In today’s data economy, businesses are blessed and cursed with an abundance of data. This proliferation of data is creating new professions and changing existing professions. One profession that is witnessing a rapid change due to the explosion of data is accounting. While there exists a plethora of data available to businesses, accounting data remains a source of data that is reliable,...

This unit enables students to extend their capacity to perform structural engineering analysis and design building on the basic concepts and fundamental principles of concrete materials and structural engineering analysis and design. The content of this unit covers concrete technology followed by analytical and design techniques for concrete cross-sections and members. The teaching emphasis in...

Each student is required to undertake a substantial high level two-semester project, this unit being the first, within their engineering discipline, which must include a research and development component, supported by a literature survey, to develop the skills required for a research higher degree (PhD or Masters). It may include elements of engineering design, experimental work, theoretical work...

This unit is a continuation of Engineering Honours Project A. It is the second (and final) part of a substantial high level two-semester project within a student's engineering discipline, which must include a research and development component, supported by a literature survey, to develop the skills required for a research higher degree (PhD or Masters). The project may include elements of...

Why are certain texts regarded as classics within the English literary canon and how do we encounter them today? This unit considers the importance of tradition to the ways we value, understand and circulate popular and literary texts. Students who successfully complete this unit will have built knowledge of key critical frameworks through which texts can be read and contextualised, and developed...

This unit will introduce students to the chemistry, biochemistry, and toxicology of foods. Food constituents are described in terms of their occurrence, nutritional significance, and reactivity during processing. This includes an understanding of the chemical and functional properties of food components, chemical interactions in foods and chemical effects on nutritional quality and functional...

KZA212 Functional Biology of Animals is required in the Zoology major and provides a broad training in fundamental aspects of Zoology. With KPZ211, the unit forms an essential basis for specialist studies in Zoology at level 3 the advanced level. This unit focuses on developing students' understanding of functional anatomy and comparative animal physiology from an evolutionary perspective....

This introduction to geography and environmental studies, KGA171DIP Global Geographies of Change integrates physical and social science inquiry. You study earth evolution, human development and their interaction, in light of questions about sustainability. You apply this knowledge to issues of vital importance around the world and in Tasmania, including climate change, population change,...

This unit introduces students to hydropower and key energy storage technologies which will shape future power systems, including pumped hydro storage and battery energy storage. Students will learn to accurately describe the key features and functionalities of these technologies, including of different technologies within a category, and their role in current and future power systems, including...

Innovation in Medicine Safety will help you identify and analyse medication-safety issues encountered in a variety of clinical settings.  You will initially learn and appraise existing issues and interventions that attempt to improve the Quality Use of Medicines or address medication-safety issues. You will then create your own service and communicate the concept verbally. From this, you will...