; fundamentals of aircraft performance; construction and the fundamental knowledge of soils Campus Kelvin Grove estimating range and endurance; take off and landing and structural steels. The constituent materials used calculations; flight envelopes. Kelvin Grove in concrete (cement, sustainable cementitious Availabilities - 13TP3 materials, aggregate, and admixtures) are studied with emphasis on their influence on the microstructure This unit introduces you to basic electrical circuit of concrete. The focus is then on the fresh properties concepts. It requires you to perform circuit analysis, ENB205 Electrical and and mechanical performances, behaviour of concrete circuit synthesis, and the measurement and testing of under different types of loadings and temperatures, Computer Engineering relevant quantities within circuits. and durability. The module also introduces structural Pre-requisites ENB120 or ENB103 or EGB120 steel and steel corrosions. And it will end up with Credit Points 12 introduction of soil concepts and materials which will EGD121 Engineering provide a basis for soil mechanics. The module is Campus Gardens Point taught as a series of lectures and embedded informal Gardens Point Availabilities Mechanics tutorials. This unit prepares you for the further study in - SEM-2 Equivalents ENB101 EGB121 analysis, design, and maintenance of concrete structures. It also equips you with basis for steel This unit introduces computing fundamentals, Credit Points 12 structures and soil mechanics. programming in MATLAB and Excel and their Campus Kelvin Grove electrical and computer engineering applications. It also covers single and three phase power, electrical Kelvin Grove Availabilities machines, principles of transformers, electronic - 13TP3 EGH403 Foundations of circuits and sensors, filters, operational amplifier This is a foundation mechanical engineering unit that applications. will develop the necessary skills in analysing Research and Work Integrated mechanical and civil engineering systems (cranes, Learning buildings, bridges and mechanical equipment) to Pre-requisites 276cp in current course maintain equilibrium leading to the determination of ENB211 Dynamics direct, bending and shear stresses. This unit forms Credit Points 12 (MAB126 or MAB180 or MAB131 or the foundation for the units in Stress Analysis and Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites MZB126) and (ENB130 or PCB136 Structural Analysis. or PCB150 or EGB113) Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents MMB112 This unit facilitates the acquisition of knowledge and Credit Points 12 EGD125 Introductory skills essential to engaging with, and conducting Campus Gardens Point Engineering Mathematics research. This unit introduces you to the research Gardens Point Availabilities process, project planning and management, and - SEM-1 Anti-requisites MAN120 methodologies used in science, information MAB100, MAB120, MAB125, technology, engineering, mathematics, urban Fundamental equations of particle kinetics; energy, Equivalents MAB180, MXB100, MZB125 development and property economics. The learning power, impulse and momentum; kinematics of rigid bodies in plane motion, relative motion and motion Credit Points 12 acquired in this unit will be applied to your project which is further developed in the Project units. This relative to rotating axes; kinetics of rigid bodies, Basic Campus Kelvin Grove unit also provides opportunities to learn from machine components, (Gears, clutches, brakes etc.), Kelvin Grove workplace experiences. It involves attendance, Single degree of freedom system. Availabilities - 13TP3 participation, observation, critical reflection, and report writing on workplace activities. This unit introduces to you the foundational
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ENB212 Strength of Materials Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point ENB110 or ENB101 and ENB104 or Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-1 Gardens Point EGB121 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 ENB229 is a project unit with a hands-on introduction to mechatronics. You will be introduced to the basic Campus Gardens Point Telecommunications systems and the principles concepts in mechatronics, focusing on the mechanics, underlying their operations are introduced starting Gardens Point electronics, and embedded software principles. The Availabilities from mathematical preliminaries such as the Fourier - SEM-1 unit focuses on the research, design, and series and the Fourier transform. Analogue implementation of a mechatronic product to conform modulation techniques (AM and FM), systems and This unit introduces the analysis of stress and strain to a customer's needs. in simple engineering components and systems such circuits for generation and demodulation, analogue to as uniaxial and bending stresses, deflection of digital conversion, pulse modulation and base-band beams, torsion, thin walled structures, combined digital data communication techniques are studied loading, yield criteria, and introduces the finite ENB231 Materials and using time and frequency domain analyses. element method (FEA). Manufacturing 1 Credit Points 12 ENB243 Linear Circuits and ENB215 Fundamentals of Campus Gardens Point Systems Gardens Point Availabilities (ENB120 or EGB120) and (MAB126 Mechanical Design - SEM-1 Pre-requisites Equivalents MMB281 or MZB126) Materials and their engineering applications, Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Manufacturing systems and technology, material Campus Gardens Point properties and manufacturing, material selection, Campus Gardens Point failure, graphical communication. Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Basic procedures of design, design for sustainability, Network analysis; Laplace transform of signals and universal design, Concept development, creative ENB240 Introduction To transfer functions of systems, time and frequency problem solving, Basic component design, Electronics responses of linear circuits, feedback configurations computational scheme in design, manufacture & and transfer functions, analyse and designing Pre-requisites ENB103 or ENB120 or EGB120 materials. analogue systems using transistors and operational Equivalents EEB312 amplifiers, designing and synthesising analogue filters, signal conditioning. Credit Points 12 ENB221 Fluid Mechanics Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities ENB245 Introduction To Design - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point and Professional Practice Gardens Point Module Electronics A provides a basic understanding Availabilities Equivalents EEB584 - SEM-2 of the characteristics and operation of discrete semiconductor components. Electronic circuit design Credit Points 12 Engineers work with numerous kinds of systems is introduced with emphasis on the small signal low Campus Gardens Point where consideration must be given to the motion and high frequency response of those circuits. Module within, and interactions between the system and its Gardens Point Digital Electronics gives students a good grounding in Availabilities environment. This unit introduces the student to the the basic principles of digital design, with particular - SEM-2 concepts of fluid mechanics in the context of real regard to the fundamentals of digital number systems, engineering systems. The basic principles and Introduction to general principles of electronic circuit Boolean algebra, combinational and sequential logic and electrical equipment design and realisation; equations of fluid mechanics are presented and design. discussed as related fluids within various engineering design and implementation of basic electronic circuits; systems. After an introduction to the units and experience in undertaking engineering projects, in properties of fluids, pressure, hydrostatics and the report writing, and working in teams. The unit gives energy and momentum equations are presented ENB241 Software Systems students the opportunity to apply their theoretical followed by an application of these principals to real knowledge to real-life engineering problems. fluids in piping systems. A brief introduction to the Design methods of computational fluid dynamics is presented Pre-requisites ENB246 or INB104 and this methods utility to the solution of real world Equivalents EEB612 problems illustrated. ENB246 Engineering Problem Credit Points 12 Solving Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point ENB222 Thermodynamics 1 Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 (ENB130 or EGB113) and (ENB221 Gardens Point Pre-requisites Availabilities or EN40MJR-PROCENG) The unit introduces students to Software Engineering - SEM-1 by considering a whole Software Lifecycle. Each step Credit Points 12 of the lifecycle is treated in detail, such as concept This unit introduces students to the use of computers Campus Gardens Point phase, requirement definition, software design, as tools for solving engineering problems. MATLAB is introduced as a numerical computing environment Gardens Point human-computer interaction, implementation, audits, Availabilities with the capacity to support complex mathematics - SEM-1 and maintenance. Software design principles and techniques are presented as well as real-time system and to be programmed to solve specific engineering Thermodynamic behaviour of substances; theory and design. CASE development tools are briefly problems. Stand alone application development using application of the 1st and 2nd laws of introduced as well as object oriented programming for C++ is introduced as a means of exposing students to thermodynamics; thermodynamic cycles, including which a structured Object Oriented Analysis and the high and low level computer programming gas cycles, vapour power cycles and refrigeration Design are considered. concepts that are necessary to the implementation of cycles; gas-vapour mixtures and the principles of air- engineering solutions in hardware specific conditioning; fuels and combustion. programming environments. ENB242 Introduction To ENB229 Mechatronics Project 1 Telecommunications ENB250 Electrical Circuits (ENB120 or EGB120) and (ENB130 (ENB120 or ENB103 or EGB120) Pre-requisites ENB120 or EGB120 Pre-requisites and (MAB126 or MAB110 or Pre-requisites or EGB113) and (ENB150 or Anti-requisites ENB103 EGB111) MAB111 or MZB126) Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Equivalents EEB340 Campus Gardens Point
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Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities method of moment distribution and its application in - SEM-1 Gardens Point analysis of continuous beams and frames; theory of Availabilities This unit introduces you to electrical circuit analysis. It - SEM-1 influence lines and its application to determine the shows how to determine the transient and steady effects of moving loads on beams and trusses; The unit provides students with a sound and practical 'pattern loading' on frames and continuous beams; state solution in single and three phase circuits as approach to material properties and selection so that well as the interaction of fluxes and currents in behaviour of reinforced concrete members; they may adapt to scientific and technological applications in the design of beams and columns. transformers and electrical machines. changes in the variety of products entering the market. They understand where the engineer fits in a quality assurance program and become aware of the numerous components of quality assurance and the ENB277 Construction ENB260 Operations costs generated by quality control and assurance. Management and Process Students become aware of the effect of the working Engineering Law Economics environment on different engineering materials. Credit Points 12 Among other things, they study the behaviour of Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites ENB150 or EGB111 concrete from the time it is manufactured to the end of Gardens Point Credit Points 12 its life, and develop knowledge of the parameters Availabilities involved in manufacturing good concrete, and the - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point consequences of delivering poor concrete. A study of the Workplace Health and Safety Act Gardens Point Availabilities 1989/1990, the regulations applying and Codes of - SEM-2 Practice. The application of this legislation to a Site The unit will cover material that allows the Process ENB274 Design of Safety Management Plan. Basic understanding of Engineer to maximise the profitability of a factory. The negligence, duty of care, nuisance, fraud and Operations Management subsection covers quality Environmentally Sustainable conversion. Contract Law including elements of contract, content of a valid contract, collateral, management, operational scheduling and project Systems management systems. The financial implications of contract misrepresentation, implied terms; formal BEB200 or ENB200 or ENB100 or requirements and part performance; contract decisions are covered in the Process Economics Pre-requisites subsection through cost estimation, Discounted Cash UDB100 or SCB110 or EGB100 documents and their interpretations; substantial performance and quantum meruit. Flow analysis and sensitivity analysis as measured Equivalents CEB214, UDB214 against standard financial performance Credit Points 12 measurements. The unit will also cover communication and leadership in an operations Campus Gardens Point ENB280 Hydraulic Engineering management context. Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point This unit will provide you with an understanding of the Gardens Point ENB270 Engineering Mechanics principles of site analysis, site investigation and Availabilities - SEM-2 of Materials planning for a selected site covering sustainability issues in the following areas: Sustainable Transport, This unit primarily provide a basic understanding of Pre-requisites ENB101 or ENB110 or EGB121 Land Planning including assessment of the hydraulic (fluid) principles and an understanding of Credit Points 12 surrounding suburbs, Water and Wastewater the use of these principles in engineering Management and Environmental Impact Assessment. Campus Gardens Point applications. The main topics to be covered are: Units This unit extends and applies the knowledge and properties of fluids, Forces in static fluids, Gardens Point developed in first year design based engineering units Availabilities Buoyancy, Kinematics and continuity, The energy - SEM-1 to important issues such as site analysis, site equation and the momentum equation; Similitude and investigation, development of site planning criteria, This unit introduces calculating the stress produced in dimensional analysis, Lift and drag, Frictional flow in site planning, environmental management and quality, pipes, Application of pipe resistance formulae, Fitting. various members of a structural system due to the pollution prevention and control, and resource and forces applied to them, and how to determine the waste management. design specifications (size and shape) of the members to withstand the forces to prevent the structural system failing. ENB301 Instrumentation and ENB275 Project Engineering 1 Control MAB126 or MAB182 or MAB132 or Equivalents CEB216 Pre-requisites MZB126 ENB272 Geotechnical Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Engineering 1 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Equivalents CEB209, CEB232 Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point The unit commences with the development of the construction techniques common to site investigation, The unit introduces the student to classical control Gardens Point Availabilities earthworks, pile driving, deep foundations, reinforced systems, analysis and synthesis, and implementation - SEM-1 and prestressed concrete and steel erection. This in an industrial control context. It introduces the Soil mechanics is a part of geotechnical engineering, operational understanding is extended into a study of principles of electrical measurements and soil types, their description, classification and the practices used to estimate cost and to administer instrumentation, sensors, PLC, DSC and industrial engineering properties. The unit includes the contracts, including planning and the legal networks, and foundation of feedback control theory following: granular and cohesive soil classification implications of operating in a commercial for engineers. systems; volume and mass components; density and environment. The unit concludes with the issues air voids; determination of soil geostatic vertical surrounding the uncertainty of weather and of pressures; pore water pressures and effective stress; operating in remote environs. permeability theory and fluid seepage in soil, with ENB311 Stress Analysis erosion and piping analysis; soil shear strength Pre-requisites EGB314 or ENB102 or ENB212 assessment and application to retaining wall lateral Equivalents MMB212 pressures; retaining wall design; slope stability ENB276 Structural Engineering Credit Points 12 analysis and stabilisation. Computer simulation and 1 analysis programs are used where appropriate. Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites ENB102 or ENB270 Gardens Point Equivalents CEB215 Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 ENB273 Civil Materials Advanced analysis of stress and strain; experimental Campus Gardens Point ENB270 or ENB102. ENB270 can stress analysis techniques; failure criteria and factors Pre-requisites be studied concurrently. Gardens Point of safety, axisymmetric systems; energy methods; Availabilities - SEM-2 plates and shell theory, principles of finite element Credit Points 12 analysis, and torsion of non-circular sections. This unit includes the following: development of the
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(CAD), materials selection, manufacturing processes, assembly and maintenance in the design and management of bio-engineering devices. A ENB312 Dynamics of Machinery ENB316 Design of Machine knowledge of manufacturing processes, fundamentals Pre-requisites ENB211 Elements of engineering design, engineering drawing and engineering materials is assumed. Contents include Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites ENB215 design for manufacture, materials selection, Campus Gardens Point Equivalents MMB381 computer-aided design and solid modelling, rapid Gardens Point prototyping techniques, user interface, and case Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 studies of selected medical devices. Campus Gardens Point Kinematic and dynamic analysis of planar linkages Gardens Point and mechanisms; multi-degree of freedom systems Availabilities - SEM-1 with steady and transient vibrations, Introduction to ENB321 Fluids Dynamics noise. Analysis of operating conditions and their impact on Pre-requisites ENB201 or ENB221 design solutions, design of fasteners, shafts and other mechanical components, design of springs, Design Equivalents MMB352 for manufacturability, fundamentals of lubrication, Credit Points 12 ENB313 Automatic Control computer aided design (solid modelling), frames and Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites ENB211 housings. Gardens Point Equivalents ENB301 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 ENB317 Design and Hydraulic and pneumatic systems; design, analysis Campus Gardens Point and performance of pumps, turbines and fluid Gardens Point Maintenance of Machinery couplings; unsteady pipe flow; flow around solid Availabilities - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ENB316 bodies, including potential flow and boundary layers; compressible flow and shock waves. This unit introduces you to the theory and practice of Equivalents MMB382 control systems engineering. The unit introduces Credit Points 12 system modelling principles for mechanical, electrical and electromechanical systems, using the Laplace Campus Gardens Point ENB322 Biofluids transform to build transfer-function models of system Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites ENB201 or ENB221 components. The unit emphasizes the practical - SEM-2 application of control theory to the analysis and Equivalents MMB362 Design of equipment for special applications such as design of feedback systems to ensure stability, pressure vessel, food processing, Design of machine Credit Points 12 reduce steady state errors and improve transient system, Optimisation of design, machinery failure, response. Campus Gardens Point prediction, analysis and prevention. Design for Gardens Point reliability application of FMEA, Condition monitoring, Availabilities - SEM-2 ethics, Fundamentals of friction , wear related to ENB314 Industrial Noise and design, Failure analysis & OH&S. This unit looks at the properties of biofluids, such as blood and synovial fluid, and techniques to analyse Vibration their viscous behaviour. This leads to an Credit Points 12 understanding of how biofluids interact with medical ENB318 Biomechanical devices and of criteria for the design of devices to Campus Gardens Point fulfil their function without damaging the biofluid and, Gardens Point Engineering Systems Availabilities in the case of blood, the cells transported in the fluid. - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ENB211 The unit is about the study of noise and vibration Equivalents MMB391 measurement and control which is experienced in Credit Points 12 ENB329 Mechatronics Project 2 industry. It includes a basic understanding of the Campus Gardens Point theories and capable of modelling and predicting Pre-requisites ENB229 and ENB243 and ENB244 Gardens Point noise and vibration in an industrial environment. This Availabilities Credit Points 12 unit will provide you with sufficient experience in - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point instrumentation and measurement of noise and Topics covered in this unit include an appreciation of Gardens Point vibration and to apply them in industry. the mechanics of the tissues of the joints (micro Availabilities - SEM-2 mechanics or tissue mechanics) and the function of the body during normal activities (macro-mechanics ENB329 focuses on teams of students applying or biomechanics). This unit is designed to develop an advanced mechatronics principles to design and build ENB315 Motor Racing Vehicle understanding of the complex properties of the an autonomous robot. Students will integrate aspects Design individual tissues and practical competencies in the of mechanical, electromechanical, electrical, software, Pre-requisites ENB316 evaluation of human function and performance from a signal processing and control engineering that they biomechanical perspective. Biomedical engineers have learnt in their course. The core learning Credit Points 12 require the ability to analyse the mechanics of the outcomes include development of teamwork and Campus Gardens Point human body for applications such as prosthetic communication skills, engineering design and design (both artificial limbs and replacement joints), implantation skills and the ability to communicate Gardens Point Availabilities design of assistive devices for people with disabilities, about your robot. - SEM-1 sporting performance, ergonomic tasks, and other After studying Fundamentals of Mechanical Design health related areas. and Design of Machine Elements, in this unit you will study design of different systems of motor racing ENB331 Materials and vehicles. This will accomplish systematic study of Manufacturing 2 Mechanical Design and will enable you to carry out ENB319 Biomechanical design of race vehicles and prepare them for a Engineering Design Pre-requisites ENB231 competition. Attention will be paid to styling and Credit Points 12 ergonomics as well as construction methods used in Pre-requisites ENB215 Campus Gardens Point building race vehicles. The topics covered include: Equivalents MMB392 Gardens Point Introduction. Concept development of a race vehicle. Credit Points 12 Availabilities Tyre selection. Suspension geometry, components - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and alignment. Brakes. Race car handling. Engine This unit extends the formative body of knowledge and engine tuning. Drive train (gearing and Gardens Point Availabilities gained in ENB231 and introduces the shear differentials). Frame and body. External and internal - SEM-1 deformation mechanisms of engineering material and aerodynamics of a race vehicle. Driver compartment how these properties can be used to understand the (fitting and comfort). Testing and preparation for a This unit is structured to further develop the engineering design skills of students, with particular mechanics of metal cutting. Descriptive and analytical competition. Safety in motor racing (accident information about different material removal avoidance and driver protection). emphasis on the role of computer-aided design
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Gardens Point processes and material failure mechanisms are material handling and balance and job design with Availabilities provided to you through lectures, tutorials, practical due consideration to ergonomics. - SEM-1 laboratory and case studies. The unit also provides The unit covers the area of Signals in Linear Systems you with an excellent opportunity to apply the for which a detailed study of Fourier theory applied to knowledge in the design and manufacture of a both analogue and discrete-time signals and to the component. ENB338 Biomaterials analysis of linear systems will be given. Systems will Equivalents MMB292 be represented in time as well as in frequency and Credit Points 12 various characteristics and relationships in the two domains will be discussed. The students will be Campus Gardens Point ENB333 Operations introduced to the fundamentals of analogue and Gardens Point Management Availabilities discrete-time signal processing; analogue and Equivalents MMB476 - SEM-2 discrete Fourier transform; linear and discrete convolution. Finally, the students will learn the Topics covered in this unit include: an understanding Credit Points 12 fundamentals of digital filter design and of the relationships between the properties, failure implementation, with examples and applications Campus Gardens Point mechanisms, processing and microstructures of arising from various disciplines. Gardens Point various materials used for medical applications and Availabilities - SEM-2 their interaction with human tissues; an understanding of the fundamentals of the use of materials in a This unit develops students' ability in applying medical environment and an understanding of the quantitative techniques in solving different types of ENB343 Fields, Transmission fundamentals of materials properties and processing; industrial operations problems. Topics include: consideration of metallic, ceramic, polymeric implant and Propagation product mix, assignment and transportation models; materials; composites as biomaterials; structure- location and layout decisions, job design analysis; Pre-requisites ENB103 or ENB250 property relationships of biomaterials; tissue response project planning; quality control and the use of to implants; soft tissue replacements; hard tissue Equivalents EEB641 simulation in operations management. replacements. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities ENB334 Design For ENB339 Introduction to - SEM-2 Manufacturing Robotics Fundamental concepts of static and time varying Equivalents MMB374 Equivalents MMB451 electromagnetic fields; Maxwell's equations and the Credit Points 12 characteristics of their solution, such as wave Credit Points 12 equations, losses in various media and energy flow; Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point numerical methods; transmission line theory, Gardens Point terminated line, Smith Circle Chart usage and lattice Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities diagram; propagation modes in waveguides and - SEM-2 optical fibre; free-space propagation, reflection, Topics covered in this unit include: basic concepts in This unit introduces you to the components, systems refraction, diffraction; basic antenna theories and the analysis of a mechanical engineering design, and mathematical foundations of robotics. The unit antenna parameters, Frii's transmission equation, relating the design requirements to a range of introduces the technologies and methods used in the half-wave dipole, two-element array. manufacturing processes; an understanding of the design and programming of modern intelligent robots, complete manufacturing specifications for mechanical and encourages critical thinking about the use of designs based on functional requirements, robotic technologies in various applications. The unit manufacturing processes, interchangeability and emphasizes the practical application of robotic theory ENB344 Industrial Electronics standardisation; introduction to the basic principles in to the design and synthesis of robotic systems that Pre-requisites ENB240 the design of jigs and fixtures in manufacturing. respond accurately and repeatably. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point ENB335 Modelling and ENB340 Power Systems and Availabilities Simulation For Medical - SEM-2 Machines The unit gives a basic understanding of linear and Engineers Pre-requisites ENB103 or ENB250 switching applications in industrial electronics. Pre-requisites ENB318 Credit Points 12 Practical knowledge associated with interfacing and design is developed. Students will also study the Equivalents MMB496 Campus Gardens Point theory and design of advanced digital embedded Credit Points 12 Gardens Point systems as well as the practicalities associated with Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 implementation. It also covers power rectification, controlled rectification, inverters, AC and DC drives, Gardens Point This is a core unit that develops the basic topics Availabilities uninterruptible power supplies and power switching - SEM-1 essential for an electrical engineer working in areas components. that include the resources sector, the process Traditional experimentation techniques can often not industries, electrical power utilisation, electric power be applied to investigate the mechanics of biological generators as well the electricity supply industry. systems. Medical engineers are often then required to Topics covered in machines include magnetic circuits, use modelling and simulation techniques to ENB345 Advanced Design and single phase and three phase transformers; electric understand the behaviour of biomechanical machines including electromechanical energy Professional Practice components and/or systems. This unit introduces you conversion, reluctance motors, induction motors, Pre-requisites ENB245 to some of the fundamental principles of modelling synchronous machines, D.C. machines, stepper and simulation techniques and their applications in Equivalents EEB684 motors, P.C. motors; motor control; heating, cooling Biomedical Engineering. and rating. Power system topics include power Credit Points 12 generation and energy sources, electricity market Campus Gardens Point operation, fault calculations, basic protection and Gardens Point ENB336 Industrial Engineering power system operation, in particular real and Availabilities reactive power control. - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Detailed design and realisation of typical electronic Campus Gardens Point subsystems used in all areas of electrical and Gardens Point electronic systems engineering. The unit enhances Availabilities ENB342 Signals, Systems and - SEM-1 the student's ability in solving complex engineering Transforms problems. The design builds on the theoretical Aim of this unit is to develop skills and understanding knowledge gained in other units. The student is Pre-requisites ENB242 the concepts and techniques of lean manufacturing required to write a detailed technical report and also (methods engineering). These includes identifying Credit Points 12 give an oral presentation on her/his design. wastes using Value Stream Mapping (VSM), 5S, Campus Gardens Point SMED, JIT, plant layout, cell design with proper
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This unit covers the area of embedded systems and ENB346 Digital real-time kernels. C programming is reviewed in the ENB357 Spacecraft Dynamics Communications context of real-time applications where it is often and Control Pre-requisites ENB342 mixed with assembly language. Data representations, Credit Points 12 input-output programming, concurrency, scheduling, Equivalents EEB560 memory management and system initialisation are Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 discussed. Programming laboratory exercises Gardens Point introduce development tools and reinforce Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 fundamental concepts such as polling, interrupt driven Gardens Point input-output, serial port communication, pre-emptive This unit offers a general introduction to space Availabilities - SEM-1 and non pre-emptive scheduling, resource sharing, technology. It includes the following: coordination of priority inversion and deadlock. Students develop a systems and time references used within space Revolutionary developments in the field of Digital simple real-time process control application using dynamics; rocket dynamics; satellite orbit and attitude Communication Technology have enabled programmable logic and micro-controllers. dynamics and control; an introduction to a satellite as improvement in the characteristics of communication a system and subsystems. systems in order to meet the performance requirements for transmission of information for private, business and industrial applications. This unit ENB352 Communication which covers Elements of a Digital Communication ENB360 Heat and Mass System aims at providing the students with an in- Environments For Embedded depth understanding of the theory and applications of Transfer Operations digital communication systems and technology. Systems Pre-requisites ENB221 and ENB222 Pre-requisites ENB350 Credit Points 12 Equivalents EEB666 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 ENB347 Modern Flight Control Gardens Point Availabilities Systems Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Gardens Point Pre-requisites ENB348 Availabilities Optimal delivery of heat and mass transfer is a key - SEM-2 outcome of process engineering design and Equivalents EEB535 This unit addresses the following: computer networks; operations. This unit delivers core knowledge of heat Credit Points 12 network programming; open network foundations; and mass transfer concepts to improve unit Campus Gardens Point embedded systems; client/server; bus architectures; operations. Gardens Point network controllers; distributed systems in automation Availabilities - SEM-2 and process control; embedded Java; distributed objects; distributed databases; distributed operating The modules of this unit are Control Systems B and systems. ENB361 Minerals and Minerals Flight Control Systems. The unit provides students Processing with an understanding of control system design and Credit Points 12 analysis for discrete time control systems as well as using the state space approach. Furthermore, it ENB354 Introduction To Campus Gardens Point introduces students to different aspects of flight Gardens Point Systems Design Availabilities control including factors affecting the performance - SEM-1 and simulation. Specific topics such as artificial Equivalents EEB585 stability and MILSTDs are also covered. Credit Points 12 The unit will provide an understanding of the principles of physical and chemical mineral Campus Gardens Point processing operations. An emphasis will be placed Gardens Point on: 1) characterisation of ores, 2) ore preparation, 3) Availabilities ENB348 Aircraft Systems and - SEM-1 physical separations and 4) chemical separations. This unit will use current Australian mining industries Flight Control Introduction systems engineering methodologies and to demonstrate the importance and significance of Pre-requisites MAB127 or MAB182 or MAB132 techniques as applied to Aerospace Engineering each stage of mineral processing. projects. The students receive formal lectures and Equivalents EEB431 apply the knowledge gained to a specific case study Credit Points 12 or mini project. Campus Gardens Point ENB362 Bulk Materials Gardens Point Availabilities Handling - SEM-1 ENB355 Advanced Systems Credit Points 12 The modern aircraft is an extremely complex machine Design Campus Gardens Point comprised of many systems. These systems include Pre-requisites ENB354 Gardens Point propulsion, engine management, flight management, Availabilities - SEM-2 flight control, navigation, and life support and flight Equivalents EEB685 data recorders. The safe and reliable operation of all Credit Points 12 This unit introduces and develops your knowledge, these systems is required to conduct a single flight. skills and application of the transportation, handling Campus Gardens Point The modern avionics engineer requires an and storage of industrial quantities of materials, both understanding of all these systems and how they Gardens Point raw and processed. The unit focuses on bulk material Availabilities operate on modern civil and military aircraft. This unit - SEM-2 design requirements in the context of the Queensland places emphasis on the flight control systems of process engineering industry. It links with work This unit is based on the experiences already gained modern aircraft which is one of the primary sub- previously undertaken within the Process Engineering in first semester. The purpose of this unit is to lead to systems. As part of this, methods for modelling the minor such has ENB361 Minerals and Mineral a deeper understanding of the system engineering dynamic behaviour of aircraft, missiles and spacecraft Processing, ENB360 Heat and Mass Transfer, CVB process and the relations between the project phases, are introduced, along with the criteria for stability. General Chemistry and ENB221 Fluid Mechanics, requirements, review processes, documentation preparing you for your final year of studies and as a and/or related deliverables. Practical examples will be graduate engineer in the process engineering given based on currently ongoing projects. A further industry. ENB350 Real-time Computer- objective of this course is to outline the importance of understanding contractual relations of Test Reports based Systems (TR), Design Documents (DD), Verification and Pre-requisites ENB244 or CAB202 Validation (V&V), Acceptance Tests (AT) and ENB363 Safety and delivery. Equivalents EEB566 Environmental Management Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1
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Legislation, regulation and WHS risk management thumb; building layout; function and form; cladding; strategies is included. The unit includes hazard element and wind loading evaluation; idealisation, ENB378 Water Engineering identification and risk assessment techniques, and the analysis, design action effects; space gas, columns Pre-requisites ENB201 or ENB280 design of relief systems. The issues, design and rafters; trusses and bracing; connections; knee Equivalents CEB319 considerations and preventative strategies for fires ridges; base plate design; procurement and and explosions will be covered. The learnings from fabrication; scheduling and erection. Credit Points 12 contemporary disasters, such as Beaconsfield Mine Campus Gardens Point and the Japanese Nuclear Disaster will be covered as Gardens Point Availabilities Case Studies. This unit covers material related to - SEM-1 minimising the impact of a process on the ENB375 Structural Engineering environment in both the planning and operational 2 The main topics to be covered in this unit follow: the stages. It contains a mixture of theory and team- hydrologic cycle and its application to the estimation centred learning. Specifically the unit includes Pre-requisites ENB102 or ENB270 or ENB276 of runoff from small catchments; probability and risk environmental management principles Environmental Equivalents CEB318 and the selection of design floods; hydrologic data; Impact Assessment and dispersion modelling estimation of peak runoff using the Rational Formula Credit Points 12 techniques for quantifying the environmental impact estimation of runoff hydrographs using rainfall-runoff as well as a team-based case study. Campus Gardens Point routing models; the hydraulic characteristics of open Gardens Point channels; uniform flow, gradually varied flow and Availabilities - SEM-1 rapidly varied flow; the hydraulic characteristics of culverts and retention basins; the operation of urban ENB371 Geotechnical This unit considers the following: limit states design of drainage systems. steel structures; buckling and ultimate strength Engineering 2 behaviour of steel structures; tension members, Pre-requisites ENB272 compression members; local and global buckling Equivalents CEB322 (flexural and flexural torsional buckling modes) ENB379 Transport Engineering concepts as applied to compression members and Credit Points 12 beams; effective lengths of compression members and Planning Applications Campus Gardens Point and beams; design of beams; effect of lateral Equivalents CEB419 restraints on buckling; web stresses including web Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities crippling and buckling; beam-columns; bolted and - SEM-2 welded connections; unsymmetric bending of beams Campus Gardens Point This unit includes: further study on the behaviour of including principal second moments of area; shear Gardens Point Availabilities soil and rocks; determination of subsurface pressures stresses in beams of thin-walled open cross-sections - SEM-1 from surface loadings; soil settlement including time and their shear centres. Most cold-formed steel The environmental engineer must be familiar with the related clay consolidation settlement and immediate sections are unsymmetric and hence the latter topics role of each transport mode in the overall transport settlements on sand and clay as related to shallow are useful in steel design. task, along with current issues associated with each foundations; assessment of bearing capacity and mode. This must be overarched by an understanding allowable bearing pressures under shallow of the system for planning and management of foundations; pile foundation systems and analysis for transport projects and systems, particularly in context capacity and settlement; rock mass behaviour, ENB376 Transport Engineering with economic, environmental and social attributes. classification and joint shear strength applied to slope Equivalents CEB323 This unit provides students who wish to pursue a stability assessment and stabilisation measures. Credit Points 12 career in environmental engineering with an Campus Gardens Point understanding of these areas. The unit also includes case studies covering the environmental impacts for Gardens Point ENB372 Design and Planning of Availabilities some of the urban and rural transport and - SEM-2 infrastructure projects especially in the area of Highways The transport system is an essential part of our community consultation. Equivalents CEB317 physical infrastructure. It is imperative that civil Credit Points 12 engineers are able to undertake typical road and traffic engineering investigations, analyses and Campus Gardens Point designs. These require an understanding of the intent ENB380 Environmental Law Gardens Point of individual road system elements, how they operate, Availabilities and Assessment - SEM-1 and how they are delivered and managed: this Pre-requisites ENB383 or EVB301 understanding is developed in this unit. Further, it is Civil engineers as professionals are responsible for important that civil engineers are able to undertake Equivalents CEB416 the delivery of major transport infrastructure items multi-modal transport surveys to gain an through the stages of inception, planning, design, Credit Points 12 understanding of the operation of a particular development, maintenance and management. The Campus Gardens Point transport system. purpose of such projects is to improve the quality of Gardens Point Availabilities life of the community by offering safe and efficient - SEM-2 access to activity locations and mobility between locations. In delivering such infrastructure it is ENB377 Water and Waste Water The adverse consequences of human activity have imperative that social, economic, and environmental resulted in the adoption of various international impacts and benefits are considered and addressed. Treatment Engineering treaties, enactment of stringent legislative This unit offers students an opportunity to explore the Pre-requisites ENB201 or ENB280 requirements, and a growing demand for improved role of the civil engineer in the preparation of a management practices. Engineers need to be aware Equivalents CEB321 feasibility design study for a road as a major transport of the way in which the law works, to be able to infrastructure item. Credit Points 12 communicate with lawyers, and to recognise the legal Campus Gardens Point and political implications of their projects. An understanding of the local, state, and federal Gardens Point Availabilities governments' power to regulate development and the ENB373 Design and - SEM-2 legal and planning requirements and assessment Construction of Steel The provision of a safe, wholesome and adequate procedures is essential for professional engineering supply of water and the proper treatment, disposal, practice. Structures and reuse of wastewater are essential for protecting Pre-requisites ENB375 human health and well-being. Water and wastewater treatment are required for the control of water-born Equivalents CEB329 diseases and the provision of proper sanitation for ENB381 Civil Engineering Credit Points 12 urban, rural, and recreational areas. Water and Construction Campus Gardens Point wastewater treatment engineering is a major field of Credit Points 12 civil and environmental engineering and is manifested Gardens Point Availabilities by sound principles and practice in terms of solving Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 sanitation problems. Gardens Point Availabilities This unit includes the study of steelwork: design and - SEM-1 construction; structural systems; load paths; rules of Detailed studies of the methods and equipment
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units employed in the execution of civil engineering construction. Includes earthworks, heavy foundations, ENB421 Thermodynamics 2 ENB433 Plant and Process steel fabrication and erection, bridge construction, Pre-requisites ENB222 and ENB321 Design marine construction, water retaining structures, road Equivalents MMB351 (ENB221 or ENB201) and ENB222 and airfield construction and mechanical erection. Pre-requisites Credit Points 12 and ENB231 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point ENB382 Estimating in Availabilities - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities Engineering Construction Applications of heat transfer theory in steam power - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ENB381 plant, refrigeration and gas turbines; steady state and The unit is of great assistance to graduates who will Equivalents CEB513 transient conduction; convection with internal or work in one of the many industry where Mechanical external flow; free convection in stationary fluids; Credit Points 12 Engineers are concerned with Plant and Process boiling and condensation; thermal resistance Design. These industries use heat exchangers, piping Campus Gardens Point networks; heat exchangers; radiation heat transfer. systems and cooling towers intensively. This would Gardens Point include power stations, mineral processing, Availabilities - SEM-2 sugar/processing and refinery/chemical industries. The unit is taught by university and industry The majority of the unit applies construction, planning ENB422 Energy Management specialists who have considerable experience in their and commercial understanding previously developed Equivalents MMB451 chosen field. to fundamental estimating skills suited to firm bidding. The conversion of an estimate to a tender, includes Credit Points 12 the review process, the determination of risk and Campus Gardens Point profit and the drafting of a tender letter conclude the Gardens Point ENB434 Tribology Availabilities critical content. A comparison with sub-contract - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ENB201 or ENB221 pricing and the use of Bills of Quantity is studied and is linked to conceptual estimating, preliminary Topics covered in this unit include: Global energy and Credit Points 12 estimates for budgets and proposals. climate issues, the systematic process by which Campus Gardens Point energy use is monitored and analysed; individual Gardens Point treatment of electricity, fuels and their properties, Availabilities compressed air, buildings, cycle requirements, energy - SEM-2 ENB383 Environmental recovery equipment; financial analysis of proposals. Tribology is the study of friction, wear and lubrication. Resource Management Environmental aspects will be considered for each In this unit, the knowledge you acquire is applied to topic. solve problems prevalent in engineering. Topics Equivalents CEB418 covered range from the theory of friction, lubricant Credit Points 12 properties and chemistry, to the control of friction and Campus Gardens Point wear by proper selection of both materials and ENB423 Heating, Ventilation lubricants. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 and Air-Conditioning Pre-requisites ENB201 or ENB221 or ENB222 This unit addresses management of solids and hazardous wastes generated from domestic, Credit Points 12 ENB435 Computer Integrated commercial, and industrial sources. It includes the Campus Gardens Point Manufacturing following: waste minimisation; promotion of efficient Gardens Point Equivalents MMB471 Availabilities use of resources; promotion the use of waste through - SEM-1 recycling and energy production; viewing waste as a Credit Points 12 resource; reducing the mass, volume and toxicity of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is Campus Gardens Point the waste; disposing of waste in a socially and closely related to human habitation, comfort and Gardens Point environmentally acceptable manner; waste productivity. It also consumes considerable amount of Availabilities avoidance; recycling; energy production; treatment; energy. With increasing global warming, it is - SEM-1 disposal. Waste management is an important aspect becoming one of the most important engineering Topics covered in this unit include: introduction of the of civil and environmental engineering education. systems in modern buildings. This unit will introduce concepts of strategic planning for computer integrated you basic principles of HVAC and refrigeration manufacturing; concepts of advanced manufacturing systems. It will discuss the design factors and technologies and the various components of practices related to the design and operation of HVAC computer integrated manufacturing system; the ENB384 Design of Masonry systems. It will also provide you with other relevant importance of concurrent engineering in the context of Structures knowledge commonly used in the building services CIM; introduction to the principles of modelling and industry. This course should therefore provide you a simulation techniques as a design and evaluation tool Pre-requisites ENB102 or ENB270 good basis to undertake further study, research and for manufacturing systems. Equivalents CEB516 professional work in this field. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point ENB436 Mechatronics System Gardens Point ENB432 Engineering Asset Availabilities Design - SEM-1 Management and Maintenance Equivalents MMB478 Equivalents MMB470 Historic development & Modern Masonry; Constituent Credit Points 12 Materials – testing standards; Design for durability; Credit Points 12 Limit state design principles – capacity & Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point serviceability; General design aspects of walling, Fire Gardens Point design provisions; Out-of-plane behaviour of Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 unreinforced masonry walling; Design of facades, ties - SEM-1 & accessories; Unreinforced masonry – in-plane This unit provides students with an understanding of This unit includes the following: engineering asset behaviour, shear walls & construction detailing; design and interpretation of hydraulic and pneumatic management policy statement; overhaul and Reinforced masonry – design for flexure, in-plane and circuits (including graphical symbols, fluid logic and replacement of engineering assets; organisation for out-of-plane shear; Design for compression & slender components of fluid systems) and a basic maintenance; maintenance planning and control; walls; Novel designs – prestressed masonry, dry- understanding of PLC programming for control of failure mode and effect analysis; reliability, stack masonry, thin bed masonry, geometrical manufacturing systems with the emphasis on hands maintainability and availability analysis; risk sections, cavity walls and diaphragm walls; Case on practice of developing a control system for a given assessment; spare parts inventory management. study - industrial building / medium rise apartment process. Topics include the following: mechatronics building. systems design; power supply; introduction to fluid power and graphical symbols; hydraulic and pneumatic systems; simple circuits; fluid logic; logic symbols and circuits; hydraulic components, fluids, system design, circuits; pressure compensated flow
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units control. classify and estimate useful information from the ENB441 Applied Image signals in the presence of noise and other distortions Processing will be presented. The methods presented will be Pre-requisites ENB342 tested on real signals drawn from different ENB437 Health Legislation in engineering applications, such speech signals, image the Medical Environment Credit Points 12 signals, biomedical signals and signals in Campus Gardens Point communications systems. Equivalents MMB492 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point The aim of this unit is to introduce the fundamentals ENB451 Aerospace Radio and Gardens Point Availabilities and applications of image processing to the students. Radar Systems - SEM-2 The unit covers topics such as image acquisition, Pre-requisites ENB343 This unit provides an introduction to the types of image representation, image enhancement, image legislative control in the health and medical industries. segmentation, and image filtering. These topics will Equivalents EEB760 It highlights the minimum requirements in relation to be introduced using a project based approach with Credit Points 12 the role of medical engineers and their contribution to applications to engineering practical problems. Campus Gardens Point successful and ethical relationships with medical, Gardens Point health legislative and regulatory affairs professionals. Availabilities Content includes: national and international legislative ENB446 Wireless - SEM-1 controlling bodies and codes (EC, TGA, FDA); This unit includes a thorough treatment of the structure and sources of legal system (State and Communications elements of radio and radar systems, ground, air and Federal); Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP); Pre-requisites ENB346 space based. This is a highly technical unit and an ISO9000 Quality Systems; Total Quality Equivalents EEB960 emphasis will be put on the solution of technical Management; ethics committees and clearance; problems and the knowledge required to solve these industry case studies. Credit Points 12 problems. Electromagnetic Compatibility and Campus Gardens Point Electromagnetic Interference principles are covered in detail. Analysis of antennas, modulation techniques, Gardens Point Availabilities amplifiers and filtering techniques for radio, as well - SEM-2 ENB439 Advanced Robotics as, types of radar and applications, Mechanisms for Pre-requisites ENB339 This unit addresses the following: cellular mobile radio Ranging, Doppler Radar and Receiver Processing are Credit Points 12 system concepts; mobile radio propagation; spread some of topics addressed. spectrum techniques and CDMA; speech coding Campus Gardens Point modulation and channel coding techniques for GSM Gardens Point Availabilities and CDMA; fading mitigation through diversity; inter- - SEM-1 symbol interference mitigation; the GSM and CDMA ENB452 Advanced Power This unit extends the robotic concepts introduced in standards; the WAP and the GPRS; introductions to Systems Analysis UMTS/IMT2000; introduction to personal ENB339 and introduces you to the components, Pre-requisites ENB340 systems and mathematical foundations of mobile communications; introduction to blue tooth robots. The unit introduces the fundamental technology; other wireless systems including wireless Credit Points 12 approaches and techniques which enable modern LAN, wireless local loop, microwave local multipoint Campus Gardens Point mobile robots to usefully and safely navigate an distribution systems (LMDS) and LEO satellite Gardens Point environment to perform useful tasks. The unit communication. Availabilities - SEM-2 encourages critical thinking about the use of robotic technologies in various applications, and emphasizes The aim of this unit is to introduce you to the basic the practical application of robotic theory to the design topics of power system analysis relevant to engineers and synthesis of mobile robotic systems that can ENB447 Navigation Systems involved in both operations and planning. Specific understand their environment and plan their actions For Aircraft tasks will be evaluation of faults on lines, load flow accordingly. Pre-requisites MAB127 or MAB182 or MAB132 and stability analyses using commercial packages. Equivalents EEB835 ENB440 RF Techniques and Credit Points 12 ENB453 Power Equipment and Campus Gardens Point Modern Applications Gardens Point Utilisation Availabilities Pre-requisites ENB343 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ENB340 Anti-requisites ENB445 Modern aviation continues to flourish, with millions of Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 passenger flying each year throughout the world and Campus Gardens Point in all kinds of weather condition. Safe and reliable Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities navigation is one of the primary functions that enable - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities these flights. In past years pilots navigated visually - SEM-1 relying on fair weather conditions. Today pilots use The unit emphasises the use of relevant standards to the specification and design of electrical equipment This unit addresses the following: lumped and navigation aids to allow navigation in all types of for the use of electrical energy supply for buildings distributed microwave and RF circuits, including [y], [t] weather conditions day or night. This unit presents the and for earthing. Design approaches emphasise and [s] parameters; impedance matching techniques; principles and practices of modern navigation sensors current engineering practise. passive and active microwave devices; RF circuit and systems. design techniques; microwave and RF measurement techniques; linear antennas and microwave antennas; analysis and synthesis of antenna arrays; specialised ENB454 Power System antennas and antenna measurements; EMC ENB448 Signal Processing and definition, standards and regulations; test plan; Filtering Management measurements; interference coupling; susceptibility; Pre-requisites ENB342 Pre-requisites ENB340 EMC design techniques, component selection, circuit layouts, grounding, shielding, filters, suppressors, Equivalents EEB941 Credit Points 12 isolation and safety; EMC management; propagation Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point of electromagnetic fields in electrical materials; Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point application of numerical methods. Availabilities - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 The aim of this subject is to develop skills in the operational management and the overall system This unit gives a comprehensive introduction to the management of Power systems. There are many representation and processing of signals distorted or decisions to be made in the context of imperfect corrupted by noise, and the systems needed to information. This subject provides tools to provide a process them. Techniques to enhance, detect , degree of structure to the decision process, whether
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units at purchase time or in daily operation. These tools This unit introduces the student to the following experiential component provides a framework for the cover the areas of risk analysis, reliability and asset concepts: Discrete time control systems and their exploration of issues in the legal, managerial and management and extend to the operational areas of design, state space modelling and control system technical areas which form the basis for the utilization of equipment and quality of supply. The design using state space techniques, linear optimal professional presentations that conclude the unit. outcome is to achieve a balance between control, non-linear systems, and adaptive control with maintenance and capital purchases between applications of neuro-computing and fuzzy logic. investment and reliability. ENB473 Design and ENB460 Advanced Process Construction of Multi-storey ENB455 Power Electronics Modelling Buildings Pre-requisites ENB344 Pre-requisites ENB275 and ENB375 Pre-requisites ENB222 and ENB360 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 The unit introduces the student to advanced industrial This unit builds on the structural, material, This unit will cover theory and practice for the electronics and power converters with different construction and design units of previous semesters, advanced modelling of process systems. The applications. Students learn how to model power in particular Design of Steel and Concrete Structures, teaching will predominantly occur in the computer converters, design a controller and simulate power and applies that knowledge and skills to a multi-storey laboratory. A real world process engineering scenario electronic systems using Matlab/Simulink software for building on a real site to perform a real function. The will be studied by participants via a project. The different applications. They also learn practical issues unit covers a range of topics as applicable to multi- project leads on from ENB360 and will help develop such as EMI, efficiency and losses to design a storey buildings, namely, structural systems, analysis engineering skills useful for BEB801 and BEB802. controller and power circuits. techniques, design and construction methods, composite floor systems, steel framed buildings, construction, fire safety and durability. Using a ENB461 Advanced Process realistic building project it enables QUT students to ENB456 Energy prepare themselves to pursue a career in structures Equivalents EEB911 Control Systems and/or construction. There will be a special emphasis Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites ENB313 on the interdependency between construction and design. The aim of this unit is to help you to learn and Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point develop professional engineering skills with special Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point emphasis on analysis, design and construction of Availabilities - SEM-2 Gardens Point multi-storey buildings. Availabilities Renewable energy sources including solar and wind - SEM-1 energies are becoming more important than ever due Advanced Process Control Systems extends the to increasing energy demand, dwindling oil and gas concepts of ENB313: Automatic Control to systems ENB474 Finite Element supplies, increasing pollution levels in the atmosphere that are commonly found in process engineering. The and the associated global warming effects. unit focuses on developing control-oriented process Methods Renewables may also help improve competitiveness models and developing and tuning controllers (e.g. Pre-requisites ENB475 and have a positive impact on regional development PID control) as well as familiarising students with Credit Points 12 and employment. An overview of the different energy some more advanced control methods. sources will be covered followed by an understanding Campus Gardens Point of the characteristics of solar energy, radiation Gardens Point Availabilities calculation, measurements and applications in - SEM-2 remote, hybrid and grid interactive configurations. ENB471 Design of Concrete Students will be equipped with fundamentals of The Finite Element Method (FEM) is 20th century's alternative energy sources including solar thermal, Structures and Foundations answer for treating complex problems, which had photovoltaics and wind conversion technologies. Pre-requisites ENB276 and ENB371 hitherto remained impossible to solve, in several areas of engineering such as structural, geotechnical, Equivalents CEB424 electrical, heat conduction, etc. The applications of Credit Points 12 this powerful computer based method has rapidly ENB457 Controls, Systems and Campus Gardens Point extended to cover several areas of engineering. In the structures area, the displacements and stresses in Gardens Point Applications Availabilities complex concrete connections, dams, deep beams Pre-requisites ENB301 - SEM-1 with openings, shell structures, etc., can only be Credit Points 12 Concrete design and construction; roles of building obtained by finite element analysis. Basic theory of professionals; current structures; structural systems; FEM and its features such as engineering actions, Campus Gardens Point load paths; rules of thumb; building layout, function modelling techniques, choice of elements, boundary Gardens Point and form, design effects; seismic and element loads; conditions and input data will be covered in this unit. It Availabilities - SEM-2 formwork and placement constraints; reinforced and aims in equipping engineers with skills to apply FEM prestressed concrete slabs, beams and columns; effectively in structural, geotechnical and water Control systems are playing an increasingly important architectural issues, connections and detailing; site engineering problems. role in process control, energy management and investigation, spread and pile footings and utility management. This unit is concerned with the foundations; retaining walls. application of advanced control systems with an emphasis on physical architectures and ENB475 Structural Engineering implementations. Topics covered include control 3 system actuators, sensors and controllers, control ENB472 Project Engineering 2 system architectures, human machine interfacing, Pre-requisites ENB276 Equivalents CEB412 adaptive control strategies and intelligent control. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities ENB458 Modern Control Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Systems This is an advanced structural engineering unit which Pre-requisites ENB301 The unit builds on the understanding of the physical builds up on previous knowledge in this area and aspect of construction gained in Project Engineering 1 Credit Points 12 covers applications. Load paths in structures and to develop the skills needed to manage a project. cable structures with applications in bridge Campus Gardens Point Further studies in estimating, contracts administration engineering will be covered. The stiffness method, and cost control provide support for a major computer Gardens Point which is the basis of all structural analysis software Availabilities simulation exercise based on the construction - SEM-2 packages will be covered in detail. The formation of management of a complex industrial project. This plastic hinges (failure points) and failure mechanisms
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units in structures will be treated with simple applications. Structural dynamics and vibrations in structures will ENN515 Total Quality be introduced and illustrated with applications. ENB481 Civil Engineering Management Application of structural dynamics will be extended to Equivalents MEN177 seismic engineering. The basics of seismic Project Management engineering and the use of the Australian code for Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites ENB275 analysing structures subjected to seismic loads will be Campus Gardens Point covered. Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities Total Quality Management (TQM) has evolved ENB476 Civil Engineering - SEM-2 beyond its roots in statistics and the quality control Design Project Engineers are invariably required to manage projects. function. Today, many observes consider it to be a This unit reinforces the student’s understanding of framework for "excellent" management. The dominant (ENB371 and (( ENB372, ENB376, current management principles in the context of themes are: a data-based approach to problem Pre-requisites and ENB378) or EN40MJR- construction projects. Other topics include solving: a strong emphasis on organizational and CVCOENG) administration, cost control, claims, legal and behavioral considerations: a customer-oriented Credit Points 12 insurance issues together with outsourcing, problem market- sensitive approach to designing and Campus Gardens Point solving, communication and dispute resolution. The delivering both products and services: and finally, a focus of the unit is to ensure students develop an desire for continual improvement. TQM practice is a Gardens Point Availabilities appreciation of the commercial and non-technical pathway to the achievement of world class - SEM-2 issues associated with successful projects. The aim of competitiveness. Through preparation of various civil engineering this unit is to help the student understand the nature design elements of a major project, this final design of the decisions required of an Engineer managing a strand unit builds upon the earlier units to polish project and practising making these decisions within students’ professional capabilities as expected of a the fast-moving commercial and economic ENN522 Advanced graduate civil engineer. Students will be expected to environment for such projects. Communication Systems apply to their project the knowledge and experience Credit Points 12 gained in the civil engineering sub-disciplinary core units including: Geotechnical Engineering 2, Water Campus Gardens Point Engineering, and Transport Engineering. The aims of ENB485 Advanced Gardens Point Availabilities this unit are to provide you with an understanding of Geotechnical Engineering - SEM-1 the role of the civil engineer within a major project, including the various technical activities undertaken, Practice This unit will focus on fundamental principles as well overall project management, and an understanding of Pre-requisites ENB371 as recent developments in communication community expectations. technologies including advanced multiple access Credit Points 12 techniques, multiple-input multiple-output systems, Campus Gardens Point modern antenna systems, Orthogonal Frequency Division multiplexing, advances in cellular systems Gardens Point Availabilities and cognitive radio systems. ENB477 Facade Engineering - SEM-1 Pre-requisites ENB375 or ENB311 The aim of this unit is to firstly, develop the generic Credit Points 12 technical skills required to identify and solve Campus Gardens Point geotechnical engineering problems of the type ENN523 Advanced Network commonly encountered by specialist geotechnical Gardens Point Engineering Availabilities consultants, and secondly, to have a good - SEM-2 Anti-requisites INB352, INN352 understanding of some specialist techniques for site The unit provides the basic knowledge and skills investigation, performance prediction and Credit Points 12 required by facade engineers and designers. It construction. The unit will be presented as study Campus Gardens Point introduces you to new materials such as aluminium, modules, each one emphasising a different area of Gardens Point composite aluminium panels, natural stone, structural geotechnical engineering. The study areas and the Availabilities silicone adhesive and one of the more unique and case studies used for practice may change from year - SEM-1 challenging structural materials - glass. It then to year depending on the availability of experienced Computer networks have become an integrated part presents the required knowledge and skills for thermal practitioners and on current geotechnical projects and of the fundamental infrastructure in modern industries and weather performance analyses and structural interests. and societies. Building new networks or upgrading design of typical aluminium framed and glazed existing networks requires a deep understanding of facades. The unit will provide a basic understanding the concepts and principles of network engineering. of selection, analysis and design of innovative and Building on previously acquired knowledge and large span facades and glass structures. Fabrication ENN510 Engineering techniques of computer networks, this advanced level and construction are integral aspects in the selection Knowledge Management unit further introduces students to systems approach, and design of facades, so an insight into fabrication Equivalents MEN273 service oriented network planning, performance and construction methods are presented along with evaluation, traffic engineering and other advanced an understanding of their collaboration in design. Credit Points 12 topics. Then, it exposes students to the theory and Campus Gardens Point practice of the analysis and planning of local and wide area networks through assembling various network Gardens Point Availabilities technologies in a cohesive fashion with emphases on - SEM-1 ENB478 Advanced Water the connectivity, scalability, reliability, security, QoS Engineering Knowledge management is an innovative process that and recent developments of computer networks. Pre-requisites ENB378 needs to be closely aligned to organisation goals. The development of knowledge management systems Credit Points 12 requires a sound understanding of the related issues Campus Gardens Point such as knowledge identification, knowledge ENN524 Mobile Network development, knowledge preservation, knowledge Gardens Point Engineering Availabilities representation and knowledge distribution. All - SEM-1 Anti-requisites INN353 engineering managers must have the fundamental This unit primarily intended to provide detailed skills and knowledge to understand, design and Credit Points 12 conceptual knowledge on river and coastal develop and manage knowledge management Campus Gardens Point processes. The main topics to be covered under River systems in an organisation. This unit provides the Gardens Point Engineering are: catchment and flood plane basic knowledge and skills to understand the complex Availabilities management, river flow modelling, sediment transport issues of knowledge management that are essential - SEM-2 and application of water sensitive urban design to to the career advancement of engineering managers. Mobile networks have been widely deployed in urban systems. The main topics to be covered under various industries whilst navigation systems have Coastal Engineering are: wave theory, coastal inlets been increasingly integrated into various mobile and canal systems, planning and design of coastal platforms for value-added services. Relying on a solid structures and coastal management and planning. overview of wireless communications and mobile
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units networks, this unit introduces students to the and integration of business enterprise-wide fundamental knowledge of mobile networks and ENN541 Research Methods for application. navigation systems and integrated solutions. The unit Engineers highlights the recent advances in wireless local area Anti-requisites INN700, INN701 and wide area networks as well as sensor networks. The unit also provides a systematic overview for Credit Points 12 ENN590 Project 2 satellite navigation systems and terrestrial wireless Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites ENN590-1 positioning technologies. Integration of mobile Gardens Point Credit Points 12 networks and navigation systems through specific Availabilities - SEM-1 standards will be also discussed through two case Campus Gardens Point studies. Problem identification, research design and planning, Gardens Point Availabilities literature search and communications through reports - SEM-1, SEM-2 and presentations are essential attributes of engineers in all the disciplines. Research methods This two-semester unit is a project unit aims to give ENN530 Asset and Facility and their applications to the solve discipline specific students experience in solving advanced engineering Management real world problems are skills that in demand from problems in a relevant discipline and the opportunity engineers at today’s work place. It is also equally to apply the knowledge gained throughout the course. Credit Points 12 important to communicate solutions clearly and Through the project students will gain experience in Campus Gardens Point effectively in writing and verbally. project identification, research planning, finding solutions and communications. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 Professionals are often involved in the management ENN542 Statistical and of infrastructure including transportation, water, ENN590 Project 1 energy, buildings and telecommunications. In today's Optimisation Methods for Credit Points 12 business environment, the efficient maintenance and Engineers Campus Gardens Point management of these assets and associated risks is Credit Points 12 Gardens Point critical. The professionals need to know how to Availabilities manage the whole of life cycle of assets; organise Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 maintenance based on condition and reliability Gardens Point Availabilities This project unit aims to give students experience in assessments; and create as well as implement - SEM-2 solving advanced engineering problems in a relevant effective asset management and maintenance plans This unit offers an introduction to statistical methods discipline and the opportunity to apply the knowledge so as to meet the business objectives of the gained throughout the course. Through the project organisation. and optimisation methods useful for engineers in practice. It includes the following: the process of students will gain experience in project identification, stochastic research, linear regression analysis, research planning, finding solutions and simultaneous equation model, count data model, time communications. ENN531 Advanced Materials series, classical optimisation methods, Nonlinear, geometric and dynamic programming. and Engineering Applications ENN591 Project 2 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites ENN591-1 Campus Gardens Point ENN552 Solar Thermal Systems Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 - Heat and Power Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Design, material selection and processing play a vital Availabilities - SEM-2 role in developing products and structures. This unit is Campus Gardens Point designed to introduce the recent development of Gardens Point This two-semester project unit aims to give students Availabilities advanced materials and their potential applications. - SEM-2 experience in solving advanced engineering problems The advances in characterization and simulation in a relevant discipline and the opportunity to apply - techniques will be also covered. The unit teaches the the knowledge gained throughout the course. inter-relationships between the microstructure, Through the project students will gain experience in properties and processing so that the fundamental project identification, research planning, finding principle of structure-property relationship and solutions and communications. materials selection can be understood. The unit also ENN570 Enterprise Resource provides students an opportunity to apply the Planning knowledge to analyse a typical material problem Equivalents MEN272 through project work and use of state-of-the-art ENN591 Project 1 Credit Points 12 material selection software. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities ENN533 Advanced Engineering - SEM-1, SEM-2 Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate Design and Maintenance This two-semester project unit aims to give students internal and external information across an entire experience in solving advanced engineering problems Credit Points 12 organization, embracing finance/accounting, in a relevant discipline and the opportunity to apply Campus Gardens Point manufacturing, sales and service, customer the knowledge gained throughout the course. relationship management, parts purchasing, Gardens Point Through the project students will gain experience in Availabilities maintaining inventories, interacting with suppliers etc. - SEM-1 project identification, research planning, finding The purpose of ERP is to facilitate the flow of solutions and communications. This unit introduces advanced methods and tools of information between all business functions inside the engineering design and machinery maintenance such boundaries of the organization and manage effective as problem identification, creative problem solving connections to outside stakeholders.ERP activities and best concept selection, ensuring machine can be automated by the use of an integrated ENZ541 Research Methods for reliability at the design stage, machinery failure software application. It can run on a variety of analysis prediction and prevention, design of computer hardware and network configurations, Engineers machinery for special application (e.g. pressure typically employing a database as a repository for Equivalents ENN541 vessels, conveyors, pharmaceutical and food information. This unit explains the major business Credit Points 12 processing equipment), advanced maintenance processes in manufacturing and service organizations systems and machine condition monitoring methods. and demonstrates how successful integration Campus Online between business functions can be achieved. It Online Availabilities provides a technical overview of Enterprise Resource - SEM-1 Planning Systems and their impact on organizations. SAP is introduced to illustrate the concepts, Problem identification, research design and planning, fundamentals, framework, general information literature search and communications through reports technology context, the technological infrastructure, and presentations are essential attributes of
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Gardens Point engineers in all the disciplines. Research methods we, as a society, will continually be confronted by Availabilities and their applications to the solve discipline specific natural hazards. - SEM-1 real world problems are skills that in demand from Minerals are the building blocks of rocks which engineers at today's work place. It is also equally comprise the solid Earth. The study of minerals is important to communicate solutions clearly and essential for understanding the structure and effectively in writing and verbally. ERB202 Marine Geoscience composition of the earth and the detailed processes Credit Points 12 of the rock cycle. Mineralogy forms the basis for Campus Gardens Point petrology (the study of the genesis of rocks) and geochemistry. EPG006 Applied Gardens Point Availabilities Thermodynamics - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Oceans make up 70% of the Earth's surface, yet less than 5% of them have been explored. There is ERB206 Petrology Campus Gardens Point therefore still much to learn about the marine Pre-requisites ERB205 Gardens Point environment, marine resources and management. Availabilities Equivalents NQB411 - 5TP3 (Block) This unit will develop a detailed understanding of oceanography, carbonate geology and reef Credit Points 12 structures, marine biota and interpretation of Campus Gardens Point depositional processes and products in the shallow Gardens Point through to the deep marine environment. Availabilities ERB101 Earth Systems - SEM-2 Equivalents NQB201 Petrology is the study of Igneous and metamorphic Credit Points 12 rocks. These rock types compose the bulk of the Campus Gardens Point ERB203 Sedimentary Geology Earth. Understanding what these rocks are and how they form is an essential part of the study of Gardens Point and Stratigraphy Availabilities geoscience and is fundamental to a wide range of - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ERB101 and ERB102 and ERB202 higher level units. This unit focuses on the In ERB101 Earth System you will focus on the key Anti-requisites NQB413 description, classification and origins of igneous and components of our planet - the lithosphere, Credit Points 12 metamorphic rocks. hydrosphere, and atmosphere. The focus will be on these large-scale processes and how these systems Campus Gardens Point interact and determine the landscapes we live on, Gardens Point Availabilities how they change in time and the potential impacts on - SEM-2 ERB301 Chemical Earth society. This provides a fundamental introduction to Pre-requisites ERB101 and ERB102 This unit provides you with an introduction to Earth Sciences, building on the knowledge and skills sedimentology and stratigraphy, incorporating Equivalents NQB615 developed through Semester 1, and prepares you for sediments and sedimentary rocks and how they relate more in depth exploration of Earth evolution, natural Credit Points 12 to depositional environments. The unit focuses on the hazards, environmental management, resource link between features preserved in sedimentary rocks Campus Gardens Point sustainability and climate change. and what those features tell us about how the rock Gardens Point Availabilities was emplaced, the environment it was emplaced into - SEM-1 and the subsequent burial history of the rocks. ERB102 Evolving Earth Sedimentology and stratigraphy is a fundamental part Earth Science examines the interaction of physical, of the education of any earth scientist, and especially biological and chemical processes in the fractionation Equivalents NQB202 of those who wish to be involved in fossil fuel (i.e., and differentiation of the Earth. Geochemistry is Credit Points 12 coal, petroleum and gas) exploration, water resource therefore an essential component of understanding the origin of the Earth, its evolution through time and Campus Gardens Point management, and environmental geology, such as geosequestration of carbon dioxide, landscape the functioning of systems that are active today. This Gardens Point unit aims to apply and develop your theoretical Availabilities remediation and soil science, investigation of extreme - SEM-2 events (e.g., landslides, tsunami and storm surge) knowledge and practical skills, to use and apply a and climate change. wide range of environmental and geochemical tools In ERB102 Evolving Earth you will focus on key available to the modern scientist to address a variety events in the history of our planet – the formation of of environmental and geological problems. our planet, the concept of geologic time, the origin of the oceans and atmosphere and the evolution of life. You will learn about the connections between the ERB204 Deforming Earth evolution of life and geological processes and events, Pre-requisites ERB201 or NQB314 ERB302 Applied Geophysics to appreciate the complexity of life that exists on Earth Equivalents NQB412 ERB204 and (SEB113 or MXB105 today. This provides a fundamental introduction to Pre-requisites or MAB101 or MAB141 or MAB105) evolution and geological time, building on the Credit Points 12 knowledge and skills developed through Semester 1, Campus Gardens Point Equivalents NQB513 Imagine Science, and prepares you for more in depth Gardens Point Credit Points 12 exploration of Earth system connectivity, natural Availabilities - SEM-2 hazards, environmental management and climate Campus Gardens Point change. This unit will introduce the geological "fingerprints" Gardens Point Availabilities and fundamental mechanics of the continuous - SEM-1 deformation processes that shape our planet. The deformation of Earth materials is intimately related to Applied geophysics provides geoscientists with the ERB201 Destructive Earth earthquakes, the formation of tectonic plates, tools to investigate the generally inaccessible subsurface. These tools enable us to detect temporal Credit Points 12 mountain building, volcanoes, fluid flow in the lithosphere, and the generation of resource deposits. and spatial changes in the physical properties of Campus Gardens Point All rocks exposed at the surface of Earth have Earth. Knowledge of material properties such as Gardens Point experienced some form of deformation. Therefore, density, electrical resistivity, magnetisation, elasticity Availabilities - SEM-1 this unit provides essential tools for the field geologist, and natural radioactivity is essential for the geotechnical engineers, rock physicists, etc., and exploration of minerals, hydrocarbons and In ERB201 Destructive Earth, we will focus on the paves the way for the capstone unit "Geodynamic groundwater. Beyond exploration geophysical Science of Natural Hazards. By understanding the Earth". methods are used in disciplines as diverse as plate conditions and processes that lead to, and cause, tectonics, environmental geology, engineering severity of natural processes such as earthquakes, geology, and seismic hazard assessment. tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, cyclones, tornadoes, storms/blizzards, floods, bushfire, and ERB205 Earth Materials asteroid impacts, you will be better informed as to why there are natural hazards and disasters, and how Equivalents NQB311 ERB303 Energy Resources and to prepare and mitigate for future events that will have Credit Points 12 a range of social, economic and political impacts. We Basin Analysis Campus Gardens Point will build on the knowledge and skills developed in Pre-requisites ERB203 and ERB302 Year 1 to provide you with a global perspective of how
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Equivalents NQB612 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Gardens Point Australia's wealth and future economic growth depend This unit encourages spatial thinking by introducing Availabilities - SEM-2 largely on its natural resources. A mineral resource geographic information sources, presentation and represents an enrichment of an element or mineral basic spatial data collection skills. It explores real The vast majority of the world's energy is derived from that can be mined, processed and rehabilitated with world applications of geographical information fossil fuels. Advanced concepts of stratigraphy and financial and social benefit. The natural enrichment of technologies including GIS, remote sensing and basin analysis are fundamental for exploration, an element or mineral to the levels of a mineral global positioning system for scientific understanding evaluation, exploitation and conservation of oil, gas, resource requires specific and complex interplay of a of the environment. It builds on knowledge and skills coal and water in sedimentary rocks. Knowledge of variety of geological processes. Thus, mineral from Ecosystems and the Environment (EVB102) or subsurface geologic methods using core, well and resource exploration, delineation and extraction Earth Systems (ERB101) from first year. geophysical data is essential for anyone wishing to require skilled application of basic geological enter the petroleum, coal or strata-bound minerals concepts and an appreciation of social implications. industry. This unit will cover advanced basin analysis concepts and combine project based learning and EVB210 Geospatial Mapping practical exercises to provide insight into the Equivalents UDB381 exploration of petroleum and other natural resources. ERB310 Groundwater Systems Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites ERB101 and EVB212 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents NQB614 Gardens Point ERB304 Dynamic Earth:Plate Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Tectonics Campus Gardens Point This unit will provide the student with a sound Pre-requisites ERB203, ERB204 and ERB302 Gardens Point Availabilities knowledge and understanding of cartographic Equivalents NQB613 - SEM-2 communication principles, processes and contemporary presentation methods in a variety of Credit Points 12 This unit focuses on the origin, occurrence and movement of groundwater; aquifer properties; mapping formats applied to Geospatial Information. Campus Gardens Point chemistry and quality of groundwater; exploration Gardens Point Availabilities methods for groundwater; drilling methods and well - SEM-2 testing equipment; assessment of groundwater EVB211 Geographic How we think about Earth processes and evolution problems, both supply and quality; and introduction to has been revolutionised by the recognition that rigid modelling of groundwater systems. Groundwater Information Systems and lithospheric plates forming the outer layer of the Earth resources of Australia and current issues associated Science move relative to one another and interact at their with these resources are covered. Equivalents UDB281 boundaries. This notion is a cornerstone of the unifying theory of Plate Tectonics. In this unit, you will Credit Points 12 be introduced to the fundamental physics of the Earth Campus Gardens Point and how it relates to the driving forces of Plate EVB102 Ecosystems and the Gardens Point Tectonics. You will become familiar with the igneous, Environment Availabilities - SEM-1 metamorphic and sedimentary responses associated Credit Points 12 with specific tectonic environments, and how they This unit provides a theoretical and practical Campus Gardens Point have evolved through Earth's evolution. This is a introduction into geographic information systems and synthesis course integrating all knowledge that you Gardens Point Availabilities science that incorporates modern processes of have gained from your Earth Science Major units. - SEM-2 acquisition, manipulation, validation, storage, extraction, analysis, modelling and presentation of In EVB102 Ecosystems and the Environment you will spatial information. focus on broad-scale factors that shape ecological ERB305 Geological Field systems to assess ecosystem change and human impacts on the environment. As well as providing an Methods introduction to the science of ecology, this unit further EVB212 Soils and the (ERB203 or NQB413) and (ERB204 develops foundation knowledge and skills developed Pre-requisites or NQB412) and (ERB206 or through Semester 1, and prepares you for the Environment NQB411) exploration of global environmental issues. Pre-requisites ERB101 Equivalents NQB502 Equivalents NQB403 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 EVB201 Global Environmental Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Issues Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Field experience is an essential part of the Campus Gardens Point This unit will provide you with grounding in soil professional training of geologists, environmental Gardens Point science and its application to environmental soil Availabilities scientists and natural resource specialists in general. - SEM-1 analysis and management, the importance of soil for The theory and practice of methods to map, measure ecosystem function in a changing environment, and and interpret important geological features and The capacity for understanding complex global the critical role of soils in the context of climate characteristics are essential to the study of geology. environmental problems such as climate change, now change. The unit links biological, ecological and Methods of mapping, orientation and interpretation and in the future, will rely on the capacity of geological systems and contributes to your are necessary skills for resource assessment, geo- environmental scientists to interpret and critically understanding of the complexity of environmental exploration and environmental impact assessment. analyse environmental systems. This unit focuses on systems in general. This unit assumes knowledge of geological principles understanding long and short term climate and and methods, namely structural geology and lithology environmental change and opportunities for action as (sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks). It crucial to sustainable development within our biotic, provides professional experiences that is essential for geomorphic and cultural landscapes. EVB221 Remote Sensing of the the employability for geology graduates. Environment Credit Points 12 EVB203 Geospatial Information ERB306 Earth's Mineral Campus Gardens Point Science Gardens Point Availabilities Resources Pre-requisites ERB101 or EVB102 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ERB204 and ERB206 and ERB301 Equivalents UDB181 This unit provides a theoretical and practical Equivalents NQB512 Credit Points 12 introduction into remote sensing science and Credit Points 12 technologies applied for the acquisition of information
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Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities EVB222 Spatial Analysis and - 6TP2, 6TP5 Modelling Practice EZB210 Earth and Space Strategy is the process of determining goals and Pre-requisites EVB211 Sciences moving towards the achievement of those goals in a Equivalents UDB388 business, government, or not-for-profit setting. The Credit Points 12 Strategic Management unit introduces the concept of Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point strategy and explores the basic tenets of the strategy Campus Gardens Point process, competitive advantage, and strategic Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities management in a changing global environment. It lays Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 the foundations for students in terms of understanding This unit will build on foundation material in the contemporary thinking in the strategy field. This unit provides a theoretical and practical general chemistry unit, and combine the principles of introduction into the current and evolving practice of physics and geology to develop an understanding of spatial analysis and spatial data modelling. The unit the structure, composition and origins of our planet, builds on the theoretical and practical skillset attained and the universe. You will examine properties of light; GSN406 Contemporary Human by the successful completion of all components of determination of physical properties of stars; nebulae; Resource Management Issues EVB211Geographic Information Systems and stellar spectra and classification; historical models of Science. the solar system; Kepler's law, gravitation; physical Equivalents GSZ406 geology of the planets and formation of the solar Credit Points 6 system; phenomena of astronomical origin; brief Campus Gardens Point introduction to stars and galaxies. EVB301 Urban and Natural Gardens Point Availabilities Environmental Systems - 6TP2, 6TP6 Pre-requisites EVB204 or EVB212 There is increasing recognition internationally of the GSN403 Data Analysis and critical contribution of effective people management in Credit Points 12 Decision Making obtaining and sustaining a strategic advantage in an Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites GSN405 increasingly globally competitive business Gardens Point environment. This unit provides students with the Availabilities Equivalents GSZ403 - SEM-1 opportunity to examine the challenges faced by Credit Points 6 managers and leaders in achieving effective human This unit provides background and details on resource management in the complex business Campus Gardens Point environmental management issues and sustainable environments of today and tomorrow. The unit adopts practices with a focus on natural and urban systems. Gardens Point an issues-based approach, designed to build Availabilities It is therefore an important unit of study for any - 6TP2, 6TP4 awareness of the human resource management graduate wishing to pursue a career in environmental issues and build contextually specific solutions to Business Leaders and managers work in complex science who shares an abiding interest in the those issues in diverse industry contexts. sustainable management of our environmental business environments, in the era of Big Data, where systems. mind-boggling volumes data and information is generated daily on just about every aspect of the business and the economy. The Data Analysis and GSN407 Communicating to Decision Making unit provides students with the EVB302 Environmental opportunity to learn how to make effective business Influence decisions based on the application of a number of Anti-requisites GSZ603 Pollution standard data analysis techniques to real world Equivalents GSZ407 Pre-requisites BVB202 business problems. This unit provides students with the opportunity to integrate and draw upon their Credit Points 6 Credit Points 12 disciplinary knowledge in analysing data and making Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point decisions. Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - 6TP3, 6TP4, 6TP6 - SEM-1 Specialised knowledge alone is no longer enough to This unit deals with major problems of pollution of GSN404 Accounting for guarantee success in business; you must be able to water, the land surface and the atmosphere. It covers effectively communicate this knowledge with a variety processes responsible for the occurrence and release Decision Making of audiences, in a variety of situations and using a of pollutants in the environment, dispersion Anti-requisites GSN202 range of communication technologies. This unit mechanisms, the hazards associated with different Equivalents GSZ404 provides students the opportunity to develop highly types of pollutant, accumulation of toxic substances, effective and persuasive oral, written and technology and procedures for the reduction of emissions and Credit Points 6 enabled communication skills. The unit encourages remediation of contaminated environments. It applies Campus Gardens Point students to develop an understanding of their your learning from the Quantitative Skills in Gardens Point audience, sensitivity to language use and to Environmental Science unit, EVB202 to assess and Availabilities - 6TP1, 6TP3, 6TP6 demonstrate the value and power of language as a report on environmental pollution. means of persuasion in managerial and leadership This unit provides students with the opportunity to contexts. develop an understanding of accounting techniques that are useful for managerial decision making. EVB304 Case Studies in Essentially this unit concentrates on two key areas of Environmental Science particular importance to business managers and GSN408 Marketing Strategically leaders: budgeting and cost control accounting and Pre-requisites EVB301 the analysis and interpretation of financial statements. Equivalents GSZ408 Credit Points 12 Through the study of this unit, students will be in a Credit Points 6 better position to make informed predictions, Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point recommendations and decisions about future Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities directions and actions that are needed to ensure the Availabilities - SEM-2 financial stability of a particular organisation. - 6TP1, 6TP5 This Capstone unit requires you to think critically The Fundamentals of Marketing Management unit about an important problem in environmental science provides students with the opportunity to critically and to integrate the knowledge gained through earlier examine and evaluate the role of marketing and its units to provide an effective solution. You will evaluate contribution to the strategic processes of
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Gardens Point organisations operating in increasingly complex and value cash flows and other assets, and understand Availabilities highly competitive global business environments. A the fundamentals of asset diversification, risk and - 6TP3 study of key marketing decisions made by real world return, and the cost of capital. This unit introduces Leaders and managers of organisations deal with organisations are examined including the marketing students to the national and international financial complex problems whose resolution requires holistic concept, the marketing mix, marketing information environments in which they operate from a personal approaches, sophisticated thinking and pluralist systems, marketing research, market segmentation, and business perspective. The unit explores the three methodologies. Systems Thinking is an approach that targeting and positioning, and the process of major lessons in finance: time value, diversification has been successfully used by business managers marketing planning, implementation and control. and arbitrage. and leaders to engage with and manage complex and often ambiguous business problems. This unit provides students with foundational knowledge related to systems methodologies and their GSN409 Understanding and GSN415 Understanding underpinning epistemologies that enable business Leading Others Leadership and Complexity leaders and managers to solve and manage the Anti-requisites MGN412, BSN202 Equivalents GSZ415 complex, multi-faceted business problems of today and tomorrow. Equivalents GSZ409 Credit Points 6 Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities GSN468 Problem Framing for Gardens Point - 6TP3, 6TP6 Availabilities Creative Action - 6TP3, 6TP6 In a complex society where changes are occurring GSN504, GSN526, GSZ468, with increasing speed and frequency, leadership has Equivalents The Understanding and Leading Others unit will help GSZ526, GSZ556 students to be able to identify, assess and understand never had greater significance, nor has it been more the factors that influence the thoughts, feelings, challenging. The Leadership and Complexity unit is Credit Points 6 designed to improve the capacity of students to motivations and actions of individuals in the Campus Gardens Point workplace. Students will then have the opportunity to understand, communicate and influence the people Gardens Point apply these insights into human behaviour within they will lead in complex, rapidly changing business Availabilities - 6TP2, 6TP5 organisations to determine the most effective environments. Students will be taken through a strategies and courses of action for maximising the variety of reflective activities designed to help them to Simple problem solving approaches are no longer potential of individuals and to lead and build high shape up their own leadership philosophy that will sufficient to solve and manage the complex and multi- performing face-to-face and virtual teams. form the foundation of their leadership style. faceted business problems of today and tomorrow. Instead, managers need to be skilled in new approaches such as problem reframing, creative problem solving, lateral, analogical and design GSN410 Entrepreneurship GSN431 New Venture Growth thinking that support creative and innovative Anti-requisites MGN428 and Transitions approaches for dealing with complex business challenges. This unit enables students to explore Equivalents GSZ410 Pre-requisites GSN410 or GSZ410 contemporary and creative approaches to problem Credit Points 6 Credit Points 6 framing and problem solving in complex business Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point environments both at the individual and group level. Students will also have the opportunity to investigate Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities how to create workplace environments that Availabilities - 6TP3 - 6TP1, 6TP4 encourage and foster creativity and innovation. The Entrepreneurship unit introduces students to the field of entrepreneurship and the management of innovation. Through the study of this unit, students will be able to develop an understanding of GSN444 Special Topic 1 GSN473 Corporate Governance entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, behaviours and Credit Points 6 and Accountability culture and explore a range of issues related to Campus Gardens Point GSN404 and GSN409 and GSN412 opportunity recognition, viability screening for Pre-requisites Gardens Point and GSN491 sustainable competitive advantage, risk recognition Availabilities - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP4, 6TP5, and mitigation, intellectual property protection and Equivalents GSZ473 6TP6 developing a business model for a new enterprise. Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities GSN412 Business Law GSN445 Special Topic 2 - 6TP4 Anti-requisites AYN410, EFN413 Equivalents GSZ445 Boards of directors and managers of organisations Equivalents GSZ412 Credit Points 6 are now legally as well as morally accountable for Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point policies, processes, and outcomes to an increasingly vocal set of stakeholders. This unit introduces Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point students to the principles underlying good corporate Availabilities - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP4, 6TP5, Gardens Point accountability and governance and examines the Availabilities 6TP6 - 6TP2 roles of the board and management in implementing and monitoring a sound corporate culture, proactively - identifying and dealing with risk, and safeguarding the company's assets and its place in our society and GSN455 Special Topic 3 economy. Comparative models of governance are Credit Points 6 also discussed drawing on examples from many GSN413 Financial Management cultures and jurisdictions, as well as large and small Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites GSN403 businesses. Anti-requisites EFN406 Gardens Point Availabilities - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP4, 6TP5, Equivalents GSZ413 6TP6 Credit Points 6 GSN481 Philanthropic and Campus Gardens Point Nonprofit Frameworks of Gardens Point Availabilities GSN464 Systems Thinking for Governance - 6TP1, 6TP5 Managers Anti-requisites GSN472, GSN229 It is essential for business leaders and managers who Credit Points 6 must make financial decisions, to have a fundamental Equivalents GSZ464,GSN502,GSZ502 understanding of the operation of financial markets Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point and how these markets impinge on the operation of Campus Gardens Point their organisation. They must know how to properly
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Gardens Point Availabilities - 6TP2 GSN486 Accounting and GSN489 Fundraising The unit explores contemporary understandings of Finance Issues for Development Techniques philanthropic and nonprofit governance in the context Philanthropic & Nonprofit Pre-requisites GSN488 of social, economic and political systems. It locates Anti-requisites GSN232, MIN409, AMN481 these understandings in various theoretical and Organisations descriptive frameworks providing students with both Anti-requisites GSN231 Credit Points 6 the knowledge and analytical skills that are necessary Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point to reflect critically on philanthropy and nonprofit Gardens Point governance systems and their environments. Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - 6TP5 Gardens Point Availabilities - 6TP5 This unit builds on GSN488 to delve into particular techniques of resource mobilisation in nonprofit GSN483 Ethics for This unit provides an overview of the accountability of organisations. It considers a range of income Philanthropic and Nonprofit nonprofit organisations, particularly via their annual generation vehicles and techniques including capital and financial reports. The unit begins with an and major gifts, special events, bequests, direct mail, Organisations overview of the notion of accountability and the telemarketing, e-fundraising, donor circles and the art importance of financial literacy in order to interpret Anti-requisites AMN480, GSN230 of building donor relationships. It also examines annual and financial reports. These documents need professional evaluation of fundraising programs. Credit Points 6 to be 'decision useful' when communicating with a Campus Gardens Point variety of organisational stakeholders. The unit then builds an understanding of how to read the various Gardens Point Availabilities financial statements that comprise a financial GSN490 Managing - 6TP3 report.The importance of the Australian financial This course introduces students to ethical theories reporting framework, various standards, financial Technological Innovation and constructs with a focus on producing effective ratios, are examined in order to inform accurate Pre-requisites GSN405 and GSN410 personal and professional resolutions to ethical interpretation of financial reports. Finally various ways Equivalents GSZ490 dilemmas specifically associated with Philanthropic of financing nonprofit organisations, are considered. and NonProfit (PANFP) organisations. The unit Credit Points 6 recognises the distinctive mission and character of Campus Gardens Point PANFP organisations, while seeking to provide an Gardens Point GSN487 Introduction to Social Availabilities understanding of integrity and response-ability. - 6TP5 Enterprise The management of technological innovation is a Anti-requisites AMN482 strategic process that supports, drives and influences GSN484 Management for Credit Points 6 the strategic management of the firm. The Managing Technological Innovation unit explores the dynamics Campus Gardens Point Philanthropic and Nonprofit of technological innovation, how to identify trends Gardens Point Organisations Availabilities within their technological and competitive - 6TP3 Anti-requisites AMN480, GSN230 environments and use these insights to craft an innovation strategy and importantly strategies for Credit Points 6 There has been a significant increase in social enterprises in many OECD countries recently. The operationalizing the innovation. Campus Gardens Point nonprofit sector continues to mature and expand with Gardens Point the establishment of more sophisticated social Availabilities - 6TP2 enterprise programs. This interest is driven partly by With significant reductions in the traditional sources of GSN491 Economics in In the context of the multiple management challenges revenue for nonprofits, together with increasingly Business facing non-profit and philanthropic entities, this unit sophisticated competition and dramatic changes in Anti-requisites EFN405, GSN411, GSN414 provides students with an introduction to expectations from clients and stakeholder groups. contemporary thinking and practice in the effective These shifting expectations create demand for more Equivalents GSZ491 and efficient management of organisations. While the strategic approaches to developing business models, Credit Points 6 focus is on non-profit management, wider the need for improved business planning, and Campus Gardens Point management and organisational theory will be drawn allowing for more collaborative and hybrid business on in order that proactive responses to situations, practices. This unit , the need for effective strategy Gardens Point Availabilities problems and dilemmas facing non-profit and implementation has grown. The unit offers a - 6TP4 organisations can be developed by students. background to social enterprise and associated For business leaders and managers to operate in the issues develops both individual and collaborative volatile global business environment of today, it is approaches to social business planning. important for them to have a fundamental GSN485 Legal Issues for understanding of both macro and micro economics to Philanthropic and Nonprofit guide their business decision making. This unit GSN488 Fundraising introduces students to an analytical framework that is Organisations needed to understand how market conditions are determined at both the micro and macro levels and Anti-requisites GSN231 Development Principles Anti-requisites GSN232, MIN409, AMN481 how market conditions affect business performance, Credit Points 6 including issues such as supply and demand, market Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point structures and how they impact pricing strategies and Campus Gardens Point decisions of individual firms, structure of the economy Gardens Point as well as some exploration of international trade. Availabilities Gardens Point - 6TP4 Availabilities - 6TP4 The unit introduces students to critical issues of philanthropic and nonprofit law and taxation. The unit This unit considers the broad factors that influence examines the regulatory, taxation and governance fundraising/development success. It applies theories GSN497 Personal Leadership framework of nonprofit organisations and of marketing, public relations and management to and Change philanthropic transactions in Australian Federal and fundraising and development and builds an Equivalents GSN503,GSZ497,GSZ503,GSZ554 State jurisdictions. understanding of the philanthropic environment. It re- examines the principles of fundraising/development, Credit Points 6 institutional readiness, case statement preparation, Campus Gardens Point leadership, constituencies and research to build understanding of the context in which good Gardens Point Availabilities development practice occurs. - 6TP2, 6TP5 It is widely recognised that self-awareness provides a foundation for understanding ourselves as leaders and is a key attribute that characterises truly great leaders. This unit explores personal leadership in the
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Students are Gardens Point - 6TP5 (Block) encouraged to identify opportunities for growth and Availabilities Availabilities - 6TP5 External development through the development of a leadership - 5TP7 development plan that will be revisited in GSN415 The use of a Business Process Improvement (BPI) Leadership and Complexity. approach is recognised as being effective for Business leaders and managers work in complex improving business operations. The Improving business environments, in the era of Big Data, where Business Operations unit introduces students to the mind-boggling volumes data and information is Business Process Improvement process including the generated daily on just about every aspect of the GSN498 Investment Strategies tools, and phases of business process re-engineering. business and the economy. This unit provides for Technology The unit is designed to stimulate strategic thinking students with the opportunity to learn how to make and analysis by applying business process re- effective business decisions based on the application Credit Points 6 engineering theory in a real world context. of a number of standard data analysis techniques to Campus Gardens Point real world business problems. This unit provides students with the opportunity to integrate and draw Gardens Point Availabilities upon their disciplinary knowledge in analysing data - 6TP6 GSN560 Advanced Strategy for and making decisions. Organisations are spending an estimated 25 - 45% Global Business capital expenditure on Information and Pre-requisites GSN405 or GSZ405 Communications Technologies (ICT) related investments and between 2 - 10% of operating Equivalents GSZ560 GSZ404 Accounting for expenditure on running their ICT portfolios. Business Credit Points 6 Decision Making leaders struggle to keep abreast and be responsive to Campus Gardens Point the latest technological developments and the impact Anti-requisites GSN202 of disruptive technologies on their business. This unit Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents GSN404 introduces students to ICT governance and an - 6TP4 Credit Points 6 understanding of the inter-relationships between Business leaders today need to be multi-disciplinary business strategy and business-IT alignment. It also Campus Gardens Point and External strategic thinkers, who have foresight and an ability to provides students with some strategies for take a big-picture, long term view of an organisation. Gardens Point investigating and evaluating the impact of some Additionally, the ability to make decisions, often with - 6TP4 (Block) current disruptive technologies that have the potential Availabilities incomplete information, and to determine appropriate External to radically change the process of business and strategic responses to complex, global business - 6TP4 business models. problems and opportunities is seen as the key This unit provides students with the opportunity to determinant of positive business outcomes and the develop an understanding of accounting techniques longevity of organisations. The Advanced Strategy for that are useful for managerial decision making. GSN551 Negotiation Skills and Global Business unit helps students to develop a Essentially this unit concentrates on two key areas of sophisticated knowledge and application of strategic particular importance to business managers and Strategies analysis techniques and approaches including the leaders: budgeting and cost control accounting and Equivalents GSZ551 dynamics of inter-firm dependencies, the nature of the analysis and interpretation of financial statements. complex-adaptive systems, an understanding of the Credit Points 6 Through the study of this unit, students will be in a pivotal role of data in the strategy process and the better position to make informed predictions, Campus Gardens Point limitations of theoretical models. recommendations and decisions about future Gardens Point directions and actions that are needed to ensure the Availabilities - 6TP1 financial stability of a particular organisation. Negotiation is an important part of everyday GSN590 Integrated Workplace management, and effective negotiation skills are Project indispensable for successful managers operating in a GSZ405 Strategic Management globalised and complex business environment. The Equivalents GSZ572, GSN570, GSN571 Equivalents GSN405 Negotiation Skills and Strategies unit introduces 84 credit points of core MBA units Other students to a conceptual framework for analysing the as approved by the MBA Director Credit Points 6 requisites business negotiation process. The exploration of including GSN405 Campus Gardens Point and External negotiation practices in different contexts better Credit Points 12 prepares students for negotiation in the increasingly Gardens Point - 6TP1 (Block) globalised business environment. Campus Gardens Point Availabilities External Gardens Point Availabilities - 6TP2 - 6TP2, 6TP5 Strategy is the process of determining goals and GSN558 Stakeholder The Integrated Workplace Project is the capstone unit moving towards the achievement of those goals in a Engagement and Media in the MBA program. This 12cp unit is designed to business, government, or not-for-profit setting. The enable students to draw together and integrate the Strategic Management unit introduces the concept of Principles learnings from the MBA program and apply their strategy and explores the basic tenets of the strategy GSZ558, GSZ555, GSN496, learning to a live workplace project. Students will be process, competitive advantage, and strategic Equivalents GSN523, GSZ523 required to identify, scope and investigate a real world management in a changing global environment. It lays workplace problem or opportunity for a specific the foundations for students in terms of understanding Credit Points 6 organisation, including conducting applied business contemporary thinking in the strategy field. Campus Gardens Point research in relation to the issue. Additionally students will be required to make a series of informed Gardens Point Availabilities recommendations for addressing the problem or - 6TP3 opportunity and deliver these recommendations GSZ406 Contemporary Human In this globally connected world it has never been so through a comprehensive written report and a important for organisations to effectively manage their persuasive pitch to the Executive Sponsor from the Resource Management Issues: public reputation portrayed in both traditional and organisation. Global Perspectives social media. The Stakeholder Engagement and Equivalents GSN406 Media Principles unit develops students understanding of the role of stakeholder engagement, Credit Points 6 the importance of stakeholder analysis and the role GSZ403 Data Analysis and Campus Gardens Point and Canberra media plays in influencing organisational issues. Decision Making Pre-requisites GSZ405
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Gardens Point Gardens Point major lessons in finance: time value, diversification - 5TP9 (Block) - 6TP5 (Block) Availabilities Availabilities and arbitrage. Canberra External - 5TP9 (Block) - 5TP8 There is increasing recognition internationally of the The Understanding and Leading Others unit will help critical contribution of effective people management in students to be able to identify, assess and understand GSZ415 Global Leadership and obtaining and sustaining a strategic advantage in an the factors that influence the thoughts, feelings, Complexity increasingly globally competitive business motivations and actions of individuals in the Equivalents GSN415 environment. This unit provides students with the workplace. Students will then have the opportunity to opportunity to examine the challenges faced by apply these insights into human behaviour within Credit Points 6 managers and leaders in achieving effective human organisations to determine the most effective Campus Gardens Point resource management in the complex business strategies and courses of action for maximising the Gardens Point environments of today and tomorrow. The unit adopts potential of individuals and to lead and build high Availabilities - 5TP2 (Block) an issues-based approach, designed to build performing face-to-face and virtual teams. awareness of the human resource management In a complex society where changes are occurring issues and build contextually specific solutions to with increasing speed and frequency, leadership has those issues in diverse industry contexts. never had greater significance, nor has it been more GSZ410 Entrepreneurship challenging. The Leadership and Complexity unit is Anti-requisites MGN428 designed to improve the capacity of students to understand, communicate and influence the people Equivalents GSN410 GSZ407 Communicating to they will lead in complex, rapidly changing business Influence Credit Points 6 environments. Students will be taken through a Campus Gardens Point variety of reflective activities designed to help them to Anti-requisites GSZ603 shape up their own leadership philosophy that will Gardens Point Equivalents GSN407 Availabilities form the foundation of their leadership style. - 6TP4 (Block) Credit Points 6 The Entrepreneurship unit introduces students to the Campus Gardens Point and External field of entrepreneurship and the management of Gardens Point innovation. Through the study of this unit, students GSZ428 International Study - 6TP2 (Block) will be able to develop an understanding of Availabilities Tour External entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities, behaviours and Equivalents GSN428 - 5TP3 culture and explore a range of issues related to opportunity recognition, viability screening for Credit Points 6 Specialised knowledge alone is no longer enough to sustainable competitive advantage, risk recognition guarantee success in business; you must be able to Campus Gardens Point and mitigation, intellectual property protection and effectively communicate this knowledge with a variety Gardens Point developing a business model for a new enterprise. Availabilities of audiences, in a variety of situations and using a - 5TP3 (Block), 6TP3 (Block) range of communication technologies. This unit provides students the opportunity to develop highly In recent years we have seen the rise of many effective and persuasive oral, written and technology GSZ412 Business Law emerging economies particularly in the Asia/Pacific enabled communication skills. The unit encourages region. Due to developments in technology, changes Anti-requisites AYN410 and EFN413 students to develop an understanding of their in government policies, Australian businesses now audience, sensitivity to language use and to Equivalents GSN412 operate in a highly competitive, global business environment. Business leaders and managers need to demonstrate the value and power of language as a Credit Points 6 means of persuasion in managerial and leadership have broader business perspectives, cultural and contexts. Campus Gardens Point social understandings of how business is conducted in other countries outside Australia. Through the tour Gardens Point Availabilities students will be able to study first-hand the business - 6TP1 (Block) environment and the underlying socio-political, GSZ408 Marketing Strategically The Business Law unit provides managers with an geographical and historical aspects of those countries overview of basic legal principles, which form the visited in considerable depth. As part of the tour, the Equivalents GSN408 foundation of the laws of commercial transactions group attends organised briefings, business meetings, Credit Points 6 from the perspective of, and with particular relevance, presentations and site visits in the host countries. Campus Gardens Point and External to managers. Students will learn key elements of the rules governing business dealings by the interaction Gardens Point of the laws of contract, agency and franchising, - 5TP6 (Block) Availabilities property law, securities and bailment, company law GSZ445 Special Topic 2 External and consumer law. The unit also introduces students Equivalents GSN445 - 5TP9 to the Australian legal and statutory structure and Credit Points 6 The Fundamentals of Marketing Management unit provides an overview of the legal nature of business provides students with the opportunity to critically entities. Campus Gardens Point examine and evaluate the role of marketing and its Gardens Point Availabilities contribution to the strategic processes of - 6TP2 (Block) organisations operating in increasingly complex and highly competitive global business environments. A GSZ413 Financial Management study of key marketing decisions made by real world Pre-requisites GSZ403 organisations are examined including the marketing Anti-requisites EFN406 GSZ464 Systems Thinking for concept, the marketing mix, marketing information systems, marketing research, market segmentation, Equivalents GSN413 Managers targeting and positioning, and the process of Credit Points 6 Equivalents GSN464,GSZ502,GSN502 marketing planning, implementation and control. Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 6 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities - 5TP9 (Block), 6TP4 (Block) Gardens Point GSZ409 Understanding and - 5TP3 (Block) It is essential for business leaders and managers who Availabilities Leading Others must make financial decisions, to have a fundamental External Anti-requisites MGN412, BSN202 understanding of the operation of financial markets - 5TP4 and how these markets impinge on the operation of Equivalents GSN409 Leaders and managers of organisations deal with their organisation. They must know how to properly complex problems whose resolution requires holistic Credit Points 6 value cash flows and other assets, and understand approaches, sophisticated thinking and pluralist the fundamentals of asset diversification, risk and Campus Gardens Point and External methodologies. Systems Thinking is an approach that return, and the cost of capital. This unit introduces has been successfully used by business managers students to the national and international financial and leaders to engage with and manage complex and environments in which they operate from a personal often ambiguous business problems. This unit and business perspective. The unit explores the three provides students with foundational knowledge
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units related to systems methodologies and their operationalising the innovation. underpinning epistemologies that enable business GSZ502 Systems Thinking leaders and managers to solve and manage the Equivalents GSN502 complex, multi-faceted business problems of today Credit Points 6 and tomorrow. GSZ491 Economics in Business Campus External Anti-requisites EFN405, GSN411 and GSN414 External Equivalents GSN491 Availabilities - 5TP4 GSZ468 Problem Framing for Credit Points 6 Managers of complex projects deal with complex Creative Action Campus Gardens Point and External problems whose resolution requires holistic GSN468,GSN504,GSN526,GSZ52 Gardens Point approaches, sophisticated thinking and pluralist Equivalents 6,GSZ556 - 5TP5 (Block), 6TP3 (Block) methodologies. This unit provides foundational Availabilities knowledge related to systems methodologies and Credit Points 6 External - 5TP5 their underpinning epistemologies that enable project Campus Gardens Point and External managers to solve complex project problems in For business leaders and managers to operate in the context. Students will acquire systems skills in a Gardens Point volatile global business environment of today, it is - 6TP3 (Block) reflexive process involving the application of systems Availabilities important for them to have a fundamental methodologies in isolation and in combination. External understanding of both macro and micro economics to - 5TP6 guide their business decision making. This unit Simple problem solving approaches are no longer introduces students to an analytical framework that is sufficient to solve and manage the complex and multi- needed to understand how market conditions are GSZ503 Self Realisation and faceted business problems of today and tomorrow. determined at both the micro and macro levels and Instead, managers need to be skilled in new how market conditions affect business performance, Personal Development approaches such as problem reframing, creative including issues such as supply and demand, market Equivalents GSN503, GSZ554 problem solving, lateral, analogical and design structures and how they impact pricing strategies and Credit Points 6 thinking that support creative and innovative decisions of individual firms, structure of the economy approaches for dealing with complex business as well as some exploration of international trade. Campus External challenges. This unit enables students to explore External Availabilities contemporary and creative approaches to problem - 5TP4 framing and problem solving in complex business Self awareness provides a foundation for both environments both at the individual and group level. GSZ497 Personal Leadership personal and leadership development. This unit Students will also have the opportunity to investigate and Change provides an opportunity for students to increase their how to create workplace environments that Equivalents GSN497,GSN503,GSZ503,GSZ554 understanding of themselves and how their encourage and foster creativity and innovation. Credit Points 6 interactions with others impact on their effectiveness as managers. Personal development is explored in Campus Gardens Point and External the context of cultural understanding and ethics. This GSZ473 Corporate Governance Gardens Point unit contributes to the core competencies of: Change - 6TP4 (Block) and Journey; Innovation, Creativity and Working Availabilities and Accountability External Smarter; Leadership; Culture and Being Human; and GSZ404 and GSZ409 and GSZ412 - 6TP5 Probity and Governance; as it deals with the role, Pre-requisites and GSZ491 behaviour and development of the individual. It is widely recognised that self-awareness provides a Equivalents GSN473 foundation for understanding ourselves as leaders Credit Points 6 and is a key attribute that characterises truly great leaders. The Personal Leadership and Change unit it GSZ505 Communicating Campus Gardens Point explores personal leadership in the context of cultural Gardens Point understanding and ethics and how students Effectively Availabilities - 5TP8 (Block) interactions with others impact on their effectiveness Equivalents GSN505 as leaders in a complex business environment. This Boards of directors and managers of organisations Credit Points 6 unit provides students with the opportunity to look are now legally as well as morally accountable for inwardly to gain a deeper understanding of Campus External policies, processes, and outcomes to an increasingly themselves and to benchmark where they are vocal set of stakeholders. This unit introduces External currently as a leader. Students are encouraged to Availabilities students to the principles underlying good corporate - 5TP4 identify opportunities for growth and development accountability and governance and examines the through the development of a leadership development The successful management of a complex project roles of the board and management in implementing plan that will be revisited in GSZ415 Leadership and needs skilled, communicatively competent managers and monitoring a sound corporate culture, proactively Complexity. who are capable of creating and maintaining a identifying and dealing with risk, and safeguarding the flexible, listening and action-oriented project company's assets and its place in our society and environment. To achieve success, the manager, in economy. Comparative models of governance are their leadership role in a complex project, must also discussed drawing on examples from many GSZ501 The Strategic therefore develop personal skills, including the ability cultures and jurisdictions, as well as large and small to frame ideas in rhetorically sophisticated ways and businesses. Management of Complex the ability to influence others to achieve diverse goals Projects of the project. The project manager also needs to plan and promote effective organisational communication Equivalents GSN501 that supports the goals and processes embedded in GSZ490 Managing Credit Points 6 the project. This unit supports the development of Technological Innovation Campus External these two critical competencies. Pre-requisites GSZ405 and 42cp of EMBA units External Availabilities Equivalents GSN490 - 5TP4 Credit Points 6 Complex projects are usually initiated to implement GSZ507 Developing and long range strategies in contexts of high complexity Campus Gardens Point Leading High Performance and uncertainty, where client outcomes are often Gardens Point Teams Availabilities emergent. This unit provides the fundamental skills - 5TP5 (Block), 5TP7 (Block) that enable complex project managers to understand Equivalents GSN507 The management of technological innovation is a the project's strategic context and develop project Credit Points 6 strategies capable of delivering successful client strategic process that supports, drives and influences Campus External the strategic management of the firm. The Managing outcomes. Strategic management competencies are developed through the application of strategic and External Technological Innovation unit explores the dynamics Availabilities of technological innovation, how to identify trends systems concepts and frameworks to real-life case - 5TP7 studies of complex projects. within their technological and competitive Complex projects have complex team structures environments and use these insights to craft an requiring advanced teamwork, team building and innovation strategy and importantly strategies for team management skills. This is particularly true of
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External Availabilities structures across the project lifecycle is critical to the - 5TP7 success of a complex project manager. This unit This unit offers participants the opportunity to write a examines the context of teams in a complex project, formal business plan as part of the project delivers relevant theory and highlights team GSZ512 Strategically Managing management process. As business planning is an challenges and paradoxes. Individuals will investigate Risk intensive viability screening exercise in which a real-life team problem and teams will participate in a strategic alternatives must be considered, participants problem-based learning activity to write a team Equivalents GSN512 are required to choose a preferred 'business model' analysis and development plan accounting for the Credit Points 6 and demonstrate the viability of the project. The lifecycle of a project. Campus External business plan summarises the proposed strategy and External provides details on the operations, financing, Availabilities - 5TP4 marketing and management of the proposed project GSZ508 Organisational and is designed to facilitate the implementation of the Risk is an invariant feature of any project. On the one selected strategy. The business plan communicates Behaviour and Culture hand, risks can threaten the achievement of a the viability of the project to stakeholders in the Equivalents GSN508 project's objectives. On the other hand, risks can also project and is potentially a powerful and useful tool in create major opportunities which projects can exploit the development of bid submissions. Credit Points 6 to achieve substantial organizational benefits. Indeed Campus External in some environments, the greater the uncertainty, the greater the opportunity. The complex project manager External Availabilities must be able to view and balance both perspectives. - 5TP7 GSZ516 Negotiation and Unfortunately the traditional approach to risk Complex projects require high levels of competency management assumes that project environments are Mediation Strategies from their leaders and managers to achieve linear and reductionist. While this assumption may be Equivalents GSN516 successful outcomes. In order to achieve these high acceptable in simple projects, it can lead to disastrous Credit Points 6 standards of competency you need to understand consequences in complex project environments. So what influences people's thoughts, feelings and the complex project manager must understand how to Campus External actions and methods for enhancing and promoting apply the risk management process using systems External Availabilities positive employee attitudes and behaviours in order to thinking as a guide. Therefore, the unit explores a - 5TP7 retain staff, decrease absenteeism and enhance job range of advanced approaches including 'systems Negotiation and alternative dispute resolution skills satisfaction and high performance. Concepts and thinking', risk analytics and real options to emphasise are essential for managers to deal effectively with theories relevant to the behaviour of individuals and systemic approaches to managing risks within a conflict in all aspects of complex project management. groups such as individual differences, perception, complex project management environment. Moreover, This unit embeds the requisite knowledge, skills and motivation, conflict resolution and managing in judgement and decision-making in complex projects reflective abilities to identify potential sources of complex environments will be used to identify, can be impaired by a range of cognitive heuristics and conflict, design alternative dispute resolution systems analyse and discuss organisational problems relevant biases, and political factors. As a result, an infamous to avoid escalation of conflict, negotiate for results, to complex projects and develop behavioural but perennial feature of many complex projects is identify and deal with the impact of power on the responses to these situations. An additional focus is gross underestimation of cost and schedule and gross dynamics of the negotiation process and effectively the broader organisation, its dynamic relationship with overestimation of project benefits. The unit examines implement distributive and integrative strategies in the its environment and implications for organisational these factors, considers their impact management of complex project negotiations. This culture, power, change and development. unit provides the fundamental skills to enable managers to improve their capacity to negotiate for GSZ513 Managing Innovation in results in complex settings through role-play GSZ509 Workplace Project 1 exercises and reflection on individual performance Technology-Based and outcomes. Equivalents GSN509 Credit Points 6 Organisations Equivalents GSN513 Campus External Credit Points 6 GSZ517 International Study External Availabilities - 5TP4 Campus External Tour External Equivalents GSN517 Workplace Project 1 will be conducted using a Availabilities problem-based learning approach. Each participant - 5TP7 Credit Points 6 will identify a problem resulting from the management Managing for Innovation in the context of complex Campus External of a complex project in their workplace or a nominated projects in technology-based organisations is a External other workplace. Working with a workplace mentor, Availabilities strategic process which involves identifying key - 5TP4 an academic advisor, and a support team of project innovative opportunities, evaluating those managers from the program, the participant will opportunities, and driving the innovations forward. In previous units and in particular the sister unit GSN conduct research to understand the problem, identify Continuous innovation with a consistent output to 518 Implementation of Complex Projects, course the key dynamics and issues and develop realise value requires: leadership; an organisational members have critically studied a diverse range of implementation plans to improve the situation. culture that embraces innovation as a core value; approaches to complex project implementation. This Participants will apply key learnings from units GSZ innovation processes as a core methodology; and unit offers a rich learning opportunity to analyse the 510-508. people who are focused, enthusiastic and committed implementation of these approaches applied in a to generating and exploiting the best ideas. Innovation broad range of international complex projects, and to in complex projects also means understanding and leverage the experience of world-class complex dealing with technological risk. This unit will analyse project leaders and managers. Similar experiences GSZ510 Complex Projects and case examples of technological and organisational could not be obtained in Australia alone. Recognising the Law innovations looking in particular at the dynamics of the international nature of most complex projects, innovation and at management strategies that shape particular attention is given to managing across Equivalents GSN510 and drive innovation in complex projects. This unit will borders and cultures with multiple stakeholders. Credit Points 6 identify ways of empowering teams at the strategic Campus External and operational level to identify innovative opportunities and overcome organisational inertia. External Availabilities GSZ518 Implementation of - 5TP7 Complex Projects Complex projects operate within and across a Equivalents GSN518 multitude of legal environments and policy frameworks. Those involved in complex projects need Credit Points 6
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Campus External planning for and managing change. stakeholder expectations; to manage the crisis External process from issue identification through to Availabilities - 5TP4 implementing a crisis plan and debriefing; and demonstrate the importance of integrating Complex projects usually demand radically different GSZ521 Managing Contract communication and action plans in issues approaches to those applied to traditional projects. In management and crisis communication. stark contrast to their traditional counterparts, Relationships complex projects frequently have neither clear Equivalents GSN521 objectives nor a well-defined implementation Credit Points 6 approach. Project managers who fail to recognise the GSZ524 Capstone Integrating unique nature of complex projects, and attempt to Campus External apply only traditional development and delivery External Workplace Project Availabilities approaches will inevitably fail. Successful - 5TP7 Equivalents GSN524 implementation requires that project managers be Credit Points 6 familiar with the broad range of contemporary project The business of complex global projects is dominated frameworks and approaches, and be able to by concerns of jurisdiction, security, and trust. Within Campus External this operating context, the judicious attention to the synthesize development and delivery methodologies External social as well as technical aspects of project Availabilities which match the unique and dynamic characteristics - 5TP7 of complex projects. This includes the application of management becomes a core competency. This unit sophisticated project scheduling approaches and focuses attention on developing, maintaining and In Australia and worldwide there are increasingly review techniques which quantify the uncertainty securing the contractual relationships within and large-scale, complex projects being developed as implicit in complex projects and enable early between project partners. It pays particular theoretical government and organisations take advantage of new recognition of serious schedule anomalies including and pragmatic attention to identifying and building technologies and replace aging infrastructure, but do delays. Finally, in critically reviewing complex project strategic relationships and embedding trust as a core so in a context of increasing public concern over the implementation, senior program managers should be social relation in contracts. The management and potential negative fiscal, social and environmental able to apply a structured forensic mindset in measurement of trust as a key indicator within impacts of such projects. Identification of challenging diagnosing potential problems, evaluating potential relationships is a further emphasis of the unit. issues, followed by data collection, analysis and remediation options, and assessing the prognosis. synthesis into a plan of action is critical to the success This includes the role of forensic, as opposed to of complex project managers. In this unit participants traditional design, approaches to the strategic will work with the Project Complexity Manager to management of complex projects, both in responding GSZ522 Accountability and identify a challenging issue. The student will then to project problems and in the early detection of Governance prepare a Proposal for how to address the issue. After implementing the Proposal the student use these Equivalents GSN522 findings to write a report and present their Credit Points 6 recommendations to the Project Manager. They will then reflect and report their leanings to QUT faculty. GSZ519 Leadership for Results Campus External Capstone Integrating Workplace Project will be Equivalents GSN519 External Availabilities conducted using a problem-base learning approach. Credit Points 6 - 5TP7 Each participant will identify a complex project Campus External Governance involves a set of relationships between opportunity in their workplace or a nominated other workplace. Working with a workplace mentor, an External an organisation's management, its board/governing Availabilities academic advisor, and a support team of project - 5TP4 body, its shareholders and other stakeholders. Governance provides the foundation for accountable managers from the program, the participant will There can be no leaders without followers; therefore, management at all levels including corporate, conduct research to understand the problem, and leadership can be defined as a process of persuasion portfolio, program and project levels. This unit will identify the key dynamics and issues. This unit draws by which an individual influences others to pursue examine the predominant system of governance on each of the competencies as a capstone unit. identified goals. The skills of leadership can be throughout the world. We concentrate on the roles identified and learned. In this unit we will explore the and responsibilities of boards and directors within various ways of defining and understanding organisations, and introduce students to key theories leadership. The unit builds upon the knowledge you that inform our understanding of the purpose and GSZ526 Problem Solving in have already gained in earlier units such as 503, Self implementation of effective governance. Because Complex Environments Realisation and Personal Development, 507 successful management of complex projects is often Equivalents GSN526, GSZ556 Developing and Leading High Performance Teams, contingent upon the ability to negotiate with and 508 Understanding and Influencing Behaviour in companies in different jurisdictions, this unit will Credit Points 6 Organisations. The focus of this unit will be to build on explore the sources of different governance practices Campus External your growing self-awareness and improve your and values between different cultures and External capacity to understand, communicate and influence jurisdictions. We will also explore the application of Availabilities - 5TP4 the people you will lead in complex projects. corporate governance to the private sector and examine the suitability of best practice governance in The mission of the EMCPL/EMBSP is to provide the domain of complex projects. world class graduate business education and a stimulating learning experience to current and future GSZ520 Planning and business leaders and managers. The aim of this unit Implementing Change is to assist managers to develop knowledge and skills GSZ523 Stakeholder through investigating and experiencing problem Equivalents GSN520 Engagement and the Media framing and problem solving in situations of Credit Points 6 incomplete information. Exploration involves Equivalents GSN523, GSZ555 Campus External experience of the principles, processes and practices Credit Points 6 of creative problem solving and the use of External entrepreneurial thinking to identify and capture Availabilities Campus External - 5TP4 opportunities for business renewal. This unit will help External Complex projects go through many organisational Availabilities students to increase their understanding of the way in changes as they progress through the project - 5TP7 which insights from creativity and the field of lifecycle. In addition to changes required by growth There is increasing recognition internationally of the entrepreneurship may be applied to complex project and change in the project's tasks, additional changes need for organisations to manage strategically their environments to generate opportunities and value. might be required to redirect organisational culture relationships with various stakeholders. This is and values or realign with changes in strategy. This is particularly true in times of crisis, as organisations particularly true of large projects that extend over face increased scrutiny at a local and global level, GSZ527 Acquisition Strategies many years and operate in changing environments. where such relationships are placed at risk and the The ability to plan, organize and manage survival and success of the organisation may be in Equivalents GSN527 organisational change across the project lifecycle is question. The ability to identify issues, negotiate with Credit Points 6 critical to the success of a complex project manager. stakeholders where possible, handle effective Campus External This unit examines the need for organisational communication, and to understand engagement change in a complex project, highlights barriers, External practices is critical to the ongoing success of Availabilities challenges and resistance to change, delivers organisations. This unit provides the fundamental - 5TP7 relevant theory, demonstrates diagnostic tools used in skills to: identify potential issues and crisis areas Procurement managers face significant challenges in organisational redesign and presents approaches to within organisations; establish systems to understand
