Subjects overview
This program can be completed in 2 years (6 semesters)
Core Curriculum
Students must complete three (3) subjects plus the Beyond Bond Program.
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CORE11-011: Critical Thinking and Communication (10CP)
In this subject, students will be introduced to critical thinking and clear expression. They will evaluate arguments, identify assumptions, judge patterns of inference, and recognise and apply various methods of reasoning. Students will learn how to clarify and visually represent their thinking to make better decisions, evaluate and use evidence, and communicate more effectively in their writing and speaking. Using these skills, students will structure and write an academic essay and deliver an oral presentation.
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CORE11-012: Responsibility, Integrity and Civic Discourse (10CP)
Integrity, and the courage and capability to act on one’s sense of responsibility, are key components of a thriving life. Responsibility, Integrity and Civic Discourse fosters students’ lifelong commitment to responsible discourse and action in all spheres of human interaction, recognising the global aspect to contemporary citizenship. Students explore the complex relationship between character, responsible action, and creative critical thinking, learning how to reflect on and articulate their unique sense of global citizenship and responsibility. By accentuating the importance of justification and articulation of the reasons for our actions, students exercise their critical, communicative, and cooperative capabilities so that they can thrive with integrity in the multiple contexts of action they will face as private, civic, professional, and global citizens.
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CORE11-013: Collaboration for Global Change (10CP)
In today's work and study environments, individuals often encounter complex, open-ended problems that necessitate collaboration in both physical and virtual realms and across sectors and specialisations. In Collaboration for Global Change, students engage collaboratively to craft genuine solutions for global issues. In this context, students link their endeavours to specific sustainable development goals, thus positioning their actions as contributions to global citizenship. As they learn to defend their ideas and perspectives, students apply critical thinking, design thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills within a problem-based learning environment. This comprehensive approach equips them with the necessary skills and mindset to excel in future work, academic pursuits, and global initiatives.
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Beyond Bond Program
To keep up with the ever-changing work landscape, we aim to help our students future-proof their careers by developing broader employability skills that are actively sought out by employers. Unique to our University, Beyond Bond is a compulsory professional development program with a practical, activity-based approach that is integrated into all undergraduate degrees.
Required Subjects
Students must complete the following ninety credit points (90CP) of subjects.
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BMED12-123: Global Health Issues (10CP)
This subject focusses on issues of global health in the 21st century. It includes examining public health approaches that are practical and effective in the context of developing countries compared and contrasted to those that may be applicable in developed countries including Australia.
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ENGL12-106: World Literature (10CP)
This subject focuses on the power of literature to grow empathy and to increase our understanding of different conceptions of human life. You will explore key texts which, although created in specific cultural and geographical locations for a local audience, have transcended those boundaries. These texts are being read in the global village, in multiple languages, in times different from their authorship. The investigation of these texts will give you an opportunity to understand the value of learning the myriad ways with which the human experience is depicted in literature. Furthermore, analysing how literary features, such as translation, impact our understanding of the world described in these stories, will enhance your capabilities as global citizens. The subject aims to develop a greater awareness of how studying world literature can create new, more responsible understandings of humanity.
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GLBE11-100: Climate Change and the Future World (10CP)
Understanding how the planet works has never been more important as a topic in tertiary education. A practical understanding of that and how it can affect humanity is vital. This knowledge will be required to combat climate change through all career structures. Understanding climate change is now as important as learning how the economy, the legal system and how our national and international society works because it will affect all of these in the future. This subject will introduce you to climate change through Earth and Global Systems, climate mechanisms, ocean and atmospheric interactions and changes in the future world. In this subject, the climate change complexity is explained within the realm of general undergraduate knowledge. We will discuss current and future outcomes of climate change together with climate processes, human activity, impacts on biodiversity, the oceans and biological extinction. Major issues arising include drought, desertification, rising heat, natural disasters and loss of habitats and habitable and agricultural areas. Increasing sea levels and severe weather events will impact human habitation, cause forced migration, food production and the loss of animals, fish, and their habitats. All these issues will challenge the world’s economic systems, political boundaries, global communities, international law, geopolitical boundaries and our philosophy towards others and the natural world. Forced population movement and migrations caused by sea level rise as well as changes in disease patterns will compound these problems, particularly with a growing world population. The subject will provide you with the ability to filter out misinformation about the causes and consequences of climate change, and how you can face your future with a greater understanding of how to tackle a changing world.
