Business
Advertising, marketing and public relations
AMB201 Marketing and Audience Analytics
The systematic and objective identification, collection, analysis, and dissemination of information is essential for any business to make informed decisions about how to address problems and opportunities in their markets. All business leaders must understand the challenges, opportunities and limitations of the marketing research process; questions that marketing research can answer and questions it can't, and be able to draw appropriate conclusions from different types of data that may be collected during marketing research.This subject builds on basic marketing knowledge and students are involved in, and guided through, a practical, applied marketing research exercise based on a research brief chosen at the start of each semester. This provides the foundations for interpreting marketing research data, marketing challenges, and marketing theories presented in more advanced subjects.
AMB336 International Marketing
Globalisation has required firms to look beyond their domestic markets to remain competitive and profitable. An understanding of global marketing is vital in today's global marketplace where different challenges and value systems exist. Companies must adapt their strategies to cater to diverse consumer behaviours, cultural nuances, and regulatory environments. This often involves tailoring products, pricing, promotion, and distribution strategies to suit local preferences while maintaining a consistent global brand identity. Firms that can effectively integrate global insights with local responsiveness are better positioned to achieve sustainable growth and long-term success.
Business and law
BSB106 Dynamic Markets
In this introductory business core unit, you will explore how value is created for organisations and customers through the process of exchange in dynamic market environments. You will learn about how businesses interact with consumers and other stakeholders, gain an understanding of the forces that drive behaviour in different market settings, and explore strategies organisations use to enter and operate within dynamic markets to co-create value with customers and stakeholders. This unit is relevant to students of all business disciplines, introducing you to evidence-based skills needed to analyse and critically appraise the trade-offs required to create value and succeed in complex business settings. Along with the rest of the introductory business core, this unit forms the foundation for further study across the breadth of business disciplines, introducing you to business capabilities to prepare you for the future world of work and ignite your career.
BSB108 Business Environment
This introductory unit introduces you to the complex and dynamic national, international and global environments in which businesses operate and must navigate. You will explore the roles of key national and international institutions. At the same time, you will use data-driven analysis to critically evaluate how interconnected trends both influence—and are influenced by—the policy and regulatory approaches of these institutions, particularly in response to economic, social, sustainability, geopolitical, and ethical challenges that are a priority for businesses. This unit, along with the rest of the introductory business core, forms the foundation for further study across the breadth of business disciplines and introduces you to business capabilities to prepare you for the future world of work and ignite your career.
BSB131 Applied Business Analytics
Organisations use business analytics to understand and solve business problems, increase efficiency, leverage productivity, and ultimately enhance the business performance of organisations. This business core option unit introduces you to a practical framework for data collection, aggregation, processing, and modelling to transform data into business insights. You will gain knowledge of key business analytics methods and approaches, and build skills in using Excel to manage and analyse data sets — valuable competencies that will help you to improve decision-making in contemporary business environments across all business disciplines.
BSB250 Business Citizenship
This unit acts as a bridge to the introductory aspects of business education to the more complex issues involved in operating a business ethically and effectively. It explores how corporate citizenship requires a company to respond to a set of inter-related expectations arising at the individual, national and global levels. You will extend your understanding of ethics developed in foundational units by reflecting on your personal approaches to ethical dilemmas. At the national level, the unit explores core principles of the legal framework within which corporations operate, including key rights and responsibilities. From a global view, you will explore different perspectives on corporate social responsibility and grapple with the difficulty of balancing conflicting expectations of stakeholders through application of the UN sustainability development goals. As a result, you will develop a greater appreciation for the tradeoffs inherent in complex decision-making.
BSB305 Undergraduate Business Internship
Undergraduate Business Internship is a work integrated learning unit for undergraduate students from any undergraduate major in QUT Business School. Students apply and build on the knowledge and skills developed during their studies in a real world setting. The unit develops and refines employability skills, engages students in career development activities, supports students to adopt a reflective approach to learning,and prepares students for transition to professional practice and careers in the future world of work.
BSN420 Postgraduate Business Internship
Postgraduate Business Internship is a work integrated learning unit for postgraduate students from any postgraduate major in QUT Business School. Students apply and build on the knowledge and skills developed during their studies in a real world setting. The unit develops and refines employability skills, engages students in career development activities relevant to postgraduate level of study, supports students to adopt a reflective approach to learning, and builds on previous study and professional experience to prepare students for transition to professional practice and careers in the future world of work.