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units the acquisition lifecycle from identification of needs, how industry development strategies shape supplier theoretical approach focuses on knowledge as a development of business cases and selection of a management. GSN 530 focuses on the strategic strategic asset and the necessity to convert individual suitable procurement methodology. There are a issues relevant to suppliers and contracts with the aim knowledge to sustainable organisational knowledge. multitude of ways to deliver outcomes in terms of of establishing the content and framework for further Commercially significant knowledge in PBOs may be contracting strategy, remuneration, financing, industry investigation in GSN 532, Contract Risk allocation fragmented, dispersed, personally held, inaccessible engagement and ownership. Managers need to be and Insurance. and at risk. Given the predictable knowledge able to critically appraise the options available for discontinuities in PBOs, systematic transfer of know- delivering strategic/complex projects. This includes a how from, between and within projects has significant thorough understanding of all risks and opportunities impact on the success of projects and the to firstly develop a suitable business case and then GSZ531 International Contracts organisation itself. Therefore, the focus is on building optimise the alignment of a chosen acquisition Equivalents GSN531 organisational knowledge assets to underpin expert strategy with the approved business objectives. The performance and optimise project and company Credit Points 6 unit, Acquisition Strategies, provides grounding in the results. life cycle of strategic projects with an examination of Campus External how to develop an acquisition business case and External Availabilities explore the various procurement methodologies, - 5TP4 financing strategies, and ownership mechanisms best GSZ535 Sourcing and deliver value for money and deal with the risks and This unit explores the jurisdictional issues that arise in Contracting Strategies in a opportunities across the complete project or program strategic procurement projects involving international lifecycle. The unit also captures the need to recognise commercial partners and suppliers. This unit further Global Environment explores the procurement trends in Defence and deal with industry development objectives, the Equivalents GSZ527,GSN527 importance of robust cost estimation, and risk sharing procurement agencies in the US, UK and elsewhere strategies within a suitable governance framework. A in order to understand comparative defence Credit Points 6 comparison of government to commercial best procurement practices and strategies. In particular, Campus External practice is also included to expose students to the this unit examines the specific issues that arise in External similarities and differences between public and privat inter-government contracts and disputes and how Availabilities these can be best managed. - 5TP7 This unit forms part of both the Complex Project Leadership and Strategic Procurement elective GSZ529 Intellectual Property strands of the EMBA program. This unit is designed to GSZ532 Contract Risk Strategy and Management provide students with the opportunity to develop Allocation and Insurance knowledge and skills relating to sourcing and Equivalents GSN529 contracting strategies, risks and benefits and the Equivalents GSN532, GSZ555 Credit Points 6 jurisdictional issues that arise in international strategic Credit Points 6 procurement projects. Campus External Campus External External Availabilities External - 5TP7 Availabilities - 5TP7 GSZ536 Strategic Leadership of IP rights are the legal framework that applies to the creation, acquisition, management and disposal of GSN510 Complex Projects and the Law, introduced Supplier Relationships the sources of contractual risks and how various intangible property. In particular, they facilitate Equivalents GSZ521, GSN521 commercial transactions in intangible proprietary procurement models attempt to deal with these risks rights, and provide a basis for rewarding intellectual as they vary across the project lifecycle. This unit Credit Points 6 effort. Developing and implementing an effective IP further explores the sources of commercial risks and Campus External identification and management strategy is essential in how some of these risks are addressed by insurance. External strategic procurement projects. Senior personnel in Availabilities - 5TP7 charge of managing strategic procurement projects need to have the appropriate skills to identify IP This unit forms part of both the Complex Project requirements over the life of the project/requirement GSZ533 Financial Analysis and Leadership and Strategic Procurement elective and to manage the IP created or acquired in order to Decision Making strands of the EMBA program. In the world of achieve Defence's objectives over the program complex, long-term global projects, it is not possible Equivalents GSN533 lifecycle. IP rights have gained increasing significance for any organization to go it alone - they need to in public sector procurement, particularly in relation to Credit Points 6 develop strategic partnering arrangements with other complex and strategic goods and services that are Campus External organizations. As such, this unit is designed to technologically advanced and require constant develop essential leadership and relationship External development or support. IP is increasingly used to Availabilities management capabilities that will enable students to maximise profits in industry and therefore is also a - 5TP4 select, develop, maintain, performance manage and bargaining chip when entering into contractual - secure contractual relationships between project relationships. International conventions and partners. arrangements also have a profound impact on the rights and obligations of contracting parties, particularly in procurements involving foreign GSZ534 Building GSZ537 Strategic Alignment contracting parties. Accordingly, it is important to be Organisational Capability familiar with international IP arrangements, including and Project Implementation as administered by WIPO and the WTO. This unit will Equivalents GSN534 Equivalents GSN518, GSZ518 utilise Credit Points 6 Credit Points 6 Campus External Campus External External Availabilities External GSZ530 Sustainable Strategic - 5TP7 Availabilities - 5TP7 Contracts and Suppliers This unit develops capability to achieve high Equivalents GSN530 performance in dynamic and complex project based This unit forms part of the Complex Project organisations (PBOs). Knowledge creating companies Leadership elective strand of the EMBA program. Credit Points 6 such as PBOs are characterised by rich expertise and Typically complex projects have neither clear Campus External concomitant dependence on experts themselves objectives nor a well-defined implementation approach and as such require radically different External (human capital). Given this, two distinctive yet Availabilities approaches to the project management of and - 5TP4 complementary bodies of work underpin the development of organisational capability in PBOs. implementation of complex projects. This unit is Managers of Strategic Projects need to consider the The first body of literature centres on multi-level designed to provide students with the knowledge and capability and maturity of industry to provide solutions strategic human resource management strategies to skills to ensure strategic alignment of complex and how strategic projects can be used as a catalyst maximise expertise development, deployment and projects and the ability to successfully implement for long term industry development. This unit explores retention in PBOs. Shaping and responding to the complex projects using an evolutionary approach to how to identify critical industry sectors and strategic design features of dynamic organisational architecture match the peculiar mix of complexity dimensions suppliers; select and performance manage long term and developing an appropriate organisational culture exhibited by the complex project. strategic partners throughout the project lifecycle; and are also considered in this context. The second
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Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point - 5TP8 (Block) Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities External - 5TP4 (Block), 6TP3 (Block) GSZ538 Strategically Managing - 5TP9 Business leaders today need to be multi-disciplinary Risk Negotiation is an important part of everyday strategic thinkers, who have foresight and an ability to Pre-requisites GSZ464 management, and effective negotiation skills are take a big-picture, long term view of an organisation. indispensable for successful managers operating in a Equivalents GSZ512,GSN512 Additionally, the ability to make decisions, often with globalised and complex business environment. This incomplete information, and to determine appropriate Credit Points 6 Negotiation Skills and Strategies unit introduces strategic responses to complex, global business Campus External students to a conceptual framework for analysing the problems and opportunities is seen as the key business negotiation process. The exploration of External determinant of positive business outcomes and the Availabilities negotiation practices in different contexts better - 5TP7 longevity of organisations. The Advanced Strategy for prepares students for negotiation in the increasingly Global Business unit helps students to develop a This unit forms part of both the Complex Project globalised business environment. GSZ 551 forms part sophisticated knowledge and application of strategic Leadership and Strategic Procurement elective of the Integration and Specialisation component of the analysis techniques and approaches including the strands of the EMBA. This unit is designed to provide EMBA and should be undertaken by students once all dynamics of inter-firm dependencies, the nature of knowledge and skills in identifying and dealing with the units in the Building Foundations and the majority complex-adaptive systems, an understanding of the the emergent risks associated with complex projects. of the Multi-Disciplinary Decision Making components pivotal role of data in the strategy process and the It moves beyond traditional risk management of the program are complete. This unit is also limitations of theoretical models. approaches, which generally assume that projects are important part of the preparation for the International linear and reductionist, to provide a systems thinking Tour. approach to the management of risk in complex environments and large-scale procurements. The unit GSZ561 Conducting Business also develops skill in and provides strategies for recognising major opportunities that can arise from GSZ553 Business Leadership Internationally risk and how to exploit them to achieve substantial Practicum MBA Director approval is required. organisational benefits. Other Students are expected to have Pre-requisites GSZ415 requisites completed at least 48 credit points Equivalents GSN553 prior to enrolment. GSZ539 Intellectual Property Credit Points 6 Credit Points 6 Campus Gardens Point and Canberra Campus Gardens Point Strategy and Management Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents GSN529,GSZ529 - 12TP1 (Block), 5TP2 (Block) - 5TP3 (Block) Availabilities Credit Points 6 Canberra Today we operate in a highly-competitive globalised - 5TP2 (Block) Campus External business environment. Those charged with leading External Leaders in business, government and community large, medium or small business organisations or Availabilities - 5TP7 organisations face daily challenges and difficult government departments or agencies must be able to decisions. How leaders make decisions in complex identify and seize the business opportunities This unit forms part of the Strategic Procurement environments is an insight that is rarely able to be associated with conducting business internationally. elective strand of the EMBA program. This unit is observed by students developing their own leadership This unit provides students with the tools and designed to provide knowledge of IP rights and the and decision making skills. Students completing this strategies to give them increased confidence and legal framework surrounding them particularly in highly experiential unit will be paired with a senior competence in their ability to conduct business relation to complex and technologically advanced executive level leader from a business, government or internationally. Conducting Business Internationally strategic goods and services involved in strategic community organisation to observe the leader in should be studied in conjunction with GSZ428 procurement projects. The unit develops skill in the action and engage in discussions about leadership, International Study Tour. This unit forms part of the design and implementation of effective IP decision making and dealing with the ethical EMBA Integration and Specialisation component of identification and management strategies both within dilemmas faced by this leader over a period of nine the program and should be undertaken by students Australian and international contexts in order to months. This unit is positioned to build upon the once all the units in the Building Foundations and the protect IP rights using recognised best practice for EMBA executive coaching program and the work majority of units in the Multi-Disciplinary Decision strategic procurement projects. completed in GSZ415 Leadership and Complexity Making components of the program are complete. unit. This unit will be made available students from 2014 and replaces the Special Topic unit, Doing Business GSZ540 Contract Risk in China. Allocation and Insurance GSZ558 Stakeholder Pre-requisites GSZ538 Engagement and Media GSZ572 Integrated Workplace Equivalents GSN532,GSZ532 Principles Project - Business Planning Credit Points 6 GSN558, GSZ555, GSN496, Equivalents Equivalents GSZ416, GSN416 GSN523, GSZ523 Campus External 114 CPs of Core EMBA units as Credit Points 6 Other External approved by MBA Director including Availabilities requisites - 5TP7 Campus Gardens Point GSZ405 and GSZ410 Gardens Point Credit Points 6 This unit forms part of the Strategic Procurement Availabilities - 6TP5 (Block), 6TP6 (Block) elective strand of the EMBA program. This unit is Campus Gardens Point designed to provide knowledge of the sources of In this globally connected world it has never been so Gardens Point commercial risks associated with large-scale Availabilities important for organisations to effectively manage their - 5TP7 (Block) procurement and the skill in applying tools and public reputation portrayed in both traditional and strategies for mitigating those commercial risks over social media. The Stakeholder Engagement and New ventures can originate from any organisational the lifecycle of the procurement. The main focus of Media Principles unit develops students context. Irrespective of the context, entrepreneurs the unit is on identifying major sources of commercial understanding of the role of stakeholder engagement, face unique challenges in planning for and designing risks and their contractual treatment through liabilities, the importance of stakeholder analysis and the role new ventures. This capstone unit in the EMBA indemnities and insurance. media plays in influencing organisational issues. program, provides students with the opportunity to apply learnings from the program in an integrated manner resulting in the designing and planning of a new ventures within an existing organisation or a new GSZ551 Negotiation Skills and GSZ560 Advanced Strategy for start-up or a not-for-profit organisation. GSZ572 forms Strategies part of the EMBA Integration and Specialisation Global Business component of the program and should be undertaken Equivalents GSN551 Pre-requisites GSZ405 or GSN405 by students once all the units in the Building Credit Points 6 Equivalents GSN560 Foundations and the Multi-Disciplinary Decision Campus Gardens Point and External Making components of the program are complete. Credit Points 6 This unit will be available to students from 2014 and
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units will replace GSZ416 Business Plans 1. Building on the underpinning principles of established frameworks such as Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), aspiring leaders must be able to design and lead organisational transformation GSZ632 Managing Self and GSZ601 Leading Self and initiatives in complex and changing environments. Others The ability to lead in complex environments, having Others Credit Points 12 the self awareness to engage with diverse Anti-requisites GSZ554 stakeholders and senior executives both within and Campus Gardens Point, Online and External Credit Points 12 external to the organization and manage conflicting Online interests, at the same time as ensuring alignment of Campus External - 12TP3 program and organisational strategy, is critical to External External Availabilities success. - 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, - 5TP7 Availabilities 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, Aspiring leaders develop their leadership skills 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP2, 12TP2, through self-awareness, individual planning, courage GSZ607 Developing and 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, and commitment. Through the application of personal 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP3, 12TP3, insight and environmental feedback they understand Delivering Complex and 12TP3, 12TP3 their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for GSZ632 provides insights into key individual and improvement, building capacity both within Contested Policy group behaviours, and offers skills for communicating themselves and those they lead. Effective leadership Credit Points 12 with and managing people and teams. By building is fundamental to excellence in all aspects of Campus External greater personal self-awareness, participants are business administration and is the key to mobilising External equipped to better manage their strengths and group dynamics and fulfilling human potential. Availabilities - 5TP6 limitations and improve resilience. By appreciating the naturally occurring differences in others they are It is essential for high performance in a leadership equipped to respond appropriately and manage GSZ602 Actioning Strategic role that strong capabilities in these areas are performance positively. By developing and practising developed. The skills necessary for this role cannot key communication skills, participants are able to Change and Innovation be learnt through experience alone. This unit will pass influence more effectively (interpersonally and on the wisdom of practitioners and academics to put Anti-requisites GSN405 virtually) so that groups and teams can work more you in the best position to take on these high stakes productively. Credit Points 12 responsibilities. Campus External External Availabilities GSZ633 Managing Outwards in - 6TP4 GSZ608 Leadership of Strategic a Networked Government Managing the development and implementation of Supplier Relationships strategy in government organisations requires the Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 ability to effectively develop innovative solutions for Campus Gardens Point and External problems in complex environments and plan for the Campus External External change process through their implementation. This External - 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, unit examines strategic management concepts and Availabilities Availabilities - 6TP5 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP3, frameworks that will help the manager to understand 12TP3, 12TP3 the strategic context and develop business strategies Project Managers, Asset Managers, Business aligned to government policy frameworks. Managers, Procurement Professionals, Operations/ GSZ633 explores the variety of relationships that Maintenance /IT Personnel and other key stakeholder managers need to build across the public sector and groups are increasingly required to lead and manage outside it - with the private sector, with community supplier relationships beyond the short term and to and not for profit sector and with citizens and clients GSZ603 Communicating for take into account key issues relating to sustainability, of government services. The unit will explore strength- Results accountability, efficiency and waste reduction, trust, based and systems approaches to equip public sector values maximisation, risk minimisation, performance and NGO managers to build effective partnerships for Anti-requisites GSN407, GSZ407 measurement and business objectives alignment. policy making and delivery of government business Credit Points 12 Skillful leadership in these areas is fundamental to and customer services in contestable, complex and project/ business success and positive stakeholder virtual environments. In this unit participants will also Campus External outcomes. This module builds the essential skills and identity a potential workplace project and develop a External understandings for creating these high performance Availabilities draft proposal. - 5TP8 supplier relationships. - GSZ634 Managing Operations GSZ631 Managing within the for Outcomes GSZ605 Strategically Managing Context of Government Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Public Funds Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point, Online and External External Campus External Online - 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, - 12TP2 External Availabilities 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, Availabilities External 12TP1, 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, - 6TP5 - 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, Availabilities 12TP2 - This unit provides an holistic approach to the theory 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP1, and practice of financial management, accounting and 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, Government agencies and NGOs continually review accountability in public sector agencies; examines the 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, 12TP2, their strategies to ensure that context is understood, regulatory framework and the social and 12TP3, 12TP3 stakeholders are engaged, outcomes are achieved, innovation is an organisational practice, and review environmental pressures for financial reform; and GSZ631 provides the 'big picture' of government and considers aspects of budgeting, control and auditing. and enhancement processes are embedded. Critical the context within which public sector managers to the creation and delivery of public value is the operate. It develops an understanding of the effectiveness and robustness of the execution of institutional frameworks and conventions which guide strategy and the ability of the entity to leverage its GSZ606 Leading Strategic practice and ensure sustainable democratic various capabilities. As such, public sector and NGO processes. This unit places the business of managers plan, manage, organise and implement to Initiatives and Programs government (policy framing and delivery) within its ensure results are delivered and outcomes achieved. Credit Points 12 systemic context. Public sector and NGO managers This unit is designed to build the overall operational are enabled to explore, appreciate and respond to the capabilities of these managers, and provide them with Campus External many institutional reforms and managerial challenges highly effective and appropriate tools, processes and External which emerge from global forces, local political Availabilities diagnostic capabilities, to deliver and sustain ongoing - 5TP8 concerns and increasing interconnectivity. public sector value. This is the capstone unit. This unit
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units enables students to draw on and apply the learnings An advanced knowledge of research principles and analyse and collate scientific literature and effectively from the whole program to a relevant workplace methods is an essential component of professional present scientific information. Students will also project. practice and is required to address issues which arise actively participate in research forums external to their in practice. This unit focuses on the skills and own research groups aimed at developing a knowledge required to design and use research in a collaborative and interactive group ethos in research. project and builds on basic principles including HLB001 Health Needs of biostatistics. It will prepare you to adopt a questioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait and critical approach to your discipline practice and develop critical thinking and reasoning skills applied HLH106 Research Strategies 2 Islander Australians to the literature around a topic of your choice. It HLH101 and HLH104 and HLH105 Pre-requisites Successful completion of 96 credit introduces you to systematic literature search and and HLH107-1 Pre-requisites advanced discipline knowledge in the literature and points HLH107-2 and HLH107-3 and the rewards and responsibilities of professional Co-requisites HLH107-4 Credit Points 12 development. Further research skill development will Campus Kelvin Grove be applied to analysis of research data using a Equivalents HLP106 statistical package and in qualitative methodologies. Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities Communication skills will be developed by preparing - SEM-1 a systematic literature review and a research Campus Kelvin Grove This unit will provide students with an introduction to a proposal. The development of a project proposal will Kelvin Grove Availabilities range of historical and contemporary factors that prepare you for the implementation of your Capstone - SEM-1, SEM-2 impact on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous project in your final year. people today. Communities require health In this unit you student will be actively involved in practitioners to have the knowledge and skills to critical discussions on key aspects underlying the provide appropriate care for Aboriginal and Torres scientific method with senior academics in the Strait Islander people. This is underpinned by an HLH101 Grant Proposal Faculty. Students will develop and refine skills in project design and implementation, the critical Indigenous defined primary healthcare framework. In Co-requisites HLH104, HLH105 and HLH107-1 this unit, an Indigenous definition of health is the basis analysis of methods and data, time management, Credit Points 12 of commencing the journey towards cultural information retrieval and learn how to collect, critically awareness and cultural sensitivity. Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove analyse and collate scientific literature and effectively present scientific information. Students will also Gardens Point actively participate in research forums external to their - SEM-1 Availabilities own research groups aimed at developing a Kelvin Grove collaborative and interactive group ethos in research. HLB002 International Study - SEM-2 Experience This unit will assist you in developing your knowledge Academic approval and successful Other of the existing scientific literature related to your field completion of 96 credit points of HLH107 Research Project 2 requisites of research, help you formulate specific research study in your current course questions and provide you with the opportunity to Pre-requisites HLH107-1 Credit Points 12 develop a research plan that allows you to answer Co-requisites HLH106 these questions. You will work in collaboration with Campus Kelvin Grove your research project supervisors and other discipline Equivalents HLP107-2 Kelvin Grove area experts to prepare a grant proposal similar to Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 those required to obtain funding from Australian Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove competitive grant schemes. This will help you Within the context of an approved Outward Bound understand the background, rationale and Gardens Point Mobility activity, this unit provides an opportunity for methodologies related to your specific research - SEM-1 you to further develop your knowledge and skills for Availabilities project. A one day workshop in advanced information Kelvin Grove working in a globalised context through an retrieval skills is included in the unit. - SEM-2 international experience undertaken within the context of your course. It allows you to build on, and extend This unit will assist you in developing your technical studies that you have completed in the earlier parts of and analytical skills related to your field of research. It your course. It also offers an international 'lens' HLH104 Manuscript Critique will provide you with the opportunity to develop a plan through which to reflect on your current course that allows you to, execute and evaluate a piece of HLH101 and HLH105 and HLH107- experiences and, thus, the opportunity to broaden and Co-requisites research. You will work in collaboration with your 1 deepen your repertoire of skills for working in local research project supervisors and other discipline area and/or global contexts. Equivalents HLP104 experts to prepare a final manuscript outlining the results of your research following interpretation of the Credit Points 12 data collected from your research plan. Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove HLB300 Independent Study Gardens Point Pre-requisites Completion of 192cp - SEM-1 Availabilities HLH107 Research Project 1 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Co-requisites HLH101 and HLH104 and HLH105 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit provides the students an opportunity to Equivalents HLP107-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities critically analyse and review a manuscript that is Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM outside of their research topic. Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove This unit provides the opportunity to substantively explore a topic or subject of personal academic Gardens Point - SEM-1 interest within your discipline area. It enables you to Availabilities extend your knowledge and understanding of a topic HLH105 Research Strategies 1 Kelvin Grove area that is not otherwise available as a formal unit of HLH101 and HLH104 and HLH107- - SEM-2 Co-requisites study within the course, and your skills in knowledge 1 This unit will assist you in developing your technical development and knowledge management. Equivalents HLP105 and analytical skills related to your field of research. It will provide you with the opportunity to develop a plan Credit Points 12 that allows you to, execute and evaluate a piece of HLB401 Advanced Research Campus Kelvin Grove research. You will work in collaboration with your Kelvin Grove research project supervisors and other discipline area Availabilities Methods - SEM-1, SEM-2 experts to prepare a final manuscript outlining the results of your research following interpretation of the Anti-requisites PUB416 In this unit you student will be actively involved in data collected from your research plan. Credit Points 12 critical discussions on key aspects underlying the Campus Kelvin Grove scientific method with senior academics in the Faculty. Students will develop and refine skills in Kelvin Grove Availabilities project design and implementation, the critical - SEM-2 analysis of methods and data, time management, information retrieval and learn how to collect, critically
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natural sciences in nursing/health research has come HLH107 Research Project 4 into question in more recent times and thus the unit HLH107-3. HLH107-3 can be introduces students to the origins of such challenges, Pre-requisites studied in the same teaching period to the knowledge bases of alternative ways of HLN706 Health Statistics 2 as HLH107-4 investigating the social world of health/illness and to Pre-requisites PUN105 Co-requisites HLH106 related research methods. The unit comprises a Credit Points 12 series of lectures, seminar presentations and relevant Equivalents HLP107-4 readings. Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Gardens Point HLN700 Dissertation This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and - SEM-1 application of statistical methods by building on the Availabilities Credit Points 48 Kelvin Grove foundations acquired in PUN105 Health Statistics 1. It - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove and External is common in health to deal with data that is not easily analysed using basic statistical techniques. This unit This unit will assist you in developing your technical Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM focuses on providing you with the skills needed to and analytical skills related to your field of research. It Availabilities undertake advanced statistical modelling such as will provide you with the opportunity to develop a plan External - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM logistic regression, survival analysis and longitudinal that allows you to, execute and evaluate a piece of data analysis. You will apply your knowledge to the research. You will work in collaboration with your Through undertaking a research project in a analysis of data using the SPSS statistical software. research project supervisors and other discipline area specialised area of practice, the dissertation provides The techniques covered in the unit will equip you with experts to prepare a final manuscript outlining the the opportunity for you to develop advanced skills in the skills necessary to analyse most of the data results of your research following interpretation of the the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of typically generated in clinical and population health data collected from your research plan. research. settings.
HLH107 Research Project 3 HLN701 Independent Study HLN707 Research Methods in HLH107-2. HLH107-2 can be Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites studied in the same teaching period Health Campus Kelvin Grove and External as HLH107-3 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Co-requisites HLH106 Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Availabilities Equivalents HLP107-3 External Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities External Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove The development of critical appraisal skills is essential - SEM-1, SEM-2 for students undertaking postgraduate study. This unit Gardens Point provides an opportunity to investigate a relevant topic HLN707 Research Methods in Health is a research - SEM-1 Availabilities in your area of study. In the process of identifying, planning unit. The unit will provide you with practical Kelvin Grove gathering and analysing up-to-date relevant literature, research skills training and takes you through the - SEM-2 you will strengthen skills in the synthesis of process of developing an answerable research This unit will assist you in developing your technical information and report writing relevant to your field. question, to designing the study, planning the and analytical skills related to your field of research. It research project's implementation, and planning the will provide you with the opportunity to develop a plan analysis and dissemination of the research findings. It that allows you to, execute and evaluate a piece of is highly recommended that you take this unit the research. You will work in collaboration with your HLN703 Project semester before you are planning to undertake your research project supervisors and other discipline area Credit Points 24 project or dissertation. This unit provides opportunities experts to prepare a final manuscript outlining the to consolidate your critical analysis and problem Campus Kelvin Grove and External results of your research following interpretation of the solving skills in an autonomous way to prepare for data collected from your research plan. Kelvin Grove and integrate your theoretical knowledge in a - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM research capstone unit or whilst undertaking a Availabilities External research project in your clinical discipline.. You will - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM develop a research proposal which will prepare you to HLN004 Chronic Conditions undertake a 24 credit point project or a 48 credit point Through undertaking a small project in a specified dissertation or as a stand-alone research unit for Prevention and Management area, this unit provides you with the opportunity to clinicians. Successful completion of relevant research Equivalents PUN553 consolidate, extend and apply the advanced methodology units is assumed knowledge. For those knowledge and skills you have gained through your Credit Points 12 wishing to do quantitative research, completion of course to date. HLN710 (Epidemiology) and/or PUN105 (Health Campus Kelvin Grove and External Statistics 1) is highly recommended. For those Kelvin Grove wishing to do qualitative research, completion of - SEM-1, SEM-2 HLN405 (Qualitative Research) is highly Availabilities HLN704 Project B External recommended. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites HLN703 Credit Points 24 The unit introduces a range of factors that contribute to the development, prevention and management of Campus Kelvin Grove HLN710 Epidemiology chronic conditions. It has an interdisciplinary focus Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 that addresses the continuum of care from primary - SEM-1 health to tertiary interventions. Campus Kelvin Grove and External An important aspect of postgraduate development is Kelvin Grove the opportunity to engage in research or project work - SEM-1, SEM-2 in a specialist field of study in industry or as a Availabilities External component of consultancy work. Working in industry HLN405 Qualitative Research - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 or a health-related agency, locally or internationally, can provide students with valuable work experience This unit introduces you to the fundamentals of Campus Kelvin Grove and External and develop skills and expertise that advances their epidemiology. You will develop the skills to apply Kelvin Grove profession or the particular industry involved. The epidemiological principles to public health and clinical - SEM-1, SEM-2 research option enables students to work practice. This includes undertaking logical, scientific Availabilities External independently under the guidance of a supervisor. assessment of the health literature, with a strong - SEM-1, SEM-2 The research may be a report that makes a emphasis on critical appraisal of health information contribution to knowledge or a study in which the and data. This unit addresses a range of qualitative student critically analyses existing knowledge and methodologies and methods that present as produces observations and conclusions of value to alternative approaches to the quantitative paradigm in the field concerned. health science research. The predominance of the
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reflect critically on your learning in this unit and its HLN711 Advanced Qualitative implications for your future practice. HLP103 Dissertation Methods Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External HLN750 Dissertation Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 24 - SEM-2 This is a compulsory unit in the Faculty of Health Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External External Honours programs. It is broken into a number of - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove components that are completed over successive - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM semesters (as appropriate for full-time or part-time This unit offers you the opportunity to study, explore Availabilities External course structure). The dissertation study represents and understand a range of qualitative methods. The - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM an independent piece of research completed with the focus is on the development of rigorous qualitative guidance of a supervisor. research design and on planning and undertaking Through undertaking a research project in a data collection, data analysis, interpretation and specialised area of practice, the dissertation provides reporting of qualitative research. The aim is to the opportunity for you to develop advanced skills in advance student knowledge and skills in relation to the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of HLP103 Dissertation the methods of qualitative research and to foster research. Together, HLN750-1 and HLN750-2 Credit Points 12 essential skills in collecting, coding, analysing and comprise a 48 credit point unit that can be studied reporting qualitative research. over two semesters. Assessment items are submitted Campus Kelvin Grove and a final grade awarded only at the end of the final Kelvin Grove sub-unit HLN750-2. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 HLN712 Dissertation This is a compulsory unit in the Faculty of Health Credit Points 12 Honours programs. It is broken into a number of HLN750 Dissertation components that are completed over successive Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 24 semesters (as appropriate for full-time or part-time Kelvin Grove course structure). The dissertation study represents Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-2 an independent piece of research completed with the Kelvin Grove guidance of a supervisor. Through undertaking a research project in a - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Availabilities specialised area of practice, the dissertation provides External the opportunity for you to develop advanced skills in - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of HLP103 Dissertation research. Together, HLN712-1, 2, 3 and 4 comprise a Through undertaking a research project in a Credit Points 12 48 credit point unit that can be studied over a number specialised area of practice, the dissertation provides of semesters. Each semester you can enrol in one or the opportunity for you to develop advanced skills in Campus Kelvin Grove the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of more of its four 12 credit point sub-units. Assessment Kelvin Grove research. Together, HLN750-1 and HLN750-2 Availabilities items are submitted and a final grade awarded only at - SEM-1, SEM-2 the end of the final sub-unit HLN712-4. comprise a 48 credit point unit that can be studied over two semesters. Assessment items are submitted This is a compulsory unit in the Faculty of Health and a final grade awarded only at the end of the final Honours programs. It is broken into a number of sub-unit HLN750-2. components that are completed over successive HLN712 Dissertation semesters (as appropriate for full-time or part-time Credit Points 12 course structure). The dissertation study represents an independent piece of research completed with the Campus Kelvin Grove HLP101 Advanced Discipline guidance of a supervisor. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Readings - SEM-1, SEM-2 (HLP105. HLP105 can be studied in Through undertaking a research project in a the same teaching period as Pre-requisites HLP103 Dissertation specialised area of practice, the dissertation provides HLP101) or (Admission into HL50 Credit Points 12 the opportunity for you to develop advanced skills in or HL51 or HL52 or HL55) Campus Kelvin Grove the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of Credit Points 12 research. Together, HLN712-1, 2, 3 and 4 comprise a Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities 48 credit point unit that can be studied over a number - SEM-1, SEM-2 of semesters. Each semester you can enrol in one or Kelvin Grove Availabilities more of its four 12 credit point sub-units. Assessment - SEM-1, SEM-2 This is a compulsory unit in the Faculty of Health items are submitted and a final grade awarded only at Honours programs. It is broken into a number of the end of the final sub-unit HLN712-4. This unit is a compulsory component of the Faculty of components that are completed over successive Health Honours programs. It provides the opportunity semesters (as appropriate for full-time or part-time for students to identify and review the literature course structure). The dissertation study represents relevant to their selected research topic. A one day an independent piece of research completed with the HLN720 Clinical Education in seminar in advanced information retrieval skills is guidance of a supervisor. Health included in the unit. Credit Points 12 HLP104 Readings in Biomedical Campus Kelvin Grove and External HLP102 Research Seminars Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites HLP101 Science - SEM-2 HLP101 and HLP105. HLP101 and Availabilities External Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites HLP105 can be enrolled in the - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove same teaching period as HLP104. This unit is to introduces you to principles and Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities practices designed to facilitate learning in the clinical - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove context. Completion of the unit will enable you to This unit is a compulsory component of the Faculty of differentiate between clinical supervision and clinical Kelvin Grove Health Honours programs. Content includes the Availabilities education, and relate to this to your own field of - SEM-1, SEM-2 preparation and completion of a seminar presentation practice; demonstrate knowledge and understanding in a professional and scientific manner and - of models/theories of clinical education and their attendance at scheduled seminars. application within your own field of practice; demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concepts and principles related to learning, teaching HLP105 Research Strategies 1 and assessment in the clinical context; apply Co-requisites HLP101 concepts and principles related to clinical learning, teaching and assessment to your field of practice; Credit Points 12
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Campus Kelvin Grove interpreting and managing the health education modelling, object modelling and information Kelvin Grove classroom as a complex social environment for modelling. The modular approach allows you to Availabilities - SEM-1 teaching and learning. It helps students to develop undertake modelling and abstraction processes those competencies needed for planning and required to understand complex systems in - teaching health education units of work. It has an organizational and information technology domains. important role in preparing students for the professional practice component of the course, leading to the development of confidence and HLP106 Research Strategies 2 competence in class management skills, and IAB202 Business of Information HLP104 and HLP105. HLP104 and facilitating the use of post-lesson and post-practicum Technology Pre-requisites HLP105 can be studied in the same reflection and evaluation. teaching period as HLP106 Pre-requisites IFB101 Co-requisites HLP107-3, HLP107-4 Anti-requisites INB301 Credit Points 12 HMB496 Health Education Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Curriculum Studies 3 Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites HMB396 Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 - Whether you are launching an internet start-up or Campus Kelvin Grove advising your company on how to embark on a Kelvin Grove successful technical direction you need to have an Availabilities - SEM-1 understanding of the basic business building blocks to enable your decision making. This unit will help you to HLP107 Project 2 This unit extends the principles of professional Pre-requisites HLP107-1 explore these necessary commercial concepts by practice established in HMB292 and HMB396 and engaging you in planning the development of Credit Points 12 further encourages the development of a critically businesses which are primarily internet-based. By reflective approach to the teaching in that area. It Campus Kelvin Grove considering real case studies, you will be introduced emphasises planning and teaching in the senior to concepts which give you a practical approach to Kelvin Grove secondary school and extends a student's ability to Availabilities developing IT business initiatives. The concepts - SEM-1, SEM-2 make independent judgments about curriculum include internet revenue models, IT marketing, staff decisions within syllabus guidelines and broader - and capability building, IT strategy and innovative systems policies, while considering national and thinking. international trends in education and society. The unit also encourages exploration of current issues and HLP107 Project 3 emerging and future trends in subject areas. Pre-requisites HLP107-1 IAB203 Business Process Co-requisites HLP106 Modelling Credit Points 12 IAB130 Databases Equivalents INB320 Anti-requisites INN210 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Equivalents INB210, IND210, ITB004 Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities - Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities Building on the principles of Business Process - SEM-2 Management (BPM), this unit will develop a deep understanding of business process modelling as the From banking systems, to video games, mobile and HLP107 Project 1 core activity in BPM initiatives. You will learn about cloud apps, databases underlie most of the systems Co-requisites HLP105 the main components of a business process we use today. They are crucial for ensuring modelling language. You will also learn how to apply Credit Points 12 information is persistent, reliable and efficiently standard modelling languages such as BPMN to accessed. This unit extends the basic database Campus Kelvin Grove develop abstract yet relevant representations of concepts from the foundation units and will cover complex business processes in a consistent and Kelvin Grove database design and the use of database Availabilities unambiguous way, and to reason about these - SEM-1, SEM-2 management systems for building applications. The models. Finally, you will learn how to identify relevant unit will cover the main aspects of the relational model - processes to be modelled, how to discover models and SQL, along with introducing emerging from these processes and meaningfully organize the alternatives to the relational approach, such as graph models in a process architecture. The unit will use a databases. This unit will prepare you to continue on to hands-on approach to allow you to learn the art of application development units and the data-centric HLP107 Project 4 process modelling incrementally. Pre-requisites HLP107-1 computing minor. Co-requisites HLP106 Credit Points 12 IAB201 Modelling Information IAB204 Business Analysis Campus Kelvin Grove ((IFB103 or INB182 or INB103) and Systems Pre-requisites Kelvin Grove (IAB202 or INB301) Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Equivalents INB220 Campus Gardens Point - Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities HMB396 Health Education As an Information Systems practitioner, essential - SEM-1 skills are modelling and abstraction which you use to Curriculum Studies 2 understand the problem in its widest context and This unit gives you an introduction to the role, Pre-requisites HMB292 develop conceptual and logical representations of knowledge areas, and skills required of the modern solution components. In this unit, you are introduced business analyst. The unit focuses on the key Credit Points 12 to principles of conceptual modelling of information elements of business analysis, including planning and Campus Kelvin Grove systems, such as abstraction, aggregation, monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, solution assessment and validation, and requirements Kelvin Grove decomposition and modularization. The unit develops Availabilities management and communication. The unit will equip - SEM-2 a both broad and detailed understanding of the relevance of modelling to the analysis and design of you with the knowledge and skills necessary to This is the second in a suite of three Health Education complex systems by examining different modelling identify a business problem or opportunity and Curriculum units. It is designed to extend students paradigms, including complex systems modelling, develop business cases and plans for achieving with a range of understandings and competencies for data modelling, process modelling, organizational effective solutions. This unit builds on the foundational
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units work learned in 'Business of IT'. IAB270 Innovation and Disruption IAB350 Enterprise Systems IAB205 Corporate Systems Pre-requisites IFB101 Credit Points 12 Configuration Pre-requisites IFB101 or INB101 Pre-requisites IAB202 or INB301 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents INB120 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point IT and business professionals are often involved in Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities innovation with IT as a major driver and enabler of - SEM-2 incremental changes as well as radical Configuration is a critical step of ES implementation. Large enterprises have many different computer transformations. Innovation is seen as crucial for Configuring an Enterprise System is largely a matter applications and many different technology platforms organizations and economies to survive and grow in of balancing the way the organisation wants the supporting these applications. This diversity is called dynamic environments. This unit offers you the system to work with the way it was designed to work, Corporate Systems and understanding of this opportunity to develop a deep understanding of as per the business requirements of the organisation. landscape, and its complexity is essential in any innovation, in particular IT and digital innovation. This Configuring an Enterprise System is completed Information Systems graduate. This Corporate will be essential for any activity related to new ways of through the in-built changeable parameters that Systems unit introduces you to the IT landscape of using IT, whether you are developing new technology modify system operation. For example, an the modern enterprise. We highlight the issues faced or systems, improving business processes, organisation can select the type of inventory by the enterprise in providing an integrated view and implementing enterprise systems, managing IT accounting to use, whether to recognise revenue by management of its business, and how corporate projects, developing novel games or launching new geographical unit, product line, or distribution channel systems help address these issues. The unit covers ventures. Moreover, it also sets you on the path to and whether to pay for shipping costs when a three important phases of the corporate systems become a thought leader on and catalyst of IT and customer returns a purchase lifecycle: selection, implementation, and usage. digital innovation. This unit will introduce you to the Collectively, knowledge of the techniques associated core innovation concepts, models and theories. It will with these lifecycle phases provides you the means to pay special attention to different ways to innovate, the be an effective business analyst and change agent. (IT) innovation process, what makes IT innovations IAB351 Business in the Cloud This unit builds on the core first year unit, IFB101, successful, and what is required for digital innovation. Credit Points 12 Impact of IT and the understanding users component You will demonstrate, higher-order, critical thinking by Campus Gardens Point of IFB103 Designing IT. analysing and evaluating real-world cases about problems of and opportunities for (IT) innovation and Gardens Point Availabilities developing and evaluating a conceptual solution for - SEM-1 an innovation problem or opportunity in the form of an This unit will address the knowledge, skills and IAB230 Mobile and Ubiquitous innovation system that support the innovation process challenges of assisting organisations in adopting in a new way by using IT. The "Innovation and cloud computing and transforming business using Computing Disruption Pre-requisites IFB104 or INB104 new cloud orchestration models. It will cover different aspects of developing a detailed digital strategy for Equivalents INB345 business in the cloud, including: cloud computing Credit Points 12 IAB320 Business Process concepts and principles and developing technical cloud architecture; developing a business architecture Campus Gardens Point Improvement including business analysis, business case analysis Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites IAB203 and change management; and understanding legal - SEM-1 and regulatory policy that governs the use of cloud Equivalents INB321 This unit provides the opportunity for exploring new services. Through the knowledge, skills and Credit Points 12 and emerging ubiquitous computing technologies, assessments of the unit, students will develop a wireless, and sensor technologies. Students will Campus Gardens Point sound management acumen for undertaking business, and technical roles related to cloud critically review and understand how they can be used Gardens Point Availabilities adoption and practice. All enquiries: for current contexts such as government, business, - SEM-2 education and social community, as well as emerging [email protected] 'wilderness' environments with no power and wired This unit will teach you how to conduct an end-to-end communication. Students will appreciate the impacts organizational process improvement project, from of these devices and be inspired for the current and analysis to redesign. The students will be equipped future opportunities in ICT usage trends, to propose with a comprehensive set of methods, techniques and IAB360 Social Enterprise solutions for solving real challenges using mobile tools that can be used effectively to progress with a Pre-requisites IAB260 technologies. process improvement effort. These include Equivalents INB346 quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques as well as various process redesign paradigms. You will Credit Points 12 also develop knowledge about different process Campus Gardens Point improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma IAB260 Social Technologies Gardens Point and Process Reengineering. The unit will use a Availabilities Pre-requisites IFB101 - SEM-2 hands-on approach, with real-life case studies, to Credit Points 12 enable authentic learning outcomes Social enterprise brings together all the talents, Campus Gardens Point interests, experience, insights, and knowledge of people in ways that can capture value. For example, Gardens Point Availabilities organizations, large and small, must evolve into social - SEM-1 IAB330 Mobile Application enterprises, using social media to foster deep Social technologies are changing the way we work, Development productive collaboration with employees, customers learn and play. This unit takes a hands-on approach and other stakeholders in their value chain. The aim to learning and encourages you to play with social Pre-requisites IAB230 or IFB299 or CAB201 of this unit is to understand how to identify and derive technologies. You will critically explore a range of Credit Points 12 value from a community and consistently use social established, new and emerging social technologies, technologies for defined processes and collaboration. Campus Gardens Point and how they can be used in different contexts. You You will not only gain knowledge and expertise in Gardens Point will explore how people experience social media and Availabilities implementing social media to solve problems and to consider your own professional and personal - SEM-2 engage people but will also learn how to consistently identities and how these are related in an increasingly Proliferation of mobile devices with everyday users use social technologies to facilitate social enterprise hyper-connected world. The unit explores the have resulted in high demand for creative developers in the value chain, business support, and business complex social, political, legal, economic and ethical to build innovative applications, and given the variety ventures. issues related to use of social technologies in of platforms there is a major skills shortage. Students everyday life. It also introduces you to the role of with software and user interface design and social technologies in education, lifelong learning, programming skills will benefit from this project-based business, and society more generally. unit to start their portfolio in developing useful IAB370 Digital Transformation applications on emerging mobile devices. Pre-requisites IFB103 and IAB270
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Credit Points 12 designs using oral and visual communication skills to IFN500 Design Thinking for IT Campus Gardens Point gain user and peer feedback. This unit lays the foundational design, communication and teamwork Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities skills that will be integrated and practised through a Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 design project in this unit, your second year (major) Gardens Point and culminating in the final year capstone project. Availabilities Digital technologies (e.g., social, mobile, wearable, - SEM-1 cloud) are disrupting markets and industries creating new opportunities for new organizations (start-ups) As emerging technologies provide increasing and requiring established organizations to rethink opportunities for innovation, design thinking is their business. This unit will enable you to identify IFB104 Building IT Systems becoming a much sought after skill as it provides an new digital opportunities and develop transformative Equivalents INB104, IND104, ITB001 effective approach to understand and develop user digital initiatives. You will learn to analyse and assess Credit Points 12 centred solutions. In this unit, you will be introduced to digital transformation (e.g., technology laws, design thinking as an approach for innovation and information economics, scenario planning). This will Campus Gardens Point problem solving and how to apply this technique to support you with identifying opportunities for new Gardens Point develop IT solutions to real-world problems. This unit Availabilities digital initiatives. You will also be introduced to the - SEM-1, SEM-2 features a strong teamwork component. You and your methods, models and tools that you can use when team members will pitch your ideas and designs using developing and undertaking a new digital initiative This introductory unit gives you practical experience oral and visual communication skills to gain user and (e.g., value propositions, minimum viable product, with the various kinds of computer languages used to peer feedback. You will then implement your design business models, strategies). build IT systems. Modern IT applications are built in a proposals, realising several design prototypes, variety of ways ranging from "mash ups" of existing evaluating and refining each throughout the semester. applications, to adding new mobile interfaces on top This unit lays the foundational design skills that will be of legacy enterprise systems, to "scratch" integrated and practised through a design project in IFB101 Impact of IT development of entirely new applications. This is done this unit, as well as throughout the degree. using a wide range of computer languages: Equivalents INB101, IND103 programming, scripting, querying, pattern matching, Credit Points 12 mark-up, user interface, etc. This unit uses small in- Campus Gardens Point class exercises and larger practical assignments to IFN501 Programming give you hands-on experience with such languages, Gardens Point Availabilities working both individually and collaboratively. The Fundamentals - SEM-1, SEM-2 focus is not on the details of programming per se, but Equivalents INN270 This unit investigates the transformational relationship on how technologies are used by IT developers and Credit Points 12 between information technology (IT) and individuals, what they can do. Campus Gardens Point society and organisations. It focuses on determining and evaluating the impact IT can have from a range of Gardens Point Availabilities perspectives including personal, social, ethical, - SEM-1, SEM-2 organisational, political and cultural. Case studies IFB299 Application Design and In this unit you will learn the core theoretical across a variety of domains (e.g. health, education, Development underpinnings of programming and how these are transport, media or banking) will link theory with (IFB103 or INB103 or ENB150 or applied in modern programming languages to practice, and build your understanding of the depth Pre-requisites EGB111) and (CAB201 or IAB201 implement software systems. You will learn how to and breadth of change, both positive and negative, or INB270) design solutions to problems that can be implemented that is driven by information technology. Equivalents INB201 in a programming language. You will gain practical experience designing and implementing solutions to Credit Points 12 small problems in an appropriate programming IFB102 Computer Technology Campus Gardens Point language. Modern IT systems work in many different environments (mobile, desktop, cloud, web, …) and Gardens Point Fundamentals Availabilities are built using a range of different techniques - SEM-2 Equivalents INB102, IND102 (programming, scripting, querying, mash ups, mark In this unit you will combine the knowledge and skills up, …). In this unit you will gain practical experience Credit Points 12 you have developed so far to complete a significant implementing solutions with a small selection of these Campus Gardens Point systems development exercise in a team environments and techniques. This experience will Gardens Point environment. You will extend your ability to work give you the foundation knowledge to work effectively Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 collaboratively and effectively with others from myriad as an IT professional and to go on to further backgrounds, leveraging the different knowledge and programming courses in the degree. This unit develops your knowledge and understanding skills available in your team, to design and develop of computer technology which will support your solutions that meet real world requirements. subsequent learning of IT. This unit covers certain examples of technology but does so in an integrated IFN502 IT in Context way which demystifies technology, providing a path to Credit Points 12 understand computer technology all the way from IFN001 Advanced Information silicon to the web. The unit focuses on the Campus Gardens Point architecture of computers, networks, and the Web, so Research Skills Gardens Point Availabilities that you will be able to understand how these Credit Points 4 - SEM-2 components work and function now and will do so in Gardens Point, Kelvin Grove and This unit provides a discourse on the impact of the future. Campus External technology across a range of contexts and then Gardens Point provides some guidance on how technology may be - SEM-1, SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2, evaluated by those responsible for its conception, IFB103 Designing for IT SEM-2 (Block) development and deployment. This overarching view Kelvin Grove of technology in its different contexts is Equivalents INB182 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2, operationalised in later technical subjects whereas Credit Points 12 SEM-2 (Block) advanced management subjects will provide greater Campus Gardens Point External breadth in strategizing the use of technology in - SEM-1, SEM-1, SEM-2, SEM-2 context. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) provides a baseline set of research skills preparatory As emerging technologies provide increasing for higher degree research at QUT. The unit assists IFN503 Fundamentals of opportunities for innovation, design thinking is researchers to be more effective and efficient in the becoming a much sought after skill as it provides an use of information resources, processes and systems. Computer Systems effective approach to understand and develop user It is offered in blended learning mode via online Credit Points 12 centred solutions. In this unit, you will be introduced to modules, and supplemented with learning resources, Campus Gardens Point design thinking as an approach for innovation and on campus workshops, and Liaison Librarian problem solving and how to apply this technique to Gardens Point consultations. Availabilities develop IT solutions to real-world problems. - SEM-2 Teamwork is introduced and assessed in this unit. You and your team members will pitch your ideas and This transition unit assumes you have limited
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units technical background in computer systems. You will learn the core concepts about hardware, operating IFN610 Management Issues for systems and network environments. This will provide IFN509 Data Manipulation Information Professionals you with a sound foundation to take more advanced Anti-requisites INB331 units that assume an understanding of these details. Anti-requisites INN342, INN343 Equivalents INN331, ITN274 While the knowledge gained in this unit is valuable for Credit Points 12 all IT professionals it will be of particular importance in Credit Points 12 the Computer Science, Data Science, Networks, and Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point and External Security majors. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities In the information age, with astronomical amounts of External IFN504 Corporate Information data produced and made available every minute, - SEM-1 information retrieval, predictive models and data Systems visualisation become a central node of decision The ability to understand and apply management Credit Points 12 support for individuals and businesses alike. This unit principles and consider how they contribute to the will cover the basics of data representation and data operation of organisations and enterprise Campus Gardens Point analytics methods and how they should be used by environments is vital for the contemporary Gardens Point informational professional. You will be introduced to a Availabilities applications. Through this, you will also gain an - SEM-2 understanding of the big data challenges and acquire range of management issues such as strategic planning, leadership, change management, Information systems form the backbone of a corporate the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue Data innovation management, and human resources IT landscape, which integrates software (such as Science related studies. planning. You will also develop an understanding of Cloud-hosted application services, mobile apps, Web the core functions of planning, organising, directing, sites) and hardware infrastructure (like for user and controlling in the dynamic internal and external interactions, data storage, environmental sensing, environments in which organisations operate. computational number crunching, and network IFN511 Security Management connectivity). Organisations deploy information Anti-requisites INN255 systems to implement new business models, Credit Points 12 rejuvenate their product and services portfolio, Campus Gardens Point IFN611 Information Retrieval answer competitive threats, and improve their environmental, financial, or social sustainability and Gardens Point Equivalents INN332 Availabilities other purposes. In this unit, students are introduced to - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 information systems in a corporate setting. In a case- Information security is about protecting information Campus Gardens Point and External based manner, students learn how to combine and and the systems that use, store and transmit deploy information technology components to form Gardens Point information. This unit provides a foundation for corporate systems, supporting newly conceived - SEM-1 understanding the field of information security, Availabilities business cases. This unit introduces key IT concepts, External including information security goals, the threats to related to prevalent and emerging trends in corporate - SEM-1 information assets, the associated risks, and best- information systems. practice approaches to managing information The ability to understand how people seek and use security. This unit is important in developing an information and the skill to quickly learn and expertly understanding of the challenges involved in providing use new information resources and concepts is vital IFN505 Analysis of Programs appropriate protection for organizational information for the contemporary library and information assets. professional. You will develop an understanding of the Credit Points 12 information environment from the human perspective Campus Gardens Point through information theory including information behaviour, information literacy and information Gardens Point Availabilities IFN515 Fundamentals of experience. You will also develop an understanding of - SEM-2 the technological perspective including through This unit covers some of the foundational theory Business Process Management developing your skills in identifying, accessing, underlying the discipline of computer programming. Anti-requisites INN321 evaluating and retrieving information resources to Programming emerged from applied mathematics; Credit Points 12 meet specific needs. computer programs have a 'semantic' basis founded Campus Gardens Point in predicate logic and have predictable run-time performance. This unit explains various aspects of Gardens Point Availabilities program semantics and how this knowledge can be - SEM-1, SEM-2 IFN612 Emerging Technologies used to reason about the properties of computer This unit provides an in-depth introduction towards for Information Practice program code. the management of Business Processes. It walks you Anti-requisites INN333 through the fundamental stages of a typical Business Credit Points 12 process improvement initiative, from process IFN507 Network Systems identification, to monitoring, covering along the way Campus Gardens Point and External process modelling, analysis redesign and automation. Anti-requisites INN350, INN251, INN351 Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities Credit Points 12 External Campus Gardens Point IFN600 Research Based - SEM-1 Gardens Point This unit will introduce you to a range of emerging Availabilities - SEM-2 Practice technologies and technology concepts. It will provide Pre-requisites 12cp of IFN6 units in current course you with an opportunity to explore the applications of The advancement of information communication these in information services environments. In technology (ICT) has had an enormous impact on Credit Points 12 particular, the unit explores social technologies and nearly all forms of life. The understanding and Campus Gardens Point how they can be used to support user participation. mastering of basic network communication skills and Gardens Point concepts is regarded as part of the core learning Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 component for all students into all areas of studies including information technology, science, This unit will introduce you to the role of research in IFN614 Information Programs engineering, business and law. The objectives of this professional settings. It will provide you with an Anti-requisites INN333 unit is to provide fundamental network skills and opportunity to explore the application of research concepts associated with telecommunication network principles and methods within the context of your Credit Points 12 technologies, including network architectures, network professional practice. In particular, the unit explores Campus Gardens Point and External protocols and services and network administration. how research has a vital role to play in decision- The unit, in particular, serves as an entry point to making, problem solving, innovation and development Gardens Point - SEM-2 further specialised studies in the field of computer as well as ethical and professional practice. Availabilities networks, network management and information External security. - SEM-2 This unit explores trends and issues in contemporary
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units information program, product and service delivery. It Credit Points 12 this unit, you will learn how to analyse, design, and provides you the opportunity to explore a range of Campus Gardens Point and External build secure computer systems and secure different programs, products and services including applications to limit the availability and impact of those typically delivered in libraries (including public, Gardens Point security vulnerabilities. You will develop skills to - SEM-1 academic and special libraries), other collecting Availabilities identify and use suitable methods to detect, mitigate institutions, information organisations, and External and perform forensic analysis on an attacked or organisational units that support the use of - SEM-1 compromised computer system. information in organisations. This unit has been developed as an overarching unit in the Master of Information Science (Library and Information Studies) program, to establish meaningful links between the various units of study and to IFN645 Data Mining Technology IFN615 Information introduce you to contemporary professional practice and Applications in information agencies. The unit focuses on your own Management Equivalents INN342 personal and professional development, enabling you Anti-requisites INB330 to participate in industry seminars, fieldtrips, work Credit Points 12 Equivalents INN330, ITN266 placements and career mentoring. The development Campus Gardens Point of your understanding of reflective practice will help Credit Points 12 Gardens Point you build your own Student ePortfolio to document Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External your insights into and your experiences in the - SEM-1 Gardens Point information profession. Data mining has been used intensively and - SEM-2 Availabilities extensively in many organizations around the globe External as an efficient method of finding useful knowledge - SEM-2 IFN641 Advanced Network about their customers and business processes. It has The field of information management (IM) has been applied in many fields of business, industry and emerged from a number of disciplines. However in a Management science to discover new knowledge. It is an exciting new field that combines databases, machine learning, business context, the strategic management of Anti-requisites INN650 information enables organisations to leverage value artificial intelligence, high performance computing, Credit Points 12 from information resources, supports the creation and and visualisation. The astronomical amount of data sharing of knowledge; and it encourages good Campus Gardens Point generated by organisations, and the application thereof, is too complex and voluminous to be governance. Gardens Point Availabilities processed and analyzed by traditional methods. Data - SEM-2 mining provides the technology to transform huge The aim of this unit is to provide you with a deep amounts of data into useful information for decision IFN616 Online Information understanding of the advanced technical issues making. This unit will cover the concepts necessary to pertaining to the management of organisational understand data mining techniques and apply them in Services networks of various sizes. You will use the Unix various application settings. Equivalents INN530, ITN278 environment as the learning platform for attaining Credit Points 12 additional technical skills and for the enhancement of existing problem solving skills necessary to be a Campus Gardens Point and External successful network administrator or manager. IFN647 Advanced Information Gardens Point Storage and Retrieval - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 External - SEM-1, SEM-2 IFN642 Applied Cryptography Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point This unit introduces you to a broad range of topics and Network Security Availabilities related to the design, delivery and evaluation of online Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 information services. The unit focuses on Campus Gardens Point This unit provides you with an understanding of the development of skills and knowledge related to principles and techniques underlying the development Gardens Point creating, managing and describing web content in a Availabilities of information storage and retrieval (IS&R) solutions variety of formats. This unit has a strong focus on - SEM-1 to some of the varied and complex problems that developing skills related to communicating, As IT systems become increasingly networked, involve heterogeneity of data (structured, collaborating and investigating in online exposure to remote attacks becomes a greater risk. unstructured, text, image, speech, genomics, etc.), environments. The unit draws on relevant theory and This unit will examine vulnerabilities and defences for with very large amounts of data. Specifically, this unit current practice, providing you with an opportunity to networked systems in a variety of application introduces advanced structures for the representation develop broad and deep knowledge about topics in contexts, including IT networks, web services, and of data for efficient representation, storage and web service delivery. mobile and wireless systems. Particular attention will retrieval that are imposed by modern very large and be paid to cryptographic techniques for protecting web-scale systems and varied interaction modes of data transmitted over networks via in-depth users. The unit also provides you with practical investigation of several cryptographic protocols. This experience of using hands-on tools to solve real-world IFN617 Managing and unit will provide an in-depth understanding of modern problems using IS&R methods. Through this study, Organising Collections cryptographic algorithms and their applications to you will be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills for developing IS&R solutions to complex IS&R Equivalents INN533 practical network security mechanisms. tasks. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External IFN643 Computer System Gardens Point IFN650 Business Process - SEM-2 Security Availabilities External Anti-requisites INN550, INN651 Analytics - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Developing, managing and organising dynamic and Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point relevant collections is an exciting challenge for Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities contemporary information professionals. This unit Availabilities - SEM-1 provides students with a grounding in theory and - SEM-2 Business Process Analytics introduces you to a taking a practical approach. You will undertake a user Computers running vast variety of operating systems, needs analysis, develop a pilot collection, and create number of state-of-the-art business process tools and applications have become indispensible intelligence techniques that can be used at different a prototype database in which the collection is ingredients of our daily lives. However, current threat described for retrieval and access by users. stages of a business process management life cycle. reports show that there are over 100 million malwares In particular, the unit focuses on techniques that can which exploit the security vulnerabilities on these be applied as a prelude to process execution as well computer systems and threaten the privacy of as techniques that can be used to analyse historical individuals and organizations in their daily activities. process data. You will be exposed to a set of tools, IFN620 Professional Practice The aim of this unit is to provide a broad overview of Equivalents INN632-6, INN634, ITN280 techniques and methods to analyse different computer system security covering operating perspectives of business processes. systems, applications and software development. In
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variety of pervasive technologies to develop Credit Points 12 innovative solutions. This advanced unit serves as a Campus Gardens Point stepping stone to further specialised graduate studies Gardens Point IFN651 Lean Six Sigma in networks, security, data sciences, computer Availabilities Credit Points 12 science and human computer interaction. - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point This unit provides you with an understanding of the principles and techniques underlying the development Gardens Point Availabilities of artificial intelligence solutions to complex problems - SEM-2 IFN662 Enterprise Systems and that involve uncertainty, noise or ever-changing This unit introduces the Lean Six Sigma methodology Applications context. It will explore selected topics such as for improving Business Processes. You will learn how uncertain reasoning, decision making, and machine Equivalents INN312 to combine statistical analysis techniques from Six learning. Specifically, this unit introduces the concepts Sigma with the principles of Lean Management, and Credit Points 12 and techniques of Bayes rule and inference, apply these in the context of a Business Process Campus Gardens Point probabilistic reasoning, decision networks and making Management (BPM) initiative. Hands-on case studies complex decisions, learning from examples, and Gardens Point will provide you with direct exposure to common Availabilities reinforcement learning. . The unit also provides you process issues that can be fixed through the - SEM-1 with practical experience of using hands-on tools to application of Lean Six Sigma. The goal of this unit is This unit introduces fundamentals of Enterprise solve real-world problems using computational to broaden and deepen your knowledge about Systems (also referred to as ERP systems) intelligence methods. Through this study, you will be different process improvement methodologies and configuration. It uses the market leading SAP able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills for their application to real-world business problems. Enterprise System as the example to demonstrate developing artificial intelligence solutions to complex how organizations could adopt packaged Enterprise problems such as classification, prediction, and Systems to its organizational and user requirements. optimization problems. It builds on your existing knowledge and skills in IFN652 Business Process business information systems, organisational Management structures and modelling, which can be acquired through the Corporate Information Systems unit. IFN690 Advanced User Centred Equivalents INN327 Design Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point IFN663 Advanced Enterprise Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Architecture Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This unit will provide an overview about all factors that Theories and frameworks help us to understand how impact the enterprise-wide deployment of Business Campus Gardens Point people interact with computers and devices and with Process Management (BPM). The unit will follow the Gardens Point other people. In particular, theories that are well six factors of a BPM maturity model and cover the Availabilities - SEM-2 grounded in studies of the contexts and cultures of impact of emerging technologies in the design and human interaction give us ideas for how to design for management of business processes. This unit provides an advanced understanding of Enterprise Architecture (EA), addressing the ways in those contexts and cultures. This unit introduces which EA is used to improve organisations through various theories and frameworks of human-computer their business and IT strategy developments. You will interaction and recognizes the significance of theory IFN660 Programming Language be exposed to the principles of enterprise for designing human-computer interaction. You will architecture, contrasting these with the concerns of critically discuss and evaluate human-computer Theory modelling, design and solution architecture of interaction theories. You will establish a reflective Credit Points 12 individual systems. You will be taught the key practice of observation, questioning, design intervention and evaluation. This practice will support Campus Gardens Point activities of developing an EA, and how these relate to the ways in which companies undertake business you to use human-computer interaction theories in the Gardens Point workplace to support effective work and to guide Availabilities and IT planning. Following from this, you will gain - SEM-1 profficiency at developing different parts of an EA, effective user-centred design and research. This unit introduces the theory underlying computer based on The Open Group Architecture Framework programming language implementations. It explains (TOGAF) and state-of-the-art architecture how human-readable computer program code is development techniques. This will cover the capture IFN691 Gamification and translated into machine-executable instructions, and of organisational capabilities and the different thereby helps understand the rationale for the design artefacts of enterprises, including business services, Persuasive Computing processes, information and resources. The EA of various programming language features, the Credit Points 12 commonality between such languages, and the methodology will be linked to the Blue Ocean functions and limitations of program development Strategy, and students will explore different ways in Campus Gardens Point environments. which strategic planing problems can be translated Gardens Point Availabilities into EA approaches. - SEM-2 The unit builds upon theories of human-computer IFN661 Mobile and Pervasive interaction, game design and psychology in the IFN665 Advanced Topic 1 development of technology designed to change Systems Credit Points 12 attitudes and behaviours through persuasion and Credit Points 12 social influence. The unit focuses on gamification (i.e. Campus Gardens Point the application of game elements and game design Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point techniques to non-game problems) as a mechanism Gardens Point Availabilities for addressing business and social challenges. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM - SEM-1 This advanced level unit offers the opportunity to Computers of all sizes and shapes such as undertake an in-depth examination of an advanced smartphones, tablets, sensors and embedded topic to acquire expertise in a discipline area. The IFN700 Project Management systems are continuously pervading our lives creating skills gained in this unit are developed and refined Credit Points 12 a new computing paradigm, called pervasive through activities relevant to the discipline and topic. computing. Combined with the wireless Such skills are essential to effectively take your place Campus Gardens Point communication and cloud computing technologies, as an emerging expert in your discipline area. Gardens Point pervasive computing enables unobtrusive and always Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 available personalized services which gradually change the way individuals produce and consume IT projects consist of design, development and information. This unit provides a broad overview of IFN680 Advanced Topics in implementation of novel systems as well as the pervasive computing, communication and security implementation of commercial, off the shelf package technologies. It will follow a practical approach where Artificial Intelligence solutions, and the deployment of system upgrades to CAB201 or INB270 or INN270 or you will be able to analyse real life problems (e.g., Pre-requisites the technical infrastructure and the application transport, health, education, security and recreation), IFN501 landscape. The majority of information technology (IT) build and apply new knowledge by synthesising a and organisational change initiatives, such as
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Gardens Point IFT641 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT695 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 IFT681 Thesis - R1, R2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFT661 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT696 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 IFT682 Thesis - R1, R2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFT662 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT801 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 IFT683 Thesis - R1, R2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFT663 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT802 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 IFT691 Thesis - R1, R2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFT664 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT803 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 IFT692 Thesis - R1, R2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFT665 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT811 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 IFT693 Thesis - R1, R2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFT667 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT812 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 IFT694 Thesis - R1, R2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFT671 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT813 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove
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Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT834 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Gardens Point - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove IFT814 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT864 Thesis Credit Points 0 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT835 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Gardens Point - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove IFT815 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT865 Thesis Credit Points 0 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT836 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Gardens Point - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove IFT821 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT867 Thesis Credit Points 0 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT837 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Gardens Point - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove IFT822 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT871 Thesis Credit Points 0 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT841 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Gardens Point - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove IFT831 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT881 Thesis Credit Points 0 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT861 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Gardens Point - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove IFT832 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT882 Thesis Credit Points 0 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT862 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Gardens Point - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove IFT833 Thesis - R1, R2 IFT883 Thesis Credit Points 0 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFT863 Thesis - R1, R2 Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 0 Kelvin Grove - R1, R2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove - R1, R2
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External Campus EXCHANGE and External IFT891 Thesis Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Credit Points 0 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point - R1, R2 IFX003 Exchange Program - Availabilities Kelvin Grove Science and Engineering IFX013 Exchange Program - - R1, R2 Credit Points 12 Information Technology Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities IFT892 Thesis - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities Credit Points 0 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFX004 Exchange Program - - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove Science and Engineering IFX014 Exchange Program - - R1, R2 Credit Points 12 Information Technology Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External IFT893 Thesis Availabilities Credit Points 0 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Gardens Point IFX005 Exchange Program - - R1, R2 Availabilities Science and Engineering IFX015 Exchange Program - Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 - R1, R2 Information Technology Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities IFT894 Thesis - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove IFX006 Exchange Program - Gardens Point - R1, R2 Science and Engineering IFX016 Exchange Program - Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Information Technology - R1, R2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities IFT895 Thesis - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove IFX007 Exchange Program - Gardens Point Science and Engineering IFX017 Exchange Program - - R1, R2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Information Technology - R1, R2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities IFT896 Thesis - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 0 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove IFX008 Exchange Program - Gardens Point Science and Engineering IFX018 Exchange Program - - R1, R2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 Information Technology Kelvin Grove Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 - R1, R2 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX001 Exchange Program - Science and Engineering IFX011 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Information Technology IFX021 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 Science and Engineering (PG) External Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX002 Exchange Program - Science and Engineering IFX012 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Information Technology Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12
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External Availabilities IFX022 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Science and Engineering (PG) IFX102 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries Credit Points 12 IFX122 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX023 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Science and Engineering (PG) IFX103 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries Credit Points 12 IFX123 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX024 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Science and Engineering (PG) IFX104 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries Credit Points 12 IFX124 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX025 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Science and Engineering (PG) IFX105 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries Credit Points 12 IFX125 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX026 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Science and Engineering (PG) IFX106 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries Credit Points 12 IFX126 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX027 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Science and Engineering (PG) IFX107 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries Credit Points 12 IFX127 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX028 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Science and Engineering (PG) IFX108 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries Credit Points 12 IFX128 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX101 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Creative Industries IFX121 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Creative Industries (PG) Credit Points 12 IFX201 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health Credit Points 12
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Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX221 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX301 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External IFX202 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX222 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX302 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External IFX203 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX223 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX303 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External IFX204 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX224 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX304 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External IFX205 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX225 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX305 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External IFX206 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX226 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX306 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External IFX207 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX227 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX307 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External IFX208 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Health External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX228 Exchange Program - External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Health (PG) IFX308 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Business Credit Points 12 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External
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External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities IFX328 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Business (PG) Credit Points 12 IFX311 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External External IFX321 Exchange Program - Availabilities Foreign Language - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Business (PG) Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities IFX401 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Law Credit Points 12 IFX312 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External External IFX322 Exchange Program - Availabilities Foreign Language - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Business (PG) This exchange unit is only available for selection to Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX402 Exchange Program - Law IFX313 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Foreign Language IFX323 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 Business (PG) External Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities This exchange unit is only available for selection to - XCH-1, XCH-2 External students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2
IFX314 Exchange Program - IFX403 Exchange Program - Foreign Language IFX324 Exchange Program - Law Credit Points 12 Business (PG) Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 TBAThis exchange unit is only available for selection to students on an approved exchange program. IFX315 Exchange Program - Foreign Language IFX325 Exchange Program - IFX404 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Business (PG) Law Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 TBAThis exchange unit is only available for selection IFX316 Exchange Program - to students on an approved exchange program. Foreign Language IFX326 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Business (PG) Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 IFX405 Exchange Program - External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities Law - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities IFX317 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Foreign Language IFX327 Exchange Program - This exchange unit is only available for selection to Credit Points 12 Business (PG) students on an approved exchange program. Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities IFX406 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Law Credit Points 12 IFX318 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities Foreign Language - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 TBAThis exchange unit is only available for selection
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External to students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities IFX413 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Justice Studies This exchange unit is only available for selection to IFX407 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. Law Campus EXCHANGE and External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX422 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External Unit accounts for credit for overseas exchange as part Law (PG) External Availabilities of a Justice degree. - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available for selection to External students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities IFX414 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Justice Studies This exchange unit is only available for selection to IFX408 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. Law Campus EXCHANGE and External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX423 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available to students on an Law (PG) External Availabilities approved exchange program. - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available for selection to External students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities IFX415 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Justice Studies This exchange unit is only available for selection to IFX409 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. Law Campus EXCHANGE and External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX424 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available to students on an Law (PG) External Availabilities approved exchange program. - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available for selection to External students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities IFX416 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Justice Studies This exchange unit is only available for selection to IFX410 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. Law Campus EXCHANGE and External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX425 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available to students on an Law (PG) External Availabilities approved exchange program. - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available for selection to External students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities IFX417 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Justice Studies This exchange unit is only available for selection to IFX411 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. Justice Studies Campus EXCHANGE and External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX426 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available to students on an Law (PG) External Availabilities approved exchange program. - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available for selection to External students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities IFX418 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Justice Studies This exchange unit is only available for selection to IFX412 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. Justice Studies Campus EXCHANGE and External External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX427 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available to students on an Law (PG) External Availabilities approved exchange program. - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External This exchange unit is only available for selection to External students on an approved exchange program. Availabilities IFX421 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Law (PG) This exchange unit is only available for selection to Credit Points 12 students on an approved exchange program. Campus EXCHANGE and External
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External Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX428 Exchange Program - Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities Law (PG) - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External IFX508 Exchange Program - External Availabilities IFX528 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Education Credit Points 12 Education (PG) This exchange unit is only available for selection to students on an approved exchange program. Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities IFX501 Exchange Program - - XCH-1, XCH-2 Education Credit Points 12 IFX521 Exchange Program - Campus EXCHANGE and External Education (PG) IFZ448 Thesis Credit Points 12 Credit Points 48 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Campus Gardens Point External Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM IFX502 Exchange Program - Education IFZ948 Thesis Credit Points 12 IFX522 Exchange Program - Credit Points 48 Campus EXCHANGE and External Education (PG) Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point External Availabilities Gardens Point - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 IFX503 Exchange Program - INB123 Project Management Education Practice Credit Points 12 IFX523 Exchange Program - Anti-requisites INN500 Campus EXCHANGE and External Education (PG) Credit Points 12 Equivalents IAB304 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 IFX504 Exchange Program - In your information technology career it is very likely Education that you will work on and lead project teams to Credit Points 12 IFX524 Exchange Program - achieve business outcomes. You will achieve more effective outcomes by employing a project Campus EXCHANGE and External Education (PG) management method. Credit Points 12 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 INB180 Computer Games Studies IFX505 Exchange Program - Anti-requisites INN180 Education Equivalents ITB750 Credit Points 12 IFX525 Exchange Program - Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External Education (PG) Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 External Availabilities Gardens Point - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 This unit is designed to give you a clear understanding of the socio-cultural issues that affect IFX506 Exchange Program - the computer game industry. Through critical review of games and games industry literature, playing Education games and actively participating in classroom Credit Points 12 IFX526 Exchange Program - discussion you will develop your capacity to join in the Campus EXCHANGE and External Education (PG) discourse about the design, impact and future Credit Points 12 direction of computer games in our society. External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 INB221 Technology IFX507 Exchange Program - Management INB103 or ITB002 or INB120 or Education Pre-requisites IFX527 Exchange Program - ITB360 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites ITN241, ITN251 and ITN366 Education (PG) Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents ITB366, ITB241 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12
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Campus Gardens Point as building terrain, building architecture and spaces; communication. Gardens Point balancing gameplay; integrating narrative elements Availabilities - SEM-1 and goals; playtesting and implementing iterative design improvements; designing lighting and This unit presents operational, tactical and strategic atmospheric effects and other genre-specific level INB304 Special Topic 3 insights that support the activities central to the design skills. Credit Points 12 leadership and management of technology. These insights include project management, organisational Campus Gardens Point leadership, outsourcing, planning, governance and Gardens Point Availabilities millennium technologies. Such insights are used to INB300 Professional Practice in - SEM-1, SEM-2 inform decision-making - the core skill of any manager. Technology managers must understand the IT The unit aims to give students an understanding of ITS020, INS010, INS011, INS012, why future hardware will be increasingly parallel and factors influencing any decision point. This unit equips Anti-requisites students for the challenges of management and to INS020 the challenge this poses for the software development community. The unit aims to give students a basic contribute to the decision-making faced by managers Credit Points 12 and the staff who advise on these issues. understanding of this parallel hardware and practical Campus Gardens Point skills in parallelizing programs using today's best tools and techniques, backed up by basic parallel Gardens Point Availabilities programming principles. - SEM-1, SEM-2 INB280 Fundamentals of Game In this unit you will have the opportunity to experience Design real world work experiences and to reflect on how Pre-requisites INB180 your studies have prepared you for the work INB305 Special Topic 4 environment. This will give you the opportunity to plan Equivalents ITB016, ITN016 Pre-requisites INB311 or INB312 on how to best take advantage of your remaining Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 studies to prepare for your planned career. To help Campus Gardens Point you to understand your future career you will be Campus Gardens Point applying your IT skills and knowledge within an Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities industry context, seeing firsthand the challenges and - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-2 constraints that arise during professional practice in a Modern games production is a complex process real world industry environment. You will develop a Topic for Summer 2014: Customer Relationship involving various businesses and organisations, richer appreciation of the graduate capabilities Management Systems This unit builds on your working with budgets in the tens of millions. One of required of all information technology professionals, previous knowledge of Enterprise Systems (Selection the roles within a game production team is that of the particularly skills such as communication, negotiation & Implementation or Application). You will investigate game designer. It is crucial that a game designer and problem-solving strategies. and explore different aspects of how corporations can understands how to create a game world, the rules employ CRM systems, covering marketing and that govern game play and other high level design planning, campaign management, e-marketing, tasks. This subject provides an introduction to game customer lifecycle management, retention design, by starting with high level conceptual design INB301 The Business of IT management, CRM service orchestration, lead tasks before moving to more concrete tasks. Anti-requisites ITB009, IAB202 management, analytics, customer segmentation, service order support and customer processing. Both Credit Points 12 conceptual and practice-based content will be Campus Gardens Point critiqued in the unit. Your learning is enhanced through a combination of practical exercises, review INB281 Advanced Game Design Gardens Point Availabilities of case studies and industry speakers. We will use Pre-requisites INB280 - SEM-1 the SAP CRM system for hands-on exercises as an Equivalents ITB017 As an IT professional you are more and more exemplar of a CRM system. Credit Points 12 evaluated in terms of the business value that you produce. This unit will prepare you for professional Campus Gardens Point practice by making you "business savvy," i.e. giving Gardens Point you the business knowledge and skills that will help INB306 Project 1 Availabilities - SEM-1 you with your future career and job. In particular the INB101, INB102, INB103, INB104 Pre-requisites unit will address three themes: (1) basic business and INB201 This unit will provide you with theoretical and practical concepts (in relation to IT), (2) the strategic context Equivalents ITB230 knowledge of advanced games design concepts; that (and the impact of IT), and (3) IT from a business is, specific activities undertaken by game designers perspective. You will apply your business knowledge Credit Points 12 and their purpose. By the end of this unit you will have and skills to real world cases in a contemporary IT Campus Gardens Point the knowledge to identify problems and suggest setting, for example launching a new app and digital solutions for innovative game designs, as well as Gardens Point marketing. Availabilities understand how to carry out the process of designing - SEM-1, SEM-2 a game yourself. You will possess practical and theoretical knowledge of game design issues such as: This unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under how to design a game level, how to design a task and INB302 IT Capstone Project appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills reward a player for completing it, how to ensure that gained in your course to date and to execute a Pre-requisites INB301 the player knows how to progress through the game substantial development project. The ability to apply and how to design characters whose behaviour and Equivalents ITB010 technical knowledge and skills to real-life situations is dialogue provide clues and prompts to the player. essential for information technology professionals. A Credit Points 12 substantial project, under academic supervision, will Campus Gardens Point develop your initiative and ability to apply your knowledge and skills in a professional capacity. Gardens Point Availabilities Completing the project will also enable you to INB282 Games Level Design - SEM-1, SEM-2 appreciate the complementary nature of the course Pre-requisites INB281 Students are to work together in a team of 4-5 on a material in total, particularly the need for careful Credit Points 12 project that addresses one of the following three types project management. Campus Gardens Point of problems: real business problems, real market needs, real research problems. This unit extends Gardens Point Availabilities students’ development of the professional, technical - SEM-1 and teamwork skills required by IT professionals in INB307 Project 2 Modern games production is a complex process practice. Students will extend their knowledge and Equivalents ITB791 skills in the areas of IT project management through involving teams in the order of a hundred people or Credit Points 12 more, working with budgets in the tens of millions. completing professional project documentation and One of the roles within a game production team is that managing the team project. Students will also gain a Campus Gardens Point of the level designer. It is crucial that the level greater understanding and skill level in analysis and Gardens Point Availabilities designer has the ability to lay out levels, construct design, and their significance in delivering successful - SEM-1, SEM-2 levels within game engines, plan gameplay scenarios business or research outcome. The unit also focuses and place non-player characters. This unit will help on furthering students’ professional skills in report This unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under students develop these abilities as well as skills such writing, oral communication, and visual appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units gained in your course to date and to execute a knowledge and skills gained in your course to date substantial development project. The ability to apply and to execute a substantial Information Systems technical knowledge and skills to real-life situations is development project. essential for information technology professionals. A INB311 Enterprise Systems substantial project, under academic supervision, will Anti-requisites INN311 develop your initiative and ability to apply your Credit Points 12 knowledge and skills in a professional capacity. INB344 Search Engine Completing the project will also enable you to Campus Gardens Point Technology appreciate the complementary nature of the course Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites INB371 material in total, particularly the need for careful - SEM-1 project management. Credit Points 12 The unit presents and discusses the Enterprise Systems Lifecycle model, orienting students to the Campus Gardens Point requirements of addressing total cost of ownership, Gardens Point Availabilities INB308 Project 3 change management requirements and process - SEM-2 modelling requirements in order to achieve business Credit Points 12 benefits. Concepts of Enterprise Systems success Search engines have become a key tool in today's Campus Gardens Point and associated enablers and barriers are also information seeking and decision support. Web search engines like Google, Bing and Baidu are Gardens Point introduced. This unit introduces the technical Availabilities extensively used and expressions like "Dr Google" - SEM-1, SEM-2 architecture of complex 3-tiered client server environments. It seeks to show how an integrated and "Professor Google" witness how much everyday This unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under complex database environment meets common people rely on search engine technology to acquire appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills business needs, and yet fails to meet the total information. Beyond web search, search engines are gained in your course to date and to execute a Information Systems requirements. used in many professional environments to support substantial development project. The ability to apply enterprise search, clinical decision support, patent technical knowledge and skills to real-life situations is search, etc. - they are indeed at the base of the core essential for information technology professionals. A activities of the knowledge industry. It is therefore substantial project, under academic supervision, will INB313 Electronic Commerce important to understand what are the key develop your initiative and ability to apply your mechanisms that power search engines, how people knowledge and skills in a professional capacity. Site Development use search engines to seek information, how their Completing the project will also enable you to Equivalents ITB260 effectiveness is evaluated and what are the future appreciate the complementary nature of the course Credit Points 12 directions in the developing of search engine material in total, particularly the need for careful technology. project management. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 INB347 Web 2.0 Applications - INB309 Major Project Credit Points 12 INB101 and INB102 and INB103 Pre-requisites Campus Gardens Point and INB104 and INB201 Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents ITB844 INB322 Information Systems - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Consulting Web 2.0 applications enable the user to be control. Campus Gardens Point Anti-requisites ITB264, ITN264, INN322 The unit will provide the opportunity for students to Gardens Point Credit Points 12 explore web 2.0 applications including blogs, wikis, Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 social networking, social tagging, podcasts, gaming, Campus Gardens Point storytelling and virtual worlds such as second life. This unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under Gardens Point Students will critically consider the many and varied Availabilities appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills - SEM-1 web applications and how they can be used in gained in your course to date and to execute a different contexts such as government, small and substantial development project over two semesters. The aim of the unit is to develop your skills in the medium size businesses, non-profit organisations, The ability to apply technical knowledge and skills to consulting engagement process. This unit will give educational institutions and community groups. real-life situations is essential for information you an appreciation of the management of consulting technology professionals. A substantial project, under practices and an understanding of the consulting academic supervision, will develop your initiative and sector generally. This unit presents the tactical and ability to apply your knowledge and skills in a strategic issues involved in management consulting, INB371 Data Structures and professional capacity. Completing the project will also and in particular: client engagement. In the unit there enable you to appreciate the complementary nature of is an emphasis on Information Systems (IS) related Algorithms the course material in total, particularly the need for work. IS constitutes a substantial portion of consulting Pre-requisites INB270 or ITB003 or CAB201 activity and cuts across all areas of business careful project management. Anti-requisites ITB711, ITB702, INN371 expertise. The unit examines the dynamics of IS consulting within the context of large consulting firms Credit Points 12 and familarises students with the consulting Campus Gardens Point INB309 Major Project engagement lifecycle. Gardens Point INB309-1 (can be enrolled in the Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-1 same teaching period) The purpose of this unit is to ensure that you have a Anti-requisites ITB844 INB325 Corporate Systems sound knowledge of modern programming techniques Credit Points 12 Management Project and their use in providing medium-scale software solutions. This unit will teach you to decompose a Campus Gardens Point Anti-requisites ITB370 problem and produce a modular solution to a Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 programming task. The principles to analyse - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point algorithms for efficiency will also be introduced. In This unit gives you the opportunity to apply, under addition, you will acquire the necessary skills for you Gardens Point appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills Availabilities to use the tools available in common development - SEM-1, SEM-2 gained in your course to date and to execute a environments, such as Microsoft Visual Studio. substantial development project over two semesters. The ability to apply knowledge and skills to real-life The ability to apply technical knowledge and skills to situations is essential for information systems real-life situations is essential for information professionals. A substantial project, under academic technology professionals. A substantial project, under supervision, will develop your initiative and ability to INB375 Parallel Computing academic supervision, will develop your initiative and apply your knowledge and skills in a professional Credit Points 12 ability to apply your knowledge and skills in a capacity. Completing the project will also enable you Campus Gardens Point professional capacity. Completing the project will also to appreciate the complementary nature of the course Gardens Point enable you to appreciate the complementary nature of material in total, particularly the need for careful Availabilities the course material in total, particularly the need for management. This unit seeks to give you the - SEM-2 careful project management. opportunity to apply, under appropriate guidance, the -
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Campus Gardens Point and their purpose. By the end of this unit you will have Gardens Point the knowledge to identify problems and suggest Availabilities - SEM-1 solutions for innovative game designs, as well as INB379 Game Project Design understand how to carry out the process of designing Completion of 144 credit points of This unit will provide you with knowledge and skills in a game yourself. You will possess practical and Pre-requisites study basic to advanced techniques in real-time rendering theoretical knowledge of game design issues such as: using shading languages. You will be able to Anti-requisites ITB009 how to design a game level, how to design a task and implement a high-quality real-time rendering system reward a player for completing it, how to ensure that Credit Points 12 in an industry standard API. the player knows how to progress through the game Campus Gardens Point and how to design characters whose behaviour and dialogue provide clues and prompts to the player. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 INB383 AI for Games INB379 BGIE Game Project Design (P1) extends your Pre-requisites INB371 or MAB281 or MZB151 work on the role, design, and plan of a computer Credit Points 12 INN322 Information Systems game concept. The unit covers the conceptualisation Consulting and game design stages up to the game design pitch. Campus Gardens Point If the project is given a green light by the assessment Gardens Point Anti-requisites INB322 Availabilities panel, it may be developed later in the P2 unit. - SEM-1 Equivalents ITN273 The aim of this unit is to provide students with an Credit Points 12 intermediate to advanced level course in computer Campus Gardens Point INB380 Games Project game AI, involving computational approaches to solving a wide range of problems in the interactive Gardens Point Pre-requisites INB379 or INB305 Availabilities entertainment and game industries. - SEM-1 Anti-requisites ITB020 The aim of the unit is to develop your skills in the Credit Points 24 consulting engagement process. This unit will give you an appreciation of the management of consulting Campus Gardens Point INN181 Introduction to Games practices and an understanding of the consulting Gardens Point sector generally. This unit presents the tactical and Availabilities Production - SEM-2 strategic issues involved in management consulting, Anti-requisites INB181, ITB751, ITN751 and in particular: client engagement. In the unit there This unit seeks to give you the opportunity to apply, Credit Points 12 is an emphasis on Information Systems (IS) related under appropriate guidance, the knowledge and skills work. IS constitutes a substantial portion of consulting gained in your course to date and to execute a Campus Gardens Point activity and cuts across all areas of business substantial related project. The unit also aims to allow Gardens Point expertise. The unit examines the dynamics of IS you to develop the critical professional skills of Availabilities - SEM-2 consulting within the context of large consulting firms working within a cross-disciplinary team and, through and familarises students with the consulting implementation of your project, develop the This subject will provide you with knowledge and skills engagement lifecycle. understanding of the role of careful planning, scope in games production. By gaining an overview of the control and task management in ensuring that the production process, you will learn how the technology project is successful. and the people involved integrate into a coherent and efficient manufacturing process. By the end of this subject you will have the knowledge to conceive, INN371 Data Structures and create, integrate and optimise tools and personnel Algorithms into a complete games production system. INB381 Modelling and Pre-requisites INN270 or INB270 or IFN501 Animation Techniques INB371,INB372,TB702, ITB711, Anti-requisites Pre-requisites INB371 ITN711 Equivalents ITB746 INN221 Technology Equivalents ITN702 Credit Points 12 Management Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites ITN241, ITN251, ITN366,INB221 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Gardens Point The development of computer graphics tools is a Availabilities The purpose of this unit is to ensure that you have a significant application within the IT, Games and - SEM-1 sound knowledge of modern programming techniques and their use in providing medium-scale software related industries, relying heavily on software This unit presents operational, tactical and strategic solutions. This unit will teach you to decompose a engineering methodologies. These tools, such as insights that support the activities central to the problem and produce a modular solution to a CAD systems, 3D modelling systems and games leadership and management of technology. These programming task. The principles to analyse engines, are used in such industries as advertising, insights include project management, organisational algorithms for efficiency will also be introduced. In engineering, manufacturing, simulation for education leadership, outsourcing, planning, governance and addition, you will acquire the necessary skills for you and training, computer games, film special effects, millennium technologies. Such insights are used to to use the tools available in common development etc. Modelling techniques are intrinsic to a 3D inform decision-making - the core skill of any environments, such as Microsoft Visual Studio. graphics system, especially one used for real time manager. Technology managers must understand the animation. With increased CPU and GPU power, the factors influencing any decision point. This unit equips ability to animate in real time is allowing more students for the challenges of management and to sophisticated interaction and the merger of contribute to the decision-making faced by managers INN372 Agile Software games/simulation and film. The unit will provide you and the staff who advise on these issues. with the knowledge and skills to use an industry Development standard graphics API to implement graphics applications and to develop a basic real time Pre-requisites INN370 or IFN501 animation system using an industry standard INB372, ITB712, ITN662, ITN712, INN281 Advanced Game Design Anti-requisites language. ITB612 Pre-requisites INN280 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites ITB017 and INB281 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents ITN017 INB382 Real Time Rendering Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities Techniques - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites INB371 and (MAB281 or MZB151) This unit examines the theory, techniques, and Gardens Point Anti-requisites ITB648 and ITB649 Availabilities technologies associated with the specification, design, - SEM-1 construction and testing of software systems. It Equivalents ITB747 This unit will provide you with theoretical and practical integrates specialist knowledge from previous units to Credit Points 12 knowledge of advanced games design concepts; that prepare you to become a professional software is, specific activities undertaken by game designers engineer. By the end of this unit, you will have a firm
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units understanding of the principles of software a significant body of enabling technology that allows development processes, and the detailed practices of INN403 Honours Dissertation 3 efficient and cost effective development of a modern agile methodology. This will extend and Credit Points 12 applications that can be used in diverse contexts. refine your knowledge of the traditional software Campus Gardens Point Understanding the principles and the technologies development lifecycle and testing, and putting your involved in internationalisation and localisation is Gardens Point new knowledge into practice. You will work together in Availabilities essential for companies seeking to go global or that small teams of four to six people to build a project - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM are already global. using an agile methodology and using test-driven Research is about contributing to scientific development strategies. You will thus be well- knowledge. You will be expected to make such a prepared to become a member of a professional contribution in your honours dissertation, although the development team. size of that contribution will probably be relatively INN651 Security Technologies small as this is likely to be your first research project. Anti-requisites IFN643, ITB731, ITN731 The principle aim, however, is to provide you with Credit Points 12 basic research skills that you will be able to apply INN383 AI for Games again in the future in other contexts, be they in a Campus Gardens Point Anti-requisites INB383 higher research degree, or applied to real-world Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 problems in an industry setting. You will learn the - SEM-2 types of processes, creativity and analytical thinking Campus Gardens Point that leads to such scientific advances and how to This unit further develops your information security and networking knowledge and skills. The unit Gardens Point communicate such findings in a rigorous scientific Availabilities focuses on developing your knowledge and abilities - SEM-1 manner. by applying it to penetration testing using open source The aim of this unit is to provide students with an and other commonly used security tools and intermediate to advanced level course in computer applications. The unit will prepare you for a graduate game AI, involving algorithmic and utility-based INN404 Honours Dissertation 4 position as a system administrator or information approaches to solving a wide range of problems in the Credit Points 12 security professional. interactive entertainment and game industries. You will gain both practical and theoretical knowledge Campus Gardens Point about a range of AI techniques applied in computer Gardens Point Availabilities games. You will be able to identify and explain - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM INN691 Minor Project 2 different types of AI agents, describe their algorithms Credit Points 12 using a pseudo code convention, identify and explain Research is about contributing to scientific Campus Gardens Point different structures and algorithms used to represent knowledge. You will be expected to make such a contribution in your honours dissertation, although the Gardens Point and solve a range of problems in computer game AI. Availabilities size of that contribution will probably be relatively - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM small as this is likely to be your first research project. The principle aim, however, is to provide you with The aims of this unit are to help you acquire INN401 Honours Dissertation 1 basic research skills that you will be able to apply necessary skills in a problem domain, and to enable you to conduct a well-defined project with specific Credit Points 12 again in the future in other contexts, be they in a higher research degree, or applied to real-world outcomes within a precisely defined project plan. This Campus Gardens Point problems in an industry setting. You will learn the unit also teaches you how to prepare a well written project report. Gardens Point types of processes, creativity and analytical thinking Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM that leads to such scientific advances and how to communicate such findings in a rigorous scientific Research is about contributing to scientific manner. knowledge. You will be expected to make such a INN696 Major Project 2 contribution in your honours dissertation, although the INN696-1. INN696-1 may be size of that contribution will probably be relatively Pre-requisites studied in the same teaching period small as this is likely to be your first research project. INN531 Collections as INN696-2. The principle aim, however, is to provide you with Credit Points 24 basic research skills that you will be able to apply Management again in the future in other contexts, be they in a Equivalents ITN276 Campus Gardens Point higher research degree, or applied to real-world Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities problems in an industry setting. You will learn the - SEM-1 types of processes, creativity and analytical thinking Campus Gardens Point and External that leads to such scientific advances and how to Gardens Point The aims of this unit are to help you acquire communicate such findings in a rigorous scientific - SEM-1 necessary skills in a problem domain, and to enable Availabilities manner. External you to conduct a well-defined project with specific - SEM-1 outcomes within a precisely defined project plan. This unit also teaches you how to prepare a well written This unit seeks to develop your understanding of the project report. INN402 Honours Dissertation 2 key issues involved in developing and managing a contemporary and innovative collection. In particular Credit Points 12 you will be given the opportunity to become familiar Campus Gardens Point with the methods and tools used in the selection and INN700 Introduction To Gardens Point acquisition of information resources and the creation Availabilities Research - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM of information collections to meet the specific needs of a community or client group. You will also develop Pre-requisites Admission into IT28 or IT29 Research is about contributing to scientific a working knowledge of the skills and techniques Anti-requisites ENN541 knowledge. You will be expected to make such a essential for critically evaluating the resources and contribution in your honours dissertation, although the collections created. The unit further seeks to develop Equivalents ITN100 size of that contribution will probably be relatively your oral and written communication skills, critical Credit Points 12 small as this is likely to be your first research project. thinking and teamwork skills. The principle aim, however, is to provide you with Campus Gardens Point and External basic research skills that you will be able to apply Gardens Point again in the future in other contexts, be they in a - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities higher research degree, or applied to real-world INN570 Internationalisation of External problems in an industry setting. You will learn the - SEM-1, SEM-2 types of processes, creativity and analytical thinking Software that leads to such scientific advances and how to Credit Points 12 This unit is aimed at students undertaking a major research project (see corequisites above). In order to communicate such findings in a rigorous scientific Campus Gardens Point manner. pursue such a project, you must have some insight Gardens Point into the range of possible approaches to research Availabilities - SEM-2 available. Before commencing the research proper, it is necessary to review related literature in depth and Software is now a global market, and developers prepare a detailed proposal outlining the research need to be able to produce applications that can be question, design and project plan. Quality control and used in many different cultures and nations. There is good project management must be exercised
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units throughout the research project. Main items of develops both broad and detailed understanding of general understanding of these technologies and their assessment pertain to each student's unique, different strands of information systems research, relationships in order to effectively participate in the IT research project being pursued in parallel. This unit relevant research methods and theories associated industry and as basis for further learning. This unit aims to give you insight into the range of possible with the strands of research, and different provides a technological underpinning to subsequent approaches to research, to develop the skills needed composition styles of information systems research computing units which cover: programming, the Web, to prepare your literature review and research articles. The goal of this unit is to further develop your software architecture and computer systems. proposal and to assist you in planning and managing research skills and learn how to write good research time and resources. articles. The unit is taught in a seminar style where we critique articles, apply what we have learned to improve and extend our own research and ITD103 Designing for IT publications, and work together to reach a deeper Equivalents IFB103, INB182 INN701 Advanced Research understanding of Information Systems research Credit Points 12 practice. Topics Campus Kelvin Grove INN700 which can be studied in the Pre-requisites Kelvin Grove same teaching period as INN701 Availabilities - 13TP2 Anti-requisites ENN541 INS010 Full Year Co-operative As emerging technologies provide increasing Equivalents ITN269 Education opportunities for innovation, design thinking is Except with special permission, this Anti-requisites INB300 becoming a much sought after skill as it provides an unit is restricted to and mandatory Credit Points 24 effective approach to understand and develop user Other for students enrolled in Honours, centred solutions. In this unit, you will be introduced to requisites Professional Doctorate and PhD Campus Gardens Point design thinking as an approach for innovation and courses, and is optional for Gardens Point problem solving and how to apply this technique to Availabilities Research Masters students. - SEM-1, SEM-2 develop IT solutions to real-world problems. Teamwork is introduced and assessed in this unit. INN700 may be waived for invited, Assumed You and your team members will pitch your ideas and advanced, high-performing Knowledge designs using oral and visual communication skills to undergraduate students INS011 Co-operative Education gain user and peer feedback. This unit lays the Credit Points 12 foundational design, communication and teamwork Campus Gardens Point 1 skills that will be integrated and practised through a Anti-requisites INB300 design project in this unit, your second year (major) Gardens Point Availabilities and culminating in the final year capstone project. - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 All research students need an appreciation of a wide Campus Gardens Point variety of potential approaches to conducting Gardens Point Availabilities research and an understanding of the key issues that - SEM-1, SEM-2 ITD104 Building IT Systems bear on such approaches. INN701 is an advanced Equivalents IFB104, ITB001, INB104 unit aimed at research students who are soon to Credit Points 12 complete a detailed, rigorous and defensible design of their intended research project (e.g. Stage 2). INS012 Co-operative Education Campus Kelvin Grove Research students, coursework masters students and Kelvin Grove Availabilities honours students intending undertaking a major 2 - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 research project should pursue INN701 either Anti-requisites INB300 subsequent to, or in parallel with INN700. Modern IT systems are built using a wide range of Credit Points 12 technologies such as programming and scripting Campus Gardens Point languages, databases, web interfaces, etc. This introductory unit gives you hands-on experience with Gardens Point INN702 Information Systems Availabilities a variety of the computer languages used to build IT - SEM-1, SEM-2 systems as well as a basic understanding of the way Research computer language code is written. This provides a Pre-requisites INN700 firm foundation for further study on specific kinds of Credit Points 12 programming, such as networking, embedded ITD101 Impact of IT systems, artificial intelligence, etc. Even if you do not Campus Gardens Point Co-requisites IFB101 intend to pursue computer programming as a Gardens Point vocation, it is important that you are exposed to Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 programming languages and understand how IT Campus Kelvin Grove systems are actually built, to give you an appreciation This units aims to expose Information Systems higher Kelvin Grove of both the capabilities and practical limitations of the degree research students to a range of research Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP3 process. These concepts can be extended further in philosophies, paradigms and methodologies, subsequent programming units in the Computer developing in students an awareness of their relative This unit investigates the transformational relationship Science Major and application design and importance, thereby enabling improved access to between information technology (IT) and individuals, development units in the Information Systems Major. these areas of research for the students and society and organisations. It focuses on determining broadening their repertoire of skills. Each module and evaluating the impact IT can have from a range of introduces the area, also pointing to more in depth perspectives including personal, social, ethical, treatment of the topic for students who choose to go organisational, political and cultural. Case studies ITD121 Programming Principles deeper in the area. across a variety of domains (e.g. health, education, Pre-requisites ITD104 or IND104 transport, media or banking) will link theory with practice, and build your understanding of the depth Equivalents CAB201, INB270 and breadth of change, both positive and negative, Credit Points 12 INN703 Writing IS Research that is driven by information technology. Campus Kelvin Grove Articles Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites INN701 - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 Credit Points 12 ITD102 Computer Technology This unit gives you a positive introduction to modern Campus Gardens Point Fundamentals programming concepts and techniques. Although Gardens Point Equivalents IFB102, INB102 some theoretical aspects of programming are covered Availabilities - SEM-1 in lectures, the overall emphasis of the unit is to learn Credit Points 12 programming concepts and related problem-solving As a research student in information systems, you are Campus Kelvin Grove strategies though an exploratory problem based expected to contribute to the body of knowledge in approach. Through this means, you will be building Kelvin Grove this field by designing and conducting an original Availabilities abstractions with procedures, data and objects, - 13TP1, 13TP3 study and to publish your findings. In this unit, you are thereby designing, coding and debugging programs of introduced to a variety of seminal research articles Computers, networks and the web are ubiquitous and increasing complexity. The unit gives you the relevant to information systems research. The unit underpin all information technology. You need a foundation for subsequent programming courses
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units within the Computer Science major teaching and service. You will develop and utilise This unit teaches students about being competent knowledge, skills and resources necessary to and ethical criminal justice professionals. It introduces enhance your academic career planning and professional and academic skills, such as teamwork, development and contribute to the creation of new professional communication, and writing, to lay a ITD122 Modelling Information knowledge for the advancement of your discipline. successful foundation for academic achievement Systems during the degree and for later professional achievement in the real world of criminal justice work. Equivalents IAB201 Credit Points 12 IZN004 Scholarly Learning and Campus Kelvin Grove Teaching Project JSB173 Understanding the Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities Criminal Justice System - 13TP2 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 As an Information Systems practitioner, essential Gardens Point Availabilities skills are modelling and abstraction which you use to - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and External understand the problem in its widest context and Gardens Point Through a supported process of project design and develop conceptual and logical representations of - SEM-2 implementation, and the presentation of outcomes, Availabilities solution components. In this unit, you are introduced External you will research, initiate and effect a scholarly project to principles of conceptual modelling of information - SEM-2 systems, such as abstraction, aggregation, in the context of higher education. The project's decomposition and modularization. The unit develops rationale, aims and objectives, research methods, and The criminal justice system is a key site for the a both broad and detailed understanding of the evidence-based outcomes will be reported and maintenance of social order in society. In Australia, relevance of modelling to the analysis and design of presented as scholarly research. Through a guided the criminal justice system consists of three separate complex systems by examining different modelling process you will then particiate in a scholarly peer institutions and each is tasked with a specific role: the paradigms, including complex systems modelling, review process. police are responsible for criminal investigations, the data modelling, process modelling, organizational courts for adjudication and sentencing, corrections modelling, object modelling and information (e.g. prisons) for 'correcting' offenders. modelling. The modular approach allows you to undertake modelling and abstraction processes JSB170 Introduction to required to understand complex systems in Criminology and Policing organizational and information technology domains. JSB174 Forensic Psychology Equivalents JSB131, JSB011, JSB101 and the Law Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites PYB215 Campus Gardens Point and External IZN001 Principles and Practices Equivalents JSB136 Gardens Point of University Learning and - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities External Campus Gardens Point and External Teaching - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point - SEM-2 This unit will provide you with an introduction to both Availabilities Campus Gardens Point of the majors before you make your choice. It will External Gardens Point provide you with a foundation for understanding - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 criminology and policing. It begins with an exploration This unit develops your knowledge and skills of the of the existing explanations of crime from both an Drawing on evidence-based research, this unit discipline of forensic psychology, affording you a individual and social perspective and will provide you addresses the key factors of student success and critical perspective on what the study of psychology with a background of policing in Queensland, practical strategies for engaging students in learning and the law entails and what it has to offer across the Australia and internationally. The remainder of the along with principles and approaches to effectively three criminal justice domains of the police, the courts unit then covers topics of interest to those within the communicate across multiple mediums. It provides and corrections. area of criminal justice, policing and criminology, for you with a variety of opportunities to implement example, crimes in the home, crime in public, cyber targeted strategies for enhancing student learning. crime, and street crime JSB175 Social Ethics and the IZN002 Curriculum Design and Justice System JSB171 Justice and Society Equivalents JSB134 Assessment in Contemporary Equivalents JSB131, JSB011, JSB101 Credit Points 12 Learning Environments Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1 External Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 External - SEM-1 - SEM-1 Drawing on QUT's developmental, whole-of-course It is essential for those employed within the justice approach and real world learning 2020 vision, this unit The Justice degree is about producing competent system be able to competently and confidently work provides you with opportunities to apply principles and justice professionals. In order to achieve this purpose, at the borders between ethics and the law. Ethical strategies for effective curriculum design across this degree combines knowledge of the criminal ability will enable practitioners to critically assess the transitional and midpoint years. You will analyse and justice system with an understanding and moral status of current laws, to interpret acceptable design units, and explore innovative approaches to appreciation of the complexities of social justice. The standards of behaviour in situations not covered by enhancing student learning across a range of learning purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the the laws, and to develop shared understandings of environments. structural parameters of social justice. moral responsibility in justice organizations and the wider community.
