Majors and Minors
The Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Communications & Media and Bachelor of Science allow students to select their own majors, second majors, minors and specialisations. The below list shows the variety of electives on offer in Fremantle. Please check your program requirements to confirm that the major you want is applicable to your program.
Below you will find information on the required courses and approved electives for each of the following majors, second majors and minors:
Here you can find full details of the courses on offer.
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Archaeology
Fremantle
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these SIX courses:
- ARCL1020 Introduction to Archaeology
- ARCL1030 Reading the Past: Interpretation from Archaeology
- ARCL3010 Maritime Archaeology: Ships and Harbours
- ARCL3020 The Archaeology of Indigenous Australia
- ARCL3030 Unearthing the Past: The History and Archaeology of Western Australia
- ARCL3040 Archaeology Field Methods
Students complete TWO of these courses:
- ARCL3008 Archaeology Internship*
- ABOR1000 Aboriginal People OR GEOG1110 Physical Geography: Climates, Geology and Soils
- HIST2008 The Caesars
- ENVR2330 Australian Ecology: from Theory to Practice
- SCIE3290 Geographic Information Systems
*substitute ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
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Behavioural Science
Fremantle
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these EIGHT courses:
- BESC1002 Contemporary Family Issues
- BESC1050 Social Science Research
- BESC2240 Discourse, Power, and Politics
- BESC2250 Culture and Society
- BESC3150 Professional Practice in Behavioural Science
- BESC3930 Community: Policy and Development
- BESC3110 Qualitative Research Methods and Practice
- ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
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Biology
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these EIGHT courses:
- BIOL1250 Molecular and Cell Biology
- BIOL2100 Animal Diversity
- BIOL2260 Plant Diversity
- BIOL3250 Aquatic Science
- BIOL3000 Adaptations for Survival in the Australian Environment
- ENVR2330 Australian Ecology: From Theory to Practice
- HLTH2300 Microbiology
- SCIE3290 Geographic Information Systems
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Business Studies
Fremantle
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these THREE or FOUR courses:
- BUSN1000 Economics AND / OR BUSN1110 Accounting for Business
- BUSN1600 Principles of Management
- BUSN2730 Principles of Human Resource Management
Students complete FOUR or FIVE of these courses:
- BUSN2000 Events Management
- BUSN2400 Business Law
- BUSN2450 Taxation
- BUSN2660 Employment Relations
- BUSN3020 Leadership: Theory and Practice
- BUSN3600 Strategic Management
- BUSN3680 Change Management
- BUSN3690 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- BUSN3740 Strategic Workforce Issues
Please check Bachelor of Commerce Program Requirements (3058) in the School of Business for any pre-requisite requirements.
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Counselling
Sydney
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these SEVEN courses:
- COUN1003 Theories & Approaches to Counselling
- COUN1004 Counselling Skills Training 1
- COUN3002 Placement and Supervision A
- COUN3003 Placement and Supervision B
- COUN3160 Counselling in High Prevalence Mental Health Disorders
- COUN3170 Professional Legal & Ethical Issues in Counselling
- PSYC2170 Developmental Psychology
Students complete ONE of these courses:
- COUN2060 Cross-cultural Counselling
- COUN2080 Counselling in the Area of Alcohol & Other Drugs
- COUN2110 Trauma Counselling
- COUN2150 Counselling Children and Adolescents
- COUN3004 Counselling Couples and Families
- COUN3005 Counselling Older People
- SOCI3000 Ableism, (Dis)ability and Society
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English Literature
Fremantle and Sydney
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these TWO courses:
- ENGL1020 Text and Tradition
- ENGL1040 World Literatures Today
Students complete SIX of these courses:
- ENGL1050 Theory and Practice of Modern Theatre
- ENGL3000 Literature for Children and Young Adults
- ENGL3001 Fictions of the Self: Life Writing
- ENGL3010 The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory
- ENGL3030 Gothic Literature and its Legacy
- ENGL3040 Modernism and the Avant-Garde
- ENGL3060 Australian Theatre
- ENGL3100 The Art and Craft of Travel Writing
- ENGL3160 Australian Literatures
- ENGL3310 Poetry and Poetics
- ENGL3320 The Novel in English
- ENGL3410 Playing Shakespeare: Text and Performance
- ENGL3510 Comparative Indigenous Literature
- ENGL3820 Freedom from Oppression: Literature that Changed the World
- ENGL3008 English Literature Internship*
- COMM2020 Screenwriting
- COMM3090 Adaptation Studies
Students may complete this course on approval of the Dean, and if available:
- ARTS3010 Experience the World I
* substitute ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
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Environmental Management
Fremantle
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these SIX courses:
- ENVR2330 Australian Ecology: from Theory to Practice
- ENVR3310 Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning
- ENVR3520 Natural Resource Management
- GEOG1110 Physical Geography: Climates, Geology and Soils
- GEOG3110 Coastal Processes and Planning
- SCIE3290 Geographic Information Systems
Students complete TWO of these courses:
- BIOL3000 Adaptations for Survival in the Australian Environment*
- BIOL3250 Aquatic Science*
- ENVR3200 Understanding Sustainable Development Practices
*These courses require the pre-requisite SCIE1150, which does not form part of the minor.
