This unit examines the principles, practice, history, trends, markets and growth of Tourism and the industry stakeholders and aims to have students analyse the behaviour of Tourism stakeholders and the media in Tourism and to critically evaluate information on the tourist industry. ...

The aim of this unit is to develop your English language knowledge and skills to the standards required for successful postgraduate studies at UTAS. The unit focuses on the technical aspects of English (such as developing appropriate vocabulary, taking notes, reading for gist and writing summaries) as well as academic reading and writing skills. The unit helps you to gain confidence in studying...

This unit offers an investigative insight into the fundamentals of management. Encompassing platform leadership and organisation theory, a brief history of management theory will be followed by investigations into different theories of organisations. You will explore topics under three key areas being: underpinning knowledge/theories; applying theory to practice; contemporary and future...

The aim of this unit is to help you develop the necessary academic and communication skills for successful postgraduate studies at UTAS. including a critical understanding of the responsibilities and expectations of postgraduate level studies. It will help you develop a postgraduate ‘mind set’ with appropriate attitudes and behaviors towards studying, fellow students and the wider academic...

Data Handling and Statistics 1 is the first of three applied statistics units offered by the School of Natural Sciences (Mathematics). Statistics is the science of decision making, and as such forms a key foundation of any scientific research. This unit develops skills in statistical analysis and project design. Data Handling and Statistics 1 is an applied unit that develops conceptual...

This unit aims to introduce students to the profession of engineering and covers professional skills including design, communication (written, oral, visual and technical), teamwork and project management. This unit will help students clarify an engineering career path and will build their skill-set towards being a competent engineer with skills in both open-ended problems and solution focused...

Organisations impact, and are impacted by, the societies in which they operate. That is, they are part of a broader social system. Society generally, and different groups of stakeholders specifically, expect an organisation to accept various responsibilities with respect to how it interacts with, and how it is accountable to, different stakeholders. Failure to comply with particular...

The aim of this unit is to help you develop the appropriate intercultural and communication skills for successful postgraduate studies at UTAS. In this unit you will develop advanced knowledge and skills in working and communicating with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. You will develop advanced intercultural knowledge and competence to be able to achieve your full academic potential....