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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIV4802 | Smart urban mobility and digital twins This unit is designed to provide a deep understanding of urban mobility, fundamental principles and challenges, including sustainable mobility, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and data-driven approaches. You will gain a comprehens… | Engineering | 4 |
| CIV4803 | Electric mobility This unit develops your ability to conceptually design electric urban mobility planning and operation and assess the implications of various electric mobility initiatives in creating green and sustainable urban mobility that assist in achie… | Engineering | 4 |
| CIV5148 | Ground hazards engineering Geotechnical engineering concepts applied to solve or minimise geo-hazard problems specific to waste containment facilities, contaminated sites and redevelopment and construction on marginal land. The unit focuses on geotechnical aspects of… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5301 | Advanced traffic engineering This unit develops your understanding of contemporary topics in traffic flow theory and their applications. The unit introduces fundamental traffic variables and relationships and examines how they are used to represent both microscopic and… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5302 | Traffic engineering and management This unit examines contemporary practice in the design and management of a safe and sustainable road system. It will build up your fundamental understanding of road hierarchy and a Safe System approach to road safety. You will learn how to… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5304 | Intelligent transport systems This unit develops your ability to conceptually design and assess applications of advanced transport technology on the basis of their performance and impacts. The field of Intelligent Transport Systems is examined including relevant compone… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5314 | Planning urban mobility futures This unit introduces you to contemporary issues in the planning of urban transport systems and urban mobility. The concept of sustainable mobility is introduced along with the steps in the transport planning process. Supply and demand-orien… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5881 | Ground water hydraulics This unit covers theoretical and practical knowledge of groundwater hydraulics, emphasizing analytical and numerical modelling skills. The unit includes: aquifer properties, Darcy's law, well hydraulics, analytical and numerical modelling,… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5882 | Flood hydraulics and hydrology This unit focuses on flood modelling for engineering design. Methods to estimate design flood magnitudes from experimental observations will be presented. Hydrologic and hydraulic routing models will be introduced along with software packag… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5883 | Surface water hydrology This unit focuses on the physical processes of land surface hydrology, covering evapotranspiration, precipitation, interception, infiltration and surface flows. The unit also covers the combination of these processes in surface hydrology mo… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5884 | Water sensitive stormwater design The unit examines the general planning issues of integrated urban catchment management, followed by best management practices in stormwater management. Issues associated with the multiple objectives of urban stormwater management will be di… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5885 | Infrastructure dynamics This unit will provide the learner with fundamental theoretical and experimental knowledge and skills in the transient response of infrastructure systems when subjected to dynamic loading. Dynamics of structures and ground-borne vibrations… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5887 | Infrastructure rehabilitation and monitoring This unit will equip the learner with the knowledge and skills necessary to use the latest condition monitoring techniques and to design appropriate retrofits to alleviate common problems with ageing infrastructure systems. Smart monitoring… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5888 | Advanced computational methods This unit provides you with knowledge and skills in advanced numerical analysis and computational techniques for solving complex problems in infrastructure systems. The unit will begin with an introduction to the finite element method and t… | Engineering | 5 |
| CIV5899 | Infrastructure information management This unit will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to describe and apply innovative technologies and tools in the planning, construction and operation of infrastructure projects. You will learn the state-of-the-practice and la… | Engineering | 5 |
| CLI1100 | Climate change: A wicked problem Climate change presents a challenge that society must meet head-on. In this unit, you will learn to view climate change as an intersectional problem with the potential to affect every part of human life. You will begin at the start of the s… | Science | 1 |
| CLI1200 | Climate change: Impacts and adaptations We are transitioning into a new era, where a changing climate presents new challenges for society. You will learn how we can adapt, change and mitigate to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change. You will analyse the risks pres… | Science | 1 |
| COL1002 | Collaborative design studio 2 Collaborative Design 2 introduces you to design as a way of exploring real-world and speculative challenges across social, cultural, environmental, technological, and economic dimensions. Through a thematic line of inquiry, you will engage… | Art, Design and Architecture | 1 |
| COM10003 | Learning and Communicating Online This unit examines different theories, approaches, and styles of learning aimed at understanding how we learn, to develop confidence, capability, and essential skills in a tertiary and professional environment. | Education | 1 |
| COM10007 | Professional Communication Practice This unit introduces students to the vital part communication plays in professional life. In covering ideas and skills fundamental to professional communication success, it aims to build not only competence but also students’ confidence in… | Design | 1 |
| COMM1031 | Introduction to Cinema Studies This course provides you with the basic knowledge and skills needed to read the cinema as a specific practice and medium. This will include an introduction to terminology, theoretical language and various tools for enabling you to analyse a… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1034 | True Lies : Documentary Studies In this course we will explore the historical development of the documentary form and its contemporary modes, and the critical and theoretical discourses surrounding them. This course will critically engage with a variety of historical and… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1036 | Uses of Film Theory In this course you will explore advanced critical and analytical approaches to cinema, covering the nature and changing role of film theory throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century and its use by academics, critics and fil… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1073 | TV and Screen Cultures In this course you will examine a range of topics and approaches in television and screen studies. The course provides you with an overview of key themes in this field, including recent theories relating to popular culture and methods of te… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1081 | Music in Pop Culture This course examines the role, significance and influence of music in popular culture. You will engage with contemporary issues, historical events and key genres in music.You will also consider how music and musicians are represented within… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1384 | Thinking Media In this course you will explore media theories that inspire and inform media making, and in turn can be used to analyse and evaluate media artefacts. To do this you will engage with media and cultural theories, and apply them to make creati… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1407 | Media Studio: Craft In this course you will work individually and collaboratively to investigate, design and produce media within a studio-based model. You will continue to develop your creative, critical, technical and evaluative skills, with a particular foc… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1408 | Media Studio: Concept In this course you will work individually and collaboratively to research, develop and produce media within a studio-based model. You will continue to advance your creative, critical, technical and evaluative skills, with a particular focus… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1409 | Media Studio: Community In this studio you will develop strategies to engage with the media practice community by addressing a stakeholder brief. In the past, this has included contributing to and running a film festival, producing short films for public screening… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| COMM1410 | News with Sound and Image In this course you will explore the production and use of sound and image to tell news. You will produce news stories in a style suitable for broadcast and develop the underlying skills necessary to work as a news and current affairs report… | College of Design and Social Context | — |