This is the first period of supervised professional experience practice for all students, and for most students this placement occurs in the University Psychology Clinic (UPC). In total the first clinical placement requires 300 to 350 hours of professional experience at the UPC, or other suitable external placement setting and you are expected to reach a minimum of 80 hours direct client contact....

This is an independent study project that requires the completion of an extended piece of writing such as a monograph, curriculum development document, professional development program, video, digital media output, or journal article for refereed publication. The design of the project should not involve research methods or publication of findings that require formal University Ethics Approval....

Families in History draws on examples from diverse places and times to explore changing ideals, attitudes, and experiences of the family in the past. We consider the family’s relationship with social, cultural, economic and political forces, as well as the lives of individual family members, such as mothers and children. The unit offers you the opportunity to conduct original archival research,...

This interdisciplinary unit engages students in a detailed study of Indigenous experience of social and legal systems from invasion/colonisation to the present day. Beginning with the global historical context, the unit traces the ongoing struggle for Indigenous justice from the violent colonial frontier to the era of social media. The unit explores issues including Land Rights and Native Title,...

This unit is designed to enable students to contextualise justice in practice. The unit provides students with an opportunity to understand the challenges of being a justice practitioner and taking responsibility for ensuring that a just outcome is achieved. Upon completion, students will have deeper understanding of the variety of interpretations of Justice in practice including; formal justice...

This is a University Connections Program extension unit that has been designed to support the existing TASC unit, Learning Through Internship. Throughout the TASC unit, you will develop skills and attributes that prepare you for both employment, further learning and successful participation in the community. This is achieved by going on an industry internship and completing a workplace-based...

In this unit you will learn to process, visualise, analyse and interpret spatial marine, oceanographic and Antarctic datasets and use R software. This will provide you the tools to discover marine spatial patterns and processes. It is a hands-on, skills-oriented unit with weekly practical/tutorial exercises supplemented with explanatory lectures. This unit addresses specific challenges when...

Volunteers are often the lifeblood of not-for-profit and governments-facilitated community programs. These volunteers can create significant social, cultural and economic capital in communities. This unit explores the roles that volunteers do and can play within community-based activities (e.g. sporting clubs, events, tourism centres), why the attraction and retention of volunteers is a key...

This unit introduces the concepts of software design and development in the context of computer programming. You will learn how to design, manage, and evaluate projects that solve real-world applied technology problems through industry best practice and design methodologies. You will learn to design and build programs for applied technology using the Python language and how to apply programming...