Found 1101 study abroad units
EUB252 Australian Society and Culture
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- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Australian Society and Culture combines literary, cultural, political, social, and historical sources (both born digital and analogue) to investigate your positionality in relation to Australia. It provides a context through which you can acquire knowledge about Australian institutions and traditions.Numerous social, cultural and political ideas, policies and actions have shaped and re-constructed Australian society. Understanding how Australia has evolved as a colonial nation, a community, a culture and a people involves critically analysing various constructions, meanings and interpretations. These skills are essential for understanding the past but also the decisions of the contemporary world.A study of Australian society and culture will therefore involve an appreciation of the people who call the continent of Australia home and the significant political and social debates that they engage in.
EUB251 Environment and Society
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- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides an applied geography approach to understand the dynamic nature of interactions between people and their environments, and the ways environments influence people's attitudes, perceptions, choices and decisions. Focusing on natural disasters, this is a skills-based unit that provides an opportunity to transform, represent and analyse geographical data and information to recognise spatial and temporal patterns and trends, use that data to make decisions, and explain how these data represent contemporary geographical challenges.The skills developed in this unit are applicable across a range of other academic geography and social science subjects and are utilised by specialists in a diverse range of professions including economists, demographers, spatial technicians, criminologists, environmental analysists and managers, urban and regional planners and those in hazard management professions.
EUB254 Studies in Language
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- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
A solid foundational understanding of the nature, complexity and diversity of language includes learning about the ways in which it is acquired and learned and how it is used to perform a range of cognitive, social, cultural and personal functions. This unit will enable you to gain insight into elements of linguistics, and how people learn first and additional languages. The unit will also develop your awareness of the nature, function and development of language and literacy and the role each plays in the constitution of social and cultural processes and practices. You will develop not only linguistic knowledge, but also a critical literacy toolkit and extend your understanding of the dynamic, changing nature of 'English' in the current global context.
EUB253 The Ancient World
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- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit facilitates understandings of ancient societies focusing on selected periods, features and individuals in the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Such understandings encourage questioning of established interpretations and knowledge, and provides a foundational understanding of these historical periods.
EUB250 Australian Geographical Studies
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- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit explores the unique nature of the Australian continent, its landforms and landscapes, it's people and places. A vast nation with a small population, Australia is faced with challenges of remoteness not found in other regions of the world. This remoteness shapes the identity of places and the relationships of people with their environment and poses challenges for sustainability and liveability. Australia is home to the one of world's oldest living cultures, that of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who have a connection and relationship with the land that shapes their identity and underpins their belief systems. In this unit you will gain an understanding of Indigenous peoples' perspectives on the creation of and relationships with land. The skills and knowledge acquired in this unit are valued in a range of academic endeavours including regional and urban planning, resource management, native title, emergency management, environmental management.
CAB340 Cryptography
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- School/discipline
- School of Computer Science
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The dependence of modern society on remote electronic data transmission and storage makes it an essential requirement that this data be secured, both against unwanted disclosure and malicious alterations. This unit provides a self-contained introduction to the field of cryptography, from historical roots and attacks, to the mathematical principles that underpin the workings of the modern ciphers most commonly in use for securing internet communications. The focus of this unit is on a grounded understanding of cryptographic designs and their limitations, which in turn inform how they are used in practice.
DXB205 Interactive Narrative Design
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Interaction Design
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit serves as an introduction to creating immersive environments and building interactive worlds for player performance and dramatic agency. The role of the narrative designer is central to the success of any significant professional project in interactive media and game design. The unit addresses theoretical issues associated with immersive / non-linear story structures and interactive narrative forms through the analysis of game / play systems, the creation of original game concepts and the application of techniques of narrative design. It extends this understanding into practice through the application of relevant skills, which will scaffold you into the production of a portfolio work (suitable for interaction designers, visual communication designers, game designers, media designers, creative writers and performance studies).
BVB101 Foundations of Biology
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- School/discipline
- School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Biology is the study of living things. Cells are considered the basic structural unit of life, existing in diverse forms from simple single-celled microbes to complex multicellular organisms such as plants and animals. Using collaborative approaches in workshops and the laboratory you will investigate the diverse nature of cells and consider how they are built and powered and how they interact and reproduce and form whole organisms. You will use the concepts developed in this unit to discuss more complex questions such as “are viruses alive” and “can we synthesise life”. This unit has a strong focus on development of practical skills and engagement in these activities is required to be able to undertake assessment that supports these learning outcomes.
