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Learn quantitative skills in exploratory data analysis, estimation and hypothesis testing, factor and regression analysis, discriminant analysis and forecasting. Gain practical experience using statistical software packages such as SPSS and SAS

Graduate Certificate of Applied Statistics

Focus on a conceptual approach to astronomy and the 'big questions' without needing a mathematical background. Graduates find opportunities working in observatories, science centres and museums, science and astronomy education and public outreach.

Graduate Certificate of Science (Astronomy)

Immerse yourself in deeper study of writing genres. Survey writing trends, media and new practices. Graduates with advanced traditional and electronic writing skills are in demand across many different industries.

Master of Writing

Explore global contemporary security threats including cybercrime, violent extremism, and radicalisation. By understanding the issues and developing skills to respond, you’ll be ready for roles in policy, immigration, and national security.

Bachelor of Social Science with a Major in Security and Counter Terrorism

Explore the social causes and consequences of crime. You’ll cover topics including policing, corrections, and cybercrime. Take your skills into the world, working behind the scenes in policy, or on the ground with at-risk youth and offenders.

Bachelor of Social Science with a Major in Criminology

Investigate issues in contemporary Australian society, zooming in on the behaviour and social interaction of individuals and groups. By understanding personality and predicting behaviour, you’ll be prepped for careers in support services and more.

Bachelor of Social Science with a Major in Behavioural Studies

Develop global diplomacy skills including conflict resolution and critical thinking, and explore the powers of the United Nations. Through the lens of Australian politics and foreign policy, you’ll study topics including terrorism and human rights.

Bachelor of Social Science with a Major in Security and International Relations

This accredited degree is the first step in becoming a professional psychologist. Study statistics, research methods, personality, and abnormal psychology. Work in health and allied industries, or keep studying towards a psychologist qualification.

Bachelor of Psychological Sciences

Become a highly valued communications professional. With skills including writing, content creation, events management, and strategic planning, you’ll be ready to run PR programs and campaigns for businesses, not-for-profits, and government.

Bachelor of Media and Communication with a Major in Public Relations

Take in the fundamentals of media studies, then explore the evolution of print, broadcast and digital media. You’ll learn how to create content and manage social media, preparing you for professional media roles in the communications industry.

Bachelor of Media and Communication with a Major in Media Studies

Journalism

Exploring the Solar System

Real Life Writing

Research for Writers

Race, Ethnicity and Migration

Writing for Digital Media

Basic Statistical Computing Using R

Critical Friends: The Real and Virtual Support of Writers

Galaxies and their Place in the Universe

Statistical Practice 1

Criticise statistics. Carry out independent investigations and order and group data. Describe and display data relationships. Recognise data limits and assumptions using specific statistical methods. Make decisions about means and variables. 

Foundations of Statistics

Marketing Insights

From the initial idea through to delivery and distribution, walk through the steps required to rollout new products and services. Explore the role of digital technology. Improve the customer experience. Learn how to plan and implement a launch.

Marketing and Innovation

Unpack the way that individuals and groups interact within society. Examine individuals, groups and communities to develop an understanding of research methods, critical evaluation and contemporary issues in social psychology. 

Social Psychology

Line up and calculate statistical modelling for a range of research designs. Examine how analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression methods are used to assess experimental and observational research data. Interpret results and write reports.

Analysis of Variance and Regression

Assign yourself a research project addressing the fundamentals of psychological measurement. Learn how to develop psychological scales. Dig into professional psychology writing practices. Design a program that will develop and validate new measures.

Psychology Project

Attain a view of how human minds and bodies develop. Step through the stages of physical growth, from infancy to childhood then adulthood. Apply an understanding of cognitive development. Consider the impact socio-emotional factors may have.

Developmental Psychology

Investigate the field of cognition and the methods psychologists use to study performance.
Sort through the contents of the mind and determine how they relate to human behaviour. Address how the brain deals with memory, language and problem-solving.

Cognition and Human Performance

Take learning, narrative and psychoanalytic approaches to studying personality. Look deep into the unconscious. Learn how early childhood experiences can shape personality traits. Gain an understanding of how personality disorders are characterised.

Psychology of Personality

Get practical, innovative and creative as you learn to tackle business problems. Apply ethical and sustainable thinking in local and global contexts. Consider the impact of the three Ps that govern an organisation: people, planet and profit.

Advanced Innovation Business Practice

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