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Undergraduate elective courses

Elective courses allow you the freedom to tailor your program toward your personal or professional interests.

School of Creative Industries

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

Communication Studies
  • CMN101 Teaching Junior Secondary English
  • CMN102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
  • CMN103 Diversity and Inclusion
  • CMN104 Professional Experience: Individual Learner Needs
  • CMN105 The Psychology of Learning
  • CMN106 Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum
  • CMN107 Secondary Assessment and Reporting
  • CMN108 Using Data for Learning
  • CMN116 Secondary Professional Learning: The Professional Empowered and Engaged
  • CMN117 Introduction to Journalism
  • CMN120 Digital Journalism
  • CMN130 Podcasting and Radio News
  • CMN140 Media Law and Ethics
  • CMN150 Feature Writing
Design
  • DES101 Video production and television journalism
  • DES102 Investigative and Data Journalism
  • DES103 Newsroom
  • DES104 Introduction to Journalism
  • DES105 Digital Journalism
  • DES106 Feature Writing
  • DES107 Investigative and Data Journalism
Drama
  • DRA100 Researching Education
  • DRA102 Education Research Theories and Methodologies
English
  • EGL120 Accounting for Business
Japanese
Music
  • MUS100 Introduction to Systems Design
  • MUS101 Database Design
Serious Game Development
  • SGD100 Network Management and Security
  • SGD101 Database Programming
  • SGD102 Architecture and Systems Integration
  • SGD103 Introduction to Creative Advertising
  • SGD120 Introduction to Design and Concept
Fashion
  • FSH100 Social Media: Content Curation and Creation

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Communication Studies
  • CMN200 Editing for the Communication Professional
  • CMN201 Advertising Campaigns
  • CMN202 Advertising: Copy and Image
  • CMN203 Visual Identity
  • CMN204 Industry Project 1: Communication, Creativity and Design
  • CMN213 Industry Internship 1: Communication, Creativity and Design
  • CMN224 Introduction to Creative Advertising
  • CMN226 Social Media: Content Curation and Creation
  • CMN228 Advertising Campaigns
  • CMN231 Advertising: Copy and Image
  • CMN235 The Changing Planet
  • CMN237 Hydrology and Geomorphology
  • CMN240 Regional Transformation: political and economic geographies
  • CMN246 Globalisation, Development and Indigenous Peoples
  • CMN247 Introduction to International Relations: An Australian Perspective
  • CMN252 Global Environmental Politics
  • CMN260 Politics of the USA
  • CMN266 International Security
  • CMN276 International Relations Theory and Practice
  • CMN277 Politics and the Media
  • CMN300 International Justice and Human Rights
  • CMN302 Introduction to International Relations: An Australian Perspective
  • CMN303
  • CMN304
  • CMN305
  • CMN308
  • CMN309 Chemistry
  • CMN311 Food Studies
  • CMN312 Nutrition Assessment
  • CMN313 Public Health Nutrition
  • CMN314 Principles of Nutrition
  • CMN315 Food, Nutrition and Menu Design
  • CMN316 Complementary Approaches to Food and Nutrition
  • CMN317 Contemporary Issues in Nutrition
  • CMN320 Nutrition Practicum
  • CMN330 Design Thinking and Disruptive Innovation
Design
  • DES200 Customer and market driven planning
  • DES204 Research for Decision Making
  • DES205 Entrepreneurship and Business Model Innovation
  • DES206 Financial Report Analysis
  • DES211 Managerial Informatics
  • DES212 Managing People in Organisations
  • DES221 Managerial Economics
  • DES222 Business Law
  • DES231 Principles of Leadership
  • DES232 Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • DES303 Strategic Management
  • DES304 Business Finance for Managers
  • DES305 Human Resource Management Essentials
  • DES306 Business Model Development
  • DES307 Developing Personal Leadership Capability
  • DES308 Creating and delivering marketing value
Drama
  • DRA202 Managerial Project
  • DRA203 Planning and Pitching your start-up
  • DRA204 Building Agile Organisations
  • DRA206 Project Leadership
  • DRA301 Cultural Intelligence in the Global Environment
English
  • EGL201 Managerial Project
  • EGL205 Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Business and Management
  • EGL206 Managerial Business Analytics
  • EGL385 Research Project A
Indonesian
  • IND210 Research Project B
  • IND211 Advanced Discipline Readings
  • IND310 Advanced Research Methods
  • IND311 Communication and Thought
Italian
  • ITL210 Business Analytics
  • ITL211 Introduction to Economics
  • ITL310 Introduction to Management
  • ITL311 Introduction to Marketing
Japanese
  • JPN210 Accounting for Business
  • JPN211 Introduction to Informatics
  • JPN212 Business Law and Ethics
  • JPN300 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
  • JPN301 Consumer Behaviour
  • JPN310 Services Marketing
  • JPN311 Marketing Communication
Politics and International Studies
  • INT202 Marketing of Social Causes
Music
  • MUS200 Brand Management
  • MUS201 Contemporary and Emerging Marketing Perspectives
  • MUS202 International Marketing
  • MUS203 Food Marketing
  • MUS300 Sport and Event Marketing
  • MUS301 Academic and Professional Skills: Planning for Success
Serious Game Development
Fashion
  • FSH200 Medical Laboratory Placement 1
  • FSH201 Blood Banking and Transfusion Sciences
Languages
  • LNG210 Human Pathophysiology