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Film and Screen Production
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these three courses:
- COMM1210 Introduction to Screen Production
- COMM2030 Language of Film
- COMM2150 Screen Production: Skills and Practice
Students complete at least one of these courses:
- COMM3260 Advanced Screen Production: Documentary
- COMM3270 Advanced Screen Production: Drama
Students complete at least one of these courses:
- COMM3300 Documentary Studies
- COMM3620 World Cinema
- COMM3630 Australian Cinema
Students complete any of these courses:
- COMM1000 Digital Photography
- COMM1060 Media and Society**
- COMM1420 Introduction to Journalism
- COMM2003 Screen Performance (Fremantle)
- COMM2020 Screenwriting
- COMM2040 Digital Cultures (Sydney)
- COMM2300 Digital Media Production (Sydney)
- COMM3050 Media Ethics and Law**
- COMM3090 Adaptation Studies (Fremantle)
- COMM3260 Advanced Screen Production: Documentary
- COMM3270 Advanced Screen Production: Drama
- COMM3300 Documentary Studies
- COMM3620 World Cinema
- COMM3630 Australian Cinema
- ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
- HIST2017 Screening History: The Politics of Moving Pictures (Sydney)
- THTR3090 Fundamentals of Directing
**Bachelor of Communications and Media students will complete COMM1060 Media and Society and COMM3050 Media Ethics and Law in the core component of their degree and will undertake other film & screen production electives to complete their Major.
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History
Fremantle and Sydney
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
LEVEL ONE: FOUNDATION LEARNING
Students must compete the following TWO courses:
- HIST1000 A History of Western Civilisation
- HIST1001 Making Australian History
LEVEL TWO: EXTENDED LEARNING
Students may complete ANY of the following courses:
- ARCL3030 Unearthing the Past: The History and Archaeology of Western Australia
- HIST2000 Writing Lives: Personalities in History from Antiquity to the Present
- HIST2002 Ancient Worlds
- HIST2003 Modern America: From Slave Nation to Superpower
- HIST2004 Of Vice and Virtue: Social Change in Victorian Britain
- HIST2005 Age of Empire and Revolution in Europe, 1789-1989
- HIST2008 The Caesars
- HIST2009 The Kennedys: America in the 60s
- HIST2010 Australia and the Asia Pacific: from Past to Present
- HIST2013 A History of Ancient Greece
- HIST2015 Rome: The History of a Civilisation
- HIST2016 A History of Crime: Assessing the Evidence
- HIST2017 Screening History: The Politics of Moving Pictures
- HIST2018 Australians and the World Wars
- HIST2021The History and Politics of Southeast Asia
- HIST2022 The Modern Middle East
- HIST2023 Making History and the Politics of the Past
- HIST2024 The Tudors
- HIST2026 The European Middle Ages, c. 450-c.1250
- HIST2027 Renaissance to Enlightenment 1250–1789
- HIST2028 Visual Evidence: Art and Artefacts in the Western Tradition
- HIST2029 Nazi Germany: Assessing the Evidence
LEVEL THREE: ADVANCED LEARNING
Students must complete AT LEAST TWO of the following courses in their final year of study:- HIST3000 Writing Lives: Personalities in History from Antiquity to the Present
- HIST3001 History in Practice: Professional Project
- HIST3008 History Internship (substitute ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project)
- HIST3016 A History of Crime: Assessing the Evidence
- HIST3023 Making History and the Politics of the Past
- HIST3028 Visual Evidence: Art and Artefacts in the Western Tradition
- HIST3029 Nazi Germany: Assessing the Evidence
*Please note that students may not enrol into courses which they have completed at Level Two
(e.g.: completion of HIST2000 precludes enrolment into HIST3000).Students may complete other courses on approval of the Dean, and if available, to a total of 50 units of credit:
ARTS3010 Experience the World I; ARTS3030 Experience the World Study Tour (50 units of credit);
Church History Courses listed in the Bachelor of Theology Requirements (3248): THEO2310 Early
Church History: the Story Begins, THEO2340 Modern Church History, & THEO2350 Reformations:
Churches in the 16th Century.Church History Courses listed in the Bachelor of Theology Regulations (3248).
