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 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...

This unit aims to broaden students understanding of the Australia Health Care System and its operation. It provides the opportunity for students to critically analyse and review the current and emerging challenges in health care delivery. Weekly topics will explore challenges of equity in health care and cover topics such as primary health and advocacy, healthcare work force, mental illness,...

The purpose of this unit is to develop engineering ability for system level design and commissioning of electrical powering and systems within marine and offshore sectors. The unit focuses on estimation of plant power electrical loads, design and analysis of marine electrical machines, power electronics and powering systems. ...

Rapid social change impacts on the ways people socialise, spend their money, work, and participate in leisure. The leisure industry is also going through rapid change with the emergence of contemporary forms of leisure such as extreme sports, multi-purpose leisure centres, online gaming, extended reality (XR) experiences, social media, and adventure tourism, as well as a greater focus on...

This unit explores the first wave of globalisation that occurred in the long nineteenth century, between the Age of Revolution and the First World War. We explore how the world was transformed by the spread of industrialisation, nationalism, capitalism, imperialism, racism and ideologies of progress. Using a series of case studies to examine the impact of these changes on people living in...

This unit consists of two parts: advanced fluid and thermal. In the fluid part, you will explore the governing equations of incompressible viscous fluid flow in differential form and investigate a range of topics such as laminar and turbulent flow in boundary layers, pipes and channels. Compressible flow theory is introduced and used to solve problems involving compressible shock waves, flow...

Psychology, the study of human behaviour, is wondrous in its complexity. Individual behaviour is affected and influenced by many factors, including biological, neurological, psychological and cultural. Psychologists can and do measure all of these factors and understand that the relationships and effects among them are many and varied. Some factors influence behaviour directly and others...

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...