School of Education

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

Outdoor Education Studies
Education
  • EDU101 Advanced Haematology
  • EDU103 Medical Laboratory Placement 2
  • EDU104 Medical Microbiology
  • EDU110 Medical Biochemistry

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Education
  • EDU202 Research in Health Care
  • EDU208 Public Health Foundations
  • EDU307 Quantitative Research Methods
  • EDU340 Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Mathematics
  • MTH302 Health Promotion Principles
Outdoor Education Studies
  • OES240 Health Promotion Needs Assessment and Planning

School of Health and Sport Sciences

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

General Science
  • SCI110 Introduction to Behavioural Health
Health
  • HLT140 Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation
  • HLT150 Health Promotion Settings
Life Sciences
  • LFS100 Health Research Project A
  • LFS103 Health Research Project B
  • LFS112 Engaging Effectively with Aboriginal People
  • LFS122 Health Promotion Professional Learning I (Virtual)
Nutrition and Dietetics
  • NUT101 Health Promotion Professional Learning II
  • NUT102 Advanced Counselling Skills 1: Interpersonal Processes
Public Health
  • PUB102 Counselling and Mental Health
  • PUB104 Ethics and Reflective Practice
  • PUB112 Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Group Work
Sport and Exercise Science
  • SPX101 Expressive Therapies: Counselling with the Creative Arts
  • SPX102 Solution Focused Therapeutic Approaches
  • SPX121 Pluralistic Couple and Family Counselling
Medical Laboratory Science
  • MLS101 Advanced Social Research