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Journalism
Students complete these three courses:
- COMM1420 Introduction to Journalism
- COMM2340 Journalism: Theory and Practice
- COMM3050 Media Ethics and Law **
Students complete at least one of these courses:
- COMM3002 Digital Journalism Portfolio
- COMM3008 Communications Internship
Students must complete at least one of these courses
- COMM2330 Journalism Production: Video
- COMM3040 Feature Writing
- COMM3700 Journalism Production: Audio
Students complete any of these courses:
- COMM1000 Digital Photography (Fremantle)
- COMM1060 Media and Society **
- COMM1210 Introduction to Screen Production
- COMM2002 Travel Writing and Photography (Fremantle)
- COMM2040 Digital Cultures (Sydney)
- COMM2300 Digital Media Production (Sydney)
- COMM2330 Journalism Production: Video
- COMM3000 News and Current Affairs (Sydney)
- COMM3002 Digital Journalism Portfolio
- COMM3040 Feature Writing
- COMM3070 Photojournalism (Fremantle)
- COMM3210 Interactive Media (Fremantle)
- COMM3300 Documentary Studies
- COMM3700 Journalism Production: Audio
- ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
- POLI3003 Setting the Agenda: the Media and Politics
**Bachelor of Communications and Media students will complete COMM3050 and COMM1060 in the Core component of their degree and will undertake additional journalism electives to complete their Major.
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Marketing and Public Relations
Fremantle
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these FIVE courses:
- BUSN1220 Principles of Marketing
- BUSN2050 Integrated Marketing Communications
- BUSN2090 Professional Writing
- BUSN2520 Consumer Behaviour
- BUSN2580 Introduction to Public Relations
Students complete THREE of these courses:
- BUSN3230 Services Marketing OR BUSN3540 International Marketing
- BUSN3370 Corporate Public Relations
- BUSN3500 Strategic Marketing
- BUSN3990 Social Media
Please check Bachelor of Commerce Program Requirements (3058) in the School of Business for any pre-requisite requirements.
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Mathematics
Fremantle
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these EIGHT courses:
- MATH1030 Principles of Mathematics
- MATH1020 Statistics
- MATH1300 Mathematics Foundations
- MATH1400 Key Concepts in Mathematics
- MATH2000 Linear Algebra
- MATH2020 Calculus
- MATH2100 Calculus & Applied Mathematics
- MATH3030 Discrete Mathematics
- MATH3040 Advanced Calculus
- EDUC2315 Mathematics Learning for Early Adolescents OR HLTH2270 Data Analysis and Experimental Design
*Education students complete EDUC2315.
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Philosophy
Fremantle
Students complete SIX of these courses:
- PHIL2100 History of Philosophy: Ancient
- PHIL2110 History of Philosophy: Medieval
- PHIL2130 History of Philosophy: Modern
- PHIL2140 History of Philosophy: Contemporary
- PHIL3050 Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
- PHIL3080 Natural Law
- PHIL3090 Moral Philosophy
- PHIL3150 Philosophy of Love and Friendship
- PHIL3210 Philosophy of the Human Person
- PHIL3300 Epistemology
- PHIL3310 Cosmology and Philosophy of Science
- PHIL3410 Political Philosophy
- PHIL3510 Metaphysics: Theories of Being and Existence
- PHIL3520 Philosophy of Religion
- PHIL3550 Myth and Meaning
- PHIL3710 Logical and Critical Thinking
- PHIL3950 Special Topics in Philosophy & Ethics
Sydney
Students complete these THREE courses
- PHIL1020 The Method & Basic Problems of Philosophy
- PHIL1030 Critical Thinking
- PHIL3090 Moral Philosophy
Students complete ONE of these courses:
- PHIL2100 History of Philosophy: Ancient
- PHIL2110 History of Philosophy: Medieval
- PHIL2130 History of Philosophy: Modern
- PHIL2140 History of Philosophy: Contemporary
Students complete FOUR of these courses:
- PHIL2010 Introduction to Formal Logic
- PHIL2060 The Philosophy of Science
- PHIL2070 The Philosophy of Language
- PHIL2100 History of Philosophy: Ancient
- PHIL2110 History of Philosophy: Medieval
- PHIL2130 History of Philosophy: Modern
- PHIL2140 History of Philosophy: Contemporary
- PHIL3000 Aquinas: Analytic and Phenomenological Approaches
- PHIL3010 Business Ethics
- PHIL3030 An Introduction to Metaphysics
- PHIL3040 Metaphysics, Being, and God
