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| Subject Area | Catalogue Number | Long Title | Units | Description |
| SLAT | 6890 | Reading Units & Special Topics | 2 | Allows students to pursue special topics under guidance of instructor, more flexible than provided by lecture course. Requires enrolments of at least five students. |
| SOCY | 1040 | Deviance, Crime & Society: an Introduction to Society | 2 | A detailed examination of the nature and extent of crime in Australia, the current theories that inform our understanding of offending behaviour, as well as how the criminal justice system currently responds to crime. |
| SOCY | 2200 | Independent Study in Sociology | 2 | Study project determined and developed by individual students with prior approval by chairperson of sociology. Supervision and assessment by member of staff. |
| SOCY | 2290 | Work and the Lifecourse | 2 | Examination of the links between households and the labour market. The course begins by examining historical changes in the organisation of work and households, then moves to more contemporary issues relating to work and family linkages focussing on ho |
| SOCY | 2300 | Inequalities, Identities and Politics: Social Inequality and Social Action in Late Modernity | 2 | Examination of current theories and evidence regarding stratification in contemporary societies, contrasts destratificationist and class analytic accounts, examines trends and explanations in income inequality, social mobility and structuration |
| SOCY | 3000 | Sociology Work Attachment Study | 2 | Students identify career options through work placement under supervision of an academic adviser & an industry mentor. |
| SOSC | 1052 | Communication & Community | 2 | The subject examines the relationship between historical and contemporary forms of communication, development and communities worldwide, and explores how communities and development are being or can be fostered by new communication economies in a rapidly |
| SOSC | 1152 | Newsletter Publishing | 2 | Students will be introduced to forms of writing and communication which meet the needs of community groups, through articulating group identity either virtually or proximately and producing forms of advocacy which seek to mobilise group or individual aspi |
| SOSC | 2252 | Social Action and Virtual Networking 1 | 2 | Introduces principles of webpage construction and design in mainly internet applications by building on two key skills learned earlier in the course: community communication through newsletter writing and desk top publishing. |
| SOSC | 3252 | Social Action & Virtual Networking 2 | 2 | Students will learn to identify, design and apply the appropriate website architecture and management. The focus of activity will take as given the existence of virtual and geographically proximate user groups who can be articulated to virtual community |
| SOSC | 3352 | Communication Networks: Global/Local Intersections | 2 | Globalisation and the new information economy is producing changes to our community interactions, power relationships, media and organisational environments, and to the ways in which people communicate. These will be explored. |
| SPAN | 2350 | Los géneros autobiográficos | 2 | Companion subject to ROML2350 to allow Spanish students to try creative writing of autobiographical pieces in Spanish & to enhance analytical skills gained in ROML2350. |
| SPCH | 1201 | Communication across the Lifespan | 2 | Introduction to changes in communication skills across the lifespan & to aspects of professional practice. Focus on experimental opportunities. Theoretical aspects of clinical practice & professional preparation will be addressed. |
| SPCH | 2101 | Disorders of the Central & Peripheral Nervous Systems | 1 | Understanding of the aetiology, symptomatology & prognosis of the major diseases of the central & peripheral nervous systems that generate deficits in speech, language & hearing abilities. |
| SPCH | 2102 | Phonological Disorders | 2 | Early metalinguistic development & the assessment, analysis & management of phonological differences & disorders in children & adults, including persons from non English speaking backgrounds with difficulties in achieving English intelligibility. |
| SPCH | 2103 | Fluency | 1 | Paediatric & adult fluency disorders & facilitation of the development of professional competency in the assessment, diagnosis, & clinical management of these disorders. |
| SPCH | 2202 | Developmental Language Disorders | 2 | Foundation knowledge in the area of developmental language disorders & facilitation of the development of professional competencies in the assessment, diagnosis & clinical management of these disorders. |
| SPCH | 2203 | Clinical Practice | 1 | Supervised clinical learning & practice with a focus on the integration of knowledge & skills in the description & analysis of communication disorders, & the role of the student as a clinical practitioner. |
| SPCH | 3200 | Children with Special Needs in Communication | 2 | Issues relevant to the assessment & management of atypical paediatric cases, including material related to populations with hearing impairment, intellectual disability, cleft palate & cerebral palsy. |
