FXWR100 Relaxation Massage

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR101 Injury Strapping and Prevention

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR103 Level 2 First Aid

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR200 Personal Trainer

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR201 Sports Massage

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR202 Wellness Assessment Competencies

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR203 Human Performance Batteries

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR300 Ergonomics

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR301 Equipment Calibration, Maintenance and Safety

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

FXWR302 Therapeutic Massage

0 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 12 weeks by 1 hour activities.

This unit involves students in 12 weeks by 1 hour practical competencies related to their discipline studies. Due to some specialist facility requirements the unit may be off campus. Participation and scientific report of the activity are required.

 

GEND100 Gender in Society

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent of lectures, tutorials, workshops and seminars.

Concepts: How did women’s studies develop as an area of academic inquiry and what are the main theoretical tools employed? Topics covered will include: (a) the fundamentals of understandings of androcentricism, for example masculinism, phallocentricism and patriarchy; (b) the concepts of bias such as sexism, racism, ethnocentricism, Eurocentricism, heterosexism, colonialism and their link to binary modes of thought; (c) the creation of ideologies and discourses regarding gender.

Concerns: What are the major issues women’s studies attempt to address? The dominant issues to be addressed will include: (a) corporeality and its relationship to idea about masculinity and femininity; (b) state–based institutions interacting with the female body such as the health sector (including reproductive technologies), childcare, the religious organisations and families; (c) Australian women in a world context.

 

GEND101 Introduction to Feminism

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent of lectures, tutorials, workshops and seminars.

Perspectives: What has been the history of women’s activism? Topics to be discussed will include early feminist thought, the rise of women’s activism in the twentieth century, late twentieth century ‘second wave feminism’ as well as the specific perspectives of third world, post–colonial, radical, liberal, socialist, lesbian and black feminists.

Debates: How has the history of women’s activism been debated and understood? Issues include how notions of patriarchy have informed feminist methodology, the extent to which society presents an interlocking web of oppressions, questions about subjectivity and agency, and the challenges presented between feminist generations.

 

GEND200 Bodies and Feelings

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp Gender Studies unit at 100-level

This unit discusses the impact of sexuality on experience. It explores society’s expectations of both sexuality and gender in a variety of cultural contexts, and examines the importance of the often neglected areas of corporeality and emotions in studies of women and gender.

 

GEND201 Gender and the Media

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp Gender Studies unit at 100-level

The unit aims to develop students’ understanding of gender issues in a social context of great importance to the present and future direction of Australian society. It will explore both the role of the media in inscribing gender identity with a culture and its ability to reflect particular identities.

 

GEND202 Topics in Gender Studies

10 cp
Prerequisites 10 cp Gender Studies unit at 100-level

Given the contemporary nature of the discipline of gender studies, there may be a need to focus on a particular issue in greater detail than is possible in other units. This unit will allow students and staff to explore critical issues in depth.

 

GEOG100 Foundations of Physical Geography

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

The unit studies the processes that have shaped the surface of the earth with specific reference to the Australian land mass. To this end the atmospheric, geologic and geomorphic processes are considered over a geologic time scale with progressive finer resolution to provide an evolutionary history and contemporary perspective to explain the nature of the Australian environment. Understanding of the environment provides insights to sustainable management practices.

 

GEOG101 Human Geographies of Globalisation

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

This is an introductory human geography unit concerned with the differences and similarities between places in terms of economic, political, social and cultural relations. The unit will examine this across the hierarchy of geographic scales from the global to the local. GEOG101 takes some first steps towards establishing what globalisation might be — is it just a fashionable buzz-word, or does it reflect major changes now affecting people in all parts of the world?

The unit explores the interrelationships between the global and the local demonstrating that Geography has an important role in furthering our understanding of links between global and local processes. This concern with globalisation is integral to explaining the changes that are and have been occurring to the human geography of the world.

