This unit will canvas the major ethical, moral and legal paradigms of thought within security studies. This unit is for students seeking to evaluate the ethics of the recourse to war, humanitarian intervention, wartime conduct, interrogation and torture, weapons, intelligence and surveillance.

This unit will discuss political issues, institutions, ideas, policies that dominate local, national and international agendas. Students will complete this unit with understanding of the variety of themes and debates influencing politics including democracy, identity, gender, the media, terrorism, policy-making, international conflict and cooperation, and the many faces of power including how it is exercised and contested.

This unit will discuss political issues, institutions, ideas, policies that dominate local, national and international agendas. Students will complete this unit with understanding of the variety of themes and debates influencing politics including democracy, identity, gender, the media, terrorism, policy-making, international conflict and cooperation, and the many faces of power including how it is exercised and contested.

This unit will examine post-modern history from the late 20th Century onwards. This unit is for students seeking to extend their study into how post-modernity manifests in culture and the historical context of these cultural expressions in the 21st Century.

Justice was once thought to be culturally specific; so no general standard of justice applied. Both the idea of an inborn sense of justice and globalisation have played important roles in the development of a general (global) idea of justice. Students of this unit will understand how international aid and the various forms of security are affected by the idea of and demands for global justice.

This unit will seek to determine the threats to, and vulnerabilities of, critical national infrastructure. Evaluate coordination efficacy between levels of government and public and private organisations in relation to natural disasters, chemical incidents and epidemics. This unit is for students to understand the national infrastructure security requirements and vulnerabilities.

This unit will appraise the effectiveness of Australian overseas aid and development policies, and form a picture of key development agencies. It will unpack the motivations behind international aid, and engage in historical and philosophical analyses of the ongoing debates in this field. This unit is for students to understand the policies, intentions, support frameworks, capabilities and capacity of Australian and international aid agencies.

Students of this unit will explore the process of developing Australian government policy. The unit will query the role of the public service and shine a light on dilemmas that can arise through historical lessons. Study will draw on local examples that illustrate the complexity of the policy-making process. This unit is for students of all disciplines to increase awareness of national-level policy making and consequences.

This unit explores the human-machine relationship, advancing understanding of how technological innovation impacts society’s complex infrastructures and human behaviour. This unit explores the design of robotics and artificial intelligence systems that positively support our sociotechnical environment. This unit is for students from all disciplines to establish an understanding of robotics and its possible application across society.

This unit should provide basic skills in Java programming and software design, with no assumed knowledge of programming. It covers the topics of object-oriented (OO) programming concepts, data flow, control flow, arrays, and the basics of sorting and searching algorithms. This unit is for students from all disciplines to establish skills or understanding of a design process using a set of design notations and design rules, and shows how to develop a correct, readable and reusable solution from a problem specification.