BVB103 Evolution and the Diversity of Life
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- School/discipline
- School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The famous biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973) stated that "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution". Studying evolution and biodiversity provides you with the fundamental basis for understanding biological patterns and processes from data sources spanning research from genomes to ecology and fossils. This unit provides an overview of the nature of inheritance, biological variation, natural & sexual selection and adaptation as well as the diversity of life that these processes have generated. The unit aims to equip you to be able to (1) interpret any biological observation in an evolutionary framework in fields as diverse as conservation and medical genetics and (2) recognise and classify major groups of organisms. We will introduce some key elements of Australia’s largely unique flora and fauna. As a foundational unit, knowledge and skills that you gain will be built upon in subsequent units in the biology and environmental science majors.
CJB205 Data-Driven Storytelling and Verification
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- School/discipline
- Journalism
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Communication professionals now operate in a world in which data is plentiful, and often relatively easy to access. This situation also throws up a number of challenges, though, with these practitioners needing to know where to find such data, how to make sense of it and, more importantly, how to present that data to an audience in a meaningful and engaging way. This unit therefore equips students with some of these foundational skills, and provides them with a strong understanding of how statistics and data can be used to enhance news stories, and help to uncover stories which have not been told yet.
MAB141 Mathematics and Statistics for Medical Science
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- School/discipline
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This introductory unit is designed to meet the mathematical and statistical requirements of medical science students, particularly students enrolled in Vision Science (OP45). Approximately one quarter of the unit focuses on the mathematical foundations for techniques used in manipulating medical science laboratory data. The remainder of the unit considers a range of relevant statistical techniques, addressing concepts such as which analysis methods may be appropriate for testing a given research hypothesis, how the choice of analysis method is affected by the available data and how to interpret the outcome of the formal analysis. This unit will provide you with an essential foundation in the mathematical and statistical concepts and data analysis methods that will be used in later medical science units.
CAB320 Artificial Intelligence
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This foundational unit introduces the basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ranging from Intelligent Search techniques to Machine Learning. AI strives to build intelligent entities as well as understand them. AI has produced many significant products; from AI chess champions to state-of-the-art schedulers and planners. This unit introduces state representations, techniques and architectures used to build intelligent systems. It covers topics such as heuristic search, machine learning (including deep learning) and probabilistic reasoning. The ability to formalise a given problem in the language/framework of relevant AI methods (for example a search problem, a planning problem or a classification problem) and understand a fast evolving field is a requirement for a range of graduate entry engineer positions. This unit lays the foundations for further studies in Robotics, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval, Data Mining or Intelligent Web Agents.
EUB213 Inclusive Practices for Diverse Learners
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit will cover the fundamental concepts underpinning inclusive education and your obligations under national legislation, with an emphasis on knowledge of the MTSS framework, with a direct relationship to evidence-based teaching practices and skills in how to practically implement tier 1 in inclusive classrooms. This unit focuses on why, when and how to make adjustments to meet the learning needs of diverse students including those with complex learning profiles (disabilities), in partnership with parents/carers and in collaboration with teacher aides and external professionals. The unit aims to build your pedagogical agility and ethical practice for creating safe and supportive inclusive learning environments for all students. It will enhance your responsiveness to the learning strengths, rights and requirements of diverse students and your knowledge of quality differentiated teaching practice and adjustments for teaching diverse students in inclusive classrooms.
CAB310 Interaction and Experience Design
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- School/discipline
- School of Computer Science
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This is an advanced human-computer interaction unit focussed on the design and evaluation of emerging technologies for human use. Emerging technologies like robots, machine learning, and Internet of Things devices have the potential to disrupt how we work and live. Based on interaction design theories and methods, this unit focusses on how we design, prototype, and study how people experience such emerging technologies. Understanding how to design emerging technologies for human use will give you an edge in the market place for jobs as user experience professionals, IT developers, and interaction designers. The theories and methods introduced in this unit prepare you for a career in human-computer interaction research and development. This unit builds on design thinking skills from unit IFB103 and user experience research skills from unit CAB210 to design experiences with emerging technologies.
CAB301 Algorithms and Complexity
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- School/discipline
- School of Computer Science
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit teaches you classical data structures and algorithms used in software development and the fundamental principles for analysing the time efficiency of algorithms, allowing you to distinguish software solutions that can process large amounts of data or perform complex calculations effectively from those that run unacceptably slowly or not at all. In this unit you will examine a range of different algorithms, review the principles used to predict their efficiency and perform empirical measurements of specific algorithms to confirm the theoretical predictions.
