University of Queensland

This course examines the cultural, industrial and technological history of commercial rock and popular music from the 1950s onwards.

This course examines the critical frameworks, essential terms, and research skills that are key both to the practice of literary studies and to any detailed and persuasive interrogation of the written word. It covers canonical texts from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century to gain a foundational understanding of literary history and theory, and the characteristics of three major genres: drama, poetry, and prose fiction.

This course examines the world of the supernatural and paranormal from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

This course examines software engineering through programming with particular focus on the fundamentals of computing & programming. It includes building abstractions with procedures, data & objects; data modelling; and designing, coding & debugging programs of increasing complexity.

An introduction to Film and Television Studies explores the relationship between film and television and provides students with a range of tools and techniques for analyzing screen texts. The first half of the course examines the conventions of feature film and television production, exploring the impact that technical and aesthetic techniques have on meaning and audience responses. Areas of study include: mise en scène, cinematography, editing, and sound design for film and television. The focus of the second half of the course is on the industrial and institutional history of film and television with emphasis on the Hollywood film and TV industry. Areas of study include: the production, reception, and characteristics of cult media, art film, and of film and television genres; and the historical development of the star system, blockbusters, auteur studies, and the contemporary celebrity industry.

This course examines the comparison of word structure in a wide variety of the world's languages.

This course examines food microbiology; microbial ecology of foods (effects of water activity, pH, temperature, etc); significance, characteristics and control of important food borne pathogens; (bacteria, viruses, fungi, seafood toxins, parasites, prions); food borne illness; indicator organisms; methods for examination of foods, regulatory standards; food borne illness; practical culture-based microbiological examination of foods; and outbreak investigations.