Economics and finance
EFB210 Fundamentals of Finance
This unit introduces the fundamental concepts, theories and skills of financial management and how these are applied to solve problems associated with the decisions of financial managers. This is essential knowledge for financial decision makers. Topics include: an introduction to the financial institutional framework; an introduction to debt and equity instruments; financial mathematics; a firm's investment decision including Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return; introduction to risk and return using the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Weighted Average Cost of Capital concept and risk management. Because of its fundamental nature, this unit is a prerequisite for more advanced units within the finance study area.
EFB341 Development Economics: An Immersive Experience
This unit introduces you to the economic problems and challenges that fall under the purview of Development Economics. It includes coursework as well as an immersive international field project, allowing you to develop your understanding through real-world application of your skills on a project with a placement organization.The field project may take place in a different international location each year and is facilitated by the unit coordinator in collaboration with Beyond Borders Learning Programs, the key third-party organization at these locations. Previous locations have included Mumbai, India (2018, 2019, 2023, 2024) and Kathmandu, Nepal (2020). The aim of this unit is to provide you with a foundational grounding in development economics, and an understanding of the key analytical and empirical approaches used to evaluate development initiatives designed to address poverty and underdevelopment, including through applied, field-based projects.
Management
MGB130 Managing People
In this introductory unit you will explore how to design and manage productive work systems while supporting the people who deliver them. You will learn how organisational structures, job design, motivation and performance management practices interact to influence productivity. The unit examines the role of technology and generative AI in shaping contemporary workplaces and considers how leaders can foster engagement, equity and wellbeing alongside operational efficiency. Aligned with QUT’s Real World Learning vision, the unit uses case studies and organisational scenarios to help you develop practical skills for managing productivity and people in dynamic environments.
Creative industries
Communication
CYB114 Understanding Media Industries
This unit introduces the core concepts, analytical frameworks, and professional practices necessary to understand how the media industries operate as complex economic and cultural phenomena. This includes a comprehensive overview of media industry structures and functions, production and distribution processes, regulatory and technological conditions, ecological implications, and labour practices. You will also explore the political, economic, and cultural foundations of the media industries in national, regional, and global contexts. You will engage with media industry professionals as guests where appropriate to establish a capacity for the subsequent study of and employability in the media industries.
Creative arts
KZB104 Photomedia
Making, reading, and critically analysing complex photomedia images are essential 21st-century creative skills. This unit develops these skills through a combination of aesthetic, conceptual, and technical activities, addressing visual literacy, experimental and critical artistic enquiry, and the protocols related to ethical and inclusive photomedia practice. You are introduced to a diverse range of contemporary artistic photo imaging concepts and methods in the context of photographic history and encouraged to develop your own creative responses by experimenting with a range of approaches to photomedia image making.
KZB370 Creative Arts Project
Professional creative practitioners need to self-manage project life-cycles from planning, through development, to implementation, and post completion review. Throughout this process they need to consider how the project may deliver effective client/community, creative, and self-development outcomes. This unit provides opportunities to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team to deliver and critically evaluate a creative project. Projects may include industry-based creative opportunities or immersive, travel-based learning experiences. Project opportunities will be promoted and can only be applied for through InPlace. InPlace applications have strict closing dates, which may be well in advance of semester. IMPORTANT: If your application through InPlace is successful, you will be manually enrolled in this unit.
Creative industries education and social justice
KKB341 Work Integrated Learning 1
This unit focuses on transferring skills into a workplace setting via participation, observation, and reflection, with emphasis on the relationships between academic and professional knowledge. It is important that you gain real-world work experience to link university study with professional practice in your chosen industry. The unit provides experience in applying discipline knowledge in professional practice to strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation. In particular, it provides an understanding of professional communication protocols, professional conduct and risks within a workplace setting, a critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments, and analytical processes relevant to practice and Work Integrated Learning. Please note: You can undertake a workplace internship experience if available in your location or pursue the option, where available, of a virtual internship experience.