PYD100 Foundation Psychology
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- School/discipline
- QUT College
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
Unit synopsis
Psychology is a broad-ranging and multifaceted discipline which encompasses the scientific study of human behaviour, and the systematic application of knowledge gained from psychological research to a broad range of applied issues. The goal of this foundational unit is to introduce you to major subfields and perspectives in psychology, to develop your understanding of the research methods used in psychological research and to develop your critical thinking skills. This unit provides a strong basis for future learning in the discipline. Topics covered in PYB100 will include child and adult development, social psychology, and an overview of the diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems. We will consider Indigenous and diverse cultural perspectives, ethical issues in psychological research, and how psychological perspectives can help us understand and address real world issues. This unit will help you develop your database searching and critical evaluation skills.
JSB156 In Cold Blood: Case Studies in True Crime
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- School/discipline
- School of Justice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
True crime is one of the most significant cultural genres of the twenty-first century and a key conduit for people to access information pertaining to crime events, victims and associated criminal justice processes. Moreover, the category has now evolved to a point where audience members can play active roles in uncovering and investigating crimes, and bringing about social and political change. It is therefore crucial to understand how true crime narratives develop and to question how they might potentially educate, entertain, confuse, or even deceive audiences. You will examine a range of true crime texts (films, television series, books and podcasts) involving a range of offence-types, engage critically with the legal, ethical and political aspects of each text and evaluate the relationship between true crime and social justice. The unit will support you to hone vital real-world skills in critical thinking, cultural analysis, criminal investigations and ethical practice.
JSB155 Crime, Media and Politics
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- School/discipline
- School of Justice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Crime and the media have long shared a complex and interwoven relationship. The media, in all of its forms, has played an influential role in the way crime has been portrayed, perceived, perpetrated, and prevented. Therefore, all justice professionals need to have both a grounded and critical understanding of this complex relationship, granting them an ability to work effectively with and alongside media in their justice profession. The unit explores both traditional and contemporary media, such as digital and social and evaluates among other areas, how the different media shapes public understandings of crime and criminality and how this portrayal influences criminal justice policy and practice.
IGB180 Games History, Culture and Psychology
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- School/discipline
- School of Computer Science
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit focuses on the social, cultural, sustainability and political aspects of videogames. It serves as a survey of topics useful for those interested in the study and creation of serious games, games for health, entertainment games, virtual and augmented reality, gamification and interactive environments. The units aims to help you become well played, well versed, and well read in and of games through the development of critical media skills. By the end of the semester you will be able to speak to current academic and industry trends around games, critically assess media and studies about games for veracity and reliability, leverage critical and creative thinking to express your positions on games, and converse about the history, social-cultural and sustainability impact of games.
JSB169 Justice Sectors: Foundations and Futures
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- School/discipline
- School of Justice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit explores how justice is practiced in various sectors. It aims to facilitate the contextualisation of critical justice in practice by guiding students through key topics and practical scenarios relevant to key justice sectors, including criminology, violence prevention, policy, politics, intelligence and investigations.The unit explores the careers of critical justice professionals working in these fields, shedding light on the roles, responsibilities, and challenges they face. By taking a practice-based approach, the unit aims to help students understand the real-world impacts and challenges confronting justice practitioners in these diverse sectors.
EUB255 Literature: Theory and Practice
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- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides you with opportunities to explore literature and fiction, theories of how literary works are produced, and to engage in creative writing. You will explore, as both consumers and creators, how fictional texts can convey and transform personal and cultural perspectives. The unit invites you to draw on a wide repertoire of fiction across media when you interpret and create texts for a range of cultural purposes.
EUB257 Reasoning with Quantity, Space and Shape
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- School/discipline
- School of Education
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
A deeper understanding of measurement, shape and space will allow you to apply your mathematical knowledge to problems of interest in the real world. This in turn will provide you with new ways to explain mathematics to others and to assist them in their learning. In this unit you will further apply your growing mathematical knowledge-base, built from earlier discipline units, to problems of both real world and abstract natures that involve the use of measurement and geometry concepts. This unit intends to give you greater confidence in explaining mathematical ideas to others by exposing you to different applications and links between mathematical topics.
AYB123 Sustainability Governance and Reporting
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- School/discipline
- School of Accounting, Econ, Finance & Property
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The sustainability of organisations, measured across three dimensions - social, economic and environmental, is increasingly considered by external stakeholders as the benchmark for evaluating organisational performance. As such, stakeholders are demanding broader corporate disclosures and reports which detail not only economic, but social and environmental performance. This broadening of the performance base has created new and diverse opportunities and challenges for both internal (owners, management and employees) and external (customers, suppliers, government and community) corporate stakeholders, who have been tasked with measuring social and environmental performance and analysing subsequent corporate disclosures of such. This unit will equip you for careers that will include substantial engagement with sustainability reporting and sustainability governance structures.
