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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUSO1301 | International Perspective on Community Development This study tour offers students collaborative, immersive and experiential learning opportunities in a developing country. Each year the destination country and theme is decided in advance. The study tour may include interaction with a wider… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO1370 | Mental Health and Wellbeing Capstone This course is undertaken in conjunction with HWSS2233 Work Integrated Learning 2. This capstone course includes seminars related to your Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placement experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2036 | International Development, Themes, Debates and Practice In this course you will critically examine themes, debates and practices in international development, building a complex understanding of diverse global realities. In particular you will investigate key development concepts and approaches… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2092 | Gender, Development and Globalisation This course applies a gendered lens to examine how development and globalisation shape, and are shaped by, gender across time, place, and context. Drawing on feminist theories of human rights, labour, care, intersectionality, and power; you… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2164 | Self, Identity and Agency This course offers an exploration into how we understand the self, how identity is shaped and how our agency – our capacity to act – is activated in different contexts. We consider the complexity of systems, practices, forces and agendas th… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2166 | Foundations of Social Research This course will introduce you to the key concepts of research in the social sciences. You will develop research literacy skills to understand and critique how social research is produced and used, and some insight into the sorts of decisio… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2215 | Learning on Country: Indigenous Communities in a Global Context This course engages in in-depth considerations of Indigenous perspectives and the ways in which metropolitan planning strategies and design emphasise the relation of Indigenous communities to Australia’s cities. Australian cities are Indige… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2266 | Critical Ideas in International, Social, and Political Thought This course focuses on critical ideas and concepts in contemporary social and political theory that might include globalization, power, identity, violence, gender, race, class, ethnicity, post-colonialism, human rights, nationalism, realism… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2301 | Applied Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Welcome to this course. This course will enable you to develop a basic understanding of indigenous peoples and human rights in contemporary Australia. It involves an exploration both of what an indigenous person might experience in their da… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2314 | Global Internship The internship is a situated learning activity that provides you with the opportunity to apply and further develop your learning about globalisation, language, cultural diversity and change. The integration of work based learning and academ… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2316 | Global Conflict, War and Violence This course focuses on warfare and forms of violent conflict around the world, and in doing so students will investigate key dimensions of how war is changing, the role of state and non-state armed actors, the intersection of warfare with t… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2318 | Contemporary Europe: Unity, Diversity, Ideology This course is designed to develop your knowledge around the salient economic, political, social, regional, and international issues facing modern Europe. You will develop a deeper understanding of the historical processes and complexities… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2328 | Contemporary Foreign Policy and the Asia Pacific This course introduces students to contemporary foreign and security policies and the key domestic and regional debates that define them. It focuses on Australia's interests in its fundamental area of geostrategic emphasis, the Asia-Pacific… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2329 | Globalising Societies This fieldwork based course introduces key social and cultural dynamics and socio-political processes in the modern world. This is a challenging course of study organized around intense experiences and expert instruction. Seemingly abstract… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2341 | The Urban Age The city as shapeshifter poses a genuine conundrum for those who seek to shape urban change to achieve more sustainable, just and regenerative ways of being. Amidst the speed, magnitude and complexity of a climate of change, the urban age w… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2363 | Digital Disruption: Meeting the Challenges of our Digital Age Digital technologies are disrupting and transforming every aspect of our lives, from global systems to personal interactions. In this course, you will explore the social and cultural implications of digital technologies and become familiar… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2388 | Global Feminisms This course is designed to introduce you to key elements of feminism and the global feminist movement. In particular, it focuses on contemporary feminist protest movements and activism relating to or resulting from processes of globalisatio… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2393 | Co-creating Social Change with Communities Contemporary social issues have many complex dimensions, and this reality creates new challenges that social service sectors must address. In this context, human services practitioners need deep evidence-based understandings of social issue… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2414 | Foundations of Youth Studies In this course you will be introduced to the academic discipline of Youth Studies and critically explore the evolving concept of ‘youth’. You will examine how 'Youth' and young people are constructed within historical, ideological, economic… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2415 | Young People, Representation and Resistances This course provides an overview of representations of young people across time and place and the implications for youth work practice. The course opens many lines of inquiry into how diverse young people have been and continue to be depict… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2416 | Youth Identities and Interdependencies This course provides an overview of interdisciplinary research and theories on young people’s sense of self. The course explores complex understandings of youth identities and interdependencies and how these relate to working with young peo… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2418 | Youth Work Capstone This course is undertaken in conjunction with HWSS2233 Work Integrated Learning 2. You will participate in Community of Practice workshops that consider your placement experience, your knowledge and skills, the workplace context and feedbac… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2448 | Introduction to Applied Human Rights Welcome to Applied Human Rights.This course is designed to do just a few things. It is designed to introduce you to some important questions about how we might think about and do to promote and protect human rights in Australia. It is desig… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2452 | Art Theory: Materiality and Technology This course considers a wide range of art practices from the perspective of materiality and/or technology. It provides the opportunity to gain expanded knowledge about the evolving conditions of art production from a historical and critical… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2453 | Art Theory: Society and Environment This course focuses on the relationship between art and its social, political and environmental contexts. You will be introduced to a wide range of art practices responding to social and political issues, including colonialism, inequality,… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2454 | Contextualising Art Practice In this course, you will develop an understanding of the critical and theoretical context for your art practice and/or process. You will explore a range of ideas and practices and use them to situate your practice with a focus on appropriat… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2455 | Twentieth Century Art: Global Modernisms and Beyond This course examines key developments and concepts of twentieth-century art. While engaging with Euro-American and Australian histories of modernism, it emphasises global artistic practices that challenge Western art historical narratives.… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2459 | Planetary Pedagogies and Civics This course introduces you to creative and transformative approaches for teaching, learning, engaging, and communicating complex ideas within public spaces, from eco-pedagogies in arts and media to activist methodologies that challenge exis… | RMIT University | — |
| HUSO2469 | Community Wellbeing This course explores community wellbeing from a range of perspectives. You will explore social, economic, political, cultural, environmental, digital, and historical dimensions of community wellbeing. You will examine community wellbeing as… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| HUSO2470 | Lived Experiences and Critical Approaches to Mental Health This course will privilege and centre first-person accounts of lived and living experiences of distress, trauma or altered states in relation to mental health, as well as drawing on concepts, frameworks and theories that are underpinned by… | College of Design and Social Context | — |