 

GEOG200 Geographies of Development in SE Asia

10 cp
Prerequisites GEOG101 Human Geographies of Globalisation
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

This unit provides an introduction to the contemporary human geography of the emergent region of Southeast Asia. This unit is structured in two sections to help understand the evolving geography of Southeast Asia, its nations and its peoples. The first half of the unit investigates the recent growth of Asia and Southeast Asia as geographic regions in the context of globalisation. Focusing on the geopolitics and economic geographies that underline regional integration the unit will outline the different ways regions are understood and the processes that drive regional development in the Asian context.

The second half of the unit will focus on the geographies of development in Southeast Asia, including considerations of issues of growing inequality and entrenched poverty, urban and rural sustainable development, and the social and political discourses in resource management and the environment protection. In developing a unique geographic perspective of the Southeast Asian region the unit explores the relationships within and beyond the nations of Southeast Asia, including the wider Asian context and the role and perception of Australia in emergent Asian relations.

 

GEOG201 Geographical Perspectives of Asia

10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Asian Studies unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

Builds on the basic socio–political knowledge built up in the introductory units and advances these within the discipline of geography.

 

GEOG202 Coastal Environments

10 cp
Prerequisites GEOG100 Foundations of Physical Geography
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

This unit introduces students to the geomorphology of coastal landscapes and the management of coastal resources. An understanding of the geomorphology of coastal landscapes is a prerequisite for investigations of management issues. The unit also undertakes to develop skills (incorporating observation, collection of field data, collation of data using Excel, interpretation of data using statistical techniques, maps and remote sensing imagery) for investigation of coastal phenomena. Students analyse and evaluate issues associated with management of coastal resources.

 

GEOG203 Ecological Perspectives of Eastern Asia

10 cp
Prerequisites 1 Asian Studies unit at introductory 100-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

This unit builds upon the introductory units following an interdisciplinary approach common to human ecology. Content includes: Asian philosophies of ecology; impact of population growth; making environmental policy in Asia; impact of food production; need for power supplies; forest management; impact of tourism; Western impact: war, trade, garbage dumping and social dumping.

 

GEOG300 Agricultural Geography

10 cp
Prerequisites GEOG101 Human Geographies of Globalisation
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

Concerned with: the physical and economic forces and uncertainties influencing agricultural production; the influence of the objective and perceived environments which modify human responses and account for the distribution and diversity of agricultural activities; the problems and prospects of agricultural systems. It will also aim to develop skills in the identification, collection, collation and interpretation of data necessary to account for the human-land relationship.

 

GEOG301 Individual Reading and Research Unit

10 cp
Prerequisites GEOG200 Geographies of Development in SE Asia, GEOG202 Coastal Environments
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

Students will study research methodology in geography. Spatial and textual data analysis and statistical techniques will be examined. Individual research studies are conducted, requiring students to undertake fieldwork in the gathering of primary and secondary data. This data is analysed, interpreted and a research report is produced.

 

GEOG304 Land Evaluation

10 cp
Prerequisites GEOG100 Foundations of Physical Geography
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

Students will study the incidence, impact and social cost, associated with inappropriate use of land resources. They will develop skills associated with collection, interpretation, collation, mapping and classification of land resource data and will evaluate resource base capability and land use planning proposals for proposed urban subdivisions.

 

GEOG305 Urban Geography

10 cp
Prerequisites GEOG101 Human Geographies of Globalisation
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.

This unit focuses on the Human Geography of cities. It is concerned with trends and issues that affect cities, and how we understand and interpret cities. During the course we will investigate the changing nature of the built environment of cities and the processes that influence these changes. In particular, we will investigate how changes in the urban environment are reflective of distinctive relationships between people and places, how people choose to live in the urban environment, and how these choices are constrained by wider forces. We will discuss contemporary changes in housing, employment, retail, ethnicity and community in cities, as well as the role of government and private sectors of society in shaping the human geography of the city.