IZN003 Research and Career JSB172 Professional Academic Skills JSB176 Criminal Law in Planning and Development Context Credit Points 12 Equivalents JSB132, JSB012, JSB104 Equivalents JSB242, JSB024, JSB204 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-1 Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit will extend and enhance your strategic Availabilities External engagement with the broader University environment - SEM-1, SEM-2 and prepare you for career success across research,
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Gardens Point contemporary Australian and, where relevant, justice. - SEM-2 Availabilities international contexts. External - SEM-2 Justice students work, or hope to work, as justice JSB263 Justice Institutions professionals in areas related to the criminal justice JSB207 Punishment and Penal Pre-requisites JSB172 or JSB178 or LLB101 system or human rights. They need an understanding Policy Credit Points 12 of fundamental principles of criminal law and of social JSB172 or JSB173 or LLB101 or Pre-requisites Campus Gardens Point and External justice issues related to criminal law. Laypeople may PYB007 assume that the law is shaped by rational decisions Gardens Point Equivalents JSB373 - SEM-1 aimed at reducing crime and punishing wrongdoing, Availabilities when in fact a closer examination of the policy Credit Points 12 External underpinnings, the substance of the law and the way - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point and External in which it is applied demonstrates that such an In this subject, students will gain a thorough analysis is overly simplistic. A deeper understanding Gardens Point understanding of Australia's political and governance of the forces that shape the law and the way the law's - SEM-2 Availabilities system, exploring the evolution and functioning of key application can distort its policy objectives is essential External Australian justice institutions. Through key case to those who wish to contribute to more effective laws - SEM-2 studies from Australian and international political and their administration. The unit will challenge students to think critically history, students will examine the democratic about a range of key issues confronting the penal structures which govern policy-making. system and policy-makers, including the need to JSB178 Policy, Governance and respond to the ever-increasing prison muster, the effectiveness (or not) of the various treatment Justice programmes and offender management systems, and JSB264 Statistical Methods Equivalents JSB081, JSB251,JSB271 the ongoing challenge of dealing with 'difference' Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study within the prison population. This unit is tailored to Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 students contemplating a career in correctional Campus Gardens Point and External services, the policy sector (including Department of Campus External Communities and Department of Corrections), Gardens Point External rehabilitation services, social and youth work, and the Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities academy. External This unit introduces quantitative research methods for - SEM-2 students of criminology, criminal justice and related The unit introduces students to the policy cycle and fields. It provides hands-on skills in using statistical explains how policy is developed in the governmental JSB261 Theories of software common to governmental and academic context. It provides basic skills needed for an Government work environments. The unit is designed for students employment role in research and policy in with little or no prior mathematical background government agencies. Pre-requisites JSB172 or JSB178 or LLB101 (beyond basic arithmetic). It provides students Credit Points 12 entering a career in justice or government with statistical numeracy skills, an essential requirement in Campus Gardens Point and External many jobs in this sector. JSB183 White Collar Crime Gardens Point - SEM-1 Pre-requisites 48cp of previous study Availabilities External Equivalents JSB983 - SEM-1 JSB270 Global Justice and Credit Points 12 It is not possible to fully understand our system of Human Security Campus External government without understanding the history of Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study External ideas of government that have led to this point. This is Availabilities Equivalents JSB260 - SEM-2 core knowledge for working in policy or politics. This unit will run through all the major theories of how Credit Points 12 White collar crime is becoming more common in governments should operate and the basis of Campus Gardens Point and External Australian society. Street crime still exists but there authority, legitimacy and freedom. Theory of are a larger number of people in a position to Government will provide you with the necessary Gardens Point - SEM-2 participate in white collar crime and new opportunities knowledge of what our system of government is Availabilities are presented by a more corporatised and designed to do and why we have this rather than External technological society. Greater resources are being another system of government. - SEM-2 applied to detect these crimes within police services, This unit offers students an advanced education and new agencies, such as the Australian Securities about crimes against human rights in a global context and Investment Commission, are being further with a focus on crimes in conflict zones, crimes developed to specialise in the oversight and JSB262 Power, Government involved in the movement and migration of people, prosecution of offenders. The circumstances in which and crimes committed by the state (with case studies the crimes occur and the technological considerations and Justice including human trafficking, genocide, torture and the raise unique questions for investigation and Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study use of child soldiers). The unit also introduces prevention. This unit will provide the student with an Credit Points 12 students to the theory of human security, in which outline of the nature of these techniques. Campus Gardens Point and External individuals, rather than nation states, are the primary focus of efforts to protect against threats to national Gardens Point security and international stability. Domestic and - SEM-2 JSB184 Sex and Crimes Availabilities international efforts to prevent and punish human External rights violations will also be explored during this unit Pre-requisites 48cp of previous study - SEM-2 through an analysis of international cooperation and Equivalents JSB984 In this unit, you will engage with and apply justice. This unit is essential learning for students planning a career in the Department of Defence, Credit Points 12 sophisticated and innovative analytical tools in order to understand various forms of marginalisation in Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Campus Gardens Point and External Australian society (particularly gender, sexuality, Australian Federal Police, AusAid, the United Nations Gardens Point religion, age, mental health, and race-based and numerous other Australian and international - SEM-2 marginalisation), and respond effectively to them. The agencies. Availabilities External unit utilises these tools in a broad range of justice- - SEM-2 related contexts, providing you with a comprehensive understanding of the various ways that these forms of The unit is informed by the concepts of governance, marginalisation may be addressed, and the forms of JSB272 Theories of Crime discipline and the relationship between power and power and government that sustain them. This unit JSB172 or JSB173 or LLB101 or Pre-requisites knowledge to think critically about the circumstances thus provides a set of practical tools that can PYB007 and conditions through which sex and sexuality are contribute directly to the development of policy that Anti-requisites JSN113 criminalised. In Module Two, these concepts are addresses marginalisation and contributes to greater applied to particular 'cases' of sexual deviance in
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Equivalents JSB231, JSB018 JSB277 Independent Study Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study Campus Gardens Point and External Equivalents JSB976 JSB300 Criminal Investigation Gardens Point 96cp of previous study, minimum and Prosecution - SEM-2 Other Availabilities GPA of 5 and requires academic Pre-requisites 96cp in current course External requisites approval Completion of 96 credit points in - SEM-2 Other Credit Points 12 your current course and subject to requisites The main aim of this unit is to introduce the student to approval from the unit coordinator the study of theoretical criminology. The unit will Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 address the social context of crime but is not Gardens Point exclusively sociological. The study of criminology is - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point essentially multi-disciplinary and this is reflected in the Availabilities External Gardens Point diversity of theoretical approaches. Theory is typically Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-2 offered as distinct from methods of research; however, together they provide the foundation for In the course of their study, Justice students may Criminal Investigation and Prosecution is a capstone policy and practice. The unit provides an analytical discover an area that is of particular interest to them experience for Justice and Law students who have framework in order to critically assess the or that has specific relevance to their intended pursued studies in criminal justice. It provides real- epistemological claims and justifications found in professional orientation. This unit gives you the world experience in investigating and prosecuting a criminological theory. Criminological theories are opportunity to extend aspects of your coursework or simulated crime. Students work with, and are viewed as embedded governmental practices aimed professional interests in more depth as well as to mentored by, real-world professionals from policing at ensuring the regulation and control of particular continue the process of refining and developing agencies, public prosecutions and the private sector. 'problem populations'. research skills. The experience gives them the chance to apply their academic knowledge in a practical environment. It also gives potential employers the chance to see students working in realistic scenarios. JSB273 Crime Research JSB284 Policing in Context JSB170 or JSB172 or LLB101 or Pre-requisites Methods PYB007 JSB170 or JSB172 or JSB178 or Pre-requisites Equivalents JSB274 JSB305 Professional Placement LLB101 or PYB007 JSB273 or JSB207 or JSB261. Credit Points 12 Equivalents JSB933, JSB043 Pre-requisites These units can be studied in the Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 same teaching period as JSB305 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point and External Equivalents JSB980 - SEM-1 Availabilities Other at the discretion of the unit Gardens Point External - SEM-1 requisites coordinator. Availabilities - SEM-1 External Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 This unit is concerned with the diverse roles, duties, powers and problems of policing in Australia. These Campus Gardens Point This subject builds upon research skills acquired in issues are explored through a number of different Gardens Point Availabilities first year study and is thus intended to provide themes across the semester. - SEM-1, SEM-2 knowledge and skills in research design and methodology for use in the fields of criminal justice, This unit is a professional placement where students justice administration and criminology. The aims of can intern at a relevant organisation. this unit are three-fold. First, to revisit issues central to JSB286 Domestic Violence the research process. Second, to introduce students Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study to a variety of research design models, data collection techniques and data analyses. Third, to give students Credit Points 12 JSB364 Cyber-Crime the practical skills in designing and carrying out Campus Gardens Point and External Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study research and reporting research results. This subject, Gardens Point Equivalents JSB974 offered as a compulsory primary major unit in both the - SEM-1 Criminology and Policing and Policy and Governance Availabilities Credit Points 12 External majors, sets the foundation for research in the justice - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point and External honours program. Gardens Point This unit provides students with a comprehensive, - SEM-2 empirically based, international, interdisciplinary Availabilities External overview of domestic violence. It will provide a critical - SEM-2 JSB276 Independent Study perspective on domestic violence research that is of Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study interest to justice professions and arises in many This unit is concerned with the role of technology in other employment contexts. facilitating and enabling crime. The pervasiveness of Anti-requisites JB976 technology across all aspects of society has seen the 96cp of previous study, minimum Other face of crime change in recent decades. This GPA of 5 and unit coordinator requisites transition provides many challenges to law approval JSB287 Crime in Popular enforcement in terms of policing crime in both offline Credit Points 12 Culture and online environments. This unit will examine the many forms of cybercrime and provide an introduction Pre-requisites 96cp of previous study Campus Gardens Point and External to crime in the virtual world. Gardens Point Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point JSB367 Intelligence and - SEM-1 Availabilities In the course of their study, Justice students may External Security discover an area that is of particular interest to them, - SEM-1 Pre-requisites 144cp of previous study or that has specific relevance to their intended Equivalents JSB377 professional orientation. This unit gives you the Crime is a significant genre in popular culture, being opportunity to extend aspects of your coursework or present in literature, television, film and traditional and Credit Points 12 social medias. Beyond entertainment, popular cultural professional interests in more depth as well as to Campus External continue the process of refining and developing representations of crime and criminality inform social responses criminal justice, including policy. This unit External research skills. Availabilities provides students with a comprehensive, - SEM-1 international, interdisciplinary overview of crime in Policing is increasingly taking a leading role in popular culture, informed by critical perspectives in investigations with analysts setting a direction for the social sciences. criminal investigation teams. The unit exposes you to the essentials of the intelligence system, the
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units intelligence process and creative problem solving practice. Campus Gardens Point and External skills. Intelligence professionals are also concerned External Availabilities with support to government, the private sector and the - SEM-1, SEM-2 community. Intelligence offers an advantage through the provision of accurate and timely advice. JSB417 Seminal Texts in In the thesis you have the opportunity to conduct a Intelligence requires proficiency in thinking strategies Criminology major research project where you will identify and and skills, interpersonal effectiveness skills, teamwork articulate a research problem, establish a research and application of intelligence process methodologies Credit Points 12 design, collect and analyse data, and report on the in a variety of cultural contexts. Campus Gardens Point research findings. The research dissertation culminates the research training you have received Gardens Point Availabilities through the Honours coursework, and is a salient - SEM-1 feature of your Honours degree. JSB372 Youth Justice The discipline of criminology draws together a range JSB207 or JSB273 or LLB101 or of disciplines where some of its most poignant work PYB007. JSB207 can be enrolled in emanates from scholars who do not identify Pre-requisites the same teaching period as themselves as 'criminologists' as such, e. g. Michel JSB424 Thesis 2 JSB372 Foucault. Considering the overlap between Equivalents JSB414-2 criminology and other social science disciplines, this Equivalents JSB232, JSB041 Credit Points 12 unit takes an historical view of the discipline and Credit Points 12 examines some of its seminal authors and key texts. Campus Gardens Point and External External Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point - SEM-2 In the thesis you have the opportunity to conduct a Availabilities JSB418 Advanced Research External major research project where you will identify and - SEM-2 Management articulate a research problem, establish a research Credit Points 24 design, collect and analyse data, and report on the This unit provides students with knowledge and skills research findings. The research dissertation Campus Gardens Point for working in the contemporary juvenile justice culminates the research training you have received system, including knowledge about its history, how Gardens Point Availabilities through the Honours coursework, and is a salient the system works, legislation, and the media and - SEM-1 feature of your Honours degree. political context of juvenile justice. It questions ideas about young people as a 'youth crime problem' and Good research is characterised by establishing the challenges students to engage critically with youth parameters through which the research should crime in terms of social justice. operate and develop. A good research project is also marked by the development of an effective literature JSB424 Thesis 4 review of relevant literature in the chosen field. In this Equivalents JSB414-4 unit students will source and become acquainted with Credit Points 12 a bibliography of specialised literature relevant to the JSB374 Crime Prevention Campus Gardens Point and External JSB172 or JSB173 or LLB101 or nominated field of research and begin to articulate the Pre-requisites External PYB007 phases of the research project. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Anti-requisites JSN112 In the thesis you have the opportunity to conduct a Equivalents JSB333, JSB044 JSB419 Honours Research major research project where you will identify and Credit Points 12 articulate a research problem, establish a research design, collect and analyse data, and report on the Campus Gardens Point and External Methods Equivalents JSN102, JSN172 research findings. The research dissertation Gardens Point culminates the research training you have received - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities through the Honours coursework, and is a salient External Campus Gardens Point feature of your Honours degree. - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities The aim of this unit is threefold. First, the unit will - SEM-1 discuss in detail the complex relationship which exists The content of this unit is based on an assumption between the crime problem, the creation of criminality JSN147 Independent Study that students have a basic knowledge of research and traditional responses to crime. Second, the unit Equivalents JSN117 methodologies, including an understanding of will discuss crime prevention strategies that are Credit Points 12 qualitative and quantitative research paradigms. This broader than the traditional criminal justice response unit will build on that knowledge and provide students Campus Gardens Point and External as well as explore the appropriateness or otherwise of with an understanding of the techniques that are blanket responses to crime. Finally, the unit will External commonly used for Honours-level research theses. Availabilities consider the issue of how the interests of victims of - SEM-1, SEM-2 crime may be adequately addressed both within and In the course of their study, Justice students may outside the criminal justice system. discover an area that is of particular interest to them, JSB424 Thesis 3 or that has specific relevance to their intended Equivalents JSB414-3 professional orientation. This unit gives you the JSB381 Indigenous Issues in opportunity to extend aspects of your coursework or Credit Points 12 professional interests in more depth as well as to Criminal Justice Campus Gardens Point and External continue the process of refining and developing research skills. Pre-requisites JSB171 or JSB173 External Availabilities Equivalents JSB371 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 In the thesis you have the opportunity to conduct a major research project where you will identify and JSN165 Policy, Governance and Campus Gardens Point and External articulate a research problem, establish a research Gardens Point design, collect and analyse data, and report on the Justice - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities research findings. The research dissertation External culminates the research training you have received Campus External - SEM-1 through the Honours coursework, and is a salient External feature of your Honours degree. Availabilities All justice professionals require a sound grasp of the - SEM-1 unique aspects of Indigenous culture and society which impact upon the interaction of Indigenous This foundational course is designed to develop the skills required for research and policy positions in people with the criminal justice system.. This unit JSB424 Thesis 1 explores the major areas of interaction between government agencies. This unit will enhance the key Indigenous Australians and the criminal justice Equivalents JSB414-1 vocational skills required for working in any government agency. All government agencies require system and seeks to raise awareness of those factors Credit Points 12 which inhibit the formulation of sound policy and similar writing, communication and consultation skills for developing policy. This unit will enhance
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This unit JSN166 Justice Institutions JSN174 Transnational presents the essentials of the intelligence system, the Credit Points 12 Organised Crime and Terrorism intelligence process, creative problem solving skills, and an introduction to writing in an intelligence Campus External Equivalents JSN104 environment. External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus External An understanding of Australian government External JSN180 Intelligence Practice 2 institutions is critical for students who wish to work Availabilities - SEM-1 effectively in or alongside the public sector. This unit Equivalents JSN110 will provide you with advanced knowledge of This unit is designed to further your knowledge of Credit Points 12 governance institutions at all levels of Australian Transnational Organised Crime (TOC) and Terrorism. Campus External Government, as well as the related ethical obligations Transnational organised crime has grown External of public officials in such institutions. exponentially throughout the world in the past Availabilities decades. Criminal groups operate in almost every - SEM-2 country and in varying capacities. Sophisticated The unit considers the management of intelligence groups adopt a business like, often entrepreneurial organisations, personnel and operations. It approach to their criminal endeavours. Similarly, JSN167 Public Sector Skills, recognises the need for managers to be attuned to terrorist organisations operate throughout the world in the context and environment in which they are Methods and Ethics various forms and use various entrepreneurial operating. The unit examines organisational Credit Points 12 ventures to raise needed funds for their activities. structures against proven principles and concentrates Both criminal groups present an ongoing problem for Campus External on applying established principles and procedures to governments and monarchies - globally. While, TOC External the unique needs of intelligence organisations. Availabilities groups benefit from the misfortune of others within the - SEM-2 community, terrorists on the other hand, seek to This subject builds knowledge of public sector ethics undermine the fabric of these communities. obligations and is intended to provide knowledge and JSN190 Research Thesis skills in research design, methodology and evaluation Equivalents JSN120 for use in public policy development and evaluation. The unit has a number of objectives. Firstly, to visit JSN176 Independent Study Credit Points 12 issues central to the research and evaluation process. Equivalents JSN116 Campus Gardens Point and External Secondly, to introduce you to a variety of research Credit Points 12 External and evaluation design models, data collection Availabilities techniques and data analyses. Thirdly, to equip you Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-1, SEM-2 with the practical skills to write a research and External Students undertake a study of an issue as the Availabilities evaluation proposal, carry out a research and - SEM-1, SEM-2 culmination of their advanced Masters program. The evaluation project, report the research results and dissertation must have a well-developed conceptual In the course of their study, Justice students may conduct policy evaluation. The unit also seeks to build foundation and include a primary research discover an area that is of particular interest to them, knowledge of theories and types of corruption, the component. psychology and sociology of ethical judgment, along or that has specific relevance to their intended with an advanced understanding of public sector professional orientation. This unit gives you the ethics. opportunity to extend aspects of your coursework or professional interests in more depth as well as to JSN191 Research Thesis continue the process of refining and developing Equivalents JSN121 research skills. JSN168 Critical Policy Skills Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External Campus External External JSN178 National Security and Availabilities External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Intelligence - SEM-2 Students undertake a study of an issue as the Equivalents JSN108 There are a number of critical policy skills required of culmination of their advanced Masters program. The Credit Points 12 the professional contemporary policy officer. This unit dissertation must have a well-developed conceptual aims to develop, enhance and consolidate the skills of Campus External foundation and include a primary research component. students to enable them to undertake sophisticated External Availabilities and effective policy work, both in the public and the - SEM-2 private sector. This capstone unit will develop students' critical policy analysis skills, build the In JSN178 National Security and Intelligence you will knowledge and capacity to engage effectively with develop knowledge of how security is understood and JSN192 Research Thesis stakeholders and the ability to effectively design and conceptualised, which will enable you to critically Equivalents JSN122 oversee policy. reflect on how security priorities are made in national, Credit Points 12 regional and international settings. The unit aims to encourage you to develop your knowledge of how Campus Gardens Point and External states prioritise security threats, as well as how External Availabilities JSN172 Applied Data Analysis intelligence agencies and staff support these efforts. - SEM-1, SEM-2 The unit will develop your skills in critical analysis, Techniques for Criminology problem solving, research, and writing. Students undertake a study of an issue as the culmination of their advanced Masters program. The and Criminal Justice dissertation must have a well-developed conceptual Equivalents JSN102 foundation and include a primary research Credit Points 12 JSN179 Intelligence Practice 1 component. Campus External Equivalents JSN109 External Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus External JSN193 Research Thesis Equivalents JSN123 The content of this unit is based on an assumption External Availabilities that students have a basic knowledge of research - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 methodologies, including an understanding of Campus Gardens Point and External qualitative and quantitative research paradigms. This Intelligence professionals can be 'generalists' with a unit will build on that knowledge and provide students broad base of skills applicable to a range of
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External Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 KAP401 Advertising Creative: - SEM-1 Students undertake a study of an issue as the Concept to Campaign This unit explores a variety of key myths, culmination of their advanced Masters program. The Equivalents KIP424 controversies and debates surrounding the dissertation must have a well-developed conceptual Credit Points 12 relationship between media and society. It foundation and include a primary research investigates the historical foundations, cultural context component. Campus Kelvin Grove and factual accuracy of a series of 'common sense' Kelvin Grove arguments regarding how different kinds of media Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 have or have not affected the way our society functions. JSN600 Graduate Seminar This unit focusses on the creative side of advertising, involving the analysis of creative advertising content, Credit Points 12 the development of creative concepts and creative Campus Gardens Point strategies and the crafting of persuasive messages KCB103 Strategic Speech Gardens Point and ideas for creative campaigns. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Communication Equivalents KCB213, KCD103 The Graduate Seminar is a forum for the presentation of sections of your research in progress where you KAP402 Advertising Creative: Credit Points 12 gain the opportunity to articulate the challenges and Campus Kelvin Grove outcomes of your research and are able to benefit Copywriting and Art Direction Kelvin Grove from the feedback and insights into your work of your Pre-requisites KAP401 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 peers. It is also a vehicle through which you can gain Equivalents KIP426 valuable experience in evaluating and critiquing the This unit emphasises both the theory and practice of work of other researchers, as well as evaluating your Credit Points 12 speech and interpersonal communication. It own research. Campus Kelvin Grove introduces theories of language, rhetoric and persuasion, which are interrelated to promote Kelvin Grove Availabilities understanding and development of your - SEM-1, SEM-2 communication skills. Classroom practice in simulated JSZ905 Asian Economic Crime This introductory unit teaches how copywriting and art work situations will enhance the leadership skills you Trends direction are fundamental to creative advertising need to become articulate presenters in a range of practice. Copywriters and art directors are integral in contexts including personal presentations. Credit Points 12 bringing advertising campaigns to life through the Campus Temasek Polytechnic Singapore generation of ideas, concept development, persuasive messages and imagery. Temasek Polytechnis Availabilities KCB104 Media and - SEM-1 Communication: Industries The aim of this unit is to provide a knowledge and understanding for police officers about the KAP403 Advertising Creative: Equivalents KCZ104 exponential growth of economic crime within the Asia- Credit Points 12 Pacific region. By being aware of the economic nature Trends in New Media Campus Kelvin Grove of the structure and operations of transnational, Equivalents KIP429 Kelvin Grove organised, corporate and white-collar crime and their Credit Points 12 Availabilities relationship to terrorism activities police officers will - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove be better equipped to combat these types of criminal A contemporary understanding of the cultural and and terrorist behaviours. Kelvin Grove Availabilities economic significance of media and communication - SEM-1, SEM-2 industries is a vital foundation for scholarship and This unit examines the latest strategies and emerging professional practice in the media and JSZ906 Police Research Project trends in new and interactive media, including social communications industries. This unit surveys the media, with specific relevance to creative advertising political economies of print and electronic media Credit Points 12 strategy, process and implementation. Students will industries, as well as advertising and public relations. Campus Temasek Polytechnic Singapore gain an understanding of, and appropriate skills in, It considers the impact of regulation on these creating best practice creative advertising executions industries and explores convergence and Temasek Polytechnis Availabilities for new media channels with knowledge of how to globalisation as frameworks for understanding - SEM-1 integrate this new media for an effective advertising change. You will be supported to develop your own This unit provides further development, enhanced campaign. strategy for maintaining current awareness of media from JSZ904, on how to design and conduct a police- and communication industries in the process of specific research project on the policing theme of evaluating current public and policy debates. ‘local solutions for local conditions’. The aims of this unit are to provide knowledge, understanding and KCB101 Media and practice for general duties police in knowing how to Communication Texts design and conduct empirically acceptable research KCB105 Inquiry in Media and projects to increase the knowledge base and Credit Points 12 Communication professionalism of a Police Service. Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KCB334 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove KAP400 Advertising Creative: This unit introduces you to foundational ideas in the Kelvin Grove The Brief study of communication. It covers key questions of Availabilities textual analysis, practice, and context. Drawing - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 extensively on examples of popular communication The research process (define problem, collect Campus Kelvin Grove practice from contemporary society, the unit aims to relevant information, analyse information, formulate impart an understanding of communication ecologies, Kelvin Grove conclusions/outcomes) underlies many decisions that Availabilities processes, systems, and modes within the wider - SEM-1, SEM-2 confront media and communication professionals. frame of radical changes occurring to the way texts This subject introduces foundational research skills This unit provides you with an introduction to the are produced, read and circulated within our culture. and contextualises them with a number of media and creative side of advertising, specifically on developing communication problems. The unit will involve skills in interpretation and execution of the Creative qualitative and quantitative research methods Brief which is fundamental to creative advertising best including content analysis, focus groups, practice. Strategies in idea generation, conceptual KCB102 Media Mythbusting ethnography, interviews and survey research which thinking and the crafting of persuasive messages, and Equivalents KCB140 are studied in the context of media and the professional presentation of these concepts and Credit Points 12 communication problems and issues. You will carry ideas are a focus of this unit. out research using some of these methods, analyse Campus Kelvin Grove the results and present your conclusions and recommendations.
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number of individuals and organisations in Networks of industry and professional associations contemporary societies who use social media are extremely important in media and communication technologies to shape, (re)form and sustain their industries. In this unit you will extend, apply and KCB106 Media in a Globalised identities is on the rise. This unit introduces students deepen your understanding of these networks through World to key issues, tools and considerations for developing and updating the Brisbane Media Map - contemporary media and communication an online resource that profiles media and Credit Points 12 professionals through facilitating critical engagement communication industries in Brisbane. You will also Campus Kelvin Grove with social media in three areas: Platforms and Users, refine your project planning and management skills, Kelvin Grove Professional Identity and Communication, Strategy information analysis skills, and team leadership and Availabilities - SEM-2 and Analytics. membership skills. Media organisations in Australia operate in a global context. Australian media content represents an important export for the country's economy, while KCB301 Media Audiences KCB307 Making Media Australian audiences consume large quantities of Equivalents KCB349 content produced overseas, or adapted from formats Connections 1 originated in other media markets. There is great Credit Points 12 Unit coordinator approval is required. Students are expected to value, therefore, in students of journalism, media and Campus Kelvin Grove Other communication learning how the global media market have a GPA over 5.0 and to have Kelvin Grove requisites functions, and the implications of cultural globalisation Availabilities completed 192cp of undergraduate - SEM-1 for professional practice. This foundation unit will study. introduce you to the global nature of media production This unit provides you with a conceptual Credit Points 12 and to your role as a future practitioner in a globalised understanding of media audiences within industry and media system. academic contexts. In addition, the unit introduces Campus Kelvin Grove you to a range of practical skills that may be applied Kelvin Grove Availabilities when undertaking audience research. A knowledge of - SEM-1, SEM-2 and ability to research audiences is essential to a Issues surrounding 'The Media' are a common source KCB203 Consumption Matters: detailed and comprehensive understanding of the of interest for the media itself, and to the general media. The ability to undertake quantitative and Consumer Cultures and Identity public. Media and communication students should be qualitative research into various audience groupings, well-positioned to make an informed contribution to Credit Points 12 the use of associated analytical tools and the ability to these debates, but often lack the ability to Campus Kelvin Grove critically analyse academic and industry based communicate with a general audience. This unit will audience research are important skills for undertaking Kelvin Grove therefore assist students in this regard, helping them Availabilities both postgraduate research in Media & - SEM-2 to become a visible part of the public discourse. Communication and those seeking employment in A knowledge of and ability to research consumer media industries. cultures is essential to those working in the Creative Industries: it is crucial to understand the ways in KCB308 Making Media which consumption actively shapes not only media and production industries, but also the value and KCB302 Political Connections 2 meanings of products themselves. This unit requires Communication Pre-requisites KCB307 you to synthesise and apply concepts and methodologies that you have learned in earlier units. Equivalents KCB311 Credit Points 12 This unit focuses on developing in you a broader Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove understanding of media, communication, and Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove production through the lens of consumer cultures. The Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove knowledge that you gain in this unit will inform your Availabilities future professional, academic, and creative practices. - SEM-2 Issues surrounding 'The Media' are a common source of interest for the media itself, and to the general This unit provides an overview of the theory and public. Media and communication students should be professional practices of political and governmental well-positioned to make an informed contribution to communication, especially through the media and these debates, but often lack the ability to KCB205 Professional communications industries. The unit examines communicate with a general audience. This unit will contemporary and historical political issues and Communication therefore assist students in this regard, helping them communications in Australia and internationally from Credit Points 12 to become a visible part of the public discourse. the perspectives of democratic theory, media Campus Kelvin Grove influence, strategic image and issue management, Kelvin Grove and popular culture. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 KCB310 Contemporary Professional Communication aims to enhance your Investigation in Journalism, career prospects by developing a significant KCB303 Brisbane Media Map 1 understanding of communication dynamics between Pre-requisites 168cp of completed study Media and Communication individuals and groups in organisational settings. The Credit Points 12 unit will sharpen your practical and critical skills in Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove situation analysis, project proposal development and Campus Kelvin Grove reporting, formal document production, professional Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities presentations, and workplace communication Availabilities - SEM-2 practices. Although there is some focus on the - SEM-1, SEM-2 Research skills are an important element of graduate creative and cultural industries, the content and skills This units allows final year Media and Communication capabilities, applicable to scholarly work at Honours covered are applicable to a range of professions and students the opportunity to work on the Brisbane and higher degree level, and also to professional career options. You will be encouraged to pursue a Media Map - an online resource for media and practice. This unit makes available at the Bachelor project topic in your chosen professional field. communication organisations based in Brisbane. level the internationally recognised expertise of world- Students involved in this project will work in teams to leading research active staff within the creative collectively update the map, and learn basic project industries faculty. It will enable you to explore the KCB206 Internet, Self and management strategies. possibilities of academic research, design a project, and acquire data gathering, analysis and presentation Beyond skills of value to subsequent study and employment. Equivalents KCB201, KCB295 KCB305 Brisbane Media Map 2 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites KCB303 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 KCD103 Strategic Speech Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Communication - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Equivalents KCB213, KCB103 Availabilities From social networking sites like Facebook, - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Instagram and Twitter, to blogs and YouTube, the
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Campus Kelvin Grove The Chinese University of Hong qualitative research into various audience groupings, Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kong the use of associated analytical tools and the ability to Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP3 - 6TP2 critically analyse academic and industry based A knowledge of and ability to research consumer audience research are important skills for undertaking This unit emphasises both the theory and practice of both postgraduate research in Media & speech and interpersonal communication. It cultures is essential to those working in the Creative Industries: it is crucial to understand the ways in Communication and those seeking employment in introduces theories of language, rhetoric and media industries. persuasion, which are interrelated to promote which consumption actively shapes not only media understanding and development of your and production industries, but also the value and communication skills. Classroom practice in simulated meanings of products themselves. This unit requires work situations will enhance the leadership skills you you to synthesise and apply concepts and KCZ302 Political need to become articulate presenters in a range of methodologies that you have learned in earlier units. contexts including personal presentations. This unit focuses on developing in you a broader Communication understanding of media, communication, and Equivalents KCB311 production through the lens of consumer cultures. The knowledge that you gain in this unit will inform your Credit Points 12 KCP407 Applied Professional future professional, academic, and creative practices. Campus Chinese University of HongKong Communication The Chinese University of Hong Availabilities Kong Credit Points 12 KCZ205 Professional - 12TP2 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit provides an overview of the theory and Kelvin Grove Communication Availabilities professional practices of political communication. It - SEM-1 Equivalents KCB205 examines contemporary and historical political This unit hones your skills in professional Credit Points 12 campaigns in a number of countries, including Hong Kong, the United states, the United Kingdom and communication and integrates the important skills of Campus Chinese University of HongKong writing and presenting under a strategic planning Australia, from the perspectives of theories of media The Chinese University of Hong framework. It includes a focus on leadership, influence, strategic image and issue management, Availabilities Kong teamwork, audience analysis, evaluation, and ethics. and the democratic role of media. It also considers - 12TP1 how media advisors manage political communication, Professional Communication aims to enhance your and how professional consultants plan and develop career prospects by developing a better political campaigns. KCP415 Co-Creative Media: understanding of communication dynamics between Digital Storytelling individuals and groups in organisational settings. The unit will sharpen your practical and critical skills in Equivalents KKP405, KCP403, KCP353 situation analysis, project proposal development and KCZ303 Hong Kong Media Map Credit Points 12 reporting, formal document production, client Equivalents KCB303 presentations, and workplace communication Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 practices. Although the main focus of the unit is on Kelvin Grove Campus Chinese University of HongKong Availabilities the creative and cultural industries, the content and - SEM-1, SUM skills covered are applicable to a range of professions The Chinese University of Hong Availabilities Kong In this unit you will learn about the breadth of and career options. - 13TP2 achievements of research in the Creative Industries (for example, in making visible the creative economy. Networks of industry and professional association are This knowledge is essential for arts and creative KCZ206 New Media: extremely important in media and communication industries managers. You will also have the option to industries. In this unit students will extend and apply experience deep learning in the theory and practice of Applications and Identities their critical knowledge of media and communication one particular creative human capital development Equivalents KCB201, KCB295 to the task of deepening their understanding of these technique and qualitative research platform, known as networks. Through developing and updating the Hong Digital Storytelling. Credit Points 12 Kong Media Map - an online resource that profiles Campus Chinese University of HongKong media and communication industries in Hong Kong - students will also refine their project planning and The Chinese University of Hong management skills, information analysis skills, and Availabilities Kong KCZ105 Media and team leadership and membership skills. Students will - 5TP2 Communication Research also explore ethical, communication, and intellectual The number of individuals in contemporary societies property concerns that arise in the processes of Methods who use new media technologies to shape, (re)form undertaking a real-world media and communication Equivalents KCB105, KCB334 and sustain their identities is on the rise. From social industries project. networking sites like FaceBook and blogs to Credit Points 12 YouTube, this unit takes you through the critical Campus Chinese University of HongKong enquiry of your use of new media in five aspects of everyday life: entertainment, socialisation, KDB101 Performance 1 The Chinese University of Hong information, education and business, health and well- Availabilities Kong KDB103 (can be enrolled in the being, and beliefs and politics. This unit also Pre-requisites - SUM-2 same teaching period) introduces them to theories, issues and deliberations Equivalents KDX111 The research process (define problem, collect surrounding new media. relevant information, analyse information, formulate Credit Points 12 conclusions/outcomes) underlies many decisions that Campus Kelvin Grove confront media and communication professionals. Kelvin Grove This subject introduces foundational research skills KCZ301 Media Audiences Availabilities and contextualises them with a number of media and Equivalents KCB301, KCB349 - SEM-1 communication problems and issues. The unit will Credit Points 12 This studio based unit consists of a creative process involve qualitative and quantitative research methods through rehearsals and classes with choreographers, including content analysis, focus groups, Campus Chinese University of HongKong rehearsal directors and teaching staff leading to a ethnography, interviews and survey research. The Chinese University of Hong studio and public performance. Students will evaluate, design and carry out research Availabilities Kong using some of these methods. - 13TP1 This unit provides you with a conceptual KDB102 Performance 2 understanding of media audiences within industry and (KDB101 or KDX111) and KDB104 academic contexts. In addition, the unit introduces KCZ203 Consumer Cultures Pre-requisites (can be enrolled in the same you to a range of practical skills that may be applied Equivalents KCB203 teaching period) when undertaking audience research. A knowledge of Credit Points 12 and ability to research audiences is essential to a Equivalents KDX112 Campus Chinese University of HongKong detailed and comprehensive understanding of the Credit Points 12 media. The ability to undertake quantitative and
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Campus Kelvin Grove KDB108 World Dance to learning and reflective practice to enable you to Kelvin Grove become an effective self-directed practitioner. Availabilities Equivalents KDB172 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This studio-based unit consists of a creative process through rehearsal directors and teaching staff leading Campus Kelvin Grove KDB121 Dance Practice 2 to a studio and public performance. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites KDB120 or KDB103 - SEM-1 Equivalents KDB104, KDB181 This unit includes exposure to a range of culturally Credit Points 12 KDB103 Dance Technique specific dance styles through practical workshops and theoretical studies which provide contextual Campus Kelvin Grove Studies 1 background to the styles taught. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Equivalents KDB180 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 All professionals in the field of dance need a Campus Kelvin Grove KDB109 Funk, Tap and all that comprehensive grounding in the practice of dance. This unit provides further opportunities to hone skills Kelvin Grove Availabilities Jazz and deepen understanding in contemporary dance - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 and a second dance genre. As a second unit in a This unit involves practical dance classes as on-going Campus Kelvin Grove suite of Dance Practice units, you will continue to action research. develop skills in learning and reflective practice to Kelvin Grove Availabilities enable you to become an effective self-directed - SEM-2 practitioner. American and Western European popular and music KDB104 Dance Technique theatre dances from the late 1900s to the present Studies 2 form the content base of this unit, drawing on three of KDB204 Australian Dance Pre-requisites KDB103 or KDB180 the following styles: funk, tap, jazz and/or hip-hop. Dance technique and style pertinent to each dance Equivalents KDB114 Equivalents KDB181 form is taught in the practical classes, while in the Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 theory component of the unit this content is interrogated through historical and cultural Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove perspectives. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-2 This unit includes a study of the ritual, artistic and This unit involves practical dance classes as on-going KDB110 Deconstructing Dance social functions of dance in contemporary Australian action research. society. in History Equivalents KDB125 KDB105 Architecture of the Credit Points 12 KDB205 Teaching Dance Body Campus Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites KDP205 Kelvin Grove Equivalents KDX104 Availabilities Equivalents KDB117 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 This unit includes a study of various international Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove historical and contemporary contexts of dance as art. Kelvin Grove It focuses on romanticism, classicism, modernism and Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 postmodernism. - SEM-2 This unit focuses on experiential awareness of the This unit includes a practical introduction to body, including an introduction to a working philosophies and practices in dance education. The knowledge of anatomy, kinesiology and the KDB111 Performance in areas of choreography, performance and appreciation movement potential of the body, both in theory and are explored as students develop basic teaching and practice Context 1 reflective practice skills. This unit is appropriate for Equivalents KDB101, KDX111 students planning to teach dance in the primary, secondary, community or studio context. Credit Points 12 KDB106 Dance Analysis Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities KDB206 Contextualising Dance Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 in the 21st Century Kelvin Grove This studio-based unit involves the making and Availabilities - SEM-2 performing of a dance work for public performance in Pre-requisites KDB106 and KDB110 either a theatrical, digital or site-specific domain. Credit Points 12 This unit includes a study of the analysis of dance through a concentration on the dance as text and a Campus Kelvin Grove study of various international historical and Kelvin Grove Availabilities contemporary works. KDB120 Dance Practice 1 - SEM-1 Equivalents KDB103, KDB180 Dance has demonstrably been a leader in many of Evidence of physical condition to the areas that inform the globalised environment of KDB107 Choreographic Studies Other undertake the unit is required. 21st century arts practices, noticeably in the areas of 1 requisites Students not in KK34(Dance) are interactive technologies, interdisciplinarity, required to pass an audition international collaborations which interrogate differing Equivalents KDX143 cultural perspectives, and the increasing fascination Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 of mass audiences with dance reality television shows Campus Kelvin Grove and social network sites such as YouTube. Parallel to Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove these practices are the growth in participation of Kelvin Grove Availabilities recreational dance-related physical activities, and in Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 an industry context the DIY artists of the independent All professionals in the field of dance need a performance scene. Common to these practices is a This unit introduces crafting skills and choreographic comprehensive grounding in the practice of dance. conscious hybridisation of traditional hierarchies devices used in process of making dance work. It This unit provides the opportunity to hone skills and between ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ culture. At the same time includes the presentation of group work. deepen understanding in contemporary dance and a 21st century dance practices are engaged with second dance genre. As an introductory unit in a suite pressing issues of our age in relation to health, of Dance Practice units, you will develop approaches environmental concerns, and urban mediated
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Kelvin Grove environments. This in turn has informed changes in Availabilities contemporary aesthetic sensibilities. - SEM-1 This unit involves practical dance classes as on-going KDB303 Dance and Technology action research. KDB208 Integrated Professional 1 Pre-requisites KDB207-2 or KDX144-2 Skills Equivalents KDB158 Equivalents KDB221 KDB214 Dance Technique Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Studies 4 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KDB213 or KDB182 Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Equivalents KDB183 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit includes modes of choreographic This is an integrated program building specific Campus Kelvin Grove communication: discussion of aesthetic questions that practical and psychological skills and strategies for Kelvin Grove have emerged out of the last major choreographic Availabilities career development and enhancement. - SEM-2 movements and collaborative practices encouraged with specific focus on digital technologies. This unit involves practical dance classes as on-going action research. KDB209 Choreographic Studies 2 KDB304 Dance and Technology Pre-requisites KDB107 KDB215 Performance in 2 Equivalents KDB207-2 Context 2 Pre-requisites KDB303 or KDB158 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites KDB111 or KDB101 Equivalents KDB159 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 Caboolture Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities This unit includes practice and performance of - SEM-2 - SEM-2 choreographic work employing choreographic devices This studio-based unit involves the making and This unit includes a major choreographic project for and strategies in order to create a personalised performing of a dance work for public performance in public performance. It explores aesthetic and artistic movement vocabulary. The unit will develop your either a theatrical, digital or site-specific domain. values in collaborative processes of making new work ability to constructively analyse and communicate the with technology. choreographic process of your own work and the work of other choreographers. KDB225 Music Theatre Skills Equivalents KSB225, KSB011 KDB305 Performance in KDB211 Performance 3 Credit Points 12 Context 3 (KDB102 or KDX112) and KDB213 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KDB215 Pre-requisites (can be enrolled in the same Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 teaching period) Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KDX141 Kelvin Grove This unit provides students with an introduction to Availabilities Credit Points 12 practical skills development in acting, dance and - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove singing for music theatre. This studio-based unit involves the making and Kelvin Grove performing of a dance work for public performance in Availabilities - SEM-1 either a theatrical, digital or site-specific domain. This studio based unit consists of a creative process KDB230 Dance Practice 3 through rehearsals and classes with choreographers, Pre-requisites KDB121 or KDB104 or KDB181 rehearsal directors and teaching staff leading to a Equivalents KDB213, KDB182 KDB306 Dance Project 1 studio and public performance. Credit Points 12 KDB212 and KDB310. KDB310 can Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Campus Kelvin Grove period as KDB306 Kelvin Grove KDB212 Performance 4 Availabilities Equivalents KDB301, KDB193 - SEM-1 (KDB211 or KDX141) and KDB214 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites (can be enrolled in the same All professionals in the field of dance need a Campus Kelvin Grove teaching period) comprehensive grounding in the practice of dance. Kelvin Grove Equivalents KDX142 This unit provides further opportunities to hone skills Availabilities and deepen understanding in contemporary dance. - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 As a third unit in a suite of Dance Practice units, you This unit is designed for you to investigate your Campus Kelvin Grove will continue to develop skills in learning and reflective practice as a dance performer and/or creator via an practice to enable you to become an effective self- Kelvin Grove interdisciplinary and collaborative project. The Availabilities directed practitioner. You will also investigate - SEM-2 projects may be self-devised or alternatively you may approaches in assisting others to learn. contribute to other creative projects involving new This studio based unit consists of a creative process work. In addition to the project proposals and their through rehearsals and classes with choreographers, realisation, the unit comprises a reflective practice rehearsal directors and teaching staff leading to a written assignment. studio and public performance. KDB231 Latin Dance Party Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove KDB307 Dance Project 2 KDB213 Dance Technique Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 KDB306 and KDB311. KDB311 can Studies 3 Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Pre-requisites KDB104 or KDB181 Latin American Dance styles make an important period as KDB307 contribution to a Dance practitioner's skills portfolio. Equivalents KDB302, KDB199 Equivalents KDB182 Further, as an enjoyable and healthy form of social Credit Points 12 interaction, knowing how to dance these styles is a Credit Points 12 broadly applicable life skill. Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities teaching about media organisations with - SEM-2 communication theory and practitioner perspectives This capstone unit is designed to develop and KDP202 Dance Curriculum drawn from a range of relevant industry sectors. The showcase at a professional level your performative unit creates a foundation on which you will build in skills and artistry. It will allow you to connect with Studies 2 subsequent semesters. choreographers of national standing in order to Pre-requisites KDP201 experience the creation of professional dance work, Anti-requisites KDB202, KDB429 culminating in public performances through the Dance Graduation Season. Credit Points 12 KJB103 Media Design and Campus Kelvin Grove Layout Kelvin Grove Equivalents KCB304, KJB211 Availabilities KDB310 Professional Dance - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Training 1 This is the second of a series of three curriculum Campus Kelvin Grove units, this unit builds on practical engagement with the Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KDB212 or KDX142 Availabilities theory, syllabi and practices of dance learning and - SEM-2 Equivalents KDB301, KDB193 teaching in schools. You will be encouraged to utilise Visual communication techniques are essential in Credit Points 12 your knowledge, skills and understanding of the processes of making, performing and appreciating capturing the attention of an increasingly visual Campus Kelvin Grove dance in developing teaching and learning literate society. Understanding how to design well is Kelvin Grove experiences with particular emphasis on Years 10-12. growing in importance in a society that is time poor Availabilities - SEM-1 and overloaded with competing sources of media. You will learn how to apply design theory in a variety This unit is designed for you to develop the technical of visual communication contexts relevant to the and interpretive dance skills acquired in the first two KDP203 Dance Curriculum journalism, media and communication industries. years of your course to a pre-professional level. Through embodied knowledge, emphasis is placed on Studies 3 specialist and alternative training methods in order to KDP202 (can be enrolled in the Pre-requisites equip you with advanced technical skills; preparing same teaching period) KJB104 Photojournalism you for the rapidly increasing demands placed on Anti-requisites KDB203 Equivalents KJP420, KKB020, KKP420 dance practitioners by the professional dance industry. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities KDB311 Professional Dance - SEM-2 - SEM-2 (Block) Training 2 Developing from the work undertaken in Dance Changing digital technologies have resulted in Curriculum Studies 1 and 2, this unit provides you increased demands and expectations for journalism, Pre-requisites KDB310 with the opportunity to continue investigating and media and communications professionals to have Equivalents KDB301, KDB193 exploring dance curriculum planning and work appropriate digital visual skills. They are increasingly expected to understand and apply digital visual Credit Points 12 program design. This unit also relates current theoretical issues in assessment to the unique principles and possess the ability to employ and Campus Kelvin Grove challenges that dance assessment provides. You will include visual elements in their work such as photo- Kelvin Grove explore a range of assessment procedures, methods essays, and photojournalism projects. In this unit Availabilities - SEM-2 and strategies to support quality and equity in dance students will advance their fundamental digital assessment at all levels. photography proficiency and analyse styles of visual This unit follows on from the technical and interpretive communication and the photographic medium. dance skills acquired in KDB310 Professional Dance Training 1. It is designed to facilitate your continued development in advanced technical skills training KJB101 Computational pitched at a professional level. Through embodied KJB120 Newswriting knowledge, emphasis is placed on specialist and Journalism Anti-requisites KJP401 alternative training methods at a professional level; Credit Points 12 preparing you for the rapidly increasing demands Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove placed on dance practitioners by the professional Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove dance industry. Assessment associated with this unit Gardens Point Caboolture aims to recreate a real life audition experience - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1 through unseen practical examinations. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit acquaints you with the uses journalists make In this unit you learn to think like journalists, to KDP201 Dance Curriculum of computers in their work: for word-processing, personal information management, time evaluate events for their potential news value, to Studies 1 management, and gathering information for stories record interviews and perform other reporting tasks and to write news stories. It includes the evolution and Anti-requisites KDB201, KDB421 and journalism assignments by searching online and CD-ROM databases, by analysing public records with theories of reporting. Credit Points 12 spreadsheets and by using email to interview sources Campus Kelvin Grove found on Internet bulletin boards and in newsgroups, usergroups, and listservers. Kelvin Grove Availabilities KJB121 Journalistic Inquiry - SEM-1 Pre-requisites KJB120 As the first of a series of three curriculum units, this Anti-requisites KJP402 unit provides introductory practical engagement with KJB102 Introduction to Credit Points 12 the theory, syllabi and practices of dance learning and teaching in schools. You will be encouraged to utilize Journalism, Media and Campus Kelvin Grove your knowledge, skills and understanding of the Communication Kelvin Grove Availabilities processes of making, performing and appreciating Equivalents KCB110 - SEM-1, SEM-2 dance in developing teaching and learning experiences. You will begin to understand and learn Credit Points 12 This unit develops the basic skills learnt in to manage the complex socio-cultural environments of Campus Kelvin Grove Newswriting: generating story ideas; researching; the dance classroom and develop theoretical conducting interviews; finding news values and news Kelvin Grove understandings, practical knowledge and skills Availabilities angles and applying them in a practical context. You - SEM-1 necessary to be an effective Dance teacher. Each also learn about how practical newswriting skills fit subsequent curriculum unit will then provide you with This unit introduces you to core concepts and key into an online environment. You are introduced to the opportunities to increase your breadth and depth of knowledge essential for subsequent study in rigours of deadlines and have opportunities to write understanding in these areas. Journalism, and Media & Communication. It combines stories related to different news rounds throughout the semester.
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operations, regulatory bodies and the stance of The praxis-based unit will see students work in professional journalism organisations. Students rostered teams to create journalistic copy to be generate ethical dilemmas and work through them published online. They will also work independently to KJB222 Online Journalism 1 individually, making difficult decisions about issues develop individual news or feature story highlighting Pre-requisites KJB121 or KJP402 such as invasion of privacy, protection of sources and the innovative possibilities of the online journalism Credit Points 12 conflict of interest. The impact of developing medium. information and communication technologies is also Campus Kelvin Grove addressed. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 KJB336 Radio and Television As increasing volumes of news and other factual KJB280 International Journalism 2 material are processed through online media, Pre-requisites KJB235 practitioners and also intending citizen journalists Journalism Equivalents KJB338 stand to get a secure understanding from studying the Pre-requisites KJB120 or KJP401 social and economic underpinnings of the format, and Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 also from acquiring skills for using it. This unit Campus Kelvin Grove explores the background to practice in online Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove journalism, such as the place of the medium in Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 contemporary mass communication; it promotes the - SEM-1 principles of best practice in journalism, and enables This unit includes the philosophy and formulation of students to publish reports on line, giving them This unit identifies, compares and analyses the radio and television news and current affairs, anchor instruction in a wide range of production skills. diversity of journalistic practice in different countries techniques, and radio and television news production and regions. You will look at historical conditions that using computers. have led to variations in journalism across the world, how different politico-economic systems affect KJB224 Feature Writing journalistic activity, and how and why different news KJB120 or KWB107 or KWB381 or media take distinct approaches to covering world KJB337 Investigative Reporting Pre-requisites issues. You will develop the cross-cultural awareness KWB116 Pre-requisites KJB120 and background knowledge required to identify story Anti-requisites KJP403 ideas, relate to sources and produce news reports in Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 different countries and cultural environments. Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 KJB304 Sub-Editing This is an advanced reporting unit stressing the Students conduct interviews and other research that Pre-requisites KJB120 or KJP401 watchdog role of the news media using investigative they use to write Internet, newspaper and/or Equivalents KJB322 reporting approaches. In order to inform prescient magazine articles that profile personalities or stories news features, the class will examine, in depth two Credit Points 12 or that treat processes, events and places to exploit news issues that are central to the current news their human-interest value. Campus Kelvin Grove agenda. The unit is informed through a particular collection of research materials, which are provided Kelvin Grove Availabilities as introductory information only, and through lectures - SEM-1 particular to both the mission of investigative reporting KJB235 Radio and Television This unit builds on units such as KJB120/KJP401 and the salient features of the topics selected. The Newswriting and KJB103 (Media Design and Layout). lecture-tutorial sequence contains a series of Journalism 1 It is aimed at teaching students how to prepare text intensive lectures and tutorials early in the semester. Pre-requisites KJB121 for publication in the journalism industry, which is a These are followed in the later weeks of semester Anti-requisites KJP404, KJB232 highly sought skill for employment both within with feedback loop general sessions for discussion on Australia and overseas, and to understand the job feature development. Credit Points 24 market for subeditors. Students will assess the text for Campus Kelvin Grove news values, quality, adherence to style guides (generic and in-house), grammar, spelling, accuracy, Kelvin Grove Availabilities legality (including defamation, contempt and sub- KJP400 Theories of Journalism, - SEM-1, SEM-2 judice), ethics, sources and balance. Students will Media and Culture The unit aims to provide means to learn about learn to write headlines, captions and similar types of broadcast media from a production-based types that accompany stories, and to subedit print- Equivalents KJP105 perspective, and to begin advanced, practical media stories for reuse in new and social media. Credit Points 12 preparation for working professionally in news media. Students, individually and in small teams, will be Campus Kelvin Grove The practical and theoretical aspects of radio and given a range of copy-text from very poor to Kelvin Grove television media are studied and applied through the reasonable on a variety of topics and make the text Availabilities production of broadcast news programs. Students will which will be made publishable (i.e. production-ready) - SEM-1 gather, script and produce a number of news items for by them working with their tutor using the above This unit introduces students to major bodies of radio and television bulletins for broadcasting through processes. knowledge and research about journalism, media and community sector outlets. This process is facilitated culture. Students will consider theories about the through the learning and usage of broadcast style and nature of practitioners in these fields, their relationship through the evaluation of television and radio with audiences, their professional routines and products. Strong emphasis is placed on current affairs KJB323 Online Journalism 2 practices, the contexts they operate in, the products knowledge. Pre-requisites KJB222 they create, and their impact on society. Students will Credit Points 12 undertake substantial reading and critical inquiry to develop a comprehensive understanding of a selected Campus Kelvin Grove theories, principles or processes relating to KJB239 Journalism Ethics and Kelvin Grove Availabilities journalism, media and culture. Issues - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 All media outlets now have a visible and increasing Campus Kelvin Grove online news presence. This unit builds on the KKB101 Creative Industries: foundations established in Online Journalism 1 to Kelvin Grove Availabilities equip students with the skills and theory needed to People and Practices - SEM-1 compete in this multimedia news world. Students will Equivalents KKD101 QUT Journalism supports the development of socially receive practical hands-on training allowing them to Credit Points 12 responsible, ethical journalists. KJB239 is a core incorporate text, audio, video and still images into journalism unit. It begins with an overview of western timely online news and feature reports. They will be Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove and eastern moral philosophical traditions and moves required to consider the application other online on to examine current journalistic practice in the communication tools (Blogs, wikis, Myspace, context of Australian and international news media YouTube etc) in a modern journalistic environment.
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Caboolture Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove It is important that Creative Industries students gain The Faculty of Creative Industries intends that its - SEM-1 real world work experience in order to link university graduates practice as professionals in their respective KKB101 is the first of two foundation-level core units study with professional practice in their chosen discipline or disciplines. Increasingly, a major part of in the BCI and associated double degrees. During this industry. Students need to equip themselves not only such practice is the instigation, management, unit, you will research potential creative career with skills and discipline knowledge gained in the monitoring, and reporting on Creative Industries pathways for yourself, discover which skills you'll classroom, but also with understandings and projects. This unit offers experience at participating in need to be a successful creative practitioner, and find experience gained from work-integrated learning so an advertised project that may be offered by one or out about career building strategies in the creative that they may function and flourish when they enter more disciplines in the Faculty. Normally projects are industries. You'll also learn information literacy and the workplace. This advanced-level (capstone) unit is advertised in the preceding semester through InPlace. writing skills, which are essential for your studies and offered during the final years of an undergraduate This unit can extend upon work undertaken in for professional practice in the Creative Industries. degree course at which time students are able to KKB345 (CI Project 1) in the case of larger, more apply transferable skills to a workplace or professional involved projects, or can be used for a second context. discreet project. KKB102 Creative Industries: Making Connections KKB342 Work Integrated KKB347 Becoming A Equivalents KKD102 Learning 2 Researcher: Understandings, Credit Points 12 KKB341 or KKB343 or BEB701. Skills and Practices Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KKB341 can be enrolled in the Pre-requisites Completion of 192cp of study Caboolture same teaching period as KKB342 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities Anti-requisites BEB702 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities The ability to work collaboratively and to communicate - SEM-2 effectively is essential for all Creative Industries Kelvin Grove Availabilities This unit for final year Creative Industries students is professionals. In this unit you will have the opportunity - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM designed as a preparation for the Creative Industries to acquire and apply research, collaborative practices It is important that Creative Industries students gain Faculty Honours program and/or as an introduction to and project management skills through the real world work experience in order to link university professional and commercial research contexts. collaborative development of a Creative Industries study with professional practice in their chosen project proposal. This unit is a complement to industry. Students need to equip themselves not only KKB101 Creative Industries: People and Practices with skills and discipline knowledge gained in the and examines the practical requirements of creative classroom, but also with understandings and KKB350 Creative Industries entrepreneurship, and working collaboratively. experience gained from work-integrated learning so that they may function and flourish when they enter International Study Tour the workplace. This advanced-level (capstone) unit is Completion of 72 credit points of offered during the final year of an undergraduate Pre-requisites Creative Industries units (K% or D% KKB201 Teaching Primary degree course at which time students are able to units) Music, Visual Arts and Media apply transferable skills to a workplace or professional Credit Points 12 context. Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Caboolture - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1 KKB345 Creative Industries Availabilities This unit is designed for students who have Kelvin Grove Project 1 completed at least one year full time study of a QUT - SEM-1 Completion of 72 credit points of Creative Industries Faculty course and are ready to Through both practical and theoretical contexts, you Pre-requisites Creative Industries units (K% or D% expand their horizons by gaining experience of are introduced to curriculum planning and teaching in units) international creative industries practice in creative primary Visual Arts, Music and Media using The Arts cities. Creative cities contain creative precincts Credit Points 12 Years 1 to 10 Syllabus (Queensland Studies managed by internationally recognised cultural Authority, 2002). Campus Kelvin Grove producers, designers, and professionals that include Kelvin Grove art museums, galleries, fashion houses, production Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 houses, tourist districts and the like. The unit examines the culture that is produced and exhibited in KKB202 Teaching Primary The Faculty of Creative Industries intends that its the city (or cities) selected for the tour and provides graduates practice as professionals in their respective opportunities for students to interact with Dance and Drama discipline or disciplines. Increasingly, a major part of internationally recognised creative artists and cultural Credit Points 12 such practice is the instigation, management, professionals. IMPORTANT: The cost of the 2-3 week Campus Kelvin Grove monitoring, and reporting on Creative Industries tour is estimated at between four and five thousand projects. This unit offers experience at participating in dollars. Kelvin Grove Availabilities an advertised project that may be offered by one or - SEM-1 more disciplines in the Faculty. Normally projects are Through both practical and theoretical contexts, you advertised in the preceding semester through the CIF are introduced to curriculum planning and teaching in Work Integrated Learning Blackboard Hub. For some KKB351 Work Integrated primary Dance and Drama using The Arts Essential students this unit will be taken as the first of two Learning 3 Learnings, (2008) 'project' units related to the same project, in such cases this unit may be a prerequisite or corequisite to Pre-requisites KKB342 or BEB702 the second unit, KKB346 Creative Industries Project Anti-requisites BEB703 2. KKB341 Work Integrated Credit Points 12 Learning 1 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Completion of 168 credit points of KKB346 Creative Industries Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-1, SEM-2 study Project 2 BEB701, BEB702, KKB343, It is important that design students gain real world Anti-requisites KKB345 (can be enrolled in the KKB344 Pre-requisites work experience in order to link university study with same teaching period) professional practice. Students need to equip Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 themselves not only with skills and discipline knowledge gained in the classroom, but also with Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove understandings and experience gained from Work Integrated Learning so that they may function and
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This to KKD101 Creative Industries: People and Practices an entrepreneurial education in the creative economy. advanced-level unit is part of a four-unit Work and examines the practical requirements of creative This unit aims to provide the creative industries Integrated Learning (WIL) minor in which each WIL entrepreneurship, and working collaboratively. practitioner/management with an understanding of the unit has its own specific focus and objective in respect theory and practice of entrepreneurship by integrating to understanding and reflecting on the workplace. the concepts, definitions, skills and techniques Work Integrated Learning 3 builds upon foundational required for an entrepreneurial approach to creative knowledge of professional practice and self-directed KKM001 Introduction to industries. learning acquired in Work Integrated Learning 1 and 2 Personal Social Media by extending the focus to reflection and analysis of how individual practice relates to the collective Networking cultural context of the workplace. Anti-requisites KKP111 KKP002 20:20 Vision: Imagining Credit Points 6 the Creative Future Campus Online Credit Points 12 KKB352 Work Integrated Online Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities Learning 4 - 6TP4 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 KKB351. KKB351 can be enrolled Social Media are an increasingly important part of Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as social, professional and personal communication. One condition of late modernity is rapid change and KKB352 This unit will provide you with the knowledge and an increasing rate of change. This unit will address Anti-requisites BEB704 skills to build your personal online presence the drivers of change, the impact change has now, effectively. As you map and analyse your personal and is likely to have, in the mid term and how the Credit Points 12 social media presence you will apply critical social Creative Industries formulation responds to these Campus Gardens Point media theories of networks and influencers. larger societal forces. Understanding of the dynamics Gardens Point of these forces is crucial for Creative Industries Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 practitioners and professionals in order to shape a future characterised by the creation of innovative It is important that design students gain real world KKM002 Professional action, forms and thought. work experience in order to link university study with professional practice. Students need to equip Networking Through Social themselves not only with skills and discipline Media knowledge gained in the classroom, but also with Anti-requisites KKP111 KKP003 Project Design in the understandings and experience gained from Work Integrated Learning so that they may function and Credit Points 6 Creative Industries Completion of 48cp in current flourish when they enter the workplace. This Campus Online Pre-requisites advanced-level unit is part of a four-unit Work course Online Integrated Learning (WIL) minor in which each WIL Availabilities Credit Points 12 unit has its own specific focus and objective in respect - 6TP5 Campus Kelvin Grove to understanding and reflecting on the workplace. This module will provide you with the skills and Work Integrated Learning 4 builds upon foundational knowledge needed to build effective professional Kelvin Grove Availabilities knowledge of professional practice and self-directed networks through social media with a focus on - SEM-1, SEM-2 learning acquired in Work Integrated Learning 1, 2 LinkedIn as well as other platforms such as Twitter The cohesive and reflexive nature of creative and 3 by extending the focus to reflection and and Facebook. You will apply principles of effective practitioners permits their successful skill transfer to a analysis of how individual practice relates to the social media communication and professional variety of employment and project building collective cultural context of the workplace. branding to establish and maintain an effective social opportunities. Understanding the importance of media professional network. research design, collaboration and professional networking in the Creative Industries is therefore KKD101 Creative Industries: essential. This unit will help you develop and critique KKN320 Advanced Workplace the relevance of research methods, collaboration and People and Practices project design and management in your creative and Equivalents KKB101 Learning professional practice. Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites Completion of 36cp of study. Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KKN330, KKN340-1, KKN340-2 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 KKP004 Innovation in the Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP3 Campus Kelvin Grove Creative Industries: Major KKD101 is the first of two foundation-level core units Kelvin Grove Availabilities Project in the BCI and associated double degrees. During this - SEM-1, SUM Co-requisites KKP004-1 unit, you will research potential creative career As part of a substantive postgraduate learning pathways for yourself, discover which skills you'll Credit Points 12 experience, Creative Industries students should be need to be a successful creative practitioner, and find able to demonstrate initiative, work well in a team and Campus Kelvin Grove out about career building strategies in the creative on their own, and apply self-directed learning and industries. You'll also learn information literacy and Kelvin Grove transferable skills within the context of their Availabilities writing skills, which are essential for your studies and - SEM-1, SEM-2 professional confines. The skills and discipline for professional practice in the Creative Industries. knowledge gained in university contexts are given This major project is the final and culminating activity greater depth and dimension when they are acted out of the Master of Creative Industries. It serves to focus and experienced in a real-world environment. In this each candidate's learning through a specifically KKD102 Creative Industries: unit you will gain work-based experience that designed and substantial project that seeks to realise connects your university studies to practice in your innovations in the candidate’s practice or workplace. Making Connections chosen industry. Each project will be designed to 'fit' the scale, scope and focus of 48 credit points. This unit aims to provide Equivalents KKB102 the creative industries worker with an opportunity to Credit Points 12 plan, implement and evaluate a major project Campus Kelvin Grove KKP001 Entrepreneurship in professional project in the Creative Industries. Such a project may be located in the candidate's workplace, Kelvin Grove Availabilities the Creative Economy worked in a group, constructed as an internship with - 13TP2 Credit Points 12 an innovative firm or company or a piece of scholarly enquiry which addresses the challenges of innovation The ability to work collaboratively and to communicate Campus Kelvin Grove effectively is essential for all Creative Industries within one of the creative industries. Kelvin Grove professionals. In this unit students will have the Availabilities opportunity to acquire and apply research, - SEM-1, SEM-2 collaborative practices and project management skills Entrepreneurial skills are valuable assets to both the through the collaborative development of a Creative creative practitioner and creative industries Industries project proposal. This unit is a complement management. This unit outlines the effectiveness of
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an innovative firm or company or a piece of scholarly professional or creative practice. This work thus KKP004 Innovation in the enquiry which addresses the challenges of innovation demonstrates advanced competence, skills or Creative Industries: Major within one of the creative industries. analytical ability in a chosen discipline and/or interdisciplinary skills or analytical ability. KKP400 is a Project multi-component unit and all five components must be Co-requisites KKP004-3 completed to obtain final credit points. Credit Points 12 KKP111 Digital Tools in the Campus Kelvin Grove Creative Industries Anti-requisites KKM001, KKM002 Kelvin Grove KKP400 Honours Project Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 KKP400-4 (can be enrolled in the Pre-requisites same teaching period) This major project is the final and culminating activity Campus Kelvin Grove and Online of the Master of Creative Industries. It serves to focus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 each candidate’s learning through a specifically - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities designed and substantial project that seeks to realise Online Kelvin Grove innovations in the candidate's practice or workplace. - SEM-2 Availabilities Each project will be designed to 'fit' the scale, scope - SEM-2 Digital and social media tools are an increasingly and focus of 48 credit points. This unit aims to provide The Honours project is the major component of the important part of the Creative Industries. This unit will the creative industries worker with an opportunity to Honours year in Creative Industries. As the Honours develop your knowledge of platforms and users, and plan, implement and evaluate a major project year builds upon a completed undergraduate degree, provide skills in the professional use of social media professional project in the Creative Industries. Such a the project gives you the opportunity to pursue an in- for a range of practices. This unit offers a critical view project may be located in the candidate's workplace, depth project over two semesters that can be a) a of social media and the strengths that can be gained worked in a group, constructed as an internship with thesis dissertation or b) a project is made up of critical in determining 'the right' approach in your practice. an innovative firm or company or a piece of scholarly work (an exegesis) produced in association with enquiry which addresses the challenges of innovation professional or creative practice. This work thus within one of the creative industries. demonstrates advanced competence, skills or KKP112 Telling Stories: analytical ability in a chosen discipline and/or interdisciplinary skills or analytical ability. KKP400 is a Narrative in Creative Industries multi-component unit and all five components must be KKP004 Innovation in the Credit Points 12 completed to obtain final credit points. Creative Industries: Major Campus Kelvin Grove Project Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites KKP003 and completion of 96cp - SEM-1, SEM-2 KKP400 Honours Project KKP400-1 (can be enrolled in the Co-requisites KKP004-2 Where the world's leading agencies, commercial or Pre-requisites same teaching period) Credit Points 12 otherwise, increasingly employ narrative as the key component to their communication, practitioners in Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove the Creative Industries are arguably those best placed Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove to work with, respond and act in what has become a Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 diverse and rapidly changing environment. It is Availabilities imperative that we as designers, writers, arts - SEM-1 This major project is the final and culminating activity managers, advertisers, and creators gain a scholarly The Honours project is the major component of the of the Master of Creative Industries. It serves to focus and pragmatic understanding of storytelling across a each candidate's learning through a specifically Honours year in Creative Industries. As the Honours range of social, cultural, Indigenous and ethical year builds upon a completed undergraduate degree, designed and substantial project that seeks to realise contexts. innovations in the candidate’s practice or workplace. the project gives you the opportunity to pursue an in- Each project will be designed to 'fit' the scale, scope depth project over two semesters that can be a) a and focus of 48 credit points. This unit aims to provide thesis dissertation or b) a project is made up of critical the creative industries worker with an opportunity to KKP113 Creative Project work (an exegesis) produced in association with plan, implement and evaluate a major project professional or creative practice. This work thus Completion of 36cp. The units can professional project in the Creative Industries. Such a demonstrates advanced competence, skills or Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching project may be located in the candidate's workplace, analytical ability in a chosen discipline and/or period as KKP113 worked in a group, constructed as an internship with interdisciplinary skills or analytical ability. KKP400 is a an innovative firm or company or a piece of scholarly Credit Points 12 multi-component unit and all five components must be completed to obtain final credit points. enquiry which addresses the challenges of innovation Campus Kelvin Grove within one of the creative industries. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 KKP400 Honours Project This unit is the culminating activity of the Graduate KKP400-2 (can be enrolled in the KKP004 Innovation in the Certificate of Creative Industries. It serves to focus Pre-requisites same teaching period) Creative Industries: Major your learning through a substantial piece of creative practice. The unit will bring students from different Credit Points 12 Project fields of Creative Industries together and offer Campus Kelvin Grove KKP004-2 (can be enrolled in the opportunities to consider practice in disciplines other Pre-requisites Kelvin Grove same teaching period) than your own, while still focusing on current methods Availabilities of approach in your own field of creative practice. - SEM-2 Co-requisites KKP004-4 The Honours project is the major component of the Credit Points 12 Honours year in Creative Industries. As the Honours Campus Kelvin Grove KKP400 Honours Project year builds upon a completed undergraduate degree, Kelvin Grove the project gives you the opportunity to pursue an in- Availabilities KKP400-3 (can be enrolled in the - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites depth project over two semesters that can be a) a same teaching period) thesis dissertation or b) a project is made up of critical This major project is the final and culminating activity Credit Points 12 work (an exegesis) produced in association with of the Master of Creative Industries. It serves to focus professional or creative practice. This work thus each candidate's learning through a specifically Campus Kelvin Grove demonstrates advanced competence, skills or designed and substantial project that seeks to realise Kelvin Grove analytical ability in a chosen discipline and/or Availabilities innovations in the candidate’s practice or workplace. - SEM-2 interdisciplinary skills or analytical ability. KKP400 is a Each project will be designed to 'fit' the scale, scope multi-component unit and all five components must be The Honours project is the major component of the and focus of 48 credit points. This unit aims to provide completed to obtain final credit points. the creative industries worker with an opportunity to Honours year in Creative Industries. As the Honours plan, implement and evaluate a major project year builds upon a completed undergraduate degree, professional project in the Creative Industries. Such a the project gives you the opportunity to pursue an in- project may be located in the candidate's workplace, depth project over two semesters that can be a) a worked in a group, constructed as an internship with thesis dissertation or b) a project is made up of critical work (an exegesis) produced in association with
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Kelvin Grove image, text and sound. Availabilities KKP400 Honours Project - SEM-2 (Block) Credit Points 12 This unit aims to provide Creative Industries Campus Kelvin Grove KKP415 Creative Workshop practitioners with an understanding of the theory and Kelvin Grove practice of project development through an integrated Availabilities Equivalents KKP607 - SEM-1 view of the concepts, skills, tools and techniques Credit Points 12 involved in establishing Creative Industries projects. The Honours project is the major component of the The unit will develop capacities to develop and Campus Kelvin Grove Honours year in Creative Industries. As the Honours present an in-depth project/business proposal for a year builds upon a completed undergraduate degree, Kelvin Grove Availabilities creative industries project or business. the project gives you the opportunity to pursue an in- - SEM-1, SEM-2 depth project over two semesters that can be a) a thesis dissertation or b) a project is made up of critical The successful integration of artistic practice with work (an exegesis) produced in association with audience tastes and business development lies at the KKP606 Creative Industries professional or creative practice. This work thus heart of career sustainability in the Creative demonstrates advanced competence, skills or Industries. This unit is the first of two professional Final Seminar analytical ability in a chosen discipline and/or practice units designed for arts professionals to Pre-requisites KKP622 develop an integrated approach to their creative interdisciplinary skills or analytical ability. KKP400 is a Equivalents KKN072 multi-component unit and all five components must be practice through intensive, applied, and collaborative completed to obtain final credit points. exploration, combined with individual reflective Credit Points 12 analysis. The unit brings together industry experts Campus Kelvin Grove and academic supervisors in your discipline to provide Kelvin Grove opportunities for review and reflection at key times Availabilities KKP401 Honours Graduate during the semester. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Seminar This culminating unit is dedicated to the reporting of research outcomes to a collegial group of peers, Equivalents KKN002 industry partners and fellow higher degree students. Credit Points 12 KKP416 Advanced Creative In addition to a written report encompassing an Campus Kelvin Grove Workshop innovative doctoral package of publishable standard, KKP415 or KKP607. KKP415 can candidates present a public seminar on their Creative Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching Industries professional projects by drawing on the - SEM-2 period as KKP416 theoretical frameworks developed during their doctoral journey, together with their lived experience This is a seminar program of formal presentations and Equivalents KKP608 in-class workshops designed to review your progress of project planning and implementation. to date and to assist in refining key areas of your Credit Points 12 project prior to submission for examination. You are Campus Kelvin Grove expected to notify your project supervisor of your Kelvin Grove KKP609 Approaches to Media, content in this unit and invite your supervisor to the Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 oral presentation of your research findings. Communication and Cultural Strengthening professional practice in the Creative Industries is an iterative process that requires ongoing Research cycles of planning, implementation, analysis, and Co-requisites IFN001 KKP409 Approaches to reflection. This unit builds upon Creative Workshop to Equivalents DEB701, KKP601, KKP624 Honours Enquiry extend and refine your ability to plan, implement, and analyse your professional creative project. You will Credit Points 12 Co-requisites KKP400-1 work with your academic supervisors and mentors to Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 act on advice received in intensive workshops and Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove group-specific mentoring given by visiting industry - SEM-1, SEM-2 experts. Kelvin Grove Availabilities This unit plays a key role in your research degree by - SEM-1 introducing you to the fundamentals of good research There are many forms of enquiry suited to the diverse and standards of presentation. The unit helps you range of disciplines which make up the Creative KKP601 Approaches to develop the skills to manage your own research Industries. These forms of enquiry typically fall within Research in the Creative project. qualitative research traditions, creative practice as research and applied commercial research. This unit Industries plays a key role in your research degree by Equivalents DEB701, KKP609, KKP624 KKP613 MFA Project introducing you to the most appropriate form of Credit Points 12 enquiry for your study and providing you with the KKP613-1 and KKP613-2. KKP613- Campus Kelvin Grove 1 and KKP613-2 can be enrolled in strategies, methods and protocols for designing, Pre-requisites implementing and evaluating that study. You will be Kelvin Grove the same teaching period as Availabilities undertaking this unit with your Honours cohort and - SEM-1, SEM-2 KKP613-4 attending certain lectures in the postgraduate mode Co-requisites KKP613-3 for this material, KKP601 Approaches to Enquiry in There are many forms of enquiry suited to the diverse Equivalents KKN010-4 the Creative Industries, as nominated by the Honours range of disciplines which make up the Creative Coordinator. Industries. These forms of enquiry typically fall within Credit Points 12 qualitative research traditions, creative practice as research and applied commercial research. This unit Campus Kelvin Grove plays a key role in your research degree by Kelvin Grove Availabilities KKP414 Digital Writing: Words introducing you to the most appropriate form of - SEM-1, SEM-2 enquiry for your study and providing you with the Under Glass strategies, methods and protocols for designing, This is a multi-part unit. It aims to consolidate and advance the learning of previous project units into the Credit Points 12 implementing and evaluating that study. final iteration of your MFA project work. You will Campus Kelvin Grove create and present your integrated original works and Kelvin Grove these will be assessed by industry peers. In order to Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 KKP603 Project Development in become an active professional artist within a creative industries environment you need to develop your Writing online, for computer, tablet and other mobile the Creative Industries disciplinary skills and understandings in a broad screens, is not as straight forward as putting pen to Pre-requisites KKP623 interdisciplinary and collaborative context. Your work paper. This unit will allow you to engage with and environment is likely to be project-based and you Equivalents KKN065 consider writing creatively for multiple digital therefore need to develop and demonstrate effective environments. It will consider a range of methods and Credit Points 12 project management skills and self-reliance in platforms, discuss common modes of presentation, Campus Kelvin Grove planning, producing, promoting, and managing your and examine industry-related issues and the overlaps creative work. and intersections in the increasing convergence of
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understanding of an individual's industry practice. The KKP615 Graduate Seminar unit culminates in a public presentation of the process KKP601 or KKP624 or KKP609 or Pre-requisites and outcomes of DCI Project 1, underpinned by the KKP613 MFA Project KKN020 framework of the professional practitioner in site and Co-requisites KKP613-2 Equivalents KKN200 field. Equivalents KKN010-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove KKP623 Reflective Practice in Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Action Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 External Anti-requisites KKP620, KKP621 - SEM-1 This is a multi-part unit. It aims to consolidate and Credit Points 24 advance the learning of previous project units into the At the postgraduate level, it is important that, as Campus Kelvin Grove final iteration of your MFA project work. You will researchers, you connect your project to larger research issues and activities across the creative Kelvin Grove create and present your integrated original works and Availabilities these will be assessed by industry peers. In order to industries. This seminar-based unit fosters a culture - SEM-1 of discussion and debate amongst creative industries become an active professional artist within a creative This unit introduces and explores the processes research candidates. The seminars offer you the industries environment you need to develop your involved in undertaking critical, systematic reflection opportunity to share the outcomes of your research disciplinary skills and understandings in a broad into professional and creative practice. While and discuss the writing of the thesis/exegesis. This interdisciplinary and collaborative context. Your work acknowledging that practice in the Creative Industries unit is taken during the latter half of candidature when environment is likely to be project-based and you incorporates a multitude of processes and you are best able to report on your research. therefore need to develop and demonstrate effective approaches across a range of disciplines in diverse project management skills and self-reliance in contexts, this unit seeks to develop a personal and planning, producing, promoting, and managing your serviceable model for reflection on practice. The unit creative work. KKP616 Postgraduate forms the basis for subsequent research in the professional practice research projects which drive Independent Study the course. KKP613 MFA Project Equivalents KKN006 Co-requisites KKP613-1 Credit Points 12 Equivalents KKN010-2 Campus Kelvin Grove KKP624 Approaches to Design Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities Research - SEM-1, SEM-2 Admission into IF49 or KK51 or Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites This unit enables students to undertake independent KK59 or KK60 Kelvin Grove Availabilities work of an artistic or scholarly nature which is of - SEM-1, SEM-2 Equivalents KKP601, KKP609 appropriate scope. The student devises an outline Credit Points 12 This is a multi-part unit. It aims to consolidate and and proposal of project study and/or creative practice advance the learning of previous project units into the in consultation with a staff supervisor. Artistic Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove final iteration of your MFA project work. You will outcomes would be expected to be to the standard of Gardens Point create and present your integrated original works and public showing. Written work requires a minimum of - SEM-2 (Block) Availabilities these will be assessed by industry peers. In order to 6000 - 10000 words, or equivalent if other Kelvin Grove become an active professional artist within a creative media/reportage is used. - SEM-1 industries environment you need to develop your disciplinary skills and understandings in a broad As you commence your postgraduate research interdisciplinary and collaborative context. Your work degree, this unit plays a key role in introducing you to environment is likely to be project-based and you KKP620 Introduction To appropriate forms of enquiry for your own research, therefore need to develop and demonstrate effective and providing you with the philosophies, frameworks, project management skills and self-reliance in Reflective Practice methodologies and protocols for planning, planning, producing, promoting, and managing your Equivalents KKP602, KKN061 implementing and evaluating that research within a creative work. Credit Points 12 Design and Creative Industries context. Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities KKP613 MFA Project - SEM-1 KKZ301 Creative Industries in KKP613-1 and KKP613-2. KKP613- This unit investigates the intuition and tacit Asia 1 and KKP613-2 can be enrolled in Pre-requisites knowledges that inform and inspire your creative Credit Points 12 the same teaching period as practice by building the conceptual framework for Campus Chinese University of HongKong KKP613-3 being a reflective practitioner. Texts, terminologies Co-requisites KKP613-4 and processes will be discussed and analysed within The Chinese University of Hong the context and forms of your practice. Availabilities Kong Equivalents KKN010-3 - 5TP5 Credit Points 12 Creative Industries in Asia introduces students to Campus Kelvin Grove KKP622 Advanced Reflective media and cultural developments that are both Kelvin Grove familiar and complex. The familiarity comes from the Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Practice fact that Asian pop culture is dynamic and shared Pre-requisites KKP603 and KKP623 across the region; the complexity is based on the fact This is a multi-part unit. It aims to consolidate and that these Asian creative industries must compete advance the learning of previous project units into the Equivalents KKP605, KKN062 with global creative industries. The unit looks at three final iteration of your MFA project work. You will Credit Points 12 levels of interaction in Asia's creative industries: policy create and present your integrated original works and Campus Kelvin Grove making, markets and grassroots. Students have the these will be assessed by industry peers. In order to chance to draw on local examples in assignments. become an active professional artist within a creative Kelvin Grove Availabilities industries environment you need to develop your - 6TP1, SEM-2 disciplinary skills and understandings in a broad interdisciplinary and collaborative context. Your work This unit provides for a thorough analysis of the KKZ302 Global Media and environment is likely to be project-based and you reflective practitioner process as it applied to students therefore need to develop and demonstrate effective and their colleagues during DCI Professional Project Communication project management skills and self-reliance in I. Patterns of engagement and response in the Credit Points 12 workplace are analysed during a process of re- planning, producing, promoting, and managing your Campus Chinese University of HongKong creative work. theorising and conceptual review. Conceptual reference points for analysing practice are extended The Chinese University of Hong by investigating theoretical frameworks from other Availabilities Kong fields that may assist in building a more complete - 5TP6
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This unit provides an advanced-level overview of key This unit focuses on the rich and varied relationship developments in 21st century global media and between sound and image in a number of media and communications. It considers the theoretical artforms, including film, music video, theatre, underpinnings of global media from perspectives installation, mixed media performance and many KMB136 Creative Studio 1 including mass communications, political economy, more. Equivalents KMB140 cultural studies, and professional practice. It will Credit Points 12 examine major international developments in media and creative industries through a grounded case Campus Kelvin Grove study approach into global media organisations, KMB119 Music and Sound Kelvin Grove Availabilities production processes, audience behaviour, and public Production 1 - SEM-1 policy. Equivalents KMB108, KMB621 Successful musicians need to form and negotiate their creative identity within a complex field of Credit Points 12 practice. They need to develop critical skills to KKZ341 Internship Campus Kelvin Grove understand their music in context and how it can be connected to an audience. This unit builds students' Completion of 144cp of KZ30 units Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Availabilities critical aural and practical skills in the creation and (KCZ% and KKZ%) - SEM-1 presentation of music. As the first of six units in Equivalents KKB341 This unit introduces students to the fundamentals creative music practice, it provides an opportunity for principles of music and sound production through a Credit Points 12 students to explore and present musical ideas with mix of theory and practice. Students gain an peers, at an introductory level, in a staff directed Campus Chinese University of HongKong understanding of sound recording, sound production environment. The Chinese University of Hong and live sound reinforcement and develop listening Availabilities Kong skills essential for music and sound production. - SEM-2 KMB137 Critical Listening 1 It is important that Creative Industries students gain Equivalents KMB140 real work industry-based experience in order to link KMB122 Music and Sound university study with professional practice. Students Concepts 1 Credit Points 12 need to equip themselves not only with skills and Campus Kelvin Grove discipline knowledge but also with understandings Equivalents KMB130, KMB632 Kelvin Grove and experience in order that they may function and Credit Points 12 Availabilities flourish when they enter the workplace. This advaced - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove unit is offered during the final year of an Successful musicians need to form and negotiate undergraduate degree course at which time students Kelvin Grove Availabilities their creative identity within a complex field of are able to apply appropriate, transferable skills to a - SEM-1 practice. This unit helps you develop critical skills to workplace or professional context. This is the first of two units exploring and engaging understand music in context and how it can be with key concepts in music and sound. The unit connected to an audience. It builds your critical aural encompasses both criticism and analysis as well as skills and theoretical knowledge in the recognition and KMB003 Sex Drugs Rock 'N' creative practice and experimentation and draws on a understanding of a broad range of music and musical wide spectrum of contemporary and historical music practices. As the first of four units in the development Roll and sound examples. of these skills, it provides an opportunity for you to explore and analyse musical and sonic ideas with Equivalents KMB640 peers, at an introductory level, in a staff directed Credit Points 12 environment. Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove KMB129 Music and Sound Caboolture Production 2 - SEM-1 Availabilities Equivalents KMB105, KMB619 KMB138 Creative Studio 2 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KMB136 or KMB140 or KMB125 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Equivalents KMB141 In this unit, you will gain an insight into the interaction Campus Kelvin Grove between music and society by analysing the artistic, Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities cultural, economic, and political contexts of popular - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove music in the 20th and 21st centuries. This insight is This unit builds on Music and Sound Production 1. It Kelvin Grove grounded in the critical examination of your personal Availabilities introduces students to sound synthesis and signal - SEM-2 relationship to music, and the study of diverse and processing and extends the students understanding dynamic musical styles and genres. Successful musicians need to form and negotiate of the approaches and aesthetics underpinning their creative identity within a complex field of creative music and sound production. Students will practice. They need to develop critical skills to further develop practical skills in music and sound understand their music in context and how it can be composition and deepen their knowledge of the KMB004 World Music connected to an audience. This unit builds your hardware and software commonly used in creative Equivalents KMB631 critical aural and practical skills in the creation and production. presentation of music. As the second of six units in Credit Points 12 creative music practice, it provides an opportunity for Campus Kelvin Grove you to explore and present musical ideas with peers Kelvin Grove in a staff directed environment. Availabilities KMB132 Music and Sound - SEM-1 Concepts 2 You will gain an awareness and better understanding Pre-requisites KMB122 of world music, its particular significance within KMB139 Critical Listening 2 Equivalents KMB131, KMB633 Australia and its impact upon contemporary music Pre-requisites KMB137 or KMB140 or KMB125 through a series of lectures, demonstrations and Credit Points 12 tutorials. Equivalents KMB141 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 KMB107 Sound, Image, Text Kelvin Grove This is the second of two units exploring and Availabilities Equivalents KMB638 - SEM-2 engaging with key concepts in music and sound. The Credit Points 12 unit extends the critical and analytical skills developed Successful musicians need to form and negotiate their creative identity within a complex field of Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove in Music and Sounds Concepts 1 as well as developing a broader understanding of strategies for practice. This unit helps you develop critical skills to Caboolture creative practice and experimentation by critically understand music in context and how it can be - SEM-2 Availabilities listening to a wide spectrum of contemporary and connected to an audience. It expands your critical Kelvin Grove historical music and sound examples. aural skills and theoretical knowledge in the - SEM-2 recognition and understanding of a broad range of
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units music and musical practices. As the second of four Successful musicians need to form and negotiate units in the development of these skills, it provides an KMB225 Creative Studio 3 their creative identity within a complex field of opportunity for you to explore and analyse musical Pre-requisites KMB135 or KMB138 or KMB141 practice. This unit helps you develop critical skills to and sonic ideas with peers, at an intermediate level, Equivalents KMB214-2 understand music in context and how it can be in a staff directed environment. connected to an audience. It further develops your Credit Points 12 critical aural skills and theoretical knowledge in the Campus Kelvin Grove recognition and understanding of a broad range of Kelvin Grove music and musical practices. As the third of four units Availabilities KMB200 Music Scenes and - SEM-1 in the development of these skills, it provides an Subcultures opportunity for you to explore and analyse musical Successful musicians and sound designers need to and sonic ideas with peers, at an intermediate- Credit Points 12 form and negotiate their creative identity within a advanced level, in a staff directed environment. Campus Kelvin Grove complex field of practice. They need to develop critical skills to understand their work in context and Kelvin Grove Availabilities how it can be connected to an audience. This unit - SEM-1 builds on, and extends, students' critical aural and KMB239 Critical Listening 4 This unit will explore many of the major musical practical skills from Creative Studio 1 and 2 in the Pre-requisites KMB237 or KMB325 subcultural movements of the last sixty years through creation and presentation of their work. As the third of Equivalents KMB335 an interdisciplinary approach. To understand how six units in creative practice, it provides an opportunity music operates as a form of social, cultural and for students to explore and present their work with Credit Points 12 political communication this unit explores the various peers and individually to audiences in a staff- Campus Kelvin Grove contexts in which music circulates and is made mentored environment. It assists students in Kelvin Grove meaningful. establishing their identity as an artist and locating Availabilities their work within a broader field of practice, as well as - SEM-2 extending them in the role of the creative collaborator. Successful musicians need to form and negotiate their creative identity within a complex field of KMB215 The Music Industry practice. This unit completes the development of your Equivalents KMB301, KMB056 KMB229 Music and Sound critical skills to understand music in context and how it Credit Points 12 can be connected to an audience. It develops and Production 4 consolidates your critical aural skills and theoretical Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KMB219 knowledge in the recognition and understanding of a Kelvin Grove broad range of music and musical practices. As the Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 last of four units in the development of these skills, it Campus Kelvin Grove provides an opportunity for you to explore and This unit gives a working knowledge of the structural, analyse musical and sonic ideas with peers, at an legal and business aspects of the Australian music Kelvin Grove Availabilities advanced level, in a staff directed environment. industry by engaging with real world music industry - SEM-2 professionals and formulating a number of strategies This unit builds upon Music and Sound Production 1, to reflect this. 2 and 3. It introduces students to the concept of the studio as an instrument. By developing advanced KMB250 Creative Performer 1 studio recording techniques and focussing on creative Pre-requisites KMB119 and KMB129 and KMB138 relationships, it extends the student's understanding KMB216 Audio / Visual Credit Points 12 of the approaches and aesthetics underpinning Interaction creative music and sound production. Students will Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KKB216 further develop practical skills in music and sound Kelvin Grove Availabilities composition and deepen their knowledge of the - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 hardware and software commonly used in creative Campus Kelvin Grove production. This unit aims to develop the skills and understanding necessary for generating original creative work Kelvin Grove Availabilities through extension and experimentation. It adds to the - SEM-1 foundational knowledge and ideas delivered in Music The ability to build custom audio/video performance KMB235 Creative Studio 4 and Sound Concepts 1 & 2 and draws on technical and composition systems enables digital media artists Pre-requisites KMB225 content introduced in Music and Sound Production 1 to create unique interactive works. Graphical & 2. development environments are an ideal entry point for Credit Points 12 creating these systems as they enable rapid Campus Kelvin Grove prototyping of ideas and do not require in depth Kelvin Grove Availabilities KMB251 Creative Performer 2 knowledge of computer coding. This unit gives you a - SEM-2 grounding in the concepts required to build interactive Pre-requisites KMB250 Successful musicians and sound designers need to media works. Credit Points 12 form and negotiate their creative identity within a complex field of practice. They need to develop Campus Kelvin Grove critical skills to understand their work in context and Kelvin Grove Availabilities KMB219 Music and Sound how it can be connected to an audience. This unit - SEM-2 continues to develop students' critical aural and Production 3 practical skills from Creative Studio 1, 2 and 3. With This unit adds to the contextual knowledge and Pre-requisites KMB119 and KMB129 and KMB138 staff mentorship, it provides an opportunity for conceptual frameworks delivered in Creative Performer 1 and further develops the skills required to Credit Points 12 students to explore, plan and present their work with peers and individually to both on and off-campus. It generate original creative work at a greater depth of Campus Kelvin Grove assists students in the continuing development of experimentation and musical knowledge. Kelvin Grove their identity as an artist by locating their work within a Availabilities - SEM-1 broader field of practice, as well as extending them in the role of the creative collaborator. This unit builds upon the first year foundation units in KMB252 Multi-Platform Sound Music and Sound Production. It introduces students to the recording studio control room, focussing on Design microphone captured audio and the integration of KMB237 Critical Listening 3 Pre-requisites KMB129 electronic and acoustic resources and extends the Credit Points 12 student's understanding of the approaches and Pre-requisites KMB139 or KMB141 or KMB135 aesthetics underpinning creative music and sound Equivalents KMB325 Campus Kelvin Grove production. Students will further develop practical Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities skills in music and sound composition and deepen - SEM-1 their knowledge of the hardware and software Campus Kelvin Grove This unit builds on previous sound design knowledge commonly used in creative production. Kelvin Grove Availabilities and uses a range of tools to design and develop - SEM-1 sound content for multi platform television, mobile phones, web, games, virtual worlds and social
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units networks. Students gain an understanding of a variety Campus Kelvin Grove of working methods and delivery formats and develop Kelvin Grove Availabilities practical skills essential to successful collaboration - SEM-2 and creation. KMP202 Music (Secondary) Successful musicians and sound designers need to form and negotiate their creative identity within a Curriculum Studies 2 complex field of practice. They need to develop Pre-requisites KMP201 KMB319 Music and Sound critical skills to understand their practice in context Anti-requisites KMB202 and how it can be connected to an audience. This unit Credit Points 12 Production 5 consolidates and sees the culmination of students' Pre-requisites KMB229 critical aural and practical skills in the creation, Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 planning and presentation of music and sound. As the Kelvin Grove Availabilities final of six units in creative music practice, it assists - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove students to display their identify as an artist and Kelvin Grove collaborator by showcasing large scale works in the Further study in classroom music and sound Availabilities - SEM-1 public arena and through completion of a portfolio of curriculum focusing upon more advanced teaching work. methods, unit planning and the development of an This unit builds upon Music and Sound Production 1, approach to philosophy in action appropriate to music 2, 3 and 4. It focuses on the skills needed for the and sound education practice in the senior secondary delivery and professional presentation of developed context. work in a variety of creative production areas. It KMB350 Creative Performer 3 deepens understanding of creative relationships and Pre-requisites KMB251 extends the student's understanding of the approaches and aesthetics underpinning creative Credit Points 12 KMP203 Music (Secondary) music and sound production. Students will further Campus Kelvin Grove develop practical skills in music and sound Curriculum Studies 3 Kelvin Grove KMP202 (can be enrolled in the composition and deepen their knowledge of the Availabilities Pre-requisites hardware and software commonly used in creative - SEM-1 same teaching period) production. This unit aims to develop the skills and understanding Anti-requisites KMB203 necessary for generating original creative work Credit Points 12 through extension and experimentation. It adds to the KMB329 Music and Sound foundational knowledge and skills developed in Campus Kelvin Grove Creative Performer 1 and 2. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Production 6 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites KMB319 This unit provides advanced study in classroom music Credit Points 12 KMB351 Creative Performer 4 and sound curriculum, focusing upon innovative teaching methods and planning, whole school Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KMB350 community cultural management and the Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities development of an approach to inclusive philosophy - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove which enables a holistic and integrated approach to music and sound education that responds This capstone unit extends and completes students' Kelvin Grove Availabilities synergistically to individual secondary school skills developed in Music and Sound Production 1, 2, - SEM-2 3, 4 and 5. It focuses on the skills needed for the communities and facilitates meaningful and engaging delivery and professional presentation of developed This capstone unit builds on Creative Performer 1, 2 music and sound environments. work in a variety of creative production areas. It and 3, and examines the student's own musical deepens understanding of creative relationships and practice in relation to finding a distinctive and extends the student's understanding of the accomplished performance profile in the recording approaches and aesthetics underpinning creative studio environment, as well as the ability to respond KNB111 Animation music and sound production. Students will develop well to direction. Methodologies further practical skills in music and sound composition Equivalents KIB110, KIB220 and deepen their knowledge of performance direction Credit Points 12 and session management techniques commonly used KMP101 Music (Primary / in industry standard creative production. Campus Kelvin Grove Instrumental) Curriculum Kelvin Grove Availabilities Studies 1 - SEM-1 KMB336 Creative Studio 5 Anti-requisites KMB101 Animators have employed a wide range of media to Pre-requisites KMB235 Credit Points 12 create animated imagery for a variety of contexts. The broad scope of available 2D and 3D media allows Equivalents KMB325 Campus Kelvin Grove images to be developed in diverse ways to display Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove virtual reality, digital three-dimensional objects, Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 traditional two-dimensional formats, stop-motion processes, and integrated effects within live-action Kelvin Grove A foundation study in Primary or instrumental music Availabilities motion pictures. Animation Methodologies recognises - SEM-1 specialization focusing upon the fundamentals of that any given production technique provides just one teaching, lesson planning and developing a of many possible ways to realise an animation project Successful musicians and sound designers need to philosophy appropriate to music education practice. form and negotiate their creative identity within a whether for game development, film or television, complex field of practice. They need to develop Web or emergent media. This unit explores the varied critical skills to understand their practice in context nature of animation methods from traditional practices and how it can be connected to an audience. This unit KMP201 Music (Secondary) to approaches using digital techniques. builds students' critical aural and practical skills in the creation, planning and presentation of work. As the Curriculum Studies 1 third of six units in creative music practice, it provides Anti-requisites KMB201 an opportunity for students to explore and present KNB112 Drawing for Animation Credit Points 12 musical ideas with peers in a staff-mentored 1 environment. Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KVB105, KVB755 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove KMB337 Creative Studio 6 A foundation study in secondary music and sound Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KMB336 or KMB325 curriculum focusing upon the fundamentals of Availabilities teaching, lesson planning and developing a - SEM-1 Equivalents KMB335 philosophy appropriate to music and sound education There are many design principles and elements to Credit Points 12 practice. consider in the conceptual development and presentation of an idea or visual message. The ability
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units to apply drawing to such a task promotes the many more creative outlets and employment development of varied capabilities and technical skills: KNB211 3D Animation 2 opportunities. By learning how to apply their 3D skills KNB124 or KIB111 or KIB107 or observation, description, meaning-making, recording, Pre-requisites to the development of a virtual environment, students synthesis, interpretation and presentation in visual KIB203 are making themselves more versatile as future form. This unit will provide knowledge of the history Equivalents KIB225, KIB106, KIB807 animators, designers and creative practitioners. This and techniques of drawing, as well as core skills, and unit builds on the fundamental skills developed in the an understanding of its application for concept Credit Points 12 prerequisite unit (Real-Time 3D Computer Graphics) development, prototyping, and storyboarding. This will Campus Kelvin Grove allowing students to develop a major work for public provide an important foundation for existing and Kelvin Grove exhibition. Availabilities evolving modes of constructing and presenting - SEM-1 effective visual communication. When creating animated content for production, it is important to develop a solid methodology that allows KNB311 Advanced Concepts in an animator to work quickly and creativley while KNB122 Drawing for Animation maintaining an acceptable level of quality.Being able Computer Animation 1 to take direction and creativly respond to a brief while (KNB221 or KIB221 or KIB213) and 2 finding the best way to communicate an idea to an Pre-requisites (KNB222 or KIB226 or KIB316 or Equivalents KVB106, KVB756 audience is a core skill that takes time to develop. KIB310 or KIB821) Credit Points 12 The core communication skills of illustration, motion, Equivalents KIB320, KIB312 blocking and layout follow industry standards in pre- Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 production, and are required for the generation and Kelvin Grove presentation of ideas, as well as the exploration of Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 form and character. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Animation incorporates conventions and - SEM-1 interpretations of dynamic structure in space and This unit consolidates your studio working practices, time. Core skills and knowledge of drawing provide an KNB212 Real-time 3D Computer while supporting you to develop advanced skills and essential foundation for existing and evolving modes concepts in computer animation, character for construction and presenting animated kinetic Graphics development, cinematic narrative and storytelling and images. The discipline of animation requires a diverse KNB124 or KIB111 or KIB107 or Pre-requisites directing. An important part of Advanced Concepts in range of traditional drawing skills that have been KIB203 Computer Animation is to encourage you to pitch, introduced in the prerequisite unit and are now Equivalents KIB215, KIB325, KIB310, KIB821 direct and project-manage animated works. This will translated into moving images. The emphasis of this bring a depth and breadth to your practice and unit focuses on the conventions of dynamic animated Credit Points 12 provide you with the production management and images in kinetic applications. Campus Kelvin Grove direction skills required of an emergent animation Kelvin Grove professional. Availabilities - SEM-1 KNB123 Animation and Motion The rapid improvements of rendering 3D graphics in Graphics real-time has seen this field expand beyond its early KNB312 Contemporary Issues Equivalents KIB105 application to virtual environments and games. The use of real-time 3D technologies to enable virtual in the Screen Industries Credit Points 12 cinematography is quickly becoming commonplace. Pre-requisites KNB121 or KPB109 Campus Kelvin Grove Real-time 3D engines allow directors and Credit Points 12 cinematographers to interactively direct a virtual Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities camera with the same freedom as a live shoot. This - SEM-2 unit provides students with a firm grounding in the Kelvin Grove Availabilities The field of motion graphics has expanded rapidly, practices, concepts and skills associated with asset - SEM-1 creation for use in a real-time 3D engine. The content with its application extending beyond the role of Contemporary Issues in the Screen Industries presented lays the critical groundwork for more cinematic storytelling to applications for title recognises the diversity of screen practices in digital advanced practices in KIB226 Virtual Environments. sequences, music promotion, marketing, computer culture contexts; and explores theoretical and industry games and information design. This unit provides an debates about the screen industries within the context introduction to animation and motion graphics of media globalisation. It examines screen production concepts and practices, with an emphasis on the KNB221 Animation: CG Toolkit and consumption across a range of contemporary principles of design in motion. This unit provides an contexts; investigates the relationship between introduction to the world of animated graphics, paying (KNB123 or KIB105) and (KNB124 Pre-requisites evolving digital technologies and existing media; and particular attention to pre-production techniques, or KIB111 or KIB203) considers the effect of screen forms on the design in motion, and idea generation. Through the Equivalents KIB213, KIB221 experience of visual culture. development of screen-based works, you will apply traditional animation principles and techniques to Credit Points 12 communicate innovative temporal and spatial design Campus Kelvin Grove solutions. Kelvin Grove KNB321 Advanced Concepts in Availabilities - SEM-2 Computer Animation 2 Pre-requisites KNB311 or KIB320 KNB124 3D Animation 1 Every artist needs to understand their toolkit. For a successful animation career, one must be familiar and Equivalents KIB330, KIB313 Equivalents KIB111, KIB203 competent in the tools and the software used in the Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 creation of animated works. In addition, it is important to understand the processes of production in which Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove these tools are employed. Animation CG Toolkit Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove allows you to familiarise yourself with the tools and Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 techniques of production within a studio environment. To prepare for life outside of the academic institution, In the evolving fields of animation, games and it is important to be able to showcase your work, with graphical visualisation, you will require new literacies knowledge of the requirements of your field. As a and skills to participate fully in the 3D Computer KNB222 Virtual Environments capstone unit, Advanced Concepts in Computer Graphics production process. By introducing you to Pre-requisites KNB212 or KIB215 or KIB325 Animation 2 gives you the opportunity to present principles, processes, methods and theories of yourself and your work in a portfolio and show-reel. Equivalents KIB226, KIB316, KIB310, KIB821 modelling; the architecture of 3D graphics; and node The studio continues to develop production skills, based applications, you will gain a foundational Credit Points 12 concentrating on final output and postproduction for understanding of 3D graphics production. Campus Kelvin Grove exhibition. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 3D Virtual Environments are continuing to be adopted by a wide range of industries providing artists with
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KPB101 Introduction to Film, KPB116 Introduction to TV and New Media Production KPB112 Film, Television and Scriptwriting Equivalents KPB150, KPB155 Anti-requisites KWP401 Credit Points 12 Screen Genres Equivalents KWB102, KWB111 KPB113. KPB113 can be studied in Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites the same teaching period as Credit Points 12 Caboolture KPB112 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Equivalents KPB103, KPB107 Caboolture Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Kelvin Grove This unit introduces the principles and technologies of Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 video production for both cinema and television. This Kelvin Grove Availabilities Writing scripts for a range of media formats is a includes the roles and responsibilities of production - SEM-1 learned craft and requires discipline, perseverance teams, production management, design and practice. Genre is an important concept for creators of film, and an understanding of industry practice. Lecture delivery by experts in the major production television, and screen productions; for distributors; Possessing this key knowledge will give you abilities areas of producing, directing, and cinematography, and for audiences. Screen genres continue to evolve to develop concepts through to script stage across editing and sound informs this practice. You work in in response to technological, industrial, entertainment, various film, television, and new media genres. groups to produce videos which form a major part of and cultural imperatives in the contemporary digital their assessment. media environment. It is therefore important to consider similarities, differences, and connections between related screen genres. KPB201 Experimental KPB105 Narrative Production Production Pre-requisites KPB101 Pre-requisites KPB105 and KPB115 Credit Points 12 KPB113 TV and Film Text Credit Points 12 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Analysis Campus Kelvin Grove Caboolture Equivalents KPB108, KPB130 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Availabilities Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Through exploration of the historical and theoretical - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove underpinnings of experimental motion picture art, you Kelvin Grove This unit builds on and advances basic Availabilities have the opportunity to develop your creative - SEM-1 understandings, skills and principles delivered in potential through experimentation. Building on prior KPB101. An introduction to the skills of sound and Film and television production is an art-form and a knowledge acquired in the production units KPB101 lighting complements the earlier core skills of camera, business and screen practitioners, critics and and KPB105, you are encouraged to become wilfully editing, directing and production management. educators value media literacy based on critical and nonconformist in approach, drawing on a wide range Assessment consists of the production of a short informed approaches to textual analysis. Taking into of traditions from within the genre of Experimental or narrative video. account shifts in industry and audience expectations Avant-Garde film-making. in the new media environment, textual analysis can be applied to a diverse range of popular film and television texts from blockbuster movies to cult KPB109 Film, Screen and television programs. KPB205 Approaches to Animation Histories Contemporary Documentary Equivalents KPB102, KIB108, KNB121 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 KPB114 Studio Approaches to Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Screen Projects Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove The documentary filmmaking tradition has involved many crucial aesthetic, technical and ethical concerns Film, television, and animation are among the most Kelvin Grove throughout history. This unit introduces this significant influential forms of cultural representation and Availabilities - SEM-1 tradition of documentary production. For KP25/KK34 entertainment developed over the past century. An (Film, Screen & Animation) students, the unit is a understanding of the histories and influence of The ability to research, write and conduct critical preparation for the documentary practical production narrative styles, industrial forms, and audience analyses are essential undergraduate skills and unit, through learning to assimilate the principles engagement emphasizes the important changes in creative projects require the attributes of a outlined in the unit into their own documentary scripts technology and aesthetics that have contributed to contemporary researcher. By first familiarising and productions. For non-KP25/KK34 (Film & making these media potent cultural forces. The students in the general skill set of academic research Television) students, the unit provides an opportunity histories of narrative forms, styles, and movements this unit will then apply this knowledge to specific to address the theoretical underpinnings of the need to be considered alongside the production, tasks required as part of the project planning that documentary form, and the processes of documentary distribution, and viewing of screen content as goes into film, television and new media practices and production. entertainment, information, and art. productions.