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INTR12-230: Terrorism (10CP)
Terrorism is recognised as an irregular form of global conflict and a central concern of national and international politics. Terrorism affects all the complex elements of international relations, including trade, economics, information transfers, culture and religion. Understanding terrorism requires an interdisciplinary approach, and this subject equips you with the theoretical frameworks to analyse the motivations and transnational nature of this phenomenon. The subject also provides you with an overview of the strategies deployed by states and institutions to combat this lethal form of political activism.
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INTR13-309: Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (10CP)
Diplomacy: Theory and Practice provides you with a rigorous understanding of conceptual and practical issues relating to modern diplomacy. You will learn about diplomacy and get to practice diplomacy, via a range of innovative, authentic and diverse negotiation exercises. The aims of this subject are twofold and unique: to allow you to put theory into practice and to encourage you to think and act like diplomats.
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INTR13-313: Contemporary Globalisations (10CP)
This subject introduces you to contemporary formulations of international relations, the global system and related institutions. Beginning with an overview of the existing approaches to globalisation and International Relations, you will examines the role of multilateral institutions in providing frameworks for global and regional governance. Various United Nations agencies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the African Union (AU), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other groups have been increasingly involved in addressing non-traditional security challenges including climate change, transnational crime and weapons proliferation. In this subject, you will explore alternative approaches to power, globalisation, environmental diplomacy, the role of strategic and political cultures, and new ‘world order’ transitions.
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LING11-102: World Languages (10CP)
World Languages introduces you to a fascinating world of human languages. This innovative subject prepares you for the challenges of language learning and explores how languages are interconnected with communities and their cultures. You will investigate why we all sound differently and how the languages we speak condition our world view. You will also learn reasons for potential difficulties with learning languages and the phenomenal advantages of learning an additional language. The subject provides you with a unique opportunity to explore and sample languages offered by the Faculty of Society and Design. This language education subject can either be taken as an introduction to learning the language of your choice, or as an elective. The subject aims to reinforce your love and enthusiasm for languages, the way they express cultures and help us become global citizens.
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MGMT12-201: International Business (10CP)
International Business is a theoretical and practical introduction to the issues and complexities associated with doing business across borders. Business increasingly operates in an international context, either as a seller or buyer of services or merchandise. Knowledge of how business operates across borders is an essential element in the management of both small and large enterprises. The subject has an entrepreneurial focus. Key topics include frameworks for international environmental assessment, international strategic choices, modes of entry, and business functions and their application consistent with strategy.
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SSUD11-102: Sustainable Development and Society (10CP)
This subject introduces students to the principles, theory and practice of sustainable development and its role in our society. It provides an insight into the key underpinning fundamentals of ecology, natural environment and the built environment before illustrating how they can be put into practice in areas such as the environment, cities and urban development, construction, architecture, property and urban planning.
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International Relations Option
Students must choose ten credit points (10CP) of the following subjects.
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INTR11-100: Introduction to International Relations (10CP)
This subject introduces you to the basic concepts and theoretical approaches in International Relations, and it forms the essential foundation for further explorations of the field. Introduction to International Relations provides you with a framework for the analysis of contemporary international affairs. You will learn a theoretical foundation that allows you to investigate and analyse specific matters in international relations such as war and peace, the state and nationalism, sovereignty and intervention, non-state actors, and human security.
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INTR11-101: Geopolitics (10CP)
Geopolitics, traditionally the study of power relations across geographic space, has transformed to embrace the cyber domain, astropolitics, and the geopolitics of sustainability. This subject introduces you to classical themes of sea power and the return of great power rivalry, and critical issue areas such as the geopolitical impacts of climate change and resource competition. You will examine geostrategies employed by global and regional actors, including China, the United States, and Russia across global regions, through the lens of geopolitical theory. This analytical approach is accompanied by historical and regional-cultural contexts, providing you with knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of contemporary geopolitical challenges.