KKB342 Work Integrated Learning 2
This unit focuses on transferring skills into a workplace setting via participation, observation, and reflection, with emphasis on the relationships between academic and professional knowledge. The unit builds on from KKB341 as it is important that you gain real-world work experience to link university study with professional practice in your chosen industry. The unit provides experience in applying discipline knowledge in professional practice to strengthen discipline-specific learning and specialisation. It provides an understanding of professional communication protocols, professional conduct and risks within a workplace setting, a critical understanding of the role of reflection on learning and self-evaluation in professional environments, and analytical processes relevant to practice and Work Integrated Learning. Please note: You can undertake a workplace internship experience if available in your location or pursue the option of a virtual internship experience.
KKB345 Creative Industries Project 1
Undertake a supervised project in a team-oriented environment that involves practical application and critical reflection. The experience and skills gained will contribute towards your increased self-knowledge and confidence as a practitioner in the Creative Industries. Creative Industries graduates need to practise as professionals in their respective discipline or disciplines. Increasingly, a major part of such practice is instigating, managing, monitoring, and reporting on Creative Industries projects. IMPORTANT: Projects will be only promoted and can only be applied for through InPlace.These InPlace applications have strict closing dates, these dates will often occur well in advance of semester. IMPORTANT: Please note, enrolment in this unit is by application only, if your application through InPlace is successful, you will be manually enrolled in this unit.
Creative writing
KWB113 Introduction to Creative Writing
This unit provides the fundamental skills for writing fiction and poetry as well as the basic theoretical background that underpins them. It looks at the foundational techniques required to write successfully in each mode and explores how a practitioner might best approach both writing and critical analysis in the contemporary context. It develops a critical understanding of your own and others’ approaches to writing life. You will be encouraged to develop the skills required for professional writing through a series of tasks that introduce key concepts such as characterisation, constructing a scene, writing dialogue, and creating imagery.
Design
DYB222 Design Study Tour
This unit provides an immersive learning experience, connecting you with recognised design practices and organisations. Open to anyone with at least one year of study, it’s ideal for designers and those eager to expand their horizons. Through a study tour, you’ll explore how design addresses real-world problems and shapes the future, refining your understanding of contemporary practices. You’ll develop valuable skills applicable across industries, enhancing your professional capabilities and network. This experience provides you with tools to succeed in the evolving creative economy, boosting your employability and fostering innovation in diverse contexts. Whether you’re looking to boost your capabilities, expand your network, or enhance your employability, this experience will equip you to succeed in an ever-evolving landscape. IMPORTANT: Enrolment for this unit is by application only and will be available to students through the InPlace.
Digital media
CCB202 Social Media, Self and Society
Social Media has had a tremendous impact on our lives as individuals and members of larger societies. The debates surrounding these new and powerful technologies are often multi-faceted in their complexity. In this unit you will develop skills in critically examining and contributing to debates about social media’s impact on issues such as identity, privacy and the ethics of everyday life. You will draw on scholarly research to evaluate opposing perspectives and become critically informed communication professionals. Please note the online offering of this unit will be available to eligible online BCI students only.
Visual communication
DVB101 Visual Communication Design
This unit introduces the principles and conventions associated with the interpretation and production of meaning through visual representation. Visual Communication is based on the creation of meaning through image and text and this plays a critical role in our contemporary world which is visually and media driven. Visual communicators require a deep understanding of conceptual development, design process, typography and image making, and how image-based communication occurs. You will learn how to think and operate as a visual designer through studio-based learning and a series of industry-focused experiences.
Education
Education
EUB004 Including Students with Learning Difficulties
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.
EUB008 Engaging with New and Emerging Technologies
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. Working both individually and collaboratively, you will participate in activities that require you to explore 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.
EUB311 Indigenous Education
This unit provides foundational knowledge and skills to teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures as governed by the Australian Curriculum, Early Years Learning Framework and the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline. It engages with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' knowledges, experiences, voices and perspectives and explores implications for practice through personal, professional and theoretical lenses. This unit provides opportunities to think deeply about the roles of teachers in diverse cultural and education contexts and establishes a critical foundation for practical teaching choices.
EUB410 Education and Society
This unit explores the complex relationship between our education system and the social and cultural contexts of which it is a part. The unit uses socio-cultural and sociological theory to better understand students and learners, as well as how students' and learners' diverse backgrounds, including the backgrounds Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, shape their experiences with the modern school or early childhood site. The unit will develop reflective and critical understandings of the socially, culturally and historically constructed nature of education and care and of the social identities and socio-cultural practices influencing contemporary early childhood, primary and secondary schooling.
