This unit addresses the communication needs of students, current and intending professionals required to speak in presentation contexts. Participants will experience specific vocal and physical skills in the presentation of dynamic and highly focused material and tasks. Various delivery techniques and strategies enable participants to reach an identified or intended audience with impact and...

This unit provides practice-led honours students with skillsin presenting their research for professional audiences andpurposes. This unit explores the range of requirements forworking ethically and professionally in the world andprepares the candidate for further academic study. The unitequips the candidate with a range of communication skillsand requires engagement with a wider...

This unit explores investigative techniques used to identify, understand, manage and record social behaviour in a number of specific areas and settings relevant to policing practice. Investigative, evidence-based interviewing and conversation management techniques will be studied to develop core professional communication and analytical skills essential in obtaining information and statements...

This unit is designed to consolidate learning undertaken in earlier units in this course, and prepare students for work in one of the district police prosecution offices. It will provide students with supervised exposure to the different work areas in which that they will be expected to undertake duties, and requires them to participate in such work practices under the supervision of a qualified...

This unit is for Technologies teachers in secondary schools, and introduces strategies to teach design and technologies in a way that fosters creativity and takes advantage of cross-curricular potential. The design process and pedagogical approaches are explored across the four Technologies Contexts. Design Thinking, Computer Aided Manufacture, and Tinker-Maker-Hacker approaches are brought...

This unit examines the storytelling tactics and strategies associated with the design and communication of brand narratives. The unit addresses the ways in which, in the changing media environment, brand narratives are now communicated via social networks and key ‘influencers’ as much as they are communicated via traditional methods and channels of storytelling. Case studies range from the...

Archaeology reveals a unique vision of our convict past. This unit explores the relics ofTasmanian convicts deposited by those 76,000 men, women and children transported asBritish felons over the 19th century. As part of this course, you will participate in anarchaeological dig at Picton Station – an 1830s Tasmanian penal quadrangle located in theSouth Midlands. In addition to gaining practical...

This unit surveys the main Western philosophical traditions from the Renaissance up to the 19th century. At the centre stand the metaphysical and epistemological systems of the Rationalists (Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz) and the Empiricists (Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume), as well as the Criticism of Kant and some of his successors such as, for example, Fichte, or Schelling, and Hegel....

In this unit, you are introduced to the knowledge, skills and confidence required for safe participation in self-reliant outdoor journeys and environmental fieldwork. Learning experiences, including practical field trips, emphasise the development of safe practice, research skills, sound judgement, care for others, sustainability, and the ability for you to be self-aware and responsible for your...