Found 301 study abroad units
DXB311 Advanced Interaction Design Project
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Interaction Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This capstone unit further develops your interaction design skills through the production of a signature project. It focuses on developing your own specialist Interaction Design work which will serve to assist you in defining your professional portfolio and future career pathways. The outcome will also become your major design work to be presented in the final year exhibition. Design for interaction continues to be a transformative and pivotal field of design for contemporary society, encompassing a range of practice from sustainability, usability, and collaboration to the evocative, playful and expressive. New design opportunities and career options continue to emerge and an understanding of future industry practices and an ability to actively engage in these is essential for career success. This subject provides you with the opportunity to explore emerging areas of interaction design through practice-based research, creative focus and a supportive community of learning.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
DYB101 Impact Lab: Place and Context
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
While you will develop disciplinary knowledge and skills through the course, many problems facing organisations and societies naturally span disciplines. DYB101 explores the potential of design to bring about change. DYB101 introduces design processes and practices for a future characterised by diverse perspectives, social agendas and environmental concerns. You will learn how 21st-century designers from all disciplines apply empathy and the ability to acknowledge and incorporate diverse viewpoints to address challenging themes.
DYB102 Impact Lab: Society and Systems
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit addresses methods of social impact design and the ways in which these approaches can contribute to transformational social and community focused change. In it, you experience how design approaches and tools can be applied to complex social and community-based challenges. In a context where design can foster inclusion and act as a disruptor and driver for positive change you as a designer, alongside your design peers, have the collective potential to lead or make a better future. Framed around real world challenges; and in partnership with community, government and/or industry partners; you will engage with transdisciplinary design-led participatory entrepreneurial strategies to address key issues within one or more communities. This will develop skills valuable in designing for social impact. This impact lab focuses on people, to foreground the importance of keeping the human condition at the heart of design practice which enables solutions aimed at social change.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
DYB121 Introducing Design Fabrication
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This introductory hands-on unit explores concepts, skills and methods required to prototype and fabricate physical objects from your design ideas. Designers need to consider the capabilities of fabrication, associated processes and equipment, and materials available to produce a physical prototype of their design ideas. From this perspective, design fabrication is problem centric and requires a rationale behind the choice of materials and processes, an understanding of the quality of the fabrication outcome as part of an iterative process or for its temporal qualities for concept evaluation, as well as consideration of the ethics of fabrication. The foundational design fabrication skills acquired in this unit will be further developed in subsequent design units in the program.
DYB122 Design Visualisations
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit Introduces you to design visualisation practice and how to employ a variety of techniques to visualise design ideas to assist you in design thinking, research, communication and presentation.
DYB123 Emerging Design Technology
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The design industry is rapidly evolving with the introduction of new technologies. This unit introduces you to existing and emerging technology and how it applies to the design process and design outputs. Designers need to be familiar with technology to aid them in the design process as well as being able to create new products, services or experiences that take advantage of existing and emerging technologies.
DYB124 Design Consequences
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Design Consequences is an introductory unit employing theoretical and applied methods to explore the ways in which design influences and is influenced by cultural traditions and practices, beliefs and biases. Working across frames of past, present and future, you will learn how to critically engage with and draw upon these cultural factors and influences to shape and define your design work and practice.The twenty-first century presents designers with a challenging context characterised by the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change, growing levels of inequality, and destabilised geopolitical conditions. This unit will introduce you to a range of ideas, methods, and approaches necessary to understand design not only as products, environments, services and experiences but also as a social, cultural, political, and economic agent.
DYB301 Design Portfolio for Professional Practice
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit is a capstone professional practice experience - providing you with an opportunity to explore and define your design purpose and identity, foster career aspirations and expand your professional network. Through this unit you will develop your knowledge and expectations of professional practice and navigate career opportunities. The unit will assist you as you transition from student to professional, translating what you have learned and experienced over the course of your degree to be able to professionally present your skills, knowledge and capabilities into a meaningful and purposeful portfolio.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
EUB002 Numeracy: Examining Barriers for Learners
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- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
Numeracy is a crucial component of education; however, many learners continue to cite concerns over their numeracy skills well into adulthood. Educators across disciplines and areas are needed in this area who have understandings, skills and expertise around potential barriers and equity issues in numeracy education. This unit will provide you with opportunities to explore several potential issues in numeracy education, and may include psychological, socioeconomic, cultural and/or biological factors. This unit will build on knowledge and expertise gained from core units of mathematics already studied as well as numeracy concepts explored within other curriculum subjects. This unit is critical to position you as a responsive, inclusive and resilient numeracy educator in your setting.