EUB411 Trauma-Aware Education
This unit is designed to develop your understanding and skill in neuroscience-informed support and education of early childhood and school learners who are living with the outcomes of complex childhood trauma. The behavioural and other concerns experienced by learners who have experienced complex trauma can be significant. By examining the impact of complex trauma on the developing brain and nervous system, you'll develop your understanding of why and how these concerns occur and explore approaches and strategies recommended to address short and longer-term impacts for learners. You'll be informed and prepared for the times you are responsible for the learning and well-being of these learners whilst minimising any negative impact on your own well-being or teaching practice.
EUN105 Teaching in New Times
This unit explores the complex relationship between our education system and the social, cultural, and technological contexts of which it is a part. The unit uses sociological theory to better understand students and learners, as well as how students' and learners' diverse backgrounds shape their experiences with the modern school or early childhood site. The unit will develop reflective and critical understandings of the socially, culturally and historically constructed nature of education and care and of the social identities and socio-cultural practices influencing contemporary early childhood, primary and secondary schooling.
EUN108 Science and Sustainability Education
Science is necessary for understanding and caring for the world around us. From birth onwards, children actively explore their environment and try to make sense of their world. You will enhance your content knowledge in the areas of biology, chemistry, physics and earth and space science, through your participation in inquiry-based and hands-on learning. This learning will be integrated with pedagogical content and curriculum knowledge to strengthen your repertoire of instructional approaches for teaching all learners. This unit will build on theories of teaching and learning from previous units including literacy, numeracy, and digital literacies, and will provide you with the knowledge and skills to develop and implement differentiated science and sustainability learning experiences.
EUN112 Child and Adolescent Development and Trauma Awareness
This introductory unit provides you with knowledge and understanding about child and adolescent development and the neuroscience underpinning complex trauma (abuse, neglect, family violence etc) on the experience of learners. The unit focuses on a range of developmental theories from birth to adolescence. Through engagement with relevant theories and research, you will develop the ability to analyse and synthesise ideas about child and adolescent development and the impact of trauma on children and adolescents' behaviour and learning. This foundational knowledge will be applied in curriculum units and assists teachers to interpret and respond to a child/adolescent's individual capacity and behaviours in the planning and implementation of appropriate educational opportunities.
EUN201 English, Language and Literacies 2: Speaking, Writing and Creating
The Early Years Learning Framework and Primary English curriculum provide key contexts for the development of early literacy skills and knowledges. Knowledge of how language and semiotics are used to achieve different purposes for different audiences across a variety of modes and media is a high priority in English and literacy curriculum. This unit will help you develop your English literacy Primary Specialisation and set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics. You will develop your knowledge about purposes, textual features and structures of text types; how children develop skills in using written language; and how to design teaching strategies, use resources to scaffold and assess the successful application of English literacies.
EUN202 Mathematics and Numeracy 2
You will explore and continue to build your knowledge and skills to use the strands and their associated topics across a wide range of situations and contexts to enhance your development as a teacher. This focus is included in your course because you will need to teach children how to become numerate and be able to make sound decisions in their lives. This unit provides you with the foundations of two strands of the Australian Curriculum: (i) Mathematics - Mathematics - geometry, algebra, statistics and probability. Dispositions for learning in early numeracy is also explored in relation to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Queensland Kindergarten Learning Guideline. It seeks to build your capacity to recognise the numeracy demands across a range of contexts to assist all children to identify the interconnectedness of mathematical knowledge and its application in everyday life.
EUN211 Engaging Adolescent Learners
This unit further develops your knowledge of the developmental, socio-emotional and learning characteristics of adolescent learners in secondary school classrooms. It is aimed at developing your knowledge and understanding of current research and evidence around adolescent development and learning and makes explicit links to practical applications within classroom practice. This unit will explore evidenced based approaches to effectively maximise learning engagement and outcomes for adolescent learners in the classroom.
EUN260 Teachers as Leaders
This unit has been designed to strengthen and extend the leadership skills of teachers as emerging leaders, building skills to lead and influence in education. Teachers require knowledge of leadership theories and approaches as a framework for working collaboratively and optimally with a diverse range of students/children and their families. Leadership insights enable you to participate effectively as part of a team of staff and to influence and lead decisions in educational settings. Through exploring leadership theories from contemporary research and literature you will expand upon and master your existing skills. In this unit you will apply research skills to investigate the role of teachers as leaders in education. Through understandings of educational research, you will be able to take a scholarly approach to examining topics of interest. These skills and knowledge are important for teachers to engage ethically with data to optimise outcomes for students/children.