| SPCH | 3202 | Communication Disorders in TBI, Dementia & Right Hemisphere Syndrome | 1 | Development of students' skills in identifying, describing, differentially diagnosing & managing clients with acquired communication disorders associated with dementia, traumatic brain injury and right hemisphere syndrome. |
| SPCH | 4101 | Advanced Case Management | 1 | By final year students are encouraged to integrate information from a variety of sources & demonstrate independent learning. This course helps the student make the transition from case-based disorder specific subjects to more typical multifaceted communic |
| SPCH | 4202 | Transition to Professional Practice | 2 | Equips students with knowledge of professional issues such as legal & ethical issues, professional associations & private practice. Emphasis on preparing students for the workplace including seminars on applying for jobs & working in rural & remote areas. |
| SPCH | 7803 | Voice, Hearing & Fluency Disorders | 2 | Voice & hearing & fluency disorders and facilitation of the development of professional competency in the assessment, diagnosis & clinical management of these disorders. |
| SPCH | 7804 | Articulation & Phonological Disorders | 2 | Differentiation of early metalinguistic & phonological development from that of normal speech development. Frequently used methods of assessment, analysis & management of speech disorders in children. |
| SPCH | 7805 | Paediatric Language A | 2 | Fundamental theoretical & practical knowledge in the area of developmental language disorders & facilitation of the development of professional competencies in the assessment, diagnosis & clinical management of these disorders. |
| SPCH | 7806 | Acquired Adult Neurological Speech & Language Disorders | 2 | Central & peripheral nervous system dysfunction, acquired neurological speech & language disorders, & development of professional competencies in the assessment, diagnosis & clinical management of adults with these disorders. |
| SPCH | 7807 | Laryngectomy & Swallowing Disorders | 1 | Development of students' competencies in the assessment, diagnosis & management of paediatric & adult dysphagia & in the management of patients who have undergone a laryngectomy. |
| SPCH | 7808 | Intensive Clinic Block 1 | 2 | Five weeks full-time clinical placement with a trained clinical educator to develop competency in practical components of speech pathology such as the development of effective communication skills, report writing, aspects of case management & professional |
| SPCH | 7809 | Intensive Clinic Block 2 | 2 | Five weeks full-time clinical placement with a trained clinical educator to develop competency in practical components of speech pathology such as the development of effective communication skills, report writing, aspects of case management & professional |
| SPCH | 7810 | Paediatric Language B | 2 | Issues relevant to speech pathologists working with school aged children. Core areas include school age language & language disorders; written language development & disorders; auditory processing disorders & classroom management. |
| SPCH | 7811 | Integrated Case Management | 2 | Management of complex, multifaceted cases in speech pathology requiring integration of information from a range of sources, addressing of professional issues within the workplace, & effective communication of ideas. Cases will involve aspects of mental he |
| SPCH | 7812 | Adult Language Disorders | 2 | Interdisciplinary treatment of topics in the perception, comprehension & production of language as a foundation against which to understand the effects of brain damage upon language processing & how these issues speak to key assessment & treatment principle |
| SPCH | 7813 | Clinical Education | 1 | Supervised clinical practicum consolidates students' abilities to assess and manage a range of speech pathology cases. Students will be rostered to a 3 hour clinic once a week. |
| SPCH | 7814 | Professional Issues | 2 | Real-life "critical incidents" of speech pathologists are used as a tool for learning about some of the complex issues that confront speech pathologists as they enter the profession. |
| SPCH | 7815 | Children with Special Needs | 2 | Provides students with the skills to assess, diagnose & plan effective treatment for children with special needs (eg intellectual disability, hearing impairment etc.) |
| SPCH | 7816 | Advanced Clinical Practice | 2 | Students are rostered to a speech pathology clinic to consolidate their case-based skills, develop their clinical management skills & their professional role. |
| STAT | 3001 | Statistical Inference III | 2 | Likelihood theory: maximum likelihood, asymptotic theory, nuisance parameters, applications, likelihood ratio test, score tests, Wald tests, exponential family (properties: sufficiency, completeness). Confidence intervals, hypothesis tests. Baysian inf |
| STAT | 3002 | Applied Statistics | 2 | Regression models. Transformations, diagnostics, residual analysis. Anova. Influence, leverage, outliers. Serial correlation & heteroscedascity. Model selection. Nonlinear & nonparametric regression. Box-Cox transformations. Modern graphics. Genera |
| STAT | 3003 | Experimental Design & Surveys | 2 | Analysis of completely random design, block designs, Latin squares, multiple comparisons, factorial experiments. Basic concepts of sampling introduced, with following in detail: simple random sampling, stratified sampling & aspects of ratio estimation, |