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Sustainable Development Option
Students must choose ten credit points (10CP) of the following subjects.
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SDUP12-201: Land Use and Infrastructure Development (10CP)
Land use and infrastructure are important elements that shape city development. There is a need for integration of land uses and infrastructure, and systematic development of key sites in cities for building sustainable cities. Cities also require management of land use conflicts and building disaster resilience through proactive land use planning. This subject provides an overview of land use, site development and infrastructure planning processes with a focus on land use and infrastructure integration, land use conflicts and disaster resilience. Through place-based practical exercises, the students will learn to conduct land use and site analysis for a parcel of land and formulate development options.
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SSUD11-105: Land Economy and the Environment (10CP)
Issues relating to land economy and the environment underpin sustainable development. Land is both a vital resource and an environmental asset. The subject's focus is on human relationships with land and environment, supply and demand, land and environmental market structures and the management of land as a scarce resource. This subject uses case studies to illustrate the integration and conflict between the land economy and development.
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SSUD11-108: Walkable and Bikeable: Healthy Lifestyle Cities (10CP)
Some of the world’s most desirable cities and urban quarters are known for being walkable and bike-friendly. The reputations of cities such as Copenhagen, Amsterdam and central Melbourne are based on decades of efforts to improve conditions for walking and cycling. In a world where obesity rates are skyrocketing, incidental physical activity through active transportation can help to reduce the health impacts of air pollution, congestion and social isolation, while at the same time benefitting economic vitality, lifestyle and community development. This subject examines exemplars in the literature as well as exploring these ideas on the ground through experiential one-day and half-day field trips in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
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Capstone Option
Students must choose ten credit points (10CP) of the following subjects.
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FSDO13-700: Internship A (10CP)
Faculty of Society & Design Internships are specifically designed to develop practical knowledge of the working environment and are available to high achieving students who have completed the required pre-requisites together with major studies in a discipline area.
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SSUD13-300: Capstone Project (10CP)
This subject provides an opportunity to undertake an inter-disciplinary group investigation of an urban development and/or environmental management project, bringing together each student’s understanding of development of a project brief, project implementation and final reporting and evaluation of a real world project.
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Major
Students must complete one (1) of the following Majors (60CP).
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Cyber Security
The digital transformation of society offers rewards and risks. Cybersecurity is the knowledge and practice of securing the benefits while minimising the risks of networked computing devices and software for personal, group, organisational, governmental, economic, and international functions. This transdisciplinary major offers students a range of knowledge and practical approaches for managing cybersecurity in business, law, crime, international relations, and a wide range of social applications.
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Digital Media
The Digital Media major equips learners with a holistic approach to critically reflect and analyse new innovations and solutions as they relate to emerging digital media design methods and the changing job market due to disruptive technological change. Students will accumulate a diverse and coherent body of knowledge focused on the understanding and application of digital design methods, standards and industry best practices to develop a collaborative problem-solving strategy. Using an integrated approach (combining theory with workplace practice), students will be enabled to skilfully communicate design solutions outcomes to complex problems; through effective oral, written and visual communication techniques.
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Global Business
Immerse yourself in our engaging Global Business major, designed specifically for the Bachelor of Global Studies (Sustainability) program. Through this major, you will have the opportunity to explore strategic concepts, ethical leadership, cross-cultural management, and international marketing. Develop essential skills to navigate the intricacies of the global business landscape, foster responsible decision-making, and embrace cross-cultural diversity. The Global Business studies complement your foundation studies in global studies and sustainability, empowering you to make a meaningful impact in a diverse and interconnected world, driving positive change for a sustainable future.
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International Relations
The major in International Relations provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex and rapidly changing world of international politics. The Major covers vital areas of study such as geopolitics, political economy, and the dynamics of peace and war. It equips students with the analytical tools necessary to understand and influence the world around them, preparing them for various careers in diplomacy, government, international organisations, non-profits, and the private sector.
General Electives
Students must choose thirty credit points (30CP) of general electives.
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University Undergraduate Electives
Students may choose from all Undergraduate subjects across the University that are available as general electives.
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