This unit focusses on the principles and tools associated with contemporary Lean thinking and practice. Lean thinking or simply ‘Lean’ is a systematic method of continuous improvement through minimizing waste without sacrificing productivity, creating more value for customers. This unit is aimed at students of all disciplines to form foundations in Lean thinking by eliminating waste, creating knowledge, respecting people, building in quality, visualising practices, and managing workflow.

This unit explores the ability to identify a change requirement or opportunity, objectively analyse and evaluate improvements to solve everyday problems in the dynamic workplace. This unit is aimed at students of all disciplines to develop critical and creative thinking through a range of proven tools and techniques to identify challenges and respond to them in a structured and considered manner. This unit is aimed at students of all disciplines to achieve high-level critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship.

This unit will analyse security, instability and armed conflict in the modern system. Students will conduct an overview of interstate/intrastate war, the application of military power, alliances, nuclear weapons, terrorism, counterinsurgency and humanitarian intervention. This unit is aimed at students seeking to develop understanding of the nature of the global security environment, modern historical examples of armed conflict by both state and non-state actors, and the factors leading to instability and war.

Over half of the world population live in urban areas, with megacities becoming a challenging real-life consideration. This unit will examine the planning for, conduct and operational dynamics of urban operations in the context of modern warfare and review historical examples throughout history. It will focus on what military urban operations achieve; principles for conduct and limitations; and the influence of technology on the conduct of operations in urban areas. This unit is aimed at students seeking to establish a foundation understanding of military operations in modern urban terrain.

This unit will examine the nature, principles and historical foundations of military strategy, including the effects of global political effects, social movements and modern influences. This unit is aimed at students seeking to establish a foundation understanding of military strategy in the global security environment, associated politics and social influences in the international security environment.

This unit will look at the motives and perpetrators of cybercrime as an introduction to Cyber security. Explore how the individuals and organisations face specific threats and examine the security measures to protect physical and digital access through people, infrastructure and computer systems. This unit is aimed at informing students on existent and emergent threats to society and security sector through computer and other digital means.

This unit provides an understanding of how the Australian government formulates national security policy. This unit is for students seeking to examine the strategic challenges facing Australia – the rise of China, US pivot to Asia, military modernisation of our neighbours, and threats from the weak and failing states.

This unit explores contemporary theories on language and culture, considering how our diverse human characteristics influence and shape our own experiences, and those of others. This unit is for students of all disciplines to observe and critique the relationship of intercultural communication as it relates to learning, working, writing, and digital media.

This unit examines challenges and potential cultural diversity in teaching and learning from school to university, including international, transnational education, study of languages, vocational and professional workplace learning. Students will complete this unit with concepts drawn from social, cross-cultural, and cultural psychology; sociology; cultural studies; intercultural relations and communication; and culture-related concepts and ideas, and will be well prepared to promote productive cultural diversity and positive intercultural transformation.

Summary of Learning: The decision to utilise force brings with it many considerations that must be applied in an often-dynamic environment and yet the post use-of-force articulation may be heavily scrutinised in a military context (including through the system of military justice) the civilian justice system and the community. This course will introduce the learner to the moral and ethical considerations of the use of force. This Unit will examine the legal codification of the ethical use of force within civil society and military contexts. Learners will be exposed to decision making practices when faced with use of force issues which reflect ethical practice and the Values and traditions of the Australian Defence Force. The Learning Objective: 1. Develop an understanding of the legal implications of the use of force in different types of operations in different levels of conflict/operations (that all applications of force must be Justified, Excused by Law, and Legally Defensible) 2 . Develop an understanding of the ethical environmental considerations that accompany the decision to use force including the Decision-Making Process - outcomes and risks (the moral dilemma) ;Uncertainty; and the ethical implications 3. Understand historical examples where the legal use of force has been misused.