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Biomedical Science
  • BIM202 Professional Development 1: Clinical Practice
  • BIM203 Internship 1
  • BIM263 Counselling Children and Young People
  • BIM331 Research Project A
  • BIM341 Internship 2
  • BIM371 Professional Development 2: Grief, Loss and Trauma
Life Sciences
  • LFS202 Counselling and Addictions
  • LFS251 Research Project B
  • LFS262 Professional Experience: Orientation to the Profession
Medical Laboratory Science
  • MLS211 English Language and Literacy
Nutrition and Dietetics
  • NUT201 Science Research Methods
  • NUT203 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
  • NUT205 Assessing Learning
  • NUT212 Professional Experience: Managing Learning Environments
  • NUT232 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
  • NUT301 Professional Experience: The Professional Teacher
  • NUT310 Diversity and Inclusion
  • NUT315 Teacher as Researcher
  • NUT401 Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum
  • NUT402 Professional Experience: Individual Learner Needs
  • NUT404 The Psychology of Learning
  • NUT405 Using Data for Learning
Occupational Therapy
  • OCC201 Teaching Junior Secondary Science 1
  • OCC202 Accounting Fundamentals
  • OCC212 Managerial Finance
  • OCC222 Principles of Economics for Accountants
  • OCC301 Principles of Commercial Law
  • OCC311 Informatics and Financial Applications
  • OCC312 Financial Reporting
  • OCC321 Business Analytics and Statistics
Public Health
  • PUB205 Corporate Reporting
  • PUB210 Strategic Management Accounting
  • PUB252 Taxation Law and Practice
  • PUB262 Legal Regulation of Business Structures
  • PUB271 Contemporary Accounting Issues
  • PUB272 Issues in Auditing Practice
  • PUB351 Research Project
  • PUB361 Exploring Business Research
Sport and Exercise Science
  • SPX201 Accounting for Business
  • SPX202 Information Systems in Organisations
  • SPX203 Communication and Thought
  • SPX211 Economics for Business
  • SPX221 Discovering Management
  • SPX222 Marketing Essentials
  • SPX231 Business Law
  • SPX301 World of Work: Your Pathway to Employment
  • SPX302 Business, Governance and Society
  • SPX306 Network Forensics
  • SPX312 Digital Forensics 2: Advanced concepts in Digital Forensics
  • SPX322 Qualitative Research: Approaches and Practice
  • SPX331 Quantitative Research Methods
  • SPX371 Research/Industry Dissertation 1
  • SRP301
  • SRP321 Communication and Thought †

School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

Health
  • HLT100 Introductory Counselling Skills and Theory
Nursing
  • NUR104 Introduction to Psychology A
  • NUR111 Theories and Systems of Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • NUR121 Introduction to Psychology B
  • NUR131 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
Midwifery
  • HLT100 Academic and Professional Skills: Planning for Success
  • HLT121 ICT for Academic and Professional Applications
  • HLT122 Innovation: Addressing Challenges
Paramedicine

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Health
  • HLT301 Earth's Surface Processes
Nursing
Midwifery
  • HLT201 Science Research Methods
  • HLT203 Plant Diversity and Ecology
  • HLT310 Geographic Information Science and Technology
Paramedicine
  • PAR212 Hydrology and Geomorphology
  • PAR222 Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity and Ecology
  • PAR301 Soil Properties, Processes and Rehabilitation

School of Science and Engineering

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

Animal Ecology
  • ANM103 Weather and Climate
  • ANM104 Statistics with Teeth: Understanding Ecological Data
Engineering
  • ENG101 Advanced Research Methods and Statistics
  • ENG102 Restoration Ecology
  • ENG104 Population Ecology and Genetics
Environmental Science
  • ENS103 Coastal Geomorphology
  • ENS120 K'gari-Fraser Island Field Studies
General Science
  • SCI102 Special Field Studies Topic
  • SCI105 Special Research Project
  • SCI107 Sustainability Project
  • SCI113 Workplace Learning I