- PHIL3050 Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
- PHIL3060 Faith and Reason
- PHIL3080 Natural Law
- PHIL3150 Philosophy of Love and Friendship
- PHIL3210 Philosophy of the Human Person
- PHIL3300 Epistemology
- PHIL3410 Political Philosophy
- PHIL3520 Philosophy of Religion
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Politics and International Relations
Fremantle and Sydney
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students complete these TWO courses:
- POLI1000 Introduction to World Politics
- POLI1001 Politics, Democracy and Governance in Australia
Students complete SIX of these courses:
- POLI3000 Religion and World Politics
- POLI3001 Cyber-security, Technological Trends and Modern Warfare
- POLI3003 Setting the Agenda: the Media and Politics
- POLI3004 Terrorism and Violent Extremism
- POLI3005 Intelligence and International Security
- POLI3006 Public Policy and Practice: The Business of Government
- POLI3007 Home and Away: Comparing Political Systems
- POLI3008 Politics Internship* OR SOJS3170 Social Justice, Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- POLI3009 Australian Foreign Policy
- POLI3012 The Politics and History of Genocide
- POLI3015 Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
- POLI3021 The History and Politics of Southeast Asia
- POLI3022 The Modern Middle East
- POLI3023 Strategy, Security and Diplomacy
- POLI3024 US Foreign Policy Since 1945
- SOJS3130 Human and Environmental Security
- PHIL3410 Political Philosophy
- PHIL3950 Special Topics in Philosophy and Ethics
Students may complete other courses on approval of the Dean, and if available:
- ARTS3010 Experience the World I
- ARTS3030 Experience the World Study Tour (50 units of credit)
* substitute ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
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Social Justice
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Theatre Studies
Fremantle and Sydney
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Students must complete the following THREE (3) courses:
- THTR1000 Theory and Practice of Acting I
- THTR1050 Theory and Practice of Modern Theatre
- THTR2000 Theory and Practice of Acting II
Plus, any of the following courses to make a total of 200 units of credit:
- COMM2003 Screen Performance
- THTR2010 Theatre Crafts
- THTR3050 Theatre for Social Change
- THTR3060 Australian Theatre
- THTR3090 Fundamentals of Directing
- THTR3020 Devised Production Workshop
- THTR3110 Text-based Production Workshop (50 units of credit)
- THTR3410 Playing Shakespeare: Text and Performance
- WRIT3000 Writing for Performance
- ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
Other eligible courses, as available and on approval of the Dean:
- ARTS3010 Experience the World I
- ARTS3030 Experience the World Study Tour (50 units of credit)
*Fremantle students contact the Theatre Studies coordinator about this course.
**Fremantle students contact the Theatre Studies coordinator for details about Theatre Production courses.
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Theology
Fremantle and Sydney
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Fremantle
Students complete:
Theology course from the School of Philosophy and Theology, at least two of which must be 3000-level and no more than three at 1000 level.
See Bachelor of Theology for details of courses.
Sydney
Students complete THREE of these courses:
- THEO1000 Foundations of Catholic Theology
- THEO1110 Introduction to the Old Testament
- THEO1210 Introduction to the New Testament
- THEO1520 Introduction to Christian Spirituality
Students complete ANY of these courses:
- THEO2090 Liturgy: Work of God and Work of God’s People
- THEO2120 Pentateuch
- THEO2130 Psalms & Wisdom
- THEO2210 Writings of Paul: Freedom in the Spirit
- THEO2220 Synoptic Gospels: Mark and Matthew
- THEO2250 Introduction to Sacramental Theology
- THEO2310 Early Church History: The Story Begins
- THEO2470 Fundamental Moral Theology
- THEO3010 Scripture and Church
- THEO3140 The Prophetic Literature
- THEO3410 Ecclesiology and Mariology
- THEO3420 Eucharist I
Students complete AT LEAST TWO of these courses:
- THEO3410 Ecclesiology and Mariology
- THEO3520 Ministry of Social Justice
- THEO3540 Trinity
- THEO3560 Marriage and Sexuality
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