EUB003 Managing Challenging Student Behaviours Related to Complex Trauma
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
This unit is designed to develop your understanding and skill in neuroscience-informed support and education of students who are living with the outcomes of complex childhood trauma (abuse, neglect, family violence, etc). New teachers often deem student behaviour to be one of the most confronting aspects of their new careers. The behavioural concerns presented by students who are living with the outcomes of complex trauma can be significant, persistent and unresponsive to more traditional approaches to behaviour management. By examining the impact of complex trauma on the developing brain and nervous system, you'll develop your understanding of why and how these behaviours occur and explore approaches and strategies recommended to address short and longer-term concerns for students. You'll be informed and prepared for the times you are responsible for the learning and well-being of these students whilst minimising any negative impact on your own well-being or teaching practice.
EUB004 Including Students with Learning Difficulties
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
The aims of this unit are twofold: a) to develop your knowledge of the learning characteristics of students with learning difficulties (in reading, writing and math) and b) to build your capability to design evidence-based educational resources for supporting these students in inclusive contexts. This option unit will focus on evidence-based strategies to ensure identification and high quality instruction for students with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia) within a tiered support system. As a pre-service teacher, you will develop your competence to disseminate your scholarly knowledge to professional audiences.
EUB005 The Global Teacher, Learner and Citizen
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
This unit will provide you with opportunities to develop your capacity to teach in an interconnected, diverse and rapidly changing world. Building on your knowledge and expertise gained from your core units, the unit considers how learners can critically examine global developments that are significant to both the world at large and their own lives. Practitioner examples together with a variety of subject matter drawn from frameworks for global education including; global competence, intercultural education, global citizenship education, values education and education for sustainable development, will be considered through which key principles and practices of contemporary pedagogy will be explored. This unit will enhance your understanding of how a global and intercultural outlook can be embedded within your education setting.
EUB006 Differentiation and Gifted Education
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
The aim of this unit is develop your professional knowledge of the philosophy and pedagogy of differentiation, and how to extend learners in an inclusive education context (including learners who may be identified as gifted). The learning in this unit will develop your understanding and skills of designing differentiation to cater for diverse learners by adjusting the content, processes of teaching and learning, products of learning, and the learning environment. It will also develop your understandings about identifying gifted learners, and providing tiers of support to include and extend diverse learners in an inclusive setting. This unit is in the developmental stage of the course, and will link to other learning on inclusive education and pedagogical approaches.
EUB007 Understanding Reading Difficulties
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
The unit focuses on knowledge and pedagogical skills related to teaching students who experience difficulty learning to read. It will cover strategies for planning, teaching and assessing, and strategies for engaging parents/carers. The context for learning will be framed by the Australian Curriculum: English and current research, relevant literacies theories, and empirical research. The unit enables you to build informed professional practices for teaching students with reading difficulties.
EUB008 Engaging with New and Emerging Technologies
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
This unit develops the theoretical and practical approaches to using new and emerging digital technologies across the curriculum to connect and engage with students. It also offers the opportunity to create learning experiences for an authentic teaching and learning context, through QUT's collaboration with Fortitude Valley State Secondary College (FVSSC). Working both individually and collaboratively, you will participate in activities that require you to explore new schooling contexts in Australia and internationally, investigate technologies and apply them across all learning areas. The aims of this unit are to enable you to acquire skills and knowledge related to (i) introducing and using new and emerging technologies across a range of learning areas, and (ii) theoretical and practical perspectives associated with using these technologies in your future classroom.
EUB009 Teachers as Leaders and Entrepreneurial Thinkers
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
As a teacher you are a leader, regardless of your organisational position. Leadership and entrepreneurial thinking involve enacted practices that shape who you are as a teacher. This unit aims to develop your practical leadership and enterpreneurial thinking skills to enable you to become confident in self-negotiated action, and influence your future working environment in a positive way. Understanding leadership and entrepreneurial thinking enables people who work in educational contexts to be well positioned in engaging with change, enabling organisational growth, and advocating for effective forms of professional practice. This unit enables you to engage with leadership and entrepreneurial thinking in your role in the teaching profession. It links to your previous study of learners and educational contexts to provide an important foundation for your professional identity and your future career as a teacher with leadership and entrepreneurial skills.
