Units
The individual subjects inside each degree: what’s taught, how it’s assessed, and when it runs.
4,303 units
| Code | Unit | Faculty | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERF2085 | Music Business and Internship This course is about building job-ready skills, business acumen and networks while learning about the state of the music business in Australia. It will offer you the opportunity to work in the music industries, as well as touching on entrep… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| PERF2086 | Music Industry Now This course addresses the current and many possible futures of the music industry. You will explore how changes in wider society and culture, when combined with technological change, will impact the future music industry, as well as how the… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| PERF2087 | Music Industry Capstone In this final semester course, you will apply the skills and knowledge you have developed across this program to produce a polished product for your area of creative, business, or scholarly practice. Simultaneously, you will also prepare a… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| PERF2088 | Ableton Live Advanced In this course you will examine the advanced functionality of the popular Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), Ableton Live. Delivered in a hands-on workshop format that includes interaction with Ableton Certified Training, this course moves be… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| PERF2089 | Writing across Poetry and Performance In Writing across Poetry and Performance, you will examine the conventions and expectations of both modes of practice while also exploring their commonalities. You will have the opportunity to assess your own affinity for each, and practise… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| PHA2022 | Drugs and society This unit provides an introduction to the pharmacological principles underlying drug action, and the factors that influence their use as therapeutics. Specific examples of drugs used for therapeutic and social reasons are discussed with an… | Science | 2 |
| PHA3011 | Principles of drug action This unit provides you with a basic understanding of the principles of drug action - including the targets of drug action (receptors, enzymes, ion channels), drug receptor interactions, receptor families and signalling pathways - as well as… | Science | 3 |
| PHA3021 | Drugs in health and disease This unit provides you with an historical and current overview of the use of drugs, with an emphasis on the principles underlying the safe and effective use of drugs for the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease. The importance… | Science | 3 |
| PHA3032 | Neuro and endocrine pharmacology This unit provides you with an integrated understanding of how drugs affect neuronal and endocrine function. Four major areas are covered: major neurotransmitters within the brain; reproductive endocrinology, metabolism and disorders of pan… | Science | 3 |
| PHA3042 | Modern drug development Modern drug development will provide you with an appreciation of the process of discovery, testing, approval and marketing of new drugs. This will include the diseases most likely to be targeted by pharmaceutical companies for drug developm… | Science | 3 |
| PHA3800 | Fundamentals of toxicology Toxicology is the biological, chemical and pharmacological study of poisons. This unit presents the broad science of contemporary toxicology to facilitate the understanding of the principles and mechanisms of the action of poisons on specif… | Science | 3 |
| PHA3801 | Principles of pharmacology This unit discusses the core principles on how drugs interact with the human body with the focus on concepts, mechanisms, and applications of drugs in pharmacology. Begins with the fundamental understanding of drug interaction, especially h… | Science | 3 |
| PHA3990 | Action in pharmacology research project This unit provides the opportunity for high achieving students to work with an academic supervisor and complete a research project in Pharmacology. The research project may be chosen from a list of projects available at the beginning of sem… | Science | 3 |
| PHI10007 | What is Power? This cross-disciplinary, team-taught unit introduces the core themes and breadth of the Politics, Power & Technology major. It introduces fundamentals of political philosophy and presents critical perspectives on the question of power drawn… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 1 |
| PHI10008 | Introduction to Ethics This unit teaches an appreciation of the historical roots of different ethical doctrines, showing how these are related to ideas about the good life, freeing people to identify, understand and choose between traditions of ethical thought. I… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 1 |
| PHI20006 | Philosophy, Media, Culture This unit examines from a philosophical perspective, the emergence and development of media, particularly in the form of information and communication technologies, and also understand the psychological, social, cultural and political trans… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 2 |
| PHI20010 | Philosophical Perspectives on Nature and Science Modern science has been a major force in shaping our views on nature and humanity. This unit examines the relationship between scientific ideas and society with the aim of understanding both the contexts and consequences of scientific inqui… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 2 |
| PHI30009 | Environmental Philosophy To provide a comprehensive understanding of environmental problems, including the threat of destruction of the current regime of the global ecosystem, of the forces driving this destruction, and what is required to address and overcome thes… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| PHI30010 | Philosophy, Politics and Society To introduce core ideas in social and political philosophy, providing some historical context of Western civilization to understand current problems and conflicts, with particular reference to the problem of sustaining a just, ecologically… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| PHI30011 | Thinking and Intelligence: Critical, Creative, Artificial This Unit examines Artificial Intelligence (AI), its history, operational principles, and application, including its relationship to the concepts of self, free will and personhood. It also considers key historical and philosophical concepts… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| PHI30012 | Planet B: Space and Extra-Terrestrial Ethics This forward-looking unit examines humanity’s relationship with the rest of the cosmos through the understanding and exploration of space. We explore what it means for (some) humans to colonize space and ask what the benefits and risks of t… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| PHR1011 | Professional practice 1 This unit introduces you to the role of the pharmacist and health care services relating to consumers and their medicines. It introduces important aspects of human behaviour and cultural considerations, with a focus on enhancing professiona… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1 |
| PHR1012 | Professional practice 2 This unit builds on your understanding of the role of the pharmacist in providing healthcare services to different patient groups. You will learn the fundamentals of dispensing prescriptions and medication counselling and further develop es… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1 |
| PHR1021 | How medicines work 1: Physical chemistry This unit provides an introduction to how drugs become medicines and explores factors that influence the absorption of drugs following oral administration. You will study the physicochemical properties of molecules that determine dissolutio… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1 |
| PHR1022 | How medicines work 2: Pharmacokinetics This unit builds upon PHR1021 (How Medicines Work 1) to provide an overview of the processes that affect drug concentrations at target tissues in the body, including drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. These processes a… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1 |
| PHR1031 | How the body works This unit will provide you with the foundational understanding and knowledge of the human body, including how cells, molecules and organs ensure proper functioning of the body. This will include studies of anatomy, physiology and biochemist… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1 |
| PHR1122 | How medicines work 3: Pharmacology This unit builds upon PHR1031 How the body works to provide an overview of how drugs interact with their therapeutic targets to alter normal physiological processes in the body. The effects of drugs to reverse the pathophysiology associated… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1 |
| PHR1222 | How medicines work 4: Medicinal chemistry This unit builds upon PHR1021 How medicines work 1 to provide an overview of the chemistry behind how drugs interact with their target once they have been absorbed into the bloodstream (studied in detail in PHR1122 How medicines work 3 and… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 1 |
| PHR2011 | Professional practice 3 This unit builds on your understanding of the role of the pharmacist and the expectations and structure of the Australian health care system. It introduces key components of a standardised approach to patient-centred care, including problem… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2 |
| PHR2012 | Professional practice 4 Upon completing this unit, you are expected to be able to describe new and extended roles for pharmacists within various healthcare environments. The unit introduces the fundamental principles of evidence-based practice, including the skill… | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2 |