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Faculty of Arts, Business and Law undergraduate elective courses

Elective courses

  • Elective courses in your program structure must be completed
  • Elective courses allow you the freedom to tailor your program toward your personal or professional interests
  • Most programs have a restriction on the number of introductory level courses (100 coded) you are allowed to study, so please check your program requirements before selecting elective courses
  • Some courses may also include a compulsory field trip, requiring payment of an additional fee and may be held outside of the regular teaching weeks, ie on weekends or during semester breaks
  • Elective courses may be used to add a major or minor area of study to your program (Faculty of Arts, Business and Law majors and minors or Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering majors and minors)
Introductory level elective courses (100 coded)
CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
ACC106 Introduction to Social Work Practice Theories
BUS101 Justice and the Australian Legal System
BUS102 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
BUS104 Therapeutic Communication Skills
BUS105 Foundations of Human Behaviour
BUS106 Introduction to Social Work and Human Services
BUS108 Group Processes and Practice
ICT110 Australian Society: How does(n't) it work? - An Introduction to Sociology
ICT112 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
ICT115 Introduction to Social Work Practice Theories
ICT120 Social Work Practice in Various Organisational Settings
MGT130 Ethics, Law and the Helping Professions
PED110 Disability: Culture, Community and Change
PED120 Working With Children, Youth and Families
PED121 Direct Practice 1
TSM102 Social Justice, Welfare and the State
Developing and Graduate level elective courses (200, 300 or 400 coded)
CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
ACC210 Mental and Physical Health and Wellbeing
ACC211 Community Development and Social Action
ACC221 Social Work Field Education 1
ACC310 Social Research
ACC311 Working with First Nations Peoples and Multicultural Communities
ACC320 Counselling for Crisis, Trauma and Loss
ACC321 Working with Victims and Offenders
BUS201 Context Responsive Social Work Practice
BUS202 Counselling for Crisis, Trauma and Loss
BUS203 Working with Victims and Offenders
BUS211 Direct Practice 2
BUS301 Critical Social Policy Analysis
BUS320 Social Work Field Education 2
BUS331 Exploring Business Research
ENT211 Marketing Essentials
ENT221 Accounting for Business
ENT222 Communication and Thought
ENT311 Economics for Business
ENT321 Discovering Management
ENT322 Information Systems in Organisations
FIN210 Marketing Communication
FIN220 Marketing for Social Change
FIN221 Business Law
FIN310 Consumer Behaviour
FIN320 Services Marketing
FIN321 World of Work: Your Pathway to Employment
HRM210 Business, Governance and Society
HRM211 Marketing Futures
HRM220 Sports Marketing
HRM311 Building and Managing Brands
HRM312 Communication and Thought
HRM321 Research Foundations
IBS210 Caring for Child, Youth and Family
IBS220 Introductory Bioscience
IBS221 Practice Foundations
IBS310 Health, Culture and Society
IBS320 Anatomy and Physiology
IBS321 Nursing Practicum 1
ICT211 Holistic Health Assessment
ICT220 Cultural Diversity in Nursing and Midwifery
ICT221 Human Pathophysiology
ICT301 Nursing Practicum 2
ICT310 Drug Therapy
ICT311 Health Alteration
ICT320 Nursing Practicum 3
ICT321 Health Law and Ethics
ICT341 Acute Health Alteration
ICT342 Life Crisis - Translating Theory Into Caring Practice
ICT351 The Child Client
ICT352 Challenges to Mental Health
MGT210 Palliative, Rehabilitation and Continuing Care
MGT232 Nursing Practicum 4
MGT233 Caring for the Older Client
MGT310 Nursing Internship
MGT322 Communication and Thought
MGT325 Human Physiology
MGT326 Public Health Foundations
MGT327 Chemistry
MGT328 Cell Biology
MKG210 Introduction to Nutrition
MKG211 Food Studies
MKG212 Food in Society
MKG220 Principles of Nutrition
MKG221 Nutrition Assessment
MKG222 Public Health Nutrition
MKG322 Complementary Approaches to Food and Nutrition
MKG324 Contemporary Issues in Nutrition
PED210 Health Practicum
PED220 Workplace Learning I
PED310 Foundations of Australian Law A
PED311 Criminal Law and Procedure A
PED312 Torts A
PED320 Contracts A
PED321 Foundations of Australian Law B
PED322 Criminal Law and Procedure B
TSM211 Torts B
TSM221 Contracts B
TSM223 Property A
TSM313 Constitutional Law
TSM314 Equity & Trusts
TSM315 Property B
Introductory level elective courses (100 coded)
CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
CMN102 Corporations Law
CMN103 Civil Procedure
CMN104 Administrative Law
CMN105 Evidence
CMN116 Professional Conduct
CMN117 Regulation
CMN120 Corporate Finance
CMN130 Marketing Management
CMN140 Innovation and Management Decision Making
CMN150 International Trade and Finance
COR109 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
DES101 Project Integration
DES102 Managing Research
DES103 Leading and Managing Organisations
DES104 Strategic Management
DES105 Accounting for Managers
DES106 Economics for Managers
DRA100 Research Project
DRA102 Innovation and Management Decision Making
