Majors and Minors
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 for 2022 - 2023.
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Aboriginal Studies
Please contact the Bachelor of Arts Program Coordinator for information about this discipline.
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Archaeology
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
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
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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English Literature
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
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
- COMM2020 Screenwriting
- COMM2040 Digital Cultures
- COMM2300 Digital Media Production
- COMM3008 Communications Internship^
- COMM3050 Media Ethics and Law**
- COMM3090 Adaptation Studies
- COMM3210 Interactive Media
- COMM3260 Advanced Screen Production: Documentary
- COMM3270 Advanced Screen Production: Drama
- COMM3300 Documentary Studies
- COMM3620 World Cinema
- COMM3630 Australian Cinema
- HIST2017 Screening History: The Politics of Moving Pictures
- 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.
^ Substitute ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
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Health Promotion
If you are intending to take this Major, please contact the Science or Behavioural Science program coordinator for more details.
Students must complete the following EIGHT (8) courses:
- HLTH1001 Physical Activity and Health
- HLTH1620 Health Issues and Preventive Approaches
- HLTH2100 Psychosocial Aspects of Sport and Physical Activity
- HLTH2510 Exercise Health and Disease
- HLTH2620 Population Approaches to Health Promotion
- HLTH3101 Nutrition for Health and Physical Activity
- HLTH3610 Community Approaches to Health Promotion
- HLTH3620 Health Sciences Research
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History
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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Human Resource Management
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Fremantle Students
Students complete these EIGHT courses:
- BESC2140 Organisational Behaviour
- BUSN2340 Employment Law
- BUSN2660 Employment Relations
- BUSN2730 Principles of Human Resource Management
- BUSN3140 Human Resource Development
- BUSN3680 Change Management
- BUSN3700 Human Resource Policy
- BUSN3740 Strategic Workforce Issues
Sydney Students
Students complete these THREE courses:
- BUSN1600 Principles of Management
- BUSN2660 Employment Relations
- BUSN2730 Principles of Human Resource Management
Students must complete FIVE of these courses:
- BUSN2280 Psychology of Work
- BUSN3020 Leadership: Theory and Practice
- BUSN3140 Human Resource Development
- BUSN3680 Change Management
- BUSN3700 Human Resource Policy
- 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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Journalism
Students must complete 200 units of credit as follows:
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
- COMM3060 Online Newsroom
- 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
- COMM1060 Media and Society **
- COMM1210 Introduction to Screen Production
- COMM2002 Travel Writing and Photography
- COMM2040 Digital Cultures
- COMM2300 Digital Media Production
- COMM2330 Journalism Production: Video
- COMM3000 News and Current Affairs
- COMM3002 Digital Journalism Portfolio
- COMM3040 Feature Writing
- COMM3060 Online Newsroom
- COMM3070 Photojournalism
- COMM3210 Interactive Media
- COMM3300 Documentary Studies
- COMM3700 Journalism Production: Audio
- COMM3008 Communications Internship^
- 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. ^ substitute ARTS3002 Internship or Professional Project
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Marketing and Public Relations
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
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
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Fremantle
Students complete these TWO courses:
- CORE1010 Introduction to Philosophy
- CORE1020 Ethics
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
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
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
Students must complete 200 units of credit, as follows:
Fremantle
Students complete:
CORE1030 Introduction to Theology; and any 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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