EUB010 Real World Integrated STEM Education
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
This unit equips you to understand how Integrated STEM contributes to the investigation and solution of real-world problems, where this field aligns with the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum, and how learners learn through contextualised Integrated STEM projects. The unit promotes skills for developing innovative pedagogies and strategies for integrating curriculum to create real-world STEM education in classrooms. The unit enables you to build on teaching areas related to science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics, appropriate to the context in which you will teach. The Integrated STEM approach enables prior discipline, curriculum and pedagogical knowledge to be framed in authentic learning contexts that simulate real-world practice.
EUB011 Community Engagement in International, Rural and Remote
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
This unit investigates diversity and professional engagement in international, rural or remote contexts. Understanding personal cultural identity, diverse contexts and the impact cultural identity has on working in diverse contexts is essential for professional engagement. This unit explores evidence-based approaches to working in diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socio-economic contexts, including strategies and frameworks for developing intercultural competence. The unit encompasses an international, rural or remote education experience organised through QUT. Please note: This unit is offered in flexible teaching periods. Flexible Period B extends from October to February the following year. Hence, it is recommended that you take this unit prior to your final year of study. If undertaking this unit in the second half of your final year (Flexible Period B offering), you will not be eligible to graduate until during the following year.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
EUB101 Supporting Innovative Pedagogy with Digital Technologies
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces key concepts and skills for the application of digital technologies in curriculum and pedagogy. It focuses on using digital technologies as a general capability across early childhood, primary and secondary education contexts, while emphasising the importance of ethical use of digital technologies in new and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. This unit will develop your knowledge of relevant curriculum documents (such as the Australian Curriculum and the Early Years Learning Framework) and prepare you with the pedagogies to teach effectively across the curriculum using digital technologies. This unit is undertaken in the first year of your course.
EUB102 Education and Society
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces you to the complex relationship between our education system and the social and cultural contexts from which it emerges. You will use socio-cultural and sociological theory to better understand those you will come to teach, as well as how learners' diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, shape their experiences with the modern school/site, often in very different ways. In this unit, you will develop reflective and critical understandings of the socially, culturally and historically constructed nature of education and care, and be able to identify the social identities and structures influencing contemporary early childhood, primary, middle and senior school contexts.
EUB103 Culture Studies: Indigenous Education
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides you with foundation skills and knowledge about teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' knowledge as required by the Australian Curriculum, Early Years Learning Framework and the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline. It is about understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' perspectives on history and contemporary issues, and why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students continue to be disadvantaged by education systems. You'll develop theoretical, personal and professional knowledge around Indigenous perspectives enabling you to think more deeply about your role as a teacher in diverse educational contexts. It will cover a relevant concepts and issues in the area of Indigenous education, establishing a critical foundation for your teaching practice capacity to meet the educational needs of Indigenous students, their families and communities in practical ways.
EUB106 Early Childhood Pedagogy, Curriculum and Play-Based Learning
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces key concepts about effective curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in early childhood education settings. Theories and approaches that inform best practice in early childhood education, including play-based learning, will be explored and evaluated. Further, these will be applied to plan learning experiences based on understandings of learners, curriculum sources, teaching, and assessment strategies. This unit will also introduce national and state curricular and policy documents, including the Early Years Learning Framework, the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline, and the National Quality Standard.
EUB108 Early Childhood Development and Learning (Birth-8 Years)
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces theories, features and processes of early childhood development and learning, from birth to 8 years. Child development and learning are shaped by both biological predispositions, and the interactions and experiences afforded to children in family and social contexts. Content in this unit is focused on children's physical, social and emotional development, along with speech, language and cognition. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and perspectives on child development are embedded in this unit. Knowledge about the inter-relatedness of each area of child development, including influences on how children develop and learn, is fundamental to early childhood education practice. Early childhood teachers apply child development knowledge to plan and facilitate appropriate learning experiences.
