Single-unit study

You can study individual units for personal or professional development without having to apply for a full QUT course.

If you successfully complete a unit, you may be eligible for credit if you decide to apply for a degree course in the future.

Units anyone can study

These units don’t have any requirements for previous study or background knowledge.

But if your previous studies were not in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you will need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements when you apply.

Languages

Education

EUB113 Writing Australia

This unit aims to improve your analytical and creative, oral and written communication skills. It is important for you to understand how Australian identity has been written, rewritten and remains contested by engaging with and evaluating a range of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australian writings. This unit provides you with opportunities to read, explore, discuss and evaluate a number of classic and contemporary Australian texts. Upon completing this unit you can understand and critically interrogate texts pertinent to contemporary Australian society and culture.

EUB357 Poetry: Responding and Composing

This unit provides you with opportunities to explore poetry in a variety of forms, theories of how poetry can be appreciated and appraised, and to engage in poetry writing. You will consider, as consumers and creators, how concepts, issues, identities, times and places are represented in poetry. The unit invites you to experience a wide repertoire of poetic texts across traditional and new media, as well as from a variety of places and times.  The unit content includes: a range of written poems as well as song lyrics and spoken poetry performances.

Units you need background knowledge to study

These units have requirements for previous study or background knowledge. Check the unit’s previous study requirements for details. If you have any questions, contact the unit coordinator for the semester you want to study.

If your previous studies were not in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you will also need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements when you apply.