CLB222 Oceans and Atmosphere
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Oceans make up 70% of the Earth's surface, yet less than 5% of them have been explored. There is therefore still much to learn about the marine environment, marine resources, and management, and how oceans affect atmospheric circulation. This unit takes a bottom-up approach introducing students to the major geological processes and geomorphology features that shape the ocean floor, dynamic sediments, and biology that are sourced and distributed by ocean currents and chemistry, followed by an overview of the factors governing ocean circulation and ocean water properties and finally looking at how oceans affect atmospheric circulation and climate. The interaction of all these processes has a direct societal impact such as the management of marine resources, including the cultural narratives of the Great Barrier Reef, infrastructure and food security, and risk mitigation of natural hazards, weather patterns, and climate change.
CLB221 Introduction to Climate Change
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- School/discipline
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit is designed to offer science, engineering and other students an opportunity to understand fundamentals of climate and climate change together with sustainable development efforts related to clean energy technologies. It provides students with an overview of global climate and climate change drivers, meteorological parameters and global air circulation, as well as an overview of technological pathways towards low carbon society. Students will explore global energy balance and climate change through an investigation of (i) Energy related environmental problems on local and global scale; (ii) Earth's climate, meteorology and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere; (iii) Working principles in selected conventional and alternative energy technologies to reduce energy related environmental consequences.
CLB224 Environmental Geochemistry
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- School/discipline
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The interface between the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere is the most active and significant for element cycling. This the environment in which humans rely on for food, water, energy and raw materials. Environmental Geochemistry explores the behaviour and fate of chemical elements in this planetary interface. It is designed to provide students with an understanding of the principles of geochemistry and how they relate to environmental issues, influence climate, and habitability for life. The unit covers a range of topics, including the chemical composition and properties of the Earth's surface, the cycling of elements in the environment, and the impacts of human activities on the geochemistry of the Earth's surface. It also covers the geochemical techniques used to study and monitor processes in Earth and environmental industry and academic applications, such as the use of stable isotopes to trace the movement of elements in the environment over different time scales.
CLB223 Geospatial Information Systems
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- School/discipline
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces the theory and concepts of digital geographic information science with a focus on the interpretation of earth and environmental data from observations and sources like remote sensing and climate models/reanalysis data. You will record and create geospatial information that you share and combine to class data sets for mapping and analysis. Skills on accessing and processing scientific datasets in formats like NetCDF, HDF are developed through collecting and processing environmental data sets. Cartographic products are created to respond research questions about spatial patterns and environmental variability. Thus, a final report assessment demonstrates spatial analytical thought by analysing the datasets and discussing possible explanations to the patterns identified. Think spatially about processes and patterns, create informative and accurate geographic information and reporting products based on real world geospatial data sets.
NSB202 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Well-being
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Nursing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
An understanding of the social determinants of health and the impact of historical and contemporary policy and practice influencing the health and well-being of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders is essential to providing optimal health care. This unit privileges cultural safety as the preferred model to contemporary health care delivery in Australia. It promotes the position of the contemporary health practitioner as a fundamental member of the partnership with the health care recipient, and thus is necessary to enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well-being. Cultural safety also makes conspicuous manifestations of racism which impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and well-being. Importantly, a culturally safe approach values the pivotal role of Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples' self-determination in leading health care advances associated with their own care.
EGB415 Motor Racing Vehicle Design
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
Building on fundamental mechanics, materials, and design units, in this unit you will study design, development, and setup of motor racing vehicles. In addition to basic content delivery in lectures, learning will take place through a series of practicals, computer laboratories, a group design project, and industry-led tutorials. Where possible, a track day or field trip will be organised.
PUB336 Gender Equity and Human Health
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Public Health and Social Work
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
Gender is a powerful determinant of human health globally. Men's, women’s and transgender health are driven strongly by social constructions of gender performance across the life-course. Men live shorter lives, have higher cancer, cardiovascular disease, and higher suicide rates. Women suffer from higher rates of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, dementia, interpersonal violence, rape, and poverty globally. Further, a binary view of gender is no longer considered useful from a public health perspective, as transgender people continue to suffer some of the highest rates of interpersonal violence and suicide globally. This unit will adopt a non-binary, social determinants approach to defining and studying gender from an intersectional perspective. It will emphasise how a focus on gender equity generates improvement in population health globally. This is a multidisciplinary and interprofessional unit and welcomes students from a wide range of courses.