University of Queensland

This course examines what philosophy is by looking at the works of Descartes, Locke, Hume, Sartre, Fanon, Beauvoir, and Merleau-Ponty.

This course examines the fundamentals of creativity, writing and storytelling for communication professionals and media producers.

This course examines key literary texts and genres of postmodern literature in terms of their formal qualities and/or in their representation of the culture of late capitalism. It covers topics such as "From the modern to the postmodern", "Postmodern culture and the commodity form", "Gender, writing and the postmodern", "High and mass culture", "history and the postmodern", and "the simulacrum".

This course examines key issues and themes relating to Australian society and culture across a wide time-frame including before colonization and the most recent past. It covers the brutalities of the colonial process; the relationships of the Europeans to this 'new' land; the developing society in the Antipodes; the new cultural forms of nationalism in the late nineteenth century; the importance of White Australia; the impact of wars and Depression; and the cultural shifts of liberation movements.

This course examines international & Australian approaches to conserving biodiversity values, ecological processes, products, goods & services in coastal zones, with an emphasis placed on planning & management of marine & coastal protected areas in a regional context.