EGL120 International Trade and Finance
IND110 Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation
IND111 Project Integration
ITL110 Leadership in Clinical Practice
ITL111 Learning and Teaching in the Practice Environment
JPN110 Research in Health Care
JPN111 Qualitative Research: Approaches and Practice
LNG110 Quantitative Research Methods
MUS100 Simulation in Practice Education
MUS101 Community and Primary Health Care
SGD100 Co-ordinating Care in Community and Primary Care Contexts
SGD101 Infant Care
SGD102 Responding in the Emergency Context
SGD103 Coordinating Complex Emergency Situations
SGD120 Global Emergency Issues
Developing and Graduate level elective courses (200, 300 or 400 coded)
CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
ART200 Professional Internship
CMN200 Independent Study
CMN201 Mental Health Contexts of Care
CMN202 Assessment in Mental Health
CMN203 Advanced Health Assessment
CMN213 Special Project: Evaluating Practice Knowledge
CMN216 Special Project: Translating Knowledge into Practice
CMN222 Research Project A
CMN224 Research Project B
CMN226 Research Project C
CMN228 Research Project F
CMN231 Elements of Design
CMN235 Fundamentals of Photography
CMN237 Drawing Practice
CMN240 Introduction to Games Programming
CMN243 Art, Design and Digital Culture
CMN246 Design Methods
CMN247 Design Futures
CMN248 Introduction to Interactive Media
CMN249 Responsive Design and Wearable Technologies
CMN251 Creative Engagement
CMN252 Creative and Interactive Advertising
CMN253 Interactive Technologies and Environments
CMN260 Design Capstone
CMN266 Work Integrated Learning Project
CMN273 Work Integrated Learning Placement
CMN275 Human Development and Learning
CMN276 Professional Experience: Play and Pedagogy in Early Learning
CMN277 Foundations of Numeracy
CMN300 English Language and Literacy
CMN302 Teaching with Technology
CMN303 Engagement and Behaviour in Early Learning
CMN304 Professional Experience: Communities and Partnerships
CMN305 Creative Expression and Play through the Arts
CMN306 Sustainability Through Play and Pedagogy
CMN307 Professional Experience: Learning Theories in Early Learning
CMN308 Teaching Science in the Early Years
CMN311 Teaching Arts in the Early Years
CMN320 Teaching Mathematics in the Early Years
CMN351 Teaching English: Curriculum and Pedagogy
CMN352 Professional Experience: Evidence Based Decision Making in Early Learning
DES204 Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
DES205 Teaching HPE in the Early Years
DES206 Inclusive Practices and Intervention in Early Learning
DES211 Assessing Learning
DES212 Professional Experience: Curriculum Approaches and Pedagogies
DES213 Professional Experience: Differentiated Practice
DES214 Teaching Science in Primary Schools
DES215 Teaching Reading and Writing
DES216 Teaching English: Language, Literature and Literacy
DES221 Teaching HASS in Primary School
DES222 Leadership and Advocacy in Early Learning
DES223 Teaching Primary School Mathematics
DES224 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Learning and Teaching
DES225 Professional Experience: Teacher Identity and Professional Practice
DES226 Teacher as Researcher
DES231 Using Data for Learning
DES232 Reflective Practices in Early Learning
DES233 Contexts of Practice: Mental Health Care
DES234 Anatomy and Physiology
DES235 Contexts of Practice: The Older Person and Family
DES236 Introduction to Practice Competencies in Nursing
DES301 Contexts of practice: child, youth and family
DES302 Preparation for Practice 2
DRA202 Drug Therapy
DRA203 Contexts of Practice: Health Alteration
DRA204 Nursing Practice 2
DRA206 Health Law and Ethics
DRA301 Preparation for Practice 3
DRA305 Contexts of Practice: Complex Care
EGL201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety
EGL205 Nursing Practice 3
EGL206 Preparation and Nursing Practice 4
EGL285 Leadership in Clinical Practice
IND210 Nursing Internship
IND211 Communication and Thought
IND212 Management and Organisational Behaviour
IND220 Introduction to Data Science
IND221 Creative Problem Solving with Programming
IND222 Business Analytics
IND223 Accounting for Business
IND310 Introduction to Systems Design
IND311 Introduction to Telecommunications and Networks
INT202 ICT Project Management
ITL200 ICT Professional Practice
ITL201 ICT Internship
ITL210 ICT Industry Project
ITL211 Communication and Thought
ITL310 Research Foundations
ITL311 Environment and Health
JPN200 Public Health Foundations
JPN201 Think Health
JPN210 Introductory Bioscience
JPN211 Introduction to Behavioural Health
JPN212 Health Promotion Principles
JPN310 Environmental Health Risk Management
JPN311 Science Research Methods
LGL301 Introduction to Sociology: Society, Culture and Change
MUS200 Leadership and Team Dynamics
MUS201 Health Promotion Needs Assessment and Planning
MUS202 Introduction to Indigenous Australia
MUS203 Concepts of Epidemiology
MUS301 Health Promotion Settings
SGD200 Health Promotion Implementation and Evaluation
SGD202 Health Practicum
SGD211 Public Health Project
SGD213 Epidemiology and Biostatistics
SGD214 Communication and Thought
SGD230 Cell Biology
SGD240 Science Research Methods
SGD304 Introduction to Sport and Exercise Science
SGD305 Human Physiology
 
