This unit examines complex social issues concerning diversity and discrimination based on age, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and mental and physical disabilities, and other vulnerability attributes. The challenges faced by police organisations, and by front-line officers in particular, in the provision of appropriate policing services to address the needs of vulnerable people, are explored....

This unit will look at the creation and use of 2- and 3-dimensional graphical information and animations. The mathematical and algorithmic techniques used in generating computer graphics will be covered, as well as the programming methods to build the tools needed to implement them. Topics will include 2D drawing algorithms, matrix transformations, 3D representations, key-frames and other...

'When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.’ Thus Hans Gruber (Die Hard, 1988) misquotes the ancient author Plutarch, who in turn was crafting an Alexander to suit his own narrative many years after Alexander’s death. Alexander’s impact on the world is undeniable; he is widely remembered as a compelling leader and military genius who...

Internet of Things (IoT) is rising set of technologies that provides access to a large quantity of data through sensors. Such devices are ubiquitous today in industrial processes, vehicles, robots, environmental monitoring, farms, hospitals, and on our personal item such as phones. IoT enables users to visualize, monitor, analyse and predict aspects of their environments that would otherwise be...

This unit aims to deconstruct the monolithic perception of Japanese culture and to understand Japan in terms of its relationship to its near and more distant neighbours through Asia and the Pacific. Incorporating the approach of queer studies which places an emphasis on the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationalism and ableness, the unit will introduce key elements of...

In this Unit, you will explore the processes and possibilities of practitioner action research, and generate a plan for investigation into an aspect of relevance in your own educational context. The Unit aims to provide you with the opportunity to recognise the role that reflection plays in forming a link between the conceptual and theoretical bases of teaching and learning. The teaching and...

This unit presents the economics of place and the economic value of placemaking. It explores how people choose the places where they want to live; considering whether the choice of where to live comes first and after the search of work, or vice versa. It discusses economic components to the creating dynamics of sustainable communities and regions where people want to live. It discusses cases...

This unit explores the different ways in which our everyday lives are connected increasingly to global events, issues and problems. Through three core modules – Approaches to Globalisation; Global Challenges and Threats; and, Global Futures – you will discover why globalisation is an important area of sociological inquiry, and how sociological concepts and theories are useful in understanding...

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are arise in many areas of applied mathematics; whenever a problem changes continuously in space and in time as, for example, in fluid flow or a description of the spread of a virus, PDEs are inevitably required to describe the system. In general PDEs are very hard to solve analytically, but there are a number of equations that recur often and for which...

This unit applies a sociological lens to the terrain of racial, religious and ethnic relations in Australia. It introduces theories of race, ethnicity, indigeneity and whiteness and applies these to historical and contemporary race and religious relations and the empirical research on Australian Indigenous, settler, migrant and refugee peoples. Specifically, the unit examines the history of...