Mathematics
  • MTH103 Economics for Business
  • MTH104 Discovering Management

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Animal Ecology
  • ANM201 Marketing Essentials
  • ANM203 Exploring Business Research
  • ANM301 Accounting for Business
  • ANM302 Information Systems in Organisations
Chemistry
  • CHM202 Business Law
  • CHM210 Social Media: Content Curation and Creation
  • CHM300 Creating and Leveraging Digital Products
  • CHM310 World of Work: Your Pathway to Employment
  • CHM311 Fintech Innovations
Engineering
  • CIV201 Bringing Data to Life: Creating, curating and protecting data
  • ENG211 Start-up LaunchLab
  • ENG212 Organisations in the Digital Age
  • MEC200 Business, Governance and Society
  • MEC205 Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Organisations in the Digital Age
  • MEC221 Professional Practice: The Inquiring Teacher
  • MEC225 Teaching Primary School Mathematics
  • MEC226 Teacher as Global Practitioner
  • MEC227 Professional Learning: Pedagogies of Inclusive Practice
  • CIV301 Children’s Literature and Literacy
  • ENG302 Sustainable Teaching Practices: Information and Communication Technologies
  • ENG304 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
  • ENG312 Professional Experience: The Professional Teacher
  • CIV330 Elements of Design
  • CIV340 Fundamentals of Photography
  • MEC300 Drawing Practice
  • MEC301 Introduction to Games Programming
  • MEC302 Art, Design and Visual Culture
  • MEC303 Introduction to Design and Concept
  • MEC335 Design Futures
  • MEC336 Photographic Practice
  • ENG402 The Photographic Portfolio
  • ENG411 Visual Communication & Meaning
  • ENG412 Creative Engagement
  • ENG421 Sensing Environments
  • MEC400 Design Capstone
  • MEC405 Work Integrated Learning Project
Environmental Science
  • ENS204 Work Integrated Learning Placement
  • ENS213 Communication and Thought
  • ENS221 Introduction to Urban Design & Town Planning - Studio I
  • ENS222 The Changing Planet
  • ENS223 An Introduction to Australian and Comparative Politics
  • ENS224 Planning Theory, Governance and Politics
  • ENS242 Property Economics
  • ENS253 Indigenous Wellbeing Foundations
  • ENS254 Introductory Bioscience
  • ENS281 Environment and Health
  • ENS282 Public Health Foundations
  • ENS300 Introduction to Contemporary Global Media and Communication
  • ENS305 Think Health
  • ENS316 Introduction to Behavioural Health
  • ENS317 Health Research and Evidence
  • ENS318 Science Research Methods
  • ENS321 Communication Campaign Planning
  • ENS323 Concepts of Epidemiology
  • ENS324 Health Promotion Settings and Advocacy
  • ENS325 Social Media Communication
  • ENS330 Health Promotion Assessment and Planning
  • ENS333 Health Promotion Principles
  • ENS351 Podcasting and Radio News
  • ENS353 Concepts of Epidemiology
  • ENS371 Social Media: Monitoring and Measurement
General Science
  • SCI202 Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation
  • SCI212 Public Health Practicum
  • SCI302 Communication and Thought
Geography
  • GEO201 Accounting Principles
  • GEO301 Business Analytics
  • GEO302 Introduction to Informatics

Life Sciences
  • LFS252 Introduction to Economics
Biotechnology
  • MBT254 Management and Organisational Behaviour
  • MBT301 Financial Accounting
  • MBT352 Business Finance
  • MBT353 Company Accounting
  • MBT355 Business Law and Ethics
  • MBT361 Law of Business Associations
Mathematics
  • MTH201 Contemporary Accounting Issues
  • MTH203 Auditing and Professional Practice
  • MTH212 Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
  • MTH301 Management Accounting
  • MTH381 Taxation Law and Practice
Workplace Learning
  • WPL310 The ' English' Tradition: An Introduction to Literary Studies †
  • WPL311 Imagined Homelands: An Exploration of Australian Literature †
  • WPL320 Reading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writing †

School of Social Sciences

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

Counselling
  • COU101 The English Language
  • COU180 Wonderworlds: An Exploration of Theory and Fiction
Environment and Planning Studies
  • ENP101 Reality Bites: An Exploration of Non-Fiction
  • ENP103 Editing for the Communication Professional
Geography
  • GEO100 Introduction to International Relations: An Australian Perspective
  • GEO101 Space, place and the Anthropocene
History
  • HIS100 History of Australian popular culture: The nineteenth century and beyond
  • HIS140 Global Citizens: A History of Humanity
Politics and International Studies
  • INT101 Introduction to International Relations and Politics
  • INT102 Global Environmental Politics
Psychology
  • PSY100 Introduction to Psychology A
  • PSY101 Introduction to Psychology B
  • PSY102 Current Directions in Psychology
  • PSY103 Applied Psychology in Health Care
Social and Community Studies
  • SCS101 Foundations of Human Behaviour
  • SCS110 Australian Society: How does(n't) it work? - An Introduction to Sociology
  • SCS130 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
  • SCS140 Introduction to Development Studies
Sustainability
  • SUS101 Foundations of Sustainability - Investigating Planetary Health
Social Work
  • SWK172 Introduction to Social Work and Human Services