EUB109 English, Literacies and Language 1
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit will develop your ability to teach English curriculum, literacy and language acquisition to young children, from birth to year 6. This unit develops your understanding of the effective use of children's literature in literacy teaching in prior-to-school and primary school settings. Early years literacy teaching and learning, including play-based pedagogies will be explored, with particular focus on birth to Year 3. The Early Years Learning Framework, Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline, and The Australian Curriculum will be used to explore the ways teachers assist children to build knowledge and skills with English, language and literacy as they transition from prior-to-school to formal school contexts.
EUB110 Primary English Curriculum Studies 1
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides an introduction to foundation understandings, skills and processes for studying Primary English Curriculum. In this unit, you will engage with current research about how educators teach children to learn about literature, including literacy theories, pedagogical models and assessment practices. There will be a focus on the teaching of phonics, phonological awareness, vocabulary, speaking (oral language), listening, early reading fluency, reading comprehension, viewing and assessment of these vital English skills, drawing on current learning frameworks and curriculum documents.The unit supports the development of understanding that will be critical for further studies of language and literacies in EUB209 Primary English Curriculum Studies 2 and EUB306 Primary English Curriculum Studies 3. The units enable you to build informed professional practices for teaching listening, speaking, reading, and writing for the real world.
EUB111 Primary Mathematics Curriculum Studies 1
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit aims to assist you with developing your knowledge, skills and understanding of primary mathematics curriculum and pedagogical context knowledge as well as its application to real-world contexts to enhance a numerate society. The foundations of mathematics commence in early childhood through play and are developed in later years through schooling and active participation in society. In this unit, specific content includes the exploration of number and measurement, and the role of numeracy in daily life including your own lives, in society, and in educational contexts.
EUB112 Child and Adolescent Development and Learning
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This introductory unit contributes to foundational knowledge for your pre-service teaching degree. This first-year unit facilitates understanding of developmental theory and how it applies to child and adolescent learners. The unit raises awareness of the physical, cognitive, social and emotional factors that influence development. The unit explores the links between developmental theory and the processes of learning, as well as learning experiences that facilitate positive learning outcomes for diverse learners. The unit contributes to your own professional development as a lifelong, autonomous learner, capable of reflection and high-level thinking, and of enabling you, as an educator, to promote similar development in your learners.
EUB150 World Regions
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit offers an introduction to geography as a discipline and provides an overview of the physical and human characteristics of the world's geographical regions, and zones (e.g. climate zones and biomes). With a focus on the interactions between people and environments you will gain an understanding of geographical processes that shape the identity of places. Geographical processes are both bio-physical and anthropogenic in nature and result in patterns of change over time and space which has implications for people and places. Using an inquiry approach, you will explore the regions, sub-regions and zones of the world to develop and apply analytical and communication skills as well as the specific geographical skills of mapping and representing data. The skills and understanding developed in this course provide practical value to professions including journalism, teaching, law, hazard management, global security, conservation and environmental science.
EUB151 Nations and Nationalism in Modern Europe
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides you with an understanding of matters pertinent to the evolution of nationalism in Europe in the modern era. This will include the influence of social movements, cultural and economic issues (1640-1990). Nationalism, nationhood and national identity have become subjects of heated debate in the post-cold war world. But what is nationalism? What constitutes a nation and how does nationality become one of the primary bases for the construction of individual and collective identities? This unit offers you the ability to critically evaluate the work of professional historians. You will explore how available evidence and methodologies employed influence cultural and political factors and shape the messages and values that historians advocate through their writing. These practices promote understandings of how historians work, the rules that govern their methods, the reliability of historical knowledge and the value of history socially and culturally.
EUB152 Young Adult Literature
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Teacher Education and Leadership
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit will provide you with a broad introduction to Young Adult (YA) Literature, created for and/or marketed to readers aged between 12 and 20 years.. It addresses aspects of literary criticism that are of relevance to literature specifically intended for adolescents and young adults. In this unit you will also engage with a number of topics including the scope and nature of YA literature; strategies for evaluation of focus texts; recent research into teenagers' reading needs, interests and responses. You will also address questions about literariness, appeal, and the changing role and format of literary YA texts in learning environments dominated by digital media.