This unit explores services provided in the hospitality industry. You will investigate topics such as the scope of hospitality operations, contemporary trends, management and supervisory approaches, and implementation of service practices. This unit provides you with a general understanding of the hospitality industry including how to enhance and manage the customer service experience and...

As more businesses and scientists adopt geographical information systems (GIS), there is increasing demand for graduates with strong skills in collecting, managing, analysing, and visualising spatial datasets. GIS and spatial analysis skills will be indispensable for almost all careers in geography, geospatial science and geosciences, and students who have advanced skills in this field will be...

This unit aims to expand students’ understanding of holistic accounting gained in their previous core accounting units, to develop and apply their accounting knowledge, skills and terminology in the context of broader notion of accounting that includes accountability and social and environmental accounting. In particular, students are introduced to a number of accounting standards, their...

The proliferation and ubiquity of data has created opportunities and challenges for businesses in today’s data-driven world. This unit introduces students to techniques and technologies related to business analytics for businesses to harness this wealth of data to create business value. Students will gain hands-on experience with software tools to analyze and present data to assist business...

This unit introduces students to major theoretical and empirical perspectives on the psychology of health and wellbeing. It examines the psychosocial determinants of health and wellness as well as psychological theories of health protection and illness prevention. Issues relating to the psychological aspects of illness causation and interpretation, prevention, maintenance of primary prevention,...

The unit explores the historically evolved norms and laws as they relate to atrocity crimes and global justice issues, including slavery, climate change, migration and refugees, and labour exploitation. The unit provides a framework by which to understand why the justice issues identified in this unit were, at various times in times in modern history, tolerated, and how they have in time become...

This unit will provide a critical examination of the state and complexity of the Australian health and social care system as it relates to older adults. You will become adept at accessing online and other resources provided to support aged care, as well as the spectrum of services that older adults can access. Through case studies, you will develop skills to interact with, guide and support...

Feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology and queer theory have raised stimulating questions about the body. This unit examines how the body is theorised, how it interacts with questions of culture and class, and explores the implications of our understanding of the body and gender for epistemology, ethics and politics. In short, we examine what it means to be embodied. ...

This unit explores care of the older adult in paramedicine. In this unit the student will develop the ability to critically assess the older adult within the context of their social and cultural identity, attitudes to healthy ageing and living environment. The student will gain an understanding of the lived experience of the older person and will explore their wellbeing in Australia through...

In this unit you will examine human impacts of agricultural production on ecosystem services, ecosystem functions and biodiversity. You will also learn how these services interact with agricultural production in relation to biosecurity, food security, and land management. You will explore concepts related to environmental-economic accounting, including true cost accounting and natural capital...