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Counselling
  • COU265 Strengths Based Counselling: Collaborative Approaches
Environment and Planning Studies
  • ENP200 Industry Project 1: Urban Design and Town Planning Studies
  • ENP211 Planning and Environmental Law
  • ENP236 Regional Transformation: political and economic geographies
  • ENP245 Landscapes, Place and People
  • ENP255 Public Space Planning and Design - Studio II
  • ENP336 Strategic Infrastructure Planning
  • ENP355 Neighbourhood Planning and Design - Studio III
  • ENP365 Participation and Conflict Resolution
  • ENP411 Advanced Planning Policy and Practice
Geography
  • GEO310 Globalisation, Development and Indigenous Peoples
  • GEO340 Historical Geographies
  • GEO350 Geo-ethics: Plants, Animals and People
  • GEO390 Advanced Geographical Studies
History
  • HIS200 Heritage: Australian and Global Contexts
  • HIS201 The uses and abuses of history
  • HIS210 Explorations in Environmental History
  • HIS240 History of Nationalism and National Identity: 18th Century and Beyond
  • HIS300 Questioning History: Explorations in the Thinking and Practice of History
  • HIS320 Research Project in History
Politics and International Studies
  • INT245 Politics of the USA
  • INT250 Forces of Change in International Politics
  • INT257 Security in a Multispecies World
  • INT274 Politics and Security in East Asia ^
  • INT335 International Relations Theory and Practice
  • INT370 Politics and the Media
Psychology
  • PSY200 Research Methods in Psychology A
  • PSY201 Research Methods in Psychology B
  • PSY202 Physiological Psychology
  • PSY203 Introduction to Human Development
  • PSY204 Social Psychology
  • PSY205 Motivation and Emotion
  • PSY300 Advanced Methods in Psychology
  • PSY301 Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology
  • PSY302 Intercultural and Indigenous Psychologies
  • PSY303 Personality and Assessment
  • PSY304 Human Associative Learning
  • PSY305 Psychological Disorders
  • PSY306 Psychology of Health and Wellbeing
  • PSY307 Adult Development and Ageing
Social and Community Studies
  • SCS201 International Development and Global Justice
  • SCS225 Social Research
  • SCS230 Understanding Society: An Introduction to Social Theory
  • SCS235 Social Justice, Welfare and the State
  • SCS290 Understanding Cultural Diversity
  • SWK251 Working with First Nations Peoples and Multicultural Communities
Sustainability
  • SUS201 Advancing Sustainability: Planet, People and Prosperity
  • SUS202 Communicating Sustainability
  • SUS302 Sustainability Problem Solving
  • SUS310 Sustainability Project
Social Work
  • SWK266
  • SWK277 Working With Children, Youth and Families
  • SWK278 Ethics, Law and the Helping Professions
  • SWK285 Health & Mental Health in Australia
  • SWK286 Disability: Culture, Community and Change
  • SWK302 Community Development and Social Action
  • SWK303 Complexity and Social Work: Group-Based Approaches
  • SWK401 Critical Social Policy Analysis

USC Business School

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

Accounting
  • ACC106 Accounting Principles
General Business
  • BUS101 Exploring Business Research
  • BUS102 Economics for Business
  • BUS104 Discovering Management
  • BUS105 Marketing Essentials
  • BUS106 Accounting for Business
  • BUS108 Information Systems in Organisations
Information Systems
  • ICT110 Introduction to Data Science
  • ICT112 Programming Fundamentals
  • ICT115 Introduction to Systems Design
  • ICT120 Computer Networks
Management
  • MGT130 Managing Supply Chains
Tourism
  • TSM102 The World of Tourism, Leisure and Events