EUN706 Proposing Research in Education
This unit will build your capacity to participate in development processes for education research projects. You will have opportunities for advanced learning about fundamental topics in education research and learning about aspects of research that become directly relevant in the period leading up to and following your Confirmation of Candidature. Unit content will be specified for projects in the complex and changing fields of education practice and research. Your assessment will give you the opportunity to deliver a presentation on your research proposal as you are developing it before or after Confirmation and with detailed consideration of Human Research Ethics. To build your skills in contributing to scholarly conversations and communities, you will provide constructive formative feedback on the presentations of some of your peers.
Engineering
Civil & environmental engineering
EGB499 Work Placement Experience Report
You will demonstrate that you have completed the Engagement with Professional Practice required by Engineers Australia by submission of a work placement report. You must have completed your work placement (60 days including 30 days engineering placement) according to the QUT Engineering Work Placement Experience and Certification Guidelines by Week 13. The engineering component of the Certificate of Time Worked will be signed off by an accredited engineer with 5+ years' industry experience.
Electrical engineering and robotics
EGB101 Engineering Design and Professional Practice
As a professional engineer you will be competent to practise as outlined in the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineer. One of the main activities that professional engineers undertake is design, which involves using knowledge and skill bases to apply engineering methods to create systems that meet stakeholders' needs, while maintaining professional and personal attributes. This unit introduces engineering design and begins your development as a trusted and ethical professional. To develop your capability in design, you will learn about introductory analysis, building and testing of engineering systems, and develop your engineering ethics, professional skills in communication, engineering teamwork, research, cultural awareness and sustainable development practices. Future units, particularly those focused on design will build from this introduction.
Health
Biomedical sciences
LQB502 Biomedical Work Integrated Learning A
This unit provides you with the opportunity to gain industry-based experience through a supervised work placement. Within the workplace (a minimum of 120 hours [equivalent to 3 weeks full-time] and maximum of 240 hours [equivalent to 6 weeks full-time]) you will apply knowledge and skills developed during your course of study. Practising workplace related skills such as team work, ethical behaviour, safe workplace practices and reflective practice as well as building on your industry networks will support you in your transition to professional practice. Your placement should be relevant to your course of study and must be approved by the course co-ordinator and the unit co-ordinator before you commence. Acceptance into this unit will be based on successful completion of prerequisites, the completion of a number of workplace requirements, and the availability of placement supervisors. The learning in this unit can be extended into a second unit LQB503.
LQB503 Biomedical Work Integrated Learning B
This unit extends your learning from LQB502 and provides you with the opportunity to extend industry-based experience through a supervised work placement. Within the workplace (a minimum of 120 hours [equivalent to 3 weeks full-time] and maximum of 240 hours [equivalent to 6 weeks full-time]) you will apply knowledge and skills developed during your course of study. Practising workplace related skills such as team work, ethical behaviour, safe workplace practices and reflective practice as well as building on your industry networks will support you in your transition to professional practice. Your placement should be relevant to your course of study and must be approved by the course co-ordinator and the unit co-ordinator before you commence. Acceptance into this unit will be based on successful completion of prerequisites, the completion of a number of workplace requirements, and the availability of placement supervisors.
LQB504-1 Clinical Physiology Professional Internship
Clinical physiologists (clinical measurement scientists) perform diagnostic tests, working with patients in health care in multidisciplinary teams. Disciplines include cardiac science, neuroscience, respiratory science, sleep science and multidisciplinary practice. The placement is full-time, intensive, unpaid and hands-on, working in the profession. This practical component is compulsory for completion of the unit and the clinical physiology minor. You will learn and develop core competencies in a field of clinical physiology including communication skills, professional and ethical practice, infection control, patient confidentiality and privacy and cultural issues. Successful completion of this unit provides students with the competencies and experience required to apply for graduate positions in clinical physiology and will develop employability skills. Entry into the minor is competitive (based on GPA and application) due to the limited number of placements.