KPB110 The Movie, TV and New KPB115 Editing and Technical KPB206 Global Screen Media Business Production Industries Pre-requisites KPB113 Equivalents KPB106, KPB209 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Editing and audio and vision operation for film and television requires specific technical skills. This unit This unit examines a range of national cinemas from The movie, TV and new media businesses are key provides you with an introduction to the technical a global perspective. Key theoretical approaches to parts of the entertainment industry, which is one of dimensions supporting audio visual productions and national/transnational cinemas are covered, along the biggest in the world. For anyone interested in will utilise Editing laboratories, TV Studio and Studio with significant historical, textual, representational and working in these media an understanding of how they Control room, cameras and sound recording ideological issues. The critical challenges posed by function as businesses is vital. This unit provides an equipment. productions from these different cultures to Hollywood introduction to producing, writing and theoretical mainstream productions are also explored. aspects of the movie, TV and new media businesses.
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 KPB207 Film and Television Students seeking employment in the Film and KRB104 Production Practice 2 Television industry require knowledge and experience Pre-requisites KRB101 Scriptwriting in a wide variety of production styles, including single- Equivalents KWB105 camera TV production. This unit builds on skills and Credit Points 24 knowledge already developed in previous units and Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove provides an understanding of the workings of single- Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove camera TV production and practical production skills Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove as crew members. Availabilities - SEM-1 Production Practice 2 builds on the foundations laid in Production Practice 1, expanding on your knowledge This unit focuses on the production of a sustained of the Production Arts in a theatrical environment. script for film or television. KPB302 Project Development This unit is taught through a combination of for Film, TV and New Media theoretical and practical approaches, further advancing your engagement in the specialised fields Pre-requisites KPB114 of live theatre production. KPB210 Production Credit Points 12 Management for Film, TV and Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove New Media Availabilities KRB111 Stage Management 1 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites KPB110 Equivalents KSB111 Equivalents KPB104 A key part of the television and film industries is the Credit Points 12 large amount of time devoted to the development of Credit Points 12 projects. Substantial resources are devoted to Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove identifying ideas, developing them, script editing and Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove re-writing and market testing. In this unit you will go - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1 through this process as you develop a project for production. This unit introduces the coordination of a live theatre This unit considers the role of the producer and production including theatre layout and terminology, executive producer in film and television production role of the stage manager, duties and responsibilities with a particular focus on running a production. It from pre-rehearsal to close of season, communication considers the following: preparing and running a KPB320 Advanced Production 1 procedures and rehearsal room procedures. budget, achieving balance in above-the-line, below- Completion of 120 credit points of Pre-requisites the-line and marketing costs, casting and crewing a KPB coded units production, and legal and copyright issues. Equivalents KPB301 KRB120 Scenography and the Credit Points 24 Art of Technical Theatre KPB211 Writing Dialogue Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities Designed for students in their final year of study, this - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities unit involves short film, television and new media - SEM-2 This unit introduces students to theoretical concepts production primarily in the communication of non- and principles associated with scenography, historical Dialogue is a vital part of any script. It must fit the fictional events. Students work in groups and trends in technical theatre and the background characters; it must advance the story; it should be independently under supervision. It provides associated with the broad vocabulary of technical interesting, colourful or funny; and it should avoid opportunities for students to specialise in directing, theatre terminology. exposition. In this unit you will learn the skills for producing, cinematography, sound, vision editing, writing good dialogue for television, film and new screenwriting and new media applications at an media projects. advanced level. KRB121 Visual Theatre Pre-requisites KRB120 KPB213 Multi-Camera TV KPB321 Advanced Production 2 Equivalents KSB215 Studio Production Pre-requisites KPB320 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites KPB105 and KPB115 Credit Points 24 Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KPB204 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit introduces students to the concepts and Designed for students in their final year of study, this principles associated with traditional visual theatre Kelvin Grove Availabilities unit involves short film, television and new media design. It is a studio-based unit comprised - SEM-2 production primarily in the communication of fictional predominantly of ongoing practical work that students Students seeking employment in the media events. Students work in groups and independently complete under the close guidance and instruction of production industries require knowledge, skill and under supervision. It provides opprotunities for QUT academic staff and external industry experience in a wide variety of production styles, students to specialise in directing, producing, professionals. including multi-camera TV studio production. This unit cinematography, sound, vision editing, screenwriting builds on skills and knowledge developed in previous and new media applications at an advanced level. units and provides an understanding of the workings of multi-camera TV studio production and practical KRB211 Stage Management 2 production skills as crew members. Pre-requisites KRB111 KRB101 Production Practice 1 Equivalents KSB211 Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove KPB214 Single Camera TV Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Production Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Availabilities Pre-requisites KPB201 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Production Practice 1 is an introduction to the Equivalents KPB204 Production Arts in a theatrical environment. This unit This unit introduces the management issues in areas Credit Points 12 is taught through a combination of theoretical and of stage mechanics, flying, props and wardrobe and preparation of students to undertake performance Campus Kelvin Grove practical approaches, laying the foundations for future engagement in the specialised fields of live theatre crew roles in these departments. It provides an production. introduction into stage management for Dance, Opera
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Kelvin Grove and Musicals. Availabilities on instrumental skills and ensemble development. - SEM-1 This unit exposes students to the rigours of industry- standard production processes by providing KRB217 Production Practice 3 opportunities in creative, technical and/or managerial KSB104 Voice and Movement 2 Pre-requisites KRB104 and KRB211 capacities with the professional workplace. Students Pre-requisites KSB103 or KSB204 Equivalents KSB217 will undertakes an Industry Secondment with an Equivalents KSB205 established production partner/project. This unit Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 encourages students to be pro-active in seeking Campus Kelvin Grove opportunities for professional exposure and Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove development. Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Production Practice 3 further advances the concepts This unit builds upon voice and movement skills and skills presented in the Production Practice KRB304 Advanced Technical acquired in KSB103, and applies them to studio foundation units, and expands your knowledge of the performance outcomes. It provides an opportunity for Production Arts in a theatrical environment. This unit Production Practice B students to explore how developing instrumental skills consolidates managerial and technical skills and Pre-requisites KRB218 can be effectively applied into acting contexts. encourages students to start exploring their own Credit Points 24 independent creative practice. Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove KSB106 Acting Fundamentals Availabilities - SEM-2 KRB218 Production Practice 4 Anti-requisites KKFAMJR-ACTING This unit is the second unit in the Advanced Technical Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites KRB217 Production Practice minor and exposes students to Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KSB218 the rigours of industry-standard production processes Kelvin Grove Credit Points 24 by providing opportunities in creative, technical and/or Availabilities managerial capacities with the professional - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove workplace. Students will undertakes an Industry Acting Fundamentals is a studio-based exploration of Kelvin Grove Secondment with an established production Availabilities foundational acting principles, providing practical - SEM-2 partner/project. This unit encourages students to be performance skills, including physical and vocal pro-active in seeking opportunities for professional awareness and expression, improvisation and scene Production Practice 4 builds on previous units and exposure and development. advances student's knowledge and practice to analysis. prepare them for industry work placements in their final year of study. This unit provides ongoing support for students as they continue to develop their KRB305 Production Practice 5 technical, managerial and creative practice. KSB107 Acting 1 Pre-requisites KRB218 Co-requisites KSB103 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites KSB101, KSB202 KRB220 The Scenographic Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 24 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Divide - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KRB120 Availabilities Production Practice 5 exposes you to the rigours of - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 public performance and production processes by This unit introduces you to the fundamentals of acting, Campus Kelvin Grove providing you with practical opportunities. This unit provides students senior positions in creative, focusing on instrumental skills, text analysis and Kelvin Grove ensemble development. Availabilities technical or management capacities on QUT Creative - SEM-1 Industries productions. This unit challenges students to undertake a detailed interrogation of the tensions between the practice of KSB108 Acting 2 traditional stage design and the theoretical concepts Pre-requisites KSB107 or KSB101 or KSB202 and principles associated with scenography. KRB306 Production Practice 6 Pre-requisites KRB305 Anti-requisites KSB102 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 24 KRB221 Intermedial Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Applications for the Theatre Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites KRB121 and KRB220 Production Practice 6 exposes you to the rigours of This unit further develops your knowledge, Credit Points 12 public performance and production processes by understanding and skills in the fundamentals of acting Campus Kelvin Grove providing you with practical opportunities. This unit applied to different dramaturgical and staging Kelvin Grove provides students senior positions in creative, contexts. It builds on KSB107 Acting 1, and prepares Availabilities - SEM-2 technical or management capacities on QUT Creative you for performing in projects for stage and screen in Industries productions. This is the final Production your second year. This unit introduces students to the concepts and Practice unit and students are expected to principles associated with intermedial applications in demonstrate a highly-developed level of specialist the theatre. It is a studio-based unit comprised practice in anticipation of their entry into the predominantly of ongoing practical work that students professional sphere. KSB223 Voice and Movement 3 complete under the close guidance and instruction of Pre-requisites KSB104 or KSB205 QUT academic staff and external industry professionals. Co-requisites KSB229 KSB103 Voice and Movement 1 Credit Points 12 Co-requisites KSB107 Campus Kelvin Grove KRB303 Advanced Technical Equivalents KSB204 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Production Practice A Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Pre-requisites KRB218 Campus Kelvin Grove This second year unit continues the development of skills in movement and voice production for actors, Kelvin Grove Credit Points 24 Availabilities aligning them to the needs generated by specific - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove acting projects and the performance venues they are This introductory unit begins with the fundamentals of located in. movement and voice production for actors, focusing
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KTB101 Understanding Theatre KTB106 Performing Skills 2: Equivalents KTB251 KSB224 Voice and Movement 4 Style and Form Credit Points 12 Equivalents KTB258 Pre-requisites KSB223 or KSB233 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Equivalents KSB234 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities In this unit you will investigate the major artistic - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove movements in European theatre history, fields of Availabilities This unit is designed to be of benefit to anyone - SEM-2 performance practice dominant in European theatre seeking to extend their understanding through history and key plays associated with these artistic This second year unit advances movement and voice workshop, rehearsal, performance, and the movements and practices. skills by applying them to more complex physical and application of dramaturgical skills, of theatrical styles vocal texts designed to stretch the actor's range and and forms other than realism. capability. KTB102 Process Drama Equivalents KTB214 KTB107 The Creating Body KSB229 Acting 3 Credit Points 12 Equivalents KTB206, KTB277 Pre-requisites KSB108 or KSB203 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Co-requisites KSB223 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KSB221, KSB247 - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 24 This unit examines the structural forms and dramatic - SEM-1 conventions used in a specific genre of drama - Campus Kelvin Grove An understanding of innovative contemporary process drama. It moves from examining effective performance would be incomplete without an Kelvin Grove drama workshop design to consider the artistic Availabilities appreciation of the role that investigations into - SEM-1 application of these workshop techniques. physical expressivity have played in the development This unit introduces practical opportunities to apply of a range of new performance forms, including your developing knowledge, understanding and skills Physical Theatre, and of a range of training in acting to a variety of dramaturgical and staging KTB103 Performing Skills 1: techniques that focus on releasing the performer's contexts in live theatre or film. physical creativity. Character and Scene Equivalents KTB257, KSB106 KSB230 Acting 4 Credit Points 12 KTB108 Applied Theatre Pre-requisites KSB229 or KSB221 or KSB247 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KTB102 or KTB214 Equivalents KSB222, KSB248 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Equivalents KTB209, KTB280, KTB272 - SEM-1 Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 This unit provides you with essential understanding of Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove how to combine practical performance skills (involving Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities body/voice/role) with analytical, research and group Availabilities - SEM-2 skills, into an overall methodology for creating - SEM-2 This unit provides practical opportunities to extend performance, within a professional ethos. It is important for students of performance to push your developing knowledge, understanding and skills beyond the walls of the designated theatre space and in acting to a variety of dramaturgical and staging examine performance in a range of forms and contexts in live theatre or film. contexts for its transformative powers and as it is KTB104 Performance applied to social action. To consider performance as it Innovation is applied within diverse communities for a range of Equivalents KTB271 purposes is key to a full understanding of KSB301 Theatre Project 1 contemporary performance in the twenty-first century. Pre-requisites KSB230 or KSB222 or KSB248 Credit Points 12 Equivalents KSB255 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Credit Points 48 Availabilities KTB205 Production 2 - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KTB105 The aim of this unit is to give you an appreciation and Kelvin Grove Equivalents KTB308 Availabilities understanding of innovations in the delivery and - SEM-1 reception of theatre in both historical and Credit Points 12 This unit provides practical opportunities to extend contemporary contexts. Campus Kelvin Grove your developing knowledge, understanding and skills Kelvin Grove in acting within a variety of dramaturgical and staging Availabilities contexts in theatre or in film. - SEM-1 KTB105 Production 1 This unit focuses on the collaborative devising of a Pre-requisites KTB107 or KTB206 or KTB277 performance with professional guidance. KSB302 Theatre Project 2 Equivalents KTB273 Pre-requisites KSB301 or KSB255 Credit Points 12 Equivalents KSB256 Campus Kelvin Grove KTB207 Staging Australia Kelvin Grove Equivalents KTB253 Credit Points 48 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit introduces a clearly defined rehearsal ethic Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities through extended performance project. It includes text Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities analysis, formal group discussion, role creation and - SEM-2 Through practical opportunities to demonstrate your intensive rehearsal, and live performance of a knowledge, understanding and skills in acting within a scripted drama before an audience. This unit introduces key concepts and practices variety of dramaturgical and staging contexts, this unit pertaining to Australian theatre and drama of the aims to showcase your ability to participate as an twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Theatre practices emerging artist in the theatre and film industry. are explored in relation to broader social and political concerns.
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further their practice as directors, or as performance- for entry into the performance/education industry makers within educational settings or within the and/or postgraduate study by building upon skills and creative industries. It builds on skills and perspectives knowledge from KTB105 Production 1, KTB205 KTB210 Creative Industries acquired in units such as Performing Skills 1&2, Production 2 and KTB303 Production 3. Management Performance Innovation, Production 1&2, and Understanding Theatre. Completion of 72 credit points of Pre-requisites study KTD101 The Successful Equivalents KTB061 KTB302 Postdramatic Theatre Creative Life Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Equivalents KTB204, KTB275 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 - 13TP3 Kelvin Grove This unit introduces management techniques within Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit introduces international students studying at the Australian creative industries environment QUTIC to the important role creativity can play in their including company structures, cultural policy, strategic The elements of drama and the conventions of personal and professional lives. Focussing on management and leadership in the arts, legal, ethical, various periods have provided the pivot around which creative decision making you will develop your own economical and social requirements of arts, boards, genres and forms of theatre can be studied. However, personal creative capacities before reviewing how and entrepreneurial activity. in recent decades a fresh species of drama has artists make creative decisions to produce works emerged called postdramatic theatre that challenges which engage audiences in the visual and performing many of the traditional terms we use to define and arts. You will apply your knowledge of creativity to make theatre. This unit examines postdramatic investigate how creative decisions are made by KTB211 Creative Industries theatre that was heralded by the emergence of successful entrepreneurs in the modern creative Events and Festivals postmodernism. The unit will investigate the economy. The ability to understand the dynamics of challenges postdramatic theatre makes to traditional Completion of 72 credit points of creativity personally, artistically and in business lies at Pre-requisites notions of unitary art form, character, audience, site, study the core of building a rich and successful creative life. time and narrative. The unit will investigate the Anti-requisites KTP406 postmodern aesthetics inherent in interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary and inter-media practices. Equivalents KTB062 KTP201 Drama Curriculum Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Studies 1 KTB303 Production 3 Anti-requisites KTB201, KTB414 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Pre-requisites KTB205 Credit Points 12 Equivalents KTB310 Combination of practical and theoretical investigation Campus Kelvin Grove into how strategy and mission work in arts agencies in Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities arts, events, promotion and public relations in Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Australia. Kelvin Grove This unit provides an introduction to key syllabus Availabilities - SEM-1 documents and to key skills and strategies of drama teaching. Production 3 will provide you, as a third year student, KTB212 Theatre and with the opportunity to consolidate theoretical Community understandings and practical skills in performance making with particular application to adaptation, Pre-requisites KTB108 KTP202 Drama Curriculum interpretation and the creation of innovative Credit Points 12 performance forms. Studies 2 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KTP201 Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites KTB202, KTB415 Availabilities - SEM-1 KTB305 The Entrepreneurial Credit Points 12 Australia has a strong record of excellence in the Artist Campus Kelvin Grove expanding field of theatre and drama in communities. Completion of 168 credit points of Kelvin Grove Knowledge of the ethos, values and processes of Pre-requisites Availabilities study - SEM-2 working with communities in a responsive and consultative fashion is thus an essential component of Credit Points 12 In this unit, you develop planning and teaching skills any comprehensive preparation for a career in Drama Campus Kelvin Grove for aesthetic learning and assessment and develop as and provides major career opportunities particularly a critically reflective practitioner and teacher artist. Kelvin Grove for emerging artists. This is a 2nd year unit that Availabilities articulates with and builds upon previous knowledge - SEM-2 gained in KTB102 (Process Drama) and KTB108 This unit is taken in the final three years of the (Applied Theatre). Bachelor of Creative Industries Drama course. The KTP203 Drama Curriculum program is designed to cover a range of artistic and Studies 3 economic areas, including: aesthetics, creativity, KTP202 (can be enrolled in the regulatory, administrative, legal and ethical issues Pre-requisites same teaching period) KTB213 Directing Theatre related to the practice and business of the creative Pre-requisites KTB101 industries. Anti-requisites KTB203 Equivalents KTB306 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove KTB313 Production 4 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites KTB303 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit is the final drama curriculum unit for you as a graduating drama teacher. In this third curriculum unit Directing text-based performance events, whether Campus Kelvin Grove you will expand on the knowledge and within a subscription season of 'traditional' theatre, or Kelvin Grove understandings gained from Drama Curriculum as a stand-alone event within the independent theatre Availabilities - SEM-2 Studies 1 and 2. It provides you with the opportunity sector, or within a festival context, requires highly to articulate a wide range of teaching skills that are developed creative skills and sound managerial and When a work that has undergone creative essential for interpreting and managing in a variety of organisational abilities. This second year development moves into production, a whole new set arts contexts in school and industry. undergraduate unit examining the artistic processes of challenges, imperatives and creative ethos come and project-management responsibilities that a drama into play. Understanding and managing this complex director must fulfil, is essential for students wishing to transition is a vital skill for the emerging collaborative ensemble. This 3rd year capstone unit prepares you
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artifacts in contemporary Asian visual art practice. flexible independent approach to formulating KVB102 Modernism resolutions to conceptual and visual concerns; Equivalents KVB701 development of safe workshop practices, safe studio Credit Points 12 work habits and appropriate professional skills. It KVB109 Visual Arts Foundation includes introductions to technological artforms. Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove KVB121 Studio Art Practice 2 Availabilities This unit provides an overview of the key concepts - SEM-1 and movements that comprise twentieth-century Pre-requisites KVB120 or KVB740 modernism in the period 1900-1945. Beginning with Careers in the visual arts are diverse and dynamic Equivalents KVB741 and the sector encompasses a range of roles and cubism, the unit provides an understanding of terms, Credit Points 24 such as avant-garde, modernism and modernity. It employment possibilities for you to pursue. Certain explains how modernism focuses upon the issue of skills and abilities are common to all of these potential Campus Kelvin Grove representation and how this approach led to inter- destinations. Successful artists, art teachers and arts Kelvin Grove Availabilities disciplinary work, which engaged with film, professionals benefit from rigorous research, writing - SEM-2 photography, design, architecture and installation as and visual analysis skills as well as a broad well as the traditional visual arts. knowledge of the industry as a whole and it is Contemporary cultural conditions and artistic important that you are introduced to these skills at the practices are very diverse and complex. beginning of your course to contextualise your Consequently, this unit introduces aspects of artistic learning throughout your degree. Through visual arts practice that will actively support self-motivation, self- KVB103 Australian Art specific activities you are able to discover the reliance, as well as a sense of inquiry and openness Equivalents KVB702 connection between core academic skills and your to new ideas and experiences. It therefore comes in future career in the visual arts. the first year of your course and provides foundational Credit Points 12 learning for future studio practice. As an active Campus Kelvin Grove contributor in the cultural and creative industries, it is important that you learn to formulate personal Kelvin Grove Availabilities KVB110 2D Media and conceptual and visual interests, as well as develop an - SEM-2 understanding of your individual body of art work that This unit focuses on Australian art over the course of Processes is based on the application of knowledge of the twentieth century, including the contemporary Credit Points 12 contemporary visual arts practices. It is an important period. It gives you an understanding of the national, Campus Kelvin Grove concern of this unit that you understand that the cultural and social frameworks within which this art media employed in visual art are not neutral but Kelvin Grove has been produced and introduces a number of Availabilities actively contribute to the form and content of work - SEM-1 artists, artistic movements and issues within produced. Australian art. It also considers the nature of This introductory unit is a studio course enabling you indigenous art and its contribution to the complexity of to explore, construct, analyse and interpret visual data Australian cultural identity. All of these issues are through the 2D graphic modes of drawing, painting presented in order to help you understand the and printmaking. KVB200 Exhibition and Display important role of Australian art as an expression of in the Visual Arts our cultural values throughout the twentieth century. Credit Points 12 KVB111 3D Media and Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Processes Availabilities KVB104 Photomedia and - SEM-1 Artistic Practice Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit addresses the development of the Museum Equivalents KVB509, KVD104, KVP402 in Western cultures and how that tradition manifests Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities in current arts practices, such as in contemporary - SEM-2 exhibitions, the display of collections, installation and Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove This first year unit introduces you to current site-specificity, audience interaction, curatorial Caboolture contemporary art practices and concepts to assist you activities such as didactic panels and virtual galleries. - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit will assist you in displaying objects and Availabilities in making, analysing and critiquing three dimensional Kelvin Grove artworks. As a second semester unit, this unit will images from your own arts practice and/or the artwork - SEM-1, SEM-2 develop foundational skills in 3D media and of others in effective and appropriate ways. This unit aims to provide you with an understanding of processes to complement and augment the aesthetic aspects of various concepts and understandings and knowledge of 2D media and processes that have been part of the history of processes. KVB211 Post 1945 Art photography and are still in use in contemporary photomedia. The unit also aims to give you Credit Points 12 proficiency in alternative and experimental uses of KVB114 Digital Media Campus Kelvin Grove photographic processes, establishing an Kelvin Grove Equivalents KIB104, KIB808 Availabilities understanding of investigative and creative research. - SEM-2 By including a range of photographic processes as Credit Points 12 part of the photographic artist's repertoire, this unit This unit introduces the historical, philosophical, aims to give you a broad range of choices and Campus Kelvin Grove economic, political, social, cultural, artistic and formal approaches to creating images. The unit encourages Kelvin Grove issues related to the production of art since 1945 and Availabilities you to engage with photography as a medium for - SEM-2 into the post-modern era. Major topics that are visual and artistic expression in order to extend your examined include the neo-avant-garde and art's This unit examines the audio-visual conventions of own photographic practice. engagement with consumerism. This unit is intended digital media. It focuses specifically on analysing and as a foundation skill-base for all students in Creative creating moving images. Industries applicable to all disciplines and cultural industries including art criticism, arts practice, KVB108 Contemporary Asian architecture, landscape architecture, fashion and Visual Culture KVB120 Studio Art Practice 1 music. Equivalents KVB444 Equivalents KVB740 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 24 KVB212 Australian Art, Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Architecture and Design Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This unit considers the influences of historical visual This unit includes the following: development of an Campus Kelvin Grove arts, backgrounds, philosophical beliefs and trade on enquiry-based, self-sustaining art practice; fostering the symbolism, forms, techniques and uses of various of appropriate research skills; encouragement of open
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities criticism, arts practice, architecture and fashion. The - SEM-1 unit introduces the economic, political, social, cultural, This unit aims to examine the impact of modernism artistic and formal issues related to the production of KVD104 Photomedia and upon the fields of visual art, architecture and design in art since 1990 in the contemporary era. By means of Australia during the period between 1917 and 1967. It lectures, discussions and analysis of artworks and Artistic Practice readings, the students' awareness of the conceptual, will also examine debates about modernism and Equivalents KVB104 provide a detailed historical background to the historical and philosophical contexts concerning Credit Points 12 development of these three fields in Australia in artists and the artworks is heightened. response to the idea of modernism. It will build upon Campus Kelvin Grove the background provided in units such as KVB102 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Modernism and KVB103 Australian Art by providing - 13TP2 more in-depth analysis of modernism in the Australian KVB306 Video Art and Culture context. It will also develop the practical application of Equivalents KVB703 This unit aims to provide you with an understanding of such principals in design exercises. Credit Points 12 the aesthetic aspects of various concepts and processes that have been part of the history of Campus Kelvin Grove photography and are still in use in contemporary Kelvin Grove photomedia. The unit also aims to give you Availabilities KVB213 Graphic Investigation - SEM-2 proficiency in alternative and experimental uses of Credit Points 12 photographic processes, establishing an Existing Visual Arts units examine a broad range of understanding of investigative and creative research. Campus Kelvin Grove subjects addressing artistic media such as painting, By including a range of photographic processes as sculpture and installation. The 'Video Art and Culture' Kelvin Grove part of the photographic artist's repertoire, this unit Availabilities unit supplements these by instituting a specialised - SEM-2 aims to give you a broad range of choices and study of artistic and cultural practice that focuses on approaches to creating images. The unit encourages The interface between the graphic design, print and new mass media technology. The unit therefore you to engage with photography as a medium for art environments is dynamic and pervasive. An enhances, extends and updates knowledge of recent visual and artistic expression in order to extend your awareness of contemporary practices through art strategies in contemporary society. own photographic practice. conceptual and hands-on cross-media investigations will allow you to interpret and engage more creatively in these environments. KVB307 Theories of Spatial KVP301 Visual Arts Curriculum Culture Studies 1 KVB220 Studio Art Practice 3 Equivalents KVB704 Anti-requisites KVB301, KVB412 KVB120 or KVB740 or KVB121 or Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites Credit Points 12 KVB741 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KVB742 Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities Credit Points 24 - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit provides the necessary critical evaluation of The aim of this unit is to enable you to begin to design Kelvin Grove issues and practices that relate to considerations of Availabilities and sequence Visual Arts activities that address - SEM-1 space in modern and contemporary art, new media learning experiences for successful planning, and culture in general. It provides a historical teaching and classroom management. The skills and In consultation with studio staff, you formulate a overview of key art practices that have focused their knowledge of this unit will assist you in creating program of work for the semester which allows you to critical attention to the issue of space and the built appropriate learning outcomes and assessments as investigate your own personal artistic direction, environment. In order to function as an informed well as address syllabus requirements. The content formulate and develop self-generated enquiry and practitioner in the environment of public space you and processes of this unit are based on your previous acquire working methods, resources, skills and must acquire such knowledge because it will form the required studies and experiences in Visual Arts theory knowledge necessary to realise concepts. critical-analytical background to current debates and and practice. theories in the field of spatial culture and public art.
KVB221 Studio Art Practice 4 KVP302 Visual Arts Curriculum Pre-requisites KVB220 or KVB742 KVB320 Studio Project 1 Equivalents KVB743 Pre-requisites KVB221 or KVB743 Studies 2 Pre-requisites KVP301 Credit Points 24 Equivalents KVB744 Anti-requisites KVB302, KVB413 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove The conditions of current cultural practice, their Availabilities - SEM-2 production, reception and contribution to society are In consultation with studio staff students at this level extremely diverse, increasingly complex and multi- are expected to undertake individual projects that lead The aim of this unit is to have you establish layered. In this unit sustained critical involvement and to the development of a professional organised and capabilities in the design, sequencing and delivery of an increasing commitment to artistic conceptual articulated body of work. Substantial research is visual arts studies that address the learner as well as pursuits is underpinned by contemporary theoretical expected in support of these projects. the requirements of syllabus documents. This unit will reference which includes investigation into a broad address issues of both unit and whole program range of artists' practices. You are required to structures as well as classroom management and articulate a personal position in these issues. teaching in the visual arts. KVB321 Studio Project 2 Pre-requisites KVB320 or KVB744 KVB304 Contemporary Art Equivalents KVB745 KVP303 Visual Arts Curriculum Issues Credit Points 24 Studies 3 Equivalents KVB712 Campus Kelvin Grove KVP302 (can be enrolled in the Pre-requisites Kelvin Grove same teaching period) Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites KVB303 In consultation with studio staff, at this level you are Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities expected to undertake individual projects that lead to - SEM-1 the development of a professionally organised and Campus Kelvin Grove This unit is intended as a foundation skill-base for articulated body of work. Substantial research is Kelvin Grove Availabilities students in Creative Industries applicable to all expected in support of these projects. - SEM-2 disciplines and cultural industries including art This unit aims to prepare you for the complexity of
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Upon completing this unit, you are able to Credit Points 12 Persuasive writing is an integral (if often unconscious) understand and critically interrogate texts pertinent to element of both professional and creative writing. Campus Kelvin Grove contemporary Australian society and culture. Therefore, practitioners in these fields should be able Kelvin Grove Availabilities to understand the principles of persuasion, use the - SEM-1 vocabulary of persuasion, and evaluate the efficacy of This unit focuses upon aesthetic debates that inform KWB110 Writing Fundamentals different persuasive strategies. This unit introduces you to the theory and practice of writing persuasively contemporary art practice The unit concentrates on Equivalents KKB009, KKB618 developing historical, critical and analytical skills in across a number of genres to enhance your writing evaluating modern and contemporary critical issues in Credit Points 12 skills. the visual arts as well as contemporary culture in Campus Kelvin Grove general. For this reason, it examines the status of art Kelvin Grove Availabilities today, asking what type of knowledge does art give - SEM-1 us, whether it remains important today and how art is KWB116 Creative Non-Fiction it best comprehended. Academic writing is an essential skill that all students Equivalents KWB107, KWB381 need to succeed in their university degree Credit Points 12 programme, as academic writing underpins assessment tasks in all university degrees. This unit Campus Kelvin Grove KVP402 Photomedia and is placed in the first semester of your first year to Kelvin Grove Availabilities ensure that you have the necessary writing skills to - SEM-1 Creative Practice complete assessment at a high standard. Credit Points 12 This unit covers the acquisition of practical and analytical skills in creative non-fiction writing in Campus Kelvin Grove particular review writing on books, film, music, visual Kelvin Grove arts, fashion and food, as well as travel, scientific, Availabilities KWB112 Youth and Children's - SEM-1 essay, humorous and sports writing. The unit provides Writing examples, techniques and practical exercises in non- This unit provides you with an understanding of fiction creative writing and editing, and the opportunity conceptual, technical and aesthetic perspectives as Equivalents KWB206, KWB712 to develop individual work in the supportive context of encountered in a number of contemporary Credit Points 12 in-class and small workshop groups. Potential photographic genres. The unit teaches you strategies Campus Kelvin Grove publishing areas will be explored. for developing and applying advanced processes and Kelvin Grove concepts in Photomedia to the creation of your own Availabilities personal work. It also encourages critical - SEM-2 understanding of contexts that will contribute to your This unit includes children's and adolescent novels KWB207 Great Books: Creative ability to work in a variety of creative and industry within the cultural context of nineteenth and twentieth settings. century Australia, England and America. It focuses on Writing Classics textual analysis of major generic types and considers Anti-requisites KWP407 issues such as race, gender, class and regionalism in Equivalents KWB301 fiction for young Australians. KWB104 Creative Writing: the Credit Points 12 Short Story Campus Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites KWP403 Kelvin Grove KWB113 Introduction to Availabilities - SEM-1 Equivalents KWB350 Creative Writing Credit Points 12 This unit provides an overview of the enduring classic Equivalents KWB101, KWB250 literary works. It will give you a better knowledge and Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 understanding of the craft of storytelling and stimulate Kelvin Grove you to develop your own critical and creative writing Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 as well as an understanding of yourself and others. Kelvin Grove The unit aims to make such works accessible to The unit covers the writing of the short story in detail. Availabilities - SEM-1 students from all disciplines in the university, and provides valuable historical context and analysis of This course develops creative, critical and analytical the writing craft in each case. skills in reading and writing a variety of creative KWB108 Introduction To textual forms. You acquire an understanding and some practice in crafting various forms of poetry and Literary Studies short fiction. Equivalents KWB001, KWB716 KWB208 Modern Times Credit Points 12 (Literature and Culture in the Campus Kelvin Grove KWB114 Scientific and 20th Century) Kelvin Grove Equivalents KWB003, KWB321 Availabilities Technical Writing - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 "The 'textualisation' of the world has been an Campus Kelvin Grove important development in twentieth century theory in Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove the West," (Fuery:57). What are texts? What do they Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 mean? This unit addresses these issues by providing - SEM-2 you with an introduction to conceptual frameworks The twentieth century is a time of significant The unit will provide foundational skills and concepts derived from some of the major critical discourses that developments and major transformations in writing for written communication in scientific and technical have impacted on our world. and culture. This unit focuses on a number of environments. Students will be introduced to the twentieth century writers from Europe, England, principles of writing clearly in a science-based Africa, Asia, Australia the Americas, from modern to context, and to the discursive frameworks that inform postmodern times, and explores the connections scientific and technical writing. between texts, language, culture and society.
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KWB213 Corporate Writing and Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities KWB209 Shakespeare, Then Editing - SEM-2 Anti-requisites KWP405 This unit provides an introduction to the function and and Now Equivalents KWB106, KWB314 structure of the writing and publishing industry. Equivalents KWB004, KWB729 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove KWB306 Creative Writing Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Project 1 This unit deals with both the fundamentals of Equivalents KWB205, KWB395 This unit is designed to introduce students to language (grammar, punctuation, style) and the Credit Points 12 Shakespearean studies and the ongoing cultural dominant corporate writing genres (manuals, report, importance of Shakespearean material. speeches, brochures). Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 KWB210 Imagining the KWB232 Creative Writing This unit provides the opportunity for you to write a sustained piece of creative work, within the genre of Americas: Contemporary Advanced Practice 1 your choice, including short fiction, poetry, creative American Literature and Equivalents KWB331, KWB305, KWB396 non-fiction and hypertext, under supervision. Such Culture Students undertaking the Advanced work will be written to a standard commensurate with Writing Practice Minor must have a being suitable to submit for publication to print or Credit Points 12 GPA of 5 or above at the end of electronic journals. Your final submission is written Campus Kelvin Grove Other semester 3. Students undertaking after familiarisation with industry demands, niches and marketing possibilities. Kelvin Grove requisites the Creative Writing and Literary Availabilities - SEM-1 Studies Research Minor must have a GPA of 5.5 or above at the end of Imagining Americas is a literature-based unit which semester 3 will explore a selection of contemporary written texts KWB308 Wonderlands: Credit Points 12 from the North and South American continents. The Literature and Culture in the unit will focus on issues of place, nationality, regional Campus Kelvin Grove 19th Century and ethnic identity and will encourage an examination Kelvin Grove Availabilities of these and the variety of writing styles from - SEM-2 Equivalents KWB005, KWB724 intercultural and international perspectives. Credit Points 12 This unit is the first in a series of three advanced practice units in creative writing. These units allow Campus Kelvin Grove students to significantly advance their writing practice Kelvin Grove Availabilities KWB211 Stylistics and associated critical and editorial skills. In creative - SEM-1 Equivalents KWB370, KWB201 writing advanced practice 1 students will work on a sustained work of fiction in the genre/s of their choice This unit considers important contemporary cultural Credit Points 12 including poetry, short fiction, long-form fiction (e.g.: and social questions by way of readings in science Campus Kelvin Grove elements of a novel length work) and non-fiction with fiction, fantasy fiction and fiction, class ideologies and revolutionary politics from a selection of novels and Kelvin Grove a specific emphasis on conceptualising, planning and Availabilities poetry of the nineteenth century. The novels and - SEM-1 beginning sustained pieces. With the ability to articulate into the other advanced practice units, this poems examine political and social change in Europe This unit allows students to significantly advance their unit gives students a unique opportunity to work on a between 1790 and 1900, with a view to making critical writing practice and associated critical and editorial sustained piece of fiction for up to a year and a half. links between current ideologies and literary forms skills through close analysis of language-level literary Intensive studio-based work, professionally- and their formulation in a nineteenth century text. As style, as opposed to story-level or narrative concerns. conducted mentorship opportunities, self-directed such, works ranging from Frankenstein to Alice in In creative writing advanced stylistics, students will creative practice and critical peer evaluation Wonderland are deployed to consider the textual work on unpacking, theorising and then replicating characterise the teaching and learning in this unit. representations of important cultural, social, and literary techniques used by a wide range of exemplary sexual issues. authors. This unit gives students a unique opportunity to consider and manipulate very specific aspects of their authorial voices, drawing on the field of literary KWB302 Novel and Genre stylistics, the Oulipo movement, reader response Anti-requisites KWP103, KWP400 KWB310 Editing and theorists, and other author-based literary theories and Credit Points 12 Developing the Manuscript schools. Intensive studio-based work, self-directed creative practice, guided critical analysis and Campus Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites KWP104, KWP404 asynchronous on-line activities characterise the Kelvin Grove Equivalents KWB301, KWB304 teaching and learning in this unit. Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit is a key advanced Creative Writing unit in Campus Kelvin Grove the Advanced Writing Practice package. This unit Kelvin Grove Availabilities KWB212 Writing Poetry enables you to develop a sustained and coherent - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 piece of work, and develop the analytical, practical and professional skills needed to work within this This unit develops your understanding of the editing Campus Kelvin Grove unique form. The focus is on the longer narrative form process - in particular, the developmental intervention Kelvin Grove and across various genres. The unit is also designed required to bring a creative manuscript to a Availabilities - SEM-2 to enable you to begin to develop a critical publishable standard. These skills are crucial to those understanding of your own and others approaches to of you intending to work in the publishing industry, The unit covers one of the major genres in creative the writing life. This unit includes face-to-face and and of great benefit to professional creative writers. writing, and is designed for those who are interested electronic learning environments designed to facilitate You will receive the opportunity to learn to edit the in language and the use of words in precise, the development of professional reading, editing and work of others with insight, understanding and innovative, concentrated and musical ways. It would writing skills. technical skill. also be useful to lyricists. The unit provides important creative and critical skills in writing verse and cultivating an understanding and appreciation of poetry and occurs at the mid-point of the creative KWB303 Writing and Publishing KWB311 Popular Fictions, writing major, building on KWB211 Stylistics and preparing students for the advanced work of third Industry Popular Culture year. Equivalents KWB399 Equivalents KWB006, KWB309, KWB725 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12
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Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove sustained work of fiction in the genre/s of their choice Availabilities Kelvin Grove including poetry, short fiction, long-form fiction (eg: - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-2 elements of a novel length work) and non-fiction with Advanced level research and creative practice in the a specific emphasis on structural editing, redrafting, The unit is designed to provide you with skills in Creative Industries frequently draws upon the concluding and marketing sustained pieces – expertise of leading national and international understanding popular culture/s. It addresses the including contemporary writing and publishing production of popular culture via a range of texts and researchers who visit the Creative Industries Faculty, industry issues. With the ability to articulate out of the as well as innovative creative projects. Through a mediums, and provides you with a framework by you other advanced practice units, this unit gives students they can critique the operations of popular cultures. Special Topic unit, Masters, PhD and Professional a unique opportunity to work on a sustained piece of Doctorate students at the postgraduate level can fiction for up to a year and a half. Intensive studio- systematically engage with these initiatives through a based work, professionally-conducted mentorship structured program of attendance at key events, KWB313 Novel and Memoir opportunities, self-directed creative practice and reading and investigation, and working in creative critical peer evaluation characterise the teaching and teams to develop project deliverables. Credit Points 12 learning in this unit. Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities KXB101 Introduction to - SEM-1 KWP410 Narrative: Advanced Entertainment This unit allows students to significantly advance their Practice writing practice and associated critical and editorial Credit Points 12 KK86MJR-CRWRTG - Creative skills through close analysis of the novel and memoir, Pre-requisites Writing Major Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove with an emphasis on story-level and narrative concerns. In Novel and Memoir, students will engage Credit Points 12 Caboolture - SEM-1 in detailed analysis from a writer's point of view of Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities how a novel is made - the problem-solving process, Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 which includes overall and chapter structure, Availabilities - SEM-1 character development, and other key narrative The entertainment economy is projected to generate elements. This unit also gives students a unique The novel represents one of the most pervasive, $2.15 trillion globally, $632 billion in the USA and opportunity to consider the synergies and differences complex and culturally important literary forms. This $22.6 billion in Australia by the end of 2017 (PWC, between writing novels and longer forms of life unit is designed to help you examine the theory and 2013). The major sub-industries of the entertainment writing, with extended analysis of the conventions of practice of novel writing across various genres; the economy include motion pictures, television, music, memoir writing. Lectures, intensive workshop relationship between imagination and inspiration and theme and amusement parks, video games, sports, activities, self-directed creative practice, guided the process of planning and research leading to the theatre, casinos, books and cruise shipping. In critical analysis, and on-line collaboration characterise development of a novel proposal, including an initial KXB101 Introduction to Entertainment you will learn the teaching and learning in this unit. chapter and synopsis. about the nature of entertainment and how the entertainment economy operates. This unit will focus on understanding entertainment content, audiences, and producing. KWB332 Creative Writing KWP411 Advanced Creative Advanced Practice 2 Writing Workshop Pre-requisites KWB331 or KWB232 Credit Points 12 KXB102 Global Entertainment Equivalents KWB305, KWB396 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Caboolture Kelvin Grove Creative Writing Workshop is a postgraduate creative - SEM-2 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 writing unit focused on critiquing, editing and refining Kelvin Grove creative works and critical essays in progress from a - SEM-2 This unit is the second in a series of three advanced practitioner's perspective. You will read, discuss and Entertainment and entertainment industries are a practice units in creative writing. These units allow critique the creative and critical works of their peers, global phenomenon. In this unit you will learn about students to significantly advance their writing practice under the guidance and mentorship of the course the trends and issues that are shaping entertainment and associated critical and editorial skills. In creative convenor. You will also partake in writing exercises around the globe. In addition, it is important to writing advanced practice 2 students will work on an and discuss elements of craft and technique germane understand the important genres of entertainment already-conceived, sustained work of fiction in the to your creative practice. genre/s of their choice including poetry, short fiction, such as television, theme parks, sport as long-form fiction (eg: elements of a novel length work) entertainment, cruise shipping, gaming and music and and non-fiction with a specific emphasis on how they are influenced by different cultures around developing, structuring and modulating sustained KWP415 Theory and Practice in the world. pieces. With the ability to articulate into and out of the other advanced practice units, this unit gives students Creative Writing and Literary a unique opportunity to work on a sustained piece of Studies fiction for up to a year and a half. Intensive studio- KXB201 Entertainment based work, professionally-conducted mentorship Credit Points 12 Practice: Balancing Creativity opportunities, self-directed creative practice and Campus Kelvin Grove critical peer evaluation characterise the teaching and and Business Kelvin Grove learning in this unit. Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit is specifically designed for those students Kelvin Grove doing Honours in either Creative Writing or Literary Availabilities KWB333 Creative Writing Studies. It aims to acquaint you with theories relevant - SEM-1 to your selected research project(s) and help you In order to work in the entertainment industries you Advanced Practice 3 develop practical, professional, critical and analytical need to understand how creativity and business can Pre-requisites KWB332 skills relevant to these. work together to complement each other. Successful Equivalents KWB305, KWB396 entertainment industry professionals know how Credit Points 12 creative processes and projects work, as well as how businesses work; they combine and balance the two Campus Kelvin Grove KWP420 Transmedia to produce effective entertainment. This unit aims to Kelvin Grove Availabilities Storytelling: From Interviewing equip you with this ability to combine understandings - SEM-2 to Multi-Platform of entertainment industries and business in the This unit is the third in a series of three advanced context of the entertainment industries. In practical Equivalents KKP403 practice units in creative writing. These units allow terms, this unit aims to provide you with an students to significantly advance their writing practice Credit Points 12 understanding of the different stages of the entrepreneurial process in the particular context of the and associated critical and editorial skills. In this unit, Campus Kelvin Grove students will work on an already-commenced, Entertainment Industries.
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KXP406 Creative Industries: KXP413 Managing Money in the KXB202 Project Management Events and Festivals Arts Anti-requisites KTB211 Equivalents GSN225, KKP402, KTP413 for Entertainment Equivalents KTP406 Credit Points 12 Completion of 72 credit points of Pre-requisites study Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites MGB335, MGX335 Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Arts managers, event managers and creative Campus Kelvin Grove Combination of a practical and theoretical producers play a critical role in taking great ideas to Kelvin Grove market. In this unit, you will examine the Availabilities investigation into how strategy and mission work in - SEM-2 arts agencies in arts, events, promotion and public entrepreneurial strategies arts leaders use to implement their ideas in the current policy and The aim of this unit is to provide you with the skills to relations in Australia. economic climate. You will consider the role of oversee the production of an entertainment project by corporate development, fundraising, grants, providing you with a mid-course level understanding sponsorship and philanthropy. of, and ability to employ, project management skills for entertainment. KXP408 Marketing Arts and Culture Equivalents GSN228, KKP408, KTP408 KXP414 Arts and Cultural KXB301 Entertainment Credit Points 12 Policy KCP018, KCP401, KKP404, Industries Map Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents KTP414 KXB101 and (36 credit points from Kelvin Grove Availabilities AMB200, AMB207, BSB126, - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites KPB101, KPB116, KXB102, This unit examines and applies theories of arts Campus Kelvin Grove KXB201, LWS008 and LWS009) marketing for arts cultural organisations. The focus is Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 on audience development, but product and service - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove development models in the mission driven arts environment provide the context for you to develop In this unit, you will consider arts and creative Kelvin Grove industries policy initiatives in Australia, at Federal, Availabilities marketing strategies, marketing plans and campaigns - SEM-1 for arts and cultural management. state and local government levels, and internationally. You will examine the way in which policy impacts on Industry networks are of key importance in the work of creative producers, arts managers, and Entertainment. In this unit you will extend and apply members of arts boards, and the role the arts your critical knowledge of entertainment industries to manager plays in issues of governance, planning, the 'real-world' task of creating and updating an online KXP409 Arts and Cultural advocacy, and accountability. directory of entertainment industries. The online Management directory will be a public product. Equivalents GSN227, KTP409 Credit Points 12 LCB002 Child and Adolescent KXB302 Entertainment Project Campus Kelvin Grove Development and Learning Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 1: Preproduction - SEM-1 KXB101 and KXB102 and KXB201 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites This unit provides students of arts and cultural and KXB202 management with an investigation and analysis of the Caboolture - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 management function of the not-for-profit arts Availabilities Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove organisation. It examines the strategic management approaches and operational procedures of arts - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities organisations, including their relationships with the - SEM-1 This unit develops your knowledge of child legal system, the media, business, the public, and the development and learning. It is aimed at developing The aim of this unit is to enable you to take industrial provisions and human resources of the an understanding of both in relation to the Primary responsibility at an advanced level as part of a group organisation. and Secondary school contexts. This unit links the for the delivery of a real world entertainment project. theoretical base of child development and learning to The advanced experience and skills gained from this the practical application of both to teaching. This unit project build upon the skills and knowledges requires you to participate in all the related topics and developed in your course, and are designed to KXP411 Advanced Practice in to support your fellow students in presenting these contribute towards your increased confidence as a Creative Production and Arts topics for assessment and discussion. This subject professional producer in the Entertainment Industries. will serve as a basis for future work in Creating Management Positive Learning Environments. KK86MJR-CPARTMG - Creative Pre-requisites Production and Arts Management KXB303 Entertainment Project Major LCB003 Education and Society 2: Production Equivalents KTP411 Pre-requisites KXB302 Credit Points 12 1 Equivalents EDB001 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 The growth of arts festivals and cultural centres Caboolture - SEM-2 The aim of this unit is to enable you to take across Australia and internationally is driving a Availabilities Kelvin Grove responsibility at an advanced level as part of a group demand for new and appealing arts programs. To - SEM-2 for the delivery of a real world entertainment project. meet this demand, cultural producers require a The advanced experience and skills gained from this comprehensive suite is skills including creative Education and Society 1 begins the process of project build upon the skills and knowledge developed entrepreneurship, programming, commissioning, introducing students to the complex relationship in your course, and are designed to contribute management and leadership. between our education system, and the social and towards your increased confidence as a professional cultural contexts from which it emerges. Students will producer in the Entertainment Industries. use socio-cultural theory to better understand those they will come to teach, as well as how their pupils' diverse backgrounds shape their experiences with the modern school often in very different ways. This
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units introductory unit challenges students in the early This unit covers the following topics: literature children's literature in the classroom. stages of their course to develop a sound teaching in historical perspective; recent fundamental knowledge of such factors as socio- developments in theory; poetry in the senior school; economic circumstances, gender and ethnicity, teaching drama in the senior school; teaching the contemporary culture, and social governance, and novel in the senior school; shorter works (novellas, LCB327 The Global Teacher their various impacts upon education, so that they short stories) and their use in the English curriculum. Equivalents CLB049 may respond to these issues in an informed, ethical Credit Points 12 and professional manner. Campus Kelvin Grove LCB323 Teaching Adolescent Kelvin Grove Availabilities LCB004 Culture Studies 2: Literature - SEM-1 Indigenous Education (English Equivalents CLB323 This unit enhances the skills of educators to design Credit Points 12 curriculum and pedagogy in ways that address global citizenship and educational and human rights. as an Additional Campus Kelvin Grove Language/Dialect) Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites EDB171 - SEM-2 LCB328 Teaching Children with Credit Points 12 This unit addresses the following topics: scope and Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove nature of young adult literature; strategies for Disabilities evaluation and selection; recent research into Equivalents SPB003 Caboolture adolescents' reading needs, interests and responses; - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities using young adult books in the curriculum. Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities This unit further develops your knowledge, skills and - SEM-2 application for addressing the needs of learners who LCB324 Teaching English as an are from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Additional Language This unit provides an introduction to a wide range of backgrounds, and learners from other culturally and low incidence exceptionalities (for example sensory Equivalents CLB347 linguistically diverse backgrounds. The unit focuses impairments, developmental delay and health on practical application of key principles of teaching Credit Points 12 impairments such as epilepsy, asthma and hepatitis). It also addresses methods of managing associated and learning, curriculum design and assessment. It Campus Kelvin Grove links to the work previously undertaken in EDB171 - disabling conditions, the implementation and Kelvin Grove evaluation of programming, and the support and Culture Studies 1 -and will allow you to demonstrate Availabilities two Course Learning Outcomes at the Achieved level. - SEM-2 referral services. This elective unit for students in all teaching specialisations will develop understanding of specific language and learning needs of students for whom LCB329 Movies and Popular LCB320 Studies in Language English is a second language. It deals with Equivalents CLB320 differences in first and second language development, Culture Credit Points 12 professional implications of significant policy initiatives Equivalents CLB050 related to second language learners, and issues in Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove analysis, assessment and cross-cultural Kelvin Grove communication. Participants will also investigate Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 language demands of their own area of specialisation Kelvin Grove and develop appropriate teaching techniques and Availabilities This unit addresses the following topics: the language - SEM-1 resources. basis in current approaches to the teaching of This unit aims to equip students with an English; nature and function of language; the understanding of key concepts in socio-cultural theory dynamics involved inclassroom interaction; the and to increase their knowledge of the corpus of educational implications of linguistic diversity within LCB325 Gender and Sexuality fictional film and television narrative. It also aims to the community; sociocultural variables, including provide students with the tools to critically analyse the gender and class, and their impact on language use; Issues for Teachers way in which fictional film and television as cultural an introduction to traditional and functional grammar. Equivalents CLB403 products, both perpetuate and help to shape ways of Credit Points 12 thinking and acting in the social and physical world and in institutions such as schools. Campus External LCB321 Writing Workshop External Availabilities Equivalents CLB321 - SEM-2 LCB330 Teaching Students with Credit Points 12 This unit addresses the following topics: gender and Campus Kelvin Grove sexualities in cultural and school contexts; historical Learning Difficulties overview of gender relations; theoretical frameworks Kelvin Grove Equivalents SPB004 Availabilities for gender and current debates in Australia about - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 gender and equity; femininity and masculinity as The student, as writer, uses all the language modes in social constructs; sexuality and the body; violence Campus Kelvin Grove social contexts (either genuine or simulated) to lead to and gender; debates about boys' behaviour and Kelvin Grove Availabilities writing in a range of situations. Engagement in these performance in Australian schools. - SEM-1, SEM-2 writing situations is designed to bring about personal understanding of the following: the nature of the This unit integrates a basic understanding and writing process; the influence of audience and application of learning theory as it applies to purpose on the final written product; the range of LCB326 Children's Literature exceptional populations. It focuses on approaches to genres (or forms) falling within the writing activity. Equivalents CLB441 teaching particular exceptional groups and provides an opportunity for development of specialist skills and Credit Points 12 resources in one of the following areas: (a) students Campus Kelvin Grove and External with learning difficulties; (b) gifted students; (c) students with low incidence disabilities, for example LCB322 Literature in Secondary Kelvin Grove hearing impaired, visually impaired or physically - SEM-2 Teaching Availabilities handicapped; (d) behaviourally or emotionally External Equivalents CLB322 disturbed students. - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit provides students with the opportunity to Campus Kelvin Grove extend their knowledge of children's literature written Kelvin Grove by both Australian and overseas writers. It examines Availabilities - SEM-2 traditional and emerging genres, develops critical approaches to texts, and considers ways of using
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LCB331 Educational LCB336 Middle Years classroom. Counselling Curriculum, Pedagogy and Equivalents SPB006 Assessment LCB902 English as a Second Credit Points 12 Equivalents SPB022 Language Curriculum Studies 3 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LCB901 or CLB022 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLB023 - SEM-1, SEM-2 (Block) Caboolture Credit Points 12 This unit includes the following: the nature of - SEM-1 Availabilities counselling/helping in educational contexts; the Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove educator as counsellor; characteristics of effective - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove helpers; practical development of communications Availabilities This unit introduces pre-service primary students to - SEM-1 skills; building an empathic relationship; structuring the emerging curriculum, pedagogy and assessment the counselling process; application of some This unit introduces the theoretical and practical approaches within Junior Secondary contexts. It counselling theories to the educational contexts; knowledge and skills required by an effective explores the alignment between the established practical sessions using educationally based role practitioner in the complex social environment of the middle years literature and Junior Secondary in a plays to demonstrate effective use of the skills classroom. Queensland context. This unit establishes an learned. The unit includes a compulsory study school understanding of various Junior Secondary students for external students. It is incompatible with studies in experiences of schooling and how teachers can Counselling or equivalent at Diploma of Teaching respond to this range of learning needs through level. LCB903 LOTE Curriculum curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Studies 1 Equivalents CLB036 LCB332 Middle Years Students LCB337 Assessment: Using Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and Schools Educational Data Kelvin Grove Equivalents SPB008 Availabilities Equivalents SPB036 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Caboolture This unit allows students to develop an understanding Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove of the language learning process and their awareness Caboolture Availabilities Caboolture of the place of languages in the school curriculum. - SEM-2 - 6TP4 Students will be encouraged to become reflective Availabilities This unit provides an understanding of the Kelvin Grove learners/teachers who can analyse the contexts in developmental needs and interests of young - 6TP4 which they work, are familiar with policy and adolescents and reform initiatives being implemented curriculum issues and are able to make soundly- Monitoring individual development and designing by schools to address these issues. The unit analyses based professional judgments designed to maximize appropriate intervention programs/units to meet the work of agencies and major reports in the middle learning for all students. individual needs is the work of all teachers. Thus, the years of schooling and examines aspects of research unit provides opportunities for the educator to devise focussing on reform in curriculum, pedagogy and the ways to monitor student development and to engage way schools are organised. The unit is one of four with current international, national and state units forming a pathway into the middle years of LCB904 LOTE Curriculum developments that require systemic evaluation of all schooling for primary and secondary teaching. key learning areas. Studies 2 Pre-requisites LCB903 or CLB036 Equivalents CLB037 LCB333 Classroom and LCB338 Understanding Credit Points 12 Behaviour Management Reading Difficulties Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents SPB012 Kelvin Grove Equivalents SPB038 Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Practising teachers need to be aware that Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove syllabuses,policy documents and the classroom Caboolture - SEM-1 practices and teaching strategies to which they give Availabilities - SEM-2 rise reflect underlying views of language and learning. External Availabilities Kelvin Grove - 6TP4, SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1 This unit integrates concepts of behaviour The aims of this unit are to provide pre-service development, management and discipline within a LCB905 LOTE Curriculum teachers (Prep to Year 12) with opportunities to defensible pattern of classroom management and deepen their knowledge of the reading process and to appropriate curricula processes. Studies 3 develop their skills in identifying and supporting Pre-requisites LCB904 or CLB037 struggling readers in an inclusive setting. An emphasis will be placed on classroom-based Equivalents CLB038 LCB334 Teaching Strategies assessment practices and explicit evidence-based Credit Points 12 instructional practices that can be incorporated into Equivalents SPB018 Campus Kelvin Grove rich literacy activities. Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Caboolture LCB901 English as a Second This unit builds on the two previous units and - SEM-1 explores in greater depth a range of practical and Availabilities Kelvin Grove Language Curriculum Studies 2 theoretical issues in the area of LOTE curriculum - SEM-1 Pre-requisites LCB339 or CLB021 development and implementation. This unit includes: evaluation of the students' teaching Equivalents CLB022 strategies; the literature on teaching strategies; critical Credit Points 12 evaluation of strategies/models of teaching available. LCB907 Primary LOTE Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Curriculum Studies Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents CLB042 This unit introduces the theoretical and practical Credit Points 12 knowledge and skills required by an effective Campus Kelvin Grove practitioner in the complex social environment of the
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Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities conceptual and strategic approaches to enable - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Availabilities independent and connected learning via libraries and External Develops an understanding of the second language other information-rich learning sites. - SEM-2 learning process and awareness of the place of languages in the primary school curriculum. Students This unit introduces the theories and practices in will analyze the contexts in which you work, deal second language assessment. It examines and confidently with policy and curriculum issues and evaluates both classroom based assessment tasks LCN617 Children's Literature: make soundly-based professional judgments and standardised tests used to assess the proficiency Criticism and Practice designed to maximize learning for all students. of second language speakers. Equivalents CLN659 Credit Points 12 Campus External LCN600 Connected Learning LCN612 Sociolinguistics External Availabilities Equivalents CLN601 Equivalents CLN640 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 School libraries and classrooms are spaces where Campus External Campus Kelvin Grove and External multi-literacies and multi-modal textualities are External Kelvin Grove constant and ever-increasing presences in the daily Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 and educational lives of students and staff. This unit Availabilities External provides teachers and teacher-librarians with a range This unit addresses the challenges, opportunities and - SEM-1 of tools, strategies, and approaches for the critical implications for learning and teaching in dynamic, analysis of children's literature, which in turn will information-rich online environments. It enables This unit is an introduction to sociolinguistics, that is, enable them to communicate critically with students students to: critically and creatively engage with understandings of language use in relation to social and stakeholders in classrooms and libraries. contemporary concepts, media and practices for factors. The topics covered emphasise the ways that diverse educational, professional and information language use is differentiated and dynamic across contexts, including school libraries; participate in an social groups and the implications for TESOL and online learning community; collaborate in the design, second language teaching and learning. Topics LCN618 Advanced Educational development and evaluation of online learning include languages and dialects, pidgins and creoles, resources. speech communities, and language policy and Counselling planning. Pre-requisites LCN636 or SPN651 Equivalents SPN610 LCN601 Designing Spaces for Credit Points 12 Learning LCN614 Grammar for Second Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLN603 Language Teaching Availabilities - SEM-2 (Block) Credit Points 12 Equivalents CLN642 This unit provides you with an overview of major Campus Kelvin Grove and External Credit Points 12 theories of counselling and assist in the development Campus Kelvin Grove and External Kelvin Grove of a framework using one of these approaches that - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities may be used as a basis for your own counselling. External - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1 External - SEM-1 This unit develops a theoretically-based, problem- LCN619 Educational Guidance solving approach to learning space design that This unit assists language teachers develop a better responds to the voices, values, attributes and needs understanding of grammar and its place in the and Counselling: Professional of particular learning communities and includes all teaching and learning of a second language. stakeholders. Participants will develop their own language Practice awareness and explore a range of strategies and (LCN636 or SPN651) and (LCN620 or SPN612). LCN620 can be techniques for the effective integration of grammar Pre-requisites instruction into language programs. studied in the same teaching period LCN604 Second Language as LCN619 Curriculum Design Equivalents SPN611 Equivalents CLN613 LCN615 Learning Hubs Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Equivalents CLN646 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 (Block) Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-2 This unit looks at: professional practices of Availabilities External External Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 educational counsellors working in the P-12 context; - SEM-2 intervention, prevention, affective, and developmental The unit provides a research based, theoretical and programs; adolescent issues and career counselling; This unit introduces the factors that influence teachers practical context for exploring organisational, consultation models, theories and practices; self- in the development of language programs. It includes pedagogical, technological and professional management skills, time management, program analysis of the following areas: learner profiles and dimensions of school libraries and other information evaluation, accountability and decision-making needs; aims and objectives; processes and criteria for services for prospective teacher-librarians information discussed. selecting methodology; content selection and professionals and other educators. sequencing; choice and evaluation of materials and resources and processes involved in developing courses. LCN620 Psychoeducational LCN616 Inquiry Learning Assessment Equivalents CLN650 Equivalents SPN612 LCN606 Second Language Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Assessment Campus External Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents CLN616 External Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 - 13TP1 (Block) Campus Kelvin Grove and External This unit supports the critical, ethical and creative engagement of teacher-librarians, educators and In this unit students gain a broad understanding of the information professionals with a diverse array of various types of assessment techniques and information, concepts, technologies, social networks, strategies used in the educational context to develop resources and practices pertinent to contemporary understandings and capacities that advance learners information-learning environments. The unit develops from basic competence in professional practice to
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units confident and ethical leadership in learning innovation Kelvin Grove LCN625 Developmental and - SEM-1 in school guidance and counselling. Availabilities Educational Assessment External - SEM-1 Equivalents SPN640 Credit Points 12 Schools are a reflection of diversity within global and LCN621 Career Development local education communities. An inclusive approach and Professional Practice Campus Kelvin Grove to education involves a critique of social values, Kelvin Grove priorities and the structures and institutions which Equivalents SPN618 Availabilities - SEM-1 they support. It involves the politics of recognition and Credit Points 12 is concerned with the serious issue of who is included Campus External This unit provides students with an opportunity for and who is excluded within education and society foundation study of principles and methods for generally. External Availabilities assessing individual development and personal - SEM-1 characteristics. Underlying this unit is the assumption This unit encourages learners to engage in lifelong that the purpose of assessment is to collect learning and within the context of career development information that will be used to design interventions. LCN630 Leadership, Policy and practice, lead innovations in the delivery of career Change in Action development programs to a wide range of audience throughout the community. Anti-requisites SPN627, SPN628 LCN626 Interventions in Equivalents SPN645 Educational and Developmental Credit Points 12 LCN622 Career Counselling Psychology Campus Kelvin Grove and External (LCN636 or SPN651) or (LCN618 Equivalents SPN641 Pre-requisites Kelvin Grove or SPN610) Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Availabilities External Equivalents SPN620 Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities The unit presents the theories and processes of Campus External - SEM-1 educational change; organizational cultures and External This unit aims to equip students with a range of Availabilities values and their influence on change; policy - SEM-2 applied strategies for evidence-based prevention and processes (development, implementation and intervention within educational and developmental evaluation); policy trends and change in educational This unit encourages learners to critically evaluate the contexts. Practical skills need to be founded on a contexts. The content around these topics will add to perspectives to formulate a personal position with deep conceptual understanding of the links between your understanding of the dynamics between respect to their career counselling practice. Students assessment and intervention. leadership, culture and change, and the challenges have the opportunity to gain experience in the for leaders. You will develop skills to make sense of application of traditional and emerging career and constructively respond to policies within counselling processes, and to contribute to innovation organisational contexts. in supporting the role of career counselling in a new LCN627 Learning Difficulties: career guidance context of career self-management. Assessment and Intervention Pre-requisites LCN625 or SPN640 LCN631 Strategic Management LCN623 Leadership Concepts, Equivalents SPN642 Anti-requisites SPN637 Theories and Issues Credit Points 12 Equivalents SPN646 Equivalents SPN625 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Kelvin Grove The aim of the unit is to provide students with a sound - SEM-2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove knowledge of learning processes, and methods for External - SEM-1 Availabilities assessing individuals with learning difficulties. It also - SEM-2 External introduces students to a variety of appropriate Since 2000, there have been increasing demands - SEM-1 interventions for individuals with learning difficulties from statuary bodies and other stakeholders for all and associated impairments. The overall aim of this unit is to enhance the organizations, whether schools, educational leadership understanding and capabilities for both institutions, voluntary organizations, businesses or current leaders and those aspiring to such positions in government departments, to be effective, efficient and organisations today and in the future. This aim is set LCN628 Developmental transparently responsible. This unit will take a in a broader understanding of notions of shared and complex systems view using general systems theory, multiple leadership concepts. Processes and Disability chaos theory and synergistics to analyse the Equivalents SPN643 processes educational organisations and other organisational settings use to maintain their strategic Credit Points 12 intent and to harness both continuous and LCN624 Leading and Managing Campus Kelvin Grove discontinuous innovation. People Kelvin Grove Availabilities Equivalents SPN626 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This unit aims to equip students with a sound LCN632 Understanding Campus Kelvin Grove and External framework on which to base their professional practice. Working effectively with individuals with a Reading and Writing Difficulties Kelvin Grove range of disabilities, their families, schools and Anti-requisites SPN614 - SEM-2 Availabilities communities requires knowledge about the ways in Equivalents SPN647 External which development may be compromised by - SEM-2 disability, and the ways in which contextual influences Credit Points 12 This unit enhances the understandings and contribute to developmental outcomes. Campus Kelvin Grove and External capabilities of leaders and aspiring leaders to manage Kelvin Grove their organisation's human resources in rapidly - SEM-2 Availabilities changing and challenging contexts. LCN629 Inclusive Education: External - SEM-2 Theory, Policy and Practice While the understanding and application of learning Equivalents SPN644 theory is essential to the teaching of all students, Credit Points 12 there will always be some for whom specialised approaches are required in order to maximise their Campus Kelvin Grove and External potential. Accordingly, it is vitally important for
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units teachers to develop their knowledge and skills so that extracted from many branches of applied psychology they can meet the needs of diverse literacy learners in is that people of all ages yearn to be personally LCP402 Languages Education a flexible, problem-solving manner using evidence- effective. Be they classroom teachers with discipline Curriculum Studies 3 based approaches to instruction. problems, failing students, or those who are Pre-requisites LCP400 or CLP411 dissatisfied in their work situation - unhappy people are seeking to satisfy unfulfilled hopes and Equivalents CLP413 aspirations. More importantly, perhaps, they seek Credit Points 12 LCN633 School Guidance and happiness and a sense of being able to direct their Campus Kelvin Grove Counselling Practicum own destinies. This unit focuses on issues and topics implicit in the above. Kelvin Grove Availabilities (LCN636 or SPN651) and (LCN619 - SEM-1 or SPN611). LCN619 and LCN636 Pre-requisites can be studied in the same teaching This unit focuses on the development of effective period as LCN633 LCN637 Career Development: language programs and assessment practices for secondary students, including Senior assessment and Equivalents SPN648 Policy and Process Context outcomes-based assessment in a variety of contexts. Credit Points 12 Equivalents SPN654 This unit aims to support you in expanding your Campus Kelvin Grove and External teaching repertoire so that you can provide all Credit Points 12 learners with an effective learning environment based External Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External on a critical awareness of good professional practice. - SEM-1, SEM-2 External Availabilities As well as developing a sound knowledge base, - SEM-1, SEM-2 studying school guidance and counselling needs you to develop the skills to apply this knowledge in the This unit introduces students to the broad areas of LCP410 Classroom and practical setting of a school. In the Practicum, you will career development policy, career counselling, and career development programs. It is based on Behaviour Management be given the opportunity to observe, participate in and Equivalents SPP400 critically evaluate a range of practice activities. Component 3 of the Australian Career Development Studies (reproduced and modified with the approval of Credit Points 12 the Federal Department of Education Employment Campus Kelvin Grove and External and Workplace Relations). LCN634 Supporting Students Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Availabilities with Social, Emotional and External Behavioural Needs LCN638 Theory and Practice of - SEM-1 Equivalents SPN649 Second Language Teaching This unit investigates a range of classroom management strategies, including preventative, Credit Points 12 and Learning supportive and corrective approaches, that are aimed Campus External Anti-requisites CLN608, CLN612 at developing collaborative and inclusive learning External Credit Points 12 environments in a range of educational settings. Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Teachers' concerns about classroom management Kelvin Grove are intensified by the inclusion of students with - SEM-1, SEM-2 LCP414 Enhancing Your Availabilities additional needs. Behaviours associated with low External engagement, learning difficulties, attention and - SEM-1, SEM-2 Teaching Practice activity disorders, autism spectrum disorders, and Equivalents SPP403 This unit focuses on the theory and practice of second moderate to severe disabilities present major Credit Points 12 challenges for classroom teachers. Accordingly, language teaching and learning. It introduces you to sound knowledge of effective classroom management foundational concepts and second language teaching Campus Kelvin Grove practices and the ability to work collaboratively with approaches, methods and techniques. It links to work Kelvin Grove Availabilities support personnel to plan and provide appropriate undertaken in LCN612 Sociolinguistics; LCN606 - SEM-1 behaviour management programs are essential. Second language assessment; LCN604 Second language curriculum design; and LCN614 Grammar In this unit, you will gain knowledge and for second language teaching. understanding of theoretical and practical pedagogic frameworks that can be appplied to your classroom LCN635 Supporting Students practices. As such, this unit will assist you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to become with an Autistic Spectrum LCN650 Education and Society effective classroom practitioners. Disorder Credit Points 12 Equivalents SPN650 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove LLB101 Introduction to Law Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Equivalents LWB145 Campus External Credit Points 12 External Education and Society introduces students to the Availabilities - SEM-1 complex relationship between our education system, Campus Gardens Point and External and the social and cultural milieux from which it The aims of this unit are to assist you as classroom emerges. Students will use evidence-informed socio- Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 and specialist teachers, school counsellors and cultural theory to better understand those they will Availabilities guidance officers to deepen your knowledge in the come to teach, as well as how their pupils' diverse External area of Autism Spectrum Disorders and to develop backgrounds shape their experiences with the - SEM-1, SEM-2 your skills in identifying and supporting this group of modern school, often in very different ways. The unit Introduction to Law introduces students to the students in an inclusive educational setting. challenges students at the commencement of their development of the Australian legal system. This course to develop a sound knowledge of factors includes a focus on the major sources of law in impacting on education such as socio-economic Australia and the institutions that create, interpret and conditions, gender and ethnicity, contemporary administer the law. LCN636 Introductory culture, and social governance, as well as of socially- Educational Counselling just responses to these circumstances such as those centring on equity, inclusion and ethical practice. The Equivalents SPN651 knowledge and understanding developed in the unit LLB102 Torts will assist students to respond to these issues and Credit Points 12 Equivalents LWB148 Campus Kelvin Grove endeavours in an informed, ethical and professional manner. Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities - 13TP1 (Block), SEM-1, SEM-2 (Block) Perhaps the most potent message that can be
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Gardens Point Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities Availabilities External External - SEM-1, SEM-2 LLB140 Human Rights Law - SEM-2 LLB101. LLB101 can be studied in Torts law is the law of civil wrongs and has developed Pre-requisites Legally binding promises pervade society, from the same teaching period in LLB140 to provide a private remedy for those who suffer loss uncomplicated bargains like riding on a bus to due to the acts or omissions of another. Anti-requisites LWB496 complex multi-million dollar transactions. The law of Credit Points 12 contract provides an understanding of promises which are legally binding, how contractual promises may be Campus Gardens Point and External characterised and the significance of that LLB103 Dispute Resolution Gardens Point characterisation, and how contractual promises may Anti-requisites LWB150, LWB498 - SEM-1, SEM-2 be discharged or invalidated. Availabilities Credit Points 12 External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and External Human Rights Law focuses on the theory and LLB203 Constitutional Law Gardens Point practice of international human rights law. In - SEM-1 Pre-requisites LLB105 or LWB146 Availabilities particular, it provides an overview of the history and External origins of human rights and international rights and Equivalents LWB242 - SEM-1 obligations while remaining grounded in the Credit Points 12 Dispute Resolution is an umbrella term that contemporary events and challenges to the protection Campus Gardens Point and External represents a number of processes used to resolve of human rights. conflict and disputes. This unit introduces students to Gardens Point - SEM-1 the spectrum of dispute resolution forums commonly Availabilities used in legal practice and the role of lawyers within External those forums. LLB141 Introduction to - SEM-1 International Law Constitutional Law examines the constitutional LLB101. LLB101 can be studied in arrangements effected by the Commonwealth and LLB104 Law in Context Pre-requisites the same teaching period as State Constitutions and the division of power between LLB141 the Commonwealth and States and the relations Credit Points 12 between the different levels of government. Anti-requisites LWB142, LWB144 Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Gardens Point - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities LLB204 Commercial and External Gardens Point - SEM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Personal Property Law Availabilities Law in Context provides an overview of the External Pre-requisites LLB202 or LWB137 philosophical, cultural, social, economic and global - SEM-1, SEM-2 Anti-requisites LWB244 contexts in which the Australian legal system There are many ways in which the law operates in an Credit Points 12 operates, and the role of lawyers in a dynamic and international context. Issues of global concern such changing world. This unit gives particular emphasis to as climate change, terrorism and economic Campus Gardens Point and External the impact of the Australian legal system on development require cooperation between nations Gardens Point Australia's first peoples, and introduces students to through agreements and treaties. The increased - SEM-2 Availabilities Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal knowledges internationalisation of communication, financial External and perspectives of law. interests and business transactions means that - SEM-2 individuals and companies are increasingly required In this unit, concepts of property are introduced and to engage with the laws of other countries and that legal principles relevant to personal property and domestic legal systems must operate in an commercial law are considered. LLB105 Legal Problems and international context. Communication Pre-requisites LLB101 Credit Points 12 LLB142 Regulation of Business LLB205 Equity and Trusts Pre-requisites LLB202 or LWB137 Campus Gardens Point and External Pre-requisites LLB101 or LWB145 Anti-requisites LWB241 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External External Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-2 Gardens Point - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Legal Problems and Communication continues the External - SEM-2, SUM (Block) Availabilities development of legal problem-solving and written and - SEM-2 External oral communication skills in a variety of professional - SEM-2, SUM contexts. This elective unit commences the process in educating legal students in matters of business and Equity & Trusts provides an understanding of the commercial law. It is intended to provide an overview principles of equity and the law relating to trusts as of a number of critical areas in the study of business required for admission to practice. LLB106 Criminal Law law. Further, this subject will provide theoretical and critical analysis skills for the students through the Pre-requisites LLB101 or LWB145 design of the learning experience. Equivalents LWB239, LWB238 LLB240 Chinese Legal System Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LLB101 or LWB145 Campus Gardens Point and External LLB202 Contract Law Credit Points 12 Gardens Point LLB105 or LWB146. LLB105 can be Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-2 Pre-requisites studied in the same teaching period Availabilities Gardens Point External as LLB202 - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities Anti-requisites LWB136, LWB137 External - SEM-2 Criminal Law provides knowledge of the doctrines of Credit Points 12 criminal law and procedure, with a focus on offences Chinese Legal Systems introduces students to the Campus Gardens Point and External against the person and property. Defences, excuses structure and operation of the legal systems of the and fundamental elements of criminal responsibility People's Republic of China. This includes a focus on and complicity are also covered. the major sources of law in China and the institutions that create, interpret and administer the law.