Introductory level elective courses (100 coded)
CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
CRM101 Human Anatomy
CRM102 Introduction to Coaching Science
CRM103 Chemistry
CRM105 Introduction to Sports Medicine
JST101 Functional Anatomy
Developing and Graduate level elective courses (200, 300 or 400 coded)

LAW coded courses listed below are only available to students enrolled in a Law program.

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
ACC220 Introduction to Mathematics
BUS203 Mathematics Foundations
CRM201 Biomechanics I
CRM202 Exercise Physiology I
CRM203 Endangered Animals and their Conservation
CRM204 Introduction to Environmental Management
CRM301 Outdoor Living and Travel Skills
CRM302 Leading Groups in Outdoor Environments
CRM303 Creative Production
CRM304 Playing with Genre
CRM305 Exploring Twentieth Century Theatre
HRM221 Introduction to the Creative Industries
JST202 Introduction to Screen and Media Industries
LAW307 Playing with Words: an Introduction to Creative Writing Craft
LAW310 Performance 1
LAW311 Creative Writing for the Illustrated Book
LAW312 Writing the Short Story
LAW318 Writing for Children and Young Adults
LAW407 Writing Poetry
LAW408 Creative Writing and Editing for Publication
LAW414 Work Integrated Learning Project
LAW415 Work Integrated Learning Placement
LAW416 Writing Your Novel
LAW417 Running Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (M.I.C.E) industry events
LAW418 Immunology
LAW419 Systemic Physiology I
LAW420 Science Research Methods
LGL201 Biochemical Pharmacology
LGL301 Pharmaceutical and Food Microbiology
PED222 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Honours courses
CourseSemester of offer
(Sunshine Coast) 		UnitsRequisites
LAW440 Introduction to Pharmacology
LAW441 Systemic Physiology II
 
