This unit introduces students to the importance of physical activity for good health across the lifespan. Students will learn about the far-reaching effect of various types of physical activity on personal health, and the connection between inactivity and diseases and conditions such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease. Ways to incorporate and optimise regular physical...

This unit covers a range of topics in port and terminal management from business, operations and policy/governance perspectives. First, it explains the role of ports and terminals as public assets and commercial businesses, and their pricing, competition and marketing. Second, it covers the management of port and terminal operations including logistics, performance valuation, safety, security and...

This unit introduces the core concepts of soil science using a Tasmanian landscape lens. Students will develop the tools to advocate for the importance of soil to a range of stakeholders to sustainably feed the world. This unit integrates background knowledge from chemistry, physics, geography, agriculture, and environmental sciences into soil science and landscape systems. It requires students...

In this unit, you are invited to expand and deepen your understanding of Indigenous realities through critical engagement with Indigenous voices and scholarship. You will use the key concepts of sovereignty, truth telling, resurgence, and relationality to identify and understand Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. You will engage analytically with a wide range of scholarly and creative...

Sound and effective management and leadership require not only financial and technical expertise but also ethical competency. This unit provides a focus on ethical decision-making, and in particular introduces a series of frameworks for discerning what is right and wrong in important areas of business practice. Ethical competency is the ability to, a) perceive the ethical implications of a...

The design of this unit is based on the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Model Course 1.38 (Marine Environmental Awareness). The unit informs the participants of the complexity, diversity and functional significance of marine life and how this environment can be adversely impacted by maritime industry. This unit aims to create a general understanding of the importance of regulatory...

This is the third unit designed to consolidate key practical and theoretical skills relating to the practice of music required for today’s creative practitioner. You will further develop essential literacies through integrated music theory and musicianship training and apply them to create and arrange reimagined and new musical works. ...

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....

In this unit you will investigate approaches to design and delivery of projects in industry contexts. This will include identifying and analysing relevant concepts, tools and processes used in the formulation, delivery and management of projects. Investigations will focus on practical examples and incorporate analysis and design of your own major project through the delivery of the unit. You will...

This unit provides an overview of contemporary palliative care principles. You will learn about the underpinnings of palliative care practices, with a particular focus on such practices for people with dementia and the people close to them. A core consideration of dementia is it progressive, life-limiting nature. Dementia is an incurable, terminal, neurodegenerative condition, with multiple...