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Accounting
  • ACC210 Financial Accounting
  • ACC211 Business Finance
  • ACC221 Company Accounting
  • ACC310 Management Accounting
  • ACC311 Taxation Law and Practice
  • ACC320 Contemporary Accounting Issues
  • ACC321 Auditing and Professional Practice
Business
  • BUS201 Applied Microeconomics
  • BUS202 Applied Macroeconomics
  • BUS203 Business Law
  • BUS211 Strategic Management
  • BUS303 Money and Banking
  • BUS304 Mathematical Economics
  • BUS306 World of Work: Your Pathway to Employment
  • BUS320 Business, Governance and Society
  • BUS331 Business Internship
Entrepreneurship
  • ENT211 Igniting Entrepreneurial Talent
  • ENT221 Venture Growth and Innovation
  • ENT222 Managing the Social Enterprise
  • ENT311 Start-up LaunchLab
  • ENT321 Venturing in Action
  • ENT322 Social Enterprise Establishment
Finance
  • FIN210 Introduction to Financial Planning
  • FIN220 Retirement and Superannuation
  • FIN221 Risk Management
  • FIN310 Investment Analysis
  • FIN320
  • FIN321
Human Resource Management
  • HRM210 Managing Human Resources
  • HRM211 Leadership for Organisations
  • HRM220 Managing Workplace Relations
  • HRM311 Enabling Team Synergy and Performance
  • HRM312 Learning and Development
  • HRM321 Organisational Change and Agility
International Business
  • IBS210 Introduction to International Business
  • IBS220 Cross-Cultural Management
  • IBS221 Trade and Finance in a Global Economy
  • IBS310 International Marketing
  • IBS320 Managing Global Logistics
  • IBS321 International Business Strategy: Sustainable and Digital Perspectives
Information Systems
  • ICT211 Database Design
  • ICT220 Wireless Communications
  • ICT221 Object-Oriented Programming
  • ICT301 Network Management and Security
  • ICT310 Systems Analysis and Design
  • ICT311 Mobile App Development
  • ICT320 Database Programming
  • ICT321 Architecture and Systems Integration
  • ICT341 ICT Internship
  • ICT342 ICT Industry Project
  • ICT351 ICT Professional Practice
  • ICT352 Project Management
Management
  • MGT233 Managing Retail Operations
  • MGT310 Managing the Small Business
  • MGT325 Managing Quality
  • MGT326 Supply Chain Management
Marketing
Property Economics and Development
  • PED310
  • PED311
  • PED312
  • PED320
  • PED321
  • PED322
Tourism
  • TSM200 Creating and Managing Event Experiences
  • TSM223 Sustainable Tourism, Leisure and Event Management
  • TSM300 Tourism, Sport and Leisure Policy and Planning
  • TSM313 The Innovation and Technology Effect in TLEM
  • TSM315 Running Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (M.I.C.E) industry events

School of Law and Criminology

Introductory level electives
(100 coded)

Criminology
Justice Studies

JST101 Justice and the Australian Legal System

Developing and Graduate level electives
(200, 300 or 400 coded)

Accounting
  • ACC220 Law of Business Associations
Criminology
  • CRM201 Criminal Profiling & Intelligence
  • CRM203 Homicide, Investigations & Forensic Science
  • CRM204 Applied Crime Prevention
  • CRM205 Criminal Law
  • CRM206 Professional Development
  • CRM302 Youth Justice & Restorative Justice
  • CRM304 Professional Ethics and Integrity Management
  • CRM307 Crime Research Methods
  • CRM308 Diversity, Crime and Justice
  • CRM309 Working with Victims and Offenders
  • CRM310 Introduction to Cyber Crime
General Business
Justice Studies
  • JST202 International Justice and Human Rights
Law
  • LAW307 Commercial Law
  • LAW312 Competition and Consumer Law
  • LAW405 Legal Dispute Resolution
  • LAW412 International Human Rights Law
  • LAW415 Sports Law
  • LAW417 Employment Law
  • LAW418 Health Law
  • LAW421
  • LAW440 Honours Research Methods, Design and Confirmation
  • LAW441 Law Honours Thesis