This unit introduces you to an interprofessional framework and foundational concepts related to joining a regulated profession and that are shared across allied health disciplines. Within the interprofessional framework, allied health students develop an understanding of the professional contexts in which they practice and the role and responsibilities of their own and other professions when...

You will design a research project with an academic supervisor and carry out the day-to-day implementation of the project including assessment of safety and collection of data.  KRA707 (Chemistry Research Analysis and Presentation) is a co-requisite with this unit. The results from this component will be used for the preparation of a written thesis. The results obtained during the project will...

This unit provides you with the knowledge and skills to work with the woman, her newborn baby and family during the labour and birthing experience and early parenting days. Underpinning this unit is a belief that childbirth is essentially a normal life event. The unit will encourage you to develop attitudes that respect and support women in the decisions they make around birth and care of their...

Communication Skills for the Workplace is a language proficiency support course designed to develop students’ communication skills in preparation for the Australian and global workplace.  Examples of these language skills include vocabulary development, sentence structure, pronunciation and fluency. The unit also aims to develop soft skills that are highly valued in the workplace, such as...

We are all looking towards a tomorrow that we cannot predict. The Humanities helps us understand our past, influence our present, and imagine our future. Each year, this unit will tackle a vital cultural, environmental, and/or humanitarian topic from multiple perspectives. Students will work independently and together to engage critically and creatively with the topic, and to build their capacity...

In the first half of this unit you will examine the criminal justice system in its theoretical, historical, political and social context. This will entail understanding the agencies and processes involved in criminal justice – from initial complaint, police investigation, and prosecution all the way through to sentencing and imprisonment. You will consider limitations of the criminal justice...

Exhibitions are not only a way to present creative works. They are also a way to make meaning, generate ideas and communicate with an audience. This unit will present key contemporary, historical, philosophical and cultural debates and guide you through ways to describe and analyse them using curatorial approaches. The unit will introduce curatorial practice as both a mode of creative expression...

Critical Practices in Art: Foundations fosters the development of foundational knowledge, skills, and understanding for creative practice. This unit centres on the artist studio and the resultant works, placing a strong emphasis on materiality as a fundamental element of art creation and interpretation. The evolution of contemporary art is explored through direct engagement with real pieces in...

This unit is designed for HDR candidates in the data-collection stage of candidature/coursework to prepare them for data analysis and representation appropriate to relevant methodological techniques and/or approaches they have employed. The unit provides broad learning across qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods analysis with an opportunity for specialisation in one of these areas...

This unit is an advanced ocean engineering unit that introduces the students to the complex hydrodynamic and structural problems associated to the design of floating structures. By combining the knowledge gained in Hydrostatics, Applied Ocean Wave Mechanics and Mechanics of Solids, students will learn the engineering principles that dictate the size and govern the loads and motions experienced by...