LQB504-2 Clinical Physiology Professional Internship
Clinical physiologists perform diagnostic tests, working with patients in health care in multidisciplinary teams. Disciplines include cardiac science, neuroscience, respiratory science, sleep science and multidisciplinary practice. The placement is full-time, intensive, unpaid and hands-on, working in the profession. This practical component is compulsory for completion of the unit and the clinical physiology minor. You will learn and develop core competencies in a field of clinical physiology including: communication skills, professional and ethical practice, infection control, patient confidentiality and privacy and cultural issues. Successful completion of this unit provides students with the competencies and experience required to apply for graduate positions in clinical physiology and employability skills. Entry into the minor is competitive (based on GPA and application) due to the limited number of placements.
LQB504-3 Clinical Physiology Professional Internship
Clinical physiologists (clinical measurement scientists) perform diagnostic tests, working with patients in health care in multidisciplinary teams. Disciplines include cardiac science, neuroscience, respiratory science, sleep science and multidisciplinary practice. The placement is full-time, intensive, unpaid and hands-on, working in the profession. This practical component is compulsory for completion of the unit and the clinical physiology minor. You will learn and develop core competencies in a field of clinical physiology including: communication skills, the demonstration of professional and ethical practice, infection control, patient confidentiality and privacy and cultural issues. Successful completion of this unit provides students with the competencies and experience required to apply for graduate positions in clinical physiology and employability skills. Entry into the minor is competitive (based on GPA and application) due to the limited number of placements.
Clinical sciences
CSB331 Paramedic Clinical Practice 1
This unit is in the developmental stage of your course and builds on the work you learned in CSB330 and CSB332. This unit provides you with opportunities to build practice and provide evidence of your development as a clinician in a supervised environment. Additionally it is fundamental to this course that you are exposed to an appropriate case load of suitable patients in the out of hospital phase. This unit is the first in a series of three that provide the work integrated learning experience. Over a six week period, you will be required to complete approximately 240 hours of placement to be conducted externally through the Queensland Ambulance Service.
Exercise and nutrition sciences
XNB367 Clinical Exercise Physiology Practicum A
Adhering to policies mandated by ESSA, this unit provides you with an opportunity to undertake a minimum of 140 hours at an external sport and/or exercise science practicum site. The focus of this practicum is health or performance amelioration and not the treatment and/or management of a clinical condition or injury. Engaging in this unit will expose you to the scope of practice of an Exercise Scientist. This unit is the first of three WIL opportunities you will engage in to fulfill the practicum requirements necessary to be an AEP. Practicum units are distinctive from other course offerings in that there is a deal of preparation needed and a number of formal requirements that must be completed in order to allow you to complete your placement. Practicum expectations and obligations are detailed in the Unit Information Document available on the SES Community Canvas site.
XNB470 Sport and Exercise Science Practicum 1
This unit allows you to undertake a minimum of 140 hours at an external practicum site. This practicum focuses on interacting with clients looking to improve their health, fitness, wellbeing, or performance. Engaging in this unit will expose you to the scope of practice of an Accredited Exercise Scientist (AES) and is the first of two WIL opportunities you will engage in to fulfil the practicum requirements necessary to achieve this professional accreditation.
XNB472 Sport and Exercise Science Practicum 2
This unit allows you to undertake a minimum of 140 hours at an external practicum site. This practicum focuses on interacting with clients looking to improve their health, fitness, wellbeing, or performance. Engaging in this unit will expose you to the scope of practice of an Accredited Exercise Scientist (AES) and is the second of two WIL opportunities you will engage in to fulfil the practicum requirements necessary to achieve this professional accreditation.
Health
HLN700 Dissertation
To ensure high quality practice, advanced level practitioners are continually required to reflect upon and modify their own practice to incorporate knowledge of the most recent research evidence. This requires advanced skills in the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of research. The dissertation provides advanced skill development in these areas, and enables you to undertake a research project in a specialised area of practice.HLN700 Dissertation is offered in Semester 1, Semester 2 and Summer. No student should enrol in any offering until they have secured a Supervisor who is available during that semester. Note: The Summer offering is not available to Nursing students. Students in the School of Nursing should contact nursing.admin@qut.edu.au in the semester prior to enrolment for further information and guidance on supervision.