| STAT | 3004 | Probability Models & Stochastic Processes | 2 | Description of probability models. Generating functions & transforms. Limit laws. Markov chains in discrete & continuous time. Stochastic models in epidemics, finance, population biology, genetics, reliability & telecommunications. Simulation methods. |
| STAT | 4001 | Statistical Inference & Computational Statistics | 2 | Advanced statistical inference: exponential families, dispersion models, saddlepoint approximation, applications to non-normal regression & modelling. Computational statistics: bootstrap methods, cross-validation, projection pursuit, EM algorithm, fini |
| STAT | 4002 | Multivariate Analysis & Experimental Design | 2 | Distribution theory: Hotelling's T-squared statistic, sample generalised variance, Wishart distribution. Canonical correlations. Principal components. Discriminate & cluster analysis. General block designs. Factorial experiments, including confounding |
| STAT | 4003 | Stochastic Processes & Time Series Analysis | 2 | Continuous time processes, epidemics; diffusion processes, non-Markov queuing & renewal processes. Stationary processes, auto-correlation, ARMA processes, prediction & estimation, spectral theory. |
| STAT | 7201 | Analysis of Scientific Data | 1 | Statistical models & analyses required for analysing scientific data, including sampling methods, exploratory data analysis, standard probability models, estimation, hypothesis tests, regression, experimental design. |
| STAT | 7202 | Probability Models for Science | 1 | Probability models & applications in science, including basic probability theory, distributions & their properties, transform methods, construction of probability models, reliability, joint distributions, random processes: queues, Markov processes, Gauss |
| STAT | 7301 | Statistical Inference | 2 | Likelihood theory: maximum likelihood, asymptotic theory, nuisance parameters, applications, likelihood ratio test, score tests, Wald tests, exponential family (properties: sufficiency, completeness). Confidence intervals, hypothesis tests. Baysian inf |
| STAT | 7302 | Applied Statistics | 2 | Regression models. Transformations, diagnostics, residual analysis. Anova. Influence, leverage, outliers. Serial correlation & heteroscedascity. Model selection. Nonlinear & nonparametric regression. Box-Cox transformations. Modern graphics. Genera |
| STAT | 7303 | Experimental Design I & Surveys | 2 | Analysis of completely random design, block designs, Latin squares, multiple comparisons, factorial experiments. Basic concepts of sampling introduced, with following in detail: simple random sampling, stratified sampling & aspects of ratio estimation, |
| STAT | 7304 | Probability Models & Stochastic Processes I | 2 | Description of probability models. Generating functions & transforms. Limit laws. Markov chains in discrete & continuous time. Stochastic models in epidemics, finance, population biology, genetics, reliability & telecommunications. Simulation methods. |
| STAT | 7401 | Statistical Inference & Computational Statistics | 2 | Advanced statistical inference: exponential families, dispersion models, saddlepoint approximation, applications to non-normal regression & modelling. Computational statistics: bootstrap methods, cross-validation, projection pursuit, EM algorithm, fini |
| STAT | 7402 | Multivariate Analysis & Experimental Design II | 2 | Distribution theory: Hotelling's T-squared statistic, sample generalised variance, Wishart distribution. Canonical correlations. Principal components. Discriminate & cluster analysis. General block designs. Factorial experiments, including confounding |
| STAT | 7403 | Stochastic Processes II & Time Series Analysis | 2 | Continuous time processes, epidemics; diffusion processes, non-Markov queuing & renewal processes. Stationary processes, autocorrelation, ARMA processes, prediction & estimation, spectral theory. |
| STAT | 7404 | Statistical Consulting & Professional Practice | 2 | Students work as statistical consultants under guidance of staff member. Client/consultant relations, use of appropriate statistical techniques & computer packages, report writing & presentation skills |
| STAT | 7701 | Special Topics I | 2 | Advanced topics in statistics. |
| STAT | 7702 | Special Topics II | 2 | Advanced topics in statistics. |
| STAT | 7703 | Special Topics III | 2 | Advanced topics in statistics. |
| SWSP | 3221 | Directed Studies in Social Work and Social Policy 1 | 2 | A directed course of studies to enable international students to pursue academic studies tailored to their individual educational needs. Permission to enrol in the subject must be given by the Head of School. |
| SWSP | 3231 | Directed Studies in Social Work and Social Policy 2 | 2 | An extended, directed course of studies to enable international students to pursue academic studies tailored to their individual educational needs. Permission to enrol in the subject must be given by the Head of School. |
| SWSP | 4177 | Advanced Practice A | 2 | This course will enable students entering the BSocWk with advanced standing to enrol in a second stream in the SW447 Advanced Intervention Method course in first semester, final year. Permission to enrol in the subject must be given by the Head of School |
