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623 results in the 2027 handbookScience
  1. EAE2011Environmental problem solving and visualisation

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsScience

    This unit will provide you with the ability to solve a wide-ranging set of common problems in environmental and climate science. Through practical problem solving it will introduce quantitative methods and techniques used in environmental...

    Semester 1Clayton

  2. ENV1800Environmental science: A Southeast Asian perspective

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    UnitLevel 16 credit pointsScience

    This unit introduces you to the tropical environments of Southeast Asia from coral reefs and mangrove swamps to lowland rain forests and mountains. It explores the flora, fauna, climate, biogeography and ecosystems of the region. A...

    Semester 2Malaysia

  3. ENS5920Environment and sustainability project

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    UnitLevel 512 credit pointsScience

    This 12 credit point unit enables you to undertake an applied project in environment and sustainability during the advanced practice year of the course. It provides an opportunity to pursue a contained research topic, in an applied manner,...

    Semester 1Semester 2Clayton

  4. IMM3802Essentials of applied immunology

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    This unit aims to introduce you to some fundamental aspects of immunology. It reviews the normal immune response to foreign antigens and how it provides defence against microorganisms, and also the pathogenesis and diagnosis of disorders...

    Semester 2Malaysia

  5. GEN3062Evolutionary and ecological genetics

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    Biodiversity which encompasses the genetic diversity found in single populations to the global distribution of species and their interactions is the outcome of evolutionary processes. Whether your primary interests lean towards ecology and...

    Semester 2Clayton

  6. BIO3020Evolutionary ecology

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    This unit introduces key concepts in evolutionary ecology, equipping you with research and communication skills, and knowledge of how evolution shapes ecological processes. The unit commences with a refresher of fundamental definitions of...

    Semester 1Clayton

  7. BIO2181Evolution of plant diversity

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsScience

    This unit examines the diversity of plant life, how plants evolved and how they live and grow. Topics cover evolutionary theory, the interpretation and use of phylogenetic trees in biodiversity research, plant form and function, and plant...

    Semester 1Clayton

  8. PHY3072Exercise physiology

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    The unit addresses the physiological responses to exercise, in particular, muscle energy supply and consumption, metabolism and fatigue. You will extend your understanding of these responses to the adaptions of exercise training and the...

    Semester 2Clayton

  9. DEV3011Experimental developmental biology and disease modelling

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    This unit introduces you to the concepts and experimental systems in developmental biology. How gene expression is regulated during development and thereby leads to the development of differentiated cells and tissues is considered....

    Semester 1Clayton

  10. PHS3000Experimental physics

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    In this unit, you will perform advanced laboratory experiments designed to broaden your experimental skills and physics knowledge. Tuition is provided for the following skills: writing research-grade laboratory notebooks, preparing concise...

    Semester 1Semester 2Clayton

  11. HUP2032Exploring human disease and pathology diagnostics

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsScience

    The cells and organs of the human body work together to regulate our internal environment; a process known as homeostasis. Despite influences from our external environment, homeostasis ensures that a delicate internal balance is...

    Semester 2Clayton

  12. BAS5515Facilitating systemic change

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    UnitLevel 56 credit pointsScience

    Systemic change needs sustained, creative, future-oriented collaboration among diverse actors. Facilitation is fundamental to this. Effective facilitators build trust and relationships and enable productive sharing, quality decision-making...

    Semester 2Clayton

  13. EAE2532Field geology and geological mapping

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    UnitLevel 26 credit pointsScience

    The goal of this unit is to provide you with they key skills required to collect and analyse structural, lithological and stratigraphic data in the field, including how to construct and analyse geological maps. Relevant theoretical and...

    Semester 2Clayton

  14. PHS1022Fields and quantum physics

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    UnitLevel 16 credit pointsScience

    This unit forms part of mainstream physics. You will study the foundations of rotational dynamics, the gravitational field, electrostatics, magnetism and quantum physics. Together these topics underpin interactions in our universe at...

    Semester 2Clayton

  15. MTH3251Financial mathematics

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    You will use the concept of random variables and their uses as models of uncertain future payoffs. An important concept for analysis is the conditional expectation. Special attention is given to normal distribution and multivariate normal...

    Semester 1Semester 2Clayton

  16. MTH4251Financial mathematics

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    UnitLevel 46 credit pointsScience

    You will use the concept of random variables and their uses as models of uncertain future payoffs. An important concept for analysis is the conditional expectation. Special attention is given to normal distribution and multivariate normal...

    Semester 1Semester 2Clayton

  17. MTH3360Fluid dynamics

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    Fluid flows are all around us, from waves on the beach to microorganisms navigating their environment, and mathematics allows us to make precise and useful predictions about how they behave. In this unit you will develop mathematical tools...

    Semester 1Clayton

  18. MTH4360Fluid dynamics

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    UnitLevel 46 credit pointsScience

    The continuum hypothesis; notion of a fluid particle; pathlines and streamlines. Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks; the material derivative. Conservation of mass; incompressibility; streamfunctions. Forces acting on a fluid; the stress...

    Semester 1Clayton

  19. MTH5341Fluid dynamics and turbulence

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    UnitLevel 56 credit pointsScience

    This unit is an introduction to hydrodynamic stability theory that concerns the stability and instability of fluid flows. You will be introduced to the theoretical methods required to understand how instabilities develop and how the flow...

    Semester 2Clayton

  20. FST3711Food and industrial microbiology

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    UnitLevel 36 credit pointsScience

    In this unit, you will gain a complex understanding of food as a habitat, the principles involved in microbiological spoilage of foods, microorganisms of public health significance that cause food-borne illness, food safety and aspects of...

    Semester 1Malaysia