HLN703 Project
The ability to apply advanced knowledge and skills with a high level of autonomy is a hallmark of postgraduate education at the Masters level. By undertaking a scholarly piece of research, this capstone unit gives you the opportunity to consolidate, extend and apply the skills that you have gained to date in an area that is relevant to your field of study, by demonstrating academic rigor and independent learning to analyse and synthesise knowledge. PU86 Master of Public Health students and PU80 Master of Health, Safety and Environment must have successfully completed HLN707 Research Methods in Health before undertaking this unit. XN90/XV90 Master of Nutrition and Dietetics students must have successfully completed HLH401 Advanced Research Methods.. Students intending to enrol in HLN703 during the Summer semester must first contact the Course or Unit Coordinator to confirm the availability of a supervisor.
HLN750-1 Dissertation
To ensure high quality practice, advanced level practitioners are continually required to reflect upon and modify their own practice to incorporate knowledge of the most recent research evidence. This requires advanced skills in the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of research. The dissertation provides advanced skill development in these areas, and enables you to undertake a research project in specialised area of practice.HLN750-1 Dissertation is offered in Semester 1, Semester 2 and Summer. This is the first component of a 48 credit point dissertation. You will need to enrol in HLN750-2 to complete the dissertation. Note: The Summer offering is not available to Nursing students. Students in the School of Nursing should contact nursing.admin@qut.edu.au in the semester prior to enrolment for further information and guidance on supervision.
HLN750-2 Dissertation
To ensure high quality practice, advanced level practitioners are continually required to reflect upon and modify their own practice to incorporate knowledge of the most recent research evidence. This requires advanced skills in the critical evaluation, interpretation and application of research. The dissertation provides advanced skill development in these areas, and enables you to undertake a research project in a specialised area of practice.HLN750-2 Dissertation is offered in Semester 1, Semester 2 and Summer. It is the second part of a 48 credit point dissertation. You will need to have completed HLN750-1.Note: The Summer offering is not available to Nursing students. Students in the School of Nursing should contact nursing.admin@qut.edu.au in the semester prior to enrolment for further information and guidance on supervision.
Nursing
NSB334 Integrated Nursing Practice 4
This unit is a work integrated learning unit in which you complete a period (4 weeks /160 hours) of immersive learning in clinical practice in an off-campus health care context. A series of mandatory clinical practice sessions (CPS) develops your skills in safe practice. Failure to attend all mandatory CPS means you are unable to progress to clinical placement. The unit is at the developing stage of the course and builds on all preceding units. You will draw on knowledge and skills gained in previous units to incorporate into practice and further develop knowledge and skills. This unit is a co-requisite of NSB231 Integrated Nursing Practice 2 On Campus. Your knowledge of and ability to apply the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice, Aged Care Standards, and National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards are essential to nursing practice. Enrolment in NSB334 will be closed from the first day of the teaching period due to on-campus assessments requirements.
Psychology and counselling
PYB321 Introduction to the Psychology of Trauma
More than half the population experiences trauma across the lifetime. Trauma is acknowledged as playing a key role in the development of mental and physical health issues. There is an increased understanding and interest in society around the prevalence and impact of trauma including domestic violence, child abuse, sudden bereavement and war. Despite this, most professionals across disciplines including psychology, social work, education and law, receive no systematic training in trauma. This introductory unit provides you with foundational knowledge about the psychology of trauma and vicarious trauma as it applies to people who experience trauma firsthand or those in professions likely to assist people who have experienced trauma. This elective complements learning across disciplines including social work, psychology, law, education and nursing. The unit is linked to core psychology units PYB100 and PYB102 and is linked to PYB304 regarding neurobiological aspects of trauma.
Public health and social work
HLB300 Independent Study
This unit provides the opportunity to substantively explore a topic or subject of personal academic interest within your discipline area. It enables you to extend your knowledge and understanding of a topic area that is not otherwise available as a formal unit of study within the course, and your skills in knowledge development and knowledge management. This is a self-directed learning opportunity and prior to enrolling in the unit you will need to organise an academic supervisor with whom you will discuss your proposed study, its learning outcomes and any issues related to its successful completion.
HLN701 Independent Study
The development of critical appraisal skills is essential for students undertaking postgraduate study. This unit provides an opportunity to investigate a relevant topic in your area of study or clinical practice. In the process of identifying, gathering and analysing up-to-date relevant literature and/or undertaking associated research activities, you will strengthen skills in the synthesis of information and report writing relevant to your field.