| SWSP | 7021 | Futures in Social Policy | 2 | This course covers the identification and analysis of current and future challenges in the emerging institutional arrangements of social policy. Discusses sustainable ways of responding to these challenges within developing frameworks of social policy. |
| SWSP | 7041 | Techniques of Social Policy Analysis and Development | 2 | The relationship of social policy analysis and research to social policy processes and outcomes. Analytical techniques relating to social policy development, formulation, choice, implementation, delivery and evaluation. Introduction to selected technique |
| SWSP | 7062 | People Management and Leadership for the Human Services | 2 | Introduction to the personal and interpersonal aspects of management in human service organisations, including theories and practice leadership. Aims to develop key people management skills including motivating others, managing conflict, managing change, |
| SWSP | 7072 | Resource Management for the Human Services | 2 | Introduction to management of financial resources in human service organisations. Includes consideration of resource acquisition strategies, contracting and tendering, service costing, financial planning and budgeting, taxation and legal frameworks, mana |
| SWSP | 7154 | Researching Practice in Social Work and Human Services | 2 | This course explores the place of research in practice. Workshops and projects will engage practitioners in exploring how research findings can be incorporated into practice and how practice research can be developed in a variety of settings. |
| SWSP | 7175 | Practice Leadership in Complex Environments | 2 | This course prepares students for the complexity and challenge of contemporary professional practice. Links between policy, program and practice are explored from a direct practice standpoint. Students critically explore these issues, influences on their |
| SWSP | 7185 | Case Management and Care Coordination | 2 | This course critically analyses the assumptions underpinning case management and various models of case management including the strengths approach. Students develop an analysis of the nature of relationships and work practices in case management, as wel |
| SWSP | 7195 | Applied Ethics in Human Service Practice | 2 | This course explores ethical theories and critiques and introduces students to models of ethical decision making. Students will be equipped to recognise the parameters of ethical issues, articulate their own ethical framework and translate this to current |
| SWSP | 7226 | Approaches to Person Focused Counselling | 2 | Explores brief intervention approaches and their relevance to social work practice contexts. Introduces several person-focussed approaches/theories including narrative, solution-focused, feminist, strengths etc. Students explore theoretical foundations, |
| SWSP | 7236 | Advanced Human Services Practice in working with people in crisis | 2 | Provides foundation for assessing risk and working with people in crisis with special emphasis on domestic violence, sexual assault, family crises and suicide. Current crisis theory and research is reviewed and students develop practical skills in crisis |
| SWSP | 7246 | Advanced Human Services Practice in working with people in distress | 2 | Skill-based course applies counselling theories and approaches to social work practice issues such as loss and grief, trauma, violence, mental illness, disability. Students articulate a practice framework demonstrating synthesis of various approaches and |
| SWSP | 7256 | Advanced Human Services Practice with Children | 2 | Examines a range of strategies and approaches for working with children in child protection, alternative care, fostering and family breakdown. Includes creative ways of establishing communication, undertaking assessment, various therapy approaches and in |
| SWSP | 7267 | Family Therapy Traditions: Basic Concepts and Skills | 2 | This course provides a thorough overview of the basic theories which gave rise to the central schools of contemporary family therapy. Students can expect to gain knowledge of fundamental concepts and their practice derivatives with some opportunities to |
| SWSP | 7277 | Key Skills and Competencies of Family Therapy Practice | 2 | This course provides opportunities for students to develop competent reflective family therapy practice relevant to various practice contexts. Includes assessment and intervention skills for various phases of family therapy process and use of therapeutic |
| SWSP | 7287 | The Philosophy of Family Therapy: Theoretical Foundations | 2 | This course explores the epistemological traditions underpinning family therapy. Students critique and identify philosophical dilemmas and ethical issues with direct relevance to practice. Explores systems theory, clinical epistemology, constructivism, |
| SWSP | 7297 | The Family as an Evolving System | 2 | Examines the family as both historical entity and evolving system. Includes the family therapy conceptualization and treatment of common difficulties in family contexts. Explores history, family life cycles, formation variations, socio-political critique |