Introductory level elective courses (100 coded)
CourseSemester of offer
(Sunshine Coast) 		UnitsRequisites
COU101 Clinical Embryology
COU180 Microbial Pathogenesis
ENP101 Analytical Sciences
ENP103 Special Research Project
GEO100 Workplace Learning I
GEO101 Special Research Project
HIS100 Workplace Learning II
HIS140 Accounting Principles
INT100 Business Analytics
INT140 Introduction to Economics
PSY100 Introduction to Management
PSY101 Introduction to Marketing
PSY102 Accounting for Business
PSY103 Introduction to Informatics
SCS101 Introduction to Data Science
SCS110 Creative Problem Solving with Programming
SCS130 Introduction to Systems Design
SCS140 Introduction to Computer Networks
SUS101 Supply Chain Management
SWK172 Building Studies 1
Developing and Graduate level elective courses (200, 300 or 400 coded)
CourseSemester of offer
(Sunshine Coast) 		UnitsRequisites
COU265 Property Economics
ENP200 Building Studies 2
ENP211 Introduction to Tourism, Leisure and Events
ENP236 Financial Accounting
ENP245 Business Finance
ENP255 Company Accounting
ENP311 Management Accounting
ENP336 Taxation Law and Practice
ENP355 Neighbourhood Planning and Design - Studio III
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
12Pre: ENP255
Anti: ENP704
ENP365 Participation and Conflict Resolution
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
12 
ENP411 Advanced Planning Policy and Practice
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
12 
GEO310 Globalisation, Development and Indigenous Peoples
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12Anti: GEO210 or GEO700
GEO340    
GEO350 Geo-ethics: Plants, Animals and People
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
GEO390 Advanced Geographical StudiesNot currently offered12Pre: Course Coordinator Consent Required
HIS200 Heritage: Australian and Global Contexts
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
HIS201 The uses and abuses of history
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
HIS210 Explorations in Environmental History
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12 
HIS240 History of Nationalism and National Identity: 18th Century and Beyond
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12 
HIS300 Questioning History: Explorations in the Thinking and Practice of History
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
HIS301    
HIS320 Research Project in History
  • Sunshine Coast: Not Currently Offered
  • Moreton Bay: Not Currently Offered
  • Online: Not Currently Offered
12Pre: Course Coordinator Consent Required and History Major or final year of study
Anti: HIS220
INT230    
INT235    
INT245 Politics of the USA
  • Sunshine Coast: Not Currently Offered
  • Online: Not Currently Offered
12 
INT250 Forces of Change in International Politics
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
INT257 Security in a Multispecies World
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12 
INT270    
INT274 Politics and Security in East Asia
  • Sunshine Coast: Not Currently Offered
12 
INT276    
JST202 International Justice and Human Rights
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12Pre: Any 2 courses or enrolled in Program AR505 or AR605
PSY200 Research Methods in Psychology A
  • Sunshine Coast: Not Currently Offered
  • Moreton Bay: Not Currently Offered
12Pre: PSY100 and PSY101
PSY201 Research Methods in Psychology B
  • Sunshine Coast: Not Currently Offered
  • Moreton Bay: Not Currently Offered
12Pre: PSY100 and PSY101
PSY202 Physiological Psychology
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
12Pre: PSY100 and PSY101
PSY203 Introduction to Human Development
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
12Pre: (PSY100 and PSY101 and enrolled in AB314, AB315, AB302, AR364, AR374, AR375, AR405, SA306, SA307, SB304, SC308 or Psychology major) or (PSY100 and PSY101 and enrolled in SC440) or (PSY100 and OCC100 and enrolled in program SC440).
PSY204 Social Psychology
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
12Pre: PSY100 and PSY101
PSY205 Motivation and Emotion
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
12Pre: PSY100 and PSY101
PSY300 Advanced Methods in Psychology
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
12Pre: (PSY200 and PSY201) or PSY207
PSY301 Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
12Pre: (PSY200 and PSY201) or PSY207
PSY302 Intercultural and Indigenous Psychologies
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
12Pre: (PSY200 and PSY201) or PSY207
PSY303 Personality and Assessment
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
12Pre: (PSY200 and PSY201) or PSY207
PSY304 Human Associative Learning
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
12Pre: (PSY200 and PSY201) or PSY207 or (PSY200 and SCI110 and enrolled in AE304 or SE303)
PSY305 Psychological Disorders
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
12Pre: (PSY200 and PSY201) or PSY207
PSY306 Psychology of Health and Wellbeing
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
12Pre: PSY207 or (PSY200 and PSY201) or (PSY200 and SCI110 and enrolled in Program AE304 or SE303)
PSY307 Adult Development and Ageing
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
12Pre: (PSY200 and PSY201) or PSY207
SCS201 International Development and Global Justice
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
SCS204    
SCS205    
SCS210    
SCS216    
SCS225 Social Research
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Fraser Coast: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12Pre: Any 2 courses or enrolled in Program AR707 or AR708
SCS230 Understanding Society: An Introduction to Social Theory
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
SCS235 Social Justice, Welfare and the State
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Fraser Coast: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12 
SCS251    
SCS290 Understanding Cultural Diversity
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12Pre: Any 2 courses
SCS295    
SUS201 Advancing Sustainability: Planet, People and Prosperity
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1
12 
SUS202 Communicating Sustainability
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12 
SUS302 Sustainability Problem Solving
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12Pre: 2 SUS coded courses including SUS101
SUS310    
SWK266    
SWK277 Working With Children, Youth and Families
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1
  • Moreton Bay: Session 5, Semester 1
  • Fraser Coast: Session 5
12Anti: SCS277
SWK278 Ethics, Law and the Helping Professions
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1, Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1, Semester 2
  • Fraser Coast: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1, Semester 2
12Anti: SCS278
SWK285    
SWK286 Disability: Culture, Community and Change
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1, Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 1, Semester 2
  • Fraser Coast: Semester 1
  • Online: Semester 1, Semester 2
12Anti: SCS286
SWK302 Community Development and Social Action
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Semester 2
  • Fraser Coast: Semester 2
  • Online: Semester 2
12 
SWK303    
SWK401 Critical Social Policy Analysis
  • Sunshine Coast: Semester 1, Semester 2
  • Moreton Bay: Session 5, Semester 1, Semester 2
  • Fraser Coast: Session 5
12Pre: (SCS235 and (SWK300 or SWK301)) OR (SWK300 or SWK301 and enrolled in AR363)

  

* This course runs in alternate even years
^ This course runs in alternate odd years