HLN713 Health Management Project
This is a capstone-type unit that you are expected to complete as a culmination of the learnings throughout your course. It provides you with the opportunity to consider a real world problem (that you have identified from within your workplace and prior engagement in the course) and examine the issue from a realistic, scholarly perspective, bringing to bear your research skills and applying your domain knowledge.
PUN703 Health Management Internship
Based in a workplace, this unit takes an experiential approach to synthesise your knowledge of health care systems with your skills of investigation and analysis of complex information to contribute to professional practice and scholarship. This unit involves the planning and execution of a work-based research project or equivalent capstone experience, by applying the principles and concepts studied across the course into the real world of health services delivery and health policy. A capstone unit is a point of transition for you, and prompts reflection and coherence to the whole course experience. Limited placements are available. Students are matched to placements based on placement availability and student competencies. Each placement is up to 140 hours and individually negotiated.
PUN704 Health Management Extended Internship
Based in a workplace, this unit takes an experiential approach to synthesise your knowledge of health care systems with your skills of investigation and analysis of complex information to contribute to professional practice and scholarship. This unit involves the planning and execution of a substantial work-based research project or equivalent capstone experience, by applying the principles and concepts studied across the course into the real world of health services delivery and health policy. A capstone unit is a point of transition for you, and prompts reflection and coherence to the whole course experience. Limited placements are available. Students are matched to placements based on placement availability and student competencies. Each placement is 280 hours and individually negotiated. Placements are only available in Australia.
Justice
Justice
JSB226 Professional Misconduct and Abuse: Identification and Response
Criminology often focusses on what is called ‘street crime’. However, a whole new area is finally being investigated: institutional and professional crime. This will be the focus for this unit. Professional misconduct (PM)/Professional sexual misconduct (PSM) encompasses power-based abuses and crimes within professional institutions and workplaces. Structural conditions enable institutionalised abuse and often prevent reporting and remedial action. Professional misconduct exists in various forms such as financial, legal, promotional, journalistic, sexual, religious, and medical. Accordingly, perpetrators may be found across powerful institutions and workplaces: sports trainers, lawyers, movie producers, therapists, journalists, clergy, professors, or government ministers. In this unit you will learn to identify when and how misconduct and abuse occur, how perpetrators and institutions react when exposed, and methods for prevention and improved responses.
JSB227 Case Studies in Criminal Prosecution
The prosecution process is an evolving and dynamic element of criminal justice systems. In this unit, students will study a range of contemporary issues in Australian criminal prosecution. By examining various case studies in criminal prosecution, students will attain a deep understanding of the forces that shape criminal justice and legal practice in prosecution and how these processes have changed over time. Students will engage with a variety of sources to analyse and interpret various real world issues in criminal prosecution.
JSB290 Victimology
This unit builds on your understanding of criminology by introducing you to the closely aligned discipline of victimology. This unit centres the perspectives of victims and provides opportunity to build a more comprehensive understanding of criminal justice, political perspectives, and working with vulnerable people. The unit will provide you with opportunities to build, practice and provide evidence of your analysis and problem-solving skills in relation to the role, needs, and rights of victims of harm.
Science
Biology and environmental science
SCB500 Industry Project
In this unit students will apply scientific methods and quantitative techniques to real work issues. Students will develop an appropriate plan for analysing and resolving an industry issue under the guidance of both a QUT supervisor and an associate supervisor from an industry partner. At the end of the unit students will present both an oral seminar and a written report.
Science
SCB300 Professional Practice
This unit provides you with the opportunity to further develop your professional capabilities and technical skills by undertaking the equivalent of 15 - 30 day full time paid or unpaid work placement. This unit, is typically undertaken in the penultimate or final year of your course, requiring you to undertake a self-sourced work placement, internship or engage in ongoing professional work experience to consolidate your course-based learning. In this unit you will have the opportunity to refine your reflective and communicative skills, formulating effective statements of your experience suitable for inclusion in job applications. Assessments in this unit require you to critically analyse, report and reflect upon your professional practice experience and to prepare a professional development plan to help guide your career.
SEB304 Science Capstone
This capstone unit provides you with an opportunity to deepen your discipline understanding by applying your skills and knowledge to a semester-long work integrated learning project. Within your project, you will engage in research, draw on your data analysis skills, and develop innovative approaches to address complex problems. The unit is structured to allow you to develop communication and collaborative skills, and to understand the professional requirements of scientists in the workplace.