Australia

This course examines major mental health conditions and significant social, philosophical, and historical influences on health care service delivery and reform to provide a context for contemporary rehabilitation practice. It covers the goals, values and guiding principles of psychiatric rehabilitation and practices that aim to address the culture of stigma and low expectations by society of people with mental health conditions. Rehabilitation interventions that have demonstrated efficacy in promoting recovery by reducing obstacles to participation for people with mental health conditions will also be examined. Local and international research underpinning best practice in rehabilitation management and service delivery will be reviewed and consumer perspectives and experiences explored.

This course examines modern electric power systems with particular emphasis on generation and transmission. The following topics are covered: the use of three phase systems and their analysis under balanced conditions; transmission lines: calculation of parameters, modelling, analysis; transformers: construction, equivalent circuits; generators: construction, modelling for steady state operation; the use of per unit system; the analysis of systems with a number of voltage levels; the load flow problem: bus and impedance matrices, solution methods; power system transient stability; the control of active and reactive power; electricity markets, market structures and economic dispatch; types of electricity grids, radial, mesh, networks; and distribution systems and smart grids.

This course examines a general introduction to six of the world’s major religions with a special focus on the way in which their specific laws and customs impact upon the behavior of their adherents. The religions studied are Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each week a specific practical theme will be traced across the six religions. The themes include sacred images; scriptural texts; ethics; the three life-cycle rituals of birth, death and marriage; food and clothing customs; the calendar; religious architecture and popular places of pilgrimage.

This course examines the glass vessel in everyday life and its application as a conceptual agent in contemporary art. By nature, the glassblowing process creates a vessel or container from a mass of molten glass. Through research projects students investigate the psychology of the glass vessel through its function and physical properties. Students develop fundamental hand skills and glassblowing techniques through structured weekly workshops, and combine practical skills with contextual knowledge in the development of conceptually themed projects. Students may work exclusively with glass or in conjunction with other media and processes.