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Gardens Point - SEM-2 LLB460 Competition Moots A Availabilities External Pre-requisites LLH201 or LWB146 LLB242 Media Law - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LLB102 or LWB147 This elective unit provides an opportunity for students Campus Gardens Point and External Anti-requisites LWB480 to study the interaction of common law principles of contract law, equity and property law and the impact Gardens Point Credit Points 12 - SEM-2, SUM of statute in the context of several common Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External commercial transactions. Students will examine key External - SUM Gardens Point aspects of contracts such as risk allocation - SEM-1 performance, dispositions, and dispute resolution in If students have completed the foundation units in first Availabilities External the context of commercial sales, leases and share year, perform well under pressure and have - SEM-1 sales. A case study approach will be used to expose participated in at least one internal moot as counsel, students to practical issues related to the negotiation, they may, when expressions of interest are called for, This unit examines the regulation and non-regulation drafting and interpretation of common clauses within apply for a place on a team for a moot competition for of freedom of speech exercised by the media. In this these agreements. which academic credit is granted. Places are very regard various limitations imposed by the common limited, but if students are successful, they can take law, statute and self-regulation will be examined, such their skills to the national and international arena and as defamation, restrictions on reporting courts and experience mooting at the highest level. International politics, contempt, privacy and confidentiality. LLB442 Legal Clinic (Advanced) and national moots require significant preparation and Pre-requisites LWB456 attention to detail, with a very high level of Anti-requisites LWB421 commitment, research, writing and discipline LLB243 Family Law knowledge. Because of the timetabling of international Credit Points 12 moots throughout the year, students may be required Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point to work on the competition moot for extended periods, Campus Gardens Point and External including between November and February. The Gardens Point Availabilities number of moots offered will vary from year to year. Gardens Point - SEM-1 Academic credit for this unit is restricted to registered - SEM-2 Availabilities members of official QUT teams in designated External In this unit students are provided with the opportunity competitions. - SEM-2 to see law in action through participation in a legal clinic or a community project. Students work in their Legal professionals assisting clients who are entering placement is supplemented with a seminar program into relationships or experiencing relationship that deals with such topics as cultural competency, breakdown are involved in helping them plan their dispute resolution and ethics. Entry to this unit is via a LLB461 Competition Moots B future financial and parenting arrangements. Their successful application only. Application forms can be Pre-requisites LLH201 or LWB146 role, when assisting clients after separation, is to help found here Credit Points 12 their clients find the most appropriate forms of dispute resolution and to minimise conflict experienced by Campus Gardens Point and External family members, particularly where there are children. Gardens Point Family lawyers are most often engaged in matters LLB443 Mining and Resources - SEM-2, SUM Availabilities involving future arrangements for children and Law External financial issues, such as property settlement, spousal - SUM maintenance and child support. They also assist Pre-requisites LWB137 and LWB146 clients in applications to seek protection for family Anti-requisites LWB259 If students have completed the foundation units in first violence. This unit aims to provide you, as a potential year, perform well under pressure and have family law professional, with an understanding of the Credit Points 12 participated in at least one internal moot as counsel, family law system, the various options for resolution of Campus Gardens Point and External they may, when expressions of interest are called for, apply for a place on a team for a moot competition for disputes, and the relevant legislation and case law Gardens Point which academic credit is granted. Places are very and how it is applied in practice. - SEM-1 Availabilities limited, but if students are successful, they can take External their skills to the national and international arena and - SEM-1 experience mooting at the highest level. International LLB245 Sports Law The mining and resources sector has long been and national moots require significant preparation and Pre-requisites LWB137 and LWB148 recognised as one of the primary foundations of the attention to detail, with a very high level of Australian economy and an engine room for economic commitment, research, writing and discipline Anti-requisites LWB260, LWB460 growth. This unit provides a comprehensive overview knowledge. Because of the timetabling of international Credit Points 12 of mining and resources law in Australia. moots throughout the year, students may be required to work on the competition moot for extended periods, Campus Gardens Point and External including between November and February. The Gardens Point number of moots offered will vary from year to year. - SEM-1 Availabilities LLB445 International Academic credit for this unit is restricted to registered External members of official QUT teams in designated - SEM-1 Commercial Arbitration competitions. Pre-requisites LLB204 or LWB243 Sport is an area that is becoming increasingly business orientated and litigious. It you plan to work Anti-requisites LWB407 as a manager, administrator or lawyer in the area of Credit Points 12 sports you will, in the course of your day to day LLB462 Learning in Campus Gardens Point and External activities, encounter a wide variety of situations that Professional Practice could have potential legal consequences. As a result, Gardens Point 192cp toward LLB completed (LLB, a sound knowledge of the key areas of the law - SEM-2 Pre-requisites Availabilities LLH, LWB units) relevant in this area, such as torts, contract, sporting External tribunals, discrimination and intellectual property, and - SEM-2 Equivalents LWB421 how to apply them to real world problems is essential. This unit develops your knowledge and skills in Credit Points 12 relation to dealing with legal disputes that have a Campus Gardens Point and External cross-border dimension. It examines aspects of Gardens Point private international litigation and arbitration insofar as - SEM-2 LLB441 Commercial Contracts Availabilities they are relevant to international commercial litigation External in Practice and international commercial arbitration. The unit has - SEM-2, SUM Pre-requisites LWB137 and LWB240 and LWB244 an important commercial focus that is relevant to practice, particularly in the commercial and dispute This unit provides students with the experience of Credit Points 12 resolution and litigation areas. working in a legal professional placement. Students Campus Gardens Point and External must organise a placement in which they will perform legal work (similar to that of a graduate solicitor) for a minimum of 60 hours, supervised by a lawyer qualified to practice in that jurisdiction. Once the
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units student is enrolled, the Unit Co-ordinator will then Gardens Point - SEM-1 LPP114 Commercial approve the placement if it is appropriate. The student Availabilities will reflect upon and learn from their experience External Anti-requisites LPZ114 through keeping a reflective journal, sharing their - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 experiences with other students and using the student Ethics and the Legal Profession examines the legal Campus Gardens Point and External ePortfolio. Integral to the student's experience will be and ethical responsibilities of a legal practitioner and the identification and consideration of the develops in students the skills required to deal with Gardens Point theory/practice nexus. - 6TP2, 6TP4, 6TP5 the pressures that legal practitioners may face in their Availabilities career. External - 6TP2, 6TP4, 6TP5 LLB463 Legal Clinic (Organised This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of corporate law principles and commercial law by Program) LPP111 Lawyers' Skills providing you with an understanding of the practices 192cp toward LLB completed (LLB, Anti-requisites LPZ111 and procedures involved in utilising corporations for Pre-requisites LLH, LWB units) Credit Points 12 client purposes and an understanding of practices and procedures involved in the sale of a business. It Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External will provide you with the opportunity to apply your Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point knowledge of corporate, commercial and revenue law, Gardens Point - 6TP1, 6TP2, SEM-2 your legal research and analysis skills, and your fact Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2, SUM (Block) External analysis skills, for the purpose of finding solutions to - 6TP1, 6TP2, SEM-2 client problems involving commercial transactions. It In this unit, students are provided with the opportunity will enable you to further develop and apply your letter to see law in action through being involved in the This unit introduces you to a range of lawyering skills writing and legal drafting skills. It further provides you delivery of legal services to members of the that will enable you to apply the knowledge, skills and with an opportunity to demonstrate some of community under the umbrella of Legal Aid values, which you acquired in your law degree, to the knowledge, skills and ethical values that a competent Queensland, the Prisoners Legal Service Inc or the practice of law. Specifically this unit enables you to legal practitioner is expected to apply to complex Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation start, or to consolidate your acquisition of skills in commercial transactions and problems. (QEA) for Legal Services. Students' work in their legal letter writing, legal drafting, legal interviewing, placement is supplemented with a weekly seminar negotiation and advocacy skills. The unit will provide program that deals with such topics as legal you with the opportunity to apply your knowledge of interviewing, family and criminal law practice, various areas of the law, your legal research and LPP115 Property professionalism and legal writing. Entry to this unit is analysis skills, and your fact analysis skills, for such Anti-requisites LPZ115 via a successful application only. purposes as: advising clients orally in and in writing in complex legal matters; achieving desired client Credit Points 12 outcomes when drafting legal documents; and Campus Gardens Point and External representing clients effectively in negotiations and LLH201 Legal Research before courts. Gardens Point - 6TP2, 6TP5 Availabilities Pre-requisites LLB105 or LWB146 External Credit Points 12 - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP5 Campus Gardens Point and External LPP112 Work Skills This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of Gardens Point Anti-requisites LPZ112 property law by providing you with an understanding - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 of the practices and procedures involved in property Availabilities External transactions such as transfers, mortgages and leases. Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-1 It will provide you with the opportunity to apply your Gardens Point knowledge of property, planning and revenue law, Legal research is an integral part of legal practice. - 6TP1, 6TP2, SEM-2 your legal research and analysis skills, and your fact Availabilities This unit develops the problem solving, legal research External analysis skills, for the purpose of finding solutions to and communication skills developed in the first year - 6TP1, 6TP2, SEM-2 client problems. It will enable you to further develop units in new contexts. and apply your letter writing and legal drafting skills. The Law Admissions Consultative Committee The unit will further provide you with an opportunity to considers that an entry level lawyer should be able to demonstrate some of knowledge, skills and ethical demonstrate competence in ethical understanding values that a competent legal practitioner is expected LLH206 Administrative Law and knowledge of solicitors' trust accounting and file to apply to complex commercial transactions and Pre-requisites LLB203 and LLH201 and risk management at the level required for problems. admission as a legal practitioner in Australia. Anti-requisites LWB335 Credit Points 12 LPP116 Electives Campus Gardens Point and External LPP113 Civil Litigation Anti-requisites LPZ116 Gardens Point Anti-requisites LPZ113 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities Credit Points 12 External Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and External Gardens Point Administrative law concerns the legal relationship Gardens Point - 6TP2, 6TP4, 6TP5 - 6TP2, 6TP5 Availabilities between government and individuals and businesses. Availabilities External This unit considers the way in which decisions of External - 6TP2, 6TP4, 6TP5 government bodies and public officials may be - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP5 challenged or reviewed. This unit extends your knowledge of the substantive This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of law and the practices and procedures on two areas of civil litigation, torts and contract law by providing you practice that you choose from the list below. You must with an understanding of the practices and choose two from the lists below to satisfy professional LLH302 Ethics and the Legal procedures involved in resolving client disputes using admission requirements and unit requirements. The civil litigation. It will provide you with the opportunity to unit will provide you with the opportunity to build and Profession apply your knowledge of property, planning and apply your substantive law knowledge, your LLH201 or LWB146. LLH201 can revenue law, your legal research and analysis skills, procedural knowledge, your fact analysis skills and Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching and your fact analysis skills, for the purpose of finding your legal research and analysis skills. Group A period as LLH302 solutions to client problems. It will enable you to Administrative law practice Criminal law practice further develop and apply your letter writing and legal Anti-requisites LWB433 Family law practice *Banking and Finance law drafting skills. It provide you with an opportunity to practice *(subject to approval by the Queensland Credit Points 12 demonstrate some of knowledge, skills and ethical Legal Practitioners Admissions Board) Group B values that a competent legal practitioner is expected Campus Gardens Point and External Consumer law practice Employment and industrial to apply when conducting litigation. law practice Planning and environment law practice Wills and estates practice
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opportunity to apply your ethical understanding and knowledge the rules of professional responsibility to a range of ethical and professional dilemmas that may LPP117 Interaction arise in practice. The unit will also provide you with LPZ116 Electives Anti-requisites LPZ117 knowledge and techniques for maintain your personal Anti-requisites LPP116 Credit Points 12 wellbeing as a legal practitioner. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External Campus Gardens Point and External Gardens Point External Availabilities - 6TP2, 6TP5 LPZ113 Civil Litigation - 6TP4, 6TP5 Availabilities External Anti-requisites LPP113 This unit extends your knowledge of the substantive - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP5 Credit Points 12 law and the practices and procedures on two areas of This unit complements your study in LPP113 Civil Campus Gardens Point and External practice that you choose from the list below. You must Litigation and LPP115 Property. It provides you with choose two from the lists below to satisfy professional External an opportunity to build further your legal and fact Availabilities admission requirements and unit requirements. The research and analysis skills, your communication - 6TP2, 6TP3 unit will provide you with the opportunity to build and skills and your ability to manage complex legal work This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of apply your substantive law knowledge, your in a professional manner. It provides you further civil litigation, torts and contract law by providing you procedural knowledge, your fact analysis skills and opportunities for exercising your professional with an understanding of the practices and your legal research and analysis skills. Group A judgement within an ethical framework appropriate for procedures involved in resolving client disputes using Administrative law practice Criminal law practice a legal professional. It further provides you with an civil litigation. It will provide you with the opportunity to Family law practice *Banking and Finance law opportunity to apply risk management tools in legal apply your knowledge of property, planning and practice *(subject to approval by the Queensland professional work. revenue law, your legal research and analysis skills, Legal Practitioners Admissions Board) Group B and your fact analysis skills, for the purpose of finding Consumer law practice Employment and industrial solutions to client problems. It will enable you to law practice Planning and environment law practice further develop and apply your letter writing and legal Wills and estates practice LPP118 Placement drafting skills. It provide you with an opportunity to Anti-requisites LPZ118 demonstrate some of knowledge, skills and ethical Credit Points 12 values that a competent legal practitioner is expected to apply when conducting litigation. LPZ117 Interaction Campus Gardens Point and External Anti-requisites LPP117 External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - 6TP4, 6TP6 LPZ114 Commercial Campus Gardens Point and External This unit provides a capstone to your practical legal Anti-requisites LPP114 External training for admission to the legal profession. It Availabilities - 6TP2, 6TP3 enables you to you to spend the equivalent of 4 Credit Points 12 working weeks in law office in Australia, in which you Campus Gardens Point and External This unit complements your study in LPP113 Civil can observe legal practitioners delivering legal Litigation and LPP115 Property. It provides you with External services. In enables you to observe first hand legal Availabilities an opportunity to build further your legal and fact professionalism-in-action and to conduct professional - 6TP4, 6TP5 research and analysis skills, your communication reflection on this activity. This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of skills and your ability to manage complex legal work corporate law principles and commercial law by in a professional manner. It provides you further providing you with an understanding of the practices opportunities for exercising your professional and procedures involved in utilising corporations for judgement within an ethical framework appropriate for LPZ111 Lawyers' Skills client purposes and an understanding of practices a legal professional. It further provides you with an Anti-requisites LPP111 and procedures involved in the sale of a business. It opportunity to apply risk management tools in legal professional work. Credit Points 12 will provide you with the opportunity to apply your knowledge of corporate, commercial and revenue law, Campus Gardens Point and External your legal research and analysis skills, and your fact External analysis skills, for the purpose of finding solutions to Availabilities - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP4 client problems involving commercial transactions. It LPZ118 Placement will enable you to further develop and apply your letter Anti-requisites LPP118 This unit introduces you to a range of lawyering skills writing and legal drafting skills. It further provides you Credit Points 12 that will enable you to apply the knowledge, skills and with an opportunity to demonstrate some of values, which you acquired in your law degree, to the knowledge, skills and ethical values that a competent Campus External practice of law. Specifically this unit enables you to legal practitioner is expected to apply to complex External start, or to consolidate your acquisition of skills in Availabilities commercial transactions and problems. - 6TP6 legal letter writing, legal drafting, legal interviewing, negotiation and advocacy skills. The unit will provide This unit provides a capstone to your practical legal you with the opportunity to apply your knowledge of training for admission to the legal profession. It various areas of the law, your legal research and LPZ115 Property enables you to you to spend the equivalent of 4 analysis skills, and your fact analysis skills, for such working weeks in law office in Australia, in which you Anti-requisites LPP115 purposes as: advising clients orally in and in writing in can observe legal practitioners delivering legal complex legal matters; achieving desired client Credit Points 12 services. In enables you to observe first hand legal outcomes when drafting legal documents; and Campus Gardens Point and External professionalism-in-action and to conduct professional representing clients effectively in negotiations and reflection on this activity. External before courts. Availabilities - 6TP2, 6TP3 This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of property law by providing you with an understanding LQB180 Biomolecules and Life LPZ112 Work Skills of the practices and procedures involved in property Processes Anti-requisites LPP112 transactions such as transfers, mortgages and leases. Anti-requisites CVB102 Credit Points 12 It will provide you with the opportunity to apply your knowledge of property, planning and revenue law, Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External your legal research and analysis skills, and your fact Campus Gardens Point External analysis skills, for the purpose of finding solutions to Availabilities Gardens Point - 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP4 client problems. It will enable you to further develop Availabilities and apply your letter writing and legal drafting skills. - SEM-1 This unit introduces you to ethical and professional The unit will further provide you with an opportunity to The composition and function of biomolecules in the values and to legal work management skills will equip demonstrate some of knowledge, skills and ethical cell and the body is important in understanding the you with some of the values and skills that you will values that a competent legal practitioner is expected relationships between health and disease. This unit need to be able to practice law in a professional to apply to complex commercial transactions and introduces foundational knowledge and skills relevant manner. The unit will also provide you with an problems. to understanding the fundamental bioelements, their understanding of the practical aspects of solicitors' structural organisation in biological molecules and trust accounting. This unit will provide you with the
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units their functional roles in the central life processes of biomedical scientists. This introductory unit is disease, diagnosis, aetiology, treatment, prevention, cells, organs and tissues. designed to give students a strong foundation for control and epidemiology. You will also learn about continuing studies in biomedical science and related the laboratory processing of patient specimens with areas of study. infectious diseases and how to work safely, competently and skillfully in a PC2 diagnostic LQB181 Introduction to Medical laboratory context. Laboratory Science LQB281 Human Health & Credit Points 12 Disease Concepts Campus Gardens Point LQB381 Biochemistry Credit Points 12 Gardens Point PQB105 or (SCB121 and SCB122) Availabilities Campus Gardens Point or (SCB111 and SCB121) or - SEM-1 Pre-requisites Gardens Point SCB113 or (CVB101 & CVB102) or Medical laboratory scientists have a vital role in the Availabilities - SEM-2 CZB190 or LQB180 diagnosis of disease and ongoing management of Credit Points 12 patient care. It is estimated that 70% of all medical This unit develops an understanding of the causes treatments are based on a pathology diagnosis. This and pathogenesis of human diseases including those Campus Gardens Point first year unit introduces you to the clinical practice of of a genetic, microbial, immunologic and traumatic Gardens Point Availabilities diagnostic pathology, the role of medical laboratory aetiology. Students are introduced to the language - SEM-1 scientists in healthcare, medical research and and terminology used within the discipline and are profession of medical laboratory science in a local, provided opportunities to understand and apply the The study of biochemistry and cell biology, along with national and international context. Foundation way in which pathology is measured, diagnosed and anatomy and physiology, provides students with the knowledge in the core diagnostic pathology treated. knowledge required for the proper understanding of disciplines will be introduced in a series of clinical the structure and function of the human body and its case studies and scenarios in conjunction with basic organ systems in health and disease, as a practical bench-skills required in the laboratory to preparation for their clinical studies. prepare you for later units of your course. LQB284 Biomedical Skills 2 Pre-requisites LQB184 Credit Points 12 LQB382 Developmental LQB182 Cell and Molecular Campus Gardens Point Anatomy and Tissue Gardens Point Biology Availabilities - SEM-2 Adaptation Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LQB183 or LSB255 or LSB182 Campus Gardens Point This unit will extend your knowledge and skills around scientific communication, data analysis and Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities interpretation through statistical methodology, as well Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 as continue the development of effective interpersonal Gardens Point skills. The unit will help develop a range of academic Availabilities Cell and Molecular Biology equips you with a - SEM-1 comprehensive understanding of the molecular and professional skills that are required for all structure and function of the cell. This unit introduces biomedical scientists by extending and applying The human body is very responsive to its the basic principles and concepts of cell structure, biostatistics approaches to a practical project. The environment, both in terms of genetic cues during function, specialisation, maintenance and replication, unit also develops teamwork skills through embryological development and hormonal and and introduces you to fundamental molecular collaborative work approaches to projects and mechanical signals during post-natal ageing. This unit mechanisms important to the organisation of the cell. presentations. will explore a number of key embryological processes You will be shown how macromolecular interactions where tissue patterning results in the formation of are crucial to information flow and heredity. You are body cavities and the nervous, muscular, skeletal and taught the relationships between chromosomes, cardiovascular organ systems. Furthermore the ability genes and cellular function and ultimately how these LQB301 Medical Microbiology of tissues to adapt to their environment will be may determine an organism's phenotype. discussed through development of an understanding and Infection Control of tissue biomechanics and the effects of trauma and Credit Points 12 ageing on the human body. Concepts including Campus Gardens Point strength determinants and the effects of loading and disuse will be explored. LQB183 Human Systematic Gardens Point Availabilities Anatomy - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This foundation unit builds upon your fundamental Campus Gardens Point knowledge of the human body and explores the role LQB385 Molecular Biology and of microorganisms on human health. In this unit, you Gardens Point Bioinformatics Availabilities will (i) explore the diversity of microorganisms found - SEM-1 in the human body; (ii) examine the relationship Pre-requisites LQB182 or (SCB112 and SCB122) This unit concentrates on the acquisition and between infection and disease through the different Credit Points 12 organ systems of the human body; and (iii) study the application of appropriate anatomical terminology, Campus Gardens Point understanding of basic tissue structure and a detailed mechanisms by which the human body naturally Gardens Point understanding of the major anatomical concepts of controls infections but also how we can use Availabilities each of the organ systems within the human body. A antimicrobials and a range of infection control - SEM-1 focus on language development will underpin the procedures to reduce the threat of infectious Modern biology is concerned with unraveling and learning in this unit, where you will develop the ability diseases. This knowledge and understanding will then manipulating the genetic information stored in a cell's to communicate medical cases effectively to a range be further developed and applied in your subsequent DNA to understand human health and treat disease. of audiences. clinical studies in your chosen health care profession This information and technologies underpin the discipline. medical advances that span disease diagnostics, vaccines, drugs, forensics, biomaterials, foodstuffs, environmental rehabilitation and even bioterrorism. LQB184 Biomedical Skills 1 This unit provides an introduction to the approaches Credit Points 12 LQB362 Microbiology: of interrogating genome sequence data and simple Campus Gardens Point Principles and Practice genetic engineering technologies used to manipulate DNA sequences. Gardens Point Pre-requisites LQB281 or BVB101 Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This unit is designed for first year students studying Campus Gardens Point LQB387 Principles of biomedical science and health courses. You will be Gardens Point Availabilities introduced to a range of academic and professional - SEM-1 Immunology skills which are required for all biomedical scientists. Pre-requisites LQB281 and LSB250 The unit will provide you with an appreciation of the This unit provides foundation knowledge and career opportunities and pathways available for understanding of human infectious disease Credit Points 12 microbiology and topics including the spectrum of
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Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities LQB488 Medical Physiology 2 Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities Pre-requisites LQB388 - SEM-1 As you prepare for a career as a medical scientist, in Credit Points 12 Immunology is the study of the physiological systems this unit you will investigate and research used to defend the body from invasion by foreign microorganisms that are found in the human host as Campus Gardens Point normal regional flora and also those that cause organisms and the pathologies associated with Gardens Point human infectious diseases. In this unit you will Availabilities inappropriate immune responses. This unit is in the - SEM-2 course to provide you with knowledge relating to the develop; expertise in the laboratory techniques immune system and application of basic applied in the diagnostic microbiology laboratory, the An appreciation of how the human body works is an immunological procedures in the laboratory. It ability to interpret the significance of diagnostic testing essential prerequisite to understanding the basis of assumes knowledge from previous semesters and will results, and to communicate these results and your health, disease, diagnostic technologies and provide you with critical foundation knowledge for recommendations to medical professionals. treatment strategies. This unit deals specifically with studies in subsequent semesters. the physiological systems that are responsible for the maintenance of health in humans. It therefore provides a useful frame of reference for students LQB481 Biochemical Pathways enrolled in biomedical science, pharmacy, human LQB388 Medical Physiology 1 and Metabolism movement studies, nutrition and dietetics or any of the LSB258 or LSB111 or LSB131 or life science majors. The aim of this unit is to introduce Pre-requisites Pre-requisites LQB381 or LSB308 LSB142 or LSB255 or SCB120 you to the normal physiology of the human body in Credit Points 12 order to facilitate an understanding of how injury or Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point disease affect health as well as the mechanism of Campus Gardens Point action of drugs and other therapeutic interventions. Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 The study of biochemistry and cell biology, along with This unit deals specifically with the physiological molecular biology, provides students with the LQB490 Cytogenetic and systems that are responsible for the maintenance of knowledge required for the proper understanding of Molecular Pathology health in humans. In the course of the semester the structure and function of living organisms at the Pre-requisites (LSB325 or LQB381) and LSB365 students will investigate half the systems that molecular level. As such, this unit extends the studies constitute the human body (with the remainder dealt begun in the unit LQB381 Biochemistry into the Credit Points 12 with in the second semester unit Physiology 2 metabolic processes occurring in living cells, and Campus Gardens Point [LQB488]). The unit offers a useful frame of reference provides students with a basis for further studies in Gardens Point for students enrolled in courses such as animal biochemistry as well as support for other units in the Availabilities biology, biochemistry, microbiology, molecular third year of the course. - SEM-2 biology, nutrition and human movements. Together This unit will provide you with fundamental knowledge with Physiology 2 [LQB488] this unit is a prerequisite and technical skills to you prepare you for your career to the third level unit, Applied Physiology [LQB588] as a medical scientist. This unit will introduce you to and will be of particular interest to students LQB482 Anatomical Imaging the role of genetic testing in pathology, which is considering medicine as a postgraduate career LQB183 or LSB131 or LSB255 or becoming increasingly important in a number of Pre-requisites option. LSB182 pathology disciplines, and is thus an area of growth Credit Points 12 and increasingly a potential graduate employment destination. This unit will develop concepts and Campus Gardens Point LQB389 Regional and Sectional laboratory skills fundamental to the understanding Gardens Point and application of the techniques applied across the Availabilities Anatomy for Radiation Therapy - SEM-2 various pathology disciplines. Pre-requisites LSB142 The ability to image the human body allows a non- Credit Points 12 invasive investigation to determine health status and diagnose pathologies in patients. This unit will Campus Gardens Point LQB494 Pathogen Biology and introduce you to a number of key image modalities Gardens Point Pathogenesis Availabilities including plain and contrast radiography, computed - SEM-2 tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. You Pre-requisites LQB362 The aims of this unit are to apply accurate anatomical will be given the opportunity to develop analytical Credit Points 12 skills to identify typical anatomical patterns and language to identify and describe macroscopic Campus Gardens Point structures of the human body using regional and appreciate human variability through medical imaging technologies. An understanding of the rationale for Gardens Point sectional anatomy approaches, and develop skills in Availabilities anatomical communication, teamwork and self- each technology will be developed. These skills are - SEM-2 management. highly relevant to future career paths in Medicine, Allied Health fields and biomedical research. This unit is in the developmental stage of your course, building on concepts you learnt in LQB362. This unit will provide you with a fundamental understanding of LQB390 Regional and Sectional the structural, molecular, and metabolic components LQB485 Cell Biology of microorganisms and how they are regulated, providing you with opportunities to practice your Anatomy for Medical Imaging Pre-requisites LQB182 or SCB122 Pre-requisites LSB142 analysis and problem solving skills in the area of Equivalents LQB584 infectious diseases. Specifically, upon completing this Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 unit you will be able to provide evidence of skills in Campus Gardens Point recognising and describe: 1. the structural Campus Gardens Point components of microbes; 2. the molecular assembly Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point processes involved in building these components; 3. - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-2 the growth and metabolic processes of different The aims of this unit are to apply accurate anatomical microbes; and 4. the means of regulation of each of This unit builds on your knowledge of cellular language to identify and describe macroscopic these factors. components to examine how these come together structures of the human body using regional and structurally and functionally to build cells and tissues sectional anatomy approaches, and develop skills in that function as part of a whole organism capable of anatomical communication, teamwork and self- surviving and protecting itself from disease and management. LQB502 Biomedical Work trauma. It will help you to develop an understanding of individual structural organelles and components in the Integrated Learning A cell in the context of cell biology and disease Other Course Coordinator approval LQB462 Microbial Diagnostics processes essential for higher units in cell and requisites required to enrol in this unit molecular biology. Pre-requisites LQB362 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point
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Gardens Point Availabilities respiratory sciences and sleep science. In order to - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM gain the range of skills This unit provides you with the opportunity to gain LQB508 Clinical Physiology industry-based experience through a supervised work placement. Within the workplace (normally a minimum LQB504 Clinical Physiology and Pathophysiology of 120 hours [equivalent to 3 weeks full-time] and LQB488. LQB488 can be studied in maximum of 240 hours) you will apply knowledge and Professional Internship Pre-requisites the same teaching period as skills developed during your course of study. LQB504-1. LQB504-1 can be LQB508 Practising workplace related skills such as team work, Pre-requisites studied in the same teaching period Credit Points 12 ethical behaviour, safe workplace practices and as LQB504-2 reflective practice as well as building on your industry Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 networks will support you in your transition to Gardens Point Availabilities professional practice. Your placement should be Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-1 relevant to your course of study and must be Gardens Point approved by the course co-ordinator and the unit co- Availabilities Clinical physiology is a rapidly growing area of - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM ordinator before you commence. The learning in this employment of biomedical scientists, particularly as unit can be extended into a second unit LQB503. This 36 credit point unit comprises three components the Australian population ages, putting increasing (LQB504-1, LQB504-2 and LQB504-3). This 36 credit pressure on the healthcare system. This advanced point work-integrated learning multi-component unit unit focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of (which is equivalent to a minimum of 400 hours in the major disorders through the critically analysis of LQB503 Biomedical Work workplace) is completed in the final year of your complex clinical case studies. The unit also involves Integrated Learning B course and complements the Human Physiology the development of practical skills through the use of Study Area A in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science. clinical physiology instrumentation and interpretation Other Course Coordinator approval As placements are full time, it is highly recommended of physiological data. Thus, this unit is specifically requisites required to enrol in this unit that you consider undertaking a single block designed to prepare you for your future professional Credit Points 12 placement in Summer semester between 2nd and 3rd careers or further studies in biomedical research. year of your course. A full-time intensive placement Campus Gardens Point will enhance your interaction with patients and Gardens Point Availabilities promote the acquisition of more advanced skills and - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM knowledge. Although the placement will be performed LQB562 Advanced Microbial This unit provides you with the opportunity to extend in one continuous block, you may split your enrolment Diagnostics in the three 12 credit point component units across industry-based experience through a supervised work Pre-requisites LQB462 placement. Within the workplace (normally a minimum your final three semesters. A final grade will be Credit Points 12 of 120 hours [equivalent to 3 weeks full-time] and awarded only at the end of the final component unit, maximum of 240 hours) you will apply knowledge and LQB504-3. Clinical physiologists are allied health Campus Gardens Point professionals that perform clinical measurement skills developed during your course of study. Gardens Point investigations and work with other health Availabilities Practising workplace related skills such as team work, - SEM-1 ethical behaviour, safe workplace practices and professionals and patients in the health care system. reflective practice as well as building on your industry This field of employment is rapidly growing as the - networks will support you in your transition to Australian population ages. Clinical physiologists work professional practice. Your placement should be in multidisciplinary teams in a number of disciplines relevant to your course of study and must be including: cardiac sciences, neurophysiology, approved by the course co-ordinator and the unit co- respiratory sciences and sleep science. In order to LQB570 Forensic Anatomy ordinator before you commence. This unit extends gain the range of skills Pre-requisites LQB382 your learning from LQB502. Credit Points 12 LQB504 Clinical Physiology Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities LQB504 Clinical Physiology Professional Internship - SEM-1 Professional Internship Pre-requisites LQB388 and LQB488 This advanced unit explores the field of forensic LQB504-2. LQB504-2 can be Credit Points 12 anthropology and taphonomy, from understanding the process of tissue decomposition, to recovery and Pre-requisites studied in the same teaching period Campus Gardens Point as LQB504-3 identification of unidentified human remains. You will Gardens Point apply traditional and contemporary methodologies to Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM interpret skeletal material to construct a biological Campus Gardens Point This 36 credit point unit comprises three components profile and probabilistic data suitable in the Gardens Point Queensland Judicial system. Through critical analysis Availabilities (LQB504-1, LQB504-2 and LQB504-3). This 36 credit - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM point work-integrated learning multi-component unit you will gain a deep understanding of patterns of variability in the human body. This 36 credit point unit comprises three components (which is equivalent to a minimum of 400 hours in the (LQB504-1, LQB504-2 and LQB504-3). This 36 credit workplace) is completed in the final year of your point work-integrated learning multi-component unit course and complements the Human Physiology (which is equivalent to a minimum of 400 hours in the Study Area A in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science. As placements are full time, it is highly recommended LQB571 Neuroscience workplace) is completed in the final year of your Pre-requisites LQB388 and LQB482 course and complements the Human Physiology that you consider undertaking a single block Study Area A in the Bachelor of Biomedical Science. placement in Summer semester between 2nd and 3rd Credit Points 12 year of your course. A full-time intensive placement As placements are full time, it is highly recommended Campus Gardens Point that you consider undertaking a single block will enhance your interaction with patients and promote the acquisition of more advanced skills and Gardens Point placement in Summer semester between 2nd and 3rd Availabilities - SEM-1 year of your course. A full-time intensive placement knowledge. Although the placement will be performed in one continuous block, you may split your enrolment will enhance your interaction with patients and The human nervous system is the most complex and in the three 12 credit point component units across promote the acquisition of more advanced skills and adaptive achievement of the process of evolution. your final three semesters. A final grade will be knowledge. Although the placement will be performed This unit studies the structure and function of the awarded only at the end of the final component unit, in one continuous block, you may split your enrolment nervous system to understand complex brain LQB504-3. Clinical physiologists are allied health in the three 12 credit point component units across behaviors. It expands and combines knowledge of the professionals that perform clinical measurement your final three semesters. A final grade will be physiology of the nervous system obtained in LQB388 investigations and work with other health awarded only at the end of the final component unit, Medical Physiology 1 and regional and imaging professionals and patients in the health care system. LQB504-3. Clinical physiologists are allied health anatomy of the nervous system gained in LQB482 This field of employment is rapidly growing as the professionals that perform clinical measurement Anatomical Imaging. This unit advances your Australian population ages. Clinical physiologists work investigations and work with other health understanding in the field of neurobiology and through in multidisciplinary teams in a number of disciplines professionals and patients in the health care system. an introduction to current research topics and including: cardiac sciences, neurophysiology, This field of employment is rapidly growing as the methodologies, allows you to explore current research respiratory sciences and sleep science. In order to Australian population ages. Clinical physiologists work questions, laboratory methodologies and technical gain the range of skills in multidisciplinary teams in a number of disciplines skills, and career directions in Neuroscience. including: cardiac sciences, neurophysiology,
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and prepare an anatomical prosection that you will LQB595 Cellular Engineering use to communicate a specific anatomical concept. Pre-requisites LQB485 The knowledge and skills you have developed LQB581 Functional Credit Points 12 throughout your course will be put to practise in this Biochemistry advanced unit, unique to the Anatomical Sciences Campus Gardens Point major, in the final semester of your course. Pre-requisites LQB481 Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point The ability to manipulate cell behaviour and engineer LQB671 Histological Research Gardens Point novel tissue scaffolds and matrix-based culture Availabilities - SEM-1 systems has provided significant advances in the field Techniques of tissue therapeutics and regenerative medicine. This Pre-requisites LQB382 This unit will study advanced biochemical concepts unit explores the theoretical underpinnings of stem Credit Points 12 with a focus on metabolism, signalling pathways, cells and cell niches; and provides current research systems and networks that coordinate and regulate examples of how cellular engineering is able to Campus Gardens Point the functional behaviour of cells and tissues. generate in vitro and in vivo biological models to Gardens Point Availabilities facilitate biomedical research as well as providing - SEM-2 applications for human therapies. Histological techniques underpin a large proportion of LQB582 Biomedical Research current biomedical research, allowing critical analysis Technologies of cellular and tissue morphology and behaviour. This unit allows you to develop the necessary practical Pre-requisites LQB481 or LQB381 LQB600 Physiological Basis of skills to perform basic and specialised histological Credit Points 12 Pharmacology analyses relevant to research contexts including Pre-requisites LQB388 and LQB488 Campus Gardens Point tissue preparation, sectioning and staining of a range Credit Points 12 of organ samples; and build the theoretical Gardens Point Availabilities underpinnings to troubleshoot and optimise - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point histological analyses. This highly practical emphasis Gardens Point will provide excellent preparation for future studies in This unit will study the technical principles and Availabilities practical techniques that are essential for advancing - SEM-2 biomedical research. research and development in biochemistry and This unit will provide a systems approach to biotechnology. pharmacology, giving you an understanding of the principles of drug action, how endogenous LQB681 Biochemical Research compounds and drugs interact with receptors to produce an effect in major organs of the body and Skills LQB583 Molecular Systems how this information has led to the identification of LQB381 or LSB308. Students with Biology drug targets and the development of medicines for Pre-requisites equivalent study can apply for a Pre-requisites LQB385 or LQB483 or LQB494 therapeutic use. requisite waiver Credit Points 12 Equivalents LSB607 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point LQB601 Cancer Biology Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites LQB182 and LQB281 - SEM-1 Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities The tools available for the discovery and manipulation - SEM-2 of new genes are increasing exponentially and, in Campus Gardens Point In the real world, the design and completion of turn, this is having a significant impact in many areas Gardens Point successful research and/or business projects demand Availabilities of the life sciences. The true potential for this - SEM-2 that individuals gather information, solve problems, ultimately relies on the ability to link genes and their work effectively as a part of a team and analyse and This units uses your knowledge of cellular and function. There are many strategies, both targeted communicate results in a critical manner. This unit molecular biology to explore how molecular changes and global, which facilitate an understanding of gene offers opportunities for you to develop these skills that in cells lead to the spectrum of diseases described as and genome structure function relationships. These are valued highly by potential employers and research cancer and how this knowledge informs the strategies rely on integrated technologies based on project leaders. The aim of this unit is to assist you to development of new therapeutic agents. A large molecular genetics, molecular biology and genetic demonstrate and strengthen a number of generic component of this unit is the laboratory practicals in engineering. The identification of function leads then research skills in a mentored problem-based learning which you will develop skills to determine the to unlimited potential for detection and manipulation of environment that mirrors a real-world research team contribution of a gene of your choice and its protein these genes in human, animal and plant systems. and the challenges that they face. product to oncogenesis.
LQB594 Diagnosis and LQB608 Extreme Physiology LQB682 Protein Biochemistry Therapeutics Pre-requisites LQB488 and Bioengineering Pre-requisites LQB494 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LQB381 or (LSN101and LSN102) Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 TBC This advanced level unit follows on from the LQB494 This unit is designed to give you the essential Pathogen Biology and Pathogenesis, and builds upon concepts and techniques driving research and your fundamental knowledge and understanding of industrial biotechnology so that you will be equipped the structural, molecular and metabolic components LQB670 Anatomical Dissection for multiple careers in the biological sciences. The of microorganisms and how they are regulated. Pre-requisites LQB482 skills you develop will allow you to enter a practical Specifically, this unit will increase your understanding laboratory environment or to apply your knowledge in Credit Points 12 of: (i) host-pathogen interactions, (ii) how the immune related areas of evaluations of technologies and system responds to microbial pathogens, and (iii) Campus Gardens Point intellectual property. molecular detection, characterisation of pathogens as Gardens Point well as their resistance mechanisms to antibiotics. Availabilities - SEM-2 The ability to navigate the human body and its LQB683 Cytopathology composite tissues is strengthened through the Pre-requisites LSB566 dissection of human cadavers. In teams, you will conduct a whole body dissection of a human cadaver Credit Points 12
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Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 LQB783 Work Integrated LQB882 Contemporary Issues Cytopathology is an important diagnostic tool for obtaining a morphological diagnosis of disease Learning Internship 1 in Medical Laboratory Science processes that is rapid, economical and minimally Pre-requisites Completion of 288cp in LS47 Pre-requisites LQB784 and PUB358 invasive. It also plays an important role in cancer Co-requisites PUB358 Credit Points 12 diagnosis, monitoring and, in the case of cervical Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point screening, prevention. This unit prepares you for Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point employment in a diagnostic cytopathology laboratory Availabilities and introduces the types of specimens reported, Gardens Point - SEM-2 methods of processing applied and the cytological Availabilities - SEM-1 Medical science is a dynamic, rapidly changing field features used to diagnose tumours and benign and profession. With new and emerging technologies, conditions. This is the first of two work integrated learning internship units (LQB783 and LQB784) positioned in testing platforms and approaches to service provision the final year of LS47. Over four (4) weeks you will and healthcare, it is critical you are aware of how this have the opportunity to apply and demonstrate your influences the provision of pathology testing, results LQB684 Medical Biotechnology learning and skills in the workplace. The internship generated and overall operation of the laboratory. It is also essential that you understand, and are aware of Pre-requisites LQB385 and LQB485 units combined with your clinical units in second and third year, and your remaining units in your final the changing patterns seen in disease frequency, Equivalents LSB609 Semester, will prepare you for work in a diagnostic distribution and the impact this has at the local, national and global level, and on your future career as Credit Points 12 pathology laboratory, and must be completed for you to meet the professional course accreditation a medical laboratory scientist. Campus Gardens Point workplace integrated learning requirements to Gardens Point Availabilities graduate from this course. It will also place you in - SEM-2 direct contact with prospective employers and allow LQB883 Intercultural Health in This advanced level unit will enable you to understand you to interact, network and learn from experienced the challenges and possibilities of modern medical laboratory scientists. Clinical Practice biotechnology. Students will utilise their existing Pre-requisites LQB784 and PUB358 critical analysis and problem solving skills to examine Credit Points 12 the development of diagnostics and therapeutics for safe and effective clinical use in a complicated LQB784 Work Integrated Campus Gardens Point commercial environment. The unit has a strong focus Learning Internship 2 Gardens Point Availabilities on the further development of your scientific research Pre-requisites Completion of 288cp in LS47 - SEM-2 skills through a semester long research project conducted in QUT laboratories. It will prepare you for Credit Points 24 Medical laboratory scientists, like all health professionals, are increasingly required to work in a subsequent involvement in medical research and/or Campus Gardens Point employment in medical laboratories. range of environments and communities. This Gardens Point Availabilities requires knowledge of the types and applications of - SEM-1 pathology testing, as well as skills that enable This is the second of two work integrated learning culturally safe interactions with diverse cultures, and LQB693 Perspectives in internship units (LQB783 and LQB784) positioned in with the diversity within each group. This final semester unit builds on your knowledge, skills and Immunology the final year of LS47. Over eight (8) weeks you will have the opportunity to apply and demonstrate your experiences gained in your clinically focused units Pre-requisites LQB594 learning and skills in the workplace. The internship and workplace internship, and will provide you with interpersonal and communication skills and Credit Points 12 units combined with your clinical units in second and third year, and your remaining units in your final knowledge applicable to the variety of healthcare Campus Gardens Point Semester, will prepare you for work in a diagnostic settings you may be exposed to in your future career Gardens Point as medical laboratory scientists. Availabilities pathology laboratory, and must be completed for you - SEM-2 to meet the professional course accreditation This advanced level unit is the capstone unit in the workplace integrated learning requirements to infectious diseases learning progression. Upon graduate from this course. It will also place you in LSB111 Understanding Disease completing this unit, you will have: (i) acquired skills direct contact with prospective employers and allow relevant to immunological research and diagnostic you to interact, network and learn from experienced Concepts settings laboratories; (ii) extended your knowledge of medical laboratory scientists. Credit Points 12 immunology in infectious disease, cancer and wound Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point management setting; (iii) developed an appreciation and understanding of the use of in vitro and in vivo Caboolture LQB881 Professional - SEM-1 immunological techniques; (iv) knowledge of Availabilities strategies for retrieval and analysis of immunological Development for Medical Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 data. Laboratory Scientists This unit introduces the structure and function of the Pre-requisites LQB784 body, reviews the body systems and links those to Credit Points 12 mechanisms of disease. Systems and topics covered LQB694 Infectious Diseases are: integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, Campus Gardens Point Outbreaks endocrine, blood, heart and circulation, lymphatic, Gardens Point respiratory, digestive (including nutrition and Pre-requisites LQB362 Availabilities - SEM-2 metabolism), urinary, reproductive. Examples of Credit Points 12 In this Capstone unit you will explore a range of diseases introduced are: heart disease and Campus Gardens Point academic, technical and professional development hypertension, cancers (lung, breast, skin, colon, prostate), diabetes, depression, asthma and chronic Gardens Point themes (or course learning outcomes) which have Availabilities obstructive lung diseases. - SEM-2 featured throughout your studies, and will reflect on how they inform your career plans and are This advanced level unit is the capstone unit in the synthesised for transition into the workplace. You will Infectious Diseases learning progression. Upon also submit the final version of your Course Learning completing this unit, you will have: (i) acquired skills in Portfolio as evidence that you have met and achieved LSB131 Anatomy advanced molecular microbiology and microbial the expected course learning outcomes of a LS47 Equivalents LSB145 genomics, (ii) extended knowledge of host-pathogen graduate medical laboratory scientist. This unit will Credit Points 12 interactions (iii) an appreciation of the challenges allow you to reflect on, and refine your personal and Campus Gardens Point faced in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of professional skills and attributes with confidence to emerging pathogens (iv) developed strategies and navigate the recruitment process and seek Gardens Point Availabilities research priorities for the control and prevention of employment after graduating from the course. - SEM-1 outbreak scenarios. This unit includes basic concepts of anatomy: an
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Gardens Point Gardens Point overview of the structure of cells, body tissues, and Availabilities Availabilities body systems; aspects of surface anatomy which are - SEM-2 - SEM-1 relevant to human movement; musculoskeletal A foundation in human physiology is crucial for The aim of this unit is to introduce you to the study of systems. students in optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, medical disease processes underlying the major diseases of science, nutrition and other areas of allied health. This human organ systems. The first part of the unit will unit will provide you with the knowledge and practical introduce you to aspects of general pathology skills to enable your subsequent study in physiology, including cell adaptation, inflammation, immune LSB142 Human Anatomy and pathophysiology, pathology, endocrinology or disorders, infectious diseases and cancer. Systemic Physiology pharmacology units in the later years of your pathology will be covered in the second part of the Credit Points 12 course.You will also develop your communication, unit during which the general pathologic processes critical thinking and problem solving skills. will be applied to the major organ systems of the Campus Kelvin Grove body. In addition, you will expand and further develop Kelvin Grove your practical skills along with your understanding of Availabilities - SEM-1 how they relate to laboratory investigation and LSB255 Foundations of diagnosis of disease. The aim of this unit is to provide grounding in the principles of human anatomy and physiology. Anatomy and Histology Following an introduction to the structure of the cell Pre-requisites SCB112 or LQB182 and the organisation of tissues, each of the major Credit Points 12 LSB382 Bioscience 3 systems that constitute the human body are examined Pre-requisites LSB182 or LSB131 by the integrated study of their anatomy and Campus Gardens Point physiology. Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove A detailed understanding of human anatomy is Caboolture - SEM-1 LSB182 Bioscience 1 fundamental to the knowledge base of the medically Availabilities Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 orientated biological scientist. This unit introduces you to both theoretical and practical aspects of gross, - SEM-1 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove systemic and microscopic anatomy of the human The aim of the unit is to provide knowledge of the body with emphasis on the microscopic anatomy. The Caboolture pathophysiological changes that result in altered unit builds upon knowledge gained in previous units - SEM-1 health and disease states of the body. We will focus Availabilities which introduced you to basic principles of cell Kelvin Grove on diseases of most significance to Australia. - SEM-1, SEM-2 structure and function. Knowledge gained in this unit provides a basis for more advanced studies in cellular The aims of this unit are to provide you with a clear pathology, histochemistry and cytology. understanding of anatomical terminology used in the health professions as well as provide you with a LSB384 Pharmacology For strong background enabling you to apply concepts of Health Professionals anatomy, physiology, and introductory microbiology LSB258 Principles of Human (LSB111 or LSB282 or LSB382 and pharmacology to your future studies of diseases (NS40) or (LSB475 or CSB520 and their treatment. Physiology Pre-requisites (OP45) or LQB281 (CS43))) or Pre-requisites LQB183 or LSB131 (LSB235 and LSB250 (PU43 Credit Points 12 Podiatry)) LSB231 Physiology Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Caboolture Gardens Point This course provides a foundation in the fundamental - SEM-2 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 aspects of human physiology. It is focused on Kelvin Grove understanding the function and regulation of the main - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit covers the general physiological principles physiological systems of the body. Through this Health professionals such as Nurses, Paramedics, such as homeostasis and how all systems in the body course, students will also gain laboratory skills and Podiatrists and Optometrists require a detailed contribute to it. Topics include cells, transport knowledge of interpreting experimental data. This understanding of the pharmacological properties of processes, cardiovascular system, cardiac electrical course will provide a platform for ongoing and more the medicines that are used daily in the treatment of activity, cardiac output, regulation of blood pressure, advanced studies in other disciplines of biomedical patients under their care. This unit introduces respiratory system, endocrine system, pulmonary science. ventilation and its function. students to the discipline of pharmacology by examining the interaction of drugs with biological systems. An understanding of pharmacology is LSB282 Bioscience 2 fundamental to a student’s understanding of LSB235 Anatomy of the Lower pharmaceutical products in terms of efficacy and Pre-requisites LSB182 or (LSB131 and LSB231) safety and provides a rationale for their therapeutic Limb Credit Points 12 use. Pre-requisites LSB131 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Caboolture Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities LSB425 Quality and Analysis in Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Availabilities Clinical Pathology - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Pre-requisites (LQB381 or LSB325) and MAB141 Clinical practice in Podiatry requires a detailed The aims of this unit are to provide you with a clear Credit Points 12 understanding and knowledge of the systematic and understanding of the pathophysiological processes regional anatomy of the lower limb. This unit resulting in altered health and disease states, and to Campus Gardens Point introduce you to the host immune mechanisms which introduces you to the theoretical and practical Gardens Point respond to foreign invaders within the body or result Availabilities concepts of these two areas of anatomy. It builds on - SEM-2 LSB131 and prepares you for your clinical studies. in disease states. Medical laboratory scientists play a vital role in patient care. Pathology test results are used for diagnosis of disease, treatment decisions, monitoring and LSB250 Human Physiology LSB365 Pathology prognosis and screening and it is important that the SCB112 or LSB118 or LSB131 or (LQB281 and LSB255 and LSB250) results are the 'right' result for the patients concerned. Pre-requisites LQB182 or LSB142 Pre-requisites or (LQB281 and LQB183 and With an emphasis on the discipline of clinical LSB258) biochemistry, this second year unit explores the major Credit Points 12 analytical techniques used in the pathology laboratory Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and the quality assurance practices that are in place Campus Gardens Point in real world laboratories to ensure the accuracy and precision of the patients' results. This unit prepares
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Gardens Point students for the specialised clinical biochemistry units knowledge and practical skills to work competently as Availabilities undertaken in third year. a medical scientist in a diagnostic chemical pathology - SEM-2 (clinical biochemistry) laboratory. In developing these Endocrinology is a specialised area of study in clinical skill sets it is essential that you have an in-depth chemistry and investigates pathologies associated understanding of the aetiology, physiology, pathology, with the hormonal control mechanisms that regulate LSB466 Histological and laboratory investigations relating to different metabolism and growth within the body. It is a third Techniques biochemical markers and disorders. This is a third year unit that builds on the theoretical aspects of year unit that builds on the theoretical aspects of Pre-requisites LSB365 and (CVB101 or PQB105) biochemistry in LSB325, the study of biochemistry, biochemistry dealt with in LSB325 and the practical the practical skills developed in LSB425, the study of Credit Points 12 and analytical skills developed in LSB425. quantitative medical science, and the theoretical and Campus Gardens Point practical elements of LSB525, the study of chemical pathology. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 LSB535 Microbial Immunology Histology is the study of cells and tissues at the Pre-requisites LSB438 or LQB387 microscopic level; histological techniques are the Credit Points 12 LSB655 Applied Clinical procedures used in the laboratory to prepare them. Campus Gardens Point Haematology This second year unit is designed to provide you with Gardens Point Pre-requisites LSB555 the essential knowledge and practical skills to work in Availabilities a histopathology laboratory and interpret basic - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 histopathological tests. To develop your knowledge of This unit builds on the concepts developed in Campus Gardens Point these techniques, ability to apply your learning and Immunology 1 to introduce students to the life cycles practical skills it is critical you have an understanding Gardens Point of a variety of pathogens, particularly viruses, and the Availabilities of the principle and rationale of these tests. LSB466 - SEM-2 mechanisms employed by a host to avoid infection. incorporates and builds on your learning in LSB255 This third year haematology unit builds on the and LSB365, and prepares you for LSB566 in the knowledge and skills you acquired in LSB555 to third year of your course. explore the less common and more complex LSB555 Principles and Practice haematological disorders, malignancies and haemostatic defects encountered in day-to-day of Clinical Haematology practice. This unit will develop your ability to LSB480 Professional Practice Pre-requisites LQB490 and (LSB438 or LQB387) understand, identify and recognise these disorders, Pre-requisites LSB425 and LSB435 and LSB465 Credit Points 12 and explores the aetiology, pathophysiology, laboratory tests used to investigate and diagnose Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point them, and/or monitor treatment in the clinical setting. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities This unit, combined with LSB555, prepares you for Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities employment as a medical scientist in a diagnostic - SEM-2, SUM haematology laboratory. Haematology is the study of blood and investigates Six weeks of professional practice is undertaken at pathologies associated that can lead to disease or an the end of the second year full time of the medical increased risk of bleeding or thrombosis. This third science course, during the summer vacation. This year unit is designed to provide you with the essential LSB658 Clinical Physiology experience provides you with a supervised knowledge and practical skills to work in a clinical (LSB142 and LQB281) OR introduction to the pathology workplace and prepares (diagnostic) haematology laboratory. To develop your Pre-requisites you for the clinical units in the third year of the course. skills it is critical you have an in-depth understanding (LSB282 and LSB382) During this time you will be given limited supervised of the aetiology and pathophysiology of frequently Credit Points 12 experience working at the bench, and you will gain a encountered dyscrasias, the principle and rationale of Campus Gardens Point greater appreciation of the role of the laboratory laboratory investigations used to identify and Gardens Point scientist in a paramedical team. It will reinforce the diagnose them and/or monitor patient therapy in the Availabilities importance of quality standards, and health and clinical setting. LSB555 incorporates and builds on - SEM-2 safety issues, as stressed at QUT, and it will place your learning and practical skill development from To operate successfully in the clinical environment, you in direct contact with prospective employers in the second year, and prepares you for LSB655 and Allied Health professionals require an integrated pathology industry. The professional practice unit LSB665 next Semester. understanding of the systems of the human body and aims to provide you with a supervised introduction to the impacts of diseases and trauma. This advanced the pathology workplace. unit focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of major disorders through critical analysis of clinical LSB566 Histopathology case studies and interpretation of physiological data. LSB492 Microbiology Pre-requisites (LSB465 or LSB466) and LQB490 The unit also incorporates clinical simulations of Credit Points 12 emergency cases and the practical application of Credit Points 12 clinical physiology methods. Thus, the unit is Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point designed to give you an in-depth understanding of Gardens Point disease processes and practical application of clinical Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 physiology that prepares you for your future career. - SEM-2 Histopathology is the study of cells and tissues and This unit will provide you with foundation knowledge investigates the pathologies associated. This third and an understanding of the diversity of year unit is designed to provide you with knowledge LSB665 Transfusion and microorganisms, the host's immune response to and practical skills to work in a histopathology infection and methods of control of microorganisms. laboratory and interpret advanced histopathological Transplantation Science You will: (i) study relevant infectious disease states, tests. To develop your knowledge of these Pre-requisites LSB555 (ii) research the importance of microbial pathogens as techniques, ability to apply your learning and practical aetiological agents of disease, and (iii) reinforce your skills it is critical you have an understanding of the Credit Points 12 knowledge of microorganisms and methods of control principle and rationale of these tests. LSB566 Campus Gardens Point of microorganisms by performing experiments within incorporates and builds on your learning in LSB466 Gardens Point the microbiology laboratory. and LQB490 and prepares you for LQB683 in the next Availabilities - SEM-2 Semester of your course. Transfusion and Transplantation Science is a specialised field within Medical Science, primarily LSB525 Chemical Pathology involving the testing of blood for antigen and antibody Pre-requisites LSB425 LSB625 Diagnostic compatibility for the safe transfusion of blood Credit Points 12 components. The immunological concepts are Endocrinology extended to histocompatibility testing for tissue Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites LSB525 transplantation in a theoretical context. Prior learning Gardens Point of fundamental immunology and haematology is Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 required to undertake this unit. Campus Gardens Point This unit is designed to provide you with the
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the challenges and possibilities of modern biotechnology. Students will utilise their existing LSP127 Business Aspects of LSN104 Advancing Anatomy critical analysis and problem solving skills to examine Biotechnology the development of diagnostics and therapeutics for Credit Points 12 and Physiology safe and effective clinical use in a complicated commercial environment. The unit has a strong focus Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 on the further development of your scientific research Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point skills through a semester long research project - SEM-1 Gardens Point conducted in QUT laboratories. It will prepare you for Availabilities Supporting a successful biotechnology industry in - SEM-1 subsequent involvement in medical research and/or employment in medical laboratories. Australia requires an entrepreneurial framework to be This unit builds and integrates knowledge of the developed which assists the efforts of both structure and function of the human body to researchers and innovators. This unit integrates those understand the complexity and spatial relationships of essential entrepreneurial techniques of launching a cells, tissues and organs; and their specific roles in LSN710 Project biotechnology business. The unit focus is on the research and development of industrial products and maintaining human health. You will have the Credit Points 48 opportunity to explore real and virtual anatomical commercialising innovations developed in this models, physiological instrumentation and advanced Campus Gardens Point industry. On completion of this unit the student will be pathological and imaging case studies, to Gardens Point able to identify and analyse entrepreneurial Availabilities demonstrate higher order cognitive skills in anatomy - SEM-1, SEM-2 opportunities and evaluate these opportunities within and physiology. There is a strong emphasis on biotechnology together with the ability to identify and developing and applying expertise in anatomical A research project is taken at the end stage of the comprehend the steps involved in setting up a new terminology to facilitate effective communication in LS96 course and enables you to develop detailed biotechnology enterprise. professional practice in health and scientific fields. expertise in one area of research related to biotechnology. It usually enables specialisation in a research field but may also be taken in some clinical speciality area as approriate. This postgraduate unit is LWB137 Contracts B LSN583 Genetic Research specifically designed to develop and refine your Pre-requisites LWB136 generic and high order academic skills and attributes, Technology scientific research hands-on skills, your information Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 retrieval and communication skills. You will be Campus Gardens Point and External expected to work semi-independently with minimal Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point supervision. Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 External - SEM-1 The tools available for the discovery and manipulation LSN711 Project 1 of new genes are increasing exponentially and, in Legally binding promises pervade society, from turn, this is having a significant impact in many areas Credit Points 24 uncomplicated bargains like riding on a bus to complex multi-million dollar transactions. The law of of the life sciences. The true potential for this Campus Gardens Point ultimately relies on the ability to link genes and their contract provides an understanding of promises which Gardens Point function. There are many strategies, both targeted Availabilities are legally binding, how contractual promises may be - SEM-1, SEM-2 and global, which facilitate an understanding of gene characterised and the significance of that and genome structure function relationships. These This postgraduate unit is usually taken at the end characterisation, and how contractual promises may strategies rely on integrated technologies based on stage of the LS96 Master of Biotechnology be discharged or invalidated. This is the second of molecular genetics, molecular biology and genetic (Advanced) degree or as part of the SC71 Graduate two associated units which examine the law of engineering. The identification of function leads then Diploma of Applied Science degree and may be done contract, the focus of this unit being on the discharge to unlimited potential for detection and manipulation of in conjunction with LSN712 Project 2. LSN711 of contracts, remedies for breach and the invalidation these genes in human, animal and plant systems. involves the writing of a critical literature review on a of contracts. The two units together provide the specific topic to identify knowledge gaps which are foundation for several units encountered later in the usually explored experimentally in LSN712 to follow. course. The overall aims of this postgraduate unit is for you to LSN584 Medical Cell Biology develop and refine skills in the collection and analysis Pre-requisites LSN101 and LSN102 of information and data on a specific topic in your area of research interest and to enable you to compile LWB243 Property Law A Credit Points 12 and write a comprehensive and critical literature Pre-requisites LWB137 and (LWB148 or LWB139) Campus Gardens Point review. Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-1 Gardens Point This unit builds and extends the understanding of LSN712 Project 2 - SEM-1 Availabilities basic theoretical and practical aspects of molecular LSN711 (can be enrolled in the External Pre-requisites cell biology developed in previous cell and molecular same teaching period) - SEM-1 biology units. Medical Cell Biology develops and extends the context of the cellular environment and its Credit Points 24 The aim of the unit is to provide you with an understanding of the legal principles relating to real central role within the organism providing all of the Campus Gardens Point and External biological functions required by the organism to and personal property and how these rules operate in Gardens Point survive, defend and protect itself from disease and a modern legal system. The unit also aims to develop - SEM-1, SEM-2 trauma. An understanding of cell biology theory and Availabilities the skills, necessary for the practice of law and your External molecular mechanisms of animal development and further studies of law, in legal problem solving and - SEM-2 disease is essential for introduction to higher level reasoning and oral and written communication. units in medical biotechnology. This postgraduate unit is usually taken at the end stage of the LS96 Master of Biotechnology (Advanced) degree or as part of the SC71 Graduate Diploma of Applied Science degree and is undertaken LWB244 Property Law B LSN684 Medical Biotechnology in conjunction with LSN711 Project 1 as a prerequisite (LLB205 or LWB241) and LWB243 and LWB146. LLB205 can be 2 or corequisite. LSN712 involves experimental Pre-requisites exploration of knowledge gaps identified in a critical studied in the same teaching period Pre-requisites LSN101 and LSN102 review of the literature (LSN711). The overall aims of as LWB244 Equivalents LSN609 this postgraduate unit are to: (i) develop and refine Credit Points 12 your experimental skills in a research laboratory and Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External (ii) enable you to compile and write a research report Campus Gardens Point derived from the data collected and critically Gardens Point Gardens Point analysed. - SEM-2, SUM (Block) Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 External - SEM-2, SUM This advanced level unit will enable you to understand In the unit Property Law A, the principles
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units underpinning the rules relating to the acquisition, in Queensland. There is also reference to powers of the Australian government to impose transfer and holding of real and personal property conveyancing of lots under the Body Corporate and income tax. This includes concepts of residence of were considered. In Property Law B, the principles of Community Title Management Act 1997 and Land individual tax payers for taxation purposes and source real property law will be examined with a focus on Sales Act 1984. of income. Students consider the distinction between how the Torrens system of registration of title to land income and capital as this relates to the imposition of and the creation and disposition of various estates income tax and the concept of deductions as a means and interests in real property. Property Law B is a of reducing taxable income. Taxation of capital gains, compulsory unit in the law degree and is required for LWB313 Discrimination & Equal particularly as this relates to a taxpayer's main admission to legal practice. Property law is a Opportunity Law residence, deceased estates and general transfers of significant area of legal practice in government, assets, is discussed in detail. The other major topic is general practice and specialised law firms. In Property Credit Points 12 a critical analysis of the need for the general anti-tax Law B a range of registrable interests and related Campus Gardens Point and External avoidance provisions and how they apply. issues are examined so that you may develop the Gardens Point knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to - SEM-2 maintain your abilities in this important area of legal Availabilities External practice. LWB410 Competition Law - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit includes the following: an examination of the Campus Gardens Point and External law and policy with respect to discrimination and LWB302 Family Law equal opportunity in Australia; relevant international Gardens Point - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 treaties and Australian legislation such as the Availabilities Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act; the Anti- External Campus Gardens Point and External Discrimination Commission and procedures. - SEM-1 Gardens Point All countries that rely on markets and competition to - SUM-2 (Block) Availabilities allocate resources and satisfy the needs of External consumers have a set of rules designed to deal with - SUM-2 LWB334 Corporate Law problems of market failure caused by one or more Legal professionals assisting clients who are entering LWB146 and LWB243 and (LLB205 firms possessing market power. Such firms are able or LWB241). LLB205 can be into relationships or experiencing relationship Pre-requisites to undermine the competitive process by engaging in breakdown are involved in helping them plan their studied in the same teaching anti-competitive behaviour. In Australia, the rules future financial and parenting arrangements. Their period. regulating anti-competitive conduct and access to role, when assisting clients after separation, is to help Credit Points 12 essential services are contained in the Competition their clients find the most appropriate forms of dispute and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) (the Act). The rationale Campus Gardens Point and External resolution and to minimise conflict experienced by for the unit title Competition Law is to provide an family members, particularly where there are children. Gardens Point overview of the anti-competitive practices which are - SEM-2, SUM (Block) Family lawyers are most often engaged in matters Availabilities proscribed by Part IV of the Act. The rules of involving future arrangements for children and External competition have spread beyond privately owned financial issues, such as property settlement, spousal - SEM-2, SUM business enterprises to embrace government maintenance and child support. They also assist People who wish to embark on a commercial venture business enterprises, so that a much wider range of clients in applications to seek protection for family may choose from a range of forms of legal people need to know what can and cannot be done in violence. This unit aims to provide you, as a potential organisations provided by the legal system. A the market place. family law professional, with an understanding of the competent commercial lawyer or business person family law system, the various options for resolution of needs to be aware of the legal principles pertaining to disputes and of the relevant legislation and case law one of the more important types of organisations, LWB418 Competition Moots and how it is applied in practice. namely, the registered company. Corporate Law is designed to provide you with knowledge and Pre-requisites LWB145 and LWB146 understanding of the key legal principles and policy Credit Points 12 issues relevant to registered companies. This unit is a LWB309 Succession Campus Gardens Point compulsory area of study in the law degree and is Pre-requisites LWB240, LWB241 Gardens Point required for admission as a legal practitioner. Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point and External If students have completed the foundation units in first year, enjoy working under pressure and have Gardens Point LWB335 Administrative Law participated in at least one internal moot as counsel, - SEM-1, SUM (Block), SUM-2 Pre-requisites LWB242 or LWB231 they may, when expressions of interest are called for, Availabilities (Block) apply for a place on a team for a moot competition for External Credit Points 12 which academic credit is granted. Places are very - SEM-1, SUM, SUM-2 Campus Gardens Point and External limited, but if students are successful, they can take This unit includes the following: examination of the Gardens Point their skills to the national and international arena, and - SEM-1, SUM-2 (Block) law with respect to wills and probate; a study of the Availabilities experience mooting at the highest level. International formalities required to execute a valid will; the External and national moots require significant preparation and intestacy provisions where someone dies without - SEM-1, SUM-2 attention to detail, with a very high level of having made a will; the rights of a testator's family To enable you to develop a working knowledge of commitment, research, writing and discipline when they have not been named as a beneficiary in administrative law at both the state and federal level knowledge. Because of the timetabling of international the deceased's will; a detailed examination of the as well as a broader understanding of the role and moots throughout the year, students may be required provisions of the Succession Act 1981 (Qld). function of this area of law in balancing administrative to work on the competition moot for extended periods, efficiency and legitimate government interests against including between November and February. The the requirements of accountability in executive number of moots offered will vary from year to year. decision-making. Academic credit for this unit is restricted to registered LWB312 Real Estate members of official QUT teams in designated Transactions competitions. Pre-requisites LWB137, LWB240 and LWB244 LWB364 Introduction to Credit Points 12 Taxation Law LWB419 Competition Moots Campus Gardens Point and External Anti-requisites AYB219 Pre-requisites LWB145 and LWB146 Gardens Point - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Availabilities External Campus Gardens Point and External Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SUM (Block) - SEM-1 This unit includes an analysis of a land transaction Availabilities through the principles involved in the construction of External If students have completed the foundation units in first contracts for the sale of land, with special emphasis - SEM-1, SUM year, enjoy working under pressure and have on the standard REIQ Contract Terms of Sale in use This unit examines the principles relating to the participated in at least one internal moot as counsel,
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units they may, when expressions of interest are called for, apply for a place on a team for a moot competition for LWB454 Banking and Finance LWB486 Intellectual Property which academic credit is granted. Places are very Law Law limited, but if students are successful, they can take LWB145, LWB137, LWB237 or Pre-requisites LLB105 or LWB146 Pre-requisites their skills to the national and international arena, and LWB244 experience mooting at the highest level. International Credit Points 12 and national moots require significant preparation and Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External attention to detail, with a very high level of Campus Gardens Point and External Gardens Point commitment, research, writing and discipline Gardens Point - SEM-1, SUM (Block) knowledge. Because of the timetabling of international Availabilities - SEM-2 External moots throughout the year, students may be required Availabilities External - SEM-1, SUM to work on the competition moot for extended periods, - SEM-2 including between November and February. The Intellectual property law has become fundamentally number of moots offered will vary from year to year. Banking and Finance Law covers the principal areas important to our modern, connected society. This unit Academic credit for this unit is restricted to registered of activity of lenders in commercial and consumer will provide an introduction to those areas of members of official QUT teams in designated transactions. intellectual property law that commercial legal competitions. practitioners are likely to encounter in their everyday practice. It will also examine the current policy debates in the field of intellectual property as the law LWB456 Legal Clinic adapts to the digital age. LWB431 Civil Procedure (Organised Program) Pre-requisites 192cp in LWB units 192cp of previous study in Law Pre-requisites Credit Points 12 units (LW%) LWB497 Advanced Research Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Project Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point 192cp of Law discipline units - SEM-1 Pre-requisites Availabilities Gardens Point (LWS% units) External Availabilities - SEM-1, SUM - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This core unit focuses on developing basic litigation In this unit students are provided with the opportunity Campus Gardens Point and External to see law in action through being involved in the skills. The following issues are examined: the Gardens Point delivery of legal services to members of the adversarial system and alternative methods of dispute - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM community under the umbrella of Legal Aid Availabilities resolution, obligations to the client, the structures and External Queensland, the Prisoners Legal Service Inc or the processes of litigation conducted in the Supreme, - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM District and Magistrates courts, jurisdiction, originating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation process, notice of intention to defend, parties, service, (QEA) for Legal Services. Students work in their The aim of the unit is to provide students with the ending proceedings early, pleading, disclosure, placement is supplemented with a weekly seminar opportunity to develop and apply the skills of research subpoenas, trial, appeals, costs and enforcement. program that deals with such topics as legal and writing, analysis and reasoning, by undertaking a interviewing, family and criminal law practice, specific, supervised project of research under the professionalism and legal writing. Entry to this unit is supervision of a senior academic, on a topic agreed via a successful application only. Application forms between the student and supervisor which is suitable LWB432 Evidence can be found here. for achieving the objectives of the unit. Pre-requisites LWB239 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External LWB482 Internet Law LWN025 Research Project 1A 144cp of previous study in Law LWN304. LWN304 can be studied Gardens Point Pre-requisites units (LW%) Pre-requisites in the same teaching period in - SEM-1, SUM (Block) Availabilities LWN025 External Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SUM Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 The law of evidence concerns those rules and Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point and External principles which govern the presentation and proof of - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities facts and information in court proceedings, both civil External - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM, SUM-2 Availabilities and criminal. The unit covers both State and Federal - SEM-2 External jurisdictions. - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM, SUM-2 This unit addresses the idea that it is vital for any participant in the digital age to gain a thorough In this unit, students undertake a supervised research knowledge of the structure, governance and project of about 10,000 words over one semester LWB433 Professional regulation of the Internet, digital intellectual property, approved by the Director, Graduate Programs. and risk management strategies for stakeholders. Responsibility Completion of 192 cp of Law units Pre-requisites (LWB%) LWN049 International LWB483 Medico-Legal Issues Credit Points 12 Environmental Law Pre-requisites (LWB147 or LWB138) and LWB239 Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus External Campus Gardens Point and External - SUM-2 (Block) External Availabilities Availabilities External Gardens Point - SEM-2 - SUM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities External International environmental law is a dynamic area of This unit includes the following: the ethical principles - SEM-2 international law with implications for the upon which the practice of all professions is based; management of natural resources both in Australia the principles which underpin the discipline of law and This unit considers the regulation of health care as and at the global level. This unit introduces students the workings of the legal profession; the history, well as the relationship between the individual and the to the fundamental principles structuring international nature, organisation and operation of the legal health care provider in terms of consent to treatment; environmental law, discusses the principal institutions, profession; codes of conduct, trust accounts and negligence; the impact of the criminal law; abortion; cases and treaties in this field and explores the professional legal ethics. removal from life support systems; medical records impact of international environmental obligations on and evidence; ownership and confidentiality of natural resource management in Australia. The unit records; the duty to treat; and the regulation of highlights the particular challenges facing assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy. international environmental lawyers seeking the protection and enhancement of the global environment, as well as international environmental issues of contemporary concern.
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transactions is a prerequisite for the development of Australian export activity. LWN122 Commercial Leases Credit Points 12 LWN050 Competition Law Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point LWN097 Corporate Insolvency Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External - 6TP3 (Block) Credit Points 12 Gardens Point With the exponential rise in the numbers of - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities commercial premises such as office blocks, shopping External Gardens Point centres and industrial factories in the past decade or - SEM-2 - 6TP5 (Block) Availabilities so, the study of commercial leases for the legal The unit provides an overview of the anti-competitive External practitioners has assumed a great importance. practices, including cartel conduct, which are - 6TP5 Statute law in the form of the Trade Practices Act proscribed by the Competition and Consumer Act An appreciation of the principles of corporate 1974 and the Retail Shop Leases Act 1994 have also 2010 (Cth). insolvency law is fundamental to an understanding of impacted siginficantly upon commercial leasing corporate law and practice. There appear to be more practices. Whilst there is no one form of standard cases dealing with insolvency in the context of commercial lease, certain generic clauses have corporations than any other area of corporate law, emerged and there now exists a substantial body of LWN053 Research Project 1B and issues relevant to insolvency are increasingly law in Australia relating to the theory underlying and LWN304. LWN304 can be studied impacting upon other areas of corporate law, practice of the law of commercial leases. This unit Pre-requisites in the same teaching period in including corporate governance and corporate endeavours to explain the theoretical basis for the use LWN053 administration. Clearly the need to understand the of certain basic covenants at the same time taking full account of the practical operation of commercial Credit Points 12 possible consequences of insolvency of a company is an important part of modern commerce, and issues leases in Australia. Campus Gardens Point and External pertinent to corporate insolvency are of relevance not Gardens Point only to lawyers, but also to professionals in the - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM accounting and financial fields. As the company is the Availabilities LWN158 Public International External most common form of business organisation, even in - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM a broadly based legal practice there will be a need to Law understand the procedures and requirements when a Credit Points 12 In this unit, students undertake a supervised research corporation becomes insolvent. project of about 10,000 words over one semester Campus Gardens Point and External approved by the Director of Graduate Programs. Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities LWN099 Intellectual Property External LWN056 Research Project 1C Law - SEM-1 LWN304. LWN304 can be studied Credit Points 12 Public international law is the foundational law which Pre-requisites in the same teaching period in Campus Gardens Point and External governs the rules operating as between States. It LWN056 establishes, for instance, the contexts in which force Gardens Point may be used, how new States come into being, what Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Availabilities environmental obligations States owe to one another, Campus Gardens Point and External External and the immunities States and their representatives - SEM-1 Gardens Point may enjoy from prosecution. It is pursuant to - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM This unit includes a study of the concept of Intellectual international law that international courts and tribunals Availabilities External Property and the principles and policies of intellectual have been established to prosecute war criminals. - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM property law. Topics covered include copyright, Furthermore, doctrines of international law underpin designs, patents, innovation patents, trade marks, arguments concerning the appropriate maritime In this unit, students undertake a supervised research passing off, and breach of confidence. boundaries between states or the competence of project of about 10,000 words over one semester international forces to intervene in situations of approved by the Director of Graduate Programs. humanitarian crisis or conflict. Not only is international law vital to understanding many high-profile world LWN117 Cyber Law and Policy events, increasingly Australian law is being shaped by norms of international law such as international Credit Points 12 LWN057 Research Project 1D human rights law. LWN304. LWN304 can be studied Campus Gardens Point and External Pre-requisites in the same teaching period in Gardens Point LWN057 - SEM-2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 External LWN164 Health Care Law and - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and External Ethics Gardens Point This unit examines how society regulates the Internet. Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM As the Internet becomes more vital to business, Campus Gardens Point and External Availabilities External government and social life, difficult legal and policy questions arise as to its governance. This unit will Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM - SEM-1 (Block) consider the application of existing legal principles to Availabilities In this unit, students undertake a supervised research cyberspace, as well as newly developed sui generis External project of about 10,000 words over one semester principles and governance regimes. Knowledge of - SEM-1 approved by the Director, Graduate Programs. these legal issues is of increasing importance in many The relationship between law and ethics in healthcare areas of legal practice, industry and to society more is critical but at times contested. This unit explores generally. This unit will address the most pressing that relationship, aiming to lay the foundations of an practical legal issues that arise when people and advanced understanding of law and ethics as they LWN075 International businesses interact online, and examine the relate to healthcare. Commercial Transactions theoretical principles that are likely to underpin public and private regulatory efforts in the future. To this end Credit Points 12 the unit will encourage you to think critically about the Campus Gardens Point and External ways in which cyberspace is experienced and LWN165 Children's Health and Gardens Point regulated differently to offline space, and also the the Law - SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2 (Block) ways in which existing legal principles can map Availabilities External relatively easily to online activity. It is strongly Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 recommended that you complete LWN099 Intellectual Campus Gardens Point Property Law before enrolling in this unit. Gardens Point This unit deals with the legal problems arising from Availabilities the formation and operation of international, - 5TP5 (Block) commercial transactions. Understanding the law and This unit introduces you to selected legal issues practice regarding international commercial concerning the health of children in Australia. These
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units issues are new and emerging, and they present legal, Gardens Point - SEM-2 theoretical and practical questions that have Availabilities implications for legal, health and educational systems. External As well, they pose new challenges for legal - SEM-2 LWN304 Legal Research practitioners, policymakers and scholars. Studying The unit will examine the pressing issues related to Methodologies this unit at postgraduate level provides opportunities living longer, such as estate planning, capacity Anti-requisites LWN048 and challenges that exceed undergraduate study. You assessment, issues at the end of life, elder abuse, Credit Points 12 will be exposed to a number of contemporary issues housing and care options and the financing of such, affecting children and their health. You will have the superannuation, pension entitlements, and 'reverse Campus Gardens Point and External opportunity to consider, from interdisciplinary mortgages'. The impact of areas of law as they relate perspectives, legal problems regarding children’s Gardens Point to the rights and responsibilities of elders, such as - SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2 (Block) health that face legal, health and other social Availabilities succession law, equity and trusts, health law, and External systems. You will be required to identify an important anti-discrimination law, will also be considered. issue in Australian law relating to children and health, - SEM-1, SEM-2 and to conduct legal research, analysis (which can be This unit is the foundation unit in which students interdisciplinary) and writing to critically evaluate the undertaking a post-graduate course work program in situation. LWN204 Family Dispute the discipline of law begin to deepen their knowledge of approaches to legal research, including quantitative Resolution and qualitative research frameworks and methods, Credit Points 12 LWN184 Insolvency Law and and develop advanced research skills. While Campus Gardens Point completing this unit, you will develop a research Professional Practice 1 proposal on a law-related issue chosen by you. If you Gardens Point are completing the Master of Laws or Master of Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 (Block) Applied Law, you will complete this unit in preparation Campus External In Australian family law, litigation is an option of last for the capstone legal research and writing project External resort and parties in parenting cases are required to unit (LWN600 Professional Research and Writing for Availabilities - SEM-1 attempt resolution of their disputes before filing Law). applications in courts, unless their case falls within the This unit is a corporate course designed in exceptions, such as where there are issues of family conjunction with the Australian Restructuring violence or urgency. It is essential that professionals Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA). It working in family law have a knowledge and LWN305 Applied Law covers professional, legal and other aspects of understanding of the family dispute resolution system. Credit Points 12 insolvency. It provides a broad introduction to the Future family dispute resolution practitioners (FDRPs) Campus Gardens Point and External context of insolvency procedures and discusses what require a knowledge and understanding of the family is meant by the word 'insolvent'. It goes on to deal dispute resolution (FDR) system, communication Gardens Point with insolvency procedures, specifically focussing on - SEM-1, SEM-2 skills and an understanding of how to effectively Availabilities personal insolvency and liquidation. facilitate FDR using the faciliative mediation model. External They also need to understand the legislative and - SEM-1, SEM-2 ethical obligations of FDRPs. The unit is core for all students completing the LWN185 Insolvency Law and Graduate Certificate in Applied Law (LW76) and the Master of Applied Law (LW75). It is also core for Professional Practice 2 international students completing the Master of Laws Credit Points 12 LWN206 Family Dispute (LW71) and the Graduate Certificate in Law (LW72). This unit will assist students' transition into these Campus External Resolution Practitioner Skills courses by developing a solid foundation in the External Credit Points 12 Availabilities Australian common law system with particular - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point emphasis on the Australian legal and constitutional Gardens Point framework. Students in this unit will also acquire skills The aim of this unit is to contextualise and build upon Availabilities your knowledge in the area of personal and corporate - SEM-1 (Block) in scholarly legal writing and doctrinal research, which are necessary to the application of law. insolvency. The course will provide a sound In parenting cases parents are generally required to conceptual basis for future professional development attend family dispute resolution (FDR) and to obtain in the relevant areas. It will also encourage you to an FDR certificate, before filing a court application. In appreciate that an overview of the regime governing financial cases, parties are required to attempt LWN325 Financial Services and insolvent individuals and corporations is essential to negotiation or mediation before filing a court an understanding of our social and economic application. There is growing demand for family law Consumer Law environment. professionals who are accredited family dispute Credit Points 12 resolution practitioners (FDRPs) to assist parties with Campus Gardens Point and External the resolution of disputes. This unit allows family law professionals, after completion of LWN204 Family Gardens Point LWN188 Advanced Taxation - SEM-1 Dispute Resolution, to complete the academic Availabilities Law requirements for FDRP accreditation and the training External - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 and education requirements for national mediator accreditation. This unit focuses on the regulatory framework Campus Gardens Point and External governing the relationship between financial services Gardens Point providers and retail consumers. It covers the main - SEM-1 Availabilities aspects of the consumer regulation that is applicable External LWN301 Principles of to all types of consumer financial services (deposit- - SEM-1 Australian Contract Law taking, insurance, investments, superannuation and consumer credit), as well as some key product- In most legal transactions, there is a requirement to Credit Points 12 consider and obtain taxation law advice. Such specific obligations. Campus Gardens Point and External transactions range from buying and selling a business to finalising a property settlement in family law. It is Gardens Point - SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2 (Block) important, therefore, that lawyers have an Availabilities understanding of these significant taxation issues so External LWN401 General Introduction that they may provide a more comprehensive service - SEM-1, SEM-2 To Intellectual Property Law to their clients. Although grounded in principles of English common Credit Points 12 law, Australian contract law has, like many other Campus Gardens Point areas of Australian law, developed a distinctly Gardens Point Australian slant, particularly in the last 20 years. Availabilities LWN195 Elder Law These emerging principles, as well as the more - SEM-1 (Block) Credit Points 12 fundamental contract law concepts, will be explored in The unit serves as an overview of the principal areas Campus Gardens Point and External this unit. Where appropriate, emphasis will be placed of intellectual property in contemporary society and on the legal principles applicable in Queensland. introduces the principles of intellectual property law
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units through a study of the concepts, principles and policies of intellectual property law. LWN406 Traditional Knowledge LWN803 Cross Border LWN402 Patents and and other emerging issues; Insolvency Interface between Antitrust and Equivalents LWN205 Biotechnological Inventions Credit Points 12 LWN401. LWN401 can be studied IP Rights Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as LWN401. LWN401 can be studied Campus External LWN402 Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as External Availabilities LWN406 Credit Points 12 - 5TP7 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point The aim of this unit is to introduce insolvency Campus Gardens Point specialists to the essential features of the world's Gardens Point Availabilities major insolvency systems and cross-border - 6TP2 (Block) Gardens Point Availabilities insolvency regulation, including the UNCITRAL Model - 5TP6 (Block) The unit introduces the role of patent law in protecting Law on Cross-border Insolvency and the European creative activities in diverse fields of industry and The unit details therelationship between intellectual Insolvency Regulation; as well as to enable notably in biotechnology and information technology. property and competition laws and critically analyses insolvency specialists to understand Australia's cross- It focuses upon the workings of the patent system in topical issues currently presenting challenges in IP border insolvency law, including the workings of the the contemporary context. law. UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-border Insolvency as it has been adopted in Australia and selected jurisdictions with which Australia trades, such as the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. LWN403 Copyright and Related LWN407 Intellectual Property Rights Management LWN401. LWN401 can be studied LWN401. LWN401 can be studied LWN804 Regulatory Issues Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as LWN403 LWN407 Impacting Insolvency Practice Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus External Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point External Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - 5TP3 (Block) - SEM-2 (Block) Insolvency practice will invariably be impacted on by a This unit analyses the complexities of copyright law in This unit examines the principles of IP management range of other regulatory frameworks. As such, the digital age. It introduces the concepts of copyright and their application in its commercialisation. insolvency practitioners need to be aware of the law and the principles and policies of copyright law. It Examining the concepts of Research and broader legal context in which insolvency laws especially focuses on intermediary liability, the remix Development and the principles and policies of operate. This unit addresses some key issues that are and reuse culture, digital rights management and technology transfer, focus will be placed on how to typical for a range of business and insolvency technological protection measures, parody, satire best deal with the IP. activities. The aim of this unit is to consider areas of rights and open content licensing. law that intersect with insolvency practice. Specifically, the unit considers the obligations that LWN408 Research Project arise in insolvency in relation to employment law, LWN404 Trade Marks, Domain family law, taxation law and other areas of LWN401. LWN401 can be studied commercial law. Names and Geographical Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as LWN408 Indications Credit Points 12 LWN401. LWN401 can be studied LWN805 Restructuring, Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as Campus Gardens Point and External LWN404 Gardens Point Professionalism and Ethics in - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities Insolvency Practice External Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 Gardens Point Campus External Availabilities The capstone research project exposes you to a real - 5TP4 (Block) External world intellectual property question and assists you to Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit details the legal protection provided to trade develop skills in original research, critical analysis and marks under legislation and the common law, the application of intellectual property law in The current trend in insolvency practice is introducing the principles of law required for obtaining, professional practice. increasingly focussed on rescuing the insolvent entity maintaining, managing and exploiting a registered where possible. This unit will provide a detailed trademark under the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth). discussion of restructuring and turnaround concepts, and a general framework for regulation of the conduct LWN600 Professional Research of insolvency practitioners, including ethical frameworks and decision-making. LWN405 Industrial Designs and and Writing for Law Pre-requisites LWN304 Plant Variety Protection Credit Points 24 LWN401. LWN401 can be studied LWS008 Entertainment Law Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as Campus Gardens Point and External LWS009 or BSB111 or LWB145 or LWN405 Gardens Point Pre-requisites LLB101 - SEM-2 (Block) Credit Points 12 Availabilities External Anti-requisites LWS011 Campus Gardens Point - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities This unit is the final semester Capstone unit for the Campus Gardens Point - 5TP5 (Block) Master of Laws, in which students undertake the Gardens Point research project proposed as part of the foundation Availabilities This unit examines the legal protection provided to - SEM-1 industrial designs and new plant varieties under both unit LWN304 Legal Research Methodologies. The national and international legislation. It focuses on the advanced knowledge and research skills developed in The entertainment industry involves a myriad of increasing economical importance of industrial previous units are consolidated in this unit. While transactions and interactions that are governed by a designs and investigates the various national and research projects are individual, students also work wide range of laws. A basic of understanding of the international principles of law required for obtaining, collaboratively with their supervisor and other laws most commonly encountered in the maintaining, managing and exploiting industrial students and develop skills in peer review of entertainment industry should assist those involved in designs, and enforcing their protection. research. the industry have a better understanding of the legal
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It will also provide Availabilities - SEM-2 Caboolture you with foundation knowledge and concepts of - SEM-1 probability, random variables and distributions for This unit is designed for students in disciplines other Availabilities Kelvin Grove further learning in engineering. than law. It provides those students with a solid - SEM-1, SEM-2 foundation in the Australian common law system, introducing students to the Australian legal Nursing practice involves making decisions for, and environment and exposing those students to the legal with, others. An important requirement of such MAB521 Applied Mathematics 3 framework in which industry operates. It will also decisions is that they are consistent with nurses' Pre-requisites MAB311 address specific legal issues such as contract law, public and professional responsibilities and that they consumer law, torts and property law. serve to promote the needs of patient/clients. In short, Credit Points 12 nursing practice is guided by normative requirements. Campus Gardens Point The basic requirements and considerations are Gardens Point established by law, ethics and professional values. Availabilities - SEM-1 LWS011 Journalism Law The unit explores the relationship between law and Anti-requisites LWS008 ethics to lay the foundations of understanding of both This unit includes: partial differential equations such law and ethics as they relate to healthcare and to your as the wave, heat and Laplace equations; special Equivalents KKB175, KKB275 professional practice. functions(gamma, delta, Bessel and error functions, Credit Points 12 Legendre polynomials); vector analysis and Campus Kelvin Grove applications (vector algebra, vector calculus, fields, grad, div, curl, line and surface integrals, divergence Kelvin Grove Availabilities MAB127 Mathematics for theorem, Stoke's theorem, applications); functions of - SEM-2 Engineering 2 a complex variable (analytic functions, contour It is important that all professionals have a sound integrals, Laurent series, residues). Equivalents MAB112, MAB122, MAB132 working knowledge of the legal considerations that apply to their professional practice. This is especially Credit Points 12 true for journalists who provide information and Campus Gardens Point commentary for the public good and in the public MAB522 Computational Gardens Point interest. As such, the study of law is important for you Availabilities Mathematics 3 for two reasons. First, the important role journalists - SEM-1 Pre-requisites MAB311 and MAB420 play in a democratic society means that journalists Building upon the foundations established in MAB125 are endowed with a public responsibility to engage in or Senior Maths C, this unit addresses the significant Anti-requisites MAN522 sound legal and ethical in practice. Second, the public role of mathematical modelling using vectors, Credit Points 12 role journalists play in society means that there is a matrices and multivariable calculus for the description Campus Gardens Point high level of scrutiny on their actions. Legal and resolution of simple and complex problems transgressions by journalists can prove costly and Gardens Point relevant to the discipline of engineering. The Availabilities painful for journalists, their families, friends, formulation and solution of such problems is - SEM-1 colleagues and employers. supported by appropriate advanced mathematical This unit provides you with the opportunity to employ concepts used for function approximation, a number of the skills that you have developed in the differentiation and integration. You will complete this discipline of computational mathematics, combining LWS012 Urban Development unit in first year or first semester of second year them in a coherent manner for solving topical and depending on your initial maths background. relevant real world problems. You will become familiar Law Undertaking this unit will allow you to develop your with the methodologies for developing numerical problem solving skills, especially in the context of Equivalents UDB102 algorithms that can be employed for problems that mathematical techniques related multivariable would otherwise be unsolvable, and with the skills of Credit Points 12 functions, vectors and matrices used to model communicating the results of your numerical studies Campus Gardens Point engineering relevant problems. to a diverse audience. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 This unit provides an overview of Australian law as it MAB141 Mathematics and MAB524 Statistical Inference relates to the disciplines of Construction Statistics for Medical Science Pre-requisites MAB314 Management, Urban and Regional Planning and Anti-requisites MAN101, MAB101 Property Economics. In particular, the unit will Credit Points 12 introduce students to the Australian legal system with Equivalents MAB140 Campus Gardens Point a particular focus on contracts, consumer law, the law Credit Points 12 Gardens Point of torts, business entities, and property law. This unit Availabilities - SEM-1 will provide the foundation for the study of contracts, Campus Gardens Point planning, management and property transactions in Gardens Point This unit includes: maximum likelihood estimation, Availabilities the Urban Development courses. - SEM-1 confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, introduction to Bayesian inference, prior and posterior This unit provides you with the essential grounding in distributions, Bayesian inference for binomial data, mathematical and statistical concepts, methods and Poisson count data and normal data, simulation analysis of data used in units you will encounter later LWS075 International Business techniques for sampling from distributions. Use of in your course, and relevant to medical science software Matlab and R. and Law laboratory data and situations in pharmacy, vision Credit Points 12 science, biomedical science and medical science. Campus Gardens Point MAB525 Operations Research Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2 (Block) MAB233 Engineering 3A This unit deals with the legal problems arising from Mathematics 3 Pre-requisites MAB315 the formation and operation of international, MAB131 or MAB182 or MAB121 or Anti-requisites MAN525 commercial transactions. Understanding the law and Pre-requisites MAB126 or MAB127 or MZB126 Credit Points 12 practice regarding international commercial
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Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point are emphasised. Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit provides you with an opportunity to Operations Research techniques are used in most MAB625 Operations Research undertake a research project under the supervision of industries which are concerned with the application of either an academic staff member or an industry scientific methods in decision making, especially the 3B partner (or both). You will apply your mathematical allocation of resources. There is thus a need to Pre-requisites MAB315 and statistical training to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in a problem of graduate students who can make decisions on the Equivalents MAN625 most appropriate technology to solve a particular contemporary and/or industrial interest. problem and implement it. This unit will build on the Credit Points 12 foundations of MAB315/MAN315 by developing and Campus Gardens Point manipulating mathematical and computer models of Gardens Point complex systems composed of people, machines, Availabilities MAN101 Statistical Data - SEM-2 money and their operating procedures. Analysis 1 Operations research techniques are used in most MAB101, MAB141, BSB123, Anti-requisites industries that are concerned with the application of EFB101, MAB233 scientific methods in decision making, especially the MAB533 Statistical Techniques allocation of resources. There is thus a need for Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites MAB210 and MAB414 graduate students who can make decisions on the Campus Gardens Point most appropriate technology to solve a particular Anti-requisites MAB523 Gardens Point problem and implement it. This unit will build on the Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 foundation of previous Operations Research units to Campus Gardens Point develop knowledge and skills in using advanced The aim of this unit is to provide you with an essential techniques, tools and methods. grounding in statistical reasoning, and in basic Gardens Point Availabilities methods for the analysis of data and interpretation of - SEM-1 variation in all areas of modern science, social This third year unit aims to provide you with sufficient science, technology, industry and associated fields. knowledge and understanding of advanced statistical MAB672 Advanced The unit also provides you with key statistical methods to enable the application in a range of real- Mathematical Modelling knowledge to apply in many advanced units and world situations in diverse workplaces and disciplines. projects which involve data and influences of random Pre-requisites MAB422 variation. Fundamental quantitative methods which Anti-requisites MAN672 inform and support statistical knowledge are also provided. MAB613 Partial Differential Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Equations Gardens Point Availabilities Pre-requisites MAB311 and MAB413 - SEM-1 MAN122 Linear Algebra and Anti-requisites MAN613 The aim of this unit is to develop concepts, skills and Multivariable Calculus Credit Points 12 MAB112, MAB122, MAB127, an understanding of Mathematical Modelling by Anti-requisites Campus Gardens Point providing examples and outlining the steps required in MAB132 the development, analysis and interpretation of a Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities model using 'real-world' problems and associated - SEM-2 mathematical software to solve these problems. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Partial differential equations are the classical Availabilities foundation of mathematical models used to - SEM-1 unambiguously describe processes exhibiting spatial MAB687 Research Project Building upon the foundations established in MAN120 and temporal variation. There exist numerous modern or Senior Maths C, this unit addresses the significant Unit coordinator approval is important examples of such so called continuum role of mathematical modelling using vectors, Other required to enrol and a minimum models and so it is essential that any practising matrices and multivariable calculus for the description requisites GPA of 5.5 in the Bachelor of mathematician be conversant with both the and resolution of simple and complex problems Mathematics background, formulation and solution of such relevant in the real world. The formulation and equations. This unit aims to develop your Assumed Must complete both MAB987-1 and solution of such problems is supported by appropriate understanding of the construction, analysis, solution Knowledge MAB687-2 advanced mathematical concepts used for function and interpretation of partial differential equation Credit Points 12 approximation, differentiation and integration. models of real-world processes. Undertaking this unit will allow you to develop your Campus Gardens Point problem solving skills, especially in the context of Gardens Point mathematical techniques related to vectors, matrices Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM and multivariable functions used to model real world MAB624 Applied Statistics 2 problems. Pre-requisites MAB414 This unit provides you with an opportunity to undertake a research project under the supervision of Anti-requisites MAN624 either an academic staff member or an industry Credit Points 12 partner (or both). You will apply your mathematical MAN200 Advanced Topics in Campus Gardens Point and statistical training to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in a problem of Mathematical Sciences 1 Gardens Point Availabilities contemporary and/or industrial interest. Other Unit coordinator approval is - SEM-2 requisites required to enrol Applied statistics provides methods for investigating Credit Points 12 relationships between variables that arise in data from a variety of areas including science, technology and MAB687 Research Project Campus Gardens Point commerce. The planning of the collection of the data, MAB987-1. MAB987-1 can be Gardens Point Availabilities using ideas of experimental design, and the analysis Pre-requisites studied in the same teaching period - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM of the resulting data, using methods based on as MAB687-2 This unit, which is available to students majoring in statistical inference, are fundamental aspects of the Unit coordinator approval is Mathematics in the SC60 Bachelor of Applied Science statistical process. In addition, communication of Other required to enrol and a minimum Honours course and the postgraduate MA65, MA75 results with clear reporting of the conclusions of the requisites GPA of 5.5 in the Bachelor of and MA85 courses, aims to provide a framework for analysis is very important. These activities are an Mathematics you to undertake advanced level coursework in a important part of decision making processes whatever specialised topic in the mathematical sciences. You the context of the application. This unit aims to build Assumed Must complete MAB687-1 and will gain expertise in problem formulation, problem on the introductory experimental design and statistical Knowledge MAB687-2 solving, critical thinking, and written and oral analysis methods presented to you in Applied Credit Points 12 communication in an advanced mathematical context. Statistics 2 in order to introduce modern statistical Campus Gardens Point methods. Additionally, the use of statistical software to carry out analyses and the reporting of conclusions
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graduate students who can make decisions on the MAN201 Advanced Topics in most appropriate technology to solve a particular MAN700 Project Mathematical Sciences 2 problem and implement it. This unit will build on the Other Unit coordinator approval is requisites required to enrol Other Unit coordinator approval is foundations of MAB315/MAN315 by developing and requisites required to enrol manipulating mathematical and computer models of Credit Points 24 complex systems composed of people, machines, Credit Points 12 money and their operating procedures. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM MAN533 Statistical Techniques This unit aims to provide a framework for you to apply the mathematically-founded analytical methods and This unit, which is available to students majoring in Pre-requisites MAN210 and MAN414 quantitative techniques learned in other units in the Mathematics in the SC60 Bachelor of Applied Science Anti-requisites MAB533 course to real world problems relevant to you. You will Honours course and the postgraduate MA65, MA75 gain expertise in problem formulation, problem solving and MA85 courses, aims to provide a framework for Credit Points 12 and communication, involving mathematical you to undertake advanced level coursework in a Campus Gardens Point techniques. Permission to enrol in this unit must be specialised topic in the mathematical sciences. You Gardens Point obtained from the Course Coordinator. will gain expertise in problem formulation, problem Availabilities solving, critical thinking, and written and oral - SEM-1 communication in an advanced mathematical context. This year unit aims to provide you with sufficient knowledge and understanding of advanced statistical MAN717 Minor Project methods to enable the application in a range of real- Other Unit coordinator approval is MAN220 Computational world situations in diverse workplaces and disciplines. requisites required to enrol Mathematics 1 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites MAB220 MAN613 Partial Differential Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities Equations - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Campus Gardens Point (MAN311 or MAB311) and Pre-requisites Research in the Mathematical and Statistical Gardens Point (MAN413 or MAB413) Availabilities Sciences can be intellectually challenging and - SEM-1 Anti-requisites MAB613 rewarding and generally requires a knowledge base Many real world problems are not solvable Credit Points 12 and a range of generic capabilities to be developed to analytically, meaning that it is necessary to develop a level that is not normally achieved in a bachelor computational methods that can be used to solve Campus Gardens Point degree of three years duration. This unit offers you these problems. Additionally, to be able to apply these Gardens Point the opportunity to acquire this knowledge and these Availabilities methods to large problems, they must be - SEM-2 capabilities. By undertaking a minor research project implemented as algorithms in a computer language in a field which is of interest to you, undertaking Partial differential equations are the classical such as MATLAB. This unit addresses both the advanced level coursework in a discipline related to foundation of mathematical models used to theoretical development of computational methods your area of Mathematical interest, or both. unambiguously describe processes exhibiting spatial and their implementation in MATLAB. The aim of this Permission to enrol in this unit must be obtained from and temporal variation. There exist numerous modern unit is to provide you with the introductory concepts, the Course Coordinator. important examples of such so called continuum computational techniques and programming skills that models and so it is essential that any practicing will allow you to solve many real world problems. It is mathematician be conversant with both the also designed to prepare you for study in further units background, formulation and solution of such in computational mathematics. MAN765 Bayesian Data equations. This unit aims to develop your understanding of the construction, analysis, solution Analysis and interpretation of partial differential equation Pre-requisites MAB524 or MAN524 MAN521 Applied Mathematics 3 models of real-world processes. Other Unit coordinator approval is Pre-requisites MAN311 or MAB311 requisites required to enrol Anti-requisites MAB521 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 MAN624 Applied Statistics 2 Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites MAB414 or MAN414 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities Anti-requisites MAB624 - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This subject builds on the foundations of Bayesian analysis laid in MAN524 to extend modelling and Topics selected from: partial differential equations Campus Gardens Point computational approaches to real world problems. such as the wave, heat and Laplace equations; Gardens Point Availabilities Skills in using statistical computing platforms for special functions( gamma, delta, Bessel and error - SEM-2 Bayesian analysis, model development and functions, Legendre polynomials); vector analysis and Applied statistics provides methods for investigating comparison, and extending computational applications (vector algebra, vector calculus, fields, relationships between variables that arise in data from approaches will be developed. You are encouraged to grad, div, curl, line and surface integrals, divergence a variety of areas including science, technology and apply skills to data modelling tasks motivated by their theorem, Stoke's theorem, applications); functions of commerce. The planning of the collection of the data, work or research areas. a complex variable (analytic functions, contour using ideas of experimental design, and the analysis integrals, Laurent series, residues). of the resulting data, using methods based on statistical inference, are fundamental aspects of the statistical process. In addition, communication of MAN771 Computational MAN525 Operations Research results with clear reporting of the conclusions of the Mathematics 4 analysis is very important. These activities are an (MAB522 or MAN522) and 3A important part of decision making processes whatever Pre-requisites (MAB613 or MAN613) Pre-requisites MAB315 or MAN315 the context of the application. This unit is concerned with building on the experimental design and Other Unit coordinator approval is Anti-requisites MAB525 statistical analysis methods presented in requisites required to enrol Credit Points 12 undergraduate units in order to advance your Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point knowledge of modern statistical methods. Additionally, the use of statistical software to carry out Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities analyses and the reporting of conclusions are Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities emphasised. - SEM-1 Operations Research techniques are used in most An essential skill for practicing applied industries which are concerned with the application of mathematicians and engineers is the derivation and scientific methods in decision making, especially the implementation of computational models for solving allocation of resources. There is thus a need to the equations that govern many of the physical
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MGB211, CTB211, MGB222, processes encountered in research and industry. Anti-requisites Through the investigation of specific case studies CTB232 developed in Matlab, the derivation of numerical Equivalents MGX200 techniques, the implementation of efficient algorithms MGB220 Human Resource and the visualisation of the simulation results, Credit Points 12 Decision Making students undertaking this unit will develop an Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Pre-requisites BSB123 or BSB122 understanding of the value of computational Caboolture mathematics. This unit provides students with the Anti-requisites AMB201, CTB201 - SEM-1 opportunity to employ a number of the skills that they Availabilities Gardens Point Equivalents MGX220 have developed in the discipline of computational - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM mathematics, combining them in a coherent manner Credit Points 12 for solving topical and relevant real world problems. This unit introduces you to a range of perspectives in Campus Gardens Point understanding human behaviour and its context within Gardens Point organisation structures. The unit also enables you to Availabilities - SEM-1 interpret, analyse, evaluate and explain conditions MAN787 Project and consequences of work in organisations with a The unit will develop your knowledge and skills that Credit Points 12 view to understanding and appreciating complex are necessary for diagnosing problems at work, management issues in day to day experiences in gathering data and information about these problems, Campus Gardens Point business. and analysing the data and information to derive Gardens Point Availabilities solutions and inform decision making. - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Research in the Mathematical and Statistical MGB201 Contemporary Sciences has contributed significantly to a vast range MGB223 Entrepreneurship and of social and economic amenities. Such research can Employment Relations be intellectually challenging and rewarding and Pre-requisites BSB115 or CTB115 Innovation generally requires a range of capabilities to be Pre-requisites BSB115 or CTB115 developed to a level that is not normally achieved in a Equivalents MGX201 bachelor degree of three years duration. This unit Credit Points 12 Equivalents CTB223, MGX223 offers you the opportunity to develop and/or refine Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 some of these capabilities by undertaking a research Gardens Point Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point project that is significant in the context of the social Availabilities and economic outcomes alluded to above. Permission - SEM-1, SEM-2 Caboolture - SEM-2 to enrol in this unit must be obtained from the Course This unit will develop your skills in understanding the Availabilities Gardens Point Coordinator. effects of both domestic and international legal - SEM-1, SEM-2 environments relating to employment relationships. This is important for developing practical, workable This unit introduces students to the nature and business strategies and HRM interventions. characteristics of entrepreneurship and innovation MAN787 Project and explores the inter-relationship between the two Credit Points 12 within contemporary economies from a managerial Campus Gardens Point perspective. Learning will be directed towards MGB207 Human Resource developing the theoretical and applied knowledge, Gardens Point Availabilities skills, and attitudes that will support and enhance - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Issues and Strategy innovation and enterprise creation activity, through Research in the Mathematical and Statistical Pre-requisites BSB115 or CTB115 the development of a business plan. The unit is Sciences has contributed significantly to a vast range Equivalents CTB207, MGX207 designed for those individuals interested in creating a new venture or working in industries as employees of of social and economic amenities. Such research can Credit Points 12 be intellectually challenging and rewarding and venture owners or those that serve this sector. generally requires a range of capabilities to be Campus Gardens Point Students will have opportunity to build a developed to a level that is not normally achieved in a Gardens Point comprehensive plan of their business concept. Availabilities bachelor degree of three years duration. This unit - SEM-1, SEM-2 offers you the opportunity to develop and/or refine some of these capabilities by undertaking a research This unit provides a broad overview of the role and project that is significant in the context of the social functions of human resource management (HRM) and MGB225 Intercultural and economic outcomes alluded to above. Permission explores the contribution of HRM to business Communication and to enrol in this unit must be obtained from the Course performance and quality of work life. This unit gives Coordinator. you a foundation for professional practice in HRM and Negotiation Skills a practical introduction to the ways that organisations BSB115, CTB115, BSB119 or go about aligning the contributions of their people with Pre-requisites BSB124 business goals. MAN787 Project Anti-requisites MGB312 Credit Points 12 Equivalents IBB205, MGX225 Campus Gardens Point MGB210 Managing Operations Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Pre-requisites BSB115 or CTB115 Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Equivalents CTB234, MGX210 Caboolture - SEM-1 Research in the Mathematical and Statistical Credit Points 12 Availabilities Sciences has contributed significantly to a vast range Gardens Point Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point of social and economic amenities. Such research can - SEM-1, SEM-2 be intellectually challenging and rewarding and Caboolture The course develops students' abilities to identify and generally requires a range of capabilities to be - SEM-1 Availabilities resolve problems in cross-cultural communication or developed to a level that is not normally achieved in a Gardens Point negotiation situations where cultural differences have bachelor degree of three years duration. This unit - SEM-1, SEM-2 created misunderstandings or undesirable or offers you the opportunity to develop and/or refine This unit extends general management approaches to unexpected outcomes. It first explores the concept of some of these capabilities by undertaking a research the production operations subsystems of service and 'national culture' by considering the work of major project that is significant in the context of the social manufacturing organisations. The unit focuses on the theorists of cultural value dimensions - from Hall to and economic outcomes alluded to above. Permission deployment of productive resources in order to Schwartz. Students are encouraged to analyse to enrol in this unit must be obtained from the Course maximise the added value of services and products. communication/negotiation process issues in terms of Coordinator. Issues of quality and efficiency are considered these value dimensions and to practise managing the analytically in terms of broader strategies and process of communication/negotiation to improve their constraints. It considers the opportunities that new outcomes. MGB200 Leading Organisations technology brings to operational strategies in both manufacturing and service. Project management Pre-requisites BSB115 or CTB115 principles are considered in relation to resource deployment and continuous improvement.
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MGB305 HRM Strategy and Credit Points 12 manage in their growing operations. The unit brings Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point together the different functional aspects of managing Policy an established SME and how they are best managed Caboolture from the owner's (general manager's) point of view. It Pre-requisites MGB314 - SEM-2 Availabilities also provides opportunity to bring students into Credit Points 12 Gardens Point contact with real world SME owners and their venture - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point management issues. Gardens Point This unit provides participants with an opportunity to Availabilities - SEM-2 investigate selected and critical issues in the relationship between business activity and the This is the capstone of the HRM extended major. The imperative of creating sustainable futures. The unit MGB331 Learning and primary objective is to integrate HR concepts and draws on interdisciplinary sources to encourage the Development in Organisations issues into the wider business and environmental development of a systemic view that incorporates MGB211, CTB211, MGB222, context; a range of historical features, professional global, corporate, and personal levels of analysis. The Pre-requisites CTB232, or MGB200 and ethical matters are considered; policy unit prepares participants to make a significant development and evaluation is examined; an contribution to the sustainable development of Equivalents MGX331 experiential approach based in cases and/or organisations and society. The unit will be of value to Credit Points 12 simulations is adopted. business and non-business students seeking careers in private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities MGB306 Independent Study - SEM-1 Subject to Unit Coordinator MGB314 Organisational This unit is designed to equip you with the skills and Approval. Students must complete knowledge to meet strategic organisational human Other Consulting and Change at least 96 credit points of approved resource development requirements. The unit requisites MGB211, CTB211, MGB222, explores learning and development concepts and study to be considered for Pre-requisites enrolment in this unit. CTB232, or MGB200 approaches and the role of learning and development as a strategic partner to management. You will learn Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 how to design, implement and evaluate systems for Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point learning in organisations as part of a strategic approach to human resource development. Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM - SEM-1 This unit enables students to demonstrate an ability to Managing change is a fundamental skill required by direct their own learning, a key competence for prospective managers and professionals. This unit MGB335 Project Management professionals who must keep themselves up-to-date provides opportunities for students to develop a (MGB210 and MGB309) or Pre-requisites in their area of expertise. Either individually or in small theory in practice orientation to consulting to (MGB210 and AMB303) individuals, groups, and organisations. Hence content groups, students undertake one or several learning Anti-requisites KXB202 activities with the approval of a supervisor and the theory and process theory is addressed. The focus of unit coordinator. Appropriate activities include this unit is on human process issues and change. The Equivalents MGX335 unit examines a range of human process extended literature review, research paper, practical Credit Points 12 project and report, practicum (work placement) and interventions designed to improve organisational Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point report, or an alternative deemed acceptable by the effectiveness. Attention is also given to change supervisor and unit coordinator. strategies that are socially and culturally inclusive. Caboolture Graduates of this unit should be able to be productive - SEM-2 Availabilities members of organisational change teams. Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 MGB309 Strategic Management This unit develops knowledge in the areas relating to MGB200, MGB211, CTB211, Pre-requisites MGB320 Recruitment and effective management of projects (as distinct MGB222, or CTB232 processes). This knowledge is gained by focusing on Anti-requisites MIB314 Selection the central issues of project selection, modelling, Pre-requisites MGB339 or MGB221 Equivalents MGX309 planning, control and evaluation. Case study projects Equivalents MGX320 are used throughout the unit and are mainly from the Credit Points 12 services industry sector. The unit seeks to develop Credit Points 12 Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point the technical skills (tools and techniques) as well as Campus Gardens Point the people (behavioural) skills needed for effective Caboolture management of projects. - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit examines the most effective techniques for In this unit fundamental elements of strategy, which recruiting and selecting the best people for MGB338 Workplace Learning can be used in the decision making process, are organisations, in the context of current pressures on An application, interview and placed in a framework that is developed within the attracting and keeping skilled, talented people in the subsequent approval by the unit particular context of Australia's economic workforce. Commonly used recruitment and selection Other coordinator is required to enrol, in development position. The emphasis is upon process techniques are covered, emphasising the validity and requisites addition to the completion of a and content issues that affect the strategic reliability of each technique, to enable the best minimum of 192 credit points of performance and positioning of the organisation. This strategies to be developed. study and a GPA of 4.0 or higher involves creating an understanding of the universal Credit Points 12 building blocks of competitive advantage at the business, corporate and international levels. By Campus Gardens Point understanding the nature and determinants of MGB324 Managing Business Gardens Point Availabilities competitive and strategic advantages, students Growth - SEM-1, SEM-2 should enhance their professional competences to be Pre-requisites MGB223 able to take a more strategic and critical perspective. This unit entails a structured program of workplace Equivalents MGB218, MGX324 learning in which you are exposed to a variety of organisational issues. For the duration of your Credit Points 12 placement , you will work on a specific HRM or MGB310 Sustainability in A Campus Caboolture and Gardens Point Management project of relevance to the host Changing Environment Caboolture organisation. Building upon knowledge acquired in the - SEM-1 relevant major, students' exposure to MGB200, MGB211, CTB211, Availabilities HRM/Management in an actual organisational setting Pre-requisites Gardens Point MGB222, or CTB232 - SEM-1 will enhance understanding of the links between Anti-requisites MGB334, CTB334, MGB212 theory and practice and develop skills and abilities This unit is designed to provide skills in the analysis, through a professional learning experience. Equivalents MGX310 solutions and implementation of the general management issues that SME owners have to
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Credit Points 12 MGN412 Organisational Campus Gardens Point Behaviour Gardens Point MGB339 Performance and Availabilities - SEM-2 Anti-requisites GSN409, GSN419 and GSZ409 Reward Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites MGB201, MGB207, or CTB207 This unit focuses on managing technology, knowledge and innovation within organisations and Campus Gardens Point and External Equivalents MGB221, MGX339 how to build innovative capabilities. Students study Gardens Point Credit Points 12 strategies and approaches used in technology and - SEM-1, SEM-2 knowledge intensive industries and government Availabilities Campus Gardens Point External organisations for the research, development and - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities commercialisation of innovations. The unit offers the - SEM-1 opportunity to develop knowledge and skills to This unit provides a broad understanding of manage and commercialise technologies and organisational behaviour as a base for future study This unit will provide you with the basic competencies innovations. and practice of management. It moves from a micro- expected of HR practitioners in managing perspective on individual behaviour through the performance and reward/compensation systems, interface between the individual and the organisation which are among the most important strategies used to overall characteristics of organisations which shape by organisations to support competitive advantage. MGB370 Personal and the behaviour of their members. The aim is to provide Performance and Reward Management is a key an understanding of why employees feel and act the functional area of HRM and it is imperative that you Professional Development way they do in organisations and considers methods understand the strategic framework within which Pre-requisites MGB331 and BSB124 for enhancing positive employee attitudes and these decisions are made. Equivalents MGB315, MGX370 behaviours and organisational effectiveness. The emphasis is on understanding basic assumptions and Credit Points 12 models, major theoretical issues, methods of MGB340 International Business Campus Gardens Point measurement and practical implications. Gardens Point Availabilities in the Asia-Pacific - SEM-1, SEM-2 MGB225, IBB205, IBB217, or Pre-requisites IBB208 This unit develops personal, interpersonal and team MGN421 Strategic HRM skills that distinguish outstanding human resource, MGN506 and 84cp of other MGN Anti-requisites IBB317 Pre-requisites management and other professionals. Recent units Equivalents MGX340 literature has identified the need for professionals to acquire knowledge in the areas of self management Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 and the management of others to contribute to Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point organisational performance. To achieve this, Personal Gardens Point Gardens Point and Professional Development is positioned at the Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 conclusion of the course to build upon concepts learned in introductory and intermediate units with a HRM is concerned with the relationship between Australia is situated in the fastest growing region in strong focus on the application of theory to practice. people management strategies and organisational the world - the Pan-Pacific rim. The aim of this unit is goals and objectives. This capstone unit provides to meet the needs of future business professionals HRM students with the opportunity to apply their working internationally and particularly within the Pan- learning to this relationship in a systematic way. It Pacific region, to understand the nature of this MGN409 Management Theory requires them to produce high quality HRM advice region's business environment. that provides direction for practicing line managers and Practice consistent with organisational goals and objectives. Anti-requisites GSN401 and GSZ401 The learning strategies in the unit challenge students Credit Points 12 to identify contemporary issues of organisation and MGB341 Operational Risk management and to interpret these using the Campus Gardens Point and External Management paradigms of HRM. Gardens Point Pre-requisites MGB210 or MGB309 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Anti-requisites IBB306 External - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 MGN423 Contemporary Campus Gardens Point This unit examines the following: the functions and Strategic Analysis roles of managers; concepts and principles and their Anti-requisites BSN407 and MGN504 Gardens Point Availabilities practical applications; the key management functions; - SEM-2 areas of planning, organising, staffing, directing and Credit Points 12 This unit aims to develop student competencies in controlling; production/operations management and Campus Gardens Point analysing risk management issues in national and the management of quality; entrepreneurship and Gardens Point Availabilities international contexts and build a strong appreciation business planning; and important problems, - SEM-2 of managing organisational uncertainty in the current opportunities and trends facing managers in Australia global environment. It introduces conceptual and analysed from the viewpoint of relevant academic This unit focuses upon developing managers' practical applications of risk management techniques disciplines. understanding of the strategy concept and placing the used in private and public organisations by combining fundamental elements of strategy in a framework for lectures with practical 'hands-on' workshops. The unit use in the decision making process. Taking the examines: conceptual bases of risk management; perspective that many managers make decisions that international, national and sub-national regulatory MGN410 Employment Relations can have strategic implications, the emphasis is upon frameworks; corporate risk management in Credit Points 12 studying those issues that can affect the strategic positioning of the organisation. This involves creating international firms; business continuity planning; Campus Gardens Point security risk management; emergency response an understanding of the universal building blocks of Gardens Point competitive advantage at the business, corporate and planning; managing crises in organisations; Availabilities participatory 'desktop' simulations of crisis decision - SEM-1, SEM-2 international levels. By understanding the nature and determinants of competitive and comparative making. This unit looks at the following: employment relations; advantages, students will be well positioned to take a employee and union action; the role of governments more strategic perspective in their organisational and industrial tribunals; alternative methods and activities. pressures to change traditional Australian systems; MGB355 Managing Technology, the Australian system of labour management Innovation and relations; systems of regulation in the employment area; negotiating skills; and the resources required for MGN431 Strategic Human Commercialisation mobilising change in this area. Pre-requisites MGB223 or LSP127 Resource Development Anti-requisites BSB311 Pre-requisites MGN440 Equivalents MGX355 Credit Points 12
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Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point opportunities to acquire and practice foundational Availabilities Gardens Point coaching skills, as well as provide feedback for self- - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-2 development. This unit enables a more intensive study of business Strategic HRD provides a theoretical and practical and markets in Europe. The development of the major framework for planning and implementing HRD within industries will be examined, together with intra- today's organisations. It examines the critical regional patterns of trade, commerce and finance. A MGN442 Self Leadership particular focus will be the development of a single theoretical approaches underpinning learning and BSN201, GSN620, GSN621, Anti-requisites European market and its international implications. skills development and relates these in a practical GSZ620, GSZ621 way to the HRD challenges faced by organisations. Significant economic, political and social factors This unit also provides exposure to contemporary Credit Points 12 determining developments will be focussed upon, as well as regulatory restraints governing market access. international HRD ideas and practices to develop an Campus Gardens Point understanding of the contribution of HRD to the The student will be required to undertake a project Gardens Point broader economic context. Availabilities which requires the application of knowledge of the - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM region to a business issue. In the contemporary business environment professionals are empowered to manage their own MGN433 Managing High- growth and development in order to facilitate MGN446 Business in Australia Performance Organisations meaningfulness in organisational life. The unit on Self-leadership is an elective in the HRM major and is Anti-requisites MIN435 Pre-requisites MGN409 delivered predominately in an ‘on-line’ mode to enable Equivalents IBN435, MGX446 Credit Points 12 an ‘anytime’ and ‘anywhere’ approach to your self- Credit Points 12 development work. This approach invites you to take Campus Gardens Point the necessary time to reflect and develop greater Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities insight into your own thinking and behaviour. Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Managing High-Performance Organisations is This unit introduces international students to the designed to provide a bridge between HRM-discipline business environment in Australia. Students examine specific and strategic/general management MGN443 Talent Management the geographical, historical, socio-cultural, political, perspectives. The unit is therefore a centrepiece of Anti-requisites MGN429 regulatory, demographic, economic, legal, locational the postgraduate HRM program. The unit serves the Credit Points 12 and other factors that have influenced, or still impinge vitally important role of locating HRM in to its broader Campus Gardens Point upon, doing business in Australia in the current organisational and general management context. It international environment. also aims to develop advanced level business Gardens Point Availabilities knowledge and skill and develop conceptual - SEM-1 frameworks for integration and high level impact of Australia's growing skills shortage and the prospect of HRM with business success and performance. an ageing workforce threaten the sustainability, MGN447 Managing in a productivity and growth of many industry sectors. Globalised Economy These pressures have made talent management a MGN440 HRM Theory and strategic priority for many organisations. At its heart, Anti-requisites BSN408 talent management is simply a matter of anticipating Equivalents IBN408, MGX447 the need for human capital and then developing a Practice Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites MGN427 plan to meet it. However, the adaptive capacity of traditional workforce planning methods appears Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 inadequate for today’s uncertain business Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point environment. This unit examines talent management - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities Gardens Point as an alternative to traditional HR planning practices. External Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 It focuses on developing both a theoretical framework - SEM-1, SEM-2 to guide talent management initiatives and applied This unit examines the interplay between human skills (e.g. identification of critical roles, workforce This core unit examines the forces of globalisation, resource management policies and processes and analysis) required to develop a talent management the diversity of international environments and their their contribution to sustainable competitive plan. impact on business functions at the operational level. advantage and organisational effectiveness. HRM is It examines the processes and challenges of considered from stakeholder, strategic and functional internationalising the business operation as firms perspectives and an open systems model is used to strive to compete successfully in the global introduce key processes and practices. The unit MGN444 Business in Asia marketplaces. Areas of study include the growth of fosters discipline knowledge, analytical and action Anti-requisites MIN403 international business and globalisation, international taking competencies and prepares students for business motives and forms, the nature and Equivalents IBN403, MGX444 advanced study in the field. challenges of the diversity of environments, and Credit Points 12 managing and controlling business operations. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point MGN441 Leadership and Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 MGN448 Negotiating Across Executive Coaching GSN620, GSN621, GSZ620, The aim of this unit is to enable an intensive study of Borders Anti-requisites GSZ621 business and markets in Asia. The development of Anti-requisites GSN462 the major industries is examined, together with major Credit Points 12 intra-regional patterns of trade, commerce and Equivalents IBN409, MGX448 Campus Gardens Point finance. Significant economic, political and social Credit Points 12 factors determining developments are focused on, as Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities well as regulatory restraints governing market access. - SEM-1 Gardens Point Students are required to undertake a project that Availabilities One-to-one executive coaching has emerged as a requires the application of knowledge of the region to - SEM-1, SEM-2 popular and powerful intervention for improving the a business issue. This unit develops students' skills in negotiating intra- performance and satisfaction of individual executives. and inter-culturally. It provides students with a tool- More recently, its use has been expanded into a box of negotiation skills and then explores the variety of related organisational interventions. Human relationship between cultural value dimensions and resource professionals are often responsible for MGN445 Business in Europe negotiating behaviours. Students practise their making decisions about how coaching is used in Anti-requisites MIN404 negotiating skills with members of their own culture, in organisations, particularly in relation to leadership Equivalents IBN404, MGX445 cross-cultural dyads and in multi-cultural teams to development. This unit will equip students with build confidence and capability in negotiating and Credit Points 12 expertise in understanding how leadership and influencing. executive coaching intersect in organisations. It will Campus Gardens Point cover the theoretical foundations and models of evidence-based executive coaching, give
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the field and gain insights into where and how they MGN505 Consulting and can contribute to its research frontier. MGX225 Intercultural Change Management Communication and Credit Points 12 Negotiation Skills (Outbound Campus Gardens Point MGX200 Leading Organisations Exchange) Gardens Point Availabilities (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents MGB225 - SEM-1 Equivalents MGB200 Credit Points 12 This unit considers the origins, nature and effect of Credit Points 12 social change on individuals, organisations and Campus EXCHANGE and External communities. Theories and models of change are Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities used to explore planned and unplanned changes External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities currently occurring, particularly as these relate to - XCH-1, XCH-2 possible futures. Emphasis is on the strategies and skills required to initiate and participate in effective change management. MGX309 Strategic Management MGX201 Contemporary (Outbound Exchange) Employment Relations Equivalents MGB309 MGN506 Contemporary Issues (Outbound Exchange) Credit Points 12 in Human Resource Equivalents MGB201 Campus EXCHANGE and External Management Credit Points 12 External Availabilities Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point External Availabilities Gardens Point - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 MGX310 Sustainability in a The main objectives of this unit are to identify, Changing Environment analyse and report on contemporary issues in HRM and to research information relevant to identified MGX207 Human Resource (Outbound Exchange) topics. The content may vary according to which Issues and Strategy (Outbound Equivalents MGB310 issues are current or predictably important in the future. Special expertise of staff, visiting scholars or Exchange) Credit Points 12 distinguished HRM professionals may be utilised. Equivalents MGB207 Campus EXCHANGE and External Credit Points 12 External Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External - XCH-1, XCH-2 MGN509 HRM Project 1 External Availabilities Credit Points 12 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Campus Gardens Point MGX320 Recruitment and Gardens Point Availabilities Selection (Outbound Exchange) - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM MGX210 Managing Operations Equivalents MGB320 This unit provides the opportunity for students to Credit Points 12 undertake an approved project to develop and (Outbound Exchange) enhance learning associated with the coursework Equivalents MGB210 Campus EXCHANGE and External elements of human resource management. Credit Points 12 External Availabilities Campus EXCHANGE and External - XCH-1, XCH-2 External Availabilities MGN510 HRM Project 2 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 MGX324 Managing Business Campus Gardens Point Growth (Outbound Exchange) Gardens Point Availabilities MGX220 Human Resource Equivalents MGB324 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Decision Making (Outbound Credit Points 12 This unit provides the opportunity for students to undertake an approved project to develop and Exchange) Campus EXCHANGE and External enhance learning associated with the coursework External Equivalents MGB220 Availabilities elements of human resource management. - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus EXCHANGE and External External Availabilities MGN534 Contemporary Issues - XCH-1, XCH-2 MGX331 Learning and in Entrepreneurship Development in Organisations Anti-requisites MGN428 (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents GSN234 MGX223 Entrepreneurship and Equivalents MGB331 Credit Points 12 Innovation (Outbound Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Exchange) Campus EXCHANGE and External Gardens Point Availabilities External - SEM-1 Equivalents MGB223 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 The unit introduces the students to the field of entrepreneurship research and the problems, theories Campus EXCHANGE and External and methods that are prevalent in (empirical) External Availabilities research on entrepreneurship. Students learn to - XCH-1, XCH-2 MGX335 Project Management "know the field" including its historical development; its "infrastructure" of journals, conferences and (Outbound Exchange) research centres, and its contemporary research (MGB210 and MGB309) or Pre-requisites questions and approaches. The students will develop (MGB210 and AMB303) an ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of
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Anti-requisites KXB202 External Availabilities tests, introduction to Markov chains. Equivalents MGB335 - XCH-1, XCH-2 Credit Points 12 Campus External MXB102 Abstract Mathematical External MGX446 Business in Australia Availabilities Reasoning - XCH-2 (Outbound Exchange) Equivalents MAB461 Equivalents MGN446 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point MGX339 Performance and Campus EXCHANGE and External Gardens Point Availabilities External - SEM-1 Reward (Outbound Exchange) Availabilities Equivalents MGB339 - XCH-1, XCH-2 This unit establishes the foundations of abstract mathematical reasoning. It introduces the view of Credit Points 12 mathematics as axiomatic and emphasizes the role of Campus EXCHANGE and External proof in mathematics. The unit explains foundational External MGX447 Managing in a tools such as logic and sets to develop number Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 systems, elementary number theory, and algebra. Globalised Economy The importance of these techniques is demonstrated (Outbound Exchange) with applications in algorithmic analysis and public Equivalents MGN447 key cryptography. The tools established in this unit will serve as a foundation throughout your MGX340 International Business Credit Points 12 mathematics studies. in the Asia-Pacific (Outbound Campus EXCHANGE and External External Exchange) Availabilities Equivalents MGB340 - XCH-1, XCH-2 MXB103 Introductory Credit Points 12 Computational Mathematics Campus EXCHANGE and External Equivalents MAB220 External MGX448 Negotiating Across Credit Points 12 Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Borders (Outbound Exchange) Campus Gardens Point Equivalents MGN448 Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 MGX341 Operational Risk Campus EXCHANGE and External This unit develops your knowledge, skills and External application of computational methods and techniques Management (Outbound Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 for solving real world problems using computers. The Exchange) units focuses on both theoretical development of Pre-requisites MGB309 computational methods and their pratical implementation using the world-leading computational Anti-requisites IBB306 software MATLAB. The fundamental skills you aquire Credit Points 12 MXB100 Introductory Calculus will be essential throughout your degree. More advanced study is this area is provided in the Applied Campus EXCHANGE and External and Algebra Anti-requisites MAB125,MZB125 and Computational Mathematics major. External Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Equivalents MAB100,MAB120,MAB180 Credit Points 12 MXB104 Symmetry, Chaos and Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Fractals MGX370 Personal and Availabilities - SEM-1 MXB103 or MAB220. MXB103 can Professional Development Pre-requisites be studied in the same teaching This unit extends high school calculus as well as period as MXB104 (Outbound Exchange) introducing concepts and skills in matrices, vectors Equivalents MGB370 and complex numbers. This unit addresses the need Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 of some students for additional preparation in their Campus Gardens Point transition from high school to university, particularly Gardens Point Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities those who have not studied Queensland Senior - SEM-1 External Mathematics C or equivalent. Students completing the Availabilities - XCH-1, XCH-2 Bachelor of Mathematics may choose to study this This unit introduces advanced topics to first year unit as an "Option unit" only. mathematics students. The emphasis is on discovering the beauty and wonder of mathematics without high level calculus. Discrete dynamical systems are used to illustrate key features of MGX444 Business in Asia MXB101 Probability and mathematical modelling and to unlock the mysteries (Outbound Exchange) Stochastic Modelling 1 of chaos and fractals. Complexity and pattern Equivalents MGN444 formation will be explored with the use of the Equivalents MAB210 mathematical programming language Matlab. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Students may choose to study this unit as an "Option Campus EXCHANGE and External unit" in the Bachelor of Mathematics. Campus Gardens Point External Availabilities Gardens Point - XCH-1, XCH-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 MXB105 Calculus of One and This unit provides you with an introduction to probability and shows you how to apply its concepts Two Variables to solve practical problems. The unit will lay the MAB111, MAB121, MAB131, MGX445 Business in Europe Equivalents foundations for further studies in statistics, operations MAB182 (Outbound Exchange) research and other areas of mathematics and help Credit Points 12 Equivalents MGN445 you to develop your problem-solving and modelling skills. The topics covered include: basic probability Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 rules, conditional probability and independence, Gardens Point Campus EXCHANGE and External Availabilities discrete and continuous random variables, bivariate - SEM-2 distributions, central limit theorem, goodness-of-fit
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This unit introduces you to university level single Credit Points 12 variable calculus and simple multivariable calculus, Campus Gardens Point building on prior assumed knowledge equivalent to Gardens Point high school differential and integral calculus. Topics MXB201 Advanced Linear Availabilities include continuity and differentiability of functions, Algebra - SEM-2 differential calculus (single and multi variable), Taylor (MXB102 or MAB461) and This unit combines and extends your knowledge and series, integral calculus (single and multi variable). Pre-requisites (MXB106 or MAB112 or MAB122) skills acquired in introductory computational Multivariable and vector-valued functions are mathematics and earlier studies in linear algebra. The introduced and explored and natural extensions of the Equivalents MAB312 focus is on deriving, solving and analysing structured concepts of differentiation and integration to such Credit Points 12 linear systems of equations, such as those that arise functions are developed and investigated. This unit from the discretisation of boundary value problems in Campus Gardens Point builds fundamental skills for you to transition to one and two spatial dimensions. Algorithms and data second year units and the majors, including Gardens Point Availabilities structures that facilitate the efficient solution of such applications of interest in each Major area of study. - SEM-1 systems are developed and implemented in MATLAB. This unit develops your computational skills to the The main aim of this unit, which is intended for level required for the final semester capstone project. students majoring in mathematics and students in MXB106 Linear Algebra and other courses who require the foundations of linear algebra, is to develop the theory of linear algebra and Differential Equations to provide you with the necessary skills to apply this MXB231 Financial Mathematics Anti-requisites PVB202 theory in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It seeks to foster an appreciation of the Equivalents MAB112, MAB122, MAB132 1 historical development and the value of the principles Equivalents MAB313 Credit Points 12 and methods presented. You will also be well Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point prepared for later studies in computational mathematics. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit introduces you to university level linear algebra and ordinary differential equations. Linear MXB202 Advanced Calculus Finance is an area in which mathematics is heavily algebra, assumed knowledge for this unit, is extended (MXB105 or MAB111 or MAB121) utilised. Understanding the fundamental principles with you investigating non-square linear systems of Pre-requisites and (MXB106 or MAB112 or involved will provide an essential tool for those who equations and the Eigenvalue problem. Differential MAB122) intend to pursue further studies or careers in the financial area. The finance sector, which includes equations, also assumed knowledge for the unit, are Equivalents MAB311 investigated in more detail including exposure to banks, insurance companies and investment houses, second order equations. This unit builds fundamental Credit Points 12 is currently a growing area of employment for skills for you to transition to second year units and the Campus Gardens Point graduates with a financial mathematics background. Majors of the Bachelor of Mathematics, including The aim of this undergraduate unit is therefore to Gardens Point applications of interest in each major area of study. Availabilities provide you with an introduction to the methods used - SEM-2 in obtaining relevant solutions to financial and Studying this unit will allow you to develop further the business problems. In this unit, you will apply tools ideas and techniques that were studied in first year from calculus and algebra in financial contexts. Topics MXB107 Statistical Models for calculus. Advanced calculus allows you to consider covered include: Compound, nominal and effective Data: Relationships and Effects more realistic applied mathematics problems that are interest rates; valuation of immediate annuities and set in the context of our multivariable world. The unit their applications; valuation of money and fixed Credit Points 12 prepares you for later studies in applied and interest market securities; project evaluation using Campus Gardens Point computational mathematics such as partial differential quantitative techniques in economics and finance. equations, transport theory and fluid dynamics. This Gardens Point Availabilities unit covers topics including multivariable functions - SEM-2 and coordinate systems, vector-valued functions, Describing and understanding relationships in data is differential and integral calculus of multivariable MXB232 Operations Research 1 important in both scientific exploration and functions, and related applications. Pre-requisites MXB101 and MXB106 understanding. Building on methodology from prior Equivalents MAB315 studies in probability and stochastic modelling, this unit focuses on the statistical modelling of data with Credit Points 12 an emphasis on relationships and effects for purposes MXB221 Ordinary Differential Campus Gardens Point of statistical inference, prediction and validation. Gardens Point Attention is also given to the challenges that Equations Availabilities - SEM-2 analysing real-world datasets pose with alternative Pre-requisites MXB105 statistical techniques which yield the valid inference. Equivalents MAB413 Operations research (OR) techniques are used in This unit provides an introduction to some of the industries that apply scientific methods in decision Credit Points 12 advanced material covered in the latter parts of the making, especially for the allocation of limited Statistical Science major. Campus Gardens Point resources. These industries need graduates who can Gardens Point apply techniques from mathematical modelling, Availabilities - SEM-1 statistical analysis, and mathematical optimization to decide how to best solve a particular problem using MXB161 Computational Differential Equations are essential tools for appropriate computer software packages. Building on Explorations developing real world mathematical models. This unit earlier studies in mathematical modelling, this unit extends the knowledge and skills related to differential develops a number of basic OR techniques to solve Credit Points 12 equations that you have already acquired in generic problems and studies the theoretical Campus Gardens Point introductory calculus, differential equations and linear foundations of these techniques. You will learn to algebra. You will develop the ability to model real apply various OR methods, algorithms and Gardens Point Availabilities world phenomena using ordinary differential techniques in the solution of practical, real-world - SEM-2 equations. You will also acquire a wide range of problems. This unit leads to study of more advanced This unit provides you with a practical understanding methods and techniques for solving these equations, OR problem solving techniques in 3rd year. Topics of computer-based solutions to scientific problems and interpreting the results. This unit also provides a covered include: The general nature of OR, from a wide range of interdisciplinary application framework for studying partial differential equations in fundamentals of linear programming, network areas. You will have the opportunity to develop later years. analysis, project scheduling, transportation problems, computing and visualisation skills and apply these to transhipment problems and assignment problems. solve real problems involving topics such as image and sound processing, fractals and random walk simulations. These skills are developed further in later MXB222 Computational Linear semesters, where there are opportunities to study Algebra MXB262 (Visualising Data), MXB362 (Advanced Pre-requisites MXB103 and MXB201 Visualisation and Data Science), and MXB261 (Modelling and Simulation Science). Equivalents MAB420
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to number systems, algebra and calculus, including a MXB241 Probability and range of additional function types. The development Stochastic Modelling 2 MXB261 Modelling and of these concepts is done in context through their Pre-requisites MXB101 and MXB105 application to a range of life-related problems, in Simulation Science particular the physical world. Throughout the unit, Equivalents MAB314 technology will play a prominent role in developing Equivalents INB360, MAB480 Credit Points 12 conceptual understanding and the solution of Credit Points 12 problems. The knowledge developed in this unit Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point provides a foundation for the units MZB201 and Gardens Point MZB202. Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-2 It is important to develop skills and knowledge in both statistics and mathematics. Building on the This unit aims to provide you with the knowledge to MZB102 Trigonometry, methodology and skills developed in previous studies apply computational techniques used for simulations in probability and stochastic modelling, this unit (and visualisation) in a selection of application areas Geometry and Space where the scientific problems are characterised by provides formal statistical tools such as stochastic Credit Points 12 process models and statistical methods for theoretical widely varying scales, both in space and time. and applied development in a wide range of areas, Through this study you will be able to demonstrate Campus Kelvin Grove from communication systems and networks to traffic knowledge of the development and implementation of Kelvin Grove Availabilities to law to biology to financial analysis linking with other simulation algorithms. You can further develop your - SEM-2 modern areas of mathematics. The skills developed in knowledge of visualisation through units MXB262 This unit develops the learner's understanding of mathematical statistics will be integral in the (Visualising Data) and MXB362 (Advanced space, geometry and trigonometry. The development understanding of material throughout the student's Visualisation and Data Science), as well as extending of these concepts is done in context through their studies in statistics and mathematical modelling. your knowledge of computational science through the unit MXB361 (Aspects of Computational Science). application to a range of life-related problems, in particular those from the physical world. Throughout the unit, technology will play a prominent role in MXB242 Regression and developing conceptual understanding and the solution MXB262 Visualising Data of problems. The knowledge developed in this unit will Design Pre-requisites MXB161 or MXB261 or MZB126 be further extended and applied in MZB202. Pre-requisites MXB107 Equivalents MAB481 Equivalents MAB414 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 MZB125 Introductory Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Engineering Mathematics Gardens Point Availabilities Anti-requisites MXB100 Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 This unit introduces students to data visualisation Equivalents MAB125, MAB100, MAB120 This unit is intended for students who have completed concepts and techniques, along with practical Credit Points 12 foundation studies in statistics and who wish to experience in the use of modern day data Campus Gardens Point develop further skills in applied information analysis. visualisation software tools to allow students to Its exploration of regression, including consideration Gardens Point explore complex systems and dynamically visualise Availabilities of covariates, model selection, sampling theory and simulations. These skills can developed further in a - SEM-1, SEM-2 experimental design will be of interest to students later semester through an advanced visualisation unit This unit introduces to you the foundational undertaking the mathematics course as well as (MXB362 Advanced Visualisation and Data Science). mathematical concepts of function, matrix and vector students in other disciplines who need to algebra, together with the operations of differentiation quantitatively summarise and analyse data and/or and integration. Through the exploration and solution collect data through controlled experiments. The of contextualised problems you will develop an focus is on the application of the theoretical building MXB361 Aspects of understanding of these mathematical concepts as blocks that are constructed as part of the unit and this well as competency in appropriate solution methods. is enhanced by the introduction to and extensive use Computational Science of mathematical and statistical software packages Credit Points 12 such as the R-package. The unit leads to further Campus Gardens Point study for students who wish to obtain a strong Gardens Point MZB126 Engineering background in applied information analysis. Availabilities - SEM-1 Computation This unit comprises a number of computational Credit Points 12 science modules from a variety of disciplines within Campus Gardens Point MXB251 Number Theory and the Science and Engineering Faculty. It allows Gardens Point Abstract Algebra students to develop computational techniques applied Availabilities to a selection of application areas such as - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites MXB102 computational statistics, computational chemistry, The rational solution of real-world engineering Credit Points 12 computational physics, computational biology, problems often requires the combination of multiple Campus Gardens Point environmental science and machine-learning. This skill sets across multiple disciplines. In this unit you unit further develops your skills in computational Gardens Point will develop key skills in mathematics, statistics, Availabilities problem-solving, building on work that may have been - SEM-2 modelling and programming that will equip you with a previously undertaken in MXB161 "Computational set of fundamental tools for problem solving in the Number theory is one of the oldest areas of Explorations", MXB261 "Modelling and Simulation engineering context. mathematics and remains among its most important. Science", and MXB262 "Visualising Data". Not only does number theory underlie most further study in pure mathematics, it has in recent years become an essential tool for securing and modelling MZB101 Modelling with MZB151 Mathematical Tools for communication in our digital world. As the Computing understanding of number theory advanced over the Introductory Calculus centuries, many of its ideas were abstracted into Anti-requisites MXB100, MZB101 Equivalents MAB105 various types of algebraic structures that have Credit Points 12 surprising applications throughout mathematics, Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point physics, and computer sciences. This unit will Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove investigate advanced ideas, methodologies, and Gardens Point Availabilities techniques in number theory and algebra and apply Gardens Point - SEM-2 these ideas to information security via cryptography. - SEM-1 Availabilities Many application areas within Computer Science use This unit will build upon the algebra content and proof Kelvin Grove standard mathematical methods as tools for analysis skills from earlier studies in abstract mathematical - SEM-1 and processing of information. This unit provides an reasoning and can lead to future study in other areas This unit develops the learner's understanding of a introduction to some basic mathematical methods that of discrete mathematics and cryptography. range of foundational mathematical concepts related will be useful to you in your further studies in
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Computer Science, including basic matrix and vector communication skills, professional responsibility and operations, introductory probability and statistics and ethical conduct, and conduct of scientific research.(60 basic concepts in differentiation and integration. credit points achieved at completion of NRB720-1, NRB720 Project NRB720-2, NRB720-3, NRB720-4 and NRB720-5.) Credit Points 12 MZB190 Mathematics for Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities NRB730 Research Methods and Exercise Science - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Strategies Independent research is fundamental to science and Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove the research project represents a major component of Kelvin Grove the Honours program. The unit provides the Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 opportunity for students to identify and solve scientific Gardens Point Availabilities problems logically and creatively. Students are - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit is intended to cater for the quantitative skills required to relate the project work to published work and mathematics needs of students undertaking in the field of study. Project aims to foster enhanced The unit consists of advanced research discussion studies in Exercise and Movement Science and in observational skills, relevant practical skills, lateral and proposal writing. This coursework forms an Clinical Exercise Physiology. It is intended to provide thinking and problem solving, literacy and important component in the development of the mathematical concepts and quantitative skills needed communication skills, professional responsibility and research training of the student from the aspects of for successful study of those courses. The aim of this ethical conduct, and conduct of scientific research. data acquisition, organisation, planning, and unit is to develop your mathematical skills in and (60 credit points achieved at completion of NRB720-1, implementation. The aim of the unit is to enable the understanding of algebra, functions and graphing, NRB720-2, NRB720-3, NRB720-4 and NRB720-5.) student to develop and improve research abilities and some data analysis and to interpret and solve simple, skills, and to focus their efforts towards their research real world problems using these skills. projects. Such skills are in organisation, but also in locating, identifying and integrating the required NRB720 Project background data and other information for the Credit Points 12 particular study. Specific problems are discussed in MZB201 Modelling with detail to help develop critical thinking via a problem Statistics and Probability Campus Gardens Point solving approach to research issues. Assessment is Gardens Point based on a written research proposal, which includes Pre-requisites MZB101 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 a comprehensive literature review and on an oral Credit Points 12 presentation of that proposal. (24 credit points Independent research is fundamental to science and achieved at completion of NRB730-1 and NRB730-2.) Campus Gardens Point the research project represents a major component of Gardens Point the Honours program. The unit provides the Availabilities - SEM-2 opportunity for students to identify and solve scientific problems logically and creatively. Students are NRB730 Research Methods and This unit develops the learner's understanding of a required to relate the project work to published work range of mathematical concepts related to probability in the field of study. Project aims to foster enhanced Strategies and statistics. The development of these concepts is observational skills, relevant practical skills, lateral Credit Points 12 done in context through their application to a range of thinking and problem solving, literacy and Campus Gardens Point life-related problems. Throughout the unit, technology communication skills, professional responsibility and will play a prominent role in developing conceptual Gardens Point ethical conduct, and conduct of scientific research.(60 Availabilities understanding and the solution of problems. credit points achieved at completion of NRB720-1, - SEM-1, SEM-2 NRB720-2, NRB720-3, NRB720-4 and NRB720-5.) The unit consists of advanced research discussion and proposal writing. This coursework forms an MZB202 Extending important component in the development of the research training of the student from the aspects of Mathematics to the Real World NRB720 Project data acquisition, organisation, planning, and Pre-requisites MZB101 Credit Points 12 implementation. The aim of the unit is to enable the student to develop and improve research abilities and Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point skills, and to focus their efforts towards their research Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities projects. Such skills are in organisation, but also in - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point locating, identifying and integrating the required Availabilities - SEM-2 Independent research is fundamental to science and background data and other information for the the research project represents a major component of particular study. Specific problems are discussed in This unit extends learner's understanding of the Honours program. The unit provides the detail to help develop critical thinking via a problem mathematical concepts through their application to a opportunity for students to identify and solve scientific solving approach to research issues. Assessment is range of more complex problems. Throughout the problems logically and creatively. Students are based on a written research proposal, which includes unit, technology will play a prominent role in required to relate the project work to published work a comprehensive literature review and on an oral developing conceptual understanding and the solution in the field of study. Project aims to foster enhanced presentation of that proposal. (24 credit points of problems. observational skills, relevant practical skills, lateral achieved at completion of NRB730-1 and NRB730-2.) thinking and problem solving, literacy and communication skills, professional responsibility and ethical conduct, and conduct of scientific research.(60 NRB720 Project credit points achieved at completion of NRB720-1, NRB735 Advanced Studies in Credit Points 12 NRB720-2, NRB720-3, NRB720-4 and NRB720-5.) Resource Sciences Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 NRB720 Project Gardens Point Availabilities Independent research is fundamental to science and Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 the research project represents a major component of Campus Gardens Point the Honours program. The unit provides the The aim of the unit is to provide an in-depth Gardens Point examination of a global topic, or synthesis of a subject opportunity for students to identify and solve scientific Availabilities problems logically and creatively. Students are - SEM-1, SEM-2 so that the student develops a broad perspective of major issues facing all researchers, regardless of required to relate the project work to published work Independent research is fundamental to science and major, in biogeosciences. Important in this unit is the in the field of study. Project aims to foster enhanced the research project represents a major component of development of an inquiring approach and analytical observational skills, relevant practical skills, lateral the Honours program. The unit provides the thought and skills at an advanced level. thinking and problem solving, literacy and opportunity for students to identify and solve scientific communication skills, professional responsibility and problems logically and creatively. Students are ethical conduct, and conduct of scientific research. required to relate the project work to published work (60 credit points achieved at completion of NRB720-1, in the field of study. Project aims to foster enhanced NRB720-2, NRB720-3, NRB720-4 and NRB720-5.) observational skills, relevant practical skills, lateral thinking and problem solving, literacy and
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that will assist you to develop knowledge, skills and NRN100 Readings in Natural attributes required for safe, competent practice in the Resource Sciences 1 NRN104 Advanced Topics in health workplace as a beginning level registered Credit Points 12 nurse. Learning outcomes from this unit form a Natural Resource Sciences 1 foundation that will be successively built upon as you Campus Gardens Point and External progress though the course. Credit Points 12 Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Availabilities External Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 NSB012 Clinical Practice 2 NSB011 and (NSB021 or NSB118 This unit includes a review of literature in an area of Students develop an advanced understanding of a or PUB280 or CSB332). (NSB021 direct relevance to the research project. The review Pre-requisites topic in the natural resource sciences that is highly or CSB332) can be studied in the should be designed in conjunction with the supervisor relevant to the general area of their proposed same teaching period as NSB012 and demonstrate a broad appreciation of the research project. The structure and content is variable literature, a critical appraisal of research to date, and and can be tailored to the specific requirement of Anti-requisites NSB010 the relevance of the research project within the each project and the background of the student. A Equivalents NSB122 framework of current understanding. Reviews should formal outline of the unit including objectives, content Credit Points 12 normally be approximately 5000 words. and assessment relevant to the individual course of study will be developed by the supervisor and Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove approved by the Head of School. Content may include Caboolture active participation in tutorials, workshops, - SEM-2 NRN101 Readings in Natural Availabilities laboratory/field techniques and components of Kelvin Grove Resource Sciences 2 advanced level undergraduate units. If components of - SEM-2 advanced level undergraduate units are included, Credit Points 12 they should not exceed 70% of the total assessment. This is the second in a series of six clinical practice Campus Gardens Point units that will assist you to develop knowledge, skills and attributes required for safe, competent practice in Gardens Point Availabilities the health workplace as a beginning level registered - SEM-1, SEM-2 NRN105 Advanced Topics in nurse. Learning outcomes of this unit form a This is a companion unit to NRN100 that allows foundation that will be successively built upon as you students to (a) prepare a review of a second area Natural Resource Sciences 2 progress though the course. This is a designated unit. relevant to the research project or (b) consider a Credit Points 12 Designated units include professional experience wider subject area in greater depth. If option (b) is Campus Gardens Point units, units requiring the development of particular chosen, a single review can qualify as total skills, and units requiring the demonstration of certain Gardens Point assessment for both NRN100 and NRN101. In this Availabilities personal qualities, and are deemed to be critical to case, the review should be approximately 10,000 - SEM-1, SEM-2 progress in your course. Failure to successfully words and be a critical analysis of a substantial Material presented in this unit must be distinct from complete the requirements of this unit may lead to a research area. that covered in NRN104. Students develop an period of probation or exclusion from this course. advanced understanding of a topic in the natural resource sciences relevant to the area of their proposed research project. A formal outline of the unit NRN102 Confirmation of outlining objectives, content and assessment relevant NSB013 Clinical Practice 3 Candidature Seminar to the individual course of study will be developed by (NSB012 or NSB122) or NSB010. the supervisor and approved by the Head of School. Pre-requisites NSB010 can be enrolled in the Credit Points 12 Content may include active participation in tutorials, same study period as NSB013 Campus Gardens Point and External workshops and laboratory/field techniques and Equivalents NSB212 components of advanced level undergraduate units. If Gardens Point Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2 components of advanced level undergraduate units Availabilities External are included, they should not exceed 70% of the total Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove assessment. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Caboolture - SEM-1 This unit includes a public seminar plus an extensive Availabilities discussion period designed to provide positive Kelvin Grove feedback from staff and students on the proposed NSB010 Introduction to Clinical - SEM-1 research project. The presentation should be Practice This is the third in a series of six clinical practice units designed in conjunction with the supervisor and that will assist you to further develop knowledge, skills include background to the project area, specific Credit Points 12 and attributes required for safe, competent practice in objectives of the proposed project, methodology to be Campus Kelvin Grove the health workplace as a beginning level registered followed and possible outcomes. The seminar should nurse. Learning outcomes of this unit support your Kelvin Grove normally be presented after the project outline has Availabilities ongoing development of nursing attributes as you - SEM-1, SEM-2 been developed and before any significant amount of progress through the course. This is a designated research has been undertaken. This is the first clinical unit in the graduate entry unit. Designated units include professional experience program (NS40) and serves as the basis for a series units, units requiring the development of particular of clinical units that will assist you to develop skills, and units requiring the demonstration of certain knowledge, skills and attributes required for safe, personal qualities, and are deemed to be critical to NRN103 Final Seminar competent practice in the health workplace as a progress in your course. Failure to successfully Pre-requisites NRN102 beginning level registered nurse. Learning outcomes complete the requirements of this unit may lead to a Credit Points 12 from this unit form a foundation that will be period of probation or exclusion from this course. successively built upon as you progress though the Campus Gardens Point and External course. Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 NSB014 Clinical Practice 4 Availabilities External (NSB013 or NSB212) and (LSB182 Pre-requisites - SEM-1, SEM-2 NSB011 Clinical Practice 1 or LSB111) Anti-requisites NSB010 This unit includes a public seminar plus an extensive Equivalents NSB222 discussion period designed to provide positive Equivalents NSB225 Credit Points 12 feedback from staff and students on the progress of Credit Points 12 the research project. The presentation should be Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove designed in conjunction with the supervisor and Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Caboolture include project objectives, progress to date, Caboolture - SEM-2 Availabilities preliminary data and problems for discussion. The - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities seminar should normally be presented within 12 Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 months (full-time) or 24 months (part-time) of - SEM-1, SEM-2 This is the fourth in a series of six clinical practice commencement of the postgraduate program. This is the first in a series of six clinical practice units units that will assist you to develop knowledge, skills
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units and attributes required for safe, competent practice in The culture of our health care system is based on the and attributes expected of professional practice as a the health workplace as a beginning level registered western scientific world view of the dominant Anglo- registered nurse. Learning outcomes of this unit will nurse. Learning outcomes of this unit build on your Australian culture. An understanding of the impact of be applied throughout your studies in this final year of past clinical experiences and inform your future culture on all of us is essential to the provision of the course. development and progression though the course. This culturally safe nursing care across all practice is a designated unit. Designated units include settings. Australia is a culturally diverse nation and professional experience units, units requiring the respecting and valuing diversity is an essential aspect development of particular skills, and units requiring of living and working here as is knowledge about the NSB021 Nursing Practice in the demonstration of certain personal qualities, and historical and socio-political issues that influence the Context 1 are deemed to be critical to progress in your course. health and wellness of Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Failure to successfully complete the requirements of Islanders and other Australians. To be effective health Anti-requisites NSB118 this unit may lead to a period of probation or exclusion care providers, nurses need knowledge, skills and Credit Points 12 from this course. values which enable them to provide person- Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove centered, holistic nursing care to clients from all backgrounds and lifestyles. The conceptual and Caboolture - SEM-2 critical frameworks developed in this unit carry over Availabilities NSB015 Clinical Practice 5 into the learning you do throughout your program of Kelvin Grove (NSB014 or NSB222) and (LSB282 study. - SEM-2 Pre-requisites or LSB382 or LSB111) This unit is the first in a series of six, Nursing Practice Equivalents NSB322 in Context, units. This suite of units introduces you to health, wellness and illness and the contexts where Credit Points 12 NSB018 Professional Studies 1: these occur and are promoted or treated. Considering Campus Kelvin Grove and Caboolture Introduction to the Profession global and social impacts on health, and Australian Kelvin Grove of Nursing national health priorities, this suite of units examines - SEM-1, SUM common disease processes, health assessments, Availabilities Equivalents NSB117 Caboolture nursing interventions, along with health promotion and - SEM-1, SUM Credit Points 12 nursing therapeutics. Nursing Practice in Context 1 focuses on developing your understanding of a core This is the fifth unit in the series of clinical practice Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove professional attribute; clinical judgement, and units that provide you with the opportunity to Caboolture beginning your learning journey of understanding the consolidate the knowledge, skills and attributes - SEM-1 nurse's role in healthcare. This unit focuses on Availabilities required for safe, competent practice in the health Kelvin Grove activities of daily living, contexts of practice in caring workplace as a beginning level registered nurse. - SEM-1 for people across the lifespan and collecting and Learning outcomes of this unit build on previous documenting health information. This will facilitate This is the first in a series of three Professional clinical units and draw upon concepts, principles and your acquisition of the required knowledge and skills Studies units that will enable you to develop theories that have been developed through your to deliver sound, holistic nursing care in a multitude of knowledge, skills and attributes expected of studies in nursing and related sciences. Learning clinical settings. outcomes in this unit contributes to your transition into professional practice as a registered nurse. Learning the registered nurse role. outcomes of this unit form a foundation that will be successively built upon as you progress though the course. NSB022 Nursing Practice in NSB016 Clinical Practice Context 2 Capstone NSB019 Professional Studies 2: Equivalents NSB324 Credit Points 12 (Completion of 168cp of Nursing Units (NS%) inc NSB015 and Research, Evidence and Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Completion of 48cp of Life Sc units Nursing Practice Caboolture (LS%) and Completion of LWS101) (NSB018 or NSB117) and (NSB118 - SEM-1 Pre-requisites Availabilities or (PYB304 for HL47 students) or NSB021) or PUB251 Kelvin Grove Equivalents NSB333 Equivalents NSB224 - SEM-1 Credit Points 24 Credit Points 12 This unit is the second in a series of six, Nursing Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Practice in Context, units. This suite of units develops Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove your knowledge of health, wellness and illness and Caboolture Caboolture the contexts where these occur and are promoted or - SEM-2 - SEM-1 treated. Nursing Practice in Context 2 focuses on Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove continuing the development of your understanding of - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1 a core professional attribute; clinical judgement, and furthering your learning journey through knowledge This is the final unit in the series of clinical practice This is the second in a series of three Professional related to the patient journey, primary health care, units that provide you with the opportunity to Studies units that will assist you to develop chronic disease and acute care settings and also consolidate the knowledge, skills and attributes knowledge, skills and attributes expected of cardiovascular and respiratory health. This will required for safe, competent practice in the health professional practice as a registered nurse. Learning facilitate your acquisition of the required knowledge workplace as a beginning level registered nurse. outcomes of this unit will be built upon as you and skills to deliver sound, holistic nursing care in a Learning outcomes of this unit build on previous progress though the course. clinical units and draw upon concepts, principles and multitude of clinical settings. theories that have been developed through your studies in nursing and related sciences. This capstone unit informs your transition toward the NSB020 Professional Studies 3: registered nurse role. NSB023 Nursing Practice in Transitioning to RN Practice Context 3 ((NSB018 or NSB117) and Pre-requisites NSB021 or NSB118 or NSB022 (NSB019 or NSB224)) or (PYB110 Pre-requisites NSB017 Diversity and Health: or PYB210 or PUB384 or PUB461 Equivalents NSB223 Cultural Safety, Indigenous or PUB561) Credit Points 12 Perspectives Equivalents NSB321 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Equivalents NSB113 Caboolture - SEM-2 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Caboolture Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1 Availabilities Caboolture Kelvin Grove This unit is the third in a series of six, Nursing - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Practice in Context, units. This suite of units Kelvin Grove introduces you to health, wellness and illness and the This is the third in a series of Professional Studies - SEM-1 contexts where these occur and are promoted or units that will assist you to develop knowledge, skills
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units treated. Nursing Practice in Context 3 focuses on the Caboolture - SEM-2 continuing the developments of your understanding of Availabilities a core professional attribute; clinical judgement, and Kelvin Grove furthering your learning journey through knowledge - SEM-1, SEM-2 NSB603 Introduction to related to a key national health priority, mental health. This unit is the final in a series of six, Nursing Practice Cardiothoracic Nursing This will facilitate your acquisition of the required in Context, units. This suite of units develops your Pre-requisites NSB500 or NSB025 knowledge and skills to deliver sound, holistic nursing understanding of health, wellness and illness and the Credit Points 12 care of clients with mental health issues in a multitude contexts where these occur and are promoted or of clinical settings. treated. The Nursing Practice Capstone unit informs Campus Kelvin Grove your transition toward the beginning registered nurse Kelvin Grove Availabilities role through focussing on the integration of - SEM-2 knowledge and skills that you have acquired NSB024 Nursing Practice in throughout your studies. This will facilitate the Cardiovascular disorders are commonly encountered Context 4 consolidation of knowledge and skills required for the by nurses practicing a variety of clinical settings. This unit provides an overview of cardiothoracic nursing Pre-requisites NSB021 or NSB118 or NSB022 delivery of safe, competent, holistic nursing care in a variety of clinical settings. and encompasses theoretical concepts specific to this Equivalents NSB423 specialty as well as related clinical skills. It builds on Credit Points 12 introductory concepts that have been addressed earlier in the program through more detailed Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove NSB412 Clinical Elective exploration of and reflection upon selected concepts. Caboolture Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Availabilities Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Kelvin Grove NSB604 Nursing Practice and Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-1, SEM-1, SEM-2, This unit is the fourth in a series of six, Nursing the Older Person SEM-2, SEM-2 Practice in Context, units. This suite of units Pre-requisites NSB225 or NSB011 introduces you to health, wellness and illness and the This unit aims to enhance final year students' ability to Credit Points 12 contexts where these occur and are promoted or practice competently in a range of clinical situations. treated. Nursing Practice in Context 4 focuses on Students are provided with the opportunity to Campus Kelvin Grove continuing the development of your understanding of consolidate and extend their knowledge and skills by Kelvin Grove Availabilities a core professional attribute; clinical judgement, and undertaking a series of self-directed, problem-based - SEM-1 furthering your learning journey through knowledge learning packages.The areas covered in the unit are related to endocrine, gastrointestinal, genitourinary advanced life support, respiratory therapies, health Nurses have an important role in promoting, and musculoskeletal health. This will facilitate your promotion, pain management, epidural analyesia and maintaining and restoring the health of older people acquisition of knowledge and skills to deliver sound, advanced wound care management. A variety of and their families across a diversity of settings. holistic nursing care in a multitude of clinical settings. teaching-learning strategies will be used which Students will be encouraged to examine the include case scenarios, small group unilabs, independent role of the nurse and their role as a computer-based and other related activities. member of multidisciplinary teams. The unit focuses on the role of the nurse in assessing and identifying NSB025 Nursing Practice in problems relevant to older people and making clinical decisions about care practices and outcomes. This Context 5 NSB600 Introduction to Nursing unit will extend the understandings that you have ((NSB021 or NSB118) and Pre-requisites developed in other theoretical studies and (NSB022 or NSB324)) or (CSB342) Children and Childbearing experiences in clinical practice. Equivalents NSB500 Families Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External NSB606 Palliative Care Nursing Caboolture Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 - SEM-1 (Block) Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities Kelvin Grove External Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit is the fifth in a series of six, Nursing Practice This unit provides an overview of the theoretical The health and support needs of individuals who are in Context, units. This suite of units introduces you to concepts and clinical application principles for dying are diverse and often change over time. To health, wellness and illness and the contexts where practice in the areas in providing nursing and respond effectively to these needs, nurses require these occur and are promoted or treated. Nursing midwifery care for children and childbearing families. knowledge and skills to provide a palliative approach Practice in Context 5 focuses on continuing the The emphasis is upon the childbearing process and to care. In this unit, you will extend your knowledge of development of your understanding of a core the developmental stages of childhood and family the needs of individuals diagnosed with various life- professional attribute; clinical judgement, and dynamics. This is viewed as a normal process of limiting illnesses. The unit will enable you to develop furthering your learning journey through knowledge growth and development, which will be affected by further your understanding of the core components of related to neurological, renal healthcare and cancer social, economic, legal and cultural factors. The focus a palliative approach to care for these individuals. and palliative care contexts. This will facilitate your will be on the promotion and maintenance of health. This unit will extend the understandings that you have acquisition of the required knowledge and skills to developed in other theoretical studies and deliver sound, holistic nursing care in a multitude of experiences in clinical practice. clinical settings. NSB602 Pain Management and Nursing Practice NSB026 Nursing Practice Credit Points 12 NSN001 Contemporary Nursing Capstone Campus Kelvin Grove and External Practice with Children and (Completion of 168cp of Nursing Kelvin Grove Families - SEM-2 (Block) Units (NS%) inc NSB015 and Availabilities Equivalents NSN006 Pre-requisites Completion of 48cp of Life Sc units External Credit Points 12 (LS%) and Completion of LWS101) - SEM-2 or (Completion of CSB342) Making decisions about patient's pain and its Campus Kelvin Grove and External Equivalents NSB503 management is a key component of nursing practice Kelvin Grove across a wide variety of patient groups and clinical - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Availabilities settings. This unit examines the concept of pain and External Campus Caboolture and Kelvin Grove explores aspects of the nurse's role in relation to pain - SEM-1 relief. It builds on introductory concepts that have been addressed earlier in the program through more This unit provides an opportunity for you to develop detailed exploration of, and reflection upon selected your specialist knowledge and skills in child and concepts. family health nursing by exploring and addressing an issue relevant to your area of practice.
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student to achieve the expected standard of formulary developed. advanced beginner practice to perform safe colonoscopy procedures. Aligned capabilities of NSN007 Advanced Chronic critical enquiry and application of evidence-based Care Nursing Practice practice to synthesise advanced knowledge are NSN424 Research, Evidence extended when applied to gastrointestinal disease Credit Points 12 Based Practice and Clinical management. This unit builds on assumed knowledge Campus Kelvin Grove and External gained from previous postgraduate studies in Inquiry Kelvin Grove gastroenterology. Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External External - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove NSN421 Assessment and - SEM-2 Availabilities This unit further develops registered nurses' capability Diagnosis in Extended Practice External to manage co-morbid chronic health conditions within - SEM-2 an effective interdisciplinary healthcare team Admission into NS86. NS32 and environment. Pre-requisites NS85 students should apply for a On successful completion of this unit you will be able waiver to critically appraise systematic reviews of evidence and design projects for the implementation of Credit Points 12 evidence into practice. Content includes evidence- NSN008 Specialisation in Campus Kelvin Grove and External based terminology, principles and processes; Chronic Care Nursing Kelvin Grove incorporating evidence into practice; comparing and - SEM-1 contrasting current practice with the most current Availabilities Credit Points 12 External evidence; modifying policies and procedures to be Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1 consistent with the evidence; use of audit results to identify areas of practice that are consistent with the Kelvin Grove This unit focuses on the scientific basis, processes evidence and those needing revision; and formulating - SEM-2 Availabilities and procedures for advanced concepts in clinical strategies for promoting the uptake of evidence-based External decision making. It covers the skills and principles of practice. - SEM-2 health assessment with specific focus on pattern recognition and diagnostics; ordering and interpreting This unit further develops registered nurses' capability laboratory tests; ordering and interpreting imaging to provide contemporary nursing interventions for investigations. The unit also explores the activities people with chronic health conditions. NSN425 Nurse Practitioner and processes for making and accepting referrals with other health professionals. Internship Credit Points 12 NSN009 Specialisation in Campus Kelvin Grove and External Caring for Children and NSN422 Pharmacology and Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Availabilities Families Therapeutics in Extended External Anti-requisites NSN004, NSN005 Nursing Practice - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Admission into NS86. NS32 and This unit provides extended, supervised and Campus Kelvin Grove and External Pre-requisites NS85 students should apply for a supported clinical practice exposure to consolidate waiver and apply coursework learning, enabling students to Kelvin Grove meet the competency and capability standards for the - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities nurse practitioner. Content is determined by the External Campus Kelvin Grove and External context of practice and the candidate's own learning - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove objectives. Students will explore the extent of This unit will develop your specialist knowledge and - SEM-1 extended clinical practice available to them in the Availabilities skills in paediatric, community child and youth health External specialty in which they are undertaking the internship. nursing. - SEM-1 Complementary to the unit objectives, and in consultation with their clinical support teams, students This unit relates to the planning and management of will develop personal learning objectives that reflect therapeutic interventions in health care with a major the knowledge and skills required in this extended NSN100 Contexts of Women's focus on pharmacology and therapeutics. The content scope of practice. includes the study of pharmacology and Health pharmacokinetics related to treatment in a wide range Credit Points 12 of diseases. This will provide the basis for expansion into in-depth knowledge of pharmacology in a Campus Kelvin Grove and External NSN425 Nurse Practitioner specialty field in the unit titled: NSN426 Advanced Kelvin Grove Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Speciality Nursing Internship - SEM-1 Pre-requisites NSN425-1 Availabilities Practice. External Co-requisites NSN428 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This unit explores a selection of sociocultural, NSN423 Nurse Practitioner Role political, geographical and clinical trends and issues Campus Kelvin Grove and External that influence women's health in Australia and Development Kelvin Grove internationally. - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities External Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove This unit continues on from NSN425-1 and provides NSN125 Clinical Endoscopy - SEM-1 Availabilities extended, supervised and supported clinical practice External Practicum 1 exposure to consolidate and apply coursework - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 learning, enabling students to meet the competency This unit equips students with the skills and and capability standards for the nurse practitioner. Campus External knowledge necessary for the development of the Content is determined by the context of practice and External Availabilities nurse practitioner role and scope of practice. Scope of the candidate's own learning objectives. Students will - SEM-2 practice refers to, and includes the extent of clinical explore the extent of extended clinical practice practice activities available to the nurse practitioner in available to them in the specialty in which they are This unit connects structured and supervised clinical their speciality field of practice. Content includes undertaking the internship. Complementary to the unit skills training and advanced theoretical knowledge to requirements and attributes in clinical leadership, objectives, and in consultation with their clinical perform colonoscopy safely within a supported influence and advocacy at all levels of health care. support teams, students will develop personal environment. Exposure and immersion for the Model development will be explored, scope of learning objectives that reflect the knowledge and acquisition of technical and psychomotor skills practice designed and clinical protocols and treatment skills required in this extended scope of practice. through supervised training in the field, scaffolds the
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Kelvin Grove NSN515 Leadership and - SEM-1 Availabilities Management in Nursing External NSN426 Advanced - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Pharmacology and Campus Kelvin Grove and External This unit provides an opportunity for you to develop Therapeutics in Speciality your specialist knowledge and skills in either Kelvin Grove emergency or intensive care nursing. The unit links to - SEM-1 Nursing Practice Availabilities learning in NSN723 Specialisation in Emergency External Credit Points 12 Nursing and NSN722 Principles of Intensive Care - SEM-1 Nursing. You will develop insight into life threatening Campus Kelvin Grove and External All health care organisations are facing important health care situations involving trauma and respiratory Kelvin Grove challenges in terms of their growing complexity and disorders requiring assisted ventilation. - SEM-2 Availabilities the ever-increasing rate of change. To survive and External thrive within this context, effective nursing leadership - SEM-2 and management is required at all levels to ensure NSN722 Principles of Intensive This unit follows on from NSN422 Pharmacology and that organisations are successful in meeting their Therapeutics in Extended Nursing Practice and goals and strategic objectives, and realising their Care Nursing includes development of the scope of vision for the future. Credit Points 12 pharmacological and therapeutic practice in a Campus Kelvin Grove and External student's specialty field of practice, designing and developing protocols and medication formulary. It also Kelvin Grove NSN523 Transitioning to - SEM-2 includes a focus on skills in development of treatment Availabilities plans that incorporate a creative, efficacious, patient- Advanced Practice External - SEM-2 centred and sustainable management of Students must be working as a symptom/disease states that are based on best Other registered nurse in a clinical setting This unit provides an opportunity for you to acquire evidence. requisites in Australia specialist knowledge and skills in intensive care Credit Points 12 nursing across the life span. The unit links to learning in NSN721 Key Issues in Emergency and Intensive NSN428 Transition to Nurse Campus Kelvin Grove and External Care Nursing. You will develop insight into a range of Kelvin Grove life threatening patient situations involving multiple Practitioner - SEM-2 organ dysfunction, sepsis, cardiovascular, renal and Availabilities NSN421, NSN422, NSN423, and External liver disorders. Pre-requisites NSN425-1 - SEM-2 Co-requisites NSN425-2 This unit provides an opportunity for you to build upon Credit Points 12 your specialist knowledge and skills to transition NSN723 Specialisation in towards the advanced practice nurse roles afforded Campus Kelvin Grove and External within the registered nurse scope of practice. Emergency Nursing Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Availabilities Campus External External External - SEM-2 NSN626 Contemporary Issues Availabilities - SEM-2 This unit is undertaken in the last semester of the in Dementia course to enhance the transition from the course into Credit Points 12 This unit provides an opportunity for you to develop your specialist knowledge and skills in emergency practice. Nurse practitioners must understand and Campus Kelvin Grove and External negotiate the contemporary discipline- and speciality- nursing. The unit links to NSN721 Key Issues in specific trends and issues that affect their roles. This Kelvin Grove Emergency and Intensive Care Nursing. You will - SEM-1 develop an understanding of triage, contemporary unit enables students to synthesise prior knowledge Availabilities and learning across the nurse practitioner course External management of patients across the lifespan, and through undertaking an inquiry-based project which - SEM-1 emergency presentations frequently encountered. consolidate specialist and discipline-specific This unit explores a range of the psychosocial, knowledge and apply learning to contemporary social, cultural, political, and clinical issues that are related to cultural, professional and political contexts, with a the increasing prevalence of dementia, in Australia NSN724 Specialisation in Acute view to developing a coherent overview of the and internationally. achievements, competencies and capabilities of the or Cancer Nursing nurse practitioner and prepare students for the role as Credit Points 12 clinical leader. NSN701 Advanced Health Campus Kelvin Grove and External Kelvin Grove Assessment - SEM-1 Availabilities NSN508 Thesis Preparation Credit Points 12 External Pre-requisites Completion of 48cp in NSN% units Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove This unit is designed to present a foundation of - SEM-1 theoretical and practice concepts required for Campus Kelvin Grove and External Availabilities External registered nurses to provide effective, consumer Kelvin Grove - 13TP1, SEM-1 focused nursing care within a variety of clinical - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities contexts in a range of practice settings. The unit External This unit provides an opportunity for you to develop provides a framework from which students can - SEM-1, SEM-2 your specialist knowledge and skills in advanced develop an understanding of the impact of selected health assessment. There are two streams offered in This unit provides the opportunity for students to health problems on individuals, families, and the unit, an adult focused and a paediatric stream. access and review a body of literature relevant to an communities. This will include practice concepts area of individual interest in nursing. This will enable (philosophies, evidence based practice, competencies students to extend their knowledge and and continuity of care); physiological, understanding of a topic which is not specifically NSN721 Key Issues in pathophysiological and psychosocial underpinnings of addressed elsewhere in the course. In addition, advanced speciality or generalist practice; planning of students undertaking this unit will have the Emergency and Intensive Care appropriate strategies/interventions for client care; opportunity to develop advanced skills information and development of selected technical skills. retrieval, critical analysis and writing for publication. Nursing Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External
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dimensions and retinal quality as well as the NSN726 Symptom Management psychophysical principles of vision. in Specialist Acute or Cancer OPB550 Diseases of the Eye 5 Nursing Practice Pre-requisites (CSB520 or LSB475) and OPB452 Credit Points 12 OPB352 Ocular Anatomy and Co-requisites OPB654 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Physiology 3 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites LSB250 and LSB255 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Availabilities Kelvin Grove External Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove In this unit you will advance your knowledge of Availabilities This unit provides students with a knowledge and evidence-based principles and practices appropriate - SEM-1 understanding of relevant general diseases and those to the management of common symptoms and This unit provides information on the ocular anatomy that affect the eye. It includes general disease experiences of people who require nursing and physiology that underlies the functional principles and processes, referral procedures, intervention in acute or cancer settings. measurements made in optometry and their genetics, congenital, dystrophic and degenerative eye interpretation. It includes the structure and function of disease, and the ocular manifestation of general the anterior eye and orbit. disease. [Designated Unit] NSN728 Trends and Issues in Specialty Nursing Practice OPB353 Ophthalmic Optics 3 OPB556 Assessment of Vision Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites (MAB141 or MAB233) and PCB150 5 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites OPB351 and OPB453 and PYB007 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Co-requisites OPB451 - SEM-2 Availabilities External Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit explores a selection of political, social and Ophthalmic Optics is a fundamental area of Vision Kelvin Grove Availabilities clinical trends and issues that influence specialty Science and Optometry, as a majority of problems - SEM-1 nursing practice. These trends and issues not only deal with in these fields require optical solutions. It play a key role in the way nursing care is currently provides much of the optical basis for other units in This unit addresses the theory and practice of a delivered-understanding their origin and direction will the Optometry and Vision Science course dealing with number of clinical procedures which are used in eye help you shape the future of nursing in your particular optics, and thus is placed early in the course. examination: visual acuity measurement, external and field. This unit is a core unit in NS32 Graduate internal examination of the eyes, subjective refraction, Certificate of Nursing and NS85 Master of Nursing. and tonometry. Students are also introduced to communication with patients, and the communication OPB451 Visual Science 4 principles and skills in taking a case history. Pre-requisites OPB351and OPB452 NSN821 Promoting Healthy Credit Points 12 Ageing Campus Kelvin Grove OPB557 Binocular Vision Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites OPB451 and OPB556 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove This subject continues studies commenced in Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 OPB351, and provides students with an Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities External understanding of spatial, temporal, colour and - SEM-2 - SEM-2 binocular vision, and their influence on visual performance. This unit covers the different types of refractive errors This unit explores a range of the psychosocial, and what to expect in different age groups, and the cultural, political, and clinical issues that are related to types of binocular vision and accommodation healthy ageing in Australia and internationally. anomalies frequently found in the population. A suite OPB452 Ocular Anatomy and of procedures to investigate binocular and accommodation anomalies is covered. NSN825 Thesis (Part 2) Physiology 4 Pre-requisites OPB352 Pre-requisites NSN825-1 Co-requisites OPB351 Credit Points 24 OPB650 Diseases of the Eye 6 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Pre-requisites OPB451 and OPB550 and OPB556 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 External Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 This is a continuation of OPB352. The unit covers the - SEM-2 posterior eye, orbit, neural pathways, eye The thesis provides you with an opportunity to This is a continuation of OPB550 and covers the formally extend and synthesise knowledge gained in movements, neurophysiology of vision and an introduction to electrophysiological techniques. ocular manifestations of general disease, neuro- earlier semesters of the course over two semesters. ophthalmology, glaucoma, inflammations/infections, tumours and trauma. OPB351 Visual Science 3 OPB453 Ophthalmic Optics 4 Pre-requisites OPB352 and OPB353 Pre-requisites PCB240 and OPB353 OPB654 Ocular Pharmacology Co-requisites OPB452 and OPB453 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites OPB452 and LSB384 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Co-requisites OPB550 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities This unit provides information on the ocular anatomy - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove and physiology that underlies the functional Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit includes a study of the basic visual sciences measurements made in optometry and their that underpins the practice of optometry. It covers the interpretation. It includes the structure and function of This unit provides students with the appropriate optics of the eye, including its basic design, the anterior eye and orbit. knowledge of pharmaceutical agents used to examine
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units the eye and to treat eye diseases. Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 OPN362 Specialist Clinic 9 OPB656 Assessment of Vision Optometric practice allows appropriately trained Pre-requisites OPN261 and OPN262 and OPN263 optometrists to provide therapeutic pharmacological Co-requisites OPN363 and OPN364 6 management of a range of eye diseases. It is Pre-requisites OPB451 and OPB556 important for optometrists to have a comprehensive Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 knowledge of prescription drugs used in the Campus Kelvin Grove management of eye disease, be able to develop Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove treatment plans, and assess the outcomes of Availabilities Kelvin Grove treatment. This unit aims to integrate your knowledge - SEM-1 Availabilities - SEM-2 of eye disease and ocular pharmaceutical agents to This unit continues clinical practice in the specialist allow you to safely and effectively develop treatment areas of binocular vision, paediatric optometry and This unit introduces the student to the theory and plans for your patients in optometric practice. practice of further core clinical techniques of vision vision rehabilitation to broaden their clinical assessment. The integration of these core clinical experience. Through clinical practice in these areas, techniques with the basic techniques learned students will refine their specific problem solving previously gives students a thorough knowledge of all OPN262 Specialist Clinic 8 strategies for these areas of clinical practice, and aspects of routine patient management. develop problem specific examination techniques, Pre-requisites OPN161, OPN162, and OPN163 reinforcing and refining clinical skills developed in the Co-requisites OPN263 previous units in these areas. Specialist Clinical Practice in contact lenses is continued from the OPN161 Optometry in Special Credit Points 12 previous semester (Specialist Clinic 8). Needs Groups Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 OPN363 Primary Care Clinic 9 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit begins clinical practice in the specialist areas Pre-requisites OPN261 and OPN262 and OPN263 Kelvin Grove of contact lens practice and binocular vision and low Availabilities Co-requisites OPN362 and OPN364 - SEM-1 vision. Through feedback from clinicians, students will Credit Points 12 This unit is designed to provide an understanding of begin development of clinical case management and the fundamentals of low vision rehabilitation and problem solving strategies in these specialist areas of Campus Kelvin Grove clinical practice. They will also develop higher level paediatric optometry. Students will build on their Kelvin Grove clinical examination techniques, reinforcing and Availabilities existing knowledge of ocular anatomy and physiology, - SEM-1 ocular disease, the development of binocular vision refining clinical skills developed in the previous and the assessment and management of paediatric specialist clinical units in these areas. This unit continues clinical optometric practice in the and geriatric patients. Clinical skills relating to primary care area within the Optometry Clinic of the paediatrics and low vision are further developed in the School of Optometry. Through further clinical practice, specialist clinic units (OPN262, OPN362 & OPN462). students will refine specific problem solving strategies OPN263 Primary Care Clinic 8 in clinical practice, and problem specific examination Pre-requisites OPN163 techniques, reinforcing and refining clinical skills Co-requisites OPN261, OPN262 developed in the previous units. Students will take on OPN162 Contact Lens Practice a greater responsibility for clinical decision making Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 and management, demonstrating early independence Campus Kelvin Grove and responsibility in decision making and problem Campus Kelvin Grove solving, beginning the transition to professional Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities practice. Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 - This unit provides an introduction to contact lens clinical practice. Contact lenses provide an important OPN364 Clinical Externship 9 method for correcting the optical errors of the eye. Pre-requisites OPN261 and OPN262 and OPN263 Topics covered include the basic clinical skills, OPN264 Research Project knowledge about contact lenses and the skills to Co-requisites OPN362 and OPN363 Pre-requisites OPN164 manage contact lens patients. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities OPN163 Primary Care Clinic 7 Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 This unit introduces clinical optometric practice in real Optometrists in clinical practice are required to reflect Campus Kelvin Grove world clinical learning environment by clinical upon and modify their practice to incorporate placement in optometric practices, ophthalmology Kelvin Grove knowledge of the most recent research evidence into Availabilities practices and other health care settings. Through - SEM-1 the evidence base for their mode of practice. This clinical practice, students will develop specific requires skills in the critical evaluation, interpretation - problem solving strategies in clinical practice, and and application of research in both fundamental and develop problem specific examination techniques, applied aspects of optometry and vision science. reinforcing and refining clinical skills developed in the previous units. Students will take on increasing OPN164 Research Methods in responsibility for clinical decision making and Optometry and Vision Science OPN361 Research and management, demonstrating beginning independence in decision making and problem solving. This unit Credit Points 12 Evidence Based Optometry additionally fosters the transition to professional Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites OPN262 and OPN263 and OPN264 practice by placing the student in the real world Kelvin Grove environment of optometry and ophthalmology Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 practices. Campus Kelvin Grove - Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 OPN461 Optometry in This unit is designed to provide an understanding of OPN261 Therapeutic the relationships between research and clinical Professional Practice Management of Eye Disease practice in the development of evidence based Co-requisites OPN463 and OPN464 practice for a growing profession. Current clinical Pre-requisites OPN163 Credit Points 12 issues of significance will also be reviewed. Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 OPP001 Ocular Therapeutics 1 OUB120 Smash the Act - Credit Points 24 Most optometry graduates aspire to enter private Indigenous Australian Politics practice, either as an employee or associate of Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 another practitioner or firm of optometrists. In the Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove latter case, they are frequently required to manage - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove the practice. They must therefore be prepared in the Availabilities areas of business, finance and practice management OPP001 is the major theory and knowledge - SEM-2 component of OP43 Graduate Certificate in Ocular as they relate to optometry. The practice of Optometry This unit investigates the distinctive feature of Therapeutics. Students will learn the major general is also regulated by several State and Federal Acts of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives as the and specific principles of management and treatment Parliament and optometrists have moral and ethical philosophical underpinning of Indigenous Australian of eye disease in a manner compatible with quality responsibilities to their patients. politics. This unit is delivered through authentic use of medicines, with a special consideration of experiences and individualized instruction, and ocular topical preparations. The unit is also intended learning through enjoyment, including learning by to prepare students for the clinical practicum unit of observation, doing and being in a shared learning the course, OPP002. OPN462 Specialist Clinic 10 environment. Indigenous pedagogy supports Pre-requisites OPN363 and OPN362 students’ cognitive search for learning and processes Co-requisites OPN463 where they can internalize, reflect, deconstruct and OPP002 Ocular Therapeutics 2 reconstruct contemporary Indigenous Australian Credit Points 12 politics. Indigenous knowledges are both empirical Pre-requisites OPP001 Campus Kelvin Grove (that is, based on experience) and normative (that is, Credit Points 24 Kelvin Grove based on social values).This unit embraces both the Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove circumstances people find themselves in and their beliefs about those circumstances in a way that is Kelvin Grove This unit continues the clinical practice of specialist Availabilities unfamiliar to Eurocentric knowledge systems. areas within optometry: contact lens practice, - SEM-1, SEM-2 binocular vision, paediatric optometry and vision OPP002 is the major clinical component of OP43 rehabilitation. Through further clinical practice in these Graduate Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics. In it, areas, students will increase their knowledge and skill students will apply the clinical principles learned in OUB130 Indigenous base in specialized clinical practice to allow a OPP001 by observation in clinical placement, by Knowledge: Research Ethics transition to independent practice. contributing to case series presentations and by written case reports. Student are also expected to and Protocols develop and demonstrate clinical decision making Anti-requisites EDB040 skills to the level appropriate for registration as an Credit Points 12 OPN463 Primary Care Clinic 10 Endorsed Optometrist registered with the Australian Pre-requisites OPN363 Optometry Board. Campus Kelvin Grove Co-requisites OPN462 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove OUB100 Yatdjuligin - Cultural This unit critically analyses and articulates culturally safe research that reflects de-colonising Kelvin Grove Availabilities Safety in Indigenous Australian methodologies as an underpinning framework for - SEM-2 context Indigenous Australian research. The need for culturally safe research is supported by the obvious This unit completes clinical optometric practice in the Credit Points 12 primary care area within the Optometry Clinic of the gaps in knowledge of the ongoing life differentials and School of Optometry. Through clinical practice, Campus Kelvin Grove social determinants that impact on Indigenous students will exhibit specific problem solving Kelvin Grove Australians. This in part is due to a profound lack of Availabilities strategies in clinical practice, and problem specific - SEM-1 culturally safe research which has effectively examination techniques, illustrating a consolidation neglected historical and Indigenous knowledges that and integration of their theoretical knowledge base Cultural Safety in an Indigenous Australian Context is can address the outstanding social determinants and clinical skills developed through the previous an Indigenous knowledge developed by Maori Nurse influencing Indigenous Australians and their units. Students will demonstrate significant Irihapiti Ramsden. Culturally Safe practice is an communities. responsibility for clinical decision making and essential element in a profession’s ability to work as a management, demonstrating independence in holistic and accountable professional with Indigenous decision making and problem solving as final Australian peoples and their communities. Whilst preparation for their transition to professional practice. Cultural Safety commenced as a nursing and PCB121 Vision, Colour and midwifery specific response, the need for a much wider discipline approach to educating culturally safe Photometry professionals is essential. An understanding of your Credit Points 12 OPN464 Clinical Externship 10 own cultures and their potential impacts underpins the Campus Gardens Point journey of becoming a culturally safe practitioner. Pre-requisites OPN362, OPN363 and OPN364 Gardens Point Availabilities Co-requisites OPN462 and OPN463 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This is the first unit in the lighting suite of courses and OUB110 Am I black enough? aims to prepare students with the necessary Campus Kelvin Grove Indigenous Australian grounding for future units in the course. All lectures in Kelvin Grove Availabilities units that follow this will assume a good knowledge - SEM-2 Representations and understanding of the concepts and principles This unit further allows clinical optometric practice in Anti-requisites EDB039 presented in this unit. real world clinical learning environment by clinical Credit Points 12 placement in optometric practices, ophthalmology Campus Kelvin Grove practices and other health care settings. Through Kelvin Grove PCB122 Lighting Design clinical practice, students will develop specific Availabilities problem solving strategies in clinical practice, and - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 develop problem specific examination techniques, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, images Campus Gardens Point reinforcing and refining clinical skills developed in the and cultures, have been represented in a variety of Gardens Point previous units. Students will take on the primary Availabilities media since colonisation. The purpose of this unit is - SEM-2 responsibility for clinical decision making and to deconstruct these representations from Indigenous management, demonstrating independence in standpoints. You will develop understandings and This unit aims to introduce students to the basics of decision making and problem solving. This unit further skills to critically analyse media representations. lighting design, taking into account both the consolidates the students transition to professional requirements for lighting a space, as well as the practice. practical issues. Both indoor and outdoor spaces are included. The software packages used are easily understood, as the aim of the unit is to teach students about lighting design, not how to use a lighting
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Gardens Point package. Availabilities - SEM-1 Radiographers require a basic knowledge of general PCN112 Medical Imaging physics and more detailed theoretical background to PCB123 Sustainability and the physical basis behind the equipment design, Science Human Factors construction and materials and the increasing Credit Points 12 technological support for developing modalities. The Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point aim of this unit is to provide students with an Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point understanding of radiation physics related to x-ray Availabilities Gardens Point production and radiographic practice and how - SEM-2 Availabilities radiation interacts with matter. - SEM-2 - In this unit you should develop an understanding of the performance issues of lamps and luminaires, both from a energy point of view and the human issues – PCB593 Digital Image does it meet the needs of the people working or at PCN113 Radiation Physics leisure in the space. Processing Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1 PCB124 Lamps and Luminaires Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 This unit includes the following: radioactivity and the Campus Gardens Point This unit provides students with a basic interaction of ionising radiation with matter; applied understanding of the computer techniques used in radiation counting techniques; radiation detectors; Gardens Point Availabilities image processing and reconstruction. Specific areas radiation dosimetry. - SEM-1 of study include the following: the structure of a digital This is an important unit in the lighting suite of image; image display techniques; grey scale palettes courses because it describes the basic equipment and look-up tables; Fourier transform theory; that people working in any area of the lighting industry convolution theory; image processing hardware; PCN114 Microprocessors and have to know and understand – the lights themselves. image processing techniques, eg analysis, Instrumentation Understanding how a lamp works and how it performs enhancement and restoration; spatial filtering; Fourier Credit Points 12 helps people make informed decisions about the space filtering; methods of image reconstruction; 3D choices they have in choosing lamps for particular volume and surface rendering; applications of image Campus Gardens Point applications. All lectures in units that follow this will processing in medicine, astronomy and remote Gardens Point Availabilities assume a good knowledge and understanding of the sensing, etc. - SEM-1 principles, properties and performances of light sources, including the emerging LED products. This unit includes the capabilities and limitations of a given instrument; design of interfaces between PCB605 Biomedical microcomputers and transducers; signal conditioning and signal conversion circuits for data acquisition. PCB150 Biomedical Physics Instrumentation Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites PVB101 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 PCN211 Physics of Medical Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 Imaging Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Instrumentation plays an increasingly important role in the life of a scientist. This unit is designed to give you Campus Gardens Point Professionals in the applied sciences require an a working knowledge in instrumentations and the Gardens Point understanding of the processes of making and Availabilities principles of circuit theory and electronics that - SEM-1 recording measurements and an understanding of the underlie instrumentation. It is offered at this stage of physical principles that govern the behaviour of both the program since it relies on work developed in the Most medical imaging modalities now produce images the physical parameters being measured and the earlier advanced-level units and provides a basis for in digital form. These digital images frequently instrument being used to make the measurement. experimental work in later units. This unit aims to undergo processing such as enhancement, The aim of this unit is to introduce you to the introduce you to the role of instrumentation in modern registration, fusion and 3D reconstruction. Digital processes of making measurements and estimating, scientific work. It will provide you with experience in image processing and 3D image visualisation processing and interpreting the uncertainties involved the use of standard electronic laboratory techniques are also extensively used in nuclear with these measurements. To enable you to instrumentation and with an opportunity to develop medicine and radiotherapy planning. Consequently, understand the physical parameters being measured skills in constructing and testing circuits. This unit will computing, numerical methods and digital image and also the limits of the measuring instrument; the also show you how to access and interpret processing are necessary skills of a practising physics of mechanics, heat, sound and light will be information on various electronic components and medical physicist. This unit is designed to make the introduced and explained. enhance your group interaction skills. student familiar with image visualisation methods and imaging in nuclear medicine, and to develop skills in digital image processing. PCB240 Optics 1 PCB675 Radiation Safety and Credit Points 12 Biology PCN212 Radiotherapy Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites PCB272 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point This unit includes a study of selected topics in optics Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-2 particularly related to aspects of optometry. Topics Availabilities - SEM-2 include geometrical optics in mirrors and lenses, This unit provides an overview of the application of including thick lenses, cylindrical, spherical and toric Medical radiations procedures are the principal cause physics to radiotherapy including theoretical and lenses, colour and colour measurement, photometry, of non background radiation exposure. It is therefore practical aspects of the major topics in radiotherapy lens aberrations and optical instruments. important that you understand potential hazards of physics. The unit builds on your previous knowledge exposure to ionising radiation and techniques of of radiation physics and applies it to radiotherapy. protection. An understanding of relevant codes of practice is also required. The aim of this unit is to PCB272 Radiation Physics provide you with a basic understanding of aspects of Credit Points 12 radiation biology and radiation safety relevant to your Campus Gardens Point future employment as a Medical radiation technologist.
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PCN214 Health and PCN321 Reading Topic 1 Credit Points 12 Occupational Physics PCN540 Project (Part-time) Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 24 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities External Gardens Point - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM This unit introduces the philosophy, protocols and This unit aims to develop the student's knowledge and New and exciting technologies are playing an practices of safety in the medical and industrial understanding of topics in lighting of particular interest increasingly important role in everyday life. Modern physics fields and the minimisation of hazards to the student. In particular it can aim to give students healthcare is a good example of a field where associated with radiation, and laser techniques. greater insight into aspects they will cover in their technology has had a huge impact in the way patients Masters project. It will also help to develop the are diagnosed and treated. Graduates are student's research, organisation and communication increasingly involved in the research and PCN218 Research Methodology skills. development of new technologies and also in its translation and implementation into clinical use. This and Professional Studies unit aims to develop further the student's skills for Credit Points 12 carrying out such work in the form of a research PCN322 Reading Topic 2 project. The project may be carried out in Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 collaboration with hospitals or industry. This unit aims Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External to introduce and improve the students skills in - SEM-1, SEM-2 carrying out research work in the form of a short Gardens Point research project. (48 credit points achieved at In the rapidly changing technological environment of - SEM-1 Availabilities completion of PCN540-1 and PCN540-2.) medical physics and medical ultrasound it is essential External that students develop basic research skills, data - SEM-1 interpretation skills and written communication skills. Topics include the research process, data collection This unit aims to develop the student's knowledge and PCN701 Topics in Advanced and analysis techniques, and writing and evaluating understanding of topics in lighting of particular interest research reports. Students also require knowledge of to the student. In particular it can aim to give students Chemistry 1 the professional, basic management, legal and ethical greater insight into aspects they will cover in their Credit Points 12 issues involved in their particular speciality area. Masters project. It will also help to develop the Topics include the role and purpose of professional student's research, organisation and communication Campus Gardens Point bodies, professional communication, legal and ethical skills. Gardens Point Availabilities issues, and basic professional management - SEM-1, SEM-2 techniques and issues. The complexity of the chemical systems studied in a PCN520 Project (Full-time) research program and the sophistication of the Credit Points 48 instrumentation used demand that deeper theoretical PCN224 Applied Lighting understanding than that acquired in an undergraduate Campus Gardens Point program. The aims of this unit are to teach and Credit Points 12 Gardens Point extend knowledge and comprehension of Advanced Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and External - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Chemical Techniques and assess application of knowledge; and to provide the candidate with the Gardens Point New and exciting technologies are playing an - SEM-1 appropriate theoretical and practical background, at Availabilities increasingly important role in everyday life. Modern External an advanced level, necessary for the completion of a healthcare is a good example of a field where research program. - SEM-2 technology has had a huge impact in the way patients There is no set material for this unit. Students are diagnosed and treated. Graduates are undertake an approved project over a semester on increasingly involved in the research and any topic relevant to their interest in lighting. The development of new technologies and also in its PCN705 Research Methodology project may be predominantly a reading course, translation and implementation into clinical use. This Credit Points 6 reviewing, comparing or analysing material on a unit aims to develop further the students skills for specific topic, or it may be a practically oriented carrying out such work in the form of a research Campus Gardens Point project involving manufacture, measurement or project. The project may be carried out in Gardens Point Availabilities analysis of a particular lighting product or installation. collaboration with a hospital or industry. This unit aims - SEM-1, SEM-2 The project may be taken at QUT or within the to introduce and improve the students skills in This unit includes a guided program of literature person's place of employment. carrying out research work in the form of a short research project. surveys to provide the background information for the research project. This unit enables students to develop verbal and oral communication skills required PCN320 Lighting Project for the successful conduct of a chemical research project. During the course students will be required to Credit Points 24 PCN540 Project (Part-time) Credit Points 24 attend and participate in seminars. Students must Campus Gardens Point and External present two seminars on their own research. (12 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point credit points achieved at completion of PCN705-1 and - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point PCN705-2.) Availabilities Availabilities External - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1, SEM-2 New and exciting technologies are playing an The requirements for a Masters include an in-depth increasingly important role in everyday life. Modern PCN705 Research Methodology study of a particular area of lighting that is in keeping healthcare is a good example of a field where Credit Points 6 with the student's interest. This takes the form of a technology has had a huge impact in the way patients project that is usually undertaken in an area of are diagnosed and treated. Graduates are Campus Gardens Point particular interest to the student. Although the project increasingly involved in the research and Gardens Point Availabilities may be directly associated with the student's development of new technologies and also in its - SEM-1, SEM-2 employment, it should have sufficient originality for translation and implementation into clinical use. This This unit is a guided program of literature surveys to the student to be able to demonstrate initiative, an unit aims to develop further the student's skills for provide the background information for the research understanding of scientific method, and an ability to carrying out such work in the form of a research project. This unit enables students to develop verbal problem-solve to obtain a meaningful and realistic project. The project may be carried out in and oral communication skills required for the solution. collaboration with hospitals or industry. This unit aims to introduce and improve the students skills in successful conduct of a chemical research project. carrying out research work in the form of a short During the course students will be required to attend research project. (48 credit points achieved at and participate in seminars. Students must present completion of PCN540-1 and PCN540-2.) two seminars on their own research. (12 credit points achieved at completion of PCN705-1 and PCN705-2.)
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PMN503 Systems in Project PMN603 Project Investigation 1 Credit Points 12 PCN720 Chemometrics Management Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point and Online Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Modern Project Managers are required to gather the - SEM-1 Availabilities Online best available evidence to make informed decisions, This unit includes the following: the concepts of - SEM-1, SEM-2 solve problems, establish best practice as well as chemical data acquisition and interpretation; innovate and develop. This unit will equip you with the This unit focuses on the skills and knowledge required computational methods and existing software applied research skills and knowledge to solve for a Systems Thinking and Integration approach to packages for statistical analysis in chemistry; discipline specific real world problems and effectively project management as it relates to scope statistical methods in quality and process control; communicate processes and solutions verbally and in management, schedule management, quality sampling procedures; multivariate analysis and writing within the context of your professional practice. management and risk management. Other concepts optimisation techniques. and techniques covered as part of this unit include the interface with other organisational systems, innovation and multiple business environments, PMN604 Strategy and Projects health and safety and environmental management. PCN801 Topics in Advanced Credit Points 12 Chemistry 2 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point PMN504 People and Projects Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point This unit shows how your project or program grows Availabilities Campus Gardens Point and Online - SEM-1, SEM-2 out of the business lifecycle and also feeds into that Gardens Point lifecycle. The unit shows how the project or program The complexity of the chemical systems studied in a - SEM-1, SEM-2 adds value to both the client and provider Availabilities research program and the sophistication of the Online organisations and that value can be sustained for a instrumentation used demand that deeper theoretical - SEM-1, SEM-2 long periods if managed appropriately. It details understanding than that acquired in an undergraduate contemporary program and portfolio management This unit will provide you with the fundamental skills program. The aims of this unit are to extend and approaches and practically relates them to and knowledge to appreciate the nature and role of deepen the theoretical and practical background organization dynamics and project benefits human resources required to achieve outcomes required for undertaking a research program and to realisation. provide the candidate with the appropriate theoretical critical for the success of a project. The unit will and practical background, at an advanced level, specifically focus on theoretical aspects of effectively necessary for the completion of a research program. managing individuals within project teams, leadership, motivation, conflict resolution, individual and cultural PMN605 Strategic Project differences, communication and negotiation skills; and human resource legislation and ethics. Procurement PMN501 Project Management Credit Points 12 Essentials 1 Campus Gardens Point Anti-requisites BEN610 PMN601 Projects and Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 Performance - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point and Online Credit Points 12 This unit shows the value of identifying and evaluating the procurement options for your project or program. Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point It further details contemporary market options and the - 5TP6, 6TP2 Availabilities Gardens Point preparations both client and tenderers must make to Online Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 effectively manage the engagement phase and - 5TP6, 6TP2 delivery phase of procurement strategy and contract Focusing on the context and principles of This unit will furnish you with an appreciation of the form chosen. performance management issues in projects, this unit nature and role of project management as a examines the specific methods and tools that can be professional discipline. With a specific focus on applied to improve key performance targets in aspects of project planning and project development, projects will then be presented. Through reflective the unit will describe, clarify, and formalise project PMN606 Project Investigation 2 learning, the unit will also focus on developing your management of the front end of projects to prepare Pre-requisites PMN603 ability to gather information, apply the most you for further postgraduate study or bring new appropriate methods, and make holistic and Credit Points 12 knowledge and skills to your professional endeavours. integrated decisions Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities PMN502 Project Management - SEM-2 PMN602 Organisations and Problems that confront project managers are ill- Essentials 2 Projects defined and complex. Problem identification and the Anti-requisites BEN610 collection and analysis of relevant information using Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 appropriate research methods are essential to Campus Gardens Point professional practice. From a learning perspective, Campus Gardens Point and Online Gardens Point one of the most effective ways of achieving this is to Availabilities Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 consolidate and extend previously gained research - 6TP3, 6TP5 skills through an activity that is relevant to industry Availabilities Online This unit will provide you with advanced skills and and, where possible, is associated with a specific - 6TP3, 6TP5 knowledge to manage human resources issues workplace. This unit will help you apply skills required to achieve outcomes critical for the success previously attained in your degree to an advanced This unit will furnish you with an appreciation of the of a project. The unit will focus on aspects of project management problem domain, and to enable nature and role of project management as a effectively managing human resources at an you to conduct a well-defined project of relevance to professional discipline. With a particular focus on the organisational level, including project organisational your profession and industry, with specific outcomes final two phases of project management; project structures, human resource planning, stakeholder within a precisely defined project plan. delivery and handover, this unit will prepare you for management, high performance teams and further postgraduate study or bring new knowledge organisational development. and skills to your professional endeavours. PMN607 Strategic Risk Management Credit Points 12
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Campus Gardens Point PUB104 Australian Health Care and the various technology platforms available Gardens Point (including telecommunications and the internet). Availabilities - SEM-2 Systems Students develop data organisation and management Credit Points 12 skills relevant to systems within the health industry This unit shows how to identify, evaluate, both context. qualitatively and quantitatively, the risk and Campus Kelvin Grove opportunities for your project or program. You will Kelvin Grove Availabilities then allocate and effectively manage the risks. It - SEM-1 further details contemporary risk treatments available PUB209 Health, Culture and for both client and tenderers/contractors to effectively This is an important unit for students who are manage their project or program. intending to enter the health industry. It is designed to Society give a broad overview of the system of health care in Equivalents NSB017 Australia and its methods of operation. This unit Credit Points 12 outlines the structure of the Australian health care PMN608 Managing the Project system, examines the roles and responsibilities of Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 members of the health care team. It also helps Kelvin Grove Availabilities identify the key issues confronting the provision of - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point health care. Gardens Point This unit is concerned with the social and cultural Availabilities - SEM-2 dimensions of health and illness and how they relate to health status and patterns of behaviour. The unit In Managing the Project you will implement the PUB202 Advanced Clinical introduces students to thinking about health from knowledge, skills and tools developed throughout the sociological and anthropological perspectives, Master's program. This will assist you to apply your Classification drawing on relevant concepts and theory to examine learnings to a real world project from inception to Pre-requisites PUB101 selected public health issues. Identifying and closeout. Credit Points 12 addressing social and cultural factors that shape people's health experiences of health, illness and Campus Kelvin Grove health systems are integral parts of public health Kelvin Grove practice in terms of reducing health inequalities, Availabilities PQB360 Global Energy Balance - SEM-1 delivering appropriate services, and ultimately improving population health outcomes. and Climate Change This unit will allow students to build on their Equivalents PCB563 introductory skills in the application and rules for Credit Points 12 classification of diseases and health interventions using the International Classification of Diseases 10th PUB215 Public Health Practice Campus Gardens Point revision Australian modification (ICD-10-AM). Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Students will refine skills in abstraction of data from Availabilities - SEM-1 source documents and understand the need to Campus Kelvin Grove access feeder information systems to support coding. Kelvin Grove Modern societies are becoming increasingly aware of Availabilities potential environmental problems associated with - SEM-2 conventional energy production technologies. In this unit students will gain an understanding of: the Application of alternative technologies is therefore PUB204 Resourcing and structure of the Public Health workforce; the increasing, with ambitious targets and plans to professional frameworks and future career pathways support research and development for reducing Managing Health Budgets available; the 'Practice Profiles' of graduates energy related environmental consequences. This Anti-requisites PUB480,PUB609 specialising in specific fields in Public Health; the unit is designed to offer science and engineering Credit Points 12 ways in which Public Health graduates work students an opportunity to gain awareness about the collaboratively with other professionals in this field; expanding field of alternative energy technologies and Campus Kelvin Grove and the workplace experience including professional to understand relationships between use of energy Kelvin Grove roles, ethical responsibilities and practical skills of Availabilities and its impact on local and global environment. - SEM-2 graduates. This unit consolidates knowledge about health resource allocation and management at the macro PUB100 Medical Terminology, (health system) and micro (health service) level. At PUB251 Contemporary Public the macro level you will learn about the context and Anatomy and Physiology drivers of health resource allocation to benefit the Health Credit Points 12 health of groups and populations and the means of Anti-requisites PUN106 determining priorities in the face of competing Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 demands for scarce resources. Australian and Kelvin Grove Availabilities international case studies are used to compare and Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 contrast resource allocation policy positions based on Kelvin Grove Availabilities The main aim of this unit is to provide students with the principles of efficiency, effectiveness and equity. - SEM-1, SEM-2 an in-depth knowledge of the language of medical You will learn about historical and contemporary terminology and an understanding of anatomy and Australian health care financing and funding models This unit provides an introduction to the following: the physiology that can be competently applied in a that determine health budget allocation at the micro philosophy and approach of public health; the health care setting. (health service) level and develop a sound traditional public health process; the multidisciplinary understanding of the principles, processes and nature of public health; and health policy and its practice of financial management, including impact on public health. Recent reformulations of governance, costing, budgeting, financial traditional public health approaches including health PUB101 Introduction to Clinical performance reporting and analysis. promotion, intersectoral action for health and healthy public policy are examined. The role of public health Classification in Australia and overseas, its main discipline Pre-requisites PUB100 components and some of the constraints faced by public health is also addressed. This unit considers Credit Points 12 PUB208 Understanding Health groups with special needs and contemporary issues. Campus Kelvin Grove Information Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove PUB326 Introduction to This unit will provide students with both the hands-on Kelvin Grove Availabilities and theoretical knowledge to begin to develop the - SEM-1, SEM-2 Epidemiology skills to become entry-level coding practitioners. A Anti-requisites HLN710 This aims to provide students with an understanding broad understanding of how clinical classification and appreciation of the diversity of health information Credit Points 12 relates to medical science will also be developed. resources available; the benefits of high-quality and Campus Kelvin Grove standardised health information for positive health outcomes and the management of health services;
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities modelling, inlier and outlier payments, co payments - SEM-1 and use of ABF and casemix data to predict activity Epidemiology is the basic scientific method of public PUB364 Transition to and costs. health. It is the study of the distribution and determinants of diseases, health conditions, or events Professional Health Information among populations and the application of Management Practice interventions to control health problems. PUB406 Health Promotion Epidemiological methods are used to generate the Pre-requisites PUB359 Practice evidence base for clinicians, health promotion Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites PUB215 or PUB530 or PUB251 specialists, health educators, nutritionists, and health Campus Kelvin Grove service managers. Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities PUB332 Sustainable This unit recognises that you are about to transition - SEM-2 from university to health information management Environments For Health practice and that you will need to sustain your This unit ties together the fundamental health promotion knowledge covered in earlier units in the Anti-requisites PUB107 professional and educational development. Accordingly, this final semester unit provides a dual public health subject area to introduce students to the Credit Points 12 platform for transition to practice and independent range of strategies available to a health promotion practitioner. The unit promotes an appreciation of the Campus Kelvin Grove professional development strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, as Kelvin Grove Availabilities well as related administrative factors. Students - SEM-1 undertake a small health promotion project in groups This unit provides an overview of environmental PUB368 Integrated Health of 3-4. This is an essential field of study for those students who wish to work in a health promotion or health and introduces the importance of achieving Information Management environments that are able to sustain human health. related field. In particular, the unit covers the practice of Practice environmental health, its scientific foundations, and its Pre-requisites PUB359 integral place in the overarching discipline of public health. Credit Points 24 PUB416 Research Methods Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites PUB561 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities PUB336 Women's Health - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove The aim of this unit is to develop high level, practical Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities Health Information Management skills in a range of - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove health care settings. Increased understanding of the An understanding of research methods is essential in Kelvin Grove various roles that health information managers play in Availabilities the training of all public health professionals. This unit - SEM-2 the health care system is emphasised through work explores quantitative methods in a variety of health integrated learning experiences. Students will This unit explores the data and current health issues research projects, examining conceptualisation of undertake project work as negotiated with their related to women's health and critically evaluates research questions and hypotheses, core elements of placement supervisor. health related policies, systems and practices in terms experimental and quasi-experimental designs, and of their impact on women's health, internationally and various approaches to the collection, management in Australia. The social, economic, cultural and and analysis of quantitative data. The unit has a political influences on women's health, and the PUB370 Practical Clinical practical focus for students who are considering specific needs of sub-populations of women are conducting research as well as those interested in examined. Classification deeper appreciation of implementation behind Pre-requisites PUB359 published research results. Credit Points 12 PUB358 eHealth Concepts Campus Kelvin Grove PUB461 Qualitative Inquiry in Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Public Health Kelvin Grove This unit will provide students with greater Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 competence and confidence in the use of the Campus Kelvin Grove International Classification of Disease 10th revision This unit will provide the student with an Kelvin Grove Australian modification, the Australian classification of Availabilities understanding of contemporary health information - SEM-2 Health Interventions and the Australian Coding technologies and their application in the health sector. Standards. Through hospital based placements, Qualitative methods are essential to generate Students will have the opportunity to explore the students will code from actual medical records and knowledge of people's lived experiences, the technical requirements and processes surrounding utilise IT feeder systems to support their coding meanings they ascribe to them, and to the social the introduction of electronic health records, including decisions. Advanced clinical coding for high cost dimension of health. The nature and complexities of privacy, person and provider identification, hybrid Diagnosis Related Groups, complex cases and many public health problems require a mix of EHRs, interoperability, terminologies, EHR structures, adverse events will be a focus for this unit. Students research methods and the contributions of qualitative decision support systems, internet applications and will achieve also competencies for clinical coding inquiry are increasingly recognised. The practical management of transition to EHRs and legacy auditing for data quality control and coding practice skills acquired in this unit can be applied to a wide systems. management. range of public health works, including community based program evaluation, international health and health social science research. PUB359 Health Information PUB380 Casemix and Activity Management Based Funding Pre-requisites PUB208 and PUB202 PUB490 Quality Management in Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Health Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Completion of 96cp Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove and External The focus of this unit is to introduce current national This unit will provide the student with an and state-based initiatives relating to casemix and Kelvin Grove understanding of the management and operating Activity Based Funding for acute, subacute and non - SEM-2 Availabilities principles of health information services. acute services. Included will be the relationship External between clinical classification and financial - SEM-2 management, peer group cost weights, cost
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This unit provides you with the necessary knowledge Credit Points 12 as part of your course. and skills to develop a quality management program, Campus Kelvin Grove perform quality improvement activities, and expand Kelvin Grove outcomes into process improvements and Availabilities organisational change. Methods of health care - SEM-1, SEM-2 PUN015 Environmental performance measurement are explored, and a This unit introduces the foundation concepts required Management and Sustainability clinical quality framework model is introduced. Issues to competently apply and interpret common statistical Pre-requisites PUN465 relating to administrative and clinical data quality, methods for the analysis of health data. Rather than safety and privacy in an increasingly electronic health superficially covering a wide variety of statistical tests, Credit Points 12 care environment are also considered. this unit will focus on achieving competency of the Campus Kelvin Grove and External most common fundamental tests that analyse non- repeated data. Statistical analysis is inextricably Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 linked to research design, which drives the choice of Availabilities PUB514 Contract/Project descriptive summary of data, choice of statistical test, External Management and interpretation of the statistical analysis. You will - SEM-2 be provided with substantial practical experience in Credit Points 12 This unit supports students develop advanced skills the application and interpretation of the most common and knowledge necessary to manage environmental Campus Kelvin Grove and External statistical methods. and sustainability issues in a wide range of Kelvin Grove organisations. Topics covered in this unit include: - SEM-1 sustainability; energy, water and waste minimisation; Availabilities External environmental auditing; compliance monitoring and - SEM-1, SEM-1 PUB565 International Health corporate reporting; rehabilitation and remediation Pre-requisites PUB215 or PUB251 processes; heritage conservation; and environmental This is an important unit for students entering the economics, policy and policy change. health industry as your efficient management Credit Points 12 associated with the delivery of health services is Campus Kelvin Grove enhanced by knowledge and exposure to the Kelvin Grove principles of formalised project and contract Availabilities - SEM-1 PUN016 Risk Assessment management. This unit is designed to provide Anti-requisites PUN008 and PUN467 advanced undergraduate students with an outline of International health will broaden student's some of the generally accepted processes and understanding of global health systems and Credit Points 12 procedures for Contract/Project Management. programs, providing an advanced level analysis that Campus Kelvin Grove and External explores systems and methods that have been devised to address population health problems in Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 developing and developed countries. Students Availabilities PUB530 Health Education and examine the historic context of the international health External Behaviour Change movement from the early 1900s to recent changes in - SEM-1, SEM-2 global health systems, explore the diversity of Environmental health, OHS and environmental Anti-requisites PUB329, PUB341 services between and within countries, and consider management professionals are required to Credit Points 12 issues of globalisation, economic reform, health plan/conduct/oversee/evaluate risk assessments as equity and ethics. This unit is particularly relevant to Campus Kelvin Grove part of their work. It is becoming increasingly students who are interested in international health important for organisations to undertake risk Kelvin Grove Availabilities development work. assessments to meet compliance obligations and to - SEM-1 work towards longer term sustainability goals. This This unit gives students the skills to bring about Unit explores a range of risk assessment methods change in health-related behaviours through available for the assessment of occupational safety, educational interventions. Topics covered include key PUB875 Professional Practice occupational health and environmental health risks. health education and behaviour change theories, (Completion of 240 cp including frameworks, strategies; approaches to bring about Pre-requisites PUB514) or (Completion of 240cp change in different contexts; research and design of including SWB401 and SWB312) educational interventions to suit different target Anti-requisites PUB645, PUB821 PUN103 Advanced populations in different settings, using evidence- Credit Points 12 Epidemiology based practice; and health literacy as a function of Pre-requisites PUB326 or HLN710 health education. Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove PUB545 Health Policy, Planning This unit is undertaken by students in the public Availabilities and Advocacy health, and nutrition and dietetics strands of the - SEM-2 BHlthSc. It provides students with the opportunity of This unit's aim is the mastery of key principles and Pre-requisites Completion of 192cp working in one or a number of placements in a concepts of research design. There has been an Anti-requisites PUB511 professional capacity in an area of interest to the increasing demand for evidence based health student. It provides an opportunity for students to Credit Points 12 research, and an increasing trend towards research apply the knowledge and skills acquired through their that considers complex biological, environmental and Campus Kelvin Grove and External course to a practical problem or workplace situation. societal inter-relationships. Recent developments in Kelvin Grove epidemiology have contributed novel research - SEM-1 designs and statistical methods to complement these Availabilities External PUN001 Contemporary Risk needs. Throughout this unit, students are exposed to - SEM-1 these more sophisticated designs and analytical methods. Such knowledge is mandatory for critical This unit consolidates knowledge of health policy Management evaluation of the current research literature, for development and reform and the processes that Credit Points 12 design of efficient research studies, and to inform translate policy into public health practice. Topics Campus Kelvin Grove and External appropriate interpretation of research results at a 'best covered include translating a health policy into a plan Kelvin Grove practice' level. for professional practice; critical examination of - SEM-1 advocacy processes and the impact on policies; Availabilities External planning and evaluating the impact of programs; and - SEM-1 policy strategies in collaborative teams. PUN105 Health Statistics 1 This unit examines how a risk management program Credit Points 12 adds value to an organisation. As an integral part of the management process, risk management Campus Kelvin Grove and External PUB561 Statistical Methods in underpins the approaches taken in a wide variety of Kelvin Grove Health discipline areas whether their primary focus be health - SEM-1, SEM-2 care, occupational health and safety or management Availabilities Anti-requisites PUN105, MAB141 External generally. The principles of risk management - SEM-1, SEM-2 underpin many of the concepts that you will explore
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Beyond a common core of statistical concepts, each discipline area emphasises its own set of descriptive PUN213 Quality Management in and inferential statistical methods and even Health PUN301 Occupational Health terminology. The content of this unit emphasises both Credit Points 12 core and health specific statistical methods in the and Safety Law and Policy health sciences. Students are provided with Campus Kelvin Grove and External Credit Points 12 substantial practical experience in the application and Kelvin Grove interpretation of the most common statistical methods - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Availabilities to health data, and are also made aware of data External Kelvin Grove management principles in preparation for analysis. - SEM-1 - SEM-1 There is a strong emphasis on applying concepts Availabilities Current and future national and international External through critical reading and discussion of the literature - SEM-1 and worked examples from a range of topic areas. approaches to improving health care quality and patient safety are examined using a synthesis of Occupational Health and Safety involves the whole theory, research and real world experience to organisation, with particular roles attributed to promote students' development of the necessary employees and management, the latter bearing PUN106 Population Health knowledge and skills required to design and responsibility for the development, instigation, implement a quality management program, perform Credit Points 12 maintenance and control of workplace health and quality improvement activities and translate the safety programs with a preventative emphasis. Campus Kelvin Grove and External outcomes of these into process improvements and Advanced knowledge of essential elements of the Kelvin Grove organisational change. This unit is the foundation unit Occupational Health and Safety legislative and - SEM-1 in the Quality and Patient Safety major. It provides the management framework forms an important part of Availabilities External underpinning content knowledge and context required modern management practice. - SEM-1 for more in depth study of quality and patient safety systems and leadership offered in PUN214 Systems Current and future national and international of Quality and Safety in Health and PUN219 challenges for optimising population health are Leadership of Quality and Safety in Health. PUN363 Environmental Health examined within a social determinants framework, and public health approaches to population health Law challenges are examined. This unit is a foundation Credit Points 12 unit for graduate public health, environmental health PUN214 Systems of Quality and Campus Kelvin Grove and External and health safety and environment students, and is taken in the first year of a full-time postgraduate Safety in Health Kelvin Grove PUN213. PUN213 may be enrolled - SEM-1 degree. Availabilities Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as External PUN214 - SEM-1 PUN210 Contemporary Health Credit Points 12 Legal frameworks, such as the Public Health Act Campus Kelvin Grove and External 2005, the Environmental Protection Act 1994, the Management Sustainable Planning Act 2009, local laws and other Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 State and local legislation, provide the basis for - SEM-1 Availabilities environmental health and environmental management Campus Kelvin Grove and External External practice. A thorough understanding of this legislation, Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 the prosecution process and other legal frameworks is - SEM-2 vitally important to the practice of an environmental Availabilities This unit provides a critical in depth examination of External the theory behind and application of quality and safety health professional. Major topics covered include: an - SEM-2 systems to health services. It covers legal and introduction to law and government, public health law, regulatory systems, quality certification and planning and environmental law, local laws, This is a core unit in the Graduate Diploma and administrative law and investigation processes. Master of Health Management programs. The unit accreditation systems, safety systems and models, explores the principles and practice of management in performance management including performance health to inform your role as a health manager. The frameworks for the measurement, monitoring and unit focuses on core health management activities: reporting on quality and safety. The value of these, PUN364 Food Safety organisational management; strategic management; their breadth of coverage and their application to Credit Points 12 resource management including financial and human different health care settings are analysed using case resource management; information management; studies from both successful systems and systems Campus Kelvin Grove and External project management and change management. The experiencing failure evidenced by patient safety and quality issues. Kelvin Grove focus of this unit is on the development of the - SEM-2 Availabilities analytical, evaluative and political skills required by External health managers who must work in complex systems - SEM-2 and organisations characterised by constant change. PUN219 Leadership of Quality Food is a fundamental human need and a and Safety in Health prerequisite to good health. Ensuring that the food we eat is safe is a major function of both government and Pre-requisites PUN213 PUN212 Health Information industry. The food sector is one of the largest Management Perspectives Credit Points 12 industries in Australia, with over 20 billion meals Campus Kelvin Grove and External provided each year. Even though the food supply in Credit Points 12 Australia is one of the safest in the world, government Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External data indicates that each year over 5 million cases of - SEM-2 Availabilities gastroenteritis are believed to be caused by Kelvin Grove External contaminated food (most of these being unreported to - SEM-1 - SEM-2 Availabilities health authorities). To ensure the safety of the food External The unit provides you with advanced knowledge of supply in Australia and to help minimise the incidence - SEM-1 leadership theories and frameworks critical to the of food-borne illness, a system of nationally uniform This unit gives an introductory overview of the field of development and maintenance of an effective quality food safety standards has been developed and is now health information and its uses and applications in the and safety culture in health care organisations and in place. All levels of Government are involved in food health industry. The unit provides a context for the builds on your understanding of the principles and safety management, with much of the administration study of contemporary health information and data practice of quality management and improvement of food safety legislation undertaken by local management practice. The use of information as a gained through PUN213 Quality Management in governments and State health agencies. Topics strategic, organisational and management resource is Health. The unit provides health managers, aspiring explored in this unit include food contaminants, food discussed, and a broad appreciation of health quality managers and leaders with in-depth safety principles, food-borne illness, food-borne information and data management procedures and knowledge about the systems that underpin illness investigation, food safety law, compliance philosophy is provided. Demands on the users of governance of quality and safety in health care. You inspections of food businesses, food safety auditing, health information occasioned by advances in will learn about contemporary national and risk management including the implementation of food information technology are highlighted. international approaches to building a culture of high safety programs (FSPs) and HACCP, food premises performance, innovation and reform in health care. design, food standards and labelling, and the training of food handlers.
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safety systems that eliminate or control hazards and comply with the legislation, and investigate and report PUN451 Disaster Management PUN465 Environmental on any injuries or exposures that do occur. Credit Points 12 Protection Campus Kelvin Grove and External Credit Points 12 PUN617 Environmental Health Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1 Management Availabilities Kelvin Grove External Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 - SEM-1 Availabilities External Campus Kelvin Grove and External This unit elaborates the principles and practice of - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove disaster management for health. The unit will develop A pollutant is defined as 'a particular chemical or form - SEM-2 your knowledge and understanding of the principles Availabilities of energy that can adversely affect the health, External and practice of disaster health management and your survival, or activities of humans or other living - SEM-2 ability to evaluate the effectiveness of current organisms' (Miller 2000). Pollutants in the form of arrangements and your ability to apply those In Australia environmental health hazards are solids, liquids, gases or energy emissions enter our principles to system preparedness. This will equip you predominantly managed by government agencies environment by natural or anthropogenic means. With to contribute significantly to improving health service's using education, policy, legislation and funding. To the potential for pollution to severely impact the life ability to effectively prepare for and manage such successfully manage environmental health hazards, support system of humans and other organisms, it is incidents the practitioner needs to be able to communicate necessary to implement a variety of approaches to effectively and select and implement appropriate tools protect the environment and ensure its sustainability. and management strategies. This unit is therefore Major topics covered include: an introduction to designed to integrate the theory and practice covered PUN452 Disaster Planning and environmental protection and sustainability, air in other environmental health units, and equip pollution, noise pollution, water pollution, students with management and communication tools Preparedness contaminated land, waste management, acid sulphate and strategies that can be applied in a range of PUN451. PUN451 may be enrolled soils, assessing environmental and development contexts. Topics covered in this unit include Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as applications, an introduction to environmental community public health planning, program PUN452 auditing, environmental management systems and evaluation, project management, environmental corporate environmental compliance. Credit Points 12 health research, management tools, professional communication and professional development. Campus Kelvin Grove and External Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 PUN466 Communicable Availabilities External Diseases PUN620 Concepts of - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Environmental Health This unit seeks to develop your in depth Campus Kelvin Grove and External Credit Points 12 understanding and ability to evaluate the systems, Campus Kelvin Grove and External structures and processes required to ensure health Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 services and the communities they serve are Availabilities Kelvin Grove External - SEM-1 prepared for disasters that threaten the health and Availabilities wellbeing of the community. - SEM-2 External Public health practice originated from the study and - SEM-1 prevention of communicable diseases. Whilst public There is increasing evidence that the integrity of the health practice has widened in scope, reducing the environments in which we live is under substantial PUN453 Disaster Response and incidence of both existing and emerging pressure, particularly from the way we live. The end Recovery communicable diseases (nationally and result of such pressure is that the basic and internationally) remains one of the greatest Credit Points 12 fundamental pre-requisites for human health are challenges to public health practitioners. Relevant threatened. The science of Environmental Health has Campus Kelvin Grove and External activities undertaken by local/state health agencies always been concerned with the study of the human - Kelvin Grove include public health surveillance and outbreak environment interface, and now even more than ever, - SEM-2 investigation measures, immunisation programs, practitioners are needed who understand this link and Availabilities External monitoring and enforcing infection control standards, the strategies available to control and minimize the - SEM-2 and vector control programs. Topics included in this risks associated with environmental health hazards. unit include: communicable disease processes and Topics covered include: an introduction to This unit seeks to develop your ability to manage the principles; epidemiological characteristics of key environmental health, ecosystems and sustainability; response to disasters that threaten the health and infectious diseases; principles and practice of environmental health issues (e.g. air pollution, water wellbeing of the community as well as the strategies epidemiology for communicable disease control; and sanitation, waste and contaminated land, required to affect the recovery of the community and disease surveillance; outbreak investigation and communicable diseases and food safety, physical the maintenance and restoration of health services management; immunisation; infection control; and agents, disaster management); and environmental following disasters. vector control. health settings including the built environment.
PUN454 Leadership in Disaster PUN500 Occupational Health PUN632 Leadership in Health Management and Safety Management Management Pre-requisites PUN451 Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites PUN610 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point and External Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Gardens Point Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove External - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 Availabilities External External - SEM-2 This unit explores legislative and practical - SEM-2 requirements for managing safety at a workplace. It This unit develops your capacity to lead and manage This unit is an in depth study of the strategic will provide you with the knowledge necessary to a health service that is prepared and capable of leadership and management of health services. make recommendations that prevent occupational managing a major incident. It is intended for those Theoretical approaches to leadership together with injury and disease. You will apply your knowledge of who are likely to be responsible for designing several practical examples are presented to develop specific physical, chemical, biological and response arrangements, instructing others in those competencies to deal effectively with organisational psychosocial hazards and your skills acquired in arrangements and for managing the health service and system wide complexities and change. The safety management systems and safety systems strategically throughout a major incident. content has particular links with PUN106 Population auditing to evaluate current or prospective hazardous Health and the Master of Public Health course in its situations. You will learn how to design appropriate
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Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 Availabilities PUP032 Health Promotion 2: External PUN640 Health Care Delivery Theories - SEM-1 and Reform Credit Points 12 As the health policy agenda shifts to embrace Campus Kelvin Grove and External prevention, health promotion is an important area of Credit Points 12 study for health professionals interested in population Kelvin Grove health. The evolution of health promotion Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-1 Availabilities methodologies and policies reflect changing physical, Kelvin Grove External social and political environments and health issues, - SEM-1 - SEM-1 Availabilities as well as new research findings. This unit focuses on External The unit examines the complexity of factors that developments in health promotion which have - SEM-1 influence change within individuals, groups, emerged from the interaction of theoretical The aim of this unit is for you to explore systems of communities and organisations to improve the public's frameworks, the changing physical, social and health care both in Australia and internationally and health. You are introduced to health promotion political environments and the growing evidence the factors that influence the design and functioning of theories and their use for understanding determinants base. This shift includes a focus on the health impact those systems so that you may contribute to the of health behaviours and for the development of of biological, physical and social conditions future development of health systems. The unit will health promotion programming. throughout the life of an individual (life course use the Australian Health Care system as a case perspective), a settings approach and the expansion study but seek to draw from our examination of that of new technologies. You will examine the relationship system the concepts and analytical principles that between these and recent developments, the may apply to all systems of health care. This unit PUP034 Health Promotion 3: evidence and contribution to the ongoing introduces conceptual frameworks fundamental to the Program Planning effectiveness of health promotion. organization of health systems. Issues covered include the structure, operations, funding and Pre-requisites PUP032 evaluation of health systems and the evaluation of Anti-requisites PUN613, PUP023 health system reform. PUP116 Ergonomics Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Campus Kelvin Grove and External PUN688 International Health Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Availabilities Availabilities Policy and Management External External - SEM-2 Pre-requisites PUN640 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit further develops your knowledge, skills, and Ergonomics is the scientific discipline concerned with application of health promotion programming Campus Kelvin Grove and External the fundamental understanding of interactions among principles. In the unit you will build upon your work in humans and other elements of a system and the Kelvin Grove PUP032 and PUP038 to create a comprehensive application of appropriate methods, theory and data to - SEM-2 health promotion program proposal based on a health Availabilities improve human well-being and overall system External promotion planning framework. With a large portion of performance. Ergonomics promotes a holistic - SEM-2 health promotion work involving the development of approach such that considerations of physical, social, health promotion programs, the unit allows you to This unit focuses on the international political and organisational, environmental and other relevant develop the skills that are essential for a health factors are taken into account. Knowledge of current social context of health policy development. Drawing promotion practitioner. on case studies globally, several key concepts in methods and techniques commonly used in health and challenges are critically examined to ergonomics is essential for the occupational health highlight the complexities involved in policy making. and safety professional. This unit will also cover how to evaluate a health PUP037 Health Promotion 4: program and the importance of using approaches and methods that are appropriate for diverse populations Program Evaluation and health areas. PUP032 and PUP034. PUP034 can PUP250 Toxicology and Pre-requisites be studied in the same semester as Occupational Hygiene PUP037 Credit Points 12 PUN704 Health Management Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove and External Internship Campus Kelvin Grove and External Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 HLN707 or PUN105 or HLN710 or Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-2 External HLN405 or HLN706 or PUN103 Availabilities External - SEM-2 Credit Points 24 - SEM-2 Occupational hygiene involves the anticipation, Campus Kelvin Grove and External This unit further develops your knowledge, skills, and recognition, evaluation and control of hazards in the Kelvin Grove application of health promotion programming working environment. Workplaces contain numerous - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM principles. In the unit you will build upon your work in hazards which are potentially harmful to the human Availabilities External PUP032, PUP038 and PUP034 to create a health health of workers, other occupants and the public. - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM program evaluation proposal using an internationally The role of the occupational health and safety recognised evaluation framework. Evaluation is a professional is to develop and /or assist in the This unit takes an experiential approach to synthesise crucial aspect of health promotion and public health development of management strategies to identify your knowledge of health care systems and skills of work. Within the health sector there is strong these potential hazards, evaluate the risk they pose to investigation and analysis of complex information, competition for funding from the government and non- persons, property and equipment and to recommend problems to contribute to professional practice and government sectors. The need to use evidence upon control measures which will manage the risks scholarship. This unit involves placement in a health which to make judgments about programs and involved. service or health policy organisation and the planning influence policy rests increasingly on robust and execution of a substantial research-based project evaluations. This unit will advance your knowledge or equivalent capstone experience. Students will be and application of evaluation techniques. expected to volunteer to work within the service PUP415 Occupational Health during the period of the internship. QUT staff will Credit Points 12 provide every endeavour to locate a suitable placement. Students may arrange their own Campus Kelvin Grove and External placement although the placement should ideally be
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Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 PVB101 Physics of the Very - SEM-1 Availabilities External Large Strong experimental design and execution skills are - SEM-1 Anti-requisites EGB113, ENB130, PCB150 some of the most important attributes of any physicist, This unit concentrates on the various agents in the Credit Points 12 whether working in research or industry, experimental workplace capable of adversely affecting the health of or theoretical. This unit aims to develop your skills in workers, as well as human response to toxic and Campus Gardens Point project planning, time management, experimental imperilling environments. Occupational health covers Gardens Point setup, and reporting. You will undertake several self- Availabilities identification, prevention and management of risks to - SEM-1, SEM-2 managed experiments along with supervised health in the workplace, the disease process, practicals using research equipment. occupational rehabilitation and health & wellbeing This unit introduces you to the physics that affects the surveillance and management in the workplace. universe on a large scale, stretching from the edge of the observable universe down to the Earth’s atmosphere, and addresses the underlying physics of PVB204 Electromagnetism some of the big questions of our time, for example Pre-requisites PVB200 or MXB105 PUZ101 Disaster Management dark energy and global warming. The topics presented include gravity, special relativity, Credit Points 12 Principles thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics and form a Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 foundation for a degree in physics. Theory will be Gardens Point complemented by practical exercises. Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove and External - SEM-2 External Availabilities Electromagnetism is one of the fundamental forces in - 13TP2, SEM-1 the universe and is present in almost all aspects of This unit elaborates the principles and practice of PVB102 Physics of the Very modern technology. In this unit you will develop disaster management. The cause may be natural, Small theoretical knowledge and understanding of electromagnetism from electric charge to more human-created or a combination, but the impact of a Credit Points 12 disaster on the social, economic, environmental and advanced topics such as electrostatics, Maxwell's technological context defines the nature of disaster. Campus Gardens Point equations, electromagnetic waves and applications Effective management of disasters requires people Gardens Point such as waveguides. It will extend your mathematical Availabilities who can enable - SEM-2 knowledge and techniques from earlier units to individuals/communities/organisations to prepare for, explore and analyse these advanced physics respond to and recover from the impacts of disasters. This unit introduces physics which affects the concepts. People responsible for effective management require universe on a microscopic scale. The concepts and knowledge of the principles and skills necessary to phenomena studied here, such as atomic and nuclear advise or lead individuals, communities and physics, physical optics and waves are fundamental organisations to prepare for, respond to and recover to later studies. Theory will be complemented by PVB210 Stellar Astrophysics from the impacts of disasters. practical exercises. Equivalents PQB460 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point PVB200 Computational and PUZ102 Disaster Planning and Gardens Point Availabilities Preparedness Mathematical Physics - SEM-1 PUZ101. PUZ101 may be enrolled Credit Points 12 Astrophysics is the application of physics to the study Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as Campus Gardens Point of the heavens from above atmosphere to the furthest PUZ102 reaches of the universe. This unit is one of the units in Gardens Point Availabilities the astrophysics minor and covers the essential Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 aspects of stellar astrophysics and naturally follows Campus Kelvin Grove and External Strong computational skills are important attributes of on from PVB101, The physics of the very large. The External any physicist, whether working in research or unit covers the birth, life, death of stars and is a mix of Availabilities - SEM-2, SUM industry, experimental or theoretical. This unit is theory and laboratory exercises. The laboratory designed to provide an introduction to computations in exercises cover astrophysical topics relevant to Disasters are a human construct, where hazards physics and build on your mathematical knowledge. It everyday physics. interact with individuals/households/communities/ builds on prior maths study in Maths C or equivalent. organisations, overwhelming community resources and causing widespread disruption and/or loss. Effective preparedness and planning for the impacts PVB220 Cosmology of disasters requires extensive knowledge of the PVB202 Mathematical Methods Equivalents PQB660 management role and skills in planning and preparedness in the disaster context. In particular in Physics Credit Points 12 there is a need for people involved in planning and Pre-requisites PVB101 or PQB250 Campus Gardens Point preparedness to understand the processes for MAB112, MAB132, MAN122, Gardens Point identifying community vulnerability and capacity and Anti-requisites Availabilities MXB106 - SEM-1 the associated ethical dilemmas. Credit Points 12 Cosmology is the study of the universe as a whole Campus Gardens Point including the origin and development of the universe. This unit is an introduction to modern cosmology and Gardens Point PUZ103 Disaster Response and Availabilities covers a wide range of topics related to cosmology, - SEM-2 Recovery for example, general relativity, the Big Bang, the The development of mathematical skills is history of the universe from the Big Bang to now Credit Points 12 fundamental to understanding many of the advanced (inflation, nucleosynthesis, dark ages, surface of last Campus Kelvin Grove and External topics that a physicist might encounter. This unit scattering, origin and evolution of galaxies, cosmic External continues on from Maths C to develop the microwave background radiation etc). The unit also Availabilities - SEM-2, SUM mathematical techniques required of a physicist, and explores the observational techniques of modern is applied to physical problems of the type that a cosmology, for example, optical and radio galactic This unit seeks to develop your ability to manage the physicist might encounter. It provides skills for surveys, gravitational lensing, laser interferometry for response to disasters that threaten the health and ongoing study and scientific work as physicist. detecting gravity waves. We will also explore the wellbeing of the community as well as the strategies evidence for dark matter and dark energy. In the required to affect the recovery of the community and laboratory component of the unit you will gain the maintenance and restoration of health services experience in analysing original astrophysical data, following disasters. PVB203 Experimental Physics for example measuring the red shift velocity of Pre-requisites PVB101 galaxies. Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point
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PVB301 Materials and Thermal Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Physics PYB000 Psychology in Kelvin Grove PVB200 or MXB105 or (PVB201 Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-2 and PVB202) Professional Contexts This unit explores historical approaches to studying, Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 explaining and regulating human sexuality with an Campus Gardens Point Campus Kelvin Grove awareness of the social nature of definitions of Gardens Point Kelvin Grove 'normal' or 'acceptable' sexual behaviours. Students Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 critically examine definitions of 'healthy' or 'morally acceptable' or 'normal' sexuality. Different models of This unit provides you with an overview of materials PYB000 is a foundation unit for students enrolled in sexuality are considered with an emphasis on science and of the basic crystallographic and the Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) contemporary critiques of the traditional paradigms of thermodynamic principles that describe the behaviour degree. This unit provides an introduction to the sexuality in the West. of solids and fluids. The three areas you will study in nature, scope, and application of psychological this unit, thermal physics, physical properties and the knowledge in diverse professional contexts, and physics of solids are core concepts that underpin a considers the social, cultural and ethical, and physical science degree. This unit builds upon multidisciplinary frameworks that shape psychological PYB100 Foundation knowledge and skills obtained in PVB102 and practice. This unit aims to develop your skills as an PVB203 and it is a companion unit with PVB302 active and reflective learner, by explicitly linking the Psychology (Classical and Quantum Physics). academic and generic skills you will develop Anti-requisites PYB012 throughout the course, with their application to Equivalents PYB101 psychological practice. Credit Points 12 PVB302 Classical and Quantum Campus Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove Physics PYB007 Interpersonal Gardens Point - SEM-1 Pre-requisites PVB204 Availabilities Processes and Skills Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites PYB074, HHB113, PYB111 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 This unit provides an introduction to the major content Gardens Point Caboolture, Gardens Point and areas of psychology, including an introduction to Availabilities Campus - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove psychological research and report-writing, for students intending to pursue further studies in Quantum mechanics is the last great conceptual Caboolture psychology. Psychology is a broad-ranging and hurdle for a physics graduate to overcome in an - SEM-2 multifaceted discipline which encompasses the undergraduate degree, irrespective of any bias Gardens Point scientific study of human behaviour, and the towards the theoretical or experimental aspects. Availabilities - SEM-1 systematic application of knowledge gained from Counter-intuitive concepts such as quantum Kelvin Grove psychological research to a broad range of applied tunnelling are the cornerstone of many technological - SEM-1, SEM-2 issues. The goal of this introductory unit is to advances in recent times and other quantum introduce you to the major subfields and perspectives mechanical concepts form the physical basis of the This introductory unit gives you the opportunity to in psychology, and to develop your understanding of universe. The ability to find counter-intuitive solutions build your knowledge of the factors that contribute the research methods and report-writing conventions to problems when necessary is one of the attributes towards effective communication and will help you used in psychological research. that sets physicists apart. develop core communication skills. While focussing on the allied health disciplines, the generic interpersonal processes and skills addressed in this unit are important building blocks for developing and PVB303 Nuclear and Particle maintaining successful professional and personal PYB102 Introduction to relationships. These foundation skills will aid with Psychology 1B Physics client communication, multidisciplinary team Pre-requisites PYB100 or PYB101 Pre-requisites PVB302 communication, clinical interviews, conceptualisation Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 and assessment, mediation, and leadership, many of which you will be required to demonstrate later in your Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point course. Kelvin Grove Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Introduction to Psychology 1B extends the This unit examines the microscopic universe from the PYB054 Psychology and introduction provided in Introduction to Psychology 1A nucleus down to the fundamental particles and forces to psychology as the scientific study of human from which matter is built. Some current theories of Gender behaviour. This unit introduces students to the basic particle physics will be introduced, along with Completion of 48cp of PYB units biological and psychological processes underlying applications of nuclear physics such as chain Pre-requisites including one of PYB012, PYB101, perception, memory, learning, problem solving, reactions and medical applications. Theory will be PYB102 or PYB100 consciousness, and language. In addition, research complemented with experimental laboratory work. Credit Points 12 participation experience is provided to the students. The unit synthesizes previous study in the course including mathematics and classical and quantum Campus Kelvin Grove mechanics to develop advanced scientific Kelvin Grove Availabilities experimental, communication and report writing skills. - SEM-1 PYB110 Psychological This unit asks 'What is gender?'. It includes theories Research Methods of gender; male and female; masculine and feminine; Equivalents BEB123 PVB304 Physics Research roles versus power; counselling issues; old and new Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites PVB301 paradigms; history of psychology of gender; sexuality; mothers and fathers; psychology constructs the Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents PQB651 female; psychology in patriarchal discourse; family Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 therapy theory and feminist critiques; psychological Availabilities constructs and the media; film and media; psychology - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point of gender and power. This unit includes the following: an overview of the Gardens Point Availabilities purposes and strategies of research; elementary - SEM-2 research design; operationalising variables; This is the capstone unit for the physics major. It PYB067 Human Sexuality descriptive statistics; distributions; measures of further develops your knowledge, skills and central tendency and spread; standard scores and application for carrying out physics based research. Completion of 96 credit points percentiles; understanding relationships between The unit focuses on experimental design, practical Pre-requisites including PYB100, PYB110, and variables through correlation and regression; an skills, critical analysis and communication. It links to PYB102 introduction to hypothesis-testing procedures using t- work previously undertaken earlier in the course. tests.
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theoretical area of psychology which explores the processes and structures involved at each stage of information processing within the brain. The PYB159 Alcohol and Other structures and processes involved in perception PYB215 Forensic Psychology Drug Studies provide the brain with its basic information about both and the Law the external world and many of the current states of Anti-requisites PYB158 PYB012, PYB101, PYB102 or the individual. Higher level cognitive processes and Pre-requisites PYB100 and Completion of 72cps Credit Points 12 structures provide the foundation upon which more Campus Kelvin Grove complex aspects of behaviour are based. The unit is Anti-requisites JSB174 placed in second semester of second year so that Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities students following the normal course structure have - SEM-1 an adequate background in research design and data Campus Kelvin Grove analysis. Kelvin Grove This unit aims to give students an understanding of Availabilities the extent of substance abuse in our community: who - SEM-2 uses what, where and when; the models that have Forensic Psychology is readily acknowledged as one been advanced for understanding substance abuse; PYB207 Psychology in the of the fastest growing areas of psychology in the the intervention and therapeutic models utilised within world. Psychologists are now involved significantly in the field; the effects of substance abuse, Community policing, judicial procedures and correctional physiologically, socially and psychologically. PYB202 and PYB203 and PYB204 processes. By its very nature the study of psychology Pre-requisites and PYB210 and law draws from a wide multi-disciplinary base for the application of specialised knowledge. As a student Credit Points 12 of this discipline area, you will need a broad PYB202 Social and Campus Kelvin Grove introductory appreciation of (and a critical perspective Organisational Psychology Kelvin Grove on) what the study of psychology and the law involves Availabilities (PYB100 or PYB102 or PYB101) or - SEM-1, SEM-2 and what it has to offer across the three criminal Pre-requisites (Admission into PY08) justice domains of the police, the courts, and The aim of this unit is enable you to develop your corrections. Equivalents PYB205 work-literacy and work-readiness, by providing Credit Points 12 opportunities to apply psychological knowledge in workplace contexts, supported by activities that Campus Kelvin Grove promote critical reflection on your learning and PYB257 Group Work Kelvin Grove workplace practices. Your participation in this unit PYB007 or PYB074 or HHB113 or Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-1 requires you to establish, conduct, and complete an PYB111 approved period of volunteer work or placement. You People are social beings. Their thoughts, feelings and maybe asked to produce a Blue Card (suitability for Anti-requisites HHB214 and SWB214 actions are influenced by the real, imagined or implied working with children and young people clearance) Credit Points 12 presence of others. To obtain greater insight into before commencing your work placement and it is Campus Kelvin Grove people's behaviour, it is essential to investigate therefore your responsibility to have obtained this scientifically the relationship between the individual clearance prior to commencing your placement. Kelvin Grove Availabilities and the group. We will study the effects of the - SEM-2 individual within the group and the group within the individual and also consider the influence of these This unit provides the skills and content to plan, processes in the organisational setting. PYB208 Counselling Theory organise and facilitate group sessions. It applies Kolberg's inductive learning cycle to organise and and Practice 1 facilitate group experiences. It develops intervention PYB007 or PYB074 or HHB113 or skills for managing group development, decision Pre-requisites PYB203 Developmental SWB104 or PYB111 or PUB209 making and conflicts. Ethical issues in group practice are also examined. Psychology Credit Points 12 (PYB012 or PYB101 or PYB102 or Pre-requisites Campus Kelvin Grove PYB100) or (Admission into PY08) Kelvin Grove Availabilities PYB260 Psychopharmacology Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit develops the student's knowledge of the of Addictive Behaviour Kelvin Grove counselling process and skills and provides practice Pre-requisites PYB102 Availabilities - SEM-2 in changing the ways in which people express, Credit Points 12 conceptualise and respond to their concerns. It builds Campus Kelvin Grove This unit provides an introduction to life span upon the communication skills and concepts developmental psychology. It unit covers the major introduced in PYB007 and introduces a range of Kelvin Grove Availabilities theories of life span development and includes counselling approaches. It emphasises skills in - SEM-1 biological, social and cognitive aspects of solution oriented approaches but also covers a range This unit aims to develop and extend your development from birth through to old age. It of models and skills for workers in crisis situations. It understanding of issues relating to behavioural emphasises the interdependency of all aspects of provides a basis for further studies in counselling in pharmacology. This unit focuses predominantly on development and the importance of the physical, clinical settings requiring psychotherapeutic those substances that are commonly associated with family, socio-cultural and historical contexts within intervention, and other modes of delivery such as addiction, including substances used in the treatment which development occurs. The unit aims to develop couple, family or group work. the student's understanding of general patterns of of addictive behaviours and mental illness. The human development and of the ways in which the context for learning aout specific substances is built development of particular individuals and groups may on an understanding of the principles of behavioural vary from these general patterns. PYB210 Research Design and pharmacology (including a review of neurobiology and the pharmacokinetic effects of common substances) Data Analysis and related research methods. Pre-requisites PYB110 or Admission into PY08 PYB204 Perception and Credit Points 12 Cognition Campus Kelvin Grove PYB302 Industrial and ((PYB100 or PYB101 or PYB102) Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites and PYB110) or (Admission into Availabilities Organisational Psychology - SEM-1 PY08) Pre-requisites PYB205 or PYB202 Equivalents PYB303 This unit takes a research design approach to data Credit Points 12 analysis. This means that quantitative and qualitative Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 analyses are treated as one step in a larger process which includes formulating theoretically sound Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities research questions or hypothesis, selecting suitable - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities research methodologies, data collection methods and - SEM-2 Participation in the workplace is an integral analyses to answer research questions or test component in the lives of most people. It is important Cognitive psychology is a major empirical and hypothesis, and reporting the outcomes.
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units therefore to understand the behaviour of people, Individuals differ on a broad range of characteristics one particular approach which will be called individually and collectively, within the workplace. that are influenced by many factors including culture, 'Constructive Therapy', combining aspects of solution- Industrial and organisational psychologists are sex, intelligence, personality, life experiences and focused therapy, possibility therapy, narrative therapy concerned with advancing the knowledge of the values. There are a number of ways, within the and reflecting team practice. relationship between people and work, and using this discipline of psychology, to conceptualise and explain knowledge to promote the effective organisation of these differences. In this unit we introduce the major human resources. theories that underpin explanations of individual differences and the ways in which those who hold to PYB360 Interventions for different perspectives seek to measure the various Addictive Behaviours constructs. Important properties of measurement tools PYB159 or PYB158 or PYB260 or PYB304 Physiological such as reliability and validity will also be covered as Pre-requisites Psychology well as the utility and applicability of various NSB223 or NSB023 measures. Credit Points 12 (PYB102 or PYB101 or PYB100) or Pre-requisites (Admission into PY08) Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities PYB350 Advanced Statistical - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Addictive behaviours, in the form of alcohol- Kelvin Grove Analysis Availabilities dependence, substance abuse and gambling, are - SEM-1 Pre-requisites PYB210 recognised as major problems nationally and This unit aims to provide a broad introduction to the Credit Points 12 internationally. This unit focuses predominantly on area of neuropsychology and discusses both the Campus Kelvin Grove psychological aspects of addictive behaviours. To clinical and cognitive approaches in the field. Three establish a framework for learning, classes initially Kelvin Grove broad areas are covered: neuroanatomy, Availabilities review issues relating to psychological models of - SEM-2 neuropathology, the cognitive analysis of resulting addiction and methods of studying addictive deficits. Students learn about major neuroanatomical The unit provides students considering further study behaviours. Issues pertaining to the symptomatology, structures and their interconnections, with an in psychology with a thorough grounding in analysis of etiology and assessment of addictive behaviours, as emphasis on how this information is applied in the variance techniques,an introduction to multiple well as the theoretical underpinnings of a range of clinical setting. They also study a number of regression, and the data analysis tools used in a therapeutic interventions are also discussed. This unit neuropsychological disorders in terms of their broad range of research designs in the social encourages critical thinking and analysis with the aim diagnosis, assessment and treatment, as well as the sciences. The unit extends the introduction to analysis of enhancing students' understanding of the complex psychosocial effects such deficits have on the of variance and regression provided in PYB210, issues relating to management of addictive patients. considering more complex designs involving two or behaviours. more independent variables. The unit is both theoretical (including the use of conceptual formulae to analyse simple data sets by hand) and practical PYB306 Psychopathology (analysing data sets using the SPSS statistical PYB372 Traffic Psychology and (PYB012 or PYB101 or PYB102 or package), giving students a firm understanding of the Pre-requisites Behaviour PYB100) or (Admission into PY08) principles underlying each analysis. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove PYB356 Counselling Theory Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 and Practice 2 This unit is an elective unit within the Bachelor of This core unit is designed to develop your Pre-requisites PYB208 Behavioural Science (Psychology). Content focuses understanding of psychopathology and your critical Credit Points 12 on identifying and examining the factors that influence appreciation of notions of abnormal human behaviour. the behaviour of road users, particularly those that Campus Kelvin Grove contribute to the incidence of road crashes or Kelvin Grove Availabilities exacerbate their severity. The student examines a - SEM-1 PYB307 Health Psychology range of theoretical models which have been used to This unit focuses on the common facilitative factors explain the behaviour of road users, especially high Pre-requisites PYB100, PYB101 or PYB102 within a counselling process paying attention to the risk behaviours. The behaviour of all types of road Credit Points 12 person of the therapist and the counselling users will be addressed, including motor vehicle drivers and passengers, motorcycle riders, cyclists Campus Kelvin Grove relationship. In order to respond appropriately and therapeutically to the needs of their clients, and pedestrians. Kelvin Grove Availabilities counsellors must have a clear understanding of the - SEM-2 social and interactive processes which occur. This unit examines the psychological dimension of Consideration of verbal, non-verbal, social, emotional, PYB374 Applying Traffic physical illness, health, and health care. There is a gender, psychological and social dimensions enables strong focus on health psychology in an Australian counsellors to develop effective, functional and client- Psychology context with particular emphasis on cross-cultural and focused relationships and to control biases, needs Credit Points 12 indigenous health-related issues. The unit examines and possible exploitive practices. Campus Kelvin Grove definitions of health and health psychology; the role of Kelvin Grove health psychology; the determinants of health Availabilities - SEM-2 behaviours (e.g., cognitive, attitudinal, motivational, PYB359 Introduction to Family personality, social, developmental); medical settings This unit is an elective unit within the Bachelor of and patient behaviour; patient and practitioner Therapy Behavioural Science (Psychology). The unit focuses communication; stress, illness, and coping; pain and Pre-requisites PYB208 on understanding human factors in road safety with pain management; chronic and terminal illness in an emphasis on the strategies and programs that Credit Points 12 childhood and adulthood. have been used in an attempt to modify road user Campus Kelvin Grove behaviour. The unit provides an overview of the Kelvin Grove different criteria and methods commonly used to Availabilities - SEM-2 assess the effectiveness of road user behaviour PYB309 Individual Differences programs in order to facilitate a comparison of and Assessment Family therapy, based on a systemic or relationship effective and ineffective approaches. understanding of human problems, has been one of (PYB100 or PYB101 or PYB102) or Pre-requisites the most significant influences in the fields of (Admission into PY08) counselling and psychology in recent times. With the Credit Points 12 increasing emphasis on the family as a focus for PYB400 Thesis (Part 2) Campus Kelvin Grove social policy, support services, research, and Pre-requisites PYB401 intervention, it is important for counsellors and Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities psychologists to have some familiarity with the basic - SEM-1 concepts and skills of this broad approach. This unit Campus Kelvin Grove focuses on providing basic skills and concepts from
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Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities methods of analysis. This research is reported in a - SEM-1 written thesis submitted at the completion of the Kelvin Grove Availabilities The thesis component of the honours program thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in - SEM-1, SEM-2 accordance with University assessment procedures. comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the The thesis component of the honours program submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, undergraduate degree and other units within the PYH400 Thesis Credit Points 12 synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your course. You will undertake a research project with the undergraduate degree and other units within the guidance of a supervisor that makes an original Campus Kelvin Grove course. You will undertake a research project with the contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of Kelvin Grove guidance of a supervisor that makes an original psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of methods of analysis. This research is reported in a psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative written thesis submitted at the completion of the The thesis component of the honours program methods of analysis. This research is reported in a thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the written thesis submitted at the completion of the accordance with University assessment procedures. submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, accordance with University assessment procedures. synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your undergraduate degree and other units within the PYB400 Thesis (Part 1) course. You will undertake a research project with the Credit Points 12 guidance of a supervisor that makes an original PYH401 Advanced Research contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of Campus Kelvin Grove psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative Methods Kelvin Grove Availabilities methods of analysis. This research is reported in a Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 written thesis submitted at the completion of the Campus Kelvin Grove The thesis component of the honours program thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in Kelvin Grove comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the accordance with University assessment procedures. Availabilities - SEM-1 submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, This unit provides you with an opportunity to develop synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your skills in the application of multivariate statistics to undergraduate degree and other units within the PYH400 Thesis specific research problems. The unit will give you, course. You will undertake a research project with the PYH401. PHY401 can be studied in hands on experience in entering, cleaning, analysing guidance of a supervisor that makes an original Pre-requisites the same teaching period as and interpreting data using SPSS as well guiding you contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of PYH400-2 through the logic of these procedures. psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative Credit Points 12 methods of analysis. This research is reported in a Campus Kelvin Grove written thesis submitted at the completion of the Kelvin Grove PYH402 Counselling thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in Availabilities accordance with University assessment procedures. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Psychology The thesis component of the honours program Credit Points 12 comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the Campus Kelvin Grove PYB400 Thesis (Part 3) submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites PYB401 synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 undergraduate degree and other units within the As one of the advance electives in the 4th year course. You will undertake a research project with the Campus Kelvin Grove psychology program this unit provides an opportunity guidance of a supervisor that makes an original to engage in critical analysis, comparison, and Kelvin Grove contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of Availabilities evaluation of selected counselling orientations (for - SEM-1, SEM-2 psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative example, Solution-focused therapy, Narrative therapy, methods of analysis. This research is reported in a The thesis component of the honours program Cognitive-behavioural therapy, Psychodynamic written thesis submitted at the completion of the comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the therapy. Through experiential lectures and workshops thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The the unit provides you with the opportunity to critically accordance with University assessment procedures. thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, evaluate and apply distinct counselling orientations synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your undergraduate degree and other units within the course. You will undertake a research project with the PYH400 Thesis guidance of a supervisor that makes an original PYH403 Cognitive contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of Pre-requisites PYH401 psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative Credit Points 12 Neuropsychology methods of analysis. This research is reported in a Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove written thesis submitted at the completion of the Campus Kelvin Grove thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in Kelvin Grove Availabilities Kelvin Grove accordance with University assessment procedures. - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-1 The thesis component of the honours program comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the This unit is one of four advanced electives in this PYB400 Thesis (Part 4) submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The course and provides you with the opportunity to gain thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, an understanding of cognitive and neuropsychology Pre-requisites PYB401 synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your building on from foundational units in these areas. Credit Points 12 undergraduate degree and other units within the The three broad areas of neuroanatomy, course. You will undertake a research project with the neuropathology, and the cognitive analysis of Campus Kelvin Grove guidance of a supervisor that makes an original resulting deficits will be covered in this unit. Both the Kelvin Grove clinical and cognitive approaches in the field will be Availabilities contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of - SEM-1, SEM-2 psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative discussed in line with implications for research and clinical practice. The thesis component of the honours program methods of analysis. This research is reported in a comprises four 12 credit point units leading to the written thesis submitted at the completion of the submission of a 48 credit point research thesis. The thesis units. Assessment of the thesis is in thesis units provide an opportunity for you to extend, accordance with University assessment procedures. PYH404 Issues in Social synthesise and apply the knowledge gained in your undergraduate degree and other units within the Developmental Psychology course. You will undertake a research project with the PYH400 Thesis Credit Points 12 guidance of a supervisor that makes an original Campus Kelvin Grove contribution to knowledge in the broad discipline of Pre-requisites PYH401 psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative Credit Points 12
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities to the submission of a 36 credit point research thesis. - SEM-2 The thesis units provide an opportunity synthesise As one of the four advanced electives in this program, and apply the knowledge gained in your PYN002 Counselling Studies 2 this unit is designed to extend the students undergraduate degree and other units within the Pre-requisites PYN000 understanding of developmental issues across the program. You will undertake a research project that lifespan with the special emphasis on the socio- makes a contribution to knowledge to the broad Credit Points 12 discipline of psychology, using either quantitative or cultural context in which development occurs. Campus Kelvin Grove Students gain knowledge of key theories and qualitative methods of analysis. This research is reported in a written thesis submitted at the Kelvin Grove perspectives that explain how human development Availabilities impacts and is impacted upon by their socio-cultural completion of the thesis units. Assessment of the - SEM-2 context and learn to appreciate the many thesis is in accordance with University assessment procedures. The development of various counselling and interdependent factors that contribute to human psychotherapeutic paradigms and their related development across the lifespan. models of theory and practice will be considered in the light of the cultural contexts that informed them. PYH450 Research Thesis The evolution of approaches over time will be reviewed in terms of ideas about the social Credit Points 12 PYH405 Advanced construction of knowledges and the way they are Organisational Psychology Campus Kelvin Grove embedded into cultural processes. The evolution of Kelvin Grove the brief, post-modern approaches focussed on in Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 other unots will be examined and links made to Campus Kelvin Grove previous therapeutic traditions. Critical analysis will be The thesis component of the graduate diploma Kelvin Grove applied to the possibility of engaging in integrative Availabilities program comprises three 12 credit point units leading - SEM-2 therapeutic practices. to the submission of a 36 credit point research thesis. This unit is one of four advanced electives in the The thesis units provide an opportunity synthesise course. It is designed to enhance and build upon the and apply the knowledge gained in your knowledge of organisational psychology gained in undergraduate degree and other units within the PYN003 Group Studies foundation units in this area. Through a range of program. You will undertake a research project that Pre-requisites PYN001 applied assessments including a consultancy project makes a contribution to knowledge to the broad with an organisation, this unit gives students the discipline of psychology, using either quantitative or Credit Points 12 opportunity to develop skills in applying organisational qualitative methods of analysis. This research is Campus Kelvin Grove psychology theory to a workplace setting. reported in a written thesis submitted at the Kelvin Grove completion of the thesis units. Assessment of the Availabilities - SEM-2 thesis is in accordance with University assessment procedures. This unit provides the development of skills and PYH407 Research and approaches in organising and facilitating group work, Professional Development in the context of personal support and therapeutic groups. It addresses the following: establishing group Seminar PYN000 Counselling Studies 1 norms; facilitating stages of group development; Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 responding to member behaviour and developing facilitator interventions; planning, implementing and Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove evaluating ethical group work practices; dealing with Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove defensiveness and hidden agendas; applying brief Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 solutions-focused and reflecting team processes to groups; examining the motion of the therapeutic This course capstone unit is designed to develop and This unit provides the student with an initial overview milieu. extend your understanding and critical evaluation of of the field of counselling, before focusing on the research and practice issues in psychology. The unit theory and practice of one contemporary perspective is also designed to enhance your understanding of called 'Constructive' or 'Time-Effective' Therapy. It is career paths and professional issues in the broad an approach based largely in social constructionist PYN004 Counselling Studies 3 discipline of psychology. principles and promotes a view of counselling as a unique conversational process which attempts to Pre-requisites PYN000 validate the client's experience, while pursuing Credit Points 12 possibilities for desired change. It also suggests a Campus Kelvin Grove PYH450 Research Thesis time-effective perspective, emphasising the possibility of working briefly and effectively with clients. Selected Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities ideas and practices from several related approaches - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove including solution focused therapy, collaborative This unit focuses on relationship counselling. It Kelvin Grove conversational therapy, possibility therapy and Availabilities explores the historyand development of systemic - SEM-1, SEM-2 narrative therapy will be integrated. family therapy and couple work. It examines the The thesis component of the graduate diploma potential of a constructive approach and orientation to program comprises three 12 credit point units leading working with relationships and relationship issues in to the submission of a 36 credit point research thesis. PYN001 Professional Studies 1 therapy. Students will choose a specific issue or area The thesis units provide an opportunity synthesise of relationship counselling and, working in small Credit Points 12 and apply the knowledge gained in your groups, present a workshop for fellow class members undergraduate degree and other units within the Campus Kelvin Grove which demonstrates the use (or adaption) of a constructive therapy approach. program. You will undertake a research project that Kelvin Grove Availabilities makes a contribution to knowledge to the broad - SEM-1 discipline of psychology, using either quantitative or qualitative methods of analysis. This research is This is an introduction to the professional study of reported in a written thesis submitted at the counselling and the 'common factors' present in most PYN006 Professional Studies 2 completion of the thesis units. Assessment of the counselling approaches. These factors, which include Pre-requisites PYN001 the working relationship, the focus on client thesis is in accordance with University assessment Credit Points 12 procedures. resources, and the instillation of hope, contribute greatly to the counselling outcome. In order to Campus Kelvin Grove respond appropriately and therapeutically to the Kelvin Grove Availabilities needs of their clients, counsellors must have a clear - SEM-1 PYH450 Research Thesis understanding of the social and interactive processes Credit Points 12 that occur in counselling. Verbal, nonverbal, social, This unit provides an experiential introduction to the emotional, gender, psychological, ethical and cultural process of professional supervision. Supervision Campus Kelvin Grove dimensions are all present in the counselling process. processes, roles, responsibilities, content, Kelvin Grove Consideration of these dimensions enables approaches and theories are reviewed. Professional Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 counsellors to develop effective, functional and client- issues commonly addressed in supervision such as focussed relationships. power, gender, culture, consent, duty of care, etc are The thesis component of the graduate diploma reviewed. program comprises three 12 credit point units leading
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can be studied over two semesters. Assessment and application of research. The research thesis items are submitted and a grade awarded for each provides advanced skill development in these sub-unit. areas.The aim of the research thesis is to provide you PYN007 Professional Studies 3 with the opportunity to develop high-level skills in the Pre-requisites PYN006 evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Credit Points 12 It will also enable you to undertake in-depth research, PYN013 Advanced Counselling a specialised area of psychology and to make a Campus Kelvin Grove Studies contribution to the professional literature in clinical Kelvin Grove psychology. Availabilities Pre-requisites PYN004 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 This unit provides an experiential introduction to the process of providing supervision to counsellors. Campus Kelvin Grove PYN024 Research Thesis 4 Supervision processes, roles, responsibilities, Kelvin Grove PYN023 (can be enrolled in the content, approaches and theories are reviewed. Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-2 same teaching period) This unit is designed to allow students to build on the Credit Points 12 development of their counselling skills as they pertain Campus Kelvin Grove PYN008 Project (Part 2) to particular client populations or client presenting Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites PYN014 and PYN006 issues. Various specialist fields of counselling are Availabilities reviewed and guest lecturers share practice - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Credit Points 12 experience. To ensure high quality practice, psychologists working Campus Kelvin Grove in the area of clinical psychology are continually Kelvin Grove required to reflect upon and modify their own practice Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 PYN014 Research for to incorporate knowledge of the most recent research evidence. This requires clinical psychologists to have You will undertake an individual clinical project of Counselling Practice advanced skills in the critical evaluation, interpretation theoretical and/or practice-based research/enquiry in Pre-requisites PYN001 and application of research. The research thesis a selected area of counselling. The project is provides advanced skill development in these areas. supervised by a member of the teaching staff and Credit Points 12 The aim of the research thesis unit is to provide you regular consultation informs the development of the Campus Kelvin Grove with the opportunity to develop high-level skills in the project. Both reflective and academic papers will be evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Kelvin Grove written as part of the assessment of the project. You Availabilities It will also enable you to undertake in-depth research - SEM-2 will be required to work in the Counselling and Family in a specialised area of psychology and to make a Therapy Clinic on a weekly basis in order to achieve This unit aims to prepare students for the reflecting contribution to the professional literature in clinical project requirements. Together, PYN008-1, PYN008- team counselling practice and associated individual psychology. 2 and PYN008-3 comprise a 36 credit point unit that project work in the Family Therapy and Counselling can be studied over two semesters. Assessment Clinic. The unit also prepares students for applied items are submitted and a grade awarded for each counselling project work in professional practice sub-unit. settings. Students are assisted to use the outcome of PYN025 Clinical Psychological current research findings and publications to inform and assist their clinical practice. Interventions 1 Credit Points 12 PYN008 Project (Part 3) Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites PYN014 and PYN006 Kelvin Grove PYN022 Research Thesis 2 Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Pre-requisites PYN021 Campus Kelvin Grove The broad aim of this unit is to cover fundamental Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove aspects of psychological change with adults and Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove children and to introduce you to the theoretical orientation and practical skills involved in cognitive- You will undertake an individual clinical project of Kelvin Grove Availabilities behaviour therapy. An associated aim is to integrate theoretical and/or practice-based research/enquiry in - SEM-1 theory, research and practice, and to encourage a selected area of counselling. The project is To ensure high quality practice, psychologists working students to articulate the link between these areas. supervised by a member of the teaching staff and in the area of clinical psychology are continually regular consultation informs the development of the required to reflect upon and modify their own practice project. Both reflective and academic papers will be to incorporate knowledge of the most recent research written as part of the assessment of the project. You evidence. This requires clinical psychologists to have PYN027 Clinical Psychological will be required to work in the Counselling and Family advanced skills in the critical evaluation, interpretation Therapy Clinic on a weekly basis in order to achieve and application of research. The research thesis Assessment project requirements. Together, PYN008-1, PYN008- provides advanced skill development in these areas. Credit Points 12 2 and PYN008-3 comprise a 36 credit point unit that The aim of the research thesis unit is to provide you Campus Kelvin Grove can be studied over two semesters. Assessment with the opportunity to develop high-level skills in the items are submitted and a grade awarded for each Kelvin Grove evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Availabilities sub-unit. It will also enable you to undertake in-depth research - SEM-1 in a specialised area of psychology and to make a This unit is designed to build on undergraduate contribution to the professional literature in clinical training in psychological assessment. The PYN008 Project (Part 1) psychology. understanding of theoretical perspective in psychological assessment is reinforced. A range of Pre-requisites PYN014 and PYN006 assessment techniques and tests, supported by Credit Points 12 PYN023 Research Thesis 3 research, are taught. The unit will explore some of the Campus Kelvin Grove contextual issues which may have an impact upon the PYN022 (can be enrolled in the clinical assessment of Indigenous Australians, and Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Availabilities same teaching period) outline some important principles of culturally safe - SEM-1, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 clinical assessment. Further, you will also learn the ethical and legal issues involved in psychological You will undertake an individual clinical project of Campus Kelvin Grove theoretical and/or practice-based research/enquiry in assessment. Kelvin Grove a selected area of counselling. The project is Availabilities supervised by a member of the teaching staff and - SEM-1, SEM-2 regular consultation informs the development of the To ensure high quality practice, psychologists working PYN028 Clinical project. Both reflective and academic papers will be in the area of clinical psychology are continually written as part of the assessment of the project. You required to reflect upon and modify their own practice Psychopathology will be required to work in the Counselling and Family to incorporate knowledge of the most recent research Credit Points 12 Therapy Clinic on a weekly basis in order to achieve evidence. This requires clinical psychologists to have Campus Kelvin Grove project requirements. Together, PYN008-1, PYN008- advanced skills in the critical evaluation, interpretation 2 and PYN008-3 comprise a 36 credit point unit that
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 PYN037 Supervised Practicum This unit provides the student with a foundation and Stage 3 PYN044 Clinical Psychological critical awareness of the development and Pre-requisites PYN036 phenomenology of psychological disorders. The unit Credit Points 12 Interventions 2 undertakes a systematic study of the mechanisms Pre-requisites PYN025 and etiology of psychological disorders in individuals Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 across the lifespan. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove This core unit of the Master of Clinical Psychology Availabilities PYN030 Professional Practice course is intended to provide students with the - SEM-2 opportunity to build on previous placements and to . in Clinical Psychology develop higher level psychodiagnostic assessment Credit Points 12 and clinical skills. Campus Kelvin Grove PYN045 Clinical Psychological Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 PYN038 Supervised Practicum Interventions 3 Pre-requisites PYN044 Clinical psychology practice involves a unique Stage 4 Credit Points 12 process which requires an understanding of special Pre-requisites PYN037 roles, power relationships, boundaries and ethical Campus Kelvin Grove principles in order to safeguard client rights. This unit Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove presents an overview of ethical, legal and Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities professional issues encountered in practice, and also - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove emphasises the role of supervision in addressing Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 This core unit covers the theories and skills of these. systemic, narrative and solution-focussed approaches This core unit of the Master of Clinical Psychology required for relationship counselling and family course builds on PYN037 and provides the therapy. The unit has a practical emphasis on opportunity to develop advanced psychodiagnostic common child-focussed and adult-focussed problems. PYN034 Childhood assessment and clinical skills. The unit will examine the implications of each of the Psychopathology and approaches from an evidence-based practice perspective. Treatment Credit Points 12 PYN039 Health Psychology and Campus Kelvin Grove Rehabilitation PYN052 Research Thesis (Part Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove 5) Credit Points 12 This unit provides students with a sound Kelvin Grove Availabilities understanding of the aetiology, diagnosis and - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove management of emotional and behavioural disorders This unit develops core skills and understanding in Kelvin Grove in children. Emphasis is placed on understanding the Availabilities health psychology and rehabilitation within an applied - SEM-1, SEM-2 child within the context of the family and the wider psychology context. It includes modules in health community, and the critical evaluation of the evidence PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3 psychology, behavioural medicine, rehabilitation and for different strategies for assessing and managing full-time or years 3 to 6 part-time of the course. psychopharmacology. An integrated and scientific the mental health needs of children and their families. Students undertake in-depth research on a topic in approach with the recognition of the importance of an clinical psychology and develop high-level skills in the evidence based perspective is used to explore the evaluation, interpretation and application of research. application of the principles in clinical situations. They are required to submit a thesis or a 5,000 word PYN035 Supervised Practicum literature review plus two prepared articles that report the research in a form that can be submitted for Stage 1 publication in an appropriate scholarly journal. Credit Points 12 PYN041 Supervised Practicum Campus Kelvin Grove Stage 5 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites PYN038 Availabilities PYN052 Research Thesis (Part - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 2) This unit provides students with the opportunity to Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 develop psychodiagnostic assessment and clinical Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove skills. Students undertake 250 hours of psychological - SEM-1, SEM-2 practice including at least 60 hours of direct client Kelvin Grove Availabilities contact in the QUT Psychology Clinic. This unit aims to enhance professional knowledge - SEM-1, SEM-2 and skills in the practice of clinical psychology, awareness of ethical guidelines and professional PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3 conduct through supervised clinical practice (250 full-time or years 3 to 6 part-time of the course. PYN036 Supervised Practicum hours including 120 hours of direct client contact) Students undertake in-depth research on a topic in within an area of specialisation. clinical psychology and develop high-level skills in the Stage 2 evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Pre-requisites PYN035 They are required to submit a thesis or a 5,000 word literature review plus two prepared articles that report Credit Points 12 PYN042 Supervised Practicum the research in a form that can be submitted for Campus Kelvin Grove publication in an appropriate scholarly journal. Kelvin Grove Stage 6 Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 This unit provides students with the opportunity to Campus Kelvin Grove PYN052 Research Thesis (Part build on PYN035 and to develop psychodiagnostic Kelvin Grove Availabilities assessment and clinical skills. Students undertake - SEM-1, SEM-2 3) 250 hours of psychological practice including at least Credit Points 12 This unit aims to enhance professional knowledge 100 hours of direct client contact in the QUT and skills in the practice of clinical psychology, Campus Kelvin Grove Psychology Clinic. awareness of ethical guidelines and professional Kelvin Grove Availabilities conduct through supervised clinical practice (250 - SEM-1, SEM-2 hours including 120 hours of direct client contact) within an area of specialisation PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3
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Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 Kelvin Grove The practice of psychology requires an understanding PYN052 Research Thesis (Part Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 of special roles, power relationships, boundaries and 8) ethical principles in order to safeguard client rights. It PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3 requires skills in working with individuals and groups Credit Points 12 full-time or years 3 to 6 part-time of the course. from diverse backgrounds, including those from other Campus Kelvin Grove Students undertake in-depth research on a topic in cultural groups. An understanding of legal issues and clinical psychology and develop high-level skills in the Kelvin Grove relevant legislation and standards is also essential in Availabilities evaluation, interpretation and application of research. - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM professional practice. They are required to submit a thesis or a 5,000 word PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3 literature review plus two prepared articles that report full-time or years 3 to 6 part-time of the course. the research in a form that can be submitted for Students undertake in-depth research on a topic in publication in an appropriate scholarly journal. PYN606 Applied Developmental clinical psychology and develop high-level skills in the evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Psychology They are required to submit a thesis or a 5,000 word Credit Points 12 literature review plus two prepared articles that report PYN053 Advanced Integrative Campus Kelvin Grove the research in a form that can be submitted for Psychotherapy Kelvin Grove publication in an appropriate scholarly journal. Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove In order to provide effective approaches to the Kelvin Grove developmental challenges facing individuals and PYN052 Research Thesis (Part Availabilities - SEM-2 families at all points along the life course, educational 6) and developmental psychologists need skills for - describing, explaining, assessing, intervening and Credit Points 12 collaborating in the promotion of optimum Campus Kelvin Grove developmental outcomes. These skills are developed Kelvin Grove in this unit. Availabilities PYN054 Advanced Assessment - SEM-1, SEM-2 Across the Lifespan PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3 full-time or years 3 to 6 part-time of the course. Credit Points 12 PYN610 Research Thesis 4 Students undertake in-depth research on a topic in Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 clinical psychology and develop high-level skills in the Kelvin Grove evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 They are required to submit a thesis or a 5,000 word Kelvin Grove Availabilities literature review plus two prepared articles that report This unit will explore cognitive function across the - SEM-1, SEM-2 the research in a form that can be submitted for lifespan, moving from pre-natal issues to the elderly. It publication in an appropriate scholarly journal. will explore both acquired and developmental To ensure high quality practice, psychologists working conditions that impact upon cognitive function. This in the area of educational and developmental will take place through lectures, review of cases and psychology are continually required to monitor and formulation of conclusions. modify their own practice to incorporate knowledge of PYN052 Research Thesis (Part the most recent research, assessment tools and interventions. This requires educational and 4) developmental psychologists to have advanced skills Credit Points 12 PYN601 Counselling and in the critical evaluation, interpretation and application Campus Kelvin Grove of research. The research thesis provides advanced Consultation in Educational skill development in these areas. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 and Developmental Psychology EDN631. EDN631 can be studied in PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3 Pre-requisites the same teaching period as PYN610 Research Thesis 3 full-time or years 3 to 6 part-time of the course. PYN601 Students undertake in-depth research on a topic in Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 clinical psychology and develop high-level skills in the Campus Kelvin Grove evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Campus Kelvin Grove They are required to submit a thesis or a 5,000 word Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities literature review plus two prepared articles that report Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-1 the research in a form that can be submitted for To ensure high quality practice, psychologists working publication in an appropriate scholarly journal. Advanced skills in counselling and consultation are in the area of educational and developmental required as a core competency of educational and psychology are continually required to monitor and developmental psychologists who work both directly modify their own practice to incorporate knowledge of with children, adolescents and families, and also more the most recent research, assessment tools and PYN052 Research Thesis (Part indirectly with groups, organisations and communities. interventions. This requires educational and 7) Their roles vary from counselling individual children developmental psychologists to have advanced skills and supporting families, to advising teachers and in the critical evaluation, interpretation and application Credit Points 12 becoming agents of change within organisations and of research. The research thesis provides advanced Campus Kelvin Grove communities. This unit provides students with the skill development in these areas. knowledge and skills necessary for developing Kelvin Grove Availabilities effective counselling relationships with children, - SEM-1, SEM-2 adolescents, adults and families and for working as PYN052 has 8 parts completed over years 2 and 3 consultants to various groups and systems within PYN610 Research Thesis 2 full-time or years 3 to 6 part-time of the course. educational and developmental settings. Credit Points 12 Students undertake in-depth research on a topic in clinical psychology and develop high-level skills in the Campus Kelvin Grove evaluation, interpretation and application of research. Kelvin Grove Availabilities They are required to submit a thesis or a 5,000 word - SEM-1, SEM-2 literature review plus two prepared articles that report
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To ensure high quality practice, psychologists working in the area of educational and developmental QCD211 Communication 2 QCE009 EAP Plus psychology are continually required to monitor and QCD111. QCD111 can be studied Credit Points 48 modify their own practice to incorporate knowledge of Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as Campus Kelvin Grove the most recent research, assessment tools and QCD211 Kelvin Grove interventions. This requires educational and Credit Points 12 developmental psychologists to have advanced skills Availabilities - 12AP1, 12AP2, 12AP3, 12TP1, in the critical evaluation, interpretation and application Campus Kelvin Grove 12TP2, 12TP3 of research. The research thesis provides advanced Kelvin Grove Availabilities This course is designed for international students skill development in these areas. - 13TP3, SEM-2 intending to gain entry into University degree Knowledge and understanding of academic genres programs. Its purpose is to improve students' are essential for success, particularly in a higher academic English and study skills in order to prepare QCD110 Professional education context. International students will them for independent study and to familiarise them encounter new genres in an Australian higher with the Australian academic environment. The aims Communication 1 education context. Not only will they need to become of the EAP unit are to: (a) assist you to upgrade your English proficiency level in speaking, listening, Anti-requisites QCD111, QCD120 competent users of these genres to succeed in their postgraduate degrees, they may also need to adapt to reading and writing to meet university entry Credit Points 12 different learning and teaching styles. This unit aims requirements. (b) prepare you for independent study Campus Kelvin Grove to explore different academic genres through the and to familiarise you with an Australian academic context. Kelvin Grove content of communication theory to enhance Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3, SEM-2 international students' competency in the use of these genres. It will provide opportunities for students to A high level of English communication skills is gain knowledge and understanding of common essential for success in an Australian higher academic genres in an Australian university context to QCF100 Computing education context. International students need to enhance their competency in terms of their use of Credit Points 12 become competent users of the English language in these genres. Campus Kelvin Grove the four macroskills of listening, speaking, reading Kelvin Grove and writing to succeed in their undergraduate Availabilities degrees. The aim of this unit is to provide students - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 with the academic and English communication skills QCE003 English for Academic The use of computers is prevalent in Australian required for success in tertiary studies at the Purposes for Direct Entry to universities for every study area. International undergraduate level. It provides strategies for students need to develop computing skills such as understanding, composing and presenting information QUT word processing, presentations and spreadsheets in in an academic context. Credit Points 48 order to access, organise and present information both within QUT and in the wider learning Campus Kelvin Grove environment. This unit will provide students with the Kelvin Grove necessary computing skills for successful completion Availabilities QCD111 Communication 1 - 12TP1, 12TP2, 12TP3 of undergraduate studies in an Australian university. Credit Points 12 this unit provides assistance to international students Campus Kelvin Grove to upgrade your English proficiency level to meet Kelvin Grove university entry requirements for QUT Degree and QCF112 Academic English 1 Availabilities Post-Graduate programs. The aims of the EAP unit - 13TP3, SEM-2 Credit Points 12 are to: (a) assist you to upgrade your English A high level of English communication skills is proficiency level in speaking, listening, reading and Campus Kelvin Grove essential for success in an Australian higher writing to meet university entry requirements. (b) Kelvin Grove education context. This unit is designed to give Availabilities prepare you for independent study and to familiarise - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 students a stronger grounding in, and understanding you with an Australian academic context. of the learning process. It will develop English International students require the necessary communication skills (reading, writing, listening and preparation to ensure that they enter first year speaking). Students will also learn skills for carrying Australian higher education contexts, they are familiar out scholarly research, and communicating it in QCE004 English for Academic with the skills and strategies they will need across written and spoken form in an academic context. their units of study. Academic English 1 is an Purposes for QUTIC Courses introductory preparatory unit which focuses on the Credit Points 48 development of academic literacy skills and English Campus Kelvin Grove language proficiency to enhance international QCD210 Professional students' success within an Australian higher Kelvin Grove Availabilities education context. Communication 2 - 12TP1, 12TP1, 12TP2, 12TP3 QCD110. QCD110 can be studied This unit is designed to help you gain entry to Pre-requisites in the same teaching period as University Entry programs (Foundation and University QCD210. Diploma). Its purpose is to improve your English QCF115 Foundation English Credit Points 12 language and study skills in order to prepare you for Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove independent study and to familiarise you with the Campus Kelvin Grove Australian academic environment. The aims of the Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities EAP unit are to: assist you to upgrade your English Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3, SEM-2 proficiency level in speaking, listening, reading and - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 Knowledge and understanding of academic genres writing to meet university entry requirements; prepare In this unit students will develop the four macro are essential for success, particularly in a higher you for independent study and to familiarise you with English language skills: reading, writing, speaking and education context. International students will an Australian academic context. listening, through a variety of active learning tasks encounter new genres in an Australian higher and experiences. The unit will provide students with education context. Not only will they need to become skills to explore and use the English language in competent users of these genres to succeed in their different contexts and prepare you to undertake undergraduate degrees, they may also need to adapt QCE007 English for Academic further studies in communication. The aim of this unit to different learning and teaching styles. This unit Purposes Advanced is to introduce international students to a variety of aims to explore different academic genres through the Credit Points 48 contexts which require using and developing a variety content of communication theory to enhance of English language skills. international students' competency in the use of these Campus Kelvin Grove genres. It will provide opportunities for students to Kelvin Grove Availabilities gain knowledge and understanding of common - 12TP1, 12TP3 academic genres that will enhance their competency QCF122 Organisations And in terms of their use of these genres. 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Kelvin Grove Availabilities percentage calculations, working with ratios and directed exploration of contemporary Australian - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 proportion, geometry, graphing, basic statistics and society, with a focus on critical historical events, This unit is designed to develop understanding of the fundamental financial mathematical calculations with current issues and social and cultural norms. significant role that organisations play in many facets an emphasis on real-world applications and contexts. Students are encouraged to develop their own of our lives, how organisations function and what is analyses of contemporary Australia with reference to involved in working in organisations. The emphasis is various academic and non-academic sources as well on skills that are needed at all levels and in all areas as personal experience. of an organisation. Students will develop a range of QCF156 Mathematics A1 skills that are required by the individual to function Credit Points 12 effectively in teams and in an organisation. The aim of Campus Kelvin Grove this unit is to introduce students to the fundamentals QCF212 Academic English 2 Kelvin Grove of organisations and management, providing a clear Availabilities Credit Points 12 - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 understanding of systems, procedures and practices Campus Kelvin Grove and ways for employees to operate effectively in an To be an effective professional in a wide range of Kelvin Grove organisation. areas such as engineering, science, information Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3, 6TP6 technology, health and business, an appropriate level of mathematical competence is essential. In our own Academic English 2 is designed to provide personal lives, a basic knowledge of topics such as international students with the necessary academic QCF130 Accounting statistics, probability, measurement and financial literacy skills to successfully transition to first year Credit Points 12 mathematics is also beneficial. This unit aims to give undergraduate studies. You will be introduced to a students a basic knowledge and the fundamental variety of spoken and written genres and language. Campus Kelvin Grove skills of arithmetic, statistics, probability, The aim of this unit is to provide opportunities for Kelvin Grove Availabilities measurement and financial mathematics. This unit students to practice, develop and apply academic - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 also aims to develop students ability to apply these literacy skills in context. This unit is designed for students with little or no prior concepts in solving problems. exposure to accounting. Its objective is to acquaint the student with the basic concepts underlying double entry accounting, enabling them to employ accounting QCF230 Information Processing techniques to process financial transactions from QCF157 Mathematics B1 Credit Points 12 source documents through to end of period reports for Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove a sole-trading entity. As well preparation of cash Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove budgets and analysing and interpreting the financial Availabilities Kelvin Grove - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 reports using financial ratios and other measures will Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 be considered from a management perspective. This unit is designed to meet the general needs of To be an effective professional in a wide range of students who will need to design ways to input, areas, such as engineering, science, information validate, process and display information. It is technology, health, accounting, economics and intended to develop students' knowledge and QCF140 Economics business, an appropriate level of mathematical application of boolean logic, fundamentals for Credit Points 12 competence is essential. In our own personal lives, a designing and developing small Java and MS Access basic knowledge of topics, such as statistics, database applications. The aim of this unit is to Campus Kelvin Grove probability, measurement and financial maths is also introduce students to the principles of interface design Kelvin Grove Availabilities beneficial. This unit aims to give students a basic and data validation and develop students' skills in - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 knowledge and the fundamental skills of algebra, applying these concepts to programming and This unit introduces students to fundamental statistics, probability, functions and trigonometry. This database applications. microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts, unit also aims to develop students' ability to be able to enabling an understanding of decision-making in the apply these concepts in solving problems. This unit context of consumers, businesses, markets and provides students with a foundation for further study governments. It provides students with experience of in calculus, trigonometry and statistics. QCF252 Life Science problem-solving from an economic perspective and Credit Points 12 builds on knowledge, skills and applications that will Campus Kelvin Grove help them with their other studies. QCF160 Introduction to Kelvin Grove Availabilities Creativity - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 Credit Points 12 A knowledge of life science develops a greater QCF153 Physical Sciences appreciation and understanding of the complexities of Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 natural systems, and is relevant for students in the Kelvin Grove fields of applied science and health science. 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Completion of this unit will assist in Credit Points 12 This unit is designed as an introductory unit for the learning of language, key terms and concepts students who then can elect to take either Chemistry related to creativity, with reference to creative Campus Kelvin Grove and/or Physics in second semester. Physical applications and the creative industries. The aim of Kelvin Grove Sciences provide a solid foundation in both chemistry Availabilities this unit is to provide a broad understanding of the - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 and physics upon which further knowledge can be nature of creativity and the processes involved for a built. The aim of this unit is to: foster an person to be creative. Physics is one of the enabling sciences that underpin understanding of fundamental concepts in some all of the 'new technologies'. Almost all areas of topics within the broad area of physical sciences science and technology require a fundamental develop an attitude of open inquiry and an understanding of physics. Physics is relevant to appreciation of scientific methodology QCF200 Australian Studies students who intend to pursue further studies in a Credit Points 12 variety of disciplines including, engineering, health sciences and applied sciences. The aim of this unit is Campus Kelvin Grove to foster an understanding of fundamental concepts of QCF155 Practical Mathematics Kelvin Grove physics and to develop an attitude of open inquiry and Availabilities Credit Points 12 - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3, 6TP6 an appreciation of scientific methodology. 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QCF255 Chemistry Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove QCF270 International QEL003 IELTS Advanced Credit Points 20 Kelvin Grove Perspectives Availabilities - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3, 13TP3 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove The language and basic concepts of chemistry Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - 5TP1, 5TP4, 5TP8, 5TP9 together with the associated skills of chemical Kelvin Grove Availabilities analysis and experimentation are relevant to future - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 studies in many fields, particularly engineering, applied sciences and health sciences. The aim of this International students benefit greatly from subject is to provide students with an understanding consideration of a range of cultural, economic, QEN001 General English of fundamental concepts of chemistry and to develop environmental and political matters that impact on Credit Points 20 problem solving skills in a scientific context. them as individuals and global citizens. 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Classes at specific To be an effective professional in a wide range of levels are offered subject to demand. On completion fields, an appropriate level of mathematical of this course students should have attained a level of competence is essential. In our own personal lives a QCN011 English for Tertiary proficiency (at the relevant exit level. as indicated in basic knowledge of topics such as statistics, the proficiency statement below: probability, measurement and financial maths is also Preparation beneficial. This unit aims to give students a basic Credit Points 8 knowledge and the fundamental applications of Campus Kelvin Grove algebra as well as an intermediate knowledge and QEN002 General English Kelvin Grove understanding of the concepts involved in statistics Availabilities Credit Points 20 and financial mathematics which will equip them well - 5TP2, 5TP5, 5TP7 Campus Kelvin Grove for their further studies at faculty level. This unit also aims to further develop the student's ability to apply Kelvin Grove these concepts in solving problems in real life Availabilities - 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, 5TP4, situations. QCS230 Computing 5TP5, 5TP6, 5TP7, 5TP8, 5TP9 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove QCF257 Mathematics B2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities QEN003 General English Credit Points 12 - 13TP1, 13TP3, SEM-2 Credit Points 20 Campus Kelvin Grove It is important when studying at university to have the Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove computing skills necessary for accessing, organising Availabilities and presenting information and knowledge of the Kelvin Grove - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 - 5TP1, 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, university computing facilities, services, procedures Availabilities To be an effective professional in a wide range of and culture. As these skills are needed at the 5TP5, 5TP5, 5TP6, 5TP7, 5TP8, areas, such as engineering, science, information beginning of university study, this is an introductory 5TP9 technology, health, accounting, economics and subject encompassing Windows, Office, Word, Excel business, an appropriate level of mathematical and PowerPoint to provide students with these skills. competence is essential. In our own personal lives, a The aim of this unit is to provide students with the basic knowledge of topics, such as statistics, basic computing skills for successful completion of QEN004 General English probability and financial mathematics, is also their university study. Credit Points 20 beneficial. This unit aims to give students a sound Campus Kelvin Grove knowledge and understanding of the concepts involved in calculus, trigonometry, statistics and Kelvin Grove financial mathematics which will equip them well for - 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, QEL001 IELTS Advanced Availabilities their further studies at faculty level. This unit also Credit Points 20 5TP4, 5TP5, 5TP6, 5TP6, 5TP7, aims to further develop the students' ability to be able 5TP8, 5TP9 to apply these concepts in solving problems. Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities - 5TP2, 5TP6, 5TP8 QEN005 General English QCF260 Professional Studies Designed for international students who need to upgrade their English proficiency level to meet Credit Points 20 Credit Points 12 University entry requirements for those programs that Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove require an IELTS Academic Module score of 7.0 or Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove higher as an entry pre-requisite. Students in this Availabilities Availabilities - 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, 5TP5, - 13TP1, 13TP2, 13TP3 program will need to apply for an IELTS Academic Module examination to be taken at the end of the 5TP6, 5TP7, 5TP7, 5TP8, 5TP9 This unit is designed to provide international students program. To prepare students for the IELTS with an understanding of creative thinking and Academic Module. The unit will also familiarise problem solving tools and models. The unit students with an Australian academic setting in terms recognises that creative thinking is increasingly of study techniques and student/lecturer relations and QEN006 General English recognized as a key success factor in business, expectations. Credit Points 20 industry and education. The unit introduces ways of working in groups that are applicable to any field of Campus Kelvin Grove study or industry sector. Students will work in a team Kelvin Grove environment using creative process frameworks to QEL002 IELTS Advanced Availabilities - 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, 5TP5, inform the development of a creative product or Credit Points 20 5TP6, 5TP7, 5TP8, 5TP8, 5TP9 outcome. The aim of this unit is to enable students to develop skills in creative thinking and problem solving Campus Kelvin Grove as an individual and as part of a group. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - 5TP3, 5TP3, 5TP7, 5TP9
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Gardens Point students through the research process from the Availabilities QEN007 General English experimentation and/or literature searching and - SEM-1 Credit Points 20 review to the writing of a paper under the guidance of Science is concerned with developing testable, Campus Kelvin Grove a research mentor. The research project aims to quantifiable models of the world around us for the foster enhanced observational, practical, and problem Kelvin Grove purpose of creating a sustainable, safe future for solving skills, literacy and communications skills, and humankind. To this end, scientists employ a unique Availabilities - 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, 5TP5, professional responsibility and ethical conduct. 5TP6, 5TP7, 5TP8, 5TP9, 5TP9 methodology termed the Scientific Method. "Experimental Science 2" focuses on the applied principles and concepts embodied by the Scientific SEB104 Grand Challenges in Method as it relates to the fields of biological, QEN008 General English environmental and earth science. You will conduct Science experimental science, via inquiry-led practice, working Credit Points 20 Anti-requisites SEB101, SEB102 both individually and collaboratively. Through field Campus Kelvin Grove and/or laboratory experiences, you will focus on real- Credit Points 12 world applications. Kelvin Grove Availabilities - 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, 5TP5, Campus Gardens Point 5TP6, 5TP7, 5TP8, 5TP9 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 SEB400 Foundations of Grand Challenges in Science explores world events, Research problems or phenomena from a scientific perspective, QEN009 General English discovering the many ways in which science is used Admission in to one of (ST10, IN10, Credit Points 20 and misused by practicing scientists and the public. Pre-requisites UD10, MS10)) or (288cp in current course) Campus Kelvin Grove You will understand the problems and challenges of modern scientific inquiry using a range of Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove multidisciplinary perspectives and explore solutions Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - 5TP1, 5TP2, 5TP3, 5TP4, 5TP5, focussed approaches. 5TP6, 5TP7, 5TP8, 5TP9 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 SEB113 Quantitative Methods This unit facilitates the acquisition of knowledge and SCB500 Industry Project skills essential to engaging with, and conducting in Science research. This unit introduces you to the research Credit Points 12 Anti-requisites MAB101 process, project planning and management, and Campus Gardens Point methodologies used in science, information Credit Points 12 technology, engineering, mathematics, urban Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point development and property economics. The learning - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM acquired in this unit will be applied to your project Gardens Point Availabilities which is further developed in the Research units. In this unit students will apply scientific methods and - SEM-1, SEM-2 quantitative techniques to real work issues. Students will develop an appropriate plan for analysing and Mathematics and Statistics underpins Science and resolving an industry issue under the guidance of both Engineering research and practice. In Quantitative a QUT supervisor and an associate supervisor from Methods in Science you will learn to apply the tools SEB401 Reviewing the Field an industry partner. At the end of the unit students will and skills of mathematics and statistics, to analyse, SEB400 (can be enrolled in the Pre-requisites present both an oral seminar and a written report. model and represent data for scientific purposes. It same teaching period) develops your practical quantitative problem-solving Credit Points 12 skills in real multidisciplinary scientific contexts. You will apply and augment your quantitative skills using Campus Gardens Point SCB501 Research Project for real-world data collected during field- and laboratory Gardens Point Availabilities work. This unit also builds awareness of how the - SEM-1, SEM-2 Dean's Scholars different Science disciplines use and represent data, Credit Points 12 which will facilitate your choice of a discipline major in This honours level unit develops advanced knowledge Campus Gardens Point second semester. and skills in one or more discipline areas around, and specifically related to, your honours research topic. Gardens Point Availabilities This advanced unit is designed for application of skills - SEM-1, SEM-2 learnt in the Introduction to Research unit and to Independent research is a fundamental aspect of SEB115 Experimental Science 1 complement the Project unit. science and mathematics. This unit involves a small Anti-requisites SEB114 research project that may be based on a previously Credit Points 12 developed research proposal. The unit guides students through the research process from the Campus Gardens Point SEB402 Project Proposal experimentation and/or literature searching and Gardens Point SEB400 (can be enrolled in the Availabilities Pre-requisites review to the writing of a paper under the guidance of - SEM-1 same teaching period) a research mentor. The research project aims to Credit Points 12 foster enhanced observational, practical, and problem Science is the systematic study of the structure and solving skills, literacy and communications skills, and behaviour of the physical and natural world through Campus Gardens Point professional responsibility and ethical conduct. observation and experiment. To this end scientists Gardens Point Availabilities employ a unique methodology termed the Scientific - SEM-1, SEM-2 Method. "Experimental Science 1" focuses on the applied principles and concepts embodied by the This research proposal unit leads to the capstone unit SCB501 Research Project for Scientific Method as it relates to the fields of in the SEF Honours degree and draws together the Chemistry and Physics. You will conduct experimental theory, practice and discipline fundamentals that have Dean's Scholars science, via inquiry-led practice, working both been covered in your Bachelor's degree as well as the Approval of the unit coordinator and individually and collaboratively. Through classroom Introduction to Research and Reviewing the Field Other having identified a research activities, workshops and laboratory experiences, you units, which are taken in conjunction with this unit. requisites supervisor for your project will focus on real-world applications. You have the opportunity to apply your knowledge to a discipline related issue or problem and to carry out Credit Points 12 an independent and in depth study that will provide Campus Gardens Point the opportunity to extend and broaden your Gardens Point SEB116 Experimental Science 2 understanding of the chosen issue. Availabilities - SEM-2 Anti-requisites SEB114 Independent research is a fundamental aspect of Credit Points 12 science and mathematics. This unit involves a small Campus Gardens Point research project that may be based on a previously developed research proposal. The unit guides
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critical reflection and report writing will be on SEB403 Honours Research identifying and describing aspects of professional Project relevance incorporating: collaboration and teamwork; SEB705 Work Integrated SEB400, SEB401 (can be enrolled work place, health and safety; professional conduct; Pre-requisites in the same teaching period) ethical responsibility; and other aspects of your work Learning 5 place experience. This unit may form part of your Equivalents BEB705 Credit Points 36 (compulsory) course core (as required by professional Campus Gardens Point accrediting bodies e.g. Engineers Australia) or it may Credit Points 12 be one of several Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Availabilities units (selected as part of a minor). - SEM-1, SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities This is the capstone unit for the SEF Honours degree - SEM-1 and draws together the theory, practice and discipline This unit introduces practice-led research and fundamentals that have been covered in your SEB702 Work Integrated research-led practice and provides you with the Bachelor's degree as well as the Introduction to Learning 2 opportunity to use action learning as a framework for Research, Project Proposal and Reviewing the Field further developing your discipline knowledge as well Equivalents BEB702 units. In this unit you will execute, complete and as advanced critical enquiry skills. That is, the unit present your research project. This unit will prepare Credit Points 12 provides the opportunity for sophisticated, you for your transition to the professional world or for Campus Gardens Point collaborative and reciprocal learning and outcomes a further career in research. that have the potential to improve work-based Gardens Point Availabilities practice through the implement of an action learning - SEM-2 approach. This unit aims to provide you with the opportunity to SEB410 Advanced Topic 1 continue to learn in a work place environment. It will Credit Points 12 involve attendance, participation, observation, and Campus Gardens Point reflection on activities negotiated with the work place SEB709 Work Integrated supervisor. The emphasis of your critical reflection for Gardens Point Learning 1 Availabilities this unit is to explicate the culture of the organisation Equivalents BEB709 - SEM-1, SEM-2 you work for via the profile it presents to its This honours level unit develops advanced knowledge employees, clients and the public and critique the role Credit Points 12 and skills in one or more discipline areas. The unit will of an individual in a work place and how this relates to Campus Gardens Point have an industry or research training focus to prepare other employees in meeting the organisations aims Gardens Point you for a job in the real-world or for further studies. and objectives. Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 This advanced topic is designed to complement your studies in the Honours Research Project, Introduction SEB709 is for students who are undertaking a second to Research and Reviewing the Field units. primary major in the same course, and who have SEB703 Work Integrated already completed SEB701 in their first primary major. Learning 3 Please note: Advance standing for BEB701 can not be granted for a second primary major in the same Equivalents BEB703 SEB411 Advanced Topic 2 course. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities SWB100 Orientation to Social Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2 Work and Human Services This unit will provide you with the opportunity to This honours level unit develops advanced knowledge Anti-requisites HHB100 and skills in one or more discipline areas. The unit will consolidate and extend your learning through a work have an industry or research training focus to prepare placement and associated projects. It will involve Credit Points 12 you for a job in the real-world or for further studies. some on-campus attendance at lectures and online Campus Kelvin Grove This advanced topic is designed to complement your tutorials as well as participation in, observation of, and Kelvin Grove studies in the Honours Research Project, Introduction reflection on activities undertaken during the work Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 to Research and Reviewing the Field units. placement. The emphasis in the unit is on the critical reflection of academic learning and its application in At the beginning of studies in Social Work and Human practice. This is supported through an emphasis on Services it is essential that students develop a clear the development of high order observation skills and understanding of the scope of social work or human SEB412 Advanced Topic 3 critical reflection skills. The outcomes of your learning services, the context in which they are located, and Credit Points 12 will be recorded in your e-portfolio. Most students the changing patterns of professional occupations and undertaking this unit will do so as part of a WIL Minor. service delivery. It is also essential that students Campus Gardens Point begin to explore their own motivations for becoming a Gardens Point Availabilities social work or human service practitioner and begin to - SEM-1, SEM-2 SEB704 Work Integrated develop a sense of professional identity. It is This honours level unit develops advanced knowledge anticipated that student's engagement with this and skills in one or more discipline areas. The unit will Learning 4 reflective journey will continue throughout the social work or human services course. An understanding of have an industry or research training focus to prepare Equivalents BEB704 you for a job in the real-world or for further studies. cultural diversity and the construction of 'difference' Credit Points 12 This advanced topic is designed to complement your are integral to social work and human service studies in the Honours Research Project, Introduction Campus Gardens Point practice. Understanding and reflecting on cultural diversity will be an embedded feature of this unit. to Research and Reviewing the Field units. Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 As with the previous WIL units, this unit involves SEB701 Work Integrated participation in a work placement, associated projects SWB102 Human Development and on-campus lectures and seminars to further and Behaviour Learning 1 extend and consolidate students' learning and Anti-requisites HHB102 Equivalents BEB701 preparation for professional practice. The emphasis in Credit Points 12 this unit is on developing a broader appreciation of Credit Points 12 the issues impacting on industry, the nature of Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Gardens Point academic and practice knowledge and how they can Gardens Point be productively integrated to respond to the needs of Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM and the challenges facing professional practice. The - SEM-1 unit also gives explicit attention to the continuing Social work and human service students are studying This unit provides opportunities to learn from development of graduate capabilities including oral workplace experiences. It involves attendance, for professional careers that enhance people's communications skills. This unit is normally personal and social wellbeing and development, participation, observation, critical reflection, and report undertaken as the last unit in the first WIL Minor. writing on workplace activities. The emphasis of your enhance problem solving in relationships, and
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units promote human rights and social justice. To do this their continuing impact in contemporary society. you need to understand how individual development Reflexive and reflective practice, where students look SWB202 Health, Wellbeing and and behaviour are shaped by a range of factors inward and deconstruct their own values and beliefs Social Work including biological, psychological, socio-cultural, about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Credit Points 12 political and economic factors. You will learn about a and their social and community contexts are critical range of theories of development and behaviour and skills for potential social work and human service Campus Kelvin Grove consider the implications of such ideas for social work practitioners. Kelvin Grove Availabilities and human service practice. You will learn about key - SEM-2 aspects of human behaviour such as emotion, motivation and socialisation and integrate and - communicate this knowledge. Studying this SWB110 Understanding information in the first year of the course provides you Families and Relationships with necessary foundational information about people and the environments that shape their lives. Credit Points 12 SWB204 Introduction to Child Campus Kelvin Grove and Family Services Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites HHB204 Availabilities SWB105 Introduction to Human - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Rights and Ethics The family is typically where people receive care and Campus Kelvin Grove support. For most people it is in their family that they Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites HHB114 develop their sense of identity and establish the skills Availabilities - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 and attitudes fundamental to relating to others. Social workers and human service professionals are often Campus Kelvin Grove The unit focuses on developing competent social responsible for assessing the needs of families or work and human services professionals by providing Kelvin Grove Availabilities supporting family members to care for each other. In students with opportunities to develop knowledge, - SEM-1, SEM-2 this unit you will gain foundational knowledge about skills and dispositions specifically relevant to work This unit examines the relationship between human the role of family in individual growth and with children and families. Students from, education, rights and thematic challenges including climate development and in the provision of informal social psychology, and health related areas also find this change, poverty, terrorism and oppressive forms of care and support. unit useful as it provides a foundation in theories and intolerance and discrimination. It offers the practices for working with children and families that is opportunities to investigate present day concerns transferable to a wide range of professional settings. relating to the human rights of women, indigenous peoples and minority groups as well as specific topics SWB200 Working in Human such as human trafficking, harmful cultural practices, Service Organisations SWB207 Introduction to Youth workers' rights and child soldiers. Pre-requisites SWB100 or HHB100 Services Anti-requisites HHB200 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 SWB108 Australian Society, Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Systems and Policies Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Anti-requisites SWB103, SWB218 - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 As social work and human service practitioners it is This unit critically examines professional roles within essential to have an understanding of and capacity to Campus Kelvin Grove the organisational context of Human Service and critique the range of ways young people are Social Work practice. Using an approach that Kelvin Grove constructed in academic and popular contexts. It is Availabilities combines traditional classes with an experiential - SEM-2 also important for practitioners to have an approach, it examines the professional role, appreciation of current policies oriented to young It is imperative for human services and social work organisational requirements, student developmental people and the nature of the various service delivery professionals to have a comprehensive understanding needs, motivations, and personal responses to these systems and programs in operation. of the diversity of factors within Australian society factors in the Human Service/Social Work context. which lead to and sustain disadvantage, marginalisation, social exclusion and injustice and breaches of human rights. This unit provides an SWB211 Casework and Case SWB201 Human Services introduction to Australian society with a particular Management focus on those institutions, structures, systems and Practice Placement 1 processes which are critical and relevant for Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites (SWB100 or HHB100) and PYB007 professional practice. Campus Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites SWB208 or HHB208, SWB209 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 24 - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove SWB109 Working with Social work and human service practitioners are Kelvin Grove expected to be familiar with casework and case Aboriginal and Torres Strait Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 management processes and practice models, Islander Peoples and including understanding their strengths and limitations The professional human service role requires and implications for practice. Accordingly, this unit Communities practitioners to demonstrate proficiency in applying provides foundational knowledge and skill for Anti-requisites EDB041 relevant knowledge and skills in complex situations. In practitioners who will utilise these critical tools. order to integrate and contextualise the theoretical Credit Points 12 knowledge students have obtained thus far in their Campus Kelvin Grove human services course, they are required to Kelvin Grove undertake work integrated learning (WIL) where they Availabilities SWB212 Community and Place - SEM-2 will demonstrate satisfactory achievement of the Australian Community Welfare Association's seven Based Practice Understanding the impacts of dispossession, core competencies. This introductory practice unit Anti-requisites HHB212 colonisation and policy directives on the ability to encompasses 200 hours of direct practice within one achieve self-determination and empowerment as human services agency. The placement provides the Credit Points 12 basic human rights provides a requisite platform for beginning practitioner with opportunities to assess Campus Kelvin Grove practice and thereby helps to redress the profound firsthand the manner in which human service Kelvin Grove disadvantage evidenced across a range of social, Availabilities practitioners implement strategies to assist service - SEM-2 health and economic indicators, social exclusion and users. marginalisation. Effective social work and human Community level practice is a key social work and service practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait human services method. Various theories and Islander individuals and communities requires approaches to 'community' and community work have practitioners to possess an in-depth understanding been developed and used in practice. In recent years and knowledge of past practices and policies and this has extended to include the need for locality
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Kelvin Grove oriented frames of 'space' and place', particularly as Availabilities these apply to disadvantaged localities and tensions SWB221 Professional Practice - SEM-1 in various people's use of public spaces. This unit Processes and Assessment Social work and human service practitioners must develops baseline practice skills and techniques for Anti-requisites HHB279 have the relevant professional knowledge and skills to community level practice underpinned by social work Credit Points 12 understand the impact of disability issues experienced and human service ethics and values. by people, their family and carers and encountered in Campus Kelvin Grove the community. The experience of disability can Kelvin Grove universally impact on people of any age or culture at Availabilities - SEM-1 any point during life course transition. This unit SWB214 Group and Team provides foundational knowledge and skills required Practice Skills Human service and social work students must build to enable effective responses to disability issues. It foundational knowledge and skills in core practice Pre-requisites SWB220 also introduces challenging social and cultural processes and assessment. This unit begins that constructions located in local, national and Credit Points 12 foundation through focusing on integration of theory international community contexts. Campus Kelvin Grove and practice. Because of its importance in preparing you to undertake professional placements, the unit is Kelvin Grove Availabilities strategically located in second year. Understanding - SEM-1 and reflecting on cultural diversity will be an SWB307 Youth Services Working collaboratively and effectively with embedded feature of this unit. Practice colleagues and clients in groups and teams is a key Completion of 144 credit points or skill in human services and social work practice, Pre-requisites particularly when working with vulnerable and often more of study marginalised groups across diverse settings. This unit SWB222 Advanced Credit Points 12 provides you with an opportunity to apply knowledge Communication for Social Work Campus Kelvin Grove of the dynamics of groups and teams and skills for and Human Services Kelvin Grove effective engagement and intervention. Availabilities Pre-requisites HHB113 or SWB104 or PYB007 - SEM-1 Anti-requisites HHB215, HHB282 This unit focuses on a wide range of practice arenas Credit Points 12 relevant to work in services for young people. SWB219 Legal and Ethical Increasingly professionals working with young people Dimensions of Social Work and Campus Kelvin Grove or in agencies concerned with or impacting on young Kelvin Grove people require expertise about specific issues and Availabilities Human Services - SEM-1 practice responses. This expertise may be related to Pre-requisites SWB100 and SWB105 a particular professional role (eg policy analyst and Developed interpersonal communication skills are the Anti-requisites HHB277 advocate), the orientation or framework employed by cornerstone for both personal and professional the funding program or service (eg early intervention Credit Points 12 relationships. Human service and social work in a or prevention), or particular practice approaches that Campus Kelvin Grove broad sense, aim to help people in their struggle for respond to issues/needs that may be impacting on self determination and social justice. At a fundamental young people who constitute the target group (eg Kelvin Grove Availabilities level, the struggle for independence, justice and mental health, drug use, juvenile offending). - SEM-2 empowerment is facilitated by interpersonal The legal dimensions of practice range from the processes involving the effective use of nature of legislative provisions to the legal communication and conflict resolution skills. This is a accountabilities of direct practice. Practitioners often skills based unit located in the second year of the SWB310 Linking Social Work Social Work degree and the third year of the Human work with vulnerable and/or marginalised persons, Theory and Practice groups and communities and need to understand the Services degree to build upon fundamental law as both context and as a dynamic resource with communication skills. These culturally sensitive and (HHB277 or SWB219) and which they can engage. Legal and ethical diverse skills are the core of sound practice, whether (HHB279 or SWB221) and considerations in practice often intersect and are at a micro or macro level. The essential practitioner (HHB282 or SWB222 or PYB208) usefully examined in conjunction with each other. An skill of a heightened sense of self is closely examined Pre-requisites and SWB316 and SWB317. understanding and capacity to respond to ethical as are reflective strategies to effectively deal and SWB316 and SWB317 can be dimensions of practice situations is central to prevent vicarious trauma, burnout and enhance studied in the same teaching period professional capability and requires students develop lifelong learning. as SWB310 literacy about key ethical approaches and concepts, Anti-requisites HHB339 and the capability to critically apply social work and Credit Points 12 human service professional Codes of Ethics. SWB304 Child Protection and Campus Kelvin Grove Family Practice Kelvin Grove Availabilities SWB220 Practice Theories Pre-requisites SWB204 or SWB110 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Anti-requisites HHB278 Anti-requisites HHB304 It is imperative that social workers are able to clearly Credit Points 12 and concisely articulate well developed professional Credit Points 12 frameworks that guide practice. All frameworks Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove include important ethical components which in the Australian context are informed by the AASW Code of Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities Ethics (2010). It is offered at this point in the course - SEM-1 - SEM-1 as an important complement to professional In line with the orientation of the social work and This unit contributes to the aims of the social work placement. Your personal and professional practice human service courses as a whole, this unit and human services courses by extending and framework is perhaps the most important piece of emphasises the conceptual component of your deepening your knowledge for practice with children work that you will develop and utilise following your developing personal and professional practice and families. In particular you will extend and apply academic studies. framework integral to working effectively with a range understandings related to child development and of services users in a variety of different contexts. It is family process, cultural safety and the wellbeing of essential that students have a capacity to integrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and and apply theoretical concepts to specific practice families, service contexts and collaborative practice, SWB311 Mental Health and and contemporary policy and practice frameworks for contexts, consider their own practice frame of Social Work reference and ideological influences, and understand child and family work. the implications of these for practice. Pre-requisites SWB221 or HHB279 Anti-requisites HHB340 SWB306 People, Community Credit Points 12 and Disability Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove
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Social workers need knowledge and skill to support Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 their understanding and capacity to intervene and/or Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove support individuals, families, groups and communities Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove affected by mental illness or disorder. While social Availabilities Availabilities workers across the range of practice fields require this - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM - SEM-1 knowledge and these skills, those working in agencies The social work role requires practitioners to Social workers must have a thorough understanding that provide treatment for mental illness and alcohol demonstrate proficiency in applying relevant of the structure of government, an awareness of and drug misuse need higher capabilities. Social work knowledge and skills in complex situations. In order to economic budgetary processes, an appreciation of practice is concerned with the social context and integrate and contextualise the theoretical knowledge the 'art' and extent of real world politics - 'realpolitik'- social consequences of mental illness and disorder, students have obtained thus far in their course, they and how these combine to shape and change social and the promotion of mental health. The unit content are required to undertake work integrated learning policy. This unit describes and explores the builds on knowledge of human development, (WIL) where they will demonstrate satisfactory relationships between politics, economics and social behaviour and emotion across the lifespan. achievement of the six AASW Practice Standards. policy placing particular emphasis on the implications SWB316/SWB317 combined makes up student's first of these and other macro forces for social work 500 hour placement, providing the beginning practice. practitioner with opportunities to appreciate the SWB312 International Social application of social work knowledge and skills in a Work workplace. The units examine the influences of practice methods, clients, staff, organisational, SWB401 Research Methods for Anti-requisites HHB341 cultural and community factors on program and Professional Practice Credit Points 12 intervention processes and outcomes. Pre-requisites SWB100 or HHB100 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 SWB317 Social Work Field Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove This unit illustrates the scope of social work practice Education 1B Availabilities by applying social work knowledge, skills and values - SEM-1 (SWB219 or HHB277) and to a range of international and regional issues. You (SWB221 or HHB279) and This unit equips students with knowledge and skills to will explore the relationship between core social work Pre-requisites (SWB222 or PYB208 or HHB282) investigate models of service and practice questions principles and values and global international issues and SWB316. SWB316 can be and to develop recommendations for change. A range including social justice, human rights, development enrolled in the same study period. of particular methods for developing, evaluating and assistance, aid and key concerns identified in the improving models of social service and social care Millennium Development Goals. The Unit considers Anti-requisites SWB309, HHB338 delivery will be examined including reflective practice, opportunities for engagement with international social Credit Points 12 participatory action research, service evaluation and work organisation and related agencies. quality assurance processes, and the use of empirical Campus Kelvin Grove research to inform practice. Students will be able to Kelvin Grove Availabilities apply methods learnt to a range of service delivery - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM SWB314 Human Services and practice contexts. The social work role requires practitioners to Practice Placement 2 demonstrate proficiency in applying relevant [SWB201 or SWB209] and knowledge and skills in complex situations. In order to SWB402 Social Work Field [SWB204 or SWB207] and integrate and contextualise the theoretical knowledge Pre-requisites [SWB208 or SWB200] and students have obtained thus far in their course, they Education 2A SWB219 and SWB220 and are required to undertake work integrated learning SWB220 and SWB221 and SWB221 (WIL) where they will demonstrate satisfactory Pre-requisites (SWB310 or HHB278) and SWB316 achievement of the six AASW Practice Standards. Co-requisites SWB406 and SWB317 SWB316/SWB317 combined makes up student's first Anti-requisites HHB301, SWB301 500 hour placement, providing the beginning Co-requisites SWB403 and SWB406 Credit Points 24 practitioner with opportunities to appreciate the Anti-requisites HHB408, SWB408 application of social work knowledge and skills in a Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove workplace. The units examine the influences of Kelvin Grove practice methods, clients, staff, organisational, Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 cultural and community factors on program and Kelvin Grove intervention processes and outcomes. Availabilities The purpose of SWB314 Human Services Practice - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM Placement 2 is to prepare students for their To practise ethically, competently and accountably, employment as competent human services social work practitioners demonstrate proficiency in professionals. This unit enables students to further SWB319 Socio Legal Practice applying relevant knowledge and skills in complex develop their assessment and intervention skills along Pre-requisites SWB219 and SWB222 situations, meet the six AASW Practice Standards with their own practice framework while undertaking and comply with the Code of Ethics. In order to 350 hours of work practice in a human services Credit Points 12 integrate and contextualise the theoretical knowledge agency supervised by an experienced practitioner. Campus Kelvin Grove students have obtained thus far in their course, this The development of a Learning Plan (LP) will provide unit requires students to undertake work integrated Kelvin Grove guidance in achieving the core competencies required Availabilities learning (WIL) where they will demonstrate - SEM-2 for effective human service practice. Students are satisfactory achievements of the six AASW Practice able to undertake their placement in urban, regional, Social Work plays a dominant and increasingly Standards and adherence to the Code of Ethics and rural, national or international arenas. Overseas travel important role in the legal system .Social Work the learning outcomes of this unit. documents must be completed prior to approval being informs and assists the Court and Tribunals in a given for overseas placement. Students wishing to number of jurisdictions including juvenile justice, child undertake a regional or overseas placement must protection, family law, criminal matters and contact the Field Education Unit Team at least 6 administrative review Increasingly Social Work is at SWB403 Social Work Field months prior to the semester their placement is the forefront of facilitating Court Diversionary Education 2B planned for. Programs and the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution processes. This unit provides an overview SWB220 and (SWB310 or HHB278) of the processes and skills needed by Social Workers and SWB316 and SWB317 and in different legal contexts. Pre-requisites SWB402. SWB402 can be enrolled SWB316 Social Work Field in the same teaching period as Education 1A SWB403 Co-requisites SWB406 (SWB219 or HHB277) and SWB400 Macro Context of Pre-requisites (SWB221 or HHB279) and ( Anti-requisites SWB408, HHB408 SWB222 or PYB208 or HHB282) Social Work Practice Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites SWB108 or SWB218 or SWB103 Co-requisites SWB317 Campus Kelvin Grove Anti-requisites SWB309, HHB338 Anti-requisites SWB302
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Kelvin Grove Availabilities development. Accordingly, this final semester unit - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM provides a dual platform for transition to practice and To practise ethically, competently and accountably, independent professional development. SWN005 Health, Wellbeing and social work practitioners demonstrate proficiency in applying relevant knowledge and skills in complex the Human Condition situations, meet the six AASW Practice Standards SWN002 Researching Trends, SWN018 or SWN001. SWN018 and comply with the Code of Ethics. In order to Pre-requisites may be studied in the same integrate and contextualise the theoretical knowledge Challenges and Opportunities teaching period as SWN005 students have obtained thus far in their course, this SWN018 or SWN001. SWN018 Credit Points 12 unit requires students to undertake work integrated Pre-requisites may be studied in the same learning (WIL) where they will demonstrate teaching period as SWN002 Campus Kelvin Grove satisfactory achievements of the areas outlined in Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities their PLP. They must completently apply strategies to - SEM-1 (Block) assist service users, engage in critically reflective Campus Gardens Point practice, enhance their personal practice framework This unit considers the contested and changing Gardens Point and examine the influences of practice methods, Availabilities understandings of human wellbeing across the life - SEM-1 clients, staff, organisational, cultural and community cycle. Key aspects of wellness and health are factors on program and intervention processes and This unit describes and analyses the characteristics examined for their impact on individuals, groups, and outcomes. and workforce of the human services sector, along community wellbeing. IT explores selected with the purpose, roles and methods of social workers psychosocial theories and looks at their utility for within it. Current issues affecting the profession are social work practice particularly in relation to mental examined with particular emphasis on the dynamic health, child and family welfare, and disability SWB404 Complexity in Social interplay of existing social, economic and political services. The unit views health and wellbeing from an Work and Human Services events and their implications for social work practice holistic perspective, and critiques the dominant bio- and institutional contexts. You develop high-level medical model and challenges perceptions that Practice understanding of core knowledge, values and ethics quality of life is determined merely by acquisition and consumption. (SWB201 or SWB316 or SWB317) that underpin practice, in particular, the use of Pre-requisites and SWB219 research to expand the evidence base for efficacious interventions at the macro, mezzo and micro levels in Credit Points 12 a changing society. Research and analytical methods Campus Kelvin Grove and skills are the basis for practitioners who must SWN006 The Ethical, Legal and interrogate and critically examine current and future Kelvin Grove Organizational Context of Availabilities trends, challenges and opportunities to inform ethical - SEM-2 practice and program redesign. Practice Social work and human service practitioners are often Pre-requisites SWN018 or SWN001 faced with presenting issues which display a high Credit Points 12 level of complexity. It has become increasingly recognised that direct practice should be more client SWN003 Political Economy and Campus Kelvin Grove focused or 'holistic', with workers being able to Kelvin Grove effectively deal with multiple issues, rather than Policy Making Availabilities (SWN001 or SWN018) and - SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2 (Block) provide a narrow response to a single issue. This Pre-requisites presents a challenge to social workers and human SWN002 This unit locates social work practice within its ethical, service practitioners, particularly in the context of Credit Points 12 legal and organisational context. It emphasises the policy and program 'silos' which tend to promote a imperative for students to know, understand and Campus Kelvin Grove narrow focus. This unit broadens the analytical and actualise core social work values particularly those Kelvin Grove incorporated in the profession's national and practice framework for human service and social work Availabilities professionals. - SEM-2 (Block), SUM international codes of conduct, professional standards and ethical practice requirements. The statutory and This unit recognizes the importance of political and organisational dimensions of social work practice are economic factors for professional practitioners in the described and explored with case scenarios providing SWB405 Advanced Social Work human service and social welfare sector. It describes opportunities to develop strategies for self- and analyses the fundamentals of the Australian management within diverse organisational contexts. Project political system including the Parliamentary structures Anti-requisites HHB411 and law making processes at different levels of government. It explores the ‘real politik’ of political Credit Points 12 parties and vested interest groups in the political SWN007 Casework Practice Campus Kelvin Grove process giving particular attention to the development Pre-requisites SWN018 or SWN001 of policy. It provides an overview of public sector Kelvin Grove Availabilities policy making process including the budgetary Credit Points 12 - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM procedure. The unit encourages students to be active Campus Gardens Point This unit enables students to undertake an in-depth actors in relevant political/economic processes. Gardens Point study on an approved topic relevant to social work Availabilities practice. To enable this, students will extend their - SEM-2 (Block) knowledge and skills in undertaking various aspects This unit builds on the fundamental communication of the research process as this relates to their SWN004 Professional skills essential for professional social work case work investigation. Communication Skills and case management practice. It assists students to achieve professional levels in understanding and SWN018 or SWN001. SWN018 applying contemporary social work theories and Pre-requisites may be studied in the same principles which underpin case work and case teaching period as SWN004 SWB406 Transition to Practice management. The application of core principles that SWB314 or (SWB402 and Credit Points 12 are essential in social work practice, such as client SWB403). SWB314 or SWB402 or Pre-requisites Campus Gardens Point self-determination and empowerment, are developed SWB403 can be studied in the through experiential learning of skills including Gardens Point same teaching period as SWB406 Availabilities interviewing techniques, counselling, short-term - SEM-1 (Block) Anti-requisites SWB409, SWB301 intervention, problem-solving and facilitation of This unit provides the skills for the cornerstone of change. Equivalents SWB315 social work practice; the development of constructive Credit Points 12 relationships through the differential use of self and Campus Kelvin Grove professional communication. Through a heightened sense of self, practitioners are best equipped to select SWN008 Group, Team and Kelvin Grove Availabilities the most appropriate approach to work with others. Community Work for - SEM-1, SEM-2, SUM This unit examines a number of approaches to This unit recognises that you are about to transition practice and together with an exploration of self, lays Professional Practice from university to social work practice and that you the foundation for an emerging framework for practice Pre-requisites SWN018 or SWN001 and equips you with skills for your field education, will need to sustain your professional and educational Credit Points 12 your capstone unit and professional practice.
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Campus Gardens Point Kelvin Grove communities; service management; organisational Availabilities Gardens Point development and system change; policy - SEM-1, SEM-2 Availabilities - SEM-2 (Block) development, implementation and change; research This final transition unit assists student in the and knowledge generation; education and This unit critically reviews the theory and research synthesis of professional practice frameworks and professional development. This unit is the first of three engages them in a reflective professional / personal base of group work, team work, and community work Professional Practice units undertaken. A strict and explores the strategic use of each as an audit of their skills, knowledge and values. Students requirement for this unit is that students must are expected to demonstrate that their practice intervention method in professional practice. It undertake the placement selection and organisation requires students to develop and demonstrate high frameworks and competencies satisfy the process that occurs in the semester preceding the requirements of the AASW Practice Standards and level skills for the effective use of each of these as placement. intervention methods for addressing disadvantage Code of Ethics. The unit provides opportunities for the and marginalisation. It focuses particularly on group, consolidation of learning and supports transition to team and community engagement, and tests skills for social work practice. research and analysis of community needs, capacity SWN012 Professional Practice building, advocacy, negotiation, conflict resolution, project management, planning and leadership. 2 (SWN001 or SWN018) and SWN018 Planning, Theories SWN002 and SWN004 and and Frameworks for Social SWN007 and SWN008 and Pre-requisites SWN009 Social Work SWN011. SWN007, SWN008 may Work Practice Assessment and Intervention be taken in the same teaching Equivalents SWN001 period as SWN012 Credit Points 12 (SWN018 or SWN001) and Pre-requisites SWN004 Co-requisites SWN011 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove A reflexive interface enables each social worker to Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 (Block) - SEM-1, SEM-2 (Block), SUM formulate practice approaches and a frame of reference that is responsive to complex and dynamic This is a designated unit. This second Professional At the core of social work knowledge and skill is the societal and practice environments. Social work has a Practice unit requires students to complete 280 hours capacity to make assessments and decide on the theoretical architecture that informs practice. This unit of professionally supervised, staff monitored, field most appropriate situational client intervention. focuses on providing you with knowledge and skills of education in a period of not less than 40 days. In Intervention almost always involves individuals, the core values, theories, perspectives and models accordance with AASW Education and Accreditation groups and communities experiencing disadvantage that underpin social work practice frameworks and Standards and AASW Practice Standards for Social and vulnerability and is therefore characterised by which are the foundation for effective helping Workers, engagement in professional practice is a disparities in authority and power. Hence, assessment interventions. Students undertake an audit of their core component enabling students to demonstrate and intervention must incorporate planning and extant knowledge, skills and values and then plan social work knowledge, skills and values within in a actions which are highly professional and ethical, and their learning needs for their professional social work professionally supervised field education social work based on principles of social work practice, and development path, consistent with AASW Practice context. A strict requirement for this unit is that practical experience with client collaboration and Standards. partnership for engagement and empowerment. students must undertake the placement selection and organisation process that occurs in the semester preceding the placement. This unit is the second of three Professional Practice units. SWN019 Research Skills for SWN010 The Socio-Cultural Social Change Context of Professional (SWN018 or SWN001) and Pre-requisites Practice SWN013 Professional Practice SWN002 Pre-requisites SWN018 or SWN001 3 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 SWN002 and SWN004 and Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites SWN007 and SWN008 and Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove SWN011 and SWN012 Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-2 (Block) Availabilities Credit Points 24 - SEM-1 (Block) This unit develops your knowledge and skills in terms Campus Kelvin Grove This unit develops your knowledge about historical of research and scholarship relevant to the social Kelvin Grove and contemporary issues impacting on Aboriginal and work profession. The role of research in social work is Availabilities - SEM-1 (Block), SEM-2, SUM Torres Strait Islander peoples and culturally and to provide a sound knowledge and evidence base for (Block) linguistically diverse Australians. It also introduces practice. The unit covers approaches to social inquiry, the role of social theory, methodology, methods and you to ways of working with cultural diversity in a In accordance with AASW Education and ethical considerations relevant to the conduct of social culturally responsive and safe way. Accreditation Standards and AASW Practice research. Standards for Social Workers, engagement in professional practice is a core component enabling students to demonstrate social work knowledge, skills SWN011 Professional Practice and values within a professionally supervised field SWN020 Practice Research 1 education social work context. This unit is the third of three Professional Practice units and, as a capstone Project (SWN001 or SWN018) and unit, converges the social work knowledge, skills and SWN002 and SWN004 and SWN019 and SWN012 and values of your 'whole of course' experience. A strict SWN003. SWN003 may be studied Pre-requisites SWN007 and SWN008. SWN007 requirement for this unit is that students must have Pre-requisites and SWN008 may be studied in the in the same teaching period as undertaken the placement selection and organisation SWN020. same teaching period as SWN011 process that occurs in the semester preceding the Co-requisites SWN012 placement. Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SUM (Block) Kelvin Grove SWN017 Social Work Practice - Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 (Block), SUM This unit scaffolds the design and undertaking of a Frameworks and Transitions research project of significance to social work. This This is a desginated unit. This Professional Practice SWN011 and SWN012 and unit synthesises the knowledge and skills you will unit requires students to complete 220 hours of SWN013. SWN013 can be enrolled Pre-requisites have gained earlier in your studies, in particular your professionally supervised, staff monitored, field in the same teaching period as methodological skills taught in SWN019 Research education in a period of not less than 40 days. In SWN017 Skills for Social Work. Within this unit you will design accordance with AASW requirements, students are Credit Points 12 and implement a research design in a manner which required to engage in planned activities which may reflects appropriate rigor and ethical consideration Campus Kelvin Grove include: direct practice with individuals, groups and and within a scope that is logistically possible. The
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units unit will also provide you with the opportunity to This unit includes the use of advanced scientific - present your findings in a scholarly way appropriate calculators and their application for geometric for a social work and human service audience. computations, solution of road and area problems, missing data closes, and simple curve problems. It offers solutions for more difficult problems including UDB310 Highrise Construction the three point problem, interrupted bases and and Engineering UDB202 Business Skills various types of curve problems. It introduces Pre-requisites UDB210 Equivalents CNB228 spherical trigonometry, the solution of spherical triangles and the use of spherical trigonometry to Equivalents CNB201 Credit Points 12 determine position and direction on the Earth's Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point surface from observation to astronomical objects. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Practical exercises determine position and direction. Availabilities - SEM-2 Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit focuses on career preparation with a business orientation. Current popular business tools UDB284 Engineering Surveying Students learn how to construct a high rise structure are assembled and critiqued. A sequential approach Pre-requisites MAB101 and UDB182 and UDB283 from the basement to the roof. Focus on protection to is used starting with characteristics of the Resume, the public during construction, temporary support; business protocol and ethics, the business plan, Equivalents PSB641 demolition; temporary services; deep excavation and assessing business risk and Professional Liability. Credit Points 12 foundations; retention and shoring systems; structural components; multilevel formwork; interaction of Campus Gardens Point building components, systems and services; common Gardens Point Availabilities building faults and failures and rectification; UDB214 Professional Studies 2 - SEM-2 alternative forms of external cladding; waterproofing UDB112 or BEB200 or ENB200 or problems. Pre-requisites This unit includes: horizontal and vertical alignment EGB100 for route surveys; areas, volumes and earthworks; Equivalents ENB274 surveying measurements and their assessment; propagation of variances; pre-analysis of survey Credit Points 12 UDB311 Structural Engineering tasks; least squares adjustment methods for various Campus Gardens Point functional and stochastic models. Design Gardens Point Pre-requisites UDB111 and UDB211 Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents CNB202 - UDB285 Cadastral Surveying Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites UDB182 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents PSB620 Gardens Point Availabilities UDB281 Geographic Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Information Systems Campus Gardens Point Study and analysis of engineering components and Equivalents PSB631 Gardens Point systems, to develop a sound understanding of how a Availabilities building achieves structural stability and equilibrium Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 through its load paths. Content includes: Basic Campus Gardens Point This unit includes land title systems, reinstatement: an structural member design for tension, compression, explanation of the options of land title systems, with Gardens Point bending and shear loads through detailed Availabilities particular reference to Customary Land Tenure, - SEM-1 examination through the use of relevant Australian Private Deeds registration, Public Deeds Registration, Standards as the basis for examination. Emphasis is This unit investigates the basic concepts of and Registration of Title. It includes an analysis of on approximate or "first order of magnitude" geographic information systems. Topics to be covered reinstatement of property boundaries as applicable to techniques suitable for estimating or checking include components of GIS, spatial databases, data Queensland; the undertaking of a field survey to purposes. Structural systems analysis; including acquisition, reference frameworks, use of reinstate the boundaries of a section in the Brisbane trusses and retaining walls with a mix of qualitative photographs and images, spatial analysis and graphic Metropolitan area; preparation of cadastral and detail and quantitative techniques. Construction stability is output design issues. The unit will highlight the survey plans for survey actions; the legal aspects of examined in detail including cranes, shoring, importance of geographic information systems the re-instatement of boundaries; case law associated scaffolding, and slings. unit will highlight the importance of geospatial with re-instatement; statutory requirements that relate positioning applications in society. to the zoning and development of land. UDB312 Contract UDB282 Remote Sensing UDB301 Research Methods Administration Equivalents PSB655 Completion of 240cp including Equivalents CNB302 Pre-requisites Credit Points 12 216cp in in UDB, USB or UXB units Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents CNB395 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Gardens Point The administration of construction contracts This unit includes the following: history and principals Availabilities of remote sensing; types of imagery, image - SEM-1 represents one of the core applications for both construction managers and quantity surveyors. In interpretation, satellite systems; supervised and Research Methods will introduce students to the unsupervised image classification; interpretation, order to appreciate some of the commercial range of methods and techniques that may be utilised implications of contract administration you will study analysis and presentation of data; applications in the in examining questions related to professional earth sciences. administrative implications for both parties to the practice. A comprehensive overview of research contract. methods will be provided in order that students are able to contribute to research as a part of their UDB283 Surveying professional practice, and to enable them to critically analyse research findings and publications. UDB313 Programming and Computations Scheduling Pre-requisites (MAB100 or MAB120) and UDB182 Equivalents CNB335 Equivalents DBB646 UDB302 Development Process Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1 - SEM-2
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This unit covers the following: Project time and resource planning techniques such as bar charts, UDB368 Urban Design critical path networks (precedence, time scales, and Pre-requisites Completion of 144cp of study activity on arrows); Line of balance; Resource Credit Points 12 UDB382 Photogrammetric allocation and levelling; Schedule updates and Mapping progress control; Delays and claims analysis. Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites UDB383 Applications of computer-based project planning Gardens Point Availabilities software will form an important part of the study in this - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 unit. This studio unit develops skills in urban design Campus Gardens Point analysis and intervention through the transformation Gardens Point Availabilities of urban design theory into policies and design - SEM-2 UDB314 Statutory Construction proposals. Students are introduced to the production of urban design instruments (such as strategies and This unit builds upon the Geospatial Mapping unit to Law frameworks) and effective communication of desired provide the student with developed knowledge and understanding of photogrammetric mapping theory UDB110, UDB210, UDB310, and urban design outcomes. Where possible, students Pre-requisites and processes including spatial geometry, UDB215 participate in live projects, with inputs from industry, government and communities. mathematics and aerotriangulation. The unit will also Equivalents CNB309 provide the student with an integrated knowledge and Credit Points 12 understanding of map production principles and practice applied to photogrammetric outputs. Campus Gardens Point UDB369 Negotiation and Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 Conflict Resolution Credit Points 12 UDB383 Control Surveying and Commercial Law. Sale of goods; Hire purchase; Trade practices; Negotiable instruments; Insurance Campus Gardens Point Analysis law; Partnership law and company law; Bankruptcy Gardens Point Pre-requisites MAB730 and liquidation; Arbitration (the agreement, Availabilities - SEM-1 Equivalents PSB642 appointment of an arbitrator; Conduct of an arbitrator; Powers and duties; Enforcement of an award, costs; This unit introduces planning students to the theory Credit Points 12 and practice of negotiation and conflict resolution. The Alternative dispute resolution. Building Law; Study of Campus Gardens Point the Building Code of Australia and Building aim is that students will develop their ability to change their perspective on conflict by seeing it as an Gardens Point Regulations, which control the design, construction of Availabilities building works; emphasis on all building law; a study inevitable and sometimes valuable part of planning. - SEM-1 Students will learn to develop empathy for those they of the Acts Interpretation Act, Town Planning Acts; This unit includes the following: reconnaissance for are in conflict with while also communicating their own etc. geodetic surveys (formulate mathematical models for needs assertively. Content includes key principles of the solution of linear and non-linear positioning in one, conflict resolution, and practical mediation/negotiation two and three dimensions); geodetic observations techniques. techniques and reduction of observations; the three UDB315 Measurement 3 classical methods of geodetic surveying (triangulation, Pre-requisites UDB212 trilateration and traversing); precise levelling including Equivalents CNB310 UDB370 Environmental instrument testing; properties of the meridian ellipse; radii of curvature, meridian arc; spheroid as a Credit Points 12 Planning and Management geodetic reference surface, latitude, longitude, geoid Campus Gardens Point (UDB265 and UDB368) or (ENB274 separation and ellipsoidal height; mutual conversion Pre-requisites of geodetic and Cartesian coordinates. Gardens Point or DLB600 or DAB525) Availabilities - SEM-1 Equivalents PSB462 Measurement is a core skill among building Credit Points 12 professionals. This skill is particularly important in Campus Gardens Point UDB384 Geodesy relation to the production of quantified documents for Pre-requisites UDB383 the purposes of tendering and estimating. This unit Gardens Point Availabilities Equivalents PSB643 covers measurement of building services (hydraulics, - SEM-2 drainage, electrical and mechanical works). This unit introduces environmental planning and Credit Points 12 management issues, policies, and methods relevant Campus Gardens Point to your future practice as a planner, engineer, Gardens Point Availabilities designer, or other built environment professional. As - SEM-2 UDB316 Cost Planning and part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will participate in Control investigation of a contemporary case study, engaging This unit contains the following theory: concept and classification of geodesy, the basic concepts of Equivalents CNB307 in creative problem-solving and synthetic thinking incorporating skills and knowledge from prior units Earth's gravity field, level surfaces and plumb lines, Credit Points 12 framed within new perspectives. By the end of the heights, geoid, mean sea level, spherical harmonics Campus Gardens Point unit, you will have a firm grasp on a range of current etc, fundamentals of satellite geodesy, reference environmental planning and management issues, and coordinate systems. It considers GPS positioning Gardens Point Availabilities a framework for assimilating and addressing models and algorithms, software, GPS field - SEM-2 environmental policy in your future practice. observing, various GPS applications in geomatics; Interrelationship between construction industry and mapping terms and definitions; the mapping problem; economy; Fundamental principles of cost principles for deriving projections; the use of skew management (design and construction cost planning graticules; the UTM system. and cost control); Nature and purpose of cost UDB381 Geospatial Mapping planning and cost control systems; Contract costing Credit Points 12 (historical accounting) and anticipatory (forecast final Campus Gardens Point cost / value); Design economics, cost and value UDB385 Cadastral and Land Gardens Point concepts, cost information systems, cost modelling, Availabilities Management cost analyses, cost indices, cost data, cost - SEM-1 Pre-requisites BEB200 or UDB200 implications of design variables; Life cycle costing and This unit will provide the student with a sound Equivalents CEB259 modelling including design knowledge in virtual knowledge and understanding of image mapping environments; Value management, including energy principles (including photogrammetry) and processes Credit Points 12 efficiency in buildings, and value alignment process as well as practical skills and understanding required Campus Gardens Point for project delivery; Asset management and building to collect spatial information and to produce maintenance; Risk management in cost planning and Gardens Point fundamental mapping products. In addition this unit Availabilities cost control. will provide the skills and knowledge of the principles - SEM-1 and characteristics of cartographic communication, This unit introduces the student to the basic civil surface modelling techniques and digital mapping. engineering design processes and procedures associated with the development of subdivided
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units urban/rural land for residential, industrial or safety on a construction project. UDB410 commercial purposes. The unit covers the following: Construction Management is the last of a series of UDB474 Regional Planning subdivisional road design types, hierarchy, construction units UDB110, UDB210, UDB310 and Practice longitudinal and cross sections, earthworks; consolidates skills students have learned throughout Credit Points 12 stormwater design, basic urban hydrology, catchment their degree to advance to a work-ready construction properties, rational formula, pipe/gully parameters, manager. Campus Gardens Point pipe and open channel flows; water reticulation Gardens Point Availabilities system features; sewer reticulation system features - SEM-2 and basic design procedures. Modern trends in the above (including sustainability considerations) UDB420 Project Administration Students develop and apply the knowledge of policy formulation and skills of analysis and synthesis together with the general construction procedures and Credit Points 12 basic costings are introduced. imparted in Regional and Metropolitan Policy, to real Campus Gardens Point world problem-solving at a scale which is larger than Gardens Point a single local government. This culminating practice Availabilities - SEM-2 unit concentrates on the broader regional and UDB387 Spatial and Land metropolitan scales to develop skills in strategic-level This unit provides an introduction into project planning. Information Management administration in the building construction industry. It Pre-requisites UDB281 will prepare you for the administrative and contractual interactions that occur between the Contractors and Equivalents PSB612 Sub-contractors during a project. UDB475 Regional and Credit Points 12 Metropolitan Policy Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Gardens Point Availabilities UDB471 Urban Planning Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1 Practice Gardens Point Availabilities This unit provides you with an understanding of the Pre-requisites UDB266 - SEM-2 spatial data infrastructure that will increasingly underpin decision making in diverse areas of Credit Points 12 Students learn to focus and apply material from a development including resource management; urban Campus Gardens Point wide range of disciplines and locations to understand and rural planning; cadastral administration and and develop current regional and metropolitan policy. Gardens Point facilities management. The unit will provide an Availabilities Issues of global, national and state regionalism, - SEM-1 introduction to the concepts of a spatial data system demography, economics, human services, central planning overview, system implementation, and Students develop skills of interpretation and problem place theory, regional resource evaluation and public standards, legal issues, and knowledge-based solving to plan the development of a locality or suburb administration are related to work in the Regional techniques. with a population of up to fifteen thousand. Consulting Planning Practice unit. with local governments, communities and stakeholders, and working in supervised multi- disciplinary teams, they produce a real-world local UDB388 Spatial Analysis area plans, integrating a wide range of housing, UDB483 Global Positioning Practice access, work, play, community, cultural and Principles and Practice environmental concerns. Pre-requisites UDB281 Pre-requisites UDB383 and UDB384 Equivalents PSB654 Equivalents PSB644 Credit Points 12 UDB472 Community Planning Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Campus Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities This unit expands a student’s knowledge in the field of - SEM-2 This unit includes the following: GPS operation and spatial information science within the framework of a navigation messages; GPS observable and error practical exercise focussing on advanced spatial Students gain information on the many issues budget; differencing techniques; GPS positioning analysis techniques. This approach facilitates involved in community planning, including affordable models and algorithms; software; GPS field exposure to and the incorporation of emerging housing, environmental quality and design, observing; static, kinematic, RTK and various GPS processes of acquisition, validation, storage, employment, human services, community access and applications in geomatics. It also includes a practical extraction, analysis and presentation of spatial culture. Combining this with knowledge and skills on the GPS network. information. A geographic information system acquired earlier in the course, they learn to produce environment is utilised to provide a practical solutions and formulate policies which link introduction to industry practices and client government policy to local outcomes. This involves expectations. This unit will provide students with community involvement, consultation and conflict UDB484 Topographic, enhanced knowledge of the extent, theory and resolution. Hydrographic and Mining practice of spatial information science and an enhanced ability to define and solve problems Surveying associated with manipulation of spatial information Pre-requisites UDB383 systems to meet client expectations. UDB473 Planning Theory and Ethics Equivalents PSB645 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 UDB410 Strategic Construction Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Gardens Point Management Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-2 UDB310 or Admission into BN85 or Pre-requisites Admission into UDBXSMJ- The application of theory to practice defines the This unit includes the following: field surveys for CONSMGT essence of planning. The unit explores the historical DTMs as-constructed surveys; associated specifications and standards; mining surveying for Credit Points 12 and contemporary theories of planning; links the relationship of theory to practice; defines the role of surface and below surface mining activities; Campus Gardens Point ethics in planning practice; and aids the student in Hydrographic surveying for exploration and port management. Gardens Point developing his or her own theoretical and ethical Availabilities - SEM-2 foundation for planning practice. UDB410 is a capstone construction management unit bringing together all the skills you have learnt so far in UDB485 Property Development your UD40 construction management course. Practice Construction Managers require a strategic focus on Pre-requisites UDB302 and UDB385 site management, business and corporate responsibilities to manage time, cost, quality and
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Credit Points 12 UDN502 Track Stability, Design UDN576 Transportation Campus Gardens Point and Formation Infrastructure Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus External Campus Gardens Point This unit develops your knowledge and capability to engage in a professional manner with land and External Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities property development practice. Land development - SEM-2 - SEM-2 issues dealt with in preceding units are bought Simply knowing about the components from which This unit has been developed to provide you with an together in this final semester unit to prepare you to railway track is assembled will not enable you to in-depth understanding of the critical issues in the fulfil your professional role in the practice of land and understand and influence the complex interactions area of transportation infrastructure. The effective property development. This unit will further develop between each of those components. Design of railway management of transportation infrastructure is the practical skills necessary for the preparation of lot tracks requires you to build on that component essential for economic and social considerations. As reconfiguration plans suitable for sealing and knowledge from UDN500 and UDN501 by considering expansion and development of transportation registration with appropriate organizations. how they influence each other and what limitations infrastructure continues to support a nation's they have in carrying forces applied by operational or economy, prudent management of transportation by environmental factors. The unit also provides some infrastructure to provide a desired level of UDB486 Cadastral Practice further foundation knowledge to enable you to serviceability are critical for the long-term understand the forces of interaction between the sustainability of economic development. Pre-requisites UDB285 whole track and passing trains that will be explored Credit Points 12 later in UDN503. Campus Gardens Point UDN590 Project Scope and Risk Gardens Point Availabilities - SEM-2 UDN503 Track Geometry and Management Equivalents UDZ590, CNP521 - Train Interaction Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Campus External Gardens Point UDN500 Ballast, Sleepers and External Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 Fasteners - SEM-1 This unit focuses upon the project management Credit Points 12 The sole purpose of track is to support the safe and functions of controlling project scope and risk. Using Campus External speedy passage of trains carrying passengers, the fundamentals of project management as a point of minerals, freight, primary produce and so on. External departure, the administration of scope and risk is Availabilities Although tracks can deteriorate due to environmental - SEM-2 integrated within the context of the project life cycle. factors, the primary source of deterioration is the Both the client and project delivery stakeholders' As a rail civil engineer you will have responsibility for passage of trains. Operators want trains to carry perspectives are explored. Scope Management is the the permanent way and so needs to have a sound larger and larger payloads at ever higher speeds, foundation of a project. Developed on a clarified knowledge and clear understanding of the behaviour which induce increasingly large static and dynamic scope baseline, Risk Management safeguards the of the components of rail tracks. The ballast and forces in the track. Those forces deteriorate the track whole process, as well as the outcome of a project. sleepers on which the rails rest are critical in which leads to a rougher ride for the trains, causing Through this unit, you will develop skills in outlining supporting the safe passage of trains at speed over even higher dynamic forces down into the track and activities to be performed within a project, including the track. A large proportion of maintenance up into the vehicle. This unit is intended to provide procedures for information capture, storage, reporting expenditure by track owners arises because of fouled you with an understanding of the interaction between and communication, and risk identification, response or poorly drained ballast or from sleeper replacement. track and trains, which builds on and develops your and treatment system. Delays in train schedules, track closures and even knowledge of the track structure from UDN500, derailments can arise due to problems in the track UDN501 and UDN502, explains aspects of vehicle below the rail. This unit is one of the first ones you will design, and provides you a basis for appreciating how study in this course because it focuses on the incidents such as derailments occur when you come UDN592 Resource, Schedule foundations of an efficient and safe track asset to study UDN505. network. and Performance Management Equivalents UDZ592 UDN504 Track Construction, Credit Points 12 UDN501 Rail and Related Track Civil Structures Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point Credit Points 12 Availabilities Structures - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 Campus External Resources and time are key performance targets Campus External External Availabilities during project management exercises. By undertaking External - SEM-2 this unit, you will develop skills necessary to manage Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit will give you opportunity to research and project cost, schedule, and resources, and the ability to appreciate and apply methodologies for monitoring This unit continues the recognition of the need for you manage the construction of track and structures within and evaluating project performance. as a rail civil engineer to have a sound knowledge the rail right of way, together with geotechnical risk. and clear understanding of the behaviour of the components of rail tracks. The rail is the immediate interface between train vehicle and the entire UDN594 Procurement and supporting system and therefore the most direct effect UDN505 Assets, Environment on enabling or inhibiting train operations. Aside from and Safety Delivery Strategies ballast and sleeper rectification described in UDN500, Credit Points 12 Equivalents UDZ594 the costs of rail wear and grinding, eventual Credit Points 12 replacement of worn rail and rectification of track Campus External geometry make up the bulk of maintenance External Campus Gardens Point Availabilities expenditure by the track owner. In conjunction with - SEM-1 Gardens Point Availabilities UDN500, this unit is located early in the course so - SEM-2 that you will have been introduced to the nature of all At the heart of your responsibilities as a railway civil the key elements of the track superstructure and of engineer is management of the rail corridor to ensure It is imperative that project managers have a their important contributions to the operation of rail safe, reliable, environmentally sound train operations comprehensive understanding of all of the critical systems. through that corridor. This unit provides students with elements within the procurement process. They also knowledge and abilities for managing the assets in need to possess the necessary skills, knowledge and the corridor to ensure safe operations and understanding to avoid disputes and minimize the environmentally responsible activities. risks of unsuccessful contract outcomes. This unit will cover these essential elements of project management.
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property practice and property transactions, with USB240 Market Analysis particular focus on statutory valuation and property Pre-requisites BSB113 or UDB104 acquisition and resumption. The unit covers areas of UDN596 Human Resource and Credit Points 12 property rights, contract, agency, statutory valuation, Organisational Culture consumer protection and dispute resolution as Campus Gardens Point applicable to a practicing property professional in Equivalents UDZ596 Gardens Point Queensland. Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Campus Gardens Point This unit builds upon the foundation property, Gardens Point valuation and economic units from your first year USB244 Asset Performance Availabilities studies. You will apply demographic, economic and - SEM-2 Completion of 96 credit points or key urban economic theories and policies in the Pre-requisites In the management of projects, it is essential that property market environment. Understanding property more of study human resources are effectively coordinated, markets will assist in the creation of marketing and Equivalents UDB344 managed and motivated to achieve the collective and investment strategies to meet targeted consumer Credit Points 12 individual outcomes critical for the success of the supply and demand. You will conduct property market project. This unit introduces you to the skills research and interpret the outcomes from research Campus Gardens Point necessary to manage these human resources as part publications. Gardens Point of your overall project management approach. Availabilities - SEM-2 With an increasing number of companies and USB241 Money and Wealth institutions now leasing and investing in property the USB100 Understanding the Credit Points 12 management of these assets is becoming a crucial Built Environment aspect of business practice and investment Campus Gardens Point performance. This unit will cover the physical and Equivalents UDB101 Gardens Point financial aspects of commercial, retail and industrial Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 property management and the role of property as a strategic real estate asset and its role in a diversified Campus Gardens Point This unit provides the opportunity for you to learn investment portfolio. The area of corporate real estate Gardens Point basic accounting and investment principles within the Availabilities and asset management will be covered in the unit - SEM-1 context of the property industry. You will also develop basic financial, cost and management accounting and This unit exposes students to the various professions financial management skills. This unit will support you and concepts that determine, develop and manage to conduct more advanced financial and statistical USB245 Property Investment the built environment and how the disciplines of calculations in later valuation and property units and construction management, quantity surveying, urban is complementary to units in market analysis and Analysis and regional planning and property economics property investment analysis Pre-requisites USB242 or UDB242 interact to achieve an economic and sustainable built environment. Equivalents UDB246 Credit Points 12 USB242 Experience Property Campus Gardens Point Pre-requisites USB140 or UDB140 Gardens Point USB140 Imagine Property Availabilities Equivalents UDB140 Equivalents UDB242 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 Property analysts are required to analyse property as an investment and provide investment Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point recommendations. This involves a close scrutiny of Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities property investment options, and selection of the most - SEM-1, SEM-2 - SEM-2 appropriate option given the investor's preferences, goals and market conditions. This unit provides the This unit introduces the underlying concepts of This unit builds upon the preliminary property basis to enable the property analyst to examine the property and describes the various participants in the fundamentals covered in the unit USB140 Imagine property's investment worth over time using industry and how their roles interact to develop, Property, expanding those key concepts to income discounted cashflow techniques, including an acquire, value and dispose of residential property in producing and investment grade assets. This unit introduction to the effect of financing and tax both the public and private sector. The unit will develops an understanding of the various commercial considerations, risk and return and comparison provide the foundations for further study in the market sectors and how various features of these against investment objectives. property valuation, property law and property markets impact on the value of a property asset. The investment and finance units from primarily a unit will provide the foundations for the further study in residential perspective. Interactive activities and the property valuation, property law and property assessment will be used to convey and test these investment and finance units from a commercial USB246 Transaction Process fundamental property principles. property perspective. Interactive activities and assessment will be used to convey these fundamental Credit Points 12 income producing property principles. Campus Gardens Point Gardens Point USB141 Building Big Availabilities - SEM-2 Equivalents UDB141 USB243 Property Legislation The buying and selling of property is a critical point in Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites USB242 any property development, valuation or property Campus Gardens Point Equivalents UDB241 investment. This unit provides you with an Gardens Point understanding of the transaction process in respect to Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 acquisition, contract negotiation, due diligence, Campus Gardens Point taxation considerations, legal structuring, sales and/or This unit builds on the construction fundamentals Gardens Point lease negotiation, compliance with relevant legislation covered in the unit UXB110 Residential Construction Availabilities - SEM-1 and settlement. It demonstrates the relevance and and further develops these concepts and applies interaction of units such as property valuation, them to the construction methods, building area A practicing property professional and property valuer investment analysis, market analysis, property law measurement and quality of design and construction needs a good understanding of several areas of and planning in all property transactions. for industrial property, retail centres, high rise property related legislation as it applies to property commercial and high rise residential property. These transactions and property practice to be able to concepts will provide the basis for the understanding manage and avoid risk, identify property and valuation of how construction type and quality are reflected in legal issues as they arise and identify when USB341 Money and Property the market demand and value of these property types specialised legal counsel is necessary. This unit Pre-requisites USB245 or UDB246 from a development, valuation and investment focuses on extending and applying the theoretical Equivalents UDB341 perspective. knowledge obtained in Experience Property and Urban Development Law to explore how Credit Points 12 Commonwealth and State legislation is applied to Campus Gardens Point
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Gardens Point Availabilities tendering/procurement process and the introduction - SEM-1 UXB110 Residential of cost management / building area measurement. Property is a major asset class of all available Construction The unit also provides a basic appreciation of virtual investment options. Due to its distinct characteristics, Equivalents UDB110 building graphical models as they relate to integrated practice concepts used in industry, by way of the debt and equity financing plays a major role in Credit Points 12 investment decisions. As such, this unit further graphical representation and spatial relationships of develops students' understanding of property Campus Gardens Point digital building models. It links to foundation units in construction technology and prepares you for further investment and financing techniques and the place of Gardens Point Availabilities advanced units in building and infrastructure property assets within the capital markets. This unit - SEM-1 covers the financing of a range of asset types measurement and construction estimating. including residential, income producing, development This unit develops your knowledge, skills and and property funds. application for residential construction management. The unit introduces current domestic construction techniques and materials that are the core of any UXB114 Integrated construction process. You are taught to read plans Construction USB342 Property Software and build a house by studying construction theory and legislation, visiting building sites, and sketching Equivalents UDB112 Pre-requisites USB245 construction details. This first year unit complements Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 USB100 and prepares students for Integrated Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point Construction Management and Commercial Construction Management. Gardens Point Gardens Point Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-1 This unit further develops your skills and knowledge This unit introduces students to a range of industry- of residential construction. It has a focus on standard property software products. Students will UXB111 Imagine Construction integrating residential/ small commercial construction gain knowledge in the operation of a variety of Management processes in a collaborative digital environment by industry specific software for the analysis and Credit Points 12 utilizing building information technology. It links to the management of a range of property types. Students work previously undertaken in UXB110 Residential will develop their competency in using these products, Campus Gardens Point Construction and prepares you for UXB211 Building as well as skills in the analysis of the outcomes Gardens Point Services and other units. Availabilities generated, using the property software as a decision - SEM-1 making tool to support investment recommendations. This capability will help students to prepare their Imagine what your future construction management readiness to work in the industry. This unit is an career will be like. This unit introduces you to the UXB120 Introduction to Heavy advanced unit that builds upon the skills and essential professional skills and practices you will knowledge you developed in USB245 Property need throughout your studies and professional career, Engineering Sector Technology Investment Analysis and it links with USB300 and provides a sense of identity as a construction Credit Points 12 Property Development. management professional. Key concepts such as Campus Gardens Point occupational health and safety, professional practice, Gardens Point ethics, information management and sustainability are Availabilities explored. Recent developments in construction will be - SEM-1 USB343 Boutique Valuations highlighted and the future of construction will be This unit introduces resource sector technology Pre-requisites USB242 explored. associated with on and off Shore Oil and Gas (LNG), Equivalents UDB247 open cut and underground mining and power generation and distribution infrastructure including Credit Points 12 UXB112 Introduction to processing plants/plant design and infrastructure Campus Gardens Point systems. Students will also develop introductory knowledge of safety and risk management within Gardens Point Structures Availabilities these sectors and develop an appreciation of mineral - SEM-2 Equivalents UDB111 economics. It links to the work being undertaken in This is the capstone valuation unit and applies the Credit Points 12 units Imagine Quantity Surveying and Cost valuation principles and procedures developed in the Campus Gardens Point Engineering. units USB140, Imagine Property, and USB242, Gardens Point Experience Property, to the more complex property Availabilities - SEM-1 classes such as rural property, special premises, retail and business based property that require a The choice of material and the reliance on the UXB121 Imagine Quantity greater level of student expertise for analysis and material being "fit for purpose" is essential to the Surveying and Cost value calculation. Assessment items will provide success of any building project. This unit provides an students with the opportunity to undertake practical introduction to building materials, such as rock, soil, Engineering valuation exercises to link this unit with the property timber, masonry, concrete and metal and forms the Equivalents UDB216 knowledge and valuation principles developed basic building blocks of subsequent units. We will Credit Points 12 throughout their studies. cover the structural and non structural materials used in the construction process and focus on the basic Campus Gardens Point properties, construction applications, behaviour, Gardens Point Availabilities strength, durability, suitability, sustainability and - SEM-1 USB344 Property Project limitations. Pre-requisites 192 Credit Points Imagine what your future Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering career will be like. This unit focuses Credit Points 12 on three broad areas of professional quantity Campus Gardens Point UXB113 Measurement for surveying and cost engineering and in doing so, Gardens Point considers the similarities and differences across Availabilities Construction - SEM-2 Quantity Surveying and Cost Engineering. Firstly, Equivalents UDB113 what it means to be a professional is considered This is the capstone unit for the Property Economics Credit Points 12 including image and status, fees, codes of ethics, degree and draws together the theory, practice and professional competence and continuing professional property fundamentals that have been covered in the Campus Gardens Point development. Secondly, ways in which professionals units studied to date. You will have the opportunity to Gardens Point engage with a workplace including terms of Availabilities apply knowledge learnt in previous units to a property - SEM-2 appointment are explored. Finally, the work of related issue and to carry out an independent and in quantity surveying and cost engineering takes place This unit introduces aspects of the scope of the role of depth study that will provide the opportunity to extend within a social and environmental context and the unit construction cost management professionals and broaden your understanding of a chosen issue. will relate interactions between business and independently and for contractors. It examines the This unit prepares you for transition to the environmental interests including the natural Australian standard method of measurement professional world. environment, environment economics and introducing formal measurement techniques and ecologically sustainable development. This unit methodologies of residential and small commercial occurs in the first year of your course to provide you building works within the context of the
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Gardens Point Credit Points 12 with the foundational context in quantity surveying Availabilities and cost engineering and relates in particular to units - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point in measurement and cost planning and controls. This unit provides you with knowledge of and skills in Gardens Point Availabilities land use planning and geographic information system - SEM-1 (GIS) in an integrated way. This unit provides you with a balanced and clear introduction into the substantive Measurement is a core skill and attribute among UXB130 History of the Built domains of land use planning, one of the primary building and infrastructure professionals. This Environment functions of planners. This unit builds on the attribute is particularly important in relation to the production of descriptive and quantified documents Equivalents UDB162 academic skills learnt in USB100 - Understanding the Built Environment, UXB131 Imagine Planning and within the design cost management process for the Credit Points 12 Design and UXB132 - Urban Analysis. purposes of tendering, estimating and construction Campus Gardens Point cost management practices within the construction and infrastructure sectors. This unit develops a Gardens Point Availabilities deeper appreciation of the measurement of more - SEM-1 UXB210 Commercial complex work sections and trades focused on more The unit looks at the interactions of forces and events Construction complicated structural trades and the development that act to produce elements of the built environment, and application of suitable and accurate construction and the role played by the built environment in Pre-requisites UXB110 or UDB110 cost management documents in a concise and shaping human history through the use of historical Equivalents UDB210 systematic manner. With the introduction to examples from around the world. Measurement software applications you will develop Credit Points 12 strategies and abilities in dealing with more advanced Campus Gardens Point virtual building graphical models as they relate to integrated practice concepts used in industry. This Gardens Point Availabilities unit occurs in the second year of your course as it UXB131 Imagine Planning and - SEM-1 builds on the measurement attributes developed in Design The aim of this unit is to provide you with extensive the first year and assists you with further advanced Anti-requisites DEB101 theoretical knowledge to manage and supervise the units in Services & Heavy Engineering Measurement, Equivalents UDB161 construction of a cross section construction types construction estimating and other Cost management such as low rise residential apartment buildings and areas. Credit Points 12 commercial and industrial buildings. Incorporated Campus Gardens Point within the unit is a sound understanding of how a building achieves structural stability and equilibrium Gardens Point Availabilities through its load paths through basic study and UXB214 Construction - SEM-1 analysis of engineering components and systems. It Estimating This unit, generally taken by first year students in links and builds on the earlier studies undertaken in QUT's planning course, will introduce you to planning your first year including residential and integrated Pre-requisites UXB113 or UDB113 and design in urban and regional planning. You will construction; building services and prepares you for Equivalents UDB213 learn about basic theories and practices of planning further advanced units in designing structures and Credit Points 12 and design, planning policy and the planning highrise construction management. profession, through explorations of 'place'. This unit Campus Gardens Point involves both individual and group work and you will Gardens Point Availabilities also develop project management, research and - SEM-2 communications skills necessary for further university UXB211 Building Services study and eventual professional practice. Equivalents UDB215 This intermediate unit further develops your knowledge, skills and application for estimating Credit Points 12 techniques to quantify cost. Cost quantification is a Campus Gardens Point major factor in the building and development process and sound knowledge of these techniques will also be UXB132 Urban Analysis Gardens Point Availabilities of benefit in other units within this program. This unit Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 occurs in the later part of the second year of your Campus Gardens Point This unit develops your knowledge, skills and course as it builds on key principles developed in Gardens Point application for Building services focussing on fire, earlier technology and integrative units with Cost Availabilities - SEM-1 hydraulics, air-conditioning, and electrical services. It management aspects. links to basic work and understanding previously This unit equips you with the necessary skills to undertaken in your first year of study and prepares comfortably undertake statistical and spatial analysis you for further advanced units in Commercial and of cities and regions. Lectures will be based thorough Highrise Construction Management and Services & UXB220 Services and Heavy urban analysis and will introduce a variety of Heavy Engineering Measurement. quantitative analysis techniques, with hands-on Engineering Measurement exercises during the practical sessions. Pre-requisites UXB213 or UDB212 Equivalents UDB315 UXB212 Designing Structures Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites UXB112 or UDB111 UXB133 Urban Studies Campus Gardens Point Equivalents UDB164 Equivalents UDB211 Gardens Point Availabilities Credit Points 12 Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Campus Gardens Point Campus Gardens Point This unit develops a deeper appreciation of the Gardens Point Gardens Point measurement of more complex areas of services and Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 - SEM-2 Heavy Engineering including building services (hydraulics, drainage, mechanical and electrical) and The unit is an introduction to the basic principles of This unit introduces you to the various demographic, heavy engineering works within the resources and structural engineering applicable to basic structure. economic, social and physical aspects of our cities to infrastructure sectors. It builds on units previously Quantitative and qualitative techniques are used as a help understand the nature of cities we live in. This undertaken in the earlier years of the course such as basis for learning structural analysis. This unit unit builds upon the knowledge introduced in Imagine the Measurement of Construction, Heavy Engineering requires an understanding of mathematical Planning and Design and Urban Analysis, and Sector Technology and Building services. provides the theoretical foundation for application in knowledge relating to the ability to work with studio type units in subsequent years. equations. UXB230 Site Planning UXB134 Land Use Planning UXB213 Advanced Pre-requisites UXB131 or DEB101 or UDB161 Equivalents UDB163 Measurement for Construction Equivalents UDB265 Credit Points 12 Pre-requisites UXB113 or UDB113 Credit Points 12 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents UDB212 Campus Gardens Point
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Gardens Point Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-1 - SEM-1, SEM-2 The objective of this unit is for you to learn, practice This unit introduces the food and nutrition system and XNB192 Home Economics and apply site planning processes, techniques and its role in health. It will cover food and its constituents, skills on a selected project site. Topics include changing requirements throughout the lifecycle and Curriculum Studies 2 information retrieval, site appraisal and analysis the application of dietary assessment methodologies Pre-requisites XNB191 or PUB343 techniques, constructive critique, and presentation and food selection guides. Basic skills to search and Equivalents PUB643 skills. appraise scientific literature are developed here to underpin more advanced studies in Nutrition Credit Points 12 Sciences. This unit is also of interest for students from Campus Kelvin Grove a range of study area with an interest in nutrition. Kelvin Grove UXB231 Planning Processes Availabilities (UXB133 or UXB134 or UDB163 or - SEM-2 Pre-requisites ENB274 or EGB274) and 96 credit This unit is the second in a suite of three curriculum points of study completed XNB171 Fitness, Health and units studied concurrently with Teaching and Learning Equivalents UDB266 Wellness Studies 3 and Field Studies 2. The unit provides students with opportunities to develop knowledge and Equivalents HMB171 Credit Points 12 skills pertinent to the professional educator, including Campus Gardens Point Credit Points 12 the ability to critique current paradigms. Learning experiences are organised to build deeper Gardens Point Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities understanding of outcomes based syllabuses. This - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities knowledge is applied to the design and management You will study the logic, role and methods of - SEM-1 of learning environments and practices that engage successive stages of planning including aims, The dimensions and interrelationships of health, learners. The importance of self regulatory practice is information analysis and synthesis, evaluation, physical activities and wellness are studied. Basic emphasised. strategy development, monitoring and review. You will principles and theories of conditioning, behaviour learn how to integrate widespread consultation both change and exercise prescription necessary to within communities and with other professionals to demonstrate the impact of physical activity on lifestyle help develop flexible and widely applicable planning diseases, health behaviours and wellness are XNB193 Advanced Home processes. examined. Economics Curriculum Studies Pre-requisites XNB192 or PUB643 Equivalents PUB743 UXB232 Negotiation and XNB172 Nutrition and Physical Credit Points 12 Conflict Resolution Activity Campus Kelvin Grove UXB231 or UDB240 or UDB266 or Pre-requisites Equivalents HMB172 Kelvin Grove 144cp of completed study Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-1 Equivalents UDB369 Campus Kelvin Grove This unit introduces students to the theoretical and Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove practical knowledge and skills required by an effective Availabilities Campus Gardens Point - SEM-1, SEM-2 practitioner in the complex social environment of the home economics classroom. There are opportunities Gardens Point Availabilities This unit introduces you to the role of appropriate to observe, explore, analyse, implement and reflect - SEM-2 nutrition and physical activity in the creation and on learning and teaching strategies that can be used This unit introduces you to the theory and practice of maintenance of optimal health according to the to enhance the learning for the diversity of students negotiation and conflict resolution. In this unit you will national guidelines. The unit develops foundational found in any classroom. acquire skills in effective communication, analysis of knowledge established from evidence based practice. disputes and creative problem solving through active The focus is on the importance of a healthy lifestyle in participation in role playing activities and intense multiple contexts and developing an appreciation of investigation of real world conflicts that arise through the complex factors which influence individual and XNB195 Hospitality Studies the development of land. While it links to a previous population behaviours. The unit complements Equivalents PUB355 unit in planning processes undertaken by students in XNB151 Food and Nutrition. This unit develops the Credit Points 12 the planning course, students from other fields will be knowledge and skills required to underpin later units able to participate fully in the unit. This unit prepares which address the role of nutrition and physical Campus Kelvin Grove activity in the prevention and management of disease students for negotiations implicit in the more complex Kelvin Grove and enhancement of wellbeing. It is also relevant for Availabilities group projects undertaken in the third and fourth - SEM-1 years of study, as well as for early career professional students from a range of study areas where nutrition practice. and physical activity are applicable. This unit explores the use of relevant management principles, safe and hygienic work practices, effective communication skills, the mastery of techniques in food production and presentation associated with UXB233 Planning Law XNB191 Home Economics vocational education and industry. Equivalents UDB267 Curriculum Studies 1 Credit Points 12 Co-requisites EDB002 and EDB031 Campus Gardens Point Equivalents PUB343 XNB250 Food Science Gardens Point Credit Points 12 XNB151 or PUB201 (This unit is Availabilities - SEM-2 Pre-requisites available ONLY in courses where Campus Kelvin Grove listed as a core unit) This unit provides the understanding of the basic Kelvin Grove Availabilities Equivalents PUB474 political, policy, and legislation essential for planning - SEM-1 professionals, whether they work in the public or the Credit Points 12 This is the first curriculum studies unit designed for private sector. This unit provides important Campus Kelvin Grove professional context and grounding in urban policy those pre-service teachers who have chosen Home Economics as a major teaching area. The unit Kelvin Grove development, implementation, development Availabilities assessment, and evaluation. explores the nature of Home Economics as a field of - SEM-1 study, its contribution to the educational goals for This unit is in the developmental stage of your course young Australians, and the unique features that and introduces you to elements across the food characterise Home Economics learning and teaching. supply chain from paddock to plate. The unit exposes Also, the unit shows the link between the discipline XNB151 Food and Nutrition you to aspects of food science including the units, the curriculum units and field experience. Equivalents PUB201 composition of food and its behaviour, food product Students will engage with the range of syllabus development, food selection and evaluation and food Credit Points 12 documents and unit plans to plan lessons for lower spoilage and preservation. Laboratory based secondary students in Years 7-10 Home Economics Campus Kelvin Grove workshops enable students to develop practical skills classes.
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An ever-increasing range of qualitative and This unit introduces exercise and sport psychology. quantitative information about human performance is The primary focus of this unit is the understanding of available, whether in sport or rehabilitation data psychological principles and issues related to XNB251 Nutrition Science extracted from workplace or research studies. participation and adherence in physical activity, Extracting key information from this data to support exercise and sport. (LSB308 or LQB381) and (XNB151 Pre-requisites decision-making is an important process, particularly or PUB201) with the increasing demand for evidence-based Co-requisites LQB481 practice. This is essential in optimising training, talent Equivalents PUB405 identification or tracking performance in sport as well XNB276 Research in Human as informing clinical and rehabilitation decisions Movement Credit Points 12 following injury or in more specialised settings in Equivalents HMB276 Campus Kelvin Grove exercise and movement science research. Therefore, providing training opportunities to enable this Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities evidence-based practice with a sound biomechanical - SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove perspective is paramount for health related Kelvin Grove Nutrition Science investigates the biochemistry and professionals, physical education teachers, Availabilities physiology of macro and micronutrients and their podiatrists, personal trainers and exercise - SEM-1 manipulation in the prevention and management of physiologists. As the XN53 and XN54 are accredited This unit includes principles of research: purposes, nutrition problems in individuals, groups and courses through the national association Exercise and philosophy, applications. It addresses quantitative populations. It integrates nutrition knowledge with the Sport Science Australia (ESSA), this unit aligns with research including basic statistics, descriptives, science of biochemistry and physiology, and provides the required skills and competencies recommended ANOVA, correlation, regression and non-parametrics, the foundation on which further studies of nutrition by ESSA. and basic research design hypothesis testing. and dietetics can be built. Qualitative research includes methodology, data collection, and theory building. Research presentation XNB273 Exercise Physiology 1 includes: writing a research report and developing conclusions. This unit also considers application of XNB252 Nutrition across the Pre-requisites LSB231 or LSB142 or LQB388 research, examples in human movement, related Lifecycle Equivalents HMB273 literature, computer data analysis, and information XNB151 or PUB201 or XNB172 or retrieval. Pre-requisites Credit Points 12 HMB172 Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents PUB648 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 XNB277 Exercise and Sport Campus Kelvin Grove This unit describes the immediate physiological Nutrition Kelvin Grove responses to exercise, and the adaptations that occur XNB172 or HMB172 or XNB151 or Availabilities Pre-requisites - SEM-2 with long-term exercise training. Exercise places a PUB201 demand on the human body to provide sufficient Equivalents HMB277 This unit covers nutrition as it relates to the life-cycle energy to perform. The metabolic, hormonal, phases beginning with pre-conception and continuing cardiovascular and pulmonary systems must adapt to Credit Points 12 with each major life stage through to old age. This unit meet the challenge of homeostasis. The active Campus Kelvin Grove further develops your knowledge of nutrition to an skeletal muscle must increase extraction and Kelvin Grove intermediate level and concentrates on the promotion utilisation of oxygen and other fuels, the Availabilities - SEM-1 of health and prevention of disease. The unit will cardiovascular system must respond to improved gas focus on nutrition requirements and practical food and fuel transport, and lung function must change to This unit will provide you with concepts related to the based advice for each lifecycle stage as well as taking facilitate increased respiratory gas exchange. relationship between nutrition and exercise/physical into consideration social and cultural food patterns activity. It builds on introductory nutrition and physical such as vegetarianism. activity and includes dietary and energy requirements in exercise and sport; the influence that nutrition has XNB274 Functional Anatomy on performance; and the use of nutritional Pre-requisites LSB131 or LSB255 supplements and water and electrolyte balance in XNB271 Foundations of Motor exercise and sport. It covers recommendations for Equivalents HMB274 Control, Learning and individuals and more broadly for population groups. Development Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites LSB131 or LSB231 or LSB255 Kelvin Grove Equivalents HMB271 Availabilities XNB282 Resistance Training - SEM-1 Pre-requisites LSB131 Credit Points 12 This unit covers the structural and functional Equivalents HMB282 Campus Kelvin Grove requirements of musculo-skeletal system in relation to Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove human motion for a variety of activities. You will build Availabilities - SEM-1 upon prior knowledge of anatomy to evaluate human Campus Kelvin Grove motion from a variety of situations. Content includes Kelvin Grove This unit introduces students to the behavioural and the following: surface anatomy of the trunk and upper Availabilities - SEM-2 neural bases of movement control through an and lower limb; morphological and mechanical examination of the central nervous and properties of bone, muscle-tendon units with This unit aims to equip students with the basic neuromuscular systems, hierarchical control, human implications for physical activity; joint structure and knowledge, skills and competencies required for information processing and dynamical systems. It function; analyses of movement tasks including exercise prescription in resistance training for covers elements of sensory mechanisms related to walking and running; cinematography and muscular fitness. Students build on prior knowledge of movement. Foundations of motor learning and electromyography in functional anatomy of movement biomechanics, anatomy, physiology and motor control adaptation are introduced, linking underlying task. to develop understanding of the mechanical and mechanisms of learning with principles that may be physiological determinants of muscular fitness. The applied in teaching, coaching and rehabilitation. unit incorporates a blend of theoretical background, practical knowledge and skills in the main areas of XNB275 Exercise and Sport muscular hypertrophy, strength, power and Psychology endurance. This understanding is then used to XNB272 Biomechanics critically analyse resistance training programs. Pre-requisites LSB131 Pre-requisites PYB100 or PYB012 or EDB002
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XNB295 Constraint Based XNB283 Wellness Processes Learning in Games and Sports XNB352 Foodservice Equivalents HMB315 and Strategies Credit Points 12 Management Pre-requisites XNB171 or HMB171 Pre-requisites XNB250 or PUB474 Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents HMB338 Equivalents PUB506 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Credit Points 12 - SEM-2 Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove In this unit various game forms are analysed in order Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove to identify fundamental game skills and problem areas Kelvin Grove Availabilities Availabilities - SEM-2 in skill development. Emphasis is placed on the - SEM-2 application of relevant movement knowledge and This unit examines the adoption of health behaviours This unit develops your knowledge and skills in the skills to suit game situations and on learning that contribute to the attainment of optimal health, application of a systems approach to food and appropriate strategies for teaching and coaching wellness and quality of life. It reviews how various nutrition services. It introduces management and selected games. dimensions of health and fitness together form the leadership principles and facilitates their application in basis of an individual's well-being, and traces the a variety of settings. This unit develops your achievement of a high level of wellness through competencies in foodservice management which is awareness, education and growth. XNB298 Foundations of essential as an accredited practising dietitian. Movement for Educators XNB291 Health and Physical Equivalents HMB278 XNB353 Dietetic Credit Points 12 Education Curriculum Studies 1 Campus Kelvin Grove Communication, Counselling (XNB171 or HMB171) and (XNB295 Pre-requisites Kelvin Grove and Practice or HMB315) Availabilities - SEM-2 (XNB351 or PUB641) and Equivalents HMB231 Pre-requisites completion of 240cp including all This unit provides an opportunity for critical inquiry core units Credit Points 12 and analysis of human movement from a Campus Kelvin Grove multidisciplinary perspective. The integration of the Co-requisites XNB354 Kelvin Grove human movement principles of sub-disciplines Equivalents PUB645 Availabilities (functional anatomy, biomechanics, motor control, - SEM-1 Credit Points 12 sociology of sport and physical activity and This unit presents an introduction to the concepts, development) are evaluated and applied to coaching Campus Kelvin Grove philosophies, pedagogies and culture of Health and of sport and teaching and learning in physical Kelvin Grove Physical Education. It provides an exploration of the Availabilities education. - SEM-2 basic curriculum components as they apply to the planning, teaching and assessment practice in the This unit focuses on the development of client-centred Health and Physical Education key learning area. dietetic counselling skills. It will introduce a variety of XNB350 Community and Public counselling approaches, including motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy, to Health Nutrition assist in improving nutrition outcomes through XNB293 Understanding Pre-requisites XNB151 or PUB201 negotiated evidenced based interventions. You will be Equivalents PUB509 given opportunities to gather and interpret data from a Physical Activity Participation client and to provide a practical nutrition plan in Credit Points 12 Equivalents HMB313 socially and culturally sensitive ways. This unit is only Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove for students undertaking studies in dietetics. Kelvin Grove Campus Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove Availabilities - SEM-1 This unit is in the third year of your program and is XNB354 Medical Nutrition core to your development in the area of community This unit provides an introduction to the socio-cultural and public health nutrition an essential competency Therapy 2 areas associated with the study of sport, physical for both nutritionists and dietitians. It explores issues Pre-requisites XNB351 or PUB641 activity and exercise. It draws on a range of social in public health nutrition and provides you with the science disciplines and pays close attention to how Co-requisites XNB353 necessary skills to undertake program planning and and why people participate in physical activity as a Equivalents PUB628 evaluation in the application of nutrition to leisure pursuit. communities and populations. Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove Availabilities XNB294 Constraint Based XNB351 Medical Nutrition - SEM-2 Learning in Performance Therapy 1 This unit consolidates your knowledge and skills in Activities (XNB251 or PUB405) and (XNB252 the application of the nutrition care process to the nutritional management of disease focussing on more Equivalents HMB314 Pre-requisites or PUB648) and LQB481 and LQB488 complex cases and/or co-morbidities. The application Credit Points 12 of critical thinking in the nutritional management of Equivalents PUB541, PUB641 Campus Kelvin Grove individual clients includes the assessment, diagnosis, Credit Points 12 practical food based advice and evaluation. This unit Kelvin Grove Availabilities is only for students undertaking studies in dietetics. - SEM-1 Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove This unit involves the application of movement Availabilities - SEM-1 principles to the analysis and development of XNB355 Nutrition Assessment techniques in all major swimming strokes, water This unit develops your knowledge and skills in the rescue methods, and track and field events. Students application of the nutrition care process to the Pre-requisites XNB151 or (XNB172 and XNB252) explore teaching strategies, motivational, conditioning nutritional management of disease. The unit focuses Credit Points 12 and training activities, the development of learning on the application of critical thinking in the nutritional Campus Kelvin Grove experiences for various ability levels and event rules management of individual clients including application. Kelvin Grove assessment, diagnosis, practical food-based advice Availabilities and evaluation. This unit is only for students - SEM-1 undertaking studies in dietetics. This unit will develop your knowledge, skills and application for nutrition and diet-related data collection
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Kelvin Grove methods at the individual, group and population level. (1) exercise performance and environmental stress, Availabilities It will continue to develop your ability to write a (2) special aids to exercise training and performance, - SEM-2 systematic review by identifying, synthesising and and (3) limitations to exercise in healthy normal This unit builds on foundation units to examine applying evidence to practice problems across the individuals, elite athletes and selected patient selected disorders of human movement that have a continuum of care and to develop your clinical populations. cardiorespiratory or metabolic basis. The unit reasoning and advocacy skills to improve outcomes at identifies major features of each disease together with an individual and population level. assessment methods, and forms the basis for XNB375 Applied Sport and subsequent units in clinical exercise prescription. XNB370 Performance Analysis Exercise Psychology PYB100 or PYB012 or HMB275 or (XNB271 or HMB271) and (XNB272 Pre-requisites XNB275 XNB381 Neurological, or HMB272) and (XNB273 or Pre-requisites HMB273) and (XNB274 or Equivalents HMB348 Psychological and HMB274) Credit Points 12 Musculoskeletal Disorders Equivalents HMB347 Campus Kelvin Grove (XNB271 or HMB271) and (XNB272 or HMB272) and (XNB273 or Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Availabilities HMB273) and (XNB274 or Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 HMB274) Kelvin Grove Availabilities The application of psychological techniques and Equivalents HMB378 - SEM-2 processes in sport and exercise explores theory, research and practice of methods that facilitate Credit Points 12 - participation, enjoyment and optimum performance Campus Kelvin Grove through enhancing the psychological knowledge and Kelvin Grove skills of coaches, athletes, parents, exercisers, fitness Availabilities - SEM-1 XNB371 Motor Control and professionals, and athletic trainers. The practice of applied exercise/sport psychology involves individual This unit provides you with a knowledge of the Learning 2 and group interventions, and the capacity to select principal features of a set of neurological, Pre-requisites XNB271 or HMB271 and use appropriate methods in each setting is psychological, and musculoskeletal disorders that crucial. prevent, limit or modify a person's capacity to move, Equivalents HMB371 and in turn, to undertake different forms of physical Credit Points 12 activity and exercise. It builds upon the foundational Campus Kelvin Grove work previously undertaken with the areas of motor XNB376 Motor Development in control, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and Kelvin Grove Availabilities functional anatomy. - SEM-2 Children Equivalents HMB376 This is an advanced unit which provides an in-depth view of theories and concepts in motor learning and Credit Points 12 XNB382 Principles of Exercise control; how we control actions in both everyday and Campus Kelvin Grove skilled behaviours, and how this capability is acquired. Prescription This course provides a multidisciplinary perspective, Kelvin Grove Availabilities (XNB273 or HMB273) and (XNB282 drawing on research from psychology, neuroscience, - SEM-1 Pre-requisites or HMB282) biomechanics, robotics, neural networks and This unit provides an opportunity to explore the theory medicine. The unit is organised around the theme of and practice underpinning Motor Development in Equivalents HMB382 sensorimotor integration as related to posture and Children. The integration of theory and practical work Credit Points 12 balance, locomotion and arm movements such as develops competencies that are applicable to Campus Kelvin Grove reaching, grasping and pointing. Teachers and Exercise Scientists working with Kelvin Grove children in a Physical Activity context. Availabilities - SEM-1 XNB372 Biomechanics 2 A combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills are required to enable the safe and effective (XNB272 or HMB272) and (XNB274 XNB377 Children in Sport Pre-requisites prescription of appropriate exercise. This unit is or HMB274) Equivalents HMB377 designed to introduce students to these basic Equivalents HMB362 Credit Points 12 theoretical concepts, and to apply them to practical situations. Topics covered will include: health risk Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove appraisal and fitness testing; dose-response and Campus Kelvin Grove Kelvin Grove physical activity recommendations; and exercise Availabilities Kelvin Grove - SEM-1 programming and prescription. This unit builds upon Availabilities materials covered in Exercise Physiology 1 and - SEM-1 This unit includes the following: physical development Resistance Training, and provides context for of the young athlete; physical maturation; benefits of This unit includes the following: measurement Principles of Exercise Programming. techniques within biomechanics; analysis of force participation in sport and physical activity; psycho- systems; photographic, goniometric social issues; positive and negative effects of andaelectrographic analysis of movement; an participation including competitive stress; injuries to introduction to viscoelasticity and biological materials; the growing skeleton; overtraining, overuse injuries; XNB385 Principles of Exercise material properties; mass and inertial characteristics strength training in childhood and adolescence; of the human body; applied aspects of biomechanics promotion of safety in sport; accreditation of teachers Programming undertaken from a research project perspective and coaches; policy guidelines for junior sport; Aussie Pre-requisites XNB382 or HMB382 sport program. Equivalents HMB385 Credit Points 12 XNB373 Exercise Physiology 2 Campus Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites XNB273 or HMB273 XNB380 Cardiorespiratory and Kelvin Grove Availabilities Equivalents HMB381 Metabolic Disorders - SEM-2 (XNB271 or HMB271) and (XNB272 Credit Points 12 or HMB272) and (XNB273 or This unit provides you with the knowledge and Pre-requisites Campus Kelvin Grove HMB273) and (XNB274 or capacity to design and implement safe, effective evidence-based exercise programs for individuals and Kelvin Grove HMB274) Availabilities groups in order to achieve specified goals. It provides - SEM-1 Equivalents HMB373 you with a structured exposure to exercise This unit examines the integrated regulation of the Credit Points 12 programming, covering major forms of exercise and organ system examined in Exercise Physiology 1. activity modalities, the planning and logistics of Campus Kelvin Grove Within this integrated perspective current research exercise programs for the athletic and generally areas will be highlighted, including but not limited to healthy population and the use of appropriate
This information is correct as at 20/11/2015. For the most up-to-date course information, visit http://www.student.qut.edu.au/study/units/. CRICOS No.00213J Units evidence in the design and implementation of programs. XNB396 Child and Adolescent Health XNB452 Clinical Practice in Equivalents HMB333 Community and Public Health XNB390 Teaching Primary HPE Credit Points 12 Equivalents HMB300 Campus Kelvin Grove Nutrition Completion of 288cp including Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Availabilities (XNB350 or PUB509) Campus Kelvin Grove and Caboolture - SEM-2 Equivalents PUB725 Kelvin Grove This unit focuses on the wide range of factors that Credit Points 24 - SEM-1 impact on the health of individuals in the two crucial Availabilities Caboolture stages of life: childhood and adolescence. An analysis Campus Kelvin Grove is made of knowledge, beliefs and skills required for - SEM-1 Kelvin Grove promoting health-enhancing behaviours during these Availabilities - SEM-1, SEM-2 This unit provides students with knowledge of how to ages and experience is provided on some of the skills integrate Health and physical education within the needed to assess and maintain the health status of Clinical Practice in Community and Public Health other key learning areas. Students learn the children and adolescents. Nutrition integrates theory with practice in the connection between physical activity and health and workplace setting. The Work Integrated Learning its role in meeting the developmental needs of placement allows you to synthesise your specialised children. Additionally, they participate in a range of knowledge and experiences from across your degree learning experiences appropriate to the XNB397 Administration of and in particular XNB350 into a real life project. Your developmental needs of children and acquire the School Sport and HPE broad, coherent knowledge of the food system will skills necessary to safely deliver student learning in align with vital skills in project management to Equivalents HMB337 an open environment. Topics include principles of the implement nutrition education sessions as preparation health and physical education years 1-10 syllabus; Credit Points 12 for your transition to practice. motor skill development and ability related expectations for teaching HPE; planning for quality Campus Kelvin Grove instruction and linking physical activity with health; Kelvin Grove Availabilities planning and teaching HPE; classroom management - SEM-2 XNB453 Professional Practice and safety issues. School physical education departments and sporting in Nutrition associations are medium-sized organisations (XNB350 or PUB509) and (XNB251 Pre-requisites requiring direction for servicing a large client base. In or PUB405) and LQB488 XNB391 Health and Physical this unit students examine the role of administrators and the administration of monies, facilities and human Anti-requisites XNB452 Education Curriculum Studies 2 resources in a school physical education and sports Equivalents PUB875 Pre-requisites XNB291 or HMB231 setting. Credit Points 12 Equivalents HMB331 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove XNB450 Nutrition and Dietetic - SEM-1, SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Project Availabilities This unit provides students with the opportunity, in - SEM-2 PUB416 and (XNB353 or PUB645). real world settings, to further develop knowledge, Pre-requisites XNB353 can be enrolled in the This unit extends the principles of professional confidence and skills to apply theoretical principles same teaching period as XNB450 practice established in the earlier unit (XNB291) and covered in earlier years in the area of community and further encourages you to develop a critically Equivalents PUB720 public health nutrition practice. [Designated unit] reflective approach to your teaching. It is designed to Credit Points 24 extend your professional practice with a range of understandings and competencies for interpreting and Campus Kelvin Grove managing the Health and Physical Education Kelvin Grove XNB454 Clinical Practice in Availabilities classroom as a complex environment for teaching and - SEM-2 Foodservice Management learning. It assists you to develop competencies Completion of 288 cp including needed for planning and teaching a range of Health This unit provides an opportunity to identify a relevant Pre-requisites (XNB353 or PUB645) and (XNB352 and Physical Education units of work. nutrition area for further investigation and to undertake a research project or literature review, or PUB506) under the supervision of a qualified dietitian Equivalents PUB822 practitioner. XNB395 Personal Health Credit Points 12 Campus Kelvin Grove Equivalents HMB305 Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Availabilities XNB451 Clinical Practice in - SEM-1, SEM-2 Campus Kelvin Grove Individual Dietetic Case Practice in the area of foodservice management is Kelvin Grove Availabilities Management vital to integrate knowledge of standards, food - SEM-1 (XNB353 or PUB645) and (XNB351 legislation and regulations theory with clinical Lifestyle is largely determined by an individual Pre-requisites or PUB641) and (XNB352 or practice. Dietetic professionals manage foodservices functioning in a socio-environmental context that PUB506) or components of foodservices to provide safe and places some limitations on choice and resultant nutritious foods for groups, and this unit provides Equivalents PUB723 health. This unit is designed to assist individuals to opportunities to engage in real-life food and nutrition develop a positive self-concept, a sound knowledge of Credit Points 24 service settings to undertake quality improvement initiatives to consolidate your skills and competence in lifestyle issues and their implications, and decision- Campus Kelvin Grove making skills necessary to make wise choices. The this area. The unit expectations meet the Dietitians Kelvin Grove Association of Australia minimum practice focus of this unit is the development of such qualities Availabilities for personal maintenance and improvement. - SEM-1, SEM-2 requirements. Movements in this direction are achieved by analysing Students require skills in the management of the processes involved in developing individuals nutritional care of clients in clinical settings to a capable of taking control of their lifestyles and standard that allows entry to the Dietetics profession. XNB455 Dietetic Business resultant health. Much of this analysis will be self- The application of evidence-based strategies using focused. the framework of the nutrition care process (nutrition Management assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and Completion of 288 credit points evaluation) will support provision of high level nutrition Pre-requisites including (XNB353 or PUB645) and care to clients representing a variety of disease (XNB350 or PUB509) states. Equivalents PUB730
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Credit Points 12 Human Movement Practitioners. Workplace XNB485 Practicum B Campus Kelvin Grove involvement is preceded by a vocational skill seminar and workshop program while an interactive analysis (XNB470 or HMB470) and (XNB481 Kelvin Grove Availabilities program is instigated post practicum. or HMB481) and (XNB482 or - SEM-1, SEM-2 Pre-requisites HMB482). XNB481 and XNB482 In an increasingly competitive environment, entry can be enrolled in the same level dietitians need knowledge of the true cost of a teaching period as XNB485 business and skills to plan, market and evaluate a XNB481 Clinical Exercise for Equivalents HMB485 business and service. This is in the final year of your Cardiorespiratory and Credit Points 24 course and builds on your understanding of management principles, and integrates with your Metabolic Disorders Campus Kelvin Grove professional practice placements in nutrition and (XNB380 or HMB373) and (XNB382 Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites Availabilities dietetics. or HMB382) - SEM-1, SEM-2 Equivalents HMB481 This practicum unit examines the assessment and Credit Points 12 programming of exercise and activity for individuals with neurological disorders and musculoskeletal XNB456 Dietetic Leadership Campus Kelvin Grove conditions. You will experience working with and Management Kelvin Grove clients/patients utilising the skill sets of screening, Availabilities Completion of 288cp including - SEM-1 assessment, prescription and evaluation of exercise (XNB353 or PUB645) and (XNB351 and activity in the treatment and management of Pre-requisites This unit synthesises your knowledge and skills from or PUB641) and (XNB351 or these conditions and disorders, including disease- previous units of study across the whole range of PUB506) specific considerations. activities associated with the assessment and Equivalents PUB606 programming of exercise and activity for individuals Credit Points 12 with cardiorespiratory and metabolic disorders. The unit focuses on the screening, assessment, XNB486 Practicum C Campus Kelvin Grove prescription and evaluation of exercise and activity in (XNB470 or HMB470) and (XNB481 Kelvin Grove the treatment and management of these disorders, Availabilities or HMB481) and (XNB482 or - SEM-2 including disease-specific considerations in preparation for your transition to professional practice. Pre-requisites HMB482). XNB481 and XNB482 This is a capstone unit for nutrition and dietetics, and can be enrolled in the same occurs in the final semester of the program. It teaching period as XNB486 converges the knowledge, skills and attributes you Equivalents HMB486 have developed over this course to enable you to be XNB482 Clinical Exercise for a reflexive nutrition and dietetics leader in increasingly Credit Points 24 complex environments. Neurological, Psychological Campus Kelvin Grove and Musculoskeletal Disorders Kelvin Grove Availabilities Pre-requisites XNB381 or HMB378 - SEM-1, SEM-2 XNB457 Contemporary Issues Equivalents HMB482 This practicum unit will allow you to undertake a in Nutrition and Dietetics Credit Points 12 clinical or non-clinical placement depending on your interests and as negotiated with the Placement XNB353, XNB354, XNB451, Campus Kelvin Grove Coordinator. [Designated unit] XNB452, XNB454 and XNB456. Kelvin Grove Pre-requisites XNB451, XNB452, XNB454 and Availabilities - SEM-1 XNB456 can be enrolled in the same teaching period as XNB457. This unit synthesises your knowledge and skills from XNB491 Advanced Health and Anti-requisites HLB402 previous units of study across the whole range of activities associated with the assessment and Physical Education Curriculum Credit Points 12 programming of exercise and activity for individuals Studies Campus Kelvin Grove with neurological, psychological and musculoskeletal disorders. The unit focuses on the screening, Pre-requisites XNB391 or HMB331 Kelvin Grove Availabilities assessment, prescription and evaluation of exercise Equivalents HMB431 - SEM-2 and activity in the treatment and management of Credit Points 12 This unit explores the evidence base for emerging these disorders, including disease-specific areas of nutrition and dietetics. You will engage with considerations in preparation for your transition into Campus Kelvin Grove researchers and experts to extend your skills in professional practice. Kelvin Grove Availabilities critical analysis of evidence and theoretical constructs - SEM-1 in controversial areas relevant to practice now and in the future. This unit is the culminating unit of the Health and XNB484 Practicum A Physical Education component of the course. The (XNB470 or HMB470) and (XNB481 focus of the unit is on the application of principles or HMB481) and (XNB482 or learned throughout the course in both HPE curriculum XNB470 Practicum 1 Pre-requisites HMB482). XNB481 and XNB482 and HPE discipline units within the framework of the (XNB382 or HMB382) and (XNB385 can be enrolled in the same Senior Physical Education syllabus. or HMB385). XNB385 can be taken teaching period as XNB484. Pre-requisites in the same study period as Equivalents HMB484 XNB470 Credit Points 24 Equivalents HMB470 Campus Kelvin Grove Credit Points 12 Kelvin Grove Availabilities Campus Kelvin Grove - SEM-1, SEM-2 Kelvin Grove Availabilities This practicum unit examines the assessment and - SEM-1, SEM-2 programming of exercise and activity for individuals In the first of the Human Movement dedicated with cardiorespiratory and metabolic disorders. You practicum units, you will undertake in-depth will experience working with clients/patients utilising experience at two different workplaces (40 hours the skill sets of screening, assessment, prescription each) while maintaining ongoing involvement in the and evaluation of exercise and activity in the School's clinics (20 hours). This unit is designed to treatment and management of these disorders, synthesize the knowledge and skills required of a including disease-specific considerations. competent practitioner, and assess your application via supervised practice to real world settings. You are provided with an extended opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge and practical